Absurdist fiction

The sound track that has been chosen out of the 15 tracks from the album, Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture as the focus of study is “Hymn to the Sea”, which is also the last track on both the album as well as in the film before the credits portion. The reason this track was chosen instead of the others; such as Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, the track on the sinking of titanic and the tracks from the escalated point in Titanic film is because that track was played during the scene…

Different Views of the Holocaust Portrayed Through Various Literary Elements “Life is a matter of perspective. It can be amazing or wonderful, or it can be depressing and worthless” (Gray, n.d.). This quote from Stephen Gray exemplifies both aspects of life in according to how one perceives it. As a result, some people choose to see life negatively instead of focusing on the positive aspects that make life great. When juxtaposed, Elie Wiesel’s (2006) book Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful”…

The story begins with rainfall, creating an ominous mood, forshadowing a fortokeing event. Within the text rain symbolizes change because the main character transforms from a human to a bird. Societally rain symbolizes the individuality and uniqueness present in America. The disparity between raindrops represent American people and their different cultures, livelihoods, or beliefs.I chose to make the main character in the story a bird to symbolize freedom and independence. These are two ideals I…

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story and fairytale author, poet, essayist, and editor. She has often been praised for creating characters that speak their mind, especially those who were grammatically incorrect and improper. Although she disregarded the rules for children’s literature in the nineteenth century by creating these flawed, though loveable characters, children could identify with them more than the angelic children that other books shaped children of that time…

Characters in a story are a way for the author to reach out to their audience and make an impact on the plot, but that is not the case for Gavroche in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. In the book, as well as in the musical movie, many people fought and died for the revolution. Although Gavroche, the gamin, was one of those rebels, his character did not greatly impact the story or the revolution. Gavroche was an unnecessary character because he was insignificant to the plot in both the book and the…

All appearances of characters in novels have their different roles developed, even if they are minor. Mr. Quiring in the novel, A Complicated Kindness, is no exception to this convention. Although Mr. Quiring rarely appears in the novel, he plays a crucial role in making the readers understand more about the protagonist, Naomi, whom may be thought that she hates Mr. Quiring in the readers’s first reading. The readers may mistake that the protagonist, Naomi, does not like her teacher, Mr.…

Millions of stories exist where you simply have to guess what will happen after the end of the story. The writer decided to not include the last moments and leaves it up to us, as the reader, to finish his tale. One of these open ended literature pieces is Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. The story depicts a couple waiting for the train at a station, to kill time they decide to have a few drinks and as the reader we get to follow their conversation. Although it is mentioned nowhere…

Debating if a piece of text is literature or not is still a tricky topic in this day and age. The Oxford English Dictionary defines literature as “Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit” but to really define and classify a text as literature you need to delve deeper, ask more questions and do this with a completely unbiased and open mind. Perhaps no other authors work has been debated in this manner quite as much as Edgar Allan Poe. His short stories,…

Every analyzed version of The Namesake seems to be confined within the boundaries of identity crisis and cross-cultural differences, The Namesake as novel always tend to find the namesake in the character of Gogol. But the thread of namesake also connects other characters in the novel that truly stand out as what the meaning of their name stands for. Talking of the namesakes of the names in the story I would specifically like to draw the attention to the character of Ashima - the wife of Prof.…

Period 4 English 3 CP Mrs. Iannuzzi The Great Gatsby Movie Review After reading the novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now watching the movie, it is apparent that there were several differences made from the book to the movie that are both good and bad. Although there were minor things changed from the book to the movie, the overall theme and plot remains the same. The actors chosen for this movie portrayed the characters of the book very well, and the movie gives an accurate…