Accelerated Reader

they spend a, quickly-turned violent, evening dinner with the Colonel. Based off the hints and clues offered in the piece, the reader can conclude that this was written in the home of a high ranking army official, such as a Colonel, and that the ears that are brought out so suddenly are some what of a sick set of war memorabilia. The energy in this piece engaged the reader through the use of sensory details when describing the physical surroundings of the setting, the leaps in the plot, and the…

The experience of reading Crane’s The Open Boat, isn’t distinctly adrenaline pumping nor is it overwhelmingly emotional. The reader, as well as the men in the boat, do end in a starkly different scenario than when they began their journey, but the movement is often hard to pin point. In fact, the narrative is contrasted so that there are gaps, physical and literary as well as tonally. Shawn Michelle Smith investigates a similar scenario in her analysis of Muybridge’s photo framing. In a series…

W. D. Snodgrass’s “Leaving the Motel” focuses profoundly on language, tone, and symbolism, along with other strategies to express the idea of love as fleeting, yet businesslike. The poem tells a story of the happenings between two people at a motel after a surreptitious sexual meeting. These two people are participating in a secret affair and Snodgrass’s technicality expresses the formality and routine that their connection demands. Although the encounters are businesslike, situations in the…

favorite of the Baudelaire poems selected for the textbook is A Carcass. The poem is incredibly graphic and I love that Baudelaire uses such words as “festering”, “lecherous”, and “marvelous meat” to give the reader a very clear mental picture of the carcass he is describing. The poem forces the reader to address the fact that they will die and that their body will decay and there is literally not a single thing to be done to stop that. I think that in a way, Baudelaire is actually reflecting…

Has there ever been a time were you just need someone else's thoughts well in these two excerpts “Who Are You Maria? From Call Me Maria by Judith O. Cofer and The Watcher by James Howe”. Words make a difference in Maria a conversation occurs between her grandmother that is a powerful set of words, while in The Watcher the set of words can be heard in a different way. In both of these passages there's powerful dialogue given by the elders that does help the characters in both scenarios they are…

Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it is not there and not suffering. This applies to both, “the Man in the Well” by, Ira Sher and “Button, Button” by, Richard Matheson. In both stories, a character capitalizes on their puissance and utilize it to apostatize someone that is at a disadvantage. In both stories, Sher and Matheson use irony to develop the theme of, “out of sight out of mind.” The theme, “out of sight, out of mind” is developed very different in, “the Man in the…

1) The story and the narrator have given us plenty of reasons to be wary of Chillingworth before now. How does this section of the novel alter your reading of him? Choose some examples from today's reading to demonstrate the narrator's darkening opinion of him. Discuss. Throughout chapters 9-12, there are many cases where Chillingworth is described as demon-like and evil. There is a rumor going around the town that Chillingworth is the demon of Dimmesdale’s soul, which is causing him to be as…

In society today, it is a normal occurrence that readers will look for the underlying themes in stories and poems. To these people, blue never actually means the color blue; it would mean the sadness of the character throughout the poem. Furthermore, I will put Chaos into fourteen lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Design by Robert Frost portray this statement perfectly. These poems have a dark take on the universal theme of there must be a higher power controlling the course of life. The…

is nothing for the reader to connect to, which leads to them becoming uninterested and putting down the book. Based on “The Hook” by K.M. Weiland, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of “The Sign of the Four” has successfully written a good hook. Doyle opens the novel with the main character, Sherlock Holmes, and then he immediately makes the reader ask themselves a question while simultaneously setting the tone. His approach to the novel leaves enough mystery to make the reader want to continue…

Sage was sure that this mysterious name of the book would definitely make the King curious, especially after his reaction to sage mentioning the story of the crocodile. Sage told the King that the book contains countless amount of secrets. He told him to open the book “on the sixth leaf, reads three lines from the left page” and his cut off head will answer any King’s question. The King got amused by this idea and called it “the wonder of wonders” (583.1.3). He let Sage go home “to settle his…