So far in this class I have learned a few different parts of writing a memorable story. I have also learned there are few stories, and most of which are not that great that do not incorporate these themes and ideas. I have learned about “summarizing Scenes”, which is a useful way to help find or create the plot or plots of the story. I have learned “Characterization,” what makes the character's in the story come to life, and be memorable. There was also learning about the “Conflict” of the story, the event that the story needs to be interesting the one thing that pits at least 2 main characters together trying for opposite outcomes.
A Literary Analysis of Julia Alvarez’s Novel ¡Yo! The character of Yolanda Garcia, also called as Yo, in Julia Alvarez’s novel has a lot of different facets to her. She can be analyzed either as a woman, or as a role model. Yo wrote a fictional novel that makes the characters out of the people who knows her and people she knows. As a result, those people found themselves a little expose and decided to tell their own side story about her.
It’s all real, but it’s not all true 1. Bush is bothered by the human tendency to assume works of fiction are, in fact, semi-autobiographical pieces about the author because she feels that “writers live through their narratives instead of reflecting their lives in them.” Bush also feels that the readers need to realize this, and wishes that fiction remain fiction, and be based on its own merit. The autobiographical fallacy is the temptation to read a writer’s life into their fiction. In other word’s it is a term that means literature can be interpreted as reflections of the life of their authors. 2.
Though Annie Dilliard’s descriptions of craft and the writing process seem scattered and loosely connected at first, overall her piece is artfully composed in order to exemplify how the writing of a memoir takes its form. “The best memoirs, I think, forge their own forms.” (Dillard 143) This single statement is a crucial hint as to what Dillard is trying to show us with this piece. She explains with this simple statement that a memoir takes its shape as you hurl it onto the pages. Your mind spews Challman 2 its memories of an event in an unorganized and jumbled way, yet in the end you are still able to decipher the overall meaning and truth of this specific occurrence. So too should be the writing and underlying meaning of a memoir.
Unit one also taught me to reevaluate how important certain priorities when it came to writing. I learned from the other unit one authors, Joseph M. Williams and James E. Porter, that when an essay is read by someone who is looking for grammatical error or plagiarism instead of content, they will often find the error and ignore the content. Although I do still know the importance of grammar and originality, this class and the grading style has let me put those constructs in the back seat until the editing process, instead of making them something I had to constantly worry about. I don’t believe that good writing revolves around grammar, but rather how well your words can convey a message to the intended audiences.
The theme of a story is a general statement that can be applied to life and many other stories. The theme of a story stems off of the main subject dealt with in the story, i.e. tolerance, love, innocence. A good theme statement isn't too specific but also isn't so vague that it can’t be understood or debated. The theme of the story is what the author wants the reader to learn and take away from what he/she has written.
An Analysis of Nonfiction English 125 An Analysis of Nonfiction Literature is defined as nonfiction when the story is based on factual information. Although the piece of literature is true to the author, there are many literary concepts that are used to paint a clear and concise picture for the reader. The author as well as the reader must use their imagination to get the most out of the literature that they read. In Salvation by Langston Hughes and Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone by Andrew Lam, irony, and imagery are used vividly to express their thoughts and relay a message to the reader about what has happened to them in their childhood. Both of these pieces of literature speak to the essence of growing up and not understanding
Critical Analysis of Everyday Use “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is about a mother of two diverse daughters and the return visit of the eldest daughter, Dee. This story is told from the first-person point of view of Mrs. Johnson (Mama). In the exposition, Mama describes her children, Maggie and Dee, and the differences between the two. She identifies Dee as the intelligent one who “made it” (Walker 757), and her desire to be reunited in a glamorous way with Dee. Mama describes Maggie as unattractive, having been disfigured by a fire ten or twelve years prior.
“Everyday Use,” written by Alice Walker, is a short story that analyzes two very diverse characters. Maggie and her mother live out their heritage in their everyday lives sewing quilts and churning butter, while Dee lives in an urban community and thinks of her heritage as an exhibit for the world to see. The two sisters, Dee and Maggie, were both raised by their mother in the same atmosphere, yet they have differing beliefs of style, family, and heritage. In the story, Dee is described as materialistic, physically flawless, and embarrassed of her ancestry. Dee likes nice, fashionable things, and being the center of attention.
Jeanette Winterson’s style is a little bit a journalistic style. She tells a story, but she also questioned on the way in which we live. Jeanette Winterson uses words like “we, global, human.” In that way is her language a little bit a journalistic style, because journalists have to write articles which can make a debate, but Jeanette Winterson does not uses a journalistic style, because she is not only objective, but her language has touches of the journalistic style. Jeanette Winterson also uses a subjective style in her essay. She tells her own thoughts about running her vegetable shop.