Descriptive Essay About a Place

Popular author Shirley Jackson arguably pioneered the fictional dystopian genre with her short story “The Lottery”. Inspired by the hardships of the Second World War, the narrative elements of “The Lottery” signify the traits of a primal, dysfunctional, and ritualistic society. This is exemplified throughout the narrative as the plot, characters, and setting, all symbolize a particular aspect of a primitive dystopia. In the beginning of “The Lottery”, Jackson describes a ceremonious…

manipulated into participating in the war. Both poems depict Owen’s perceptions through the use of poetic techniques and features; which place an emphasis upon…

many times, however, she remembered that fear could not hurt her, so she stayed strong through all of it. The setting takes place in London, England in present-day time. London was the setting of a historic series of brutal murders in 1888, caused by the infamous Jack the Ripper, who was an unknown serial killer. In this story, there were also gruesome murders that took place in London, mimicking the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. The point of view in this story is first person and is told by…

The location where Pride and Prejudice is in England and the places where the novel mentions are Hertfordshire, London, and Kent. On the other hand, in the musical, the setting takes place at a whole different country. This makes an importance on the story because it shows two different types of people, culture, and religion. For example, in the movie, India has a different…

Despite a play and short film being other options, the most ideal choice for me was a short story. My story takes place over a few days however there are numerous flashbacks and location changes which a short story is able to execute better due to the clear signs it can incorporate, resulting in a more fluid story that flows making it less confusing. The constant use…

was in love with Julia. She never thought she could love a person more than she loved Julia. For Maria love was more about than a relationship or sex. For Maria love was about being unconditional, kind, and caring. Julia was more than just simple descriptive adjectives. Maria came from a traditional family, where they thought gay people were sinners and they belonged to hell. Maria’s parents found out about the sin of her daughter and decided to send her to the convent. Where they thought she…

The woman uses very descriptive words describing her newly bought house, like “delicious garden” and even “The most beautiful place!” These words and phrases would suggest the speaker felt good about moving into the new estate and not being forced into an asylum. The speaker also describes seeing greenhouses which would most…

Primo Levi, an Italian-Jewish man of many talents – chemist by trade, writer, Holocaust survivor – was born to a liberal family in Turin, Italy in 1919. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi’s first published piece, written just two years after the conclusion of World War II. Rather than focusing on Levi’s early life and the beginning of his career as a chemist, the memoir opens with Levi’s capture by the Fascists and subsequent deportation to a detention camp. After a period of time spent at the…

Where the newspaper article starts with a place and a date, “Jacksonville,Fla., Jan. 6.-It was the afternoon of New Year’s” (Newspaper, pg. 1), the short story begins with an ominous yet thought-provoking line, “None of them knew the color of the sky”(Short Story, pg.1). Right from the get-go, we…

Wilderness; To McCandless and many other people, it has a very special and specific allure. While to most it is a lawless and dangerous place, McCandless sees the wilderness as a pure state where the evils of modern society don’t exist. This is a place where someone like him can live by his own rules and only be dependent on himself. And for McCandles this was what compelled him to live in and of the wilderness. Although McCandless journal entries depict that he does receive some answers for his…