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#5 In the book “The River” by Gary Paulsen I connect with Derek very well. This is because he does not know a lot about the wilderness. I do not know a lot either. Derek likes to learn about things he's never learned before. I love to learn about new things too! #4 The plot of this book is very realistic. It uses a lot of details about the wilderness. All of the thunderstorms are very realistic also. The story is realistic because not everything goes good for Brian and Derek. The River…

C. Effectiveness and appeal to a particular audience After reading the first time, the information exposed in the article is being successfully routed to the reader, making feel the necessity of read more about other uncontacted tribes in the Amazon and questioning why they live isolated from the world. Furthermore, it is shown in the article a map that depicts the route of the expedition and where the Flecheiros may be located. According to Penn (190) in the review of Wallace’s book, this work…

Little Cat Feet: An Explication Of a Passage in Sandburg’s “Fog” The fog comes On little cat feet. It sits looking Over harbor and city On silent haunches And then moves on. In this poem, Carl Sandburg not only created a substantial metaphor between the fog and a cat, but also created vivid imagery in a quick manner .The speaker of this poem relates the fog to a cat as it explores the city, similar to how a curious feline would. The speaker is an unknown observer, scrutinizing the fog as it…

history of their chosen art form (Goldschmidt & Boum, 2015). Donna Carlton is a very imaginative writer who painstakingly recreates the same atmosphere and scenarios of Little Egypt in a very thorough and thought provoking manner and invites the readers to actually experience the logic and reasoning of her…

excerpt progresses to heighten the tension of the reader as well. O’Neill uses his diction to create excitement at the beginning, but he makes a drastic difference of the amount of excitement from the beginning to the end of the excerpt. This not only shows that he is reaching out to show the reader about the cricket game, but he also is grabbing the reader’s emotions to make them feel just as a part of the game as the narrator…

Surfing through Tumblr is a favorite pastime of mine. Recently, I stumbled across an article by an author, furious at the body positivity community, particularly in the idea of self care. What this author wrote is not worth repeating, but in essence, they stated that they thought self-care was lazy and not something to encourage. In response to this article, I will do my best, to react in a respectful manner, bearing in mind that everyone is entitled to express their own opinions weather or…

lifestyle, the author uses characterization to help the readers follow the story. Characterization is the most important literary element in “The Metamorphosis” because it allows the reader to discover the characters individuality,…

narrator is a teacher speaking to his pupils trying to explain the joys of poetry. The narrator sheds light on his students trying to make them understand how much fun poetry can be if the reader just lets it. The two narrators of these poems are one in the same, both trying to get a complicated message across to the readers and succeeding when speaking to the right…

In the poem, “We Real Cool” the author portrays the themes of identity and reckless abandonment in a simplistic writing form. In the first line the author writes “we real cool”, which helps to form the theme of identity. Identity is defined as “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is”, and by using the personal pronoun “we” the speaker is showing that they identify with this said group. This is significant because one can surround themselves with a group of individuals, however this…

full of confusion, which the narrative voice decides to pass on to the reader as well. Instead of offering full insight for the reader, the reader is forced to follow along with the confusion and stress being felt by the poetic voice. With lyrics such as “I wanted you to know” (Childish Gambino 1) and “I read his posts on your wall and I feel sick” (Childish Gambino 61), the usage of the words “you” and “your” makes the reader infer that the song’s audience is meant to be the female subject.…