John Updike

In a world of love poems and sonnets, John Updike breaks the norm with a poem logging the brief life and death of a family pet in “Dog’s Death”. As expected, the story is about the heartbreaking death of a family dog. John Updike writes a over a mournful, emotional accident in a straightforward and to the point manner. The angle Updike takes seems to be an angle that could be viewed as a personal experience. His writing seems to be full of regret and with lines like, “In the car to the vet’s, on…

John Updike conveys to the audience, Red Sox fans, in “The First Kiss” that baseball is just a game and it is simply meant to be played for fun. Updike uses strong metaphors, to portray his point Updike uses a recurring metaphor throughout which describes the Red Sox fans as being a monster. Updike starts out by having “the many-headed monster” endeavour hope towards the new season. The monster keeps returning for more even though “last year [they] broke its monstrous big heart”. The fans…

There are obvious truths about life, we are born, we live and we die. In the poem “Perfection Wasted” by John Updike he explains it a different way. He opens the poem as if he is mid-thought making the reader feel that they are entering in on the middle of a conversation: “And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic,” (1, 2). Writing it this way shows that the narrator has been going on for a while, and thus has a lot of complaints. He says that after…

“Appropriate Placement” The setting of the short story “A&P” by John Updike provided major contributions to the meaning of the work. The time period and location that the story took place in was arguably the main contributor to the reactions in the story and how the story itself plays out. If set in a more modern time period, or even set at a different location than a grocery store, the outcome of the story may have ended up very different than in its original setting. Without the setting, the…

and it is the main idea of the story. The literary terms can help the readers easier to understand the stories and it intensify the attractiveness of the story. In the story A&P, John Updike uses various literary terms to describe to form the story like character, setting, plot, tone, and symbolism. For example, John Updike describe the literary term characters in A&P. Character helps the writer to explain the main idea of A&P. Since the character plays an important role inside the story. For…

Realness beneath the layers of cosmetic perception”. Here, DeLillo seems to be speaking passive aggressively to deliver a message to his wife that conveys that it could also happen to her, anyone to be exact. This could also be referencing the negative outcomes that accompany the desensitization of society. In the case of this sentence, it seems that the husband is instilling fear into his wife’s heart just to enjoy seeing her reaction. This somehow explains why people always have an undying…

In one of the most iconic and famous books written by James Joyce known as Dubliners, there is a short story that also like the other short stories in the book ends with an epiphany. This short story is called The Dead and in the book there is a part where two characters have an interaction and through seeing this interaction there can be many observations made about the protagonist and the other character. The two characters that are in the discussion or interaction are Gabriel and Miss Ivor.…

The short story Gore by Sarah Ellis compared to, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl is both similar for various reasons. This essay will look over three main ideas of similarities in these two short stories. One of these reasons is the characters from these two stories are reacting spontaneously in a male vs. female conflict. Secondly, the two both solved a problem raised/caused by the opposite gender which in both of these was male antagonists starting the conflict that furthermore leads into…

This Snickers commercial presents Willem Dafoe in a dress; he is mad because he has to stand in heels, on a drain holding his dress down while wind blows up it for a photo shoot. Willem Defoe, an older but robust man, is imitating Marilyn Monroe in this role; but the angry version of her, due to hunger. In this commercial it displays how short Willem Defoe patience is toward his boss because of hunger. Willem Dafoe is asking his boss questions like, ”Who puts a girl in heels, on a subway drain?”…

The narrator in the short story, “Araby” by James Joyce, resides not in a fantasy world full of dragons and wizards, but in a fantasy-like state of mind that is set on the theme of escape. Joyce describes North Richmond Street as, “... dark muddy lanes behind the houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits…”(3); there is a reoccurring theme of darkness. The young narrator lives in this…