Character creation

The novel Krik? Krak! is a group of small passages about different situations and a mixture of different lifestyles. The use of similar plots helps tie all nine of the passages together. The author, Edwidge Danticat, is a Haitian based writer who has built these stories around life in Haiti. A Wall of Rising Fire happened to be one of the more complex part of the novel. The title of this passage came from a line in a play that Little Guy was chose to play a role in. The line from the play…

into adults. The setting of the depression is important but the idea of depression as an emotional state is also significant in this novel. One character in particular that has been through the emotional stress that is depression is Meme. This is a brave character for Hoberman to include in the novel, as a lot of the issues brought about through this character are intense for a young audience. The story is able to intertwine the depression into a children’s book without dismissing the hardships…

A writer's tone is very powerful in reshaping and structuring pieces of literature. It also is very strong at determining outcomes of pieces of literature and in a writer’s purpose in their story and effectiveness. Also, a writer can have so much different tones throughout a story depending on whom they are and that leads to the outcome that the writer is trying to get to. In "The Lottery”, the author of that book had many different tones displayed in the story that lead to the outcome of the…

Responses to situations, power, and people, diversify over all characters, yet it is often overlooked by casual readers. Sensibility is commonly defined as “peculiar or excessive susceptibility to pleasurable or painful impression”, therefore; a character’s level of sensibility will affect their responses to a situation. The concept of sensibility can be used in terms of power and demonstrated through a hierarchy developed in the novel. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan…

I feel that Baldwin chose this excerpt as the epigraph for the Giovanni’s Room because, the line itself it alludes to many of the key themes explored throughout the novel like masculinity, sexual identity, and being present. Placing the excerpt in the context of “Song of Myself” reveals even more about the idea of self-acceptance that Baldwin also explores in the novel; Many of the lines leading up to the final couplet begin with “How he,” as if to present a sort of distance between the narrator…

All stories, regardless of genre, are basically the same. This is not always true in the most obvious aspects like the structure, main points, themes, and the traits of main characters, but it is always applicable to the basic plot of a story. According to Freytag’s Triangle, proposed in 1863, all stories, and even jokes with a punchline, follow the same sequence of events that create the progression of a story. This includes the exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling…

a different view of the occurring events throughout the novel, an array of narrators are used. The basic intention of doing this is to give us, as the reader an insight, without denouncing anyone in particular. This technique also allows certain characters, such as Claudia and Pecola, to be much more intensely emphasized. Throughout the narration an accumulation of various voices are not only heard, but in order to form such anticipation and emotional feelings, depicting them across such a…

Camino Island, the bestselling novel by John Grisham contains several messages that relate to everyday life. The characters in the novel lived their lives in ways that display the certain messages. Although the messages are not clearly obvious when reading this story, they can easily be discovered with a little bit of thought. In the start of the novel, Mercer Mann is struggling financially as she is about to be laid off from her teaching job. Although this is a struggle for her, Mercer is about…

the rules of the monomyth. One of the multiple movies that exemplifies this is Mulan. In this movie, the main character executes all three parts of The Hero’s Journey. In part one, The Departure, there are three mini events that happen which are: An Unusual Birth/ Early Childhood, The Call To Adventure, and Crossing The Threshold. Near the beginning of the film, Mulan, the main character, meets with a matchmaker. She makes numerous clumsy mistakes and does not fit in with any of the other girls…

The Circle by Dave Eggers very much reminds me of 1984 by George Orwell. I would event venture to say that it is the “updated” version. The main character of the book is Mae and she starts working for a company very similar to Google. However, this company called The Circle is very heavy on social media. Mae is initially very awestruck by The Circle (they have their own transportation, apartments, amenities etc.) However, she soon realizes that they more she “buys in” to their schemes, the more…