Kate Grenville

to get the readers connected to the story, the author characterizes the characters with specific aspects of human nature. Human nature is defined to be the sum of qualities shared by all humans. The short story, ’The Story of an Hour’, written by Kate Chopin was about a married woman who has a heart condition and just learned about her husband’s death. The story takes place within the first hour of her grievance and about her thoughts about the rest of her life. Though there are many signs of…

According to your agency website you publish a broad number of genres including mystery so I’m pleased to introduce my novel, A Smidgen of Sky. [2] This novel won me a scholarship to attend the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop at Chautauqua. It was also awarded honorable mention in the Smart Writers W.I.N. Competition. [3] A Smidgen of Sky is the story of ten-year-old Piper Lee DeLuna, a spunky, impulsive dreamer, whose fierce devotion to her missing father is threatened by her mother’s…

In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, birds are used as a symbol for Edna to describe how Edna changes against societies standards as she gains independence. The birds are parallel and foreshadow Edna. The Awakening starts with birds to show the current status of Edna and women. At the beginning of the novel, there is a parrot shrieking at Mr. Pontellier in Spanish while stuck in it’s cage. The parrot shows how Edna is locked in to societies standards by her husband and the community because of the…

As a woman everyone expected me to do this and to do that. And while fulfilling and doing everything that was expected of me. I lost my dream, I lost my wing, and most importantly I lost me. The women in The Awakening can be seen as a representation of Chopin. Chopin’s writing is based off women in transitional periods. Adele Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, and Edna Pontellier are different versions of Chopin. In the story, The Awakening shows the reality that is not spoken about. That even…

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This weekend I got my tonsils out, it was not a pleasant experience at all. Friday morning was the time of the procedure and I was convinced that everything was going to go perfect, I would feel comfortable and recover in no time at all. The only reason I would not be at school, was because I simply don’t want to be there, not that I am in so much pain that it hurts to talk and it doesn’t seem to get better. The waiting room at surgeons was offly small with only ten chairs. When my parents and…

Writers are able to use literary tools to present a specific image of a protagonist; Kate Chopin was no exception. Chopin, an American writer in the 1800s, crafted short stories where the main character, often a female, was molded by her careful word choice. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings” Chopin is able to use syntax and diction to portray Mrs. Sommers, a woman who was assumed to be in a middle to low economic class. The sentence structure and word choice illustrate Sommers as a conflicted,…

The Messenger Essay “In order for a text to be successful, characters must undergo meaningful change” In The Messenger, novelist Markus Zusak records the experiences of Ed Kennedy, the protagonist, as he undergoes changes that enable him to find himself, giving his a life a purpose. As the novel begins, Ed is a lazy and underachieving teenager who drives taxi-cabs for a living. Ed is laid back with little life aspirations. As the novel progresses, the messages that Ed is required to deliver…

Personal anecdotes and factual evidence are both useful forms of research for an author to portray a message in non-fiction writing. Personal anecdotes offer an easy way to introduce a topic; however, they can quickly lead to a single story in which evidence becomes less important. Technical facts, such as scientific research, statistics, and other data, can easily prove a point, but can also easily lose the interest of the reader. While every writer has their own writing techniques, they must…

The main question focused on while doing this experiment was, “How many times does the ball bounce before coming to a rest? “ There were four groups and each one had a different ball in size to get a variety in the data. Each group did their own data analysis depending on the number of the bounces their ball did. Every group was expected to release the ball from their hands and count the number of bounces before coming to a stop which was then repeated 10 times. Once every group completed their…