Tell Me

Going back to the first part of this segment, when the narrator is describing how Zulema first told her about how she felt, and what happened after she was told that her mother left, she mentions that Zulema had started crying, and how she had listened through her own tears. “Suddenly she started to sob, holding the photo to her breast. Through my own tears, I heard her describe how she had waited for days on end for her mother’s return…” (Fernández and Franco 386/7) This sentence gives further…

The Resurrecting Power of Stories The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fictional story that exhibits love, loss, war, coming-of-age, innocence, and so much more. O’Brien explores all of these themes through an even bigger topic: storytelling. He also inversely picks apart the various aspects of storytelling via the smaller themes. One of the products of this analysis that I find to be most intriguing is the resurrecting power of stories. O’Brien asserts that stories have the capability…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge, is a poem that was written in 1798 during the Industrial Revolution. The tale guides the reader through the adventures of an ancient mariner. The mariner begins telling his tale during a wedding. The mariner learns his lesson after killing an innocent Albatross on a voyage. Coleridge uses symbolism and diction to instill the lesson of respect for nature and all of God's creation. The lesson imparted by Coleridge in the poem is done so…

tried to incorporate that new idea into the story, another elder said “He was sure that something much more important was troubling Hamlet’s, heart.” By the end of the story, the elders tell Bohannan “That was a very good story, and you told it with very few mistakes.”, another elder added that “Sometime, you must tell us some more stories of your country.". The elders told Bohannan that they will instruct her on the true meanings of the stories so when she returns she can show her elders can…

in actuality he is just trying to protect his family from horrors that they cannot see. In the beginning of the novel Jacob explains that his grandpa told him stories when he was at school. The children tell him he is making it up. Later that day when his grandpa picks him up from school he tells his grandfather that he doesn’t believe in the stories and his grandpa nods his head. The story goes back to where the main character Jacob is at work and is fifteen years old, his grandpa calls him…

The Single Shard! The single shard is a nonfiction book. It tells about a boy named Tree-ear that lived under a bridge with Craneman and he only had one leg. And Tree-ear watched a man named Min do his work. And one day tree-ear started to work for him because Min had an order to make. And one day Craneman was pushing a grocery cart and the grocery cart was to heavy and the bridge collapsed on Craneman and he was holding a monkey in his hand when he died. When Tree-ear got back Min told him that…

continues typing until her secretary walks in to tell her she has a phone call on line three. Harper says thank you and picks up the phone, just to realize it's her mother on the other line. We hear a slight swear word from under Harper's breath while her mother has already started talking a mile a minute . They continue to talk about little topics until her mother tells her that Sebastian, her ex-boyfriend called.Harper seems visibly irritated as she tells her mother that they broke up months…

WHEN WINIFRED had at last recognized the young woman in the buckboard as Lorelei Hansmueller, she walked, ever so slowly and non-chalantly, over to where Winston sat in his wheel-chair and whispered softly in an urgent voice, “Win-ston!!” “I know my dear.” “Whatever are we to do? First there was Penelope and now here comes this one, again.” “What can we do my dear, but be gracious. She may have made friends among the young offic-ers at Fort Kearney. She was very popular, there, if I remember…

Just about everyone is guilty of committing a white lie. The reasoning behind white lies will vary. These white lies never seem like a big deal until the white lie turns into catastrophe. The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller is a unique piece of work. Many themes can be found in the work. One significant theme that is prevalent throughout the play is lies and deceit. Miller applies the theme of lies and deceit throughout the play which plays a hefty role in the plot. A large factor…

You can tell from the beginning that they don’t particularly want to be there, or seem to be in very high spirits. Unlike them, Tessie appears happy and at times almost eager for the lottery. She tells another villager that she, “clean forgot what day it was,” and when she remembered she “came a-running” (142). While the other villages are described as…