Cognitive style

Getting to know someone involves spending time with the desired new person, talking to them, and/or observing how their actions. It would be somewhat difficult to learn about their character without those factors. We learn about characters in books in just about the same way we learn about them in the real world, by interacting with them in some manner. The difference between reality and books, though, is the middle man between the reader and the characters, the narrator. The narrator gives us…

Metaphoric Approach to Organizational Management Most organizations in the world thrive on creating and sustaining a great workplace culture. A trust-based culture is relevant to the stakeholders of an organization, from the highest office all the way to the junior staff members. The culture of professional relationship and competence builds upon mutual respect and all manner of ethics and discipline as well as the responsibility of an individual and as a team. The organization assigns employees…

Broken Promises “Flying” is a short story by Alice Miller. It is about a girl named Allie Lester who has to choose whether keep her promise or break it and fly. The short story starts off with Allie, who is six years old at the time, hanging out with her older cousin Mack. Mack teaches her numerous amount of things when they spend time together, but this particular moment is more special than any time before. Mack shows Allie how to fly; it is such a pleasant and graceful experience. However,…

In the short stories Antojos and The storyteller third person narration is used in the stories. Both stories have third person but they are divergent from each other, but also somewhat similar to each other in a way. Antojos uses third person limited point of view. Third person limited means the narrator only knows the thoughts and feeling of a character and in The storyteller third person omniscient is used. Omniscient point of view is similar to limited but the narrator knows everything like…

very pleasing to the reader. If Golding used the the phrase “Simon began to speak” instead, the reader wouldn't feel the same negative emotions. Whenever the novel introduces new people, places, or things, it uses long descriptive sentences. This style helps make a better image on what is going on in the novel. “The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way to the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one…

The Fly Vile, repulsive, and yet ultimately benign; this is the life of a fly. In the Poem “The Fly” Karl Shapiro defines the operations of a mundane housefly in exorbitant detail. From searching for a mate to burying maggots in the dermis of a corpse to the fly’s demise, Shapiro holds no stray detail of the fly’s being from the reader. Karl Shapiro utilizes imagery and figurative language to express the underlying beauty and repulsion of an otherwise benign fly. First, Shapiro utilizes…

When Jane Eyre was first published by Charlotte Brontë in Victorian England, it was viewed as revolutionary. In the modern era, despite rapid changes in the role of women in both the home and workplace, the novel is still regarded as one of the greatest works of feminist literature worldwide. Brontë expertly presents power struggles between her narrator, Jane, and men, alongside conflicts with society as a whole in order to produce an overall theme of female empowerment. Within this passage…

The “Panchatantra” is a book that was written to originally teach princes how to rule their kingdom and how they should live. In the “Panchatantra” the story of the “Numskull and the Rabbit” is a story to teach princes several lessons. One lesson that might be taken from this story is that it is wiser to defend a fortress than to attack it. Another lesson is that someone does not have to be strong to defeat their opponent. In this story a lion is the strongest in the forest and would go on…

Gordon Grice, an essayist and writer, is caught in a web that is the mystery of the black widow. He himself has been enamored by the widow’s venom, in particular, and how it seems to be more powerful than need be. He reflects on killing widows with his mother and the gravity his mother held while doing so. Putting the powerful venom of the widow in perspective, Grice explains how there is no need for the deathly venom yet it still exists, and he relates this to the evil of the world, how…

Many people have survived the Holocaust and it’s safe to say that a lot of people who got out were feeling terrified, sad, and traumatized. Millions of people who were unlucky died there, sometimes from the beginning, and a majority got transported there to burn in gas chambers. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, lived through this experience and for him and millions it was damaging to them physically and mentally. He conveys this theme of traumatization through various literary devices such as…