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In “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling the characters and events advance the importance of the plot, but analyzing the plot is different. They do it through the characters thoughts, actions, and speech. The evidence in this selection is when Don said “He wasn't even interested.” to Charlie because when the unidentified flying object flew over Maple Street everyone looked except for the Goodmans. So everyone started to suspect that the Goodmans were the alien family that was…

The Nose The Nose features a twisted ending which is hard to conclude on what exactly happened. The narrator here tries to convince us that social rank plays an important part in determining a person’s life. The events of the story indicate that appearance was important for a man with a high rank. The value of fellow government official’s opinions is very high as Kovalyov says, “If the major doesn’t split his sides when he sees me, then everything is in the right place. (Gogol, 21).” At this…

The author, O. Henry, in the fictional narrative, “The Ransom of Red Chief”, uses comic language within the characters and comic situations in order to make his story humorous. To begin, the author uses the Superiority Theory to create a comic situation within the character, Bill Driscoll, who, along with another man (Sam) capture 10 year old Johnny Dorset because he is the son of Ebenezer Dorset, a wealthy man. Little did they know, Johnny liked to be kidnapped- and in charge. For example, when…

In the story called “A Problem,” Sasha Uskov is going through a trial of convicting at one of the bank's false promissory note, not paying his debts, and now his uncles and Ivan Markovitch, were deciding whether they should pay the money and save the family honor, or wash their hands of it and leave the case to go for trial. Sasha is a child who has no parents and because of that it is the cause of his bad behavior. With no parents to teach him the right or wrong things to do he was in a lot of…

Did you read a story when a character is influenced by the setting? Setting means where the story takes place at. The character, Karana is influenced by where she lives alone at Deserted Island by many ways. Karana built a hut near the wild dogs and she built it facing away from the wind. On page 91, the text states that “If I built a hut here I would have to kill him and his pack. I do this anyway.” The author writes on page 98 that “I shot two of them, but not the leader.” Meaning she…

Morality and Honesty in Ashputtle Throughout the vast history of children’s literature, many fairy tales have underwent incarnations and adaptations. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s retelling of the tale of Ashputtle centres on the idea of how a young woman defies the odds, and ends up marrying a prince to achieve wealth and good fortune. Ashputtle’s cruel stepsisters fail to achieve a higher social status because of their deceitful and dishonest behaviour. Remembering the dying words of her mother,…

response will be on the poem “Barter” by Sara Teasdale. This poem discusses the topic of life and the loveliness it has to offer. Teasdale uses imagery in a few lines to create a mental picture for the reader to better set the mood. The poet says “Blue waves whitened on a cliff”(3) and the reader immediately sees waves turning white once splashing against the rock - which primarily appeals to the sense of sound and secondarily to the sense of sight. The line “Soaring fire that sways and…

Parris lays, is described as minimal and rustic. Miller reports only a chest, chair, small table, and the bed containing the girl. Reflecting the attitude that the reader experiences in the relationships between the Puritans, especially between the members of the Parris household, this setting creates an empty or barren feeling in the reader. The description of the room also includes a "narrow" (Act I, p.62) window with "leaded panes" (Act I, p.62) and a candle burning near the bed. The dark,…

From the Growing Seasons In "From the Growing Seasons" by Samuel Hynes, the author used good writing by using descriptive and relatable language. After the kid wakes up, he hears fireworks. The narrator speaks, "I wake up in the half dark before dawn to the sound of the day's first explosions, a distant rattling stutter; somewhere, in the far off backyards other kids can't wait" (Hynes 245). This is relatable because as kids, they can not wait for the fireworks to come on the Fourth of…

In “The Fish”, Elizabeth Bishop described the fish that was being caught and through the imagery readers can decipher the age of the fish. In lines 9-11 of the “The Fish”, it describes that the fishes’ “brown skin hung in strips like an ancient wallpaper”, the readers can use this information and guess that the fish must be at an old age. It would be different if Bishop said that the fish was old because then you couldn’t see why the fish was considered old. Bishop described that the fish has…