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The article I decided to pick for this assignment is by the media publication Complex and the interactive journalism piece is called "Project Runaway." The piece is about the behind the scenes making of Kanye West album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy." Complex Editor-in-chief Noah Callahan Bever would be with Kanye West for six months in the making of the album to do a cover story about it. Now what I really love about the interactive piece is how immersed you really feel in the piece.…

implemented in the second half. The speaker becomes more involved. “I thought,” “I looked,” “I admired,” all produce a more active role on the part of the speaker. The turning point in the poem that triggers this alteration seems to be when the reader realizes that the fish is in fact still alive. “While his gills were breathing” (line 22) is the first action given to the fish and the first time he is addressed as a living thing. Prior to this moment in the poem, movement had never been…

minor. Mr. Quiring in the novel, A Complicated Kindness, is no exception to this convention. Although Mr. Quiring rarely appears in the novel, he plays a crucial role in making the readers understand more about the protagonist, Naomi, whom may be thought that she hates Mr. Quiring in the readers’s first reading. The readers may mistake that the protagonist, Naomi, does not like her teacher, Mr. Quiring in their first reading. First, Naomi behaves rudely to Mr. Quiring, she tries to express that…

help.”, these descriptions can arouse sympathy of readers, and at the same time, the readers can have their own judge to Jekyll’s psychological activity. Besides the unique angle of narration, in the story, we can find that the dialogues between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very brief and succinct. At the same time, the first person perspective pushes the plot to the climax. As we can say, the first person design has the function of making the readers can understand the things happening to the…

King Richard II’s Underserved Loyalty by the Commoners Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was written after 1381 by an anonymous author to persuade the readers that King Richard II did not deserve the loyalty and devotion put forth by the commons. The author provides the reader with a chronicle of the peasant’s revolt in which he presents the commons’ reasons for revolting and how the King reacts to each interaction with the commons. The peasants are portrayed as justified in their actions, while the King…

introduce a topic; however, they can quickly lead to a single story in which evidence becomes less important. Technical facts, such as scientific research, statistics, and other data, can easily prove a point, but can also easily lose the interest of the reader. While every writer has their own writing techniques, they must incorporate both facts and stories to create an effective long form article. An example of an article that relies too much on personal anecdotes is Gary Smith’s “The Power…

The opening chapter of the novel instantly draws the attention and curiosity of the reader since the opening sentence, “Call me Ishmael” (Melville 3). It suggests that the narrator is not really named Ishmael, instead he asks the reader to call him by that name. This implements a great sense of excitement that pulls the reader to continue exploring the mind of this unknown person since all humans have a tendency to be drawn towards the mysterious. Herman Melville captures this perfectly when…

Many individuals may take this poem to heart because racial violence is a very serious and heartbreaking matter. Some readers may have even experienced racial violence themselves as well. The author Dudley Randall, succeeded in the poem and used great literary devices. Furthermore, he was able to get many reader’s attention and engage in the poem. This poem just comes to…

it out so that those suffering can have either justice or those committing the injustices are punished. In the poem’s multiple directions to “imagine,” Martin Espada presents a call to arms to the reader, encouraging them to imagine the wrongdoings and to hopefully act upon them. By getting the readers to imagine such injustice and by having hope that one day the wrongs will be righted, Espada manages to effectively paint a world of darkness full of anger, compassion, vengeance, hopeful visions,…

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. Chris Van Wyk uses a retrospective viewpoint as well as the motif of a train journey in Relatives to tell the story of a young writer…