Amazing Stories

1. What do you know about the mother of the story? Mama is the narrator of the story who is a rather large lady who works very hard to support her family. She is brutally honest of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. She also seems resentful of Dee’s education since she fantasizes about them reuniting with her on a television show where Dee is very appreciative of her. 2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why…

Brief Plot Overview My story will be split into two sections, following three interwoven, though not necessarily chronological, plots. The first section commences with an indistinguishable person searching their cluttered apartment for an undefined object. Eventually this object is revealed to be a wig, as the person recently experienced total and unexplained hair loss. No remnants of hair were found in their apartment. As the person is generally reclusive and unsociable (though, notably, not…

Maxim Martin Mr. Hickey C Block/ 3rd Period 8/22/14 The Secret Life of Bees Reader Responses 1. PROTAGONIST “As I stepped inside my room, he stopped inside the doorway. ‘I have to go settle the payroll for the pickers,’ he said. ‘Don’t you leave this room. You understand me? You sit here and think about me coming back and dealing with you. Think about it real hard.’ ‘You don’t scare me,’ I said, mostly under my breath. He’d already turned to leave, but now he whirled back. “What did you…

word theme with the word subject or topic, however, when it comes to fiction a theme is more than just a subject or topic. A theme is more than what happens in a story and seldom sum up to a life lesson. A theme or themes aren’t immediately made known or written in a topic sentence. On the contrary, a theme links all the elements of a story together and reveals something general and universal. For example, in “Sonny Blues” a simple message would be “drugs are bad for you” however, there is a…

Scout along with everyone else belived in these falsehoods as much as the next child. With Jem spurring on her imagination and curiosity for a majority of their adolescent life, she was bound to have the same oppinion as many others. Once she knew the story to a better extent and actually got to meet Boo, she understood better, even if few words were exchanged. Undoubtedly, many people still have thir own ideas and opinions about what happend those many years ago, but the reader at least knows…

This song tells a story, albeit only a small fraction of a story, but a story nonetheless; a story in which I was able to find deep solace in which subsequently reinforces the pragmatic value of this song as well. Of all the verses in the song the last few meant the most to me. They taught me the virtue of acceptance…

Success can be seen so differently based on perspective. Can it be fair to give a mission a percent of success? When multiple people come together with a shared goal the exact parameters may differ from person to person. Within Stephen Crane's, The Open Boat, each man may have only had the goal of themselves getting to shore alive, which would make Billie the only failure. That's a 75% success rate. If the general goal of the men in Mark Twain's, “The Private History of a Campaign that Failed”…

They each play a certain role that makes the story come together. If these roles were somehow changed, in even the slightest way, it would create a whole different story. One way they could be changed is changing the gender, of the main characters. By changing the genders of the main characters it would make the story feel different overall. All the relationships would be effected. It would also make things in the story very different. Situations wouldn't have the same feeling and…

lack of social interaction, that could make an interesting picture. Bradbury includes such details in order to increase the character’s sense of solitude. By doing so, he enhances the overall story by creating more complex characters and altering the viewpoint of a novel mostly…

A Rose for Emily “A Rose for Emily” is a story about a lonely woman named Emily Grierson, it discusses the many events that took place throughout her life when her father passed away until the day she passes, the only reason anyone is interested in coming to her funeral is because they are curious as to what secrets Emily has kept locked away all those years she was hiding from the public eye. The story then goes on to foreshadow the life of Emily before she had passed, it starts with the…