Arthurian characters

The Phantom Tollbooth Imagine a secret world hidden inside of a magical tollbooth. Two kings, Azaz and The Math Magician are constantly at war and chaos terrorizes their citizens of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, all because they can’t decide whether numbers are more important than words, or if words are more important than numbers. Their sisters Rhyme and Reason tell the two brothers that words and numbers are both of equal value, but they don’t listen to their sisters and banish the two…

Without glamorizing events and characters, Jacobs maintains her act of portraying a detailed image of realistic events and character in her story. Unlike other authors, who distort their stories with idealistic events and characters, Jacobs surpasses this and respects the, somewhat disappointing, raw truth of her characters. She purposely displays the true gruesome events that her character faces, as she writes, “Afraid of capture, she rushed out of her friend’s…

to be like a text. On the contrary, it can be like a novel where each chapter can tell its own story, such as the variation of tales told by Maxine Hong Kingston in her book The Woman Warrior; however, you could also have a book completely with character development and chapters that culminate to an overall story, such as in The Autobiography of Malcolm X which starts at the very beginning with “When my mother was pregnant with me,” and it end which Malcolm X addressing the likelihood of his own…

Brain Caswell explores the themes appearance and reality, showing how appearances can be deceptive and how humans are complex in his novel, Double Exposure. He does this by using the metaphor of double exposure, and characterisation. Caswell also effectively used intertextuality to ensure that the reader has a greater understanding of the main themes, and to convey different ideas that are explored during the novel. Double Exposure deals with ideas of how appearance and reality can be…

In the novel, the author relates the title to the novel by using figures of speech in the text. To begin, Mrs. Mullet’s custard pie, that no one in the De Luce family eats, symbolizes the entire mystery. The pie crust is the outline of the mystery and is the general view of the mystery. The pie filling or the sweetness of the pie symbolizes the more hidden parts or clues of the mystery that need to be discovered and the deeper you dig, the more clues you find to the puzzle. In addition, the…

Throughout the novel The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini used a variety of literary devices. A major one would have to be imagery. Hosseini’s purpose of providing an abundant amount of imagery is for us readers to get familiar with what's going on during a certain scene or setting, as well as getting more familiar with the inside of his mind and what he's thinking. Within the last five chapters of the narrative, a scene that caught my attention is where he unknowingly described Assef: “His…

individuals added their own flair to the mix and constructed a many tales which we still read today. The form of writing known as realism is built around character, plot, and setting as every other tale created has been based around. In this genre, each one of these pieces in the form of a story has very important characteristics in them. The character, which is the biggest player I all stories as they rely on them for a story to actually occur, must be representative of the people that,…

uses flashbacks to tell the reader bits and pieces of the character’ pasts, which tie them together, building the plot of the novel. He begins the novel by having the narrator tell the story of the sons escape from 124 (3). He allows this flashback to be wrapped around to the present continuing with stories about Baby Suggs. By using an analepsis to begin the novel, the reader is left with scattered pieces of information about each character and the plot, which causes the reader to continue…

one the most because it showed a more emotional connection to the characters that the first one. You could really feel the pain that Katniss feels in this book whereas in The Hunger Games book it focused more on what she was doing to survive. Character development…

adventure, friendship, and sacrifice. It was written by John Jackson Miller to create backstory for the characters on the ongoing television show, Star Wars Rebels. This book is an amazing read that will explore the extent of how brutal the Galactic Empire can be, and how effective the rebellion will become. John Jackson Miller wrote the book in third person so the readers can emphasis what the characters might be feeling, thinking, or doing. This book is a spectacular read for…