Detective fiction

It has been said the mnemonic F-E-A-R has two meanings: “Forget Everything and Run” or “Face Everything And Rise.” For most people, it is much easier to run away from fear, as is the case with the female narrator from “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” and Murphy from “Murphy’s X-mas.” Each of them ran away from their fears for a long time, and it wasn’t until the very end of their stories that they decided to face them. The narrator ran from her fear for two months and faced it for…

The two key elements in any essay, picture, or anything of the sort are tone, the writer’s attitude toward the subject, and theme, representation of a message about life or human nature that is revealed within the story. Theme is remarkably symbolized within the works of A.E. Housman, Walt Whitman, and Vincent Van Gogh for the majority of the works; however, tone is a different story. In the craft of such artists, tone is not blatantly stated or pictures, but must be hypothesized by gathering…

George Saunders’ “Puppy” and Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” tell of two different stories with different characters in presumably different time periods. Both authors have drastically different backgrounds that bring them to these tales. However, their works of literature are more comparable than one would initially think. From the perspective of the reader, the intent of Puppy was to stress that there is often more to something than meets the eye and that because of this, we tend to want for…

Anderson addresses the themes commonly seen in Le Guin’s writing in her article “Ursula Le Guin and Theological Alterity” when she states: “Her standing as an author and her long years of complex engagements with issues of religion and politics in her fiction suggest that questions of religious difference in contemporary young adult literature are best read through her recent work” (182). Le Guin succeeds in creating a utopian society, with utilitarian values…

Hook/Motivator- You wake up in a dark room and you can hear people talking outside. The small amount of light that’s piercing the darkness in the room hurts your eyes and your head is in excruciating pain, but you don’t know why. You also realize you have no clue where you are at. The doctor comes in followed by your family not knowing you have woken up flips the light on. It sends your brain into even more pain and you now feel completely blind. He quickly turns it off and uses his flashlight…

The Storm Questions for Discussion 1. Kate Chopin’s The Storm is an excellent story to teach setting because of how she gives each of the settings in the story significance. Chopin masterfully builds up the plot using the settings in The Storm. In Part I, Bibi and Bobinôt are out at the store and it is about to rain. If they had not been out of the house, Calixta and Alcée would not have been able to be alone to have sex. Chopin also uses the setting to guide the audience through Calixta’s and…

“The Yellow Wall-paper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and consist of numerous journal entries. The narrator of the story is a woman who struggles with herself because she suffers from a nervous condition and faces depression. She is confined in an isolated house, on bed rest. She states that the house “is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village” (844). This house is separated from real life and society and her emotional…

The films "The Place Beyond the Pines" and "The Light Between Oceans" are both directed by Derek Cianfrance and use geographic location to shape the story in which create a powerful natural aspect that shows emotion and symbolism. Both films follow the theme of actions having consequences. Cianfrance is best known for directing Drama films and romances. "The Place Beyond the Pines" was based on three different characters stories, rather than just one. Although the stories are closely linked to…

Introduction What makes a play worthy of being staged? What guarantees that an audience will want to see this production or connect with it? There’s a wide range of elements that go into a dramatic play that have been examined time and time again and interpreted in different ways. Aristotle and David Ball have both examined the structures of theatrical plays and what makes them substantial, however the two don’t agree on many topics. After reading a translation of Poetics by Aristotle and David…

The swift fluidity with which Doerr moves between the stories of Werner and Marie-Laure and the parallels he creates between them emphasizes their shared humanity. As children, both Werner and Marie-Laure are depicted as innocent, with an element of ‘light’ within them, for they focus on the good in their lives- family, ambitions and dreams- despite the war. The fact that Marie-Laure is blind and motherless and Werner is an “undersized” (Doerr 24) orphan creates sympathy in the reader,…