The Shawshank Redemption is an old movie that reveals the power of hope through an faithful innocent prisoner, Andy Dufresne. The movie was a little ambiguous for me when I watched the movie the first time, However, How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster enlightened me and encouraged me to analysis the movie more in depth. Not only the story itself amazed me, also the settings, characterization, and diminutive details all seemed naturally and tactfully fit into the situation. Throughout the movie, a lot of examples that illustrate Thomas Foster’s techniques of reading appears. In the movie, after Andy Dufresne was put into the prison, he risked himself with life threatening to help a malicious officer all in return for some beers for his friends to drink on the roof.
Well, let me set you all straight: not every Chick Lit book is a winner; some of them really are boring, predictable and just a plain waste of time! However, some earlier novels are exciting, light and frankly a breath of fresh air for anyone who wants escapism with a practical sense of reality. And as the genre evolves, the standard of writing has too. Writers such as Lindsey Kelk and Scarlett Bailey stride ahead with novels that are glamorous but realistic and genuinely get their audience excited about what they are reading. Sub-genres such as; “Marriage Lit” and “Christian Lit” have started springing up across the literary
Yolen’s decision to write Briar Rose in a fairy tale forum helps provide another viewpoint that can help you comprehend such a gruesome period of history like the Holocaust. “Briar Rose reinscribes memory, and shows us what an important role storytelling can play in the acts of surviving and transcending horror.” (Wells 1) The very last article that I was able to find on the Briar Rose was a short one, but clearly had a positive reaction towards Yolen’s book. It states that Briar Rose regardless of the fact that it is a work of fiction speaks the truth and is brutally honesty. “Despite whatever connections we may or may not have to this dark period in history, there is a part of us that is only able to comprehend the true enormity of such stories when they are hidden in depts of older tales, for these old tales exist in
Aldous Huxley was either a psychic or God because whatever he wrote in the novel, is actually happening in today’s society. Even if he was imagining these things, he had a commendable imagination. Today, imagination and creativity are diminishing because people are too busy in catching up with television shows, shopping during sales etc. After reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and learning about the World State, I have started to notice some of the themes in my own surroundings. West Hill Collegiate shares a lot of similarities with the World State.
The book is written in third person and the structure is a personal narrative… Coming and going from past to present. Therefore the book “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” should be a book for everyone to enjoy at their own risk. “Cherry blossoms, old and dried, brown and brittle, pieces of something that had once been completely alive.” That was a fragment of writing to describe the imagery in the novel. When you read this book it’s not just words, it’s like a movie playing in your head. The selection of words is what gives the story life.
This gives it the edge and uniqueness that may get a little gory but reading this story takes you on a journey you'll never forget. First, Bloodchild opens with the line, “My last night of childhood began with a visit home” (Butler, 1). This expresses how it is an coming of age story. Which is critical because the beginning of the story distinctively explains human themes like coming of age and loss of childhood which can confuse the reader throughout the story . Gradually beginning to uncover the
This type of fiction has books that create new worlds, experiences, events and characters that cannot be found in the real world, but they still have a hold on reality that almost brings life to them. One such example is the wizarding world of JK Rowling. The characters created for the Harry Potter series, although fiction, are so life-like that children and young adults can almost reach out and become friends with them. They experience the same difficulties and growing pains but in a world that could never exist in ours. Historical Fiction on the other had brings to life events of the past, but while staying true to the general events that occurred, Historical Fiction sometimes creates characters, events and occurrences that did not happen.
This quote by Anais Nin expresses an essential point of view for this discussion about the symbolic meaning of inanimate objects, since it is our personality and our memories, which determine our character and meaning. Our feelings towards certain objects are individual, as everyone associates different things in a different manner. Insofar, "we see them as we are", since they can mirror our past, pains, hopes and our ideals. Thus they become more than just an object, but a symbol for a certain part of someone's feelings and life. This is also the case in "The Cherry Orchard": objects as the nursery room, the bookcase and the cherry orchard take on their own symbolic life.
Is it the story behind these words that inspires us or is it simply time spent in a worthwhile and entertaining endeavor that creates a lasting memory? From my point of view, for a text to truly change one’s life, for actual change to occur, the lessons learned must be universal and the story as influential as the words are eloquent, and even then, the change is incremental and occurs book by book. A friend’s favorite line is from Dickens: "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” When she first read these words in Great Expectations, a book she does say changed her life, she had never read anything as beautiful and true as that quote, and all other writing would be compared to it. It altered all of reading habits from that point forward. No longer would she read flat prose and pabulum and think it art.
Period 3 Tommy Cheong Allen / LA June 5, 2009 The Little Prince Everyone once in a while, we come across a book so striking that we never forget about it - the book that is so rich in detail…the book that seems to captivate you… the one fullof life lessons and wisdom. Well, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince strives to be just that. you become responsible for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose” (87, 88). The lessons the fox taught are secrets, because such wisdom isn’t known or available to everybody.