Antagonist

Innocence and Experience: A&P The title of the book is Literature: The Human Experience written by Abcarian and Klotz. It is a book that has several chapters that address diverse issues. In this context, the chosen story is one that is in the chapter named as Innocence and Experience while the story is named as A&P where the narrator is a nineteen-year-old boy known as Sammy. The writer of this story is John Uplike whom published A&P in 1961. Characters The story is built around three main…

When all of her troubles began to build she became angry, upset, and confused. She subconsciously tore up the marigolds to get rid of her anger. But when she saw that she did nothing but break an old woman?s spirit she felt remorse. She realized that what she had done was childish and selfish. The experience of finding out about real life and problems hardened her. But not in a bad way, in a way that made her stronger and prepared her for the real world, in a way that turned her into an adult.…

In Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob Portman sets off on a journey to find the answers to his grandfather’s mysterious last words. For the past few month, Jacob was plagued with terrifying nightmares of the same monster he saw on the day of his grandfather’s death. Jacob’s psychiatrist, Dr. Golan, suggests that he goes to the island where his grandfather was raised to find the answers to his question. Jacob and his father goes to Cairnholm Island, in Wales, and…

Two viewpoints, or extremes, come to mind when discussing violence. One can either view violence as something that is necessary, or one can detest violence with a burning passion. People who insist that violence is necessary in order to move forward, view it as a sort of tool to help push the natural order of things. For those who see violence as a cowardly tactic to control people, violence is a useless display of power and dominance. Yet violence has also been a way to defend oneself from…

For the past week or so I have been reading Last Year’s Mistake by Gina Ciocca, The DUFF by Kody Keplinger and finishing The Moment Of Letting Go J.A. Redmerski. Last Year’s Mistake is a story about two best friends, Kelsey and David, who become distant after the true feelings for each other are known. Before Kelsey moves away David confesses his true feelings for her, which only makes Kelsey angry. Kelsey is upset at David for not telling her before for in her eyes it is too late. The novel The…

Human beings have always pondered the idea of free will. Both “Barn Burning” and “I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy”, written respectively by William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich, address this issue. “Barn Burning” outlines the way in which people make the conscious decision to either hold onto their obsessions or break free from the repetitive cycle they’re in. “I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” looks into the way an individual views their own choices, specifically how their…

In the captivating short story of The Five Forty Eight by John Cheever, a businessman named Blake leaves from work and notices that he is being followed. His former secretary, Miss Dent, manages to stalk him from the city to his train, despite his efforts of dodging her. The woman seeks revenge for his callous behavior that has damaged her emotionally and mentally. Throughout the story, readers are exposed to what is beneath Blake’s facade of superiority. Through the story’s setting, disposition…

In this musical it is safe to say that there are many types of tones throughout the show. For example, two types of tones we discussed in class were formal and informal. Although, many might suggest that these two types were the central part of this musical, I slightly disagree. To me and I’m sure many others, the students created this very playful environment while they were acting and singing. In this case the most important or strongest type of tone in this musical would be playfulness.…

American Idol, a television series where Americans participate in a singing competition, which has been produced for almost sixteen years. People from all around the country audition for and eventually the judges narrow the contestants down to the top twenty four supreme singers. Finally, only two singers remain, both showing impeccable singing talents, where the audience is faced with a difficult decision of who they want to win. Just as the audience is faced with the decision to choose a…

Central Thesis The main focus of this work is to provide a better understanding of how sexism could shape literary work and its responses as well as critiques. Through two main definitions of Anthony and Cleopatra such as "the fall of a great general" and "transcendental love" (Fitz, 297), the author of the reading explains how several critics have written adequately different responses over the years to the Shakespeare version of the story. Most of the approaches to the play have been depicted…