Accelerated Reader

¨ True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? ¨ This quote, taken from the story ¨ The Tell-Tale Heart ¨, by Edgar Allan Poe shows a mood of confusion and disbelief because he saying he is not crazy too but he sounds crazy. In the story ¨ The Tell-Tale Heart ¨, a man is asking why they think he is crazy, he had killed a man, he had nothing against him. It was only because the old man had a vulture eye and he hated it. Every night he watched…

Pride and Prejudice It is no secret that Jane Austen was an appreciator of nature, considering it is a frequent theme included in many of her works. Austen’s heroines generally admire and love nature, and often take long strolls to appreciate the charming landscape they reside in. However, although her descriptions of the picturesque countryside are elegant and pleasing, they are intended to serve as more than just a backdrop for her characters to develop their storylines. Austen additionally…

Emotions as expressed towards one another In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, many characters are introduced; among them Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, their eight children, some interesting guests, and housekeepers. As the day goes on more and more characters interact with one another, sprouting some very entertaining and frightful emotions. Through interactions with Mr. Ramsay and James, Mrs. Ramsay and James, Lily Briscoe and Charles Tansley, and Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay it is obvious that all of these…

A Space of Mind There are an infinite amount of thoughts and ideas in every human walking the earth, some widely accepted and written, but an innumerable amount never seen or heard. Rebecca Solnit's essay, “Aerobic Sisyphus and the Suburbanized Psyche” is a critical piece of work focused on walking and the decline of such through the age of industry and modern technology. In my personal opinion I agree with Solnit’s arguments of the decline in social activity and purpose for walking. In many…

texts have a common thread of Singapore, the reader is shocked by the contrasting viewpoints that the texts offer on the same city of Singapore. While the audience of both texts is people who are looking for insightful information on Singapore, the purposes vary greatly. Text 1 aims to persuade the reader to not visit Singapore, describing it as a rather dystopian city where "rats are rewarded" (line 20). On the other hand, text 2 aims to persuade readers to visit Singapore, describing…

1. Introduction A path it is, leading towards the small, lonely farm house in "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett and towards the bungalow of the Burnell family in "At the Bay" by Katherine Mansfield. A path that leads the reader through the homes, the geographies, the characters, and their development in the stories. This essay will only refer to chapters III, V, VI, XI in Mansfield's "At the Bay". Jewett as well as Mansfield contrast in their stories the description of the nature with the…

being is people overanalyze it, instead of taking in the beauty of it. Billy Collins’s poem “Introduction of Poetry” explains how people overanalyze and take away from the beauty of a poem. The speaker suggests ways of reading poetry that allow the reader to understand the poem, but not take away from the beauty of it. Billy Collins quotes “I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide” (lines 1-3) meaning take the poem that is being read and analyze it, but do not…

“Through the Tunnel” In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the author teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else…

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

He introduces the poem with the buzz saw rattling, the breeze drawing across, and the sun setting and describing the five mountain ranges one behind another. The tone used here is calm, but it immediately changes when the tragic accident occurs to a depressing and sorrowful tone. The poet uses examples of figurative language like personifying the saw, "the saw leaped ... leaped out at the boy's hand" and onomatopoeia, 'snarled and rattled'. The poems use a range of literary devices to convey…