Nonlinear narrative

The Cop and the Anthem is a short story that includes interesting morals that the reader could use within their own lives. The story takes place in downtown New York City and is centered around a man by the name of Soapy. The decision to read the story based on its interesting title that the author had given it was a very great idea. Before reading the story, the reader probably expected the story to be centered around a police officer who enjoyed music, but after reading a few lines the reader…

Many characters in Margaret Atwood's fiction novel The Handmaid’s Tale break various rules. These characters consist of people high up in ranks like commanders to people low in ranks like handmaids. Even characters who you would not expect to break the rules do. For example, Serena Joy she is the commander's wife and also high in ranks but as soon as we meet Serena Joy in the novel she breaks one of Gilead's laws by smoking which is forbidden. During the novel, it reveals that breaking the rules…

Each author has their own strategies and method to persuade the audience in believing in their point of view. There are variety of rhetorical strategies that can be used depending on the author’s goal of what they are trying to convey. For example, pathos are used to manipulate a reader’s emotion by creating an emotional response. Another example are logos, which is persuading the audience through and appeal of logic, and hypophora which is asking a question and answering it immediately. Even…

where most employees would not enjoy working, but Bartleby and a few others from Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville, are more like described as introverted types of persons. Throughout the short story, the reader gets the vibe that the narrative is going to be a gloomy tale about a miserable life of documentation and filing. Bartleby is describes as a man of few words and who keeps to himself. The work place of Bartleby is a common environment for him to be found in throughout the…

Great Expectations is solely about Pip and his expectations over time and for the reader to be able to understand how and why his expectations change, Dickens purposely has Pip describe his life as a child, adolescent and mild aged man. The purpose of Dickens using a bildungsroman is to have Pip grow from a young boy who has many fears and expectations into a man who can then reflect on his mistakes and his life as a whole. One of the first scenes of the novel begins with Pip running into…

The Power Of Words Kyle – Blue Some people say words are stronger then violence, if you’re not afraid to use them wisely. Figurative language helps bring out every character’s individual traits and personality. In Don’t Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer, it is clear that Ishmael’s low self-esteem and James Scobie’s debating skills are constantly emphasized by Bauer’s use of similes and metaphors. The author uses figurative language to develop Ishmael’s alarmingly low self-esteem, together…

Soldier’s Home is short story written in prose by Ernest Hemingway. The story takes place in Kansas. .Krebs is the main character of the story. Helen and kreb’s mother are the secondary ones. The story is narrated in third person. The narrator does not take part in the story, meaning that is not a character.. Krebs goes to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. He was supposed to return two years ago, but he enlisted in the Marine instead. He returns two years after the men from the town…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” published in 1892, author Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes about a young woman named Jane who is suppressed by her husband and suffers from depression. To begin, Gilman introduces Jane, a newly married woman who recently moved in to a new house with her physician of a husband, John. Next Gilman, displays how she is a struggling woman who suffers from “nervous weakness” (473) as misdiagnosed by her husband. Jane was continuously hoovered over and…

The present study is based on the analysis of diaspora and nostalgia experienced as the major theme by the characters of two selective stories such as, When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine and The Third and Final Continent in the short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” by award winning Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri. The paper begins with a brief introduction about diaspora, Jhumpa Lahiri and the book “Interpreter of Maladies” (published in 1999). The introduction is preceded by defining…

In the novel, Madame Bovary, Flaubert explores hand gestures to establish the nature of the characters and the power of the relationships between the characters. With the description of the character's hands, Flaubert presents Emma and Rodolphe’s personas. Flaubert also foreshadows the character's future actions or their demise and empowerment over others. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert altars hand description and movement to further enhance the story of the Bovary’s. Through the detailed repetition…