Thousand Character Classic

It’s no secret that in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers takes on a vastly different writing style than most audiences are used to. With his satirical, stream of consciousness technique of narrating the events of his life, Eggers is definitely a man of detail in vivid depictions of events and his thoughts along the way. Though Dave frequently gives readers an almost troublingly detailed recount of what he’s been through, there are instances in which Dave more subtly involves…

Slade House Character Comparison Essay David Mitchell tells us in his Reader's Guide in the book Slade House, “Nobody is safe here. Justice is not automatic. People do die in these pages” (Mitchell 247). David Mitchell created a 5 chapter book of the stories of 5 characters and their lives as an engifted being, showing us a creepy and dark side of his works. The chapters, “Shining Armor" and “You Dark Horse You” depict the last few hours of the lives of Gordon Edmonds and Freya Timms. These…

evolution of Huck’s morality and conscience. Throughout the novel, we get to know more about our main character as he develops as a person. Huck goes through a lot of situations that eventually leads him to make manly decisions and think effectively about his life choices. All these situations that he has to face throughout the novel helps him to mature and become a better person. Jim and the other characters play a huge role in Huck’s development as well. In the very beginning of “Adventures…

manner that allows the reader to choose their own lens to read with. For instance, the short story can be read as a play about the progression of Sarah Boyle’s suicidal thoughts to reveal more about her character. The aspect of this work being a play is highlighted with Sarah constantly creating characters from the objects around her. This is first seen when it is admitted that “sometimes she labels objects with their names, or with false names” (15). This reveals the creativity of Sarah and…

The novel Krik? Krak! is a group of small passages about different situations and a mixture of different lifestyles. The use of similar plots helps tie all nine of the passages together. The author, Edwidge Danticat, is a Haitian based writer who has built these stories around life in Haiti. A Wall of Rising Fire happened to be one of the more complex part of the novel. The title of this passage came from a line in a play that Little Guy was chose to play a role in. The line from the play…

The book Grendel retells both a classic story while outlaying the concept of anti-hero. Grendel is a character in Beowulf though he gets depicted as an archetype. Archetypes represent recurrent symbols in literature and art and get described as an original model that gets used as the prototype for making similar things.…

into adults. The setting of the depression is important but the idea of depression as an emotional state is also significant in this novel. One character in particular that has been through the emotional stress that is depression is Meme. This is a brave character for Hoberman to include in the novel, as a lot of the issues brought about through this character are intense for a young audience. The story is able to intertwine the depression into a children’s book without dismissing the hardships…

A writer's tone is very powerful in reshaping and structuring pieces of literature. It also is very strong at determining outcomes of pieces of literature and in a writer’s purpose in their story and effectiveness. Also, a writer can have so much different tones throughout a story depending on whom they are and that leads to the outcome that the writer is trying to get to. In "The Lottery”, the author of that book had many different tones displayed in the story that lead to the outcome of the…

Responses to situations, power, and people, diversify over all characters, yet it is often overlooked by casual readers. Sensibility is commonly defined as “peculiar or excessive susceptibility to pleasurable or painful impression”, therefore; a character’s level of sensibility will affect their responses to a situation. The concept of sensibility can be used in terms of power and demonstrated through a hierarchy developed in the novel. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan…

I feel that Baldwin chose this excerpt as the epigraph for the Giovanni’s Room because, the line itself it alludes to many of the key themes explored throughout the novel like masculinity, sexual identity, and being present. Placing the excerpt in the context of “Song of Myself” reveals even more about the idea of self-acceptance that Baldwin also explores in the novel; Many of the lines leading up to the final couplet begin with “How he,” as if to present a sort of distance between the narrator…