Penelope Lively

This excerpt from Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively express the relationship between rivaling children and their mother. The excerpt has the children looking for fossils when Claudia, the girl, falls and gets injured while trying to get past Gordon. The mother then tries to sort out the incident. Lively utilizes tools such as varying perspective, dialogue, and description to dramatize the relationship of all three characters. In the excerpt the reader experiences the incident first from Claudia’s perspective and then Gordon’s perspective. This change gives the reader more insight into the thoughts and feelings of each child during the incident. After the fall, the perspective switches once again to the mother, Edith. Now, the reader can learn about how the adult is tolerating these two children as they are the “loudest sound on the beach.” The three different perspectives provide the reader ample resources to know how the characters feel about each other.…

In the excerpt from the novel Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, the speaker dramatizes three perspectives. A brother and a sister fight over a location to find the best fossils as their mother watches nearby. Commotion causes the sister, Claudia to fall down the cliff. The scene is viewed from three different perspectives. The author portrays complex relationships between brother and sister and mother and children using literary devices. The scene is first told from Claudia’s point of view. She…

Accessed 22 Mar. 2017. "Overview: 'No Witchcraft for Sale'." Short Stories for Students, edited by Sara Constantakis, vol. 30, Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center, proxy.lib.wy.us/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GLS&sw=w&u=wylrc_wyomingst&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1430007088&it=r&asid=068ac79c066891b738a268511f87fdff. Accessed 22 Mar. 2017. "Short Story." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2010. Student Resources in Context,…

“Parenting gone wrong” is a phrase used to describe a child’s bad behaviour when he or she does something unexpected. Many call this phrase harsh because one can never control children. If children behave in a certain way later on in life it can’t be blamed on their upbringing, but does it really have nothing to do with bad parenting when a child feels abandoned and feels that they have been forced to do something they never wanted to? The story “Next term, we’ll mash you”, which is written by…

It is written in a poem like structure. This structure plays a significant role in the Odyssey. If it was written any other way, then the audience would not have been able to grasp onto the same feelings. The whole story would not have been the same. Even though it would have had the same events, it would not have come across the same whatsoever. The poem like structure helps the creation of the story. Another factor that plays a part of the story is the characters. For example, without…

all the characteristics of the classic hero; strength, courage, nobility and his most distinguishing strait, intelligence. Many view Odysseus as the hero of the Odyssey but there is another character that has the same traits as Odysseus and that is Penelope, his wife. She is often forgotten in the shadow of her husband even though she is essential to the story. Ovid’s Heroines by Daryl Hine brings Penelope into the light and shows that she is much more than the wife of an Odysseus, but a hero,…

The Odyssey, an epic poem by Homer later adapted into a play by Simon Armitage, is a narrative depicting the journey of the greek hero Odysseus back to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. His voyage spans twenty years, and throughout the course of his trip back home, Odysseus and his men encounter various obstacles that they need to overcome. Since Odysseus is essentially the leader of his crew, it is most often his responsibility to defeat the enemy and solve the problem at hand. At times,…

The Lonely Lady Greek mythology has many strange explanations of natural phenomena that also teach moral lessons. The myth of Penelope shows us that bravery can go unnoticed because it is considered average. Penelope waits for Odysseus and she is being brave by taking care of everything while he is gone, but she says that only his bravery will be noticed because he is a hero that went on a great journey. Artist John Williams Waterhouse and poet Dorothy Parker portrayed this closer to today's…

In Homer’s epic The Odyssey, the poet narrates a story of the homecoming of the Greek hero Odysseus after the Trojan war. Through narrating his readers Odysseus’s journey home, Homer gives many instances where women, mortals and immortals, have contributed to the success of the homecoming of Odysseus, indicating the importance of women during the Greek hero’s long and suffering journey back home. Odysseus has received numerous help from different female characters such as Athena, Nausikaa, and…

The Odyssey “I see destruction for ship and crew. Thought you survive alone(780/645-646).” This is one of the main plots in the Odyssey, by Homer. The Odyssey is about an epic hero named Odysseus, king of Ithaca, tries to get back home after the Trojan war, but it takes twenty years to get back to his palace because of Poseidon, the sea god. Poseidon is mad at Odysseus for not giving thanks for shutting up a suitor. In the story, Odysseus uses his cunningness, smartness, Intelligence…