Protagonist

In a romance narrative story, the protagonist is greatly shaped by the journey they partake in before descending into the underworld. The physical and mental training they undergo is character building and significantly important to the storyline. In the movie The Hunger Games, Katniss, the protagonist is helped along through the rough times from her mentor Haymitch and her ally Peeta. Without these two people Katniss may have not gained the wisdom, or assurance she needed in order to win The…

John Updike’s short story, “A&P”, takes place in 1961, in a compact New England town 's A&P grocery store. It is a fun, goofy, language-oriented short story. The action in the short story takes place when three teenage girls, wearing “nothing but bathing suits,” walk into the grocery store. Suddenly, Lengel (the manager) scolds the teenagers for their appearance. This results in Sammy quitting his job at the supermarket because the manager has embarrassed the three girls. Written 1962, “A&P”, in…

In order to fully understand both characters, it’s important to look at their historical originals. One way to do this would be by considering common story archetypes, as discussed heavily by Professor Eiland in his mythical archetype list. The Other Mother fits very many of these archetype, so much so that it would be difficult to rank the accuracy of one over the other. In one way, she acts as the “temptress”, goading Coraline into staying in the other world with outfits, toys, and food,…

In this novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one character stands out above all. Pearl, the walking scarlet letter, at several points in this novel, serves as a bridge between sin and happiness. Unity is a key part in this novel, and is displayed by and through Pearl at various parts of this novel. Pearl is constantly used to symbolize several different things, and is essential to understanding each individual character and also essential to understanding the novel in…

Critics in the Resource Paper In “Birches”, Robert Frost, The speakers sees a tree that is bent and he tries to believe that the boys swinging on the limb is the reason for it being bent. He knows that the real reason for the tree being bent is the ice storms that occur. Throughout the poem the speaker uses his imagination to escape what is actually happening. The speaker is alone and captivated in his imagination. In the poem the isolation is not necessarily a bad thing but an escape from the…

The Furnished Room/I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself For Sympathy Page 1 In the short stories “The Furnished Room” and “I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy” it displays the emotions of both main characters bathing some type of mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency over women in there respected lives and how the desire the attention of individuals by there threatening and erratic behaviors. The central main characters that seem to be imprecise and imperfect in…

Innocence and Experience: A&P The title of the book is Literature: The Human Experience written by Abcarian and Klotz. It is a book that has several chapters that address diverse issues. In this context, the chosen story is one that is in the chapter named as Innocence and Experience while the story is named as A&P where the narrator is a nineteen-year-old boy known as Sammy. The writer of this story is John Uplike whom published A&P in 1961. Characters The story is built around three main…

As we all know life can be a battle, finding your own place, getting away from those who ridicule you from being different. Some even hide from their true selves just so they don’t have to have gref from others. It’s like every human is programed to attack things that are different and if you don’t attack that person then you will end up being the one getting attacked from everyone else. There are however, a few that stand brave and stand behind what they did and not hide from it. These people…

In the first story that I read, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman, the author describes the mental state of the main character by making the reader question why the patient has such a great obsession with the yellow wallpaper in her room. Something about the paper fascinates the patient and causes her to believe things are happening to and around her that are not at all. At one point the patient strangely described, “This bed will not move! I tried to push it until I was lame, and then…

Anglo-Saxons took exile seriously; the threat of exile alone caused much anxiety among the individuals of that society. To be exiled means to be kicked out, or banished from one’s homeland, which would result in having no companionship. Because exile is something the Anglo-Saxons took very seriously, one had to commit a crime in order to be exiled. If one were to commit a crime Anglo-Saxons would resort to execution, unless the crime was not serious enough. If the crime was not serious…