Stranger than Fiction

In “Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner intentionally structures the timeline of events to develop a Southern Gothic perverse characterization of Miss Emily. By doing this the author doesn’t just want the reader to view Emily as an insane and disgusting person, but instead intends for them to gain of understanding of why she did those “perverse” things. Faulkner achieves this goal by purposefully changing the order of events, which allows the reader to make sense of her actions. This format was…

English Essay #2 Leaving New York is full of sad goodbyes and lasting memories. Might be a forceful pulling away if someone does not want to go. It seems to the authors to be escaping the insanity. All have a different take on what it means to leave New York and their personal viewpoints on why they left. Whether it was for sanity, love, less hardships, and more money. Between Fitzgerald, Didion, Patcin, and Strayed each had the same idea which is that leaving New York is the best thing they…

Rebecca Skloot, the writer for the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, has been obsessed with Henrietta since she was sixteen-years old. Skloot tried looking up more information about Henrietta and her family but she couldn’t find any information. That’s when Skloot decided that she wanted to tell Henrietta story by writing a book. With Rebecca trying to get in contact with Henrietta daughter Deborah. Skloot didn’t know that the family would become hostile to the fact that they didn’t…

Chloe Frichtl Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Warning: Spoilers Genre: Fiction Plot Summary: George and Lennie are two migrant workers that dream of having a farm. They are on the run in California because Lennie wanted to touch a girl’s dress (it was soft) and she accused him of harassing her. They go to a ranch and get jobs by telling the boss that Lennie is George’s cousin; he got kicked in the head by a horse when he was young and it’s why he’s so dumb. There, they meet Candy, the handyman…

Title: “The Westing Game” Author: Ellen Raskin Report by: Ethan Keating Warning! Contains Spoilers! Genre: Mystery Plot Summary: Sunset Towers is a 5 stories tall apartment building with 6 apartments. The people in each apartment were specially chosen to get each apartment. They were chosen because they were heirs to Mr. Westing a wealthy man who disappeared after a car accident. Finally on the night of Halloween Turtle, one of the tenants, went into the Westing House on a dare and found the…

change. In the novel, “A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, he shows a relationship between a man and a woman named Torvald and Nora Helmer. Nora’s attitude starts off with what readers believe is true happiness, but what they don’t realize is that sooner than later, Nora comes clean about how she really feels about Torvald himself. The novel itself explains how Nora’s feelings have changed for Torvald and how the changed feelings make up the entire plot. First, Henrik Ibsen’s writing style helps…

to drunken Polyphemus, then stab his eye out, taking some sheep with. Because that’s what you do with people you haven’t met before. Then again, Polyphemus could care less about Odysseus and his crew, like when they first met, Polyphemus said, “Strangers, who are you? And where from? … We Cyclopes care not a whistle about your thundering Zeus...” When Odysseus and his crew goes to leave, Odysseus has to get a few words in, with those words being that he was not “Nobody,” but instead Odysseus.…

Explication Prior to writing the poem Lost in Place, I read multiple stories that comment on flaws in society, and are applicable to multiple aspects of life. I chose to incorporate lessons from Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and Homer’s The Iliad. The lessons that I chose to use are the lessons that stick with me the most from all the readings: proximity, societal thought, and the power to change the fate of others. I knew I wanted to…

also known to “quarrel and fight” (Swift 2612) with each other frequently. These actions are examples of the Yahoos being without reason, for logically it would make more sense to talk to Gulliver than it is to defecate on him, just as it would make more sense to peacefully settle their differences than it would be to physically…

TPCASTT Analysis 1. The title, Editing the Prairies, can provoke many feelings in a reader. For instance, a reader who lives in the prairies may wonder what editing needs to be done to their great home. A person living on the prairies knows the wonders of the lands: from the land’s beautiful sunsets, to the hard work their ancestors performed to build the prairies into what they are today. A reader may think there is nothing to edit about the prairies, for in its entirety, it is perfect and in…