Tess Dorsey 2-3 pg. Essay The Great Gatsby What is it to be a great writer? Is it to simply have a great story…or is there more? To be a truly effective writer or even just a simple story teller; you need substance. A sense of being that will draw the reader or listener in, as if they themselves were in the story, helping them to feel the surroundings of the character within the pages of the book.
John Steinbeck made the plot interesting and the themes behind the work were truly brilliant. The book had its points were they were very descriptive but didn’t keep me interested enough. Reading through those boring parts is completely worth it though. Steinbeck makes the book easy to understand and i like that quality a lot about this book. In my opinion, I got the idea that this book was written more for the workings of the mind but at the same time Steinbeck wanted to make you feel something as you read this.
They must write in such a way that helps the man. “The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.” The writing must help him get through life, so to speak. Faulkner believes that this is what any writer’s duty is. In conclusion, Anne Dillard and William Faulkner have their own distinct responsibilities as writers. Dillard believes she must make her writing interesting, if it is dull people won’t read it.
My Harold Bloom Response Reading Harold Bloom’s How To Read and Why essay one would believe the main idea is to read mostly to connect with the literature. This happens when the reader understands the scenario occurring and can picture it happening within their own life. “What comes near to ourself, what we can put to use”(Bloom 1). An audience can always connect with something they can relate to. When one reads just for the sake of reading, they don’t have interest and won’t be thinking about how the literature might actually connect with their own life and interests.
I considered a good writer to be anyone who could effectively convey a message to a reader. Since going through the first two units, I have learned that good writing is quite a bit more complicated. Author Keith Grant-Davie discussed how important to good writing it was to analyze your subject matter to understand who all of your possible audiences are and who you may be representing when writing your material, and to address all parties appropriately. If an author can do this effectively, I believe that it is a crucial part of becoming a good writer. Unit one also taught me to reevaluate how important certain priorities when it came to writing.
Writing the Essay About Literature Writing an essay about literature may seem at first a daunting and mystifying process. However, writing about literature is no more difficult than writing for any other subject. In any paper about literature, you are trying to persuade your reader that your reading of the text (that is, your interpretation or your analysis) is worth considering because it adds a valuable dimension to understanding the text, a dimension that may not be immediately apparent to your reader. In other words, in an essay about any literary text, you are trying to persuade your reader to look at the text in a way in which perhaps he has not looked at before. Your slant on the reading, your position, your insights would therefore
Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person. His aim in the novel was intended to direct the readers more away from the technical facts and more towards the subjected facts. By doing this the reader could establish the bond between an audience and the soldier telling his story. In the end we learn “Story-truth is truer sometimes than happening –truth” (171. ), but determining what is reality and fiction can sometimes be
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.
Introduction Writing essay is not easy thing to do. Selecting an appropriate topic, making an outline, organizing every sentences and paragraphs become unity and coherence are not enough to produce an essay inasmuch as writers have to be able to narrate and describe their argument, experience and knowledge in their writing in which it can attract the readers to take a look, enjoy their writing and feel satisfied when they finish reading the essay. For some cases, some writers narrate and describe their arguments, experience and knowledge even fact in an essay by offering something special with those things in order to attract and make the readers become satisfied with the essay. Unfortunately, something special in an essay , it can be special
Theme Theme is the basic concept of a story. You could write it in one sentence and have it all right there in front of you and understand a story before even reading it. Instead, the author wants to teach us this by putting his theme into a situation where we can see it reoccurring. When we empathize with characters in a novel, that's us connecting to the universal truth that's being given. This sounds kind of like the moral of a story but its slightly different.