Dylan S. McLeod Mr. Hartman ENG 113/LN1 13 June 2012 The Importance of Unimportant Characters Characters are without a doubt one of the most important parts of a story, because they are the story. But there are two different types of characters. You have the obvious Main Characters which are the center of every story, but then there are the unimportant, or better yet background characters. The ones you see, but don’t hear, but actually have just as much an impact, if not sometimes more, on the story as the main character. Like in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, and Sherman Alexie’s “Flight Patterns.” Both stories have very strong main characters, yet each story uses these characters differently.
While the protagonist is a good guy in most of the stories, he can be a bad guy (or an anti-hero) as well. If he is a hero, the audience is expected to share empathy with him and this has to be kept in mind when writing his character. If he is an anti-hero the audience will not have any sympathy for him and therefore the character has to be gripping enough to keep the audience interested. While an antagonist need not necessarily be a person, the protagonist has to be a person (or a group of people) with a cause. The examples of protagonist in fiction is quite lengthy, and includes some of the most famous fictional characters including Harry Potter, Superman, Batman, etc.
After all of that I still don't know if I have a full understanding, but I have my own view on the quote, as does everyone else, which is different from mine, and one another, that to me is, Philosophy. Although the novel was hard for me to understand, the symbolism that Bradbury used is what stuck out to me and made me think about the philosophy within the book, within my mind, and within Bradbury's mind. Bradbury’s use of symbolism throughout the book is moving and powerful and reinforces his ideas . Books are burned physically and “ideas are burned from the mind.” Bradbury warns us about what happens when we stop expressing our ideas, and we permit people to take away our books. Ideas
How does Joe Simpson create tension in Touching the Void? This is an important question to ask about this book because when Joe Simpson wrote it he was faced with two main problems. Firstly, we know that he survives the disaster because he has written a book about it. Secondly, the book and the story are now so well known the reader probably knows all about what happened anyway. Despite these problems, however, Joe Simpson is able to keep the tension high and keep the reader reading.
This plot structure uniquely allows Shelley to frame the story, add depth to it, and allow readers to see and appreciate the strong similarities between the three narrators. By constructing the story in this fashion, Shelley is ultimately able to give purpose to this unusual method of writing and create an original and intriguing plotline. Shelley’s interesting method of framing the story, while at first seems awkward and unnecessary, eventually develops into a recognizable and admirable framing of the story, putting events in a more presentable order and allowing for much greater suspense and foreshadowing. By starting the novel from the perspective of Walton, Shelley allows Victor’s story to be told in the form of that, a story, where such a style would usually seem an odd way to start a book. It also presents the opportunity to foreshadow future events and build suspense, both of which are important aspects of popular literature in the time that the novel was written.
The characters in the second categorizations are Tirian, Jill, Eustace, Jewel, and Poggin. These characters are the characters which hold great significance among those who follow the true Aslan. They shown their determination in following Aslan and they start to shine among the other communities who also follow the true Aslan and disagree of the fake Aslan’s leadership, Shift’s leadership. The important setting that we should know is that this story takes place in Narnia. This story’s focus is in Narnia, and unlike the other books, this story doesn’t show the real world.
They write to express their feelings, opinions, and truths, but prominently themselves. Writing can be an exploration of “human feelings, experiences, and relationships”(Coker), and through that exploration writers inadvertently create another dimension. “Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader”(Auster, pg #) and through this intimacy writers can have a conversation with people that they have never met. This relationship formed through the effortless form of language is the reason writer’s write. Expression of emotions, and pain is the most indispensable aspect of writing.
My literary piece is a dystopian novel opening entitled ‘The Occurrence’. My main intention for my dystopian was to create an effective opening which would engage the reader’s intention from start to finish – as because it was an opening it had to encourage the reader to want to read the entire book if it existed. To create this effect, the novel opening consists of plenty of metaphors and a lot of simple/minor sentences. In contrast to this, my non-literary piece is an opinion article about the leading causes of self-harm inflicted by teenagers: this is titled ‘Survival of the Fittest or Survival of the Greatest’. My aim for this was to cause shock, which is similar to the horror created in my dystopian – as this was an opinion article, to gain the shock I wanted I used statistics, rhetorical questions, strong dynamic verbs and negative modal verbs.
Although I was a bit surprised due to the use of over-dramatized language in the story which is normally socially and morally un-acceptable but perhaps the essence and true meaning of the story could not have been achieved without that. The writer is immensely skilled, daring and imaginative in the choice of his words and plot setting. His minimal narrative style and plot lines is effective in capturing the reality of his characters and their emotional behavior. The life of the characters is described in such a way that its theme seems closely related to Carver’s personal life. This
Through this persona, the author is able to tell the story ‘behind the scenes’ and even directly influence the reader’s opinions of the characters. Thus this is very effective in conveying certain messages about the characters, more so than if the author had chosen to write in another narrative voice, such as in the first person. However, to sustain the tension in the story and to allow the reader to ‘experience’ Elizabeth Bennet’s journey towards self-discovery, the author