Story of the Year

John Smith’s Story of Pocahontas The story of Pocahontas and John Smith took place around the early 1600s. This was around the time period of Jamestown. Jamestown is located in Virginia, where Pocahontas’s tribe lived. The emperor of Pocahontas’s tribe showed Smith generosity and kindness to him. Advertisement was very popular and was used many times to get people to come to America. No one questioned Smiths story for 250 years, so no one knew what happened for sure. Smith had exaggerated to…

Bees”, written by Sue Monk Kidd, I noticed that most of the characters in this book were not that good and did really bad things during the story. Obviously, there were some characters in the story that were actually really good persons, and kind to people, and one of this characters is Neil. I really admire this particular character because it relates to the story of my Mom and Dad. The way he loved June and waited for her to accept his marriage was one of the things that I really admire from…

teach the difference between a Essay and a Story:) . we just covered this in my English class . So I wrote what the elements of each a story and an essay were. I explained by putting the element and its definition and using an example of a story (“Save the Moon for Kredy Dicitson”) and using an example of a Essay (The Value of a Mess). One of the many Stories and Essays we read in the past few weeks, to grasp the concept of the difference between a stories and an Essays. I hope some of this…

I enjoyed the story “Eleven” because I felt as if it was very relatable. This story describes an emotional experience that we can all relate to about growing up. Throughout reading the story I thought about how simple the story line was yet there was a strong message in it. The story was written in a way that made me think about how the layers of ages are never fully gone at each birthday instead…

results in the audience questioning the story. The role of narrator is used in the same point of view, first person, in both The Black Cat and The Man in the Black Suit. The narrators in both of these stories are the main protagonists and are speaking using lots of I, me, and my. In, The Man in the Black Suit, the very first sentence of the story reads, “I am now a very old man and this is…

often argued that the five most important elements of each and every story ever told are character, setting, plot, theme, and conflict. All of these components work in harmony to come together and convey stories to readers, giving tales the backbones they need in order to exist. However, there is one more element of a story that can play just as crucial a role in effectively expressing a narrative: the point of view in which the story is told. In Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun, readers are…

Mallard: Troubled “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that was written by Kate Chopin in the late 1800’s. The story highlights an hour in the life of Mrs. Louise Mallard, the protagonist of the narrative. Though the story is short, many character traits and attributes of Mrs. Louise Mallard are revealed in the story. Mrs. Louise Mallard is a married woman in a time of oppression. She is portrayed as a woman trapped in a marriage in which she is unhappy. In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs.…

in her teenage years and developed from there. Around the age of 16 her family moved west and she began to write up to 1000 words daily. In 1951 Jackson began to incorporate gothic style writing into her short stories and novels. Many of her short stories have been converted to dramas because of their unexpected story lines. Years after publication, Jackson’s stories are still considered some of the greatest works in American literature. Throughout Shirley Jackson’s short stories “The Lottery”,…

of his only child, nineteen-year-old Miriam, discovered that his employee, Sobel, had all along loved Miriam. Her father had hoped strongly that she would either go to college or marry a man higher in the social class—not an uneducated employee of a shoemaker. Bernard Malamud’s “The First Seven Years” takes place in the mid-1900s. In this story, Feld tried to match up a college boy and Miriam together. Unfortunately for him, his plan failed. Later on in the story, Miriam’s father talked…

think harder. I love writing about memories I have made throughout the years with my friends/best friends. It makes me remember them even if they were 5 years ago, I still laugh to this day! Writing helps me show everyone how my life has been and make him or her put their shoes in my footsteps and see all the crazy things that have happened to me the last 13-14 years. The reason I like writing is because if you keep the stories you wrote when you were in like kindergarten, you can still read…