Slash fiction

How successful are John Green/David Levithan and Kelly Fremon Craig in utilising stylistic conventions of their text type to explore the idea of identity and belonging? The 2010 novel ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ co-written by John Green and David Levithan and 2016 film ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ directed by Kelly Freemon-Craig both use stylistic features appropriate to their texts types to reveal how identity and self-perception are shaped by relationships formed with others. In both texts,…

The night is gelid, covering the silver earth from the underneath of the grimy shoes of a hollowed figure. The figure rises, and gazes over at his son, seemingly joining the smudged rubble. He then shifted his attention towards the pistol that rested gently in his hands. A single bullet was encased in the pistol, nearly rusted in its place. That individual cartridge had caused the man enough dilemma to ponder as to why he should continue to live. His courage and the little strength he had…

These is My Words Using a first-person narrative, the reader can sometimes detect that Sarah is interpreting other people’s actions and feelings incorrectly. If the book had been written in third-person, it would not have left the reader in anticipation and excitement for Sarah to discover what the others actually felt, as the reader would not only focus on one person. For example, readers could tell from the very beginning that Sarah had “stolen [Jack’s] very heart away” (Turner 285). However,…

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien are a collection of short chapters depicting how O’Brien, the protagonist, experience war and the writing of the book about his experience. The story differentiation on the “happening truth” - the fact, and the “story truth” - how the story should have been told, portrait a more vivid picture of, not the Vietnam war, but the experience of the war. O’Brien uses the combination of both “happening truth” and “story truth” to present the nature of memory of the…

Existentialism is a focus on the individual, a focus on their existence, free will, and death. An important note, however, is that there are many interpretations of existentialism, be it more optimistic or pessimistic. The books The Metamorphosis by Kafka, The Stranger, by Camus, and Hunger by Steve McQueen all have similar ideas, with imprisonment, death, and a life crisis being major components of each story. As a result, they all have similar existential themes. Metamorphosis, The Stranger,…

Maya Angelou’s Champion of the World and Amy Tan’s Fish Cheeks touch on experiences with racial identity. Although Angelou and Tan’s stories share the feeling of young girls who are minorities, they have their differences. For instance, Tan resents her heritage where Angelou embraces it, their figures of admiration differ and the moods in each story differ, where one writer explains her happiness throughout the story the other explains how miserable she is . Tan, a young Chinese American…

Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism are just a few examples of the many styles of writing that exist. Each style of writing deals with a specific time period. Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”, Henry James’s “Daisy Miller”, and Mary E Wilkins Freeman’s “The Revolt of Mother” are just a few examples of the literary works that represent these time periods. These literary works are perfect examples of the specific time periods each writing style was popular among certain authors. These stories allow…

The movie that has been chosen for this essay is ‘Higher Learning’ written, directed, and produced by John Singleton. Higher Learning is the perfect example of characters having deviant behavior, but it also gives parallel with the characters knowing the behavior of themselves and willing to make change within themselves for the better. ‘Higher Learning’ is a movie that is centered around Columbus University college campus and explores the lives of several characters in the movie. The movie…

It has been said the mnemonic F-E-A-R has two meanings: “Forget Everything and Run” or “Face Everything And Rise.” For most people, it is much easier to run away from fear, as is the case with the female narrator from “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” and Murphy from “Murphy’s X-mas.” Each of them ran away from their fears for a long time, and it wasn’t until the very end of their stories that they decided to face them. The narrator ran from her fear for two months and faced it for…

The two key elements in any essay, picture, or anything of the sort are tone, the writer’s attitude toward the subject, and theme, representation of a message about life or human nature that is revealed within the story. Theme is remarkably symbolized within the works of A.E. Housman, Walt Whitman, and Vincent Van Gogh for the majority of the works; however, tone is a different story. In the craft of such artists, tone is not blatantly stated or pictures, but must be hypothesized by gathering…