Edgar Linton

“The Jacket” Fictional Narrative Assessment Gary Soto’s “The Jacket” tells the story of a jacket that the author received when he was in 6th grade. The jacket his mother lovingly purchased for him was NOT the kind of jacket he had asked for, and in his eyes, brought him three years of bad luck. Rewrite Soto’s personal narrative as if his mother HAD bought him the neat jacket - “like bikers wear: black leather and silver studs with enougt belts to hold down a small town.” Tell your version from…

“There came a stealthy thief that’s known as Death,/ Throughout this country robbing folks of breath.” (chaucer lines 5-6). These lines are quoted from Chaucer’s epic poem”The Pardoner’s tale.” Death is interpreted differently throughout stories, songs, and poems. Death is personified as a spirit or as a human’s physical presence, friend or enemy, death can be presented as both. The song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult presents death as a persuasive person. In the poem “Because I…

Since its publication, some decades, George Saunders’s collection of short stories has remained relevant despite the passing years and times. As a result, it has formed a backbone of inspiration to an entire generation along the way. Civilwarland in Bad Decline is about a group of characters who have unforgettable traits which bring out the best in each of them as they struggle to survive in a world that is full of drama and tragic unexpected events. For example, the gangs. The story states:…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Schrödinger’s Cat is a science fiction short story from her short story collection, The Compass Rose (1982). Schrödinger’s Cat begins with a narrator who does not identify by gender or name explaining the world in which he/she lives. A nearby couple is overheard having a breakup, yet in this unexplainable world, they mean it literally as the woman turns into a heap of body parts, with the man reduced to pieces hopping around. The most agonizing aspect of this world is that it…

The picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel ever to be published by Oscar Wilde. This is a story of depravity, debauchery and acts as somewhat a revolutionary tale. I dived deep into this book rather clueless of what it had in stored for me. Immediately, I was exceedingly entranced by Wilde’s effortless and elegant writing style ,that was always pleasing to the mind and vocally. Every sentence was so utterly perfect that I wished to track every single fragment of Wilde’s creation because it was…

Published in 1868, Wilkie Collins’ detective novel The Moonstone is unique in the mystery genre in that it does not have one primary detective. Instead, the story unfolds through the writings of eleven distinct characters. Approximately half of the story is narrated by Gabriel Betteredge, a man who is decidedly Anglocentric. Throughout the story, biases play a role in its deeper meaning with regards to India and its relationship with Britain. Gabriel Betteredge’s biased narration, Mr.…

Dakota Rushing Poe’s Mad Men Edgar Allen Poe lived a particularly gloomy life. Events such as the death of his parents at a very early age to being cheated on by his first fiancée threw Poe into a world of despair and darkness. Many could say this is what led Poe to write in his infamous Gothic tone. According to the Edgar Allen Poe Museum, Poe was born in Baltimore to a family of actors who traveled the country (Poe’s Life, 1). Poe was inspired to put pen to paper in a oppressive manner…

Are Poe’s Crime Scenes Realistic? Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories are grim and disturbing. In his short story “The Cask of Amontillado” the protagonist lures the antagonist into his catacomb. Then, locked away the antagonist down in the catacomb resulting in his death. This murder was accomplished when the antagonist became drunk and could not realize what was happening, but would that really be enough to just lure him into the catacomb? Even if that is possible would the antagonist be so…

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were two traveling actors from an English theatrical family. Both of them died before Poe was three years old, which resulted in him and his two siblings living in foster care. Although not legally adopted, Poe was taken in by a Scottish tobacco exporter, John Allan. He spent most of his early life with the Allan family, besides a five-year time span when he traveled to England to attend the Manor House School.…

Throughout American literature, many stories have been stylistically written with the intention of instilling fear in a reader’s mind. To be specific, Edgar Allen Poe, acknowledged for his rather ominous and morbid stories achieves this effect in, The Fall of the House of Usher. With that in mind, Poe wrote, The Fall of the House of Usher through the usage of certain events and details which culminate to the ultimate effect of terror. While, The Fall of the House of Usher epitomizes a story’s…