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A Worried Mother’s Heart: The Use of Theme, Imagery, and Diction within “The Red Hat” by Rachael Hadas Free-range parenting is the philosophy that many parents believe in, this grants their children the same rights they had when they were children. This allows the children to experience freedom without the constant badgering by overbearing parents. With that being said, within the poem “The Red Hat” by Rachael Hadas’, the author plays around with the literary tactic of a narrative poem in…

Çiftçi says that this causes the reciprocity of speech to be essential to the continuing narration of the story. As the reader goes through the story the roles of the three main characters are played out. Mr. Offord is the owner of the house in which the conversations took place, Brooksmith is the servant, and the unknown narrator is a mutual friend of each. Çiftçi says that the theme of “reciprocity of Speech” is associated to the concepts of “center and Limit” and that those two concepts…

“Style refers to the distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects.”(p.224). As a writer decides what book to write, the ideas for tone and style are what become the framework for that particular writing. An ominous tone supported by a violent style of diction do not make pleasant bedtime stories for children. This particular style would be better suited for a more mature audience. Which is why I…

First Person Narrator Analysis In copious novels, poems and biographies, war relentlessly preys on hope, innocence and humanity, abandoning the wreck full of bewilderment and anguish. In the short novel In Another Country, Ernest Hemingway employs first person narration to illustrate the detachment and loneliness of the wounded soldier through the transition from emotionless, declarative narrations to a subtle disclose of longing for acceptance, revealing the destruction of war through…

Education is a resource that is available to most people in the United States. The value and the ways it is administered often various from person to person. Michelle Obama and Mike Rose are both advocates of educational value. They exhibit their positions on education in two documents; Blue-Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose and Bowie State University Commencement Speech by Michelle Obama. Rose’s document focuses on the degrading of educational attributes that are not gained in the preferred…

The Lack of Narrator Credibility in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin is narrated by an unreliable narrator, which results in storyworld contradictions, and both intentional and unintentional misdirection. The world of Omelas is presented as one that drastically shifts according to the narrators will. The lack of rules in the beginning of the text illustrates the characters as peaceful and content who have set morals. As…

The primary experimental features of my piece pertain to tone and narrative voice. Mainly, this is evident in the story’s third person stream of consciousness narration, and innately contradictory tone. In undertaking such experiments, my writing exists within, but also develops and challenges, broader social, cultural, and literary frameworks. Thus, to contextualise my project, it is necessary to examine influences on my thematic approach, and the technical intricacies of my writing. Firstly,…

Writers use elements of writing to help create the reason behind their stories. William Faulkner and Tom Whitecloud are both writers who expressed their stories using plot and structure. Plot is the ideas or reasons as to why certain things happen in a story, elements of plot help the reader understand the story. For example, the suspense, conflict, exposition, rising action, crisis, resolution etc. of the story. Whereas structure, on the other hand, is the way the writer arranges the story’s…

Vladimir Nabokov’s, Lolita, shows off his extraordinary narrative skills which bring a visionary insight into the issue of morality, a romantic verse and a grasp of human character that seem unique as his own. He uses first-person narration to affect the reader’s perception of the events being described in the novel through the use of stylistic devices. Thus, able to manipulate the reader’s beliefs and train of thought, to dictate what the they should think. More specific to the factors…

In his short story Blankets, Alex La Guma takes us through the life story of Choker. He makes use of the blankets as a motif and flashbacks to help us understand the past, which intern help us to understand the present. The essay will show how the story of Choker can be seen as tragic, and how the onlookers are antagonistic toward Choker and vice versa. It will also show how the readers can show both sympathy and antipathy toward Choker, and will indicate a reversal of initial assumptions.…