Thousand Character Classic

difficulties in basic aspects of social interaction, which may include failure to develop friendships, share interests with others, a lack of social or emotional reciprocity and a reduced use of non-verbal language. The author, through the main character, shows these difficulties explicitly saying that, even though his teacher taught him to associate emotions to facial expressions, he still has difficulty in identifying real people’s faces, therefore making him take out a smile chart, to compare…

the main character has a change in attitude about what confession means to him, and the other characters around him through different points of view. Thomas Foster’s book, How To Read Literature Like a Professor, can be seen through any and all of the aspects that are going to be brought into the different points within Frank O’Connor’s short story, and the different characters points of view. This story is written in first person, but includes the points of view of the other characters in the…

lengthy verbiage, total objectivity, extreme brevity, compassion, and truthful descriptions of characters and objects. One of Chekhov's fundamentals when it comes to writing a good story is fleeing the stereotype. His “impressionism was seen as a form of art for art’s sake a denial of the writer’s social role, and he was attacked for deviating from the canons of useful art” (Pg. Xi). Everyone knows of classic stories like fairy tales such as Cinderella or the stories featuring saving the world.…

To begin with, I am going to talk about the role and the importance of music in separating a person from the ordinary world and allowing Lucy Honeychurch to express her internal feelings. Throughout the novel, Forster uses music as an agent for Lucy to express her internal feelings. To begin with, I am going to talk briefly about her background. We see in the novel that Lucy has been presented as a repressed, commonplace, a naive and upper-middle-class British woman born in the Edwardian…

Time, place, situations, and characters are all something that come together to make an interesting story. Each of these is necessary to communicate some type of message to the audience, which is then how the audience becomes invested in the tale being told, but often times the thing that keeps the audience invested the most is the characters. Two stories which provide good examples of this are Midnight’s Children and Mother Courage and Her Children. Each of these stories has all the aspects to…

Cynicism is the inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism. Cynicism has its roots as a pessimistic outlook on life, which Szymborska regularly conveys through the use of symbolism in her poems. She portrays cynicism in many of her works such as in the poems “Parable” and “Cat in an empty apartment”, and more specifically her use of symbolism to convey her cynical belief that people are intrinsically motivated by self-interest and a sense of…

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a classic representation of a Shakespearean masterpiece. An Aristotelian tragic hero is someone of noble status who has a tragic flaw and his (or her) personality suffers a fall from grace due to that tragic flaw, only to redeem a small measure of that lost nobility through self-awareness. In this drama Macbeth is given the main role. He is a noble war hero who experiences a tragic flaw. Macbeth undoubtedly fits the definition of a tragic hero…

deceit towards him, thus, depicting her as Catherine Barkley in A Farewell To Arms and made her suffer in his fictional works to get through the heartbreak. How it impacts writing: Hemingway truly loved Agnes and in no other novel does he describe a character with such passion as he does with Catherine. Importance: HELPPPPPPP Proof aspect again: Although A Farewell To Arms is based off of Agnes, A Very Short Story is an actual account of their short love story. Evidence: In A Very Short Story…

This play is filled with good and evil acts done by characters, however to find the balance between these two moral spectrums, characters must face deeply ethical decisions. In order to find a true balance within their world, characters must decide between sinful acts for a noble cause, or noble acts for a negative cause. Despite this pressing choice, true balance is found by thinking outside…

After reading “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington” by W.E.B. Du Bois, and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, readers are able to gain a sense of the invisibility in which the authors are all attempting to portray. There are many factors which enabled those who took part within these writings to feel this particular way. The first factor is due to the white supremacy which was displayed throughout all three texts. The amount of profanity and rudeness in which they were…