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“The setting needs to become a character in your story.” A setting is a type of place or surrounding and a character is a individual and what they are saying, feeling, doing, and what their reactions are. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, the authors both use snapshots of setting and characters to tell the reader what the characters are doing and how they’re feeling. The treasure of lemon by Walter Dean Myers will help people…

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Is a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle. Both the Misfit and Perry Smith are archetypal criminals, or villains, because they both are murders Perry Smith is a person that comes from. But there was a part of him that was not that good. As we read the book, “In Cold Blood”, we read that perry along with Dick. The book states,”[Dick] was holding the knife. I asked him for it, and he gave it to me, and I said, ‘All right,…

Author Edgar Allen Poe has his own ideas when it comes to writing an effective short story. One of his works, The Tell-Tale Heart demonstrates these ideas; the first being Totality due to the short length of the story. Here are the ways that the story meets his ideas on effect. He begins the story with the narrator telling us, “True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled…

The setting of “Hop-Frog”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, displays some qualities of a gothic setting but fails the criteria of others. An example where it does fit gothic literature is shown when the story says, “When the two little friends obeyed the summons of the king they found him sitting at his wine with the seven members of his cabinet council” (3). This passage implies to us based on the wine and the councilors that this section of the story is taking place in a dining room or another…

Edgar Allan Poe develops the central idea of madness throughout his short story “Tell-Tale Heart”. In the beginning of the story the narrator asks the reader about his madness.”But why will you say that I am mad?” His questioning reveals doubt upon his mental health because he reveals his madness throughout the story. “I have heard many things in heaven and hell.” The narrator speaks of his senses becoming more acute therefore he claims that he can hear things in heaven and in hell, this shows…

Apart from the power of social apparatus the monster in Frankenstein is the supreme metaphor of Romantic Dialectic which talks about the darkness that threatens the values of European civilization from the non-European. The creature has been designed to encourage a fear of the reality of the self-centeredness of European working class and colonial people. However ,the vital factor in Victor’s relationship with his monster is the Victor’s internalized memories of cultural difference and rank.…

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” he uses all the elements of fiction to create an amazing story. He uses the elements of fiction to compose a story that keeps you interested. Edgar Allen Poe was born January 19th, 1809 and died October 7th, 1849. It is a mystery as to how Poe died. This story is about how because of a man’s eye someone is willing to kill One of the elements of fiction that Poe showed mastery of was the plot structure. In the exposition he introduces the setting…

The film animation of Tell Tale Heart was a great adaptation of the story by Edgar Allen Poe because it matched the tone of the story. The adaptation used the narrator to match the tone of the characters being presented. The abstract animation gave the story a lot more power. Poe stresses insanity of the mind and mental illnesses in majority of his work. The story itself was more abstract on how descriptive the character was in describing the old man and his feeling towards him. The environment…

Colors are all around us. Every living and nonliving thing on Earth has a color. Books,clothes,shoes,etc. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the colors gray,blue, and brown to symbolize characters and things in the novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the color gray to visually show the dullness and poverty of the land. “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it.” It represents the hopelessness of the town even though at it’s sides are East Egg and West Egg…

My Fear by Lawrence Raab, is a poem where nightmares are portrayed as a person. This person watches us throughout the day, taking notes on what terrifies us or makes us anxious. Afterwards, when the day is over, and we are ready to go to bed, he uses our fears against us. The fear could be about death, an excruciating event, or a horrifying object, he will use anything and everything against us. The person portraying a nightmare, has a sack full of fears to pick from to scare us with tonight,…