Past tense

In the story “A House for Us,” by Etidal Osman, the author shifts from present tense to past tense midway through the story so that she explain ideas better and write about the narrator’s thougths and feelings. The shift in tenses contributes a thorough evaluation of characters’ thought processes because it demonstrates the actions in the story that happened in the past. When the narrator and Rami play together in a room one day the author states, “When the sun grows hot we…

stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more difficult to read. Both of these stories use multiple point of views, verb tenses, and several other techniques to tell their story. Foremost, Tim O’Brien and Louise Erdrich use multiple point of views to tell their story. Both novels tell some parts in…

purpose which is that even if you have a disability you can do anything. In the Devils Thumb the organizational order is that its written in a flashback aka past tense. The story was written in past tense. The author told us a memory of his. In the story Krakheur talks about his eight birthday. This clearly is talking about the past tense of his life, and its how the story is told. This helps the authors accomplish the fact that is told at a memory. Krakheur goes back in time to share some of…

progressive past tense (l. 1). The tense is used when one is trying to recall an action that has just ended. This gives a wistful feeling to the poem as though one is recalling the past as a possibility for the present even though the past must stay in the past. The tone shifts with the word “but” located in the line, “that you were…but, love, you are” (l. 1). The speaker begins to use “are” moving the line into the present tense so that the speaker is no longer looking back to the past (l. 1).…

still able to walk to his neighbor’s home where he then fell dead. This chapter is written more in a past tense and it clearly lays out the death with vivid imagery on the event of Santiago’s death as expressed when the novella says, “holding his hanging intestines in his hands” (119). In conclusion, chapters one, two and three are similar in the style the author uses. They are all written in the past and are the events leading up to the death of Santiago. They all have the format of an…

resultant discrepancies in appreciating the present through verb tense. White reflects that there “had been jollity and peace and goodness” and continues to employ the past tense when describing his experiences at the lake. The syntactical move creates the unspoken conclusion that since there once had been, something is now lost, revealing the nostalgic aches of adulthood and illustrating the struggle of trying to live in the past. However, White then writes that “peace and goodness and jollity”…

WRITER’ S VOICE Group Discussions/Writing Write in complete sentences, answering each question fully. 1. What is the tone of the novel? How do you know it is the tone of the novel? Find at least five examples/quotes from the novel that demonstrate the tone, and explain why these quotes develop the tone. In the first part, the tone of the novel is neutral and a bit mystery. The author does not make much opinion or equivalent towards the slavery’s situation. She sets a tone of frightening…

Throughout this semester I have developed in many ways in my writing and I’ve been able to recognize and learn from my mistakes. There are five major areas that I was graded on with each of my essays. Those five areas are unity, development, coherence, grammar/-spelling/punctuation, and overall. Out of those five areas I had two strengths that was consistent from essay one through essay four, these two strengths are unity and development. Not only did I have strengths but I also have major…

distinct strengths and weaknesses. This critique will discuss these strengths and weakness, and define a plan to improve my overall report writing. Identifying three strengths in my report writing was a difficult task; however, after reviewing my past reports I found three areas I improved upon over the last…

There is about a hundred-year gap between the two stories, as Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” was written in 1898, though published only in 1969, while Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy Endings” was created in 1983. In spite of the time and even cultural differences, both stories have much in common, as they are devoted to an eternal theme of human relations, of choices and challenges that men and women make every day of their mutual existence. The thesis comes from the statement that both stories…