Slash fiction

Divergent, along with many other books, has been made into a film. Along with this transition from book to movie, changes were made for theatrical effect and with a time cap. Divergent the book was published April 2011 and the movie was released March 2014. This paper does contain spoilers of the movie and book. Divergent the book is about a dystopian society set in Chicago. They have a government system that separates people through five factions: Dauntless, Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, and…

The short story, “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin focuses on the unnamed narrator, a Algebra teacher in Harlem reuniting with his drug addicted brother, who was recently released from prison and able to come back home to their childhood neighborhood. As they catch up from the year that past, tension between them starts to occur when they both to attempt to deal with anger toward each other. The story puts emphasis on major themes of suffering, racism, a recurrent theme that Baldwin writes about…

Paper Towns is a coming of age novel set in Orlando, Florida. It was written by John Green in 2008 and features high school students as they coming to terms with growing up and learning about the diversity and complexity of humans. By exploring how the characters learn the book connects to its audience and gives them the chance to reflect on their own lives. The novel begins in a subdivision called Jefferson Park. The narrator Quentin “Q” Jacobson and his neighbour Margo Roth Spieglman, both…

The Dream of the Future (An analysis of A Rose for Emily and William Faulkner’s vision) William Faulkner most definitely may not be a household name, but he is an exquisite name and writer of short stories and in general, phenomenal fiction. Eventually, Faulkner went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature, but his beginnings are still rather intriguing. According to a biography of William Faulkner’s life titled William Faulkner published by Gale Research in Detroit in 1991, Faulkner has had…

who happened to be in town were there. She sat there like the Grand Dame she was and entertained them” (Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening). Kate Chopin’s writing career was relatively short, lasting for only about 5 years. She worked almost entirely in fiction, writing two novels, one at the very beginning of her career and one near its conclusion, and a few trivial poems (Wolff 208). Daughter, sister, granddaughter, and mother of six, Kate Chopin (aka Katherine O’ Flaherty Chopin) is known as one of…

Authors use many techniques to create and develop themes in their novels, in their respective genres. Junot Diaz weaves a unique blend of genres together including historical narrative, traditional realism, and science fiction in order to capture his and many others’ experiences as immigrants, especially Dominicans, in America. Diaz’s unique identity and literary voice is a pivotal element of his body of work. In his 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz…

“Barn Burning” Formalist Approach “Barn Burning” is a short story about a young boy who struggles between his loyalty to his family and the moral obligation he feels to tell on his father for burning barns. William Faulkner used many literary elements along with organization of events in the story to convey the theme of doing right from wrong to the reader. These elements work together to form a plot that enables the reader to grasp the meaning of “Barn Burning”. Faulkner used imagery,…

“Shotgun Wedding” is a short story by Bonnie Jo Campbell that explores some interesting themes through the eyes of a young woman at her sister’s wedding. Campbell grew up on a farm in Michigan. Her experience in such a setting is evident in the way that “Shotgun Wedding” takes place “in rural and small town Michigan” (Campbell). “Shotgun Wedding” follows a woman’s observation of her younger sister’s wedding, during which she has a flashback of a time when she protected her sister from a…

In the novel How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, discusses in depth literary devices and their meanings. After reading Fosters novel and going on to reading No Country for Old men by Cormac McCarthy the main literary devices and themes conveyed were, geography, Christ figures, and violence. McCarthy uses these devices and themes to attract the reader to think about the book on a deeper level. In the novel No Country for Old Men the geography sets the tone for…

O’Connor suffered the same disease and died of lupus before her fortieth birthday. O’Connor is known as an American great writer, “Despite her brief life and relatively modest output, her work is regarded as among the most distinguished American fiction” (Meyer 350). Revelation was written by Flannery O’Connor and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must…