Amazing Stories

For my final paper, I choose to read the novel “The Left Hand of Darkness” written by Ursula K. Le Guin. This story touches on many key topics including the importance of communication, trust, acceptance, gender, and love in a society. It always deals a lot with politics and what it means to be a traitor. All of these topics are combined to show the intent of the story, which is the importance of unity. The main character, Ai, goes to a foreign plant and tried to get the people of the planet to…

floor. It seemed-beneath him, somehow. I had never thought about it before, had never been forced to, but I suppose I had always put jazz musicians in a class with what Daddy called ‘good-time people’” (Baldwin 1749). It is not until the end of the story that the narrator agrees to attend one of his brothers shows and comes to understand that his brother is no longer a boy and has truly found something the he enjoys doing, “Sonny’s fingers filled the air with life, his life. But that life…

the work and the readers reception of it, from superficial aspects of interest as well as technical skills and development of a story. The realm of Middle Earth, as described in J. R. R. Tolkien 's pieces of work The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, exemplify a large host of qualities in terms of writing skill and time poured into the series, as well as a story line filled with intriguing characters and events. Fundamentally a piece of literature, and even a movie or show for that…

Initially, this seems to be a story of two single people traveling abroad in Spain. The main characters comprised of what seemed to be, an America gentleman and a young lady from America or England. The setting consists of the couple sitting outside a bar in a train station in Spain. What makes this story so enduring is the fact that it is a coming of age tale. During the course of waiting for the train, the young women grows from a naïve girl into a woman, fully in charge of her destiny.…

's Pockets." This is a story of a man who risks his life to retrieve an important piece of a project that could make his career dreams come true. During his quest Tom stands face to face with death as he overcomes various challenges that arise between him and his goal. In "Contents of the Dead Man 's Pockets," Jack Finney uses setting, flash-forwards, and conflict to build suspense and create a feeling of tension in the reader. Jack Finney utilizes the setting of his story as a form of suspense…

Throughout the span of this course we have read a wide variety of stories, many of them containing the theme of love. Love is feeling a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Everybody knows what it is like to love someone if it being a family member, a significant other, yourself, or even a pet. With most of the stories there were more than one instance where love was presented. There are so many ways to think about a situation and more times than not you can rule there is a certain…

Characters, as defined by Forster (2010:102), are not real people, but they become alive and interesting as good authors make them act and speak. Whereas flat character does not surprise us with their actions (Foster, 2010:102). Extraordinary masters of writing manage to create unforgettable characters (Gerrig & Allbritton, 1990:382). We meet such characters in the work of Bolt, Shakespeare and Coetzee. Bolt’s play born the existential hero of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor to King Henry…

beautiful and perfect is precious and can't stay forever. This is a prominent theme to think about as you read this essay. The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton tells a story about a 14 year old boy trying to understand the harsh world in which he grows up in. The main character, Ponyboy suffers many hardships throughout the course of the story and explores the main theme “nothing gold can stay” as a witness. One example of this comes through with his friendship with Johnny. Despite The fact that…

stressful, and a lot of other things. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell is a story about a pack of girls that are sent to St. Lucy’s to rehabilitate and to eradicate their wolf identity. Claudette is the main character of the story and the story and the narrator. The story talks about how Claudette, along with other members of the pack, develops their human characteristics. The story also talks about how Claudette’s wolf instincts cloud her judgement on developing into…

Wild (2013) engages the reader from the beginning. It is a story retold, of people trying to escape the brutality of war, forever remaining hopeful, and moving on to a better life. However, as Tunnell (2008) notes, it is not the subject or the characters that dictate if a book is well written, but the manner in which it is written. The choice of vocabulary can either tell the story to the reader, or show them, by immersing them into the story. The latter shows that the author has given…