Alisha Thornton 3/20/2013 English 098-099(180) Essay3 Revised In Malcolm X excerpt”A Homemade education, published from Malcolm X An Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley demonstrates the claims that without knowing how to read or write and understand and express what you are reading you become frustrated. Although Malcolm X struggled with reading and writing, and expressing himself while in prison, he learned that the library was a breeding ground for knowledge and that without this information and skills he’d be cut off from the world. While in prison Malcolm X realized that his reading and writing wasn’t good. He even had a hard time expressing himself. While in prison Malcolm would try to write letters to Elijah Mohammed but would become frustrated because all he knew was slang and street life.” I commanded attention when I said something.
Runner, written by Robert newton, is a historical novel set in the Richmond Slums of 1919. The plot throughout the story was not completely dark and downhearted. Charlie Feehan, as the protagonist of the book, was a sixteen year old boy who suffers from great poverty, the loss of his father from the Spanish flue makes his situation worse and other characters struggle to raise their families. However, Charlie’s complicated problem twists into a well concluded ending; this indicates that teenage novels are not always gloomy, but may have a saddening storyline and setting. Charlie Feehan had a hard life before he won the Ballarat Miles competition.
Edgar Allan Poe’s life was filled with many tragedies which heavily influenced his most popular work from the Gothic genre. It all began at the ripe age of two, when Edgar’s mother died of tuberculosis, causing himself and his brother and sister to be orphaned. The three children were split apart, and Edgar was taken into the foster home of John Allan and Frances Keeling Valentine Allan. Each parent provided a different experience for Poe; his foster father was an abusive alcoholic, while his foster mother would educate and try protecting him from her husband when possible. The death of his foster mother was very difficult for him to handle, and he enlisted himself in the army to get away from the abuse at his foster home.
Edgar Allan Poe was a renown poet of the nineteenth century whose life was full of unfortunate events that jaded his writings. Edgar was born to the Poe family in 1809, however his original parents had either abandoned him or were dead by the time he was three. He was then adopted by John Allen, who moved around frequently due to his job as a merchant. Poe moved around a variety of schools, finally going to the University of Virgina in 1826. It was during this point in time that Poe and Allan had a falling out due to Poe’s debt.
Later on in the book a jewish man named max shows up at their doorstep looking for somewhere to stay because he was told that he would be able to get help here. Throughout the story Liesel and Max are going through extremely hard times and something that helps them to get through it is books and writing. The Book Thief contained many themes but the one I believed to be the most suitable for this book was The Power of words. The theme the power of words was evident throughout the entire book in many ways. With each example showing how words can affect so much in so many different ways.
(Edgar, np) Later in life Poe suffered from alcoholism and depression. (Edgar, np) In the short stories “Cask of Amontillado” and “Fall of the House of Usher” Poe’s influences of death and mental illness are clearly shown. Edgar’s life is evident in his literature. Poe was surrounded by death in his life and this influence can be seen in the “Cask of Amontillado”. The death of his mother tormented him severely.
However, her college experience is where she first interacts solely with the predominantly American culture. In order to pay for school and get good grades, Sara must ignore everything else, including her family, to work and study. Slowly and painfully, Sara learns to talk, dress and act like her American peers. She leaves college with her teaching degree and a thousand dollars, which she won in an essay contest. Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money.
Hoang 01 Lisa Hoang 124/01 Mrs.Maccherone Poe, the Father of Mystery Stories, uses many literary devices to create a specific mood to present the story smoothly. Growing up, Poe felt lonely and a sense of loss. Because of growing up with those emotions, Poe’s works are full of horror, mystery, and fear. Throughout the story of Fall House of Usher, a creepy feeling is maintained from the beginning to the end. Poe’s usage of literary devices and choice of words are what use to maintain the creepy feeling.
Steven king has written many classic novels. His main theme has always been mystery, but his novels both frighten you at times and can tug at your heart other times. By using his talented writing skills, King can bring all emotions to the surface. In his novel Cujo, the reader experiences terror and worry and in The Green Mile the reader experiences sadness and empathy. In exploring his many published novels, I have discovered not only that King is an experienced writer, but also very talented at exploring many different genres of writing.
I can easily understand why the short story made such an impact in the literary and medical worlds. However, I have a hard time understanding how the story is enjoyable to read. Personally, I could not sit through the story and finish it in one sitting. The repetitive language and obsessive nature of the narrator gets extremely irritating. While other gothic tale’s we’ve read in class have been spooky, ironic, or at least entertaining, I feel that this story is literally sickeningly long.