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sentimental and many more attitudes. Readers can discover or determine the author’s feeling towards his or her characters through tone; thus greatly impacting the reader’s the likings for the characters of the story. In the short story, A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, the author uses a wide variety of tones to depict the story of an old Negro lady who makes many trips to Natchez, Mississippi in order to attain her grandson’s medicine. One of the story’s tones is humorous and it is greatly…

What is realism? According to Peter Brooks, realism can take up various forms: realism as the visual, or realism as the ordinary aspects of life, or realism as the ugliest aspects of life, as long the message is conveyed. Which message? That of reality. What is reality then? “We have a thirst for reality, which is curious, since we have too much reality, more than we can bear.” (Brooks, 1). Do we in fact crave reality that much? But then as he explains, what we crave is not actually reality.…

Both Carson McCuller’s “Sucker” and Eudora Welty’s “A Memory” examine the dream and reality of human relationship. Both authors use adult personas, who is looking back and reminiscing on their childhood, which is to know between dream and reality. Whereas McCuller reveals that dream in conflict with reality will destroy all relationships, Welty shows that dream and reality will ultimately bring a person's view of the world into darkness. Both stories is a frame memory that looks back to the…

In Chaucer’s satirical comedy The Canterbury Tales, and Shakespeare’s play King Lear, women are portrayed in a negative light. In both time periods, female characters are supposed to be submissive and obedient to their husbands; furthermore, as seen in the text, women are frowned upon for being knowledgeable and independent. Each author uses his work to promote their opinion on gender roles in society. In the fourteenth century, society was based on hierarchal status and women were at the…

“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town on a clear sunny day on the 27th day of June. The children of the town arrive first and begin collecting stones and piling them together until their parents call them to order. Mr. Summers calls each head of the household to come forward to a black old wooden box, where each select a slip of paper. Once the men of the house have chosen a paper slip, Mr. Summers allows everyone to open the paper and…

Courage to Pursue Your Goals Courage is the ability to do something out of your comfort zone that you know is difficult or dangerous. Discoveries, edited by Harold Schechter and Jonna Gormley Semekis, contains many stories written about characters going on a quest. These characters could be on a quest to find their personal call, could be on a journey with many obstacles in their path, or could be on a quest to find a type of treasure. There are many important characteristics that these…

In Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell the protagonist Ree Dolly journeys through the stages of a Hero's Journey as defined by Joseph Campbell. An atypical hero, the 16-year-old young woman begins her quest in The World of Common Day. The reader is introduced to Ree, “She stood tall in combat boots, scarce at waist but plenty through the arms and shoulders, a body made for loping after needs”(3). As she is physically built to travel the Ozarks searching for her father, Ree is still burdened with…

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Phoenix Jackson? Many heroes are shown as strong and powerful warriors that save a kingdom from monsters and destruction. Not all heroes are that way however. Some heroes seem to be the opposite of heroic as well such as Bilbo Bagons from “The Hobbit” or Daniel Crawford from “Asylum”. Out of all the heroes one seems to stand out the most. Phoenix Jackson from “A Worn Path” is an elderly woman who travels a far distance alone to get medicine for her grandson.…

Jessica LaGue Professor Cave English 1B 12 February 2015 Symbolic Representation of the Phoenix The symbolism in “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix Arizona” is what adds depth to the characters and events that take place in the story. Accompanied by his childhood friend Thomas Builds-The-Fire, our protagonist Victor embarks on a journey to Phoenix, AZ to retrieve the ashes of his estranged father. However it is Victor that will rise from the ashes, and be reborn from the flames of his own…

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