Gradient descent

From the very beginning of the story Poe starts by stating he does not expects the reader to understand him or to believe what we are about to witness. “I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my verse surely do I not dream” (837). Poe makes this notion because of his wives superstitious believes. “My wife, who at heart was a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as…

Edgar Allen Poe is often regarded as a master of building suspense. Poe develops suspense in “The Black Cat” through the following three events: When the narrator cuts out Pluto’s eye, when the narrator finds another black cat that looks almost exactly like Pluto, when the white patch on the second black cat’s chest forms into a hangman’s noose. One of the major turn point’s in the story is when the narrator cuts out Pluto’s eye. It gives the readers a feel that this isn’t the same person…

Trickster Tales Tell your mother that i am grateful to him and has given me great pleasure.This quote is taken from the trickster tail Master Cat. The master says that he's thankful for the rabbit. Trickster tales that contain similarities and differences of Master Cat and How Stories Came to Earth. In Master Cat and how stories came to earth there are several simularities.One of the first simularities of Master Cat and How stories Came to earth is how they use Anthropomorphism.…

“It was the cat’s voice that had screamed. The cat had made me kill my wife, and its cries had given me away. I had walled up the monster within the tomb,” quoted from Edgar Allan Poe in The Black Cat. Using literary terms is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s strong points in his writing. In The Black Cat Poe uses figurative terms, for instance foreshadowing and alliteration, in a way that helps the story to remain interesting and flow fluently. With plot being an important necessity in a story, The…

The graphic novel Maus is an ingenious piece of literature through its usage of illustrations along with text. The co-relation between the text and images is so steadfast that one could only look at the pictures and understand the message the author is trying to get across. There are many instances as such when we can “read” the pictures and understand the meaning, specifically page thirty-three is a great example. Page thirty-three communicates to the reader the messages of hate, oppression and…

who are relative to one side of the family. This is usually a unilinear descent system. In the following paragraphs, differences between two unilineal systems will be discussed and also how these systems help not just the individual but also their society. Lineage is the tracing down of family members between different people and showing the link. Ember and Ember define lineage as a set of kin whose members trace descent from common ancestor through known links. There are two subcategories…

When I was twelve year of age, I faced the challenge of breaking my right foot. Therefore I had to overcome everyday tasks and obstacles like mobility and sanitation. These challenges impacted my everyday well-being which was difficult to coup and become accustom to. My options became scarce due to my mobility which was the greatest challenge of the all. It all started in the summer of 2013 when I was riding my bicycle around my neighborhood with my brother and sister. We decided to separate…

A dead cat, a bloody shirt and a field trip. Why, Honey? is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The story tells about a mother who's writing a letter about her son, who is a governor. In the letter she describes how her son had become the kind of person he is. The text consists of fear and long-lost trust alongside with the mother's various claims of the son. The author shows how some people can turn into something very different than what expected and how not trusting someone can change…

Final Exam How does the concept of ethnocentrism interfere with cultural pluralism? How do these concepts help or hinder the issues globally. Ethnocentrism is one of the main causes of division in race, creed and religion. These are learned behaviors because when we are children we may notice differences in color, race or language, but we are not born bias either way. Stereotyping, categorizing, generalizations and accusations affect us worldwide even within our own races. Cultural…

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…