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Disconnected The two short stories entitled “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner and “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather focus on two main characters. Both Faulkner and Cather use their characters to prove a point or an outcome of a theory. Williams Faulkner uses Emily as his main character. Emily is a beautiful girl who used to live with her father. On the other hand Willa Cather used Paul as his main character. Paul is a high school student who also used to live with his father. Both…

“In my hole in the basement there are exactly one thousand three hundred sixty nine lights” (Ellison 7); if that is true, how can one still be hidden in darkness? The Invisible Man spent time in his well-lit hole in a basement because “it [allowed him] to feel [a] vital aliveness” (Ellison 7). The narrator aspired to be “a man of vision” (Ellison 7), yet somehow others didn’t see him. He desired so strongly to make a difference that he tricked himself into believing he had an impact on…

The way Joyce utilizes characters in the story Araby is very unique. He uses short details to push through what he is saying. In the beginning of the story, he talks about the general environment in the boy's neighborhood. It says when the Uncle came out they would hide in the shadows avoiding to be seen. Already we can tell that there is a problem with parenting because these kids are doing things that they aren't supposed to be doing and the fact that he is being watched by his uncle shows us…

In the coming-of-age novel, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens creates Pip, an orphan who finds himself with “great expectations” that dissolve and change throughout the story, allowing for Pip to also change as a person. The reader follows Pip as he goes through life, learning how to be a gentleman, (which is part of his expectations of life), loving Estella, Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter, who will not love him back, and keeping a secret about helping an escaped convict when he was younger…

Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory is evident within J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book as the notion of the “special world” (Vogler 10) is glorified through contrast in relation to the core themes of the texts. Within both novels, the protagonists are only able to truly experience the themes of family, belonging and the supernatural whilst in the special world, placing an emphasis on this realm. Furthermore, contrast is consistently…

A house is a symbol of a home and comfort. However, it’s also 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…

“Winter in the Blood” is movie talked about a sadness story about a man who named Virgil First Raise. He is not full-blood Indian and always been discriminated by the Native people and the white people. However, there were more sad things happened to his life, his father was freeze to death in a cold winter and his wife left him and took his gun and razor away. The leading actor went out his village and hoped brings his wife and gun back. On his way to find the gun and wife, there was happened…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” Point of View “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman writes in a first-person point of view with the narrator being a main character. The unnamed narrator is speaking as though the story is her journal where she describes the estate rented for the summer. She writes in hopes of keeping her mind occupied from the illness that lingers inside of her. The point of view of “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives an overall understanding of how…

In the novel The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, the Jana’ata are arguably the VaRakhati beings that share the most similarities with humans. They have developed a complex society and their own morals and values, similar to those of earthlings. The other sentient species on Rakhat, the Runa, are much less advanced as the Jana’ata. Their perceptions of feelings and emotions are simpler and they live and work the same way their ancestors have since the Jana’ata established themselves as superior.…

Storytelling is easy as, picking your favorite book or novel and telling others about it. Most stories have a hero or a villain, which is basic common knowledge of any story. Archetypes are things that we use everyday without even realizing it. Archetypes are any idea, image, or basic unit of expression that appears in art, mythology, or around the world. Archetypes are also known as the “Stock Character” of the story. Joseph Campbell was the one that created the Hero’s Journey as an archetype…