The Whole Story

Everyone shares a similar journey, all with struggles which lead to victory, but no two are exactly the same. In the short story, “Through the Tunnel” written by Doris Lessing, Jerry, an eleven-year-old boy on vacation with his mother, decides that he wants to go to the other beach. He tries to dive with the native boys but does not succeed his first try. So, instead of giving up, he does what he can to accomplish his goal of swimming through the tunnel. In the film, Tuck Everlasting by Jay…

Paragraphs in the story use the repeated pattern of having the second and third sentence rhyme with the remaining sentences being varied in length giving the book a musical quality that serves to enhance the flow of the story (Tunnell, 2015, p.23). Understatement is uses loosely at the end of the story when CJ explains that he is glad they came to the soup kitchen, this statement allows the reader to reflect…

forced her grandfather into deep thought. He was very curious to why his religion practiced the birthday of a god they did not believe in. Main characters are also shown questioning society in “The Unknown Errors of Our Lives” by Divakaruni. In this story, Ruchira and Biren are two lovers that are planning to start a life together and get married. They are planning their marriage when Ruchira asks herself…

Though regarded by some as mere inhabitants of the background incapable of performing significant actions, the minor characters of a story assume an integral role within it. This is especially apparent in the novel The Five People You Meet in Heaven, where minor characters form a substantial portion of the plot. Notable minor characters within this book are Dominguez, Annie or Amy,…

The first primary source that I found was journal entries from 1917 to 1918 written by Sergeant Burton W. Knight. Sergeant Knight worked at a field hospital for the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He frequently wrote short notes about his days in the field, however, on occasion he wrote extensively about the small details of his days. Mostly, his writings consisted about what the days out in the field were like, for example, he’d note if the days were quiet and without much work. In…

described and gives the story more depth. Symbolism is when an object or character symbolizes something much more powerful than what we can see. Symbols are visible they stand for something that is not visible; this carries different meanings depending on one’s cultural background. For example; a lion can symbolize courage, the lion is what we can see while courage is what we cannot see, yet it is not only the lion that is there, but the lion also stands for courage. In the short story of…

Sonny 's Blues written by James Baldwin is a short story about coping with the struggles of life. The Narrator, who Baldwin does not name, finds himself struggling with who his younger brother, Sonny, has become. Growing up as African Americans in Harlem the boys were exposed to hardships at an early age. As adults, the narrator is a successful school teacher and Sonny finds himself struggling with drug addiction and in prison. The Narrator finds it difficult to identify with Sonny who escapes…

what the idea of perfection does to a girl’s self-esteem. Stories and facts were shared to appeal to the younger and older class and to business. She shared a story about a sixteen-year-old writing code to help detect cancer to appeal to the younger generations. She shared stories of girls being scared to fail so they would not try at all. Also, stories about girls who believed that the problems were their selves not the code. These stories reach out to the older generations because no one…

Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried is a story with seemingly no plot, however, upon closer look you will realize that this novel is filled with many reoccurring themes and patterns that give the novel a much deeper meaning. The last 3 chapters have a way of tying the book together with the beginning and give meaning to the questions he poses about what a true war story is. The three main patterns present throughout this novel are the concepts of war and life as a soldier being…

more sympathetic towards Gatsby, and negatively sarcastic towards Tom Buchanan, because of Tom's oppressive attitude towards him. Nick's positive attitude towards Gatsby is well identified by this quote: “They're a rotten crowd … You're worth the whole damn bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154). Here, Nick compliments Gatsby and places him above the normal crowd. On the other hand, he is not very approving or even understanding of Tom Buchanan. He described him of giving off an “impression of…