Unreliable narrator

Confession can be a source of relief or a source of remorse depending on a person's point of view. In the short story titled “First Confession,” by Frank O'Connor, 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…

As a writer, Anton Chekhov composes his stories in a style that is appealing to his readers. He writes utilizing a particular writing aesthetic upon which he set forth six principles that make up a good story. Some of those principles include: the absence of 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…

Symbols From the Raven and Masque of the Red Death Why do authors put symbols into their stories? Well symbols can help people picture and relate to something in the story. In the stories The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death they each used three categories of symbols. They used loss of control, death, and lastly false sense of security. These three categories took the stories to the next level. It made the readers be able to picture and relate to the story in their own way. So what symbols…

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, she attempts to throw the reader into an alien environment by using various literary devices throughout her writing. She wants the reader to not only imagine the life of being a slave but instead she wants the reader to feel that they are living within the character’s shoes living the experience for themselves. Some of the literary devices Morrison uses in her writing is point of view, symbolism, and diction to portray the environment in Beloved to seem unknown…

In fact, throughout the story, the narrator or the characters never mention that “the operation” is an abortion operation. However, before the readers even start to read, Hemingway predisposes the readers to have a faint picture of pregnancy in their mind. The title, “Hills Like White Elephants”…

Theme Writing Prompt The stories “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes and “The Storyteller” by Saki both portray a theme. These themes are hidden in unique ways. For example, “The Storyteller” has a theme that appears throughout the story, but “Thank You Ma’m” has a theme that comes at the end of the story. The story “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes has a theme. Its theme is good things come to those who work for it. In order to find this theme, I had to pay close attention to the…

In the Curious Incident, Christopher is shown to be different through his behavior problems, inability to socialize and his odd choices of likings. Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-time was published in 2003, and was hugely criticized for its inaccurate interpretation on the Asperger’s syndrome, by the people suffering from it if not directly pointed at. However, this was one of Christopher Boone’s, the main character’s, most defining features as it made him…

The way something makes a person feel will always be remembered. Whether the actions or events are reality or fiction, what it makes you think will always be real and unique. In works of literature like “Things They Carried” and “Fences” some things tend to be a stretch of the truth. Being able to add some fiction and change reality can give you a different perspective of the story and help you fill a gap you could not fill before with what actually happened. In “Fences” it was used to make…

In the story The Tell Tale heart, by Allen Poe, a narrator unlike no other is introduced. The narrator gradually talks about how he has killed an old man, whom he may or may not be related to and later reveals he himself committed the act to the police. When reading a story many people chose to believe what is being read, but this narrator is not to be trusted. The details and information gathered from the story is concluded that the narrator is daydreaming and did not commit the act of killing.…

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin has a very ironic point of view with its omniscient narrator. It is filled with symbolism reflecting the biblical story of Jesus and salvation. Three main symbols to support this are the citizens, the child in the basement room, and the ones who walk away. The city of Omelas is described as a sort of Utopian "happiness", filled with not only music and dancing, but nudity and drugs also.…