Example of Descriptive Essay About a Place

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    on the book and in the movie. It shows how her dad is taken away when she was young and it also shows how each race has a different place to hang out and how they each have a name. For example, “Disneyland” is for the whites, “Da Ghetto” is for the blacks, and “Chinatown” is for the Asians, etc. Some scenes from the movie are not mentioned in the book. For example, her relationship…

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    answer to that question is tone, “the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development,” (Merriam, 2015). For many…

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    the narrator’s opinion is shown, including the nicknames he gives Bilbo. While the narrator is telling the story in a descriptive and factual way, he inserts his own opinions on Bilbo, such as calling him “Mr. Invisible Baggins” (Tolkien 227) or “poor little Bilbo” (Tolkien 153). The narrator also adds his own asides throughout the story with the first-person pronouns. For example, he says, “I suppose Hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People,…

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    The Greasy Lake Summary

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    All the while, Boyle is using a first person narration in “The Greasy Lake”, to place his readers into an immediate and emotional state. Ann Charters’ explains first person narration tells the story from his/her accounts or perspective. Secondly, it is further stated that first person narration is only able to tell the direct action of what’s taking place or his/her ability to mentally process what is taking place (Charters 1793). Similarly, in the beginning of the story the narrator is setting…

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    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher as well as an apprentice of Plato. He founded a school and studied many different things. One of the things he studied was poetry, or as he referred to it, Poetics. Aristotle’s Poetics consists of a list of principles which he believes makes up “good” literature. These principles include plot, character, thought, diction, melody, and spectacle. Aristotle felt that in order for a piece to be considered “good” literature it must include those things, but was…

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    Louis “Louie” Zamperini. Although a majority of the story takes place in World War II, it teaches lessons that are still relevant today. The theme of perseverance is present through different times in Louie’s life from the horrors he faced during World War II, to the memories that haunted him after the war. Forgiveness is also a prevalent theme that contributes to the inspiration of this story. Additionally, Lauren Hillenbrand’s descriptive writing adds to the emotion of the story. Overall,…

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    description of direct characterization of Hazel is that she rarely leaves the house, reads the same book again and again, rarely eats, and spends all of her time thinking about death. This tells us that Hazel was depressed and rarely socialized. is an example of character motivation. Hazel knows that she isn’t going to live long, so she desperately wants to alleviate the harm caused by her death. Hazel’s personality is revealed here as courageous and thoughtful. This is also an indirect…

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    Many of these descriptive words connote feelings of danger or inequality and give off the impression that Steve isn’t quite human in the eyes of others. For example, when Steve is writing a diary entry he remembers a certain name that the prosecution called him: “I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster,” (5). This…

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    The Highwayman

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    The Highwayman is a poem by Alfred Noyes that will send a chill down your spine. The poem uses very descriptive language to create a theme that will possibly leave the reader spooked. The opening lines, “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy trees” use vivid language that fills the reader’s mind with threatening images that can remind the reader of an experience that he or she had. Noyes engages the senses in the first part by…

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    One poem called “Homecoming” written by Bruce Dawe talks about all the different sounds, images and scenery the men went through. With descriptive language such as “curly heads, kinky-hairs, crew-cuts, balding non-coms” which describe the different kinds of men and what they all looked like. Also during the poem Bruce used wide varieties of personification to describe the scenery such as”frozen…

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