Famous- known about by many people. How does the son of an unsuccessful salesman become amongst the most famous American authors of all time, and the author of a book discussed in high school curriculum all across the nation? He does something unprecedented, taboo. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a man of his times. He wrote during the Jazz age, about the Jazz age, in all of its glory. A less discussed attribute of this time period was that, along with the rise of independence instilled in women and the…
In many novels, the characters often challenge the reader through their actions and beliefs. Lord of the Flies by William Golding demonstrates this through the characters of Jack and Simon. In this novel, Jack challenges the reader because he shows that you should never be as savage as him. However with Simon, he challenges the reader to be more like him and to be brave and do things to benefit other people. This is achieved through the use of themes and techniques such as power, innocence,…
play is to have a foundation of solid fluidity throughout the plot of the story. An author must also decide what the play will consist of, for example, how the play will begin and end, if the play will be a comedy or a tragedy, and the depth of the characters. William Shakespeare had a good sense of this and in his play Hamlet he was able to set up his play in three very different movements. Movement one consists mainly of his father’s ghost, the Court, and Polonius. The second movement includes…
It tests how much the protagonist has grown and if they are ready to face the final battle. It sees how the character reacts and teaches many valuable lessons, which, in return, help the character to further grow. In the novel Uprooted, Agnieszka is continuing on in her journey. The tests that Agnieszka has to face not only test who she has become, but help her grow further and ready her for the final…
novel is about performing the experience of a community of people, which is best achieved through Amy Tan’s remarkable writing style. Since the book is really a series of stories, I realize that the exposition is not consolidated by time, place, or character. Instead, most of the book fill…
integrate the variety of shades. In one of the scenes on the train, the curtains come out darker as they raise to the holding rode, which are in contrast with the shades of the characters.…
My project consists of a PowerPoint with slides that contain images and text that visually represent “The Hate You Give” by Angie Thomas. These images include colors and symbols that allow the audience to see the meaning and purpose of the text. These images are also placed in a chronological order that allow the audience to experience danger, violence, power, unity, and corruption as the story unfolds. Overall, the author, Angie Thomas, wrote the story to present events from a perspective of a…
idea of interaction between the characters and support the chain of events described along the text. What is more, thanks to the presence of this kind of process it is possible to hear real character’s voices. In this way the author served one of Great Expectation’s characteristic features, that is to say the variety of registers. Actually, if we consider only the passage I have analyzed, we can notice the presence of different styles related to different characters. The tone of the text varies…
It is important for the character to wear an appropriate costume because this helps the audience to relate the character and the narrative of the film or television drama. For example,the costume he wears in figure 1 is casual. The bag and his laptop indicate that he is a student who is trying to do his assignment. This is…
reception. Tragedy like Julius Caesar (1599) by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus the king (c. 429 BC) by Sophocles is among the supreme masterpieces of the art of drama. Tragedy A tragedy is a drama in which the principal characters are involved in desperate circumstances…