They have read many books. They look at me with bright eyes and arrogant wonder. They are trying to save their lives”(3) Books make those kids realize that they can save their lives by themselves rather than accepting the impression Indian kids are stupid. The words “bright” and “arrogant” shows that the kids have a different mind after gaining from books. Reading books change their mind and maybe as well as their lives.
Evaluating ‘Finding Forrester’ Writing holds an almost mystical power. It changes those who wield it, and changes those around it. In “Finding Forrester” young Jamal Wallace uses this power to become the student of the reclusive William Forrester, a man so changed by the power of his writing he doesn’t even view himself as a human anymore, just the mystical author that wrote the amazing book “Avon Landing”. Their writing and the majesty behind it leads them to a level of trust and friendship that must withstand the force of each others frailties as well as the hammer blows of the world around them, and succeeds. “Finding Forrester” shows that geniuses don’t become geniuses by themselves, but only by allowing those close to them to uncover
He started copying down every word, page after page as a way of learning. The author uses pathos when explaining Malcolm’s struggles with his writing skills. “ It was sad. I couldn’t even write in a straight line.” (258) It creates sympathy in the audience, but Malcolm also gave us belief that he will succeed with learning to reading: “ I suppose it was inevitable that my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying.” (259) I think his self-motivations and self-teachings are a form of hope that he wanted to show every struggling reader; he wanted to pose as an example. As he continues explaining his studies he creates a strong credibility when he compares his prison studies with if he had attended some college; he says: “ I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all that.” (266) He had studies far more intensively that he would have ever in his life.
This novel doesn’t really have a specific narrator, it is told by three students; T.C Keller, Augie Hwong, and Alejandra Perez, and their alternating perspectives. The story’s point of view is told in first person because during the story three teenage students are talking about what’s happening right there and then between them. I think this type of narration throughout the book is a good because this way the reader understands how the characters are feeling about the situation through the characters own perspective. I think the narration chosen for this novel was smart for the type of situations that came up while reading, for example some parts of the book were told by two characters going back and forth through instant messaging or notes. So it was easier for the reader to understand it coming from the characters them self then from a separate narrator.
Analysis Essay Just like any tool in a writer’s arsenal, characterization has the power to affect the meaning of any story. As a reader, I know full well the power characterization holds, and more specifically, the power it hold in the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. How the writer characterizes the characters in the Scarlet Ibis enforces the meaning of the theme, and what the story communicate. Doodle was portrayed in the story as a tenacious dreamer. He didn’t believe he could walk, he believed what the doctors and his family members said, yet when he was presented with the idea of training to walk, he hesitated, but later persisted.
Rodriguez used Hoggart’s definition of scholarship boy to explain what had happened to him, because Rodriguez found that he is actually an example of scholarship boy. Rodriguez as a reader and writer had the real experience of being a scholarship boy; it is obviously that he had the greater authority to be an expert in demonstrating and explaining scholarship boy. However, Hoggart is the one who wrote about the scholarship boy first. If Hoggart did not write about scholarship boy, then Rodriguez would never have a chance to see the book. In addition, the book is extremely essential to Rodriguez, because the book made him realize the problems and mistakes that he had experienced as a scholarship boy.
He takes his ideas and turns them into stories. Now, what do you think you'll do with your ideas?”Avi’s favorite book is the next one. He has no actual favorite like the Seer of Shadows, Something Upstairs or maybe a book from another writer. His advice to new writers is the more you read, the better your writing can be. Avi’s motto is, “Listen and watch the world around you.
However, it cannot come to a character as an epiphany. It is all about going through life’s experiences with friends, family and even people that bother and irritate you. It could come in punishment form, as we have seen in many cases in our class, in plays and stories like The Miller’s Tale and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Characters like Malvolio, Nicholas, John the Carpenter have all been through this because there’s a certain need of cleaning up from their wrongdoings. Writers adopt the punishment method in their literary works to give a nice comic edge as characters get ‘taught a lesson’ for being too dull, gullible, manipulative, idiotic, etc.
II. Introduction A. Matt Herman relates an anecdote about an instance in one of his classes whereby a student voiced out his interpretation to “fiction” despite the fact that it is considered as unbearably “authentic.” B. Hathaway writes that she wishes her students could be as astute to that of Herman’s student. C. Hathaway finds the vulnerability of the students to Touristic Reading, a fallacious practice whereby a reader assumes, when presented with a text where the writer and the group represented in the text are ethnically different from herself, that the text is necessarily accurate, authentic, and authorized representation of that “Other” cultural group (169). D. Touristic Reading can be similar to that of a tourist visiting a certain foreign place and this tourist assumes a certain reality about the place, and thus “selectively edits out signs of dynamism and contention, both within the text and within the culture” (Hathaway 169). III.
Character Development in Lord of the Flies The ability to create characters of depth plagues many a contemporary writer. Many of those writers should look to William Golding for expertise on this issue. Golding diverges from the path of contemporary authors and sets an example of how character development should be accomplished in his novel, Lord of the Flies. Golding's Ralph exemplifies this author's superior style of character development in this novel. At the commencement of the novel, the author introduces Ralph as an innocent boy far from adulthood.