Slash fiction

I wish this paper was over. The Monkey’s Paw is a short horror story written by W.W. Jacobs. The story follows the White family who are given a wish granting monkey paw from Mr. White’s old army buddy. What seems to be a treasure is quickly deduced to actually be a curse. The wishes all become true, but only do so with a terrible twist of fate. Ultimately this leads to the White’s misery, and the death of their son Herbert. This classic tale has been reimagined through multiple mediums including…

The essay I have decided to turn in for grading is No Right On Red, my personal narrative about my terrifying first experience of driving at night. Although I am quite pleased with my cultural analysis on the emerging phenomenon of the JUUL, there are several reasons why I feel more comfortable submitting my narrative. What it boils down to is that I believe my personal narrative is simply a better essay. The reader’s engagement was a focal point of my writing process throughout the personal…

Both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible contain crucial themes that build the backbone of their plots. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity” was once said by Baltasar Gracián, a Spanish writer, and could be applied to each book, as they show the importance, value, and power of a name or reputation. Although the main themes of reputation ring throughout the book, the motifs play just as critical of a role. For example, revenge and the…

The Power of Literacy Literature. It is simultaneously a shield against the darkness and an open window that allows new ideas and experiences to float in. Without it, we would have no way to communicate--no way to share our ideas and adventures with others or see those from the past. Literacy is as close as we can get to magic, and it has the power to provide us with humanity, escape, and determination. Literacy gives us great humanity; it gives us knowledge about the world we live in. For one,…

Discoveries are indefinitely made memorable, through the composer’s unique thematic concepts and powerful literary devices. This notion is displayed in Ang Lee’s film “Life of Pi” and Adriennce Rich’s poem “diving into the wreck”. Both texts feature self-discovery through the exploration of new and unfamiliar worlds, the unique context and the overcoming of challenges encountered throughout the process of discovery. The exploration of new and unfamiliar worlds results in a memorable experience…

Authors have various types of literary devices at their disposal to assist them in producing written work, whether fiction or non-fiction. Many will use one or several and at times combinations of these literary devices for character development, setting, and plots to express whatever it is they’re trying to convey to the reader. One of the more powerful and diverse of these literary devices, symbolism, “contains several layers of meaning, often concealed at first sight, and is representative…

In the allegory “The Cave”, the author had a very vivid way of connecting the shackles that the prisoners experienced in the cave to modern day society. Sadly the analogy is very similar to what we experience on a day to day basis. From social media, to marriage, jobs, learning disabilities, and actual prisons, “The Cave”,represents our very own version of a cave, or prison . In this essay I will overview some background of the cave, explain how the cave represents shackles on our minds, and…

Life of Kate Chopin In The Awakening. To me it seems like the author of the novel The Awakening, Kate Chopin, has a lot things in common with her life and the life of Edna Pontellier of the story. They are many different examples of the same things occurring in Chopin’s life and in Edna’s. Then from some of my research and some of the things that go on in the story it leaves me pretty curious on how much of the story Chopin based on previous life experiences. Also, from some of my research I…

Reason, ideas, questioning, and curiosity are all words that describe Sophie’s World so far. Sophie Amundsen begins to receive strange, anonymous letters. Each letter contains philosophical questions such as, “Who are you?”. The anonymous writer of these letters introduces famous philosophers to Sophie, as well as the philosophical lessons they teach. With each new letter she receives, Sophie begins to question everything she knows and everything she has been taught. Sophie begins to get more…

Kate Chopin, a brilliant author ahead of her time, is known for her honest, frank stories about women. Due to her progressive view on society, some of Chopin’s stories were published after her death for the fear of being scandalous. In Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” the reader is introduced to Mrs. Mallard and her imprisoning life as a married women in the 1900s. Chopin puts the reader in the shoes of Mrs. Mallard in order to explore the theme of women's overcoming an imprisonment of society…