Children's literature

Different Views of the Holocaust Portrayed Through Various Literary Elements “Life is a matter of perspective. It can be amazing or wonderful, or it can be depressing and worthless” (Gray, n.d.). This quote from Stephen Gray exemplifies both aspects of life in according to how one perceives it. As a result, some people choose to see life negatively instead of focusing on the positive aspects that make life great. When juxtaposed, Elie Wiesel’s (2006) book Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful”…

All appearances of characters in novels have their different roles developed, even if they are minor. Mr. Quiring in the novel, A Complicated Kindness, is no exception to this convention. Although Mr. Quiring rarely appears in the novel, he plays a crucial role in making the readers understand more about the protagonist, Naomi, whom may be thought that she hates Mr. Quiring in the readers’s first reading. The readers may mistake that the protagonist, Naomi, does not like her teacher, Mr.…

Debating if a piece of text is literature or not is still a tricky topic in this day and age. The Oxford English Dictionary defines literature as “Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit” but to really define and classify a text as literature you need to delve deeper, ask more questions and do this with a completely unbiased and open mind. Perhaps no other authors work has been debated in this manner quite as much as Edgar Allan Poe. His short stories,…

What constitutes a great work of fiction? In many aspects, authors such as Edgar Allen Poe are highly regarded, while some lesser-known authors are not held in such high esteem. While the classic stories and works of literature should have a place on our shelves, and in our repertoires of essential readings, room should be made for exploring fiction beyond the realm of famous authors. In reading a work such as "The Werewolf" by Angela Carter, one might compare and contrast it to a short story…

William Blake wrote many different poems, two big books filled with them, one book being called Songs of Innocence and the other being called Songs of Experience. Within these two books, four were brought up to the attention of the class, The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and Infant Sorrow. These four poems had different messages but also different archetypes or comparisons. Each one, William Blake made sure to point out what he was really trying to get the reader to notice as he wrote…

Literacy, as I see it, has an extremely broad definition that solely depends on the interpreter. Literacy is the ability to read and evaluate content in a unique way of thinking, along with the aptitude to write and reflect upon a story, topic, or a piece of art. Throughout my life my literacy has evolved and changed into what it is today, a freshman in college writing 101. I believe that my attitude towards literacy can be best described by the path of reading from my adolescent and my high…

The Journey of Amy Lowell’s Life Stood only five feet tall and weighed as much as 250 pounds. Who is this woman? She published many of famously known poems around the world. Who is this woman? She was left alone in her early adulthood after her parents’ death. Who is this woman? Even after her death, she remains a legend. This woman spoken so highly of is Amy Lowell. Amy Lowell’s family surrounded her with poetry throughout her childhood which influenced her to become a poet. Personal Life…

“Now we know, as she [Oedipa Maas] does, that she can carry on, that discovering that men can’t be counted on doesn’t mean that the world ends; that she’s a whole person.” Pg. 5 As Foster previously states in this chapter, quests are for self-discovery and solving an unanswered and potentially unknown mystery that lies deeply within you. In his example of Oedipa Maas in The Crying of Lot 49 he describes the unpleasant and perhaps overwhelming voyage that one must go on to come…

In the poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “in-Just” by e. .e cummings they focus largely on the concepts of growing up. The concept of losing one’s innocence is shown in both of these poems through the realizations in the last stanzas. That is when both of the authors realized that the innocence has been lost and things are not as they once thought that they were. Both of the authors told stories of their past to exemplify this, both poems I believe are written from the perspective of an…

Donald Howard was a professor of English at Stanford until 1977. He went on to study medieval tradition which led him to write his first book, The Three Temptations; Medieval Man in Search of the World. This is an analysis of his critical study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the article, Donald Howard discusses the symmetry and parallelism found throughout Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He notes that the symbols inside the poem are defined by the author and are not left to be…