A Common Reader

I’m quite at a loss as to what to say. the short story does not give too much away as to Mark Twain’s life or how he lived. i think that the writing of what it might be like to lie is more a treatise on lying that it it ever a comedy, for I do not experience the humour when reading the piece. i think that is what bothers me - it is rather meandering, with some vague references to friends and examples of their faux-pas through lying, even if they didn't notice themselves doing it. the character…

For example, if the reader is against gun control Miller uses a person in the story to try and convince the reader that guns are tolerable. If the reader is totally for guns then Miller writes the story that tells why the victim does not like guns. The activity that helped this argument was the group of victims are paired up pro-guns and…

Donald M. Murray’s memoir, “The Stranger in the Photo Is Me,” ascertains the idea that life changes as we change. He explicitly enforces this idea by inundating his audience with his impactful usage of both antithesis and juxtapositions to express his belief of innocence versus experience. Murray narrows the idea of innocence versus experience by ultimately speaking on his positive self versus what has happened in the intervening years, and how once he became older, he became much more aware of…

conversation open-ended. As an anonymous author once said, "Closure is the best form of respect." However, what if a more obscure finish is more well suited to a story? In the play "Fences", the function of the unclear conclusion serves to convey to the reader that a more unrestricted ending is more appropriate, and that an ambiguous conclusion allows one to explore the outcome in an approach he or she would not have previously thought of and develop their own interpretation the play and its…

Often they are small interferences, many of which are sarcastic remarks or statements that give more insight into his personal war. The goal for this paragraph is to give the reader a sense of how the character, Mary Anne Belle, gets lost in herself and how easy it is to get caught up in what interests you, so much so that it pulls you away from reality. Throughout the passage, O’Brien uses many descriptive words that stimulate…

Paris for “four or five days” and it is the “late afternoon” when he leaves the bar. Turner mentions that throughout the whole story exact times are told. The example she uses is when Charlie eats at “noon”. She says that the marking of time helps the reader know that Charlie is aware of the time passing by quickly and he is trying to make up for lost time with his daughter. (Turner) Secondly, Turner talks about how Charlie has great hopes for…

another key factor one may walk away with is being able to looking at the world through a whole new perspective. To simplify, the ways that Edward H. Rulloff was portrayed made him seem like a murdered at first. However, as the novel progressed the reader soon i understood the motives behind his actions. As a poor man who married a wealthy women, not out of love, was hated for by his in-laws. Not only that, but his wife seemed to be attracted more to her cousin than to Rulloff; thus the reason…

for the reader to sympathize more with Wing Biddlebaum, a once-proud schoolteacher, over Doctor Reefy, a social recluse. The style with which Anderson wrote each character played a significant role as to how the readers will interpret them. Readers can sympathize with the type of isolation that was forced upon Wing Biddlebaum more than the self-imposed isolation of Doctor Reefy. The accusations made against Wing which forced him out of his home-town evoked stronger emotions from the reader than…

of experience with writing has experienced the struggle of formulating an introduction and conclusion for their work. Stronger writers will ensure both the beginning and end add significance to a composition; neglecting to do so will often lead the reader to feel dissatisfied, confused, or critical. Articles are still being written about the controversial ending of the acclaimed television series The Sopranos, despite concluding nine years ago (Evans). Unlike The Sopranos, one does not need over…

how it is wrong, he draws the reader in. They want to know what Hamblin has to say and how they can relate it to their life, they are desperate for answers. Hamblin is not worried about connecting with readers who are already happy but the readers who are putting their happiness in the wrong things, causing them to be lost and searching, unaware of their false happiness. By pointing out the flaws in their attempts, he is successful in getting these types of readers to understand what they need…