An Author to Her Book Explication Anne Bradstreet’s poem “An Author to Her Book” is the narrative story of an author’s struggles and tribulations with a piece that he or she has created. The complex emotional connection that an author feels for his or her work is displayed through Bradstreet’s use of metaphor. Anne Bradstreet is also able to draw up similarities between being an author and being a parent through the use of personification and comparison. Bradstreet portrays the struggles, difficulties, and fears that a mother experiences as those that a mother would experience when creating and releasing a new work. Bradstreet’s use of metaphor allows her to relate the complex relationships of being a parent to being an author.
Joe admits he ‘construed’ Clarissa’s narrative but he does not explain how. This absence of explanation is predominantly strange, bearing in mind that a lot of narrative in earlier chapters concerned itself with metafiction. As readers we have to guess how this has been constructed. The impression that Joe has used Clarissa’s diary to create the narrative in the chapter is stood out by the list of events that occur in it. These events appear to be unexpected and unconnected to the other characters, so it deducts from the suspense.
We can see through her thoughts the dangers of living your life in a fantasy constructed by your mind and thoughts. She goes through the everyday actions of her life in an auto-pilot sort of mode. She does not appreciate what she has in her life and how fortunate she really is. Mathilde Loisel character development throughout the short story is important to the theme that the author is attempting to express, which is one can never truly understand how fortunate they are until they lose what they have and only then can they be appreciative of what they have. The reason why Mathilde Loisel character is important to the theme of story is because she strengthens the theme of the story.
She explained the coming of age, the false view of the world from a novel, determination, and she also explains her view on hope. Hope is the feeling of expectation and desire for something to happen. According to Donnelly, hope does not always have a positive result. She exhibits this in her story about young girl who becomes hopeless and is in desperation of fulfilling her dreams. Jennifer Donnelly used literary devices to develop hope in her story and used contrast, symbolism, and similes to display them Mattie Gokey was presented with many situations in which her hope was all she can depend on but cannot seem to find it reliable.
So what happens after the event is sometimes more significant than the event itself. The author exposes to the readers how a family copes with such a tragedy. The reason she might have written is because she knew someone who experienced something similar to incident the book. Writing can be a way to relieve a person, like how Kate writes letters to her friend Amy but can really mail them. Or perhaps the author wrote about a subject she felt strongly about, in a letter sent to Hazel Hutchins, the author, she responded by saying the story is based on some personal matters and situations taken from real life.
Ana gradually develops a strong relationship with Catherine, a naive young woman who hasn't experienced much in her life but struggles with the burden of a broken heart. This unlikely friendship leads to a series of important and necessary self realisation for the characters which moulds and fuels relationships with various other characters in the play. Lally Katz chooses to add depth and even understanding by exploring real life issues by adding themes such as war and lost love, however this is best shown through the use of interweaving themes such as mental illness and suicide into Catherine's personal story. Through out the play Catherine and Martin have a strange almost fantasy like relationship, it isn't until the final scene that we are informed that Martin had passed away long before the
This idea is explored in the novel, ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta emphasizing on the negative side to one’s identity and its effects on life as they move into the world. Josephine in the novel is seen to be reflecting on her culture leading her to have a negative outlook on her future and the consequences she may undergo. This is evident when she states to the reader about her social status in comparison to others at her school leading her to have a downbeat response towards her future; ‘’ I come under the ‘scholarship’ category, and when I say that, I would rather be the daughter of a labourer, I felt disadvantaged from the beginning.’’ The use of the adjective ‘ scholarship’ in inverted commas emphasizes on Josephine’s differences compared to the ones who are wealthy leading her to be excluded as she experiences the downsides of being different from the others. This also emphasizes on Josephine’s negative outlook on life as she undergoes that experience. Moreover, as she reflects on her social status, she compares herself harshly to the ones who are not from ethnic backgrounds, wealthy and have the same level of smartness as her but still leave Josephine as an outcast having a downbeat impact on her life; The repetition of the 1st person reveals the confusion felt by Josephine with respect to her identity.
The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Perkins Gilman is a look into the mental decline, and enlightenment of an anonymous lady. The narrator of this story is an odd character, both losing touch with reality and at the same time gaining greater self-understanding. This paradox is important to understanding the suffering of our narrator. All throughout the story she faces objects, or people, or situations that seam normal at first but that turn out extremely strange. This shows us that the main problem the narrator is faced with is how oppressive her situation is on her personality.
In the short story Where are you going? Where have you been? by Joyce Carol, the theme that one must make a sacrifice and become responsible for getting involved in a problem is conveyed through Connie. She is the protagonist of the story, she doesn’t get along with her mother or sister, and she neglects them in order to live another life. Throughout the story Connie works hard to present the appearance of a mature woman who is experienced, this is the problem she gets into pretending to be something she is not.
“A sad sympathy filled her eyes. Sharada lowered her knife”. Her personality appears to take a radical turn, though it is not documented through a conversation. Due to the fact that the authentic character of Sharada is exposed mainly through her psychological and inner expansion, leaving the audience to fill in several facets of the story in its maturation, this story can not only be placed under the Poe genre of short stories but it can also be set in the category of the “ideal short story” stories within the Poe