During passive scenes, with no action or intensity, the characters in the movie very rarely talk about the present events and are usually discussing something they've done, an interesting story they've heard, or something they're planning on doing. This is an effective technique to draw your attention away from…
Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study Abstract This study entitled “Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study” aims to explore the ways in which his thematic, linguistic and structural pattern dealt in his fictions. This research shows Jack Kerouac’s literary influences. It also shows Kerouac’s fictional style and its narrative design. This further study presents Jack Kerouac’s employment of automatic writing style and his spontaneous methods. (Keywords: Experimental Prose,…
Dragonwings is an action filled novel, filled with mystery and suspense. Getting to know the characters is one of the best parts of the book. Laurence Yep created this novel hoping that young adults, and adults themselves would love this book because it is packed with hope and desire. The Land of the Demons. A young boy named Moon Shadow was apart of the Tang culture he lived in the Middle Kingdom, China. Moon Shadow was filled with wonder and action. He loved it when his grandmother would…
Change, a process many book characters undergo to develop the reader’s understanding of that character’s identity and personality. The characters in Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen certainly do not skip out on the process of change. Potok uses certain events and relationships to evolve and change his characters into a more definable person for the reader to understand. While many characters in the book transform for the better, some change for the worse. Although several characters do evolve,…
The novels in the series do not have to be read in order as they have different plotlines. The lead character in the series is Cindy a strong willed woman who solves mysteries that she responds to on the phone. Her mysteries typically involve her engaging either a friend, boyfriend, or husband who are embroiled in some type of criminal activity or suspicion…
“Humor can help transform the serious situations into something silly, which may facilitate self-acceptance.” (Mark Gorkin, 2009). A classic example is the successful French novelist and poet, Anatole France, with his pithy observation staring at his reflection when turning seventy-five years old : "Mirrors just aren't what they used to be." Which it means that he is demonstrating the courage of leaving the past and to accepting a more vulnerable new image of himself, like with warts and…
Within narratives authors incorporate different life events and experiences, which are techniques often used to develop character and plot, and make the text more accessible to the reader. However, authors choose to deal with and present these difficult life events using different methods. Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ and Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children both depict somewhat similar difficult life events in that they have similar settings, involve both domestic and political conflict…
How does one compare to pieces of literature? Simply do it of course! so let’s talk about what makes Marry Howitt’s “The Spider And The Fly” and Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace” The overall connecting theme to these stories is to value more important things such as brains and responsibility over beauty or it could hurt you. Ever find two pieces of literature and see so many similarities you just have to compare them? Well if so you're in luck because that's exactly what i've decided to do for…
Scarlet Letter and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, father figures’, love interests’, children, and antagonists’ appearances reflect the differences between the Romantic and Realist literary movements and their depictions of these characters within a novel. In the modern day society, fatherly figures are described as a man…
the realistic characters which paints a picture in the reader’s mind. The setting is unique though out the entire novel because of how well Blacklock’s uses commonly known objects. The great use of imagery in the novel Pankration helps the reader find out and better understand what is going on and how it looks like. The plot created by Dyan Blacklock is intriguing and engaging because she…