False protagonist

Critics in the Resource Paper In “Birches”, Robert Frost, The speakers sees a tree that is bent and he tries to believe that the boys swinging on the limb is the reason for it being bent. He knows that the real reason for the tree being bent is the ice storms that occur. Throughout the poem the speaker uses his imagination to escape what is actually happening. The speaker is alone and captivated in his imagination. In the poem the isolation is not necessarily a bad thing but an escape from the…

Writers from around the world united to contribute to the exceptional compilation that is The Art of The Story. Each story had its own individual style. Some of the stories had items they excelled at, while others failed to reach their full potential. Firstly, Hanan Al-Shaykh’s The Keeper Of The Virgins is an excellent story. The opening line: “ One of the women wondered aloud if he was a dwarf in every way.” was attention grabbing. Immediately, it piqued my interest. Who are these women? Is…

The Furnished Room/I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself For Sympathy Page 1 In the short stories “The Furnished Room” and “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” it displays the emotions of both main characters bathing some type of mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency over women in there respected lives and how the desire the attention of individuals by there threatening and erratic behaviors. The central main characters that seem to be imprecise and imperfect in…

Innocence and Experience: A&P The title of the book is Literature: The Human Experience written by Abcarian and Klotz. It is a book that has several chapters that address diverse issues. In this context, the chosen story is one that is in the chapter named as Innocence and Experience while the story is named as A&P where the narrator is a nineteen-year-old boy known as Sammy. The writer of this story is John Uplike whom published A&P in 1961. Characters The story is built around three main…

murder of Mr. Roger with Poirot. Not only is he fascinated by Poirot’s skills, but yet be starts to accumulate all the skills and tricks in a small note book, and little is he aware of he is a person of interest. The next character which is the protagonist goes by the name Hercule Piorot. Not only is the individual known as not wanting to give up on the murder of Mr. Roger, but he quickly becomes the person of great interest by many individuals around time. Lastly, another antagonist in this…

When all of her troubles began to build she became angry, upset, and confused. She subconsciously tore up the marigolds to get rid of her anger. But when she saw that she did nothing but break an old woman?s spirit she felt remorse. She realized that what she had done was childish and selfish. The experience of finding out about real life and problems hardened her. But not in a bad way, in a way that made her stronger and prepared her for the real world, in a way that turned her into an adult.…

All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone, is a harrowing Anti-War movie depicting the horrors of World War I through the eyes of German schoolboys turned recruits. It stars popular actors from the time period, such as Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, and John Wray. It follows the life of a young soldier and his friends who voluntarily joined the war because of how gratifying and heroic their professor made it seem as he pressured them to fulfill their “patriotic duty”. They witnessed…

When we think of fairytales, what comes into mind is the Disney variant that many people recognized. What perhaps not many know is that many of Disney’s stories like the Little Mermaid or Frozen, have an origin; a foundation that can have different versions. For example, Han Christian Anderson wrote both the “Little Mermaid” and the “Snow Queen” (the basis of Frozen). Both of these stories are considered “the one true story” when in fact they have different origins like any other fairytale.…

As we all know life can be a battle, finding your own place, getting away from those who ridicule you from being different. Some even hide from their true selves just so they don’t have to have gref from others. It’s like every human is programed to attack things that are different and if you don’t attack that person then you will end up being the one getting attacked from everyone else. There are however, a few that stand brave and stand behind what they did and not hide from it. These people…

In the first story that I read, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman, the author describes the mental state of the main character by making the reader question why the patient has such a great obsession with the yellow wallpaper in her room. Something about the paper fascinates the patient and causes her to believe things are happening to and around her that are not at all. At one point the patient strangely described, “This bed will not move! I tried to push it until I was lame, and then…