Story arc

The Storm Questions for Discussion 1. Kate Chopin’s The Storm is an excellent story to teach setting because of how she gives each of the settings in the story significance. Chopin masterfully builds up the plot using the settings in The Storm. In Part I, Bibi and Bobinôt are out at the store and it is about to rain. If they had not been out of the house, Calixta and Alcée would not have been able to be alone to have sex. Chopin also uses the setting to guide the audience through Calixta’s and…

Virginia Woolf’s The New Dress has many themes and literary devices. The story shows the style of stream of consciousness that Woolf uses. Virginia Woolf’s writing style is creative because many people do not use it in today’s writing. Woolf’s writing style of stream of consciousness uses Mabel’s thoughts and events that happened. Woolf decided to write in a stream of consciousness style, and her choice of writing let her use flashbacks as a literary device. She was able to use flashbacks and…

Fire” by Jack London is an American short story that is about a man that goes out into the freezing cold Yukon, Alaska. Jack uses many literary tools throughout his story. The best ones that he used throughout his story is setting, imagery, and point-of-view. “London emphasizes the existential theme in “To Build a Fire” in several ways, the most important of which is his selection of the setting in which the story takes place.” (lonestar.edu). The story is set in Yukon, Alaska, one of the…

In the short story Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes, a boy named Roger tries to steal a purse belonging to an older woman by the name of Mrs. Jones off her. Although the boy was young this did not stop Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones from stopping him or teaching him a valuable lesson. There are multiple questions the reader should have, I know I had a ton. “Does he put her out?”, “Does the police take him away?” or even “Why did she do what she did to teach him a lesson. Instead of…

of the ocean. Would you attempt to save yourself and everyone on board or completely give up on the idea of escaping this tragedy? Would you expect help to come for you or step up and try to lead everyone to safety yourself? Luckily, in the short story “The Open Boat” written by Stephen Crane, he answers these questions in his writing that is about four crew members on a boat that have found themselves faced with this exact dilemma. This piece, based on an actual incident in Crane’s life, was…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta follow the travels of Ibn Battuta from Morocco through much of Africa, Arabia, Anatolia, Central and Southeast Asia, India, and China as he searches for an Islamic judicial position. Based on his accounts in the Rihla, each city he goes to and each person he meets is highlighted in the book. I think that Ross Dunn’s goal is to give a clear picture of the Islamic world through Ibn Battuta’s journey. I agree with almost everything of what Danny Yee says in his book…

Module Table Number of Sessions Topic/Title Objectives Strategies/Activites 1 Sociogram (Noting Details of the Selection Read) Story: Wolstencroft the Bear Ref: (http://www.childrenstoriesonline.com) Author: Karen Lewis - to make a visual representation of relationships among characters in a literary text. - to identify the main idea of the paragraph / story. Sociogram – is a visual representation of relationships among characters in a literary text. Students can make use of pictures, symbols,…

their way of explaining different situations/things. In the saying, guests drifted out into the summer night(metaphor), he is saying that the people are partying and dancing the night away. This encouraged the girls to stay longer and describe the story. When she begins the talk to the host, he states that she has written a couple of books. She replies with, “Several” (hyperbole). She literally did not mean several books. She referred to writing many as a whole bunch. She made an exaggeration…

hear Destiny crying. The girls confused, asked Destiny what happened and why is she at the police station. Keondrane’ told me what happened was that Destiny decided to leave the party to go to some guy’s house to hang out. According to Destiny’s story, people were talking outside by a fire when a gang of guys showed up. Destiny explained that the gang of guys wanted to fight and were not leaving until they got to fight someone. The man Destiny was with decided to be the one to fight the other…