Narrative Essay About My Grandmother

(page 27). As a result, Tom makes the decision to reach out and spend more time with his wife. This way, the couple will grow even closer than they were before. In “The Leap”, Anna saves her daughter from a terrible house fire. “Then I wrapped my hands around my mother’s hands. I felt the brush of her lips…” (page 44). The narrator grows closer with her mother because she took a very big risk, which the narrator knows. In “The Trip”, all of the people on the boat are there for a reason. “Thirty…

Borges’ “The Mirror of Ink” embodies the essence of a quintessential moral anecdote. Brief, deliberate and insightful, “The Mirror of Ink” certainly asserts to its readership a particular set of lessons and imperatives but, as the title implies, there is a complex and nuanced ambiguity to the content of Borges’ short story. The title of this piece is something of an oxymoron. A mirror is by nature a pure reflective surface. Ink, conversely, is muddled and opaque. A mirror of ink seems…

In the beginning of the chapter one of Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts, by Joseph Harris, he tells of how Pierre Menard rewrote Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes as a joke to show the readers that “to understand a text you need, in a way, to rewrite it, to take the ideas and phrasings of its author and turn them into your own. Text simply reveal their meanings to us: we need to make sense of them.”(Harris 15) This is one of the key points Harris is trying to instill in the readers of his…

In the crucible it shows how two people can have opposing views and each having valid points, but at the end they can both be wrong. In this analysis I will describe three different points about the crucible. Many moments throughout this book where you see this type of stuff. It's something not only seen in the book and is also seen in real life moments. Many people encounter these type of things because everyone thinks they're right, but in reality and at the end of the day they're wrong. It's…

real planes and the environment where the movie was shoot was accurate to a base for the military during that time period. On top of that, the book and movie corresponded with each other with little changes to the plot. I would recommend this book to my peers who appreciate history based books. In conclusion, the overall piece was compelling and would possibly pursue the text…

The Perfect Setting When telling a story how do you start? Do you jump right into the main events, or do you lay out the setting for the person to get a mental image of the action taking place? The setting plays a major aspect to a story, it can become boring if you do not understand the time, place, or atmosphere the story took place in. In Kate Chopin’s short story, The Storm the setting plays a major role. The setting portrays more than where The Storm takes place, the atmosphere, weather,…

The purpose of this paper is to examine Walter Besant’s lecture “The Art of Fiction” in light of Henry James’ published response of the same title. I will argue that James’ is correct and warranted to critique Besant’s approach, but that James’ concerns are ultimately overstated. Besant’s lecture “The Art of Fiction” aims to defend fiction and elevate the novel among the “higher” arts. Historically, critics wouldn’t dare speak of fiction in the same breath they praise the fine arts – to even…

Narrative and literary techniques are used within various forms of literature to help portray the author’s intentions and thoughts to the reader, specifically to give artistic and emotional effects to the story. These techniques such as style involve the use of metaphors, imagery, alliteration, symbolism and several more. Common techniques applicable to the plot of a story consist of various elements including flashbacks, flashforwards, and foreshadowing specific events. Literary techniques can…

From time to time, one comes into contact with literary texts that evoke similar themes even when written by different writers as well as different themes. These themes are not usually similar per se, but they seem to share some contextual similarities and differences as well. A case in point is the non-fiction works of Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” and Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild.” These two books capture the moment of two young people taking a journey into the wild and as much similarities appear…

This quotation utilizes the literary device of rhetorical question. The rhetorical question in this quote is “have you ever wondered what a human life is worth?” This question is posed to the reader, who obviously can’t actually respond to Lina. Instead of being answerable, the question serves to get the reader to consider how much value is actually placed on the lives of the Lithuanian deportees in the novel. The blunt statement of Jonas’s worth being equal to that of a pocket watch sets the…