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Within James Joyce’s collection of short stories Dubliners, the final story is called “The Dead.” This story serves as a conclusion to all of the continual themes and plot devices found throughout the collection. With a modernist lens applied, the main protagonist, Gabriel Conroy is seen to replicate many themes found in modernist literature. Throughout this short story, James Joyce uses this main protagonist to portray modernist themes of alienation, stream of consciousness, and epiphany by…

Looking at Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” we will just see a couple arguing about abortion and whether the girl would go through with it. The couple believes that when Jig goes through with the abortion the relationship will automatically fall back to the blissful state it was before the obstruction of the baby come along. Hemingway said, “And if I do it you’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you’ll love me” (361). The girl is willing to go through with abortion,…

Have you ever felt like all odds were against you including your friends and family? Flik the main character in the movie A Bug's Life was striving to please his colony. However, no matter what he did the outcome was mostly negative. Until Flik made a trip to the city where he met some circus bugs who helped him and his colony gain freedom from the grasshoppers. Linda Seger the author of the essay “Creating the Myth” explains the Hero Myth. The Hero Myth is a basic story structure that many…

and sections. An example from UAA is Osama Abaza’s e-portfolio available here - http://bit.ly/2yJz8xD . In the context of our six-word story work however, an e-portfolio is a much simpler undertaking and includes: the six-word story, an image, and a short reflection (some story details) – that’s it! Here’s an example: The “power” of this simple portfolio is only “unleashed” though when it is thoughtfully shared with family, friends, fellow students, and/or as directed by faculty, staff, or…

Roy Lichtenstein’s Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too…But is one of his most well-known paintings, and some even dare to call it the most famous painting he has ever made. This piece depicts a teenage girl on the phone with her boyfriend Jeff as their relationship appears to be threatened by some outside force. Lichtenstein came up with the subject of this painting and many of his other paintings by copying and distorting single panels from comic books. This scene in particular is taken from the DC…

The character Poe in, the novel, The Man Who Was Poe, is quite similar to the actual Edgar Allan Poe. Likewise, the story written by Avi is much like a few short stories written by Poe himself. The novel and short stories share settings, themes, and characters that closely resemble one another, both with a chilling mood, theme of death, and characters that are utterly insane. Though these tales were not written by the same author, the two have almost identical writing styles. This leads to…

I read Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, I have chosen to answer the questions, Characters and Significance of Title. I chose characters because the characters in this book were all dealt with, it followed one main character, June, and her thoughts but each character wasn’t just a character. They all had their own conflicts and problems and they all tie into each others stories. I found it very interesting. I chose the title significance due to how it played into the book. It took a…

In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, a relationship is shown between a mother and daughter that exemplifies the complexities and intricacies between the two. Throughout the story, the mother chooses to showcase different musical talents towards her daughter, in hope that her daughter masters one and becomes a “child prodigy.” Meanwhile, the daughter chooses to find herself through her own means rather than through the dreams of her mother, which sets the theme of how the expectations of a…

In Story of Your Life, the author Ted Chiang utilizes logos and pathos to emphasize that science fiction not only tells an imaginary story but also introduces a different thinking model and interconnects science genre with philosophy. As a primary writing strategy, logos convinces readers by the use of logic and reasons, or to be more precise, by analyzing a physical problem, a linguistic discovery and free will theory in Chiang’s story. Different from the logical proof, pathos leans to be the…

The practical guide “The Memo That Started It's All” by Christopher Vogler, claims that there are only two or three stories, and their pattern of that Hero’s story repeats itself as fiercely as if they never happened before. The Hero is introduced, called for adventure, tested, receives a mentor to help, push nearly to his/her death, fights with the enemy, wins and returns to his/her home; like stated in “The Stages of The Hero’s Journey.” When analyzing the guide and a story together we really…