However, I felt that it was irrelevant when the author said, “Although many female writers claim to be the ‘Queen of Crime Fiction”…” I believe this phrase could be eliminated. To simply state, “As Queen of Crime Fiction, it is Agatha Christie whom all others are measured”, the introduction would have been more powerful. The thesis was stated in the last line of the introduction; “Even many years after her death, readers appreciate Agatha Christie’s novels because of her strong characters, her interesting settings, and her strong morality”. It was a good framework for the entire essay. The most important ideas in the essay were her use of strong characters, interesting settings, and strong morality.
They are scarcely remembered. Women play a small role in these six short stories: “The Things They Carried,” “Love,” “Spin,” “Sweetheart Of the Song Tra Bong,” “Stockings,” and “The Lives Of The Dead”. Beloved female characters such as Martha, Mary Anne Bell, Linda, Kathleen, and Henry Dobbins’s girlfriend all affect the men of the Alpha Company. The men romanticize the women and use their occurrence in writing, photographs, and even their imagination, as a manner of comfort and memento that humanity other than killing and war does exist outside the mayhem of Vietnam. They represent the part of life that the soldier’s were hoping and dreaming about, and they are getaway from war.
I Do Not Love Thee Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? The poetic device is rhyme. What did these poetic devices do for the poem? It made the poem rhyme. Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
Open form used to be called free verse (describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter). Symbol is a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself. Conventional symbols are also part of the language of poetry. Questions 1. What, specifically, does the speaker fear when he thinks about his death?
Cloudstreet a unfading literature piece that spans from 1943 - 1963. Australia during that time was Male dominated, women were undervalued and inferior because of their sexuality, they were constricted to the walls of their homes. Tim Winton how ever presents the women of the novel the ‘backbone’ in the hectic and shapeless lives of the two families, the Lambs and the Pickles. The women are responsible for the families function, and they cannot escape how they must take lead from the Men in the novel “ “there [is] something wrong with men. They lacked some basic thing.” Rose Pickles is a proud young woman, she is smart and witty but was forced to grow up too fast.
The plot is set up in a way that causes it to be quite interesting to even those who are most loathing of history. Giardina does a remarkable job of telling a compelling and gripping story, creating authentic and believable characters, and evoking moods that enhance the setting of the novel. The story is not told from solely one point of view as most novels are. In Giardina’s cogent novel there are four different narrators that each contribute their own perspective of the events surrounding the coal war and the Battle of Blair Mountain. The four narrators are; CJ Marcum, Rondal Lloyd, Carrie Bishop, and Rosa Angelelli.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Tess of the d’Urbervilles(New York:Chelsea House,1987) ,a world famous book,is written by Thomas Hardy.Hardy is an accomplished writer who strongly believes in the idea of fatalism and it’s this belief that inspires Hardy to write this wonderful work of literature. This book is a story of tragedy and the protagonist Tess is really a wretched and sad girl.Almost every reader will take pity on Tess and feel depressed about Tess’s unfortunate life.Tess is a beautiful girl living with her impoverished family in the village of Marlott.The condition of extreme poverty of family makes Tess live in high pressure.To support the family,Tess takes her mother’s advice and goes to a so called d’Urberville family for help,which becomes the source of Tess’s tragedy.She is seduced by Alec d’Urberville and from then on her life totally changes from this loss of innocence.Her husband Clare leaves away from her when he knows the truth.Tess muders Alec in order to live with Clare when he comes back from Brizal.Tess is arrested.What a poor woman!The man she deeply loves comes back finally,but they can no longer get together.I can’t help crying after reading Tess’s hard life.I hope that the novel will have a happy ending,but novel is written to reflect true life of society and therefore Tess inevitably suffers a lot and eventually can’t stay with the person she loves. Why does the bad often ruin the good?Why is beautiful Tess damaged by ugliness?In my opinion,there are several aspects lead to Tess’s tragedy.First,it’s because of women’s low place in the society.Women are treated unfairly.Girl should be hard-working,loyal in people’s mind.Once she is seduced,she will not be respected.But little do people care about man’s character.Second,Tess’s attitude to love also affects the result of her life.Because of her honesty,she experiences aparting from her
Women, it seems, are the ones most often at the mercy of the lottery. The women in the story seem to have the least amount of work ethic. The lottery’s choice of Tessie Hutchinson was easily predicted. Her lack of work ethic was displayed as she was the only member of the town to arrive to the lottery late (Spark Notes, 2008). The same theme of subordination of women, especially in marriage, holds true in The Yellow Wallpaper.
Willa Cather was an extremely accomplishing journalist and author of short fiction novels also she was an English teacher, fraught with becoming a novelist (Arnold 2). It was just common sense that her long experience in newspaper work that Cather would start her occupation in journalism, though in the 1880’s it was unusual to have a woman in this field (Forman 3).That did not stop her though she kept on making more and more novels and short stories At a young age Cather wrote more than forty so tries, at least 500 columns and reviews,etc. even after she wrote novel she kept on making short stories (Arnold 3). Now only did Willa achieved myriads of things but she also gained awards as well. Willa Cather first received widely praise as an crucial author when Cather got the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (Pollard 81).
By the end of 1880s, Kate Chopin was writing short stories, articles, and translations which appeared in periodicals. She was quite successful and placed many of her publications in literary magazines. However, she became known only as a regional local colour writer and her literary qualities were overlooked. In 1899 her second novel “The Awakening” was published, and the book was criticized because of its moral as well as its literary standards. This, her best-known work, is the story of a woman trapped in the confines of an oppressive society.