James G. Blaine

In the extract of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley describes the look and actions of Frankenstein’s monster as well as Frankenstein’s reactions toward his monster. Shelley uses language and an ominous setting to create a fearsome creature. When Mary Shelley contrasts the monster’s beautiful features to its grotesque ones, her language creates an appalling creature. She states, “…these luxuriances only formed more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same color as the dun-white…

There are many lessons to be learned through Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, but many of those messages are diluted or lost all together in the digital world that we live in today. The access to digital media has indeed proven to be more convenient than those of traditional books but what some digital media fails to do is convey the rhetorical lessons in the same way that the author originally intended, such as the 1931 film version of Frankenstein. More times than not, the digital form…

Oh! good morrow to you, sir Henry. So good to see you again. How is the dagger I made for you last week? I worked long, hard hours on that dagger to make it just right for you. I take pride in all my work. Good was it. That’s good. Is there anything else that you would like to buy from us? I’ve got spears, axes, horse shoes, shovels, anything with metal. An Axe thee sayeth? Well we shalt do that for thee. At which hour would thee like to pick it up. Next week? Tis fine. My dad and I shall make…

“Counterparts,” the short story by James Joyce, Farrington is constantly unsatisfied with himself and the people around him. Farrington’s desire to escape from his frustration leads him to the public house, but there he only experiences an increase in anger because he sees everything as an obstacle in his path to comfort. Farrington is trapped in an endless cycle of anger because of his insecurity. To highlight Farrington’s entrapment, Joyce uses his reliance on drinking, his desire for status,…

A monster, in my eyes, is a creature that lacks thought process, and lacks the ability to see right from wrong. Well - lacks the ability not to see it, but lacks the ability to control their impulses and resist from acting on the "wrong". A monster is someone who also lacks the ability to change - but that's a rather odd topic for me to talk about. Frankenstein, in my eyes, is not a monster. Frankenstein knew what he was doing, and knew he was doing the wrong thing, but he shows a capability to…

Did you ever read a story then watch the movie? One of these stories is called “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. “ The story and the movie have many similarities and differences. One of the similarities both the story have and the movie is Walter daydreams. Walter daydreams of being a pilot . Walter daydreams as he is fighting while he is the pilot of the ship. Another similarity that the story and the movie have in common is that their is a little black book. The little black book is where…

Have you ever heard of a person killing his brother? Have you ever been so embarrassed of somebody that you wanted to kill them? In the “Scarlet Ibis,” the brother, Doodle, was born with problems and just wasn’t a normal child. His brother, the Narrator, didn’t like having a brother who wasn’t normal. The narrator is to blame for Doodle’s death because at the beginning of the story he makes a plan to kill his brother. Another reason is that he is embarrassed of Doodle and criticized him because…

The central idea of the short story, “Araby,” by James Joyce, is a young Irish boy who has a crush on his friends sister, who is considerably older than him, he goes to the market to get her some but eventually realizes that it’s not worth it. The author demonstrates this by writing, “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires” (Joyce 2, Paragraph 5). This quote illustrates how the young Irish boy has a crush on this woman. There are many…

In the book “The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner is the second book the Maze Runner series. This book takes place in the future, the world is a desert and the narrator is a sixteen-year-old boy name, Thomas. Thomas is not so specific about his location. He tells his story in the third person. Thomas and his friends he called The Gladers have this sickness called the flare. They all have two weeks to travel 1000 miles North. The book starts with action when Thomas’ good friend Teresa gets taken…

Batman Mortality Throughout The Dark Knight Returns, Batman faces not only the current batch of Gotham's criminals, but criminals from his past, the Gotham Police, and eventually Superman. On top of all of these outward enemies, time is certainly not on Batman's side. Batman has to consider and confront his own mortality while he tries to clean up Gotham City's unending criminal element. Frank Miller does this to show to the reader that while Batman has done and continues to do impressive feats…