Slash fiction

The eighty seven page novel, Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, contains various lessons readers can learn throughout the story. However, the central message in Seedfolks is that an individual's actions can change his or her community. First of all, the vacant lot on Gibb Street, is rat-infested and filled with garbage, the lot looked nothing at all like a place for a garden. Until one day, nine year old Kim clears a small space in the lot and digs the hard-packed soil to plant her precious lima…

In Colombia New Year's Eve is celebrated by eating 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. Firstly, You gather around with your family and pass around 12 grapes to each person. Once midnight has stroken you make a wish with each grape. Resulting with 12 wishes or goals for the New Year. The perception on holidays may differ from person to person. It is influenced by in a large part by the development of one’s personal culture. Culture always has an effect on the way someone may view others and the…

In “Rip Van Winkle”, Washington Irving repeatedly describes Rip as idle, and further proves this description by telling the reader that he had an “insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor” (Irving, 63) which we read more about throughout the story. It was Rip’s idleness that led him and his dog, Wolf, to the Catskill Mountains, where he encounters the Catskill gnomes, the dead crew of the long dead Henry Hudson, who come to the Catskill Mountains every 20 years to guard the land…

In 1994, the definitive Harley Quinn episode in the Batman: The Animated Series was aired, “Mad Love.” This episode is based on the comic of the same title, created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, which shows Harleen Quinzel’s metamorphosis into supervillain Harley Quinn. Dini has stated the title “Mad Love,” “Mad love is when you fall so passionately for a person (particularly the wrong person) that nothing else in the world matters” (Roddy 2). A relatable concept to many people, not just females.…

Keeping a journal is a way to escape the outside world, no judgments and no rules. In Joan Didion’s essay she talks about her thought process about what the importance of keeping a notebook. At the end of her essay she made a conclusion that the purpose of a notebook is to record the feeling that a person feel at a particular moment. And it doesn’t matter if what it is in the journal is not what actually occurred, as long as it connects some memory. In the essay Joan gives many examples of…

Being Let Down “The Story of an Hour” is a short story in which the author, Kate Chopin, tells a story of a rare and unsettling view on the rights and marriages of women in the late eighteen hundreds. The main character, Mrs. Louis Mallard, learns of her husband’s, Brantly Mallard, death in a railroad accident and is rather relieved. Mrs. Mallard feels joy and freedom with the news but why? In “The Story of an Hour” Chopin tells a reflection and view that seems guided and controlled. Mrs.…

In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” one brother’s selfishness caused the demise of the other. Authors typically use literary elements in order to establish and portray an advanced and complex theme. This technique can be seen in the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. This sorrowful story centers around a young boy, William Armstrong, also known as Doodle, who was born with a life-threatening medical condition. With the help of his older brother, the narrator, Doodle overcomes obstacles…

A Critique on a Critic: An Evaluation on Richard Roeper Richard Roeper is a top reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Recently, on June 15, 2015, he reviewed a highly rated movie called Inside Out. Inside Out is directed by Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. It has certain stars that include Phyllis Smith and Mindy Kaling from The Office, Amy Poehler and Bill Hader from Saturday Night Live, and Lewis Black from The Daily Show. Richard Roeper does a fantastic job at critiquing this because he…

Coincidence and the Poor Man’s Fate As his neighbor with a deteriorating mind is pursed by the local police for trespassing into the now-destroyed and abandoned, once-his-home, trailer park community of Times Beach, Missouri, the unnamed narrator “carefully considered both coincidence and fate” (26). The heart of “Book of Songs” by John Dalton struggles with the narrator’s contemplation: it was not a coincidence that detrimental waste oil ended up contaminating a trailer park, yet it was…

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses different stylistic techniques to convey an effect on the reader. Cisneros and I use sensory details and alliteration to establish mood and theme. When describing the atmosphere and environment during a birthday party, I use sensory detail, “The roller skating rink was a frenzy of lights and sounds from arcade games and 70’s music playing” (Gyawali). The reader gets a nostalgic, but excited mood from the auditory and visual imagery. This…