A Common Reader

Villians Almost every story follows a similar formula, beginning with an exposition; the story shortly leads to the rising action, then promptly the climax appears, followed by an eventual wrapping up of the scene and the conclusion. As the story plays out, characters are created including a hero that we are supposed to love and admire. While on the way the hero meets new characters who provide context and clues that are important in the story. Typically, the hero is courageous, passionate,…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of One Story,” inspired me to write an essay on how I had only “One story” about my home country, Palestine. Adichie said in her story, “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” That quote from her presentation really changed my way of viewing things. I’ve only heard “One story” about my home country of Palestine: a war zone.…

was third person limited. We know because, it was based on Della's point of view for the whole day. And also the readers had no idea what Jim (which is known as her husband) was doing throughout the day because we only saw it in Della's point of view. O'Henry mabey did that on purpose because he was known for irony and wanted to keep the story going on suspense and to get the reader engaged to the story and read more till the…

are conveyed is different. Tragedy portrays all this through action, while epic depicts all this through language alone. By reading and analyzing the Oresteia, Gilgamesh, and the Odyssey a reader is able to distinguish how the elements of plot, character, and performance of these two genres provide the reader with different experiences. When it comes to plot, epic and tragedy are similar in the basics but different in the complexities. Both maintain a unity of…

in the different short stories that we have read. These themes are common between the short stories as they all come across a similar issue. They may seem differently but speak or address the same thing. This shows how prevalent such an issue is in the society. In the case of this paper, I wish to use the story of 12 angry men, Good Country People and Shooting an Elephant. In these three short stories, various themes that are common such as the theme of death, theme of identity and the subject…

conversation goes on the American man brings up an operation which Jig was to undergo. The couple then argues whether or not Jig should get the operation. This story is mostly dialogue and told from a dramatic point of view which leaves it up to the reader to interpret the characters emotions and thoughts. “Hills Like White Elephants” shows that miscommunication can lead to a dysfunctional relationship. “Jig” (Hemingway), as the American man calls her, is the protagonist of this story. Jig is a…

The extract of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ in the ‘Outsider Reader’ describes a little orphan girl, Anne, who was living at an asylum, another word for orphanage. She is trying to get adopted, but the couple who asked for an adoption wanted a boy, not a girl. In this extract Lucy Maud Montgomery describes how Anne is treated like a thing not a person, but then as the segment progresses, she is treated better. Anne is the perfect example of an outsider who has been marginalised, and she is…

He mentions, however, that he hopes the essay is a “step towards helping men give up the ‘first big privilege’.” On the other hand, he may be praised for recognizing his own privilege as a man. Deutsch’s own ethos can then have an effect on how the reader views the author before even reading the piece. His sarcasm and mocking tone in the introduction targets the complaints of men, which allows for a sense of humor that contrasts the overall serious mood of the essay. The metaphor, “I never…

character(s) to create an interesting scene in the reader’s head. In addition, there are two stories that are exemplary examples of authors creating suspense to draw their readers in by incorporating different techniques. In the story The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury, is a model of an author creating suspense by ending his story with the reader having a suspicion of what’s going to happen, but doesn’t actually clarify the results at the end of the book . In the end of The Pedestrian it says…

defiant tone that sticks out to me in Gerald Graff article “Hidden intellectualism” is the way he uses his emotions and and practical thinking about his personal situations to covey his thoughts and and create a source of imagery on how he wants his readers to feel about the arguments he addresses. In his article Gerald graft paints vivid and clear arguments to portray his feelings about how he feels about how schools and colleges might be at fault for missing the opportunities to tap into…