Kate DiCamillo

The film complys completely with trend and framework of the novel and take three-step composition to describe the three women’s one day in different spacetime. At the beginning, it builds an atmosphere of death, and the environment is water. Water has always been a symbol of softness, which fitly suggests that the female theme of this film, from the beginning to let audiences find everything fresh and new. At the end of the movie, it repeats this picture. The sound of water for a long time can…

“The Story of an Hour” is an excerpt of an ill lady, Mrs. Mallard, who encounters the forbidden happiness of being free after her husband’s death, falsely concluded from a railroad disaster. Her feelings of freedom are interrupted when her sister, Josephine, drags her to the door where Mr. Mallard stood, alive. The theme of the story is an ironic and it presents the audience with an optimistic message with the reminder that every cloud has a silver lining. Often times during fiction, the story…

Kate Chopin’s, “The Storm” begins with a storm rolling in around New Orleans, Louisiana. Calixta, seeing the storm coming, steps outside to take her husband and sons clothes off the clothesline and encounters her previous lover, Alcee, whom she invites in her home out of the elements. After she voiced her concern for her husband and son during the storm, lightening frightened Calixta, and she shared her fear of the house being hit by lightning, Alcee held her for comfort. They spoke of past…

A wise man by the name Martin Luther king Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Everyone should, and needs to believe that a color of a skin simply shouldn’t justify if a person is good or bad. In “Roll Of Thunder, Hear my cry” Mildred D Taylor explains the story of the Logan Family, a family living in the 1930’s. Only one thing is different…

One of the most prevalent desires in a person's life is to find what he or she is meant to fulfill in his or her lifetime. Especially for adolescents, finding where one stands in a world full of chaos is a daunting struggle and a strenuous journey. In The Cather in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden is a troubled boy who is struggling to find himself and his place in the world. His journey to achieving this goal makes The Cather in the Rye an overall optimistic book because teenagers can…

Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis has many quotes from a boy named Jack Thayer, who at the time was 17, and sailing on the Titanic. The exact quotes from Jack really made the story more believable and made me feel like I was really there. Furthermore, it can be confusing why the author added in the quotes, as some have profound meanings. And even though they they are nicely hidden, they help the article in unthinkable ways. Jack Thayer stated on April 14, 1912, “It was the kind of night that…

“First Lady of the Renaissance”, this is what Isabella d’Este was called. She was born into a ruling family, and received fine education. At the age of 6, she met her husband ___, the prince of Mantua, and married him 10 years later Isabella supported her husband, but not the way how normal wives would do. When ___ was in jail as a prisoner in France, she took over his job. To let him know what was happening to the city, she wrote letters and reported to him. In her life, she wrote over 2000…

The story, “The Strom” written by Kate Chopin. It is characterized on five characters. Calixta is a wife of Bobinot and her son name is Bibi. Alcee is Calixta’s past boyfriend and Clarisse is a wife of Alcee. Bobinot and his son are at shopping, meanwhile the storm is started. They are stuck in the storm. Bibi was worried about his mother who is at home during storm is going on. Bobinot reassure him that she will be all right. The storm does not make her worry. She closes the door and window.…

The tv show series Castle is an exaggeration and dramatization of an individual's underlying motivations in the workforce. In the first episode of Castle Flowers For Your Grave1, the protagonist Rick Castle is connected to a murder after a killer mimics techniques from his novel. At first glance one may assume that the episode only tackles partisan politics in the workplace, as the main character was only able to become a consultant on the case because he was good friends with mayor Robert…

The Road to True Self Have you ever thought about the difference between being true and not true to yourself? The novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel about a woman’s desire to find and live fully within her true self. Chopin uses a variety of rhetorical devices similar to strong diction, imagery, personification, parallel structure, and likewise tone to reveals the time that Edna begins to awake or live her true self. First, in chapter six of the novel, Chopin clearly describes the…