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“Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” by Willa Cather and Margaret Atwood’s short story, “Death by Landscape,” focus on how the protagonists are isolated from the world, the people around them, and how they handle conflicts. There are similarities in how the protagonists are isolated and involved in conflicts or struggles, and although both protagonists experience a suicide situation, their endings are different. Paul, the protagonist in “Paul’s Case,” lives his short life fully, whereas Lois,…

There are suitable subjects for children’s literature and appropriate topics or situations for them to read about. In this essay, I am going to discuss the themes in northern lights and subject that Pullman thinks are appropriate for children books but not for adults and how is this novel of northern lights a crossover novel, and what is suitable books for children to read, and how the quotation relevant to this novel northern lights. Northern lights is a novel by Philip Pullman, it is a…

Do you like to read? If you do, then you probably read either in paperback or digitally. Although paperback and digital books are both great ways of reading, they each have distinct advantages and disadvantages. There are three categories in which some of the main advantages and disadvantages can be sorted into; Price, Enjoyment and Convenience. The first category price can vary for both ways of reading. Paperback books can be fairly expensive when bought one at a time and that’s similar for…

concerns towards class inequality; he’d been dealing with the hardships this inequality brought since he was a young child (Daiches 251) and it is made obvious in “To a Louse” that this fact still haunts him. Burns took the issues that plagued both himself and much of Scotland, such as politics, religious viewpoints, and class inequality, as well as traditional Scottish elements, as seen in his use of the Scots dialect, to shape his work to himself and to others. He took the things that angered…

Perspective is how a person sees things, which affects how a story is told. The perspective in Realistic texts such as, "The Wife of His Youth" and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It", are very important for the feeling of the story because it gives the story context and also a realistic feel. It is important to show perspective through a character who sees things in their own particular way. The perspective in these texts explains the time period that these characters lived in,…

Again, this may mean the reader thinks he is more reliable and are more willing to see details in the novel from his view rather than from someone other than himself. Additionally, he is always re-evaluating himself and questioning himself which a good person would do, to keep themselves…

Something good about this short story by Franz Kafka is that it leaves a huge room for interpretation by the reader. The reader can thus be left to selectively choose the aspects that they fancy and award them the interpretations they wish to. That does not, however, mean the analyses should be erroneous or inexistent. Subliminally, albeit subtly, the issue of the unresolved Oedipus complex in this story cannot be overlooked, and this paper sets out to illustrate just how it leaked onto the…

is heavily influenced by ekphrasis, which the poetry foundation describes as “the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning.” This form of poetry allows the reader to understand that Wallace is trying to expand the meaning behind Giacometti’s “Dog” sculpture. He writes a story or viewpoint on the dog and expands the meaning through his word choice, the form of the poem, and how he ends the poem. Wallace…

flashbacks to help us understand the past, which intern help us to understand the present. The essay will show how the story of Choker can be seen as tragic, and how the onlookers are antagonistic toward Choker and vice versa. It will also show how the readers can show both sympathy and antipathy toward Choker, and will indicate a reversal of initial assumptions. Chris Van Wyk uses a retrospective viewpoint as well as the motif of a train journey in Relatives to tell the story of a young writer…

The plot of a story is the sequences of events that help a story reach its end. A story will always have events in it that are used to propel it forward. While some events are used to provide information about the setting and some background information, other events can help the story reach its conclusion. The plot of a story usually has 5 parts: beginning with the exposition, then the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution which is the ending of a story. The…