Pulp Fiction

Someone once said, “ Life is like an elevator: on your way up, sometimes, you have to stop and let some people off.” Sal’s life is just like this quote when Sal had to let go of her mother but, didn’t want to. Sal could not accept her mother’s death but eventually she does. In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech one theme is that happiness can be found in even the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light. One of the best themes is that happiness can be found…

Castellucci, Cecil. The Plain Janes. DC Comics, 2007. Realistic Fiction, Ages 12-18. This is a graphic novel about a transfer student named Jane thinks her life is over when she is forced to move from Metro City to Suburbia because of a terrorist’s bomb. She finds herself drawn to three other girls named Jane who are unpopular in different ways. The four of them make art attacks on the city under the guise of their secret art club and later go on an adventure painting the town P.L.A.I.N.-…

‘‘Tuesdays with Morrie’’ is a novel written by the author Mitch Albom. It talks about and old man and a young man who are friends and life’s greatest lesson. The novel content displays fourteen Tuesdays that Mitch the writer had with Morrie. In the first Tuesday, they both take about the world and its importance for people. In the second Tuesday, they discuss the feeling of sorry for yourself. In the fourth Tuesday, they talked about death and the desire of being alive. The fifth Tuesday…

Thirteen years old, Huck is big enough to survive more or less on his own,but he is still a child,still in need to be guided and protected.Confronted with evil , he is as helpless as Jim,wit being his only weapon against abuse.It is significant that in every new confrontation ,Huck invents a new name for himself and a new, larger family story in which he is the only survivor.His quick imagination and inventiveness in piling up family disasters supply plenty of humor, yet it would be a mistake to…

As the incredible books are composed for normal men, William Wordsworth likewise composed extraordinary lyrics for the same individuals. He excessively accepted that the dialect of the town society is the most valuable medium for composing verse. He felt what additional customary felling is there in the dialect of normal men are not found in the fake and organized dialect of the individuals live in the high society. Wordsworth brings Man and Nature closer to one another. The artist accepts that…

this story is in many ways personal: Gilman herself suffered from improper treatment of a male doctor, similarly to the protagonist of her story. Thereby, “Gilman's life affected her writings, both the nonfiction, which gained her fame, and the fiction, especially "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Berman 2). Certainly, “The Yellow Wallpaper” became one of the writings which contributed to the development of a feminist movement in America and Europe. Obviously, Gilman used all power of her literary talent…

Essay-‘Lawson positions the reader to feel both admiration and sympathy for the drover’s wife.’ The story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an interesting short story about an Australian woman living with her children in the bush around the 1890’s, written by Henry Lawson. It shows the reader how life was like living in the bush, through the experiences the drover's wife lived and the surrounding nature that at times posed a threat to her, her household and her livestock. The story puts the reader in a…

James Joyce utilizes free indirect discourse throughout Dubliners. That is when he writes the characters and their attitudes and emotions influence the way the story is narrated. This adds a layer of complexity to the writing in which the reader better to fully understand the character and the changes taking place within them through a close following of the word choice and tone in the story. “Eveline” details an adolescent girl who must choose between staying home and going away with her lover,…

Another Place, Another time is a story by Cory Doctorow who published the story at the age of 17, he now is an online blogger. The opening of the story is about a young boy named Gilbert, who is very interested by the concept of time. He lives with his father in the summer and Ms. Curie, the housekeeper all year round ( his mother passed away while giving birth to him) and in winter his father heads back to the sea for the rest of the year. Gilbert loves to play outside with his friends, the…

Technology is the leading factor to the separation of family, the relation of friends, the connection of nature. Author, Richard Louv, in his novel, Last Child in the Woods, argues that the leading factor of the separation of people and nature is by the use of technology. Louv builds up his argument by implying the credibility of New York State University, incorporating rhetorical questions, creating imagery; furthermore, Richard Louv includes humor in his writing in order to persuade the…