Julie Walters

Similar Composition, Different Content Within the “Passionate Shepherd to His Love” the narrator's love for a woman he fancies is idealized within it. Its structure of this poem is made as a basis for the both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Bait.” Even though all of the authors are different, they all manage to mirror a similar structure. The organization of the poems are all very similar, all of them have four line stanzas and all three poems have a rhyming scheme of AABB. Also,…

In the year of fifteen-eighty-seven, a group of British settlers crossed the ocean in order to get to America and make it their new home. The leader of the colony, John White, returned to England to gather supplies. Whenever he returned, the colony had disappeared with nothing left except the word “croatoan” carved into a tree. What happened to the people of Roanoke Island? How could an entire colony of people just vanish? Experts are still trying to solve this unexplained mystery today. In the…

In, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Walter Mitty has many real life character traits and character traits of the men in his daydreams, that are very different and show the man that he wants to be and the man he doesn’t like to see himself as. Many times in Mitty’s daydreams, he is a leader who is well-respected and leads with authority. In his first daydream he is a commander who is trusted by his men who believe, “The Old Man’ll get us through” (Thurber, 2.) While in real life, his wife is the…

The protagonist, Walter Mitty copes with his repressed desires by using dreams as an escape from his unfulfilling life; ultimately, showcasing the negative consequences to the superego dominating the ego. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber portrays Mitty’s self-awareness that his desires cannot be accomplished in reality, therefore he needs to repress these desires. As reinforced by his wife, “You’re not a young man any longer” (Thurber 1). Everytime Mitty attempts to re-enact his…

in Of Mice and Men by how George is always going out of his way to help Lenny, then by how Candy offered help and $350 towards them getting the farm. In War Dance they all came together to win the dancing competition. Finally in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty everyone he met was helping him in some way. In Of Mice and Men George is always helping Lenny but he does not have hope for their goal of starting their own farm and “Living off the fatta the lan’,” until they get offered $350 by candy so…

Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” INTRODUCTION My analysis of Roald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” reveals the murder of police detective Patrick Maloney. The story depicts a tale of a loyal wife’s reaction to her husband’s betrayal. The story is an irregular day in Mary’s regular life. She makes the day turn around by murdering her husband and smartly covering it up, leaving the detectives with no possible way to excuse “innocent” Mary of murder. This short story, we are taught…

Biographical Criticism, shows how, a reader, relates his or her possible favorite author’s past, in order to relate it on how that author writes their story, and how the simplest pieces of texts relates towards their past. Walter Dean Myers was a famous author in his times, some of his well known books/poems included, Monsters, Fallen Angels, Slam!, Hoops, Bad Boy: A memoir, Harlem, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices and etc. As he was young his mother had died when he was the age of 2, which…

The film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty follows an unimpressive white-collar man as he finds his life thrown into scenarios he would otherwise only have imagined. Walter Mitty goes from working as a negative assets manager in a crowded workplace to swimming in shark infested waters and climbing the Himalayas. Undergoing such a drastic change, over the course of the film, Ben Stiller employs a variety of directorial choices to further enhance how Walter Mitty had to isolate not only his mind,…

In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber uses setting to contrast the protagonist’s thoughts, imagination, and feelings with his actual real life. To start with, the setting that is happening in Walter’s real life is pretty banal and uninteresting, “His wife would be through at the hairdresser’s in fifteen minutes … She didn’t like to get to the hotel first; she would want him to be there waiting for her as usual. He found a big leather chair in the lobby, facing the window, and he…

the youth. Walter Dean Myers is a great author his inspiration is to get the youth away from such situations by inspiring them and talking about possibilities and real life situations that have happened which in my opinion, nobody wants to go through and he does this is many books related to this subject with low class urban areas and also crimes and gang related…