Story arc

In Psalm 118:22, Jesus said “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone.” Throughout Faulkner’s book As I Lay Dying, Cash Bundren is identified as a background character, with a seemingly demure and setback attitude compared to the rest of his family. He tempers his mind with hard labor, and only tries to fix broken things rather than fantasize about nice things he might have had in a different life. Over the course of the novel, he uses his steady attitude to…

evident that Morrison is extremely dedicated in her writing and quite successful in reflecting an overall message of harmony, left for the readers to discover in the end. Morrison’s longstanding greatness resides in her ability to animate specific stories about the Black experiences and…

Louise Erdrich is an artist in her own right. Her fiction and poetry are filled with mythical characters and settings drawn from her Chippewa heritage examining the complex relationships amongst Native Americans and their battles with the European American community. The different voices and imagery in her work had lead some to compare her to William Faulkner , according to American novelist Philip Roth,“She is, like Faulkner, one of the great American regionalists, bearing the dark knowledge of…

Book to movie adaptations are nearly impossible to get right. Oftentimes, as I reread a book - never the first time reading, unless it’s a very dull book that allows the mind to wander - I imagine what a movie adaptation might be like. Most of the time I wince at the very idea: all the little intricacies told by the narrative... how would any movie get them across without the dreaded tool of narration? Here’s the thing: for many books, movie adaptations are not a Great Idea. But usually, the…

Human nature is a complicated subject that has been approached by multiple angles by a large number of people; one of them being Toni Morrison. In Beloved, Morrison utilizes color to explore her characters and to reveal their underlying emotions and feelings that cannot be easily represented with words alone; which reflects how the emotions of real people are hard to explain and further chips away at the popular question of what it means to be human. Three of the characters that she applies this…

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 1, 1918. She was educated in Edinburgh, the setting used in most of her novels and went on the become editor of Poetry Review, an internationally acclaimed quarterly. She later published a series of biographies on writers like William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë and is best known for her novels, Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she received multiple accolades. Spark was made…

The novel is a humorous fantasy, written in the tradition of a boy’s adventure story. In this novel, there are two major characters, Tom sawyer and huckleberry Finn. The novel remaining his childhood, from this childish viewpoint, the pupil world appears rather foolish. For examples social institutions, education opposed their behavior, because the people want to live like them. Tom’s fortunes swing between the two and his sprit follows suit. There are two distinct types of language, the…

composes of constraining walls inside of other walls, that can become a barrier to the outside world. The short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, hints about Mrs. Mallard’s celebration for freedom after the news of her husband’s death, and her sudden death on seeing her husband again. Did she die because she was overjoyed or was it fear of living in bondage? Story of An Hour tells a story about a middle aged woman who claims to be in love with her husband but is trapped in a unhappy…

Novels, short stories, and most other forms of literature have one thing in common, a setting; a place and/or date which sets the whole story, the setting gives the reader an understanding of how and why the character thinks and acts. The setting of a story places the mood, an author 's influence on the whole story and shows the type of society the characters live in and how it reflects on them. The Story of an Hour is a prime example of how setting can limit a character 's behavior and how it…

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf can be compared and contrasted in only a few ways, I believe. Although short stories, both dive deep into the big questions of life. More importantly, they both question the significance of life itself. While The Death of the Moth is showing, at first, the playful and less significant side of life, being swept away by forces much greater than the moth which comes off almost as pathetic. The Story of an Hour starts…