Narrative Essay About My Grandmother

Rashomon - The Loss and Gains in the Transition of Medium Whenever a movie is created based off a novel, there is a common debate on whether the movie was better than the novel or vice versa. Sometimes, the debate ends quickly for both sides have the same opinion on the movie or the novel. However, in some cases the debate lengths, for one side prefers the movie over the other due to reasons such as the gains or losses on making the novel into the movie. In the case for Rashomon, a similar…

The key to understanding Narayan’s intent behind this book lies in the subtitle itself. By using the word ‘narrative’ instead of ‘lore’ or ‘tales’, Narayan at once emphasizes the inherent dynamism within this book and subtly hints at her own research interests as that of a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer. While the latter refers to a body of traditions and knowledge held by a particular group, typically passed around by word of mouth; the former is defined as the practice or art of…

This topic is critical in my generation particularly. We live in a society where everybody, including myself, lie about moronic things. I myself have discovered that it is better to come clean and be in trouble once, than to lie frequently and never hear the end of…

exist. However, there is one more element of a story that can play just as crucial a role in effectively expressing a narrative: the point of view in which the story is told. In Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun, readers are introduced to two different narrators, twins Noah and Jude, whose accounts take place at two different points in time. However, these two separate narratives come together to form one cohesive story, which would not be pieced together without…

In the book “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare, there are many different themes that like to hide in conflicts, character emotions/actions, and archetypes. While I was tracking themes in my book, all of these components add up and show significance. The author Cassandra Clare used these different techniques, (also known as author’s craft) in her book to make these . In the following paragraphs, it will explain how some of these components interact within the text among those components. In the…

In his short book, Roland Barthes enabled a conversation about how and why we engage with a text. It establishes and outlines two categories of text and yet the two classifications of pleasure and bliss are still unable to fully remove themselves from the other. One cannot find bliss in the text without first finding pleasure. It seems to be more of a two-step process to achieving bliss through a text rather than it instantly becoming a blissful text. It is not a dismissal of the classifications…

Brad Watson’s “The Misses Moses” follows the narrator as he seeks to rent a room from two odd spinster sisters. As the story progresses, strange yet subtle observations made by the narrator as well as the lack of clarification surrounding what led to the narrator’s current circumstances add to the quiet atmosphere of the story. Through the usage of ambiguity, subtly delivering or withholding details, and tactful character development and descriptions, Watson crafts a quiet yet intriguing story…

Six stories and two different authors. The question you might be asking is, “What do these stories and authors all have in common?” The common themes amongst these short stories will go against each other to argue the themes of Devotion and Prayer, Love and Passion, and finally Dreams, Hopes, and Plan. In the first comparison between “Little Miracles, Kept Promises” and “Mrs. Sin,” the common theme between the two short stories is Dreams, Hopes, and Plans. In both of these stories, the authors…

When watching movies and reading books, there are often many comparisons that can be made throughout. One example of this is seen in the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles and the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society. Although there are a vast amount of similarities between these two works, there are three prevailing comparisons between the characters. They include: the comparisons between Neil Perry and Finny, Todd Anderson and Gene Forrester, and finally, Neil’s father (Mister Perry) and…

Susan Engel shares a variety of psychological ideas in an excerpt from her book, “Then and Now: Creating a Self Through the Past.” These ideas include “the extended self,” “screen memories,” and “template memories,” which are concepts that can be helpful in analyzing personal development. As example of the process of analysis is offered by Barry Lopez, who reflects his extended self and memories in his memoir, “A Passage of the Hands.” Various stories of his hands are used to register the…