Pulp Fiction

The Dream of the Future (An analysis of A Rose for Emily and William Faulkner’s vision) William Faulkner most definitely may not be a household name, but he is an exquisite name and writer of short stories and in general, phenomenal fiction. Eventually, Faulkner went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature, but his beginnings are still rather intriguing. According to a biography of William Faulkner’s life titled William Faulkner published by Gale Research in Detroit in 1991, Faulkner has had…

who happened to be in town were there. She sat there like the Grand Dame she was and entertained them” (Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening). Kate Chopin’s writing career was relatively short, lasting for only about 5 years. She worked almost entirely in fiction, writing two novels, one at the very beginning of her career and one near its conclusion, and a few trivial poems (Wolff 208). Daughter, sister, granddaughter, and mother of six, Kate Chopin (aka Katherine O’ Flaherty Chopin) is known as one of…

Authors use many techniques to create and develop themes in their novels, in their respective genres. Junot Diaz weaves a unique blend of genres together including historical narrative, traditional realism, and science fiction in order to capture his and many others’ experiences as immigrants, especially Dominicans, in America. Diaz’s unique identity and literary voice is a pivotal element of his body of work. In his 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz…

“Barn Burning” Formalist Approach “Barn Burning” is a short story about a young boy who struggles between his loyalty to his family and the moral obligation he feels to tell on his father for burning barns. William Faulkner used many literary elements along with organization of events in the story to convey the theme of doing right from wrong to the reader. These elements work together to form a plot that enables the reader to grasp the meaning of “Barn Burning”. Faulkner used imagery,…

“Shotgun Wedding” is a short story by Bonnie Jo Campbell that explores some interesting themes through the eyes of a young woman at her sister’s wedding. Campbell grew up on a farm in Michigan. Her experience in such a setting is evident in the way that “Shotgun Wedding” takes place “in rural and small town Michigan” (Campbell). “Shotgun Wedding” follows a woman’s observation of her younger sister’s wedding, during which she has a flashback of a time when she protected her sister from a…

In the novel How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, discusses in depth literary devices and their meanings. After reading Fosters novel and going on to reading No Country for Old men by Cormac McCarthy the main literary devices and themes conveyed were, geography, Christ figures, and violence. McCarthy uses these devices and themes to attract the reader to think about the book on a deeper level. In the novel No Country for Old Men the geography sets the tone for…

O’Connor suffered the same disease and died of lupus before her fortieth birthday. O’Connor is known as an American great writer, “Despite her brief life and relatively modest output, her work is regarded as among the most distinguished American fiction” (Meyer 350). Revelation was written by Flannery O’Connor and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must…

Child labour is a major influence in the Andy Kissane’s short story, Good Rubbish. His piece challenges notions of working children in developing and industrialised countries, noting the harsh conditions in which children face in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Mills’s short story, Architecture, tells the story of a young, passionate architect that has an endless struggle of extended deadlines, and a sense of endless work. Both these short stories have thought-provoking differentiations, as…

Similarly, Albert Camus’ presents his character of Meursault as someone who is distant and out of touch with everybody else. This is illuminated through the narrator’s statement: “I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else” after the attorney allegedly didn’t understand him. The repetition of the fragment “like everybody else” implies that the narrator, Meursault is re-assuring himself that he is able to be a fully functioning member of society.…

What is the best book series ever? Immediately something comes to mind when questioning what the best book is, or at the very least it sparks thought of what you might consider to be the best. Varying aspects of books determine the quality of the work and the readers reception of it, from superficial aspects of interest as well as technical skills and development of a story. The realm of Middle Earth, as described in J. R. R. Tolkien 's pieces of work The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit…