Many literary scholars have struggled with the “truth” in one of O’Brien’s most famous works, The Things They Carried, a collection of twenty-two tales on the Vietnam War that stand alone just as strongly as they tie together. Although O’Brien is a Vietnam War veteran, unwillingly drafted in 1968 and serving until 1970, he purposively fictionalizes the war experience throughout The Things They Carried while simultaneously insisting that the essence of the work is true, a notion that many scholars question. Teasing out which experiences O’Brien describes are true, which are folklore, and which are imagination would be a near impossible task because
“Reading’s in United States History”, I chose to focus on a piece of work which caught my eye from one Sheila L. Skemp, called “Patriot Father, Loyalist Son”. This caught my attention the most out of all the essays’ I read from Part II: Era of Revolution. In this essay I will examine the relationship of Benjamin and William Franklin, and how this founding father and his loyalist son had extremely different views on the American Revolution in an otherwise abnormal relationship. I will be summarizing this essay, critiquing the authors’ point of view, style of writing and finish by including my thoughts and opinions on this essay. Like most of the essays in this book, it starts off with a very well written and detailed prologue to bring the reader up to speed about what is going on in history around the subject, in this case the years leading up to the American Revolution.
Joe Schwartz August 27, 2012 Jen Ferretter English III Beowulf Heorot and Grendel’s lair are two very different things. In Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf the word choice and figurative language can be used to compare Heorot and Grendel’s lair. Heaney uses lots of similes and personification to tell the story of the two dissimilar places. When Heaney describes Grendel as “fatherless creatures” (l. 1355), he is talking about how he has a hidden past and no recollection of their ancestry. This becomes an important factor throughout the book when the battles take place.
John Steinbeck uses literary elements throughout his novel to bring the book to life. He uses characterization, foreshadow, conflict and more. John Steinbeck characterizes the two main characters, George and Lennie, well throughout the story. In the novel Lennie is not as well educated as George. George has to always remind Lennie about things cause he forgets.
Time could not support the demands that Gatsby was making. Gatsby catching the clock and his apology symbolizes the sensitivity of his plan and how necessarily his methods were. Fitzgerald uses symbols in The Great Gatsby to show different ideas and events throughout the book. Each symbol used throughout the novel has its own meaning to a specific idea or situation between characters. Symbols are very important in literature and they help add meaning to certain text or objects within the piece of writing.
Williams has read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and where Julius Lester does not understand the novel, Williams does. He begins bye recapping the book’s long, history of censorship. “The earliest censors… believed the novel would corrupt the young” (Williams 98). In the story, Huck would spit and do rude things that were believed to be unsuitable for young readers at the time. These opinions have, however, changed.
Derek Dawson Ms. Lichtenwald ELA AP B30 Sept 22nd, 2011 The Not-So-Great-Gatsby: How Fitzgerald portrays tone in his novel The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald goes to great lengths to portray the tone of his novel in many different aspects. However, it is the final passage in The Great Gatsby where the tone of his novel truly shows through. Whereas the overall aspect of the novel represents one man’s attempt to fulfill his dream, an unattainable dream, the final passage seems to fortify Fitzgerald’s feelings of hopelessness and despair. Fitzgerald’s novel has a prevalent tone of hopelessness and despair; it comes across in the themes, characters, and plot of The Great Gatsby. The themes in this novel all lean towards negativity;
Dr. Seuss. As a child, I had always found that name extremely unusual, but judging from the out-of-ordinary creatures and nonsensical words, I inferred that the man had to be naturally strange. When assigned this multi-genre project, I decided it was finally time for me to throughly research the individual who had inspired me to open my eyes and see the world in a completely different way. My way. Immediately after I had chosen Dr. Seuss, I browsed through the numerous biographies written by countless authors.
The Missing Story: How Don Quixote Met Sancho Panza Translated By Lauren Sherman Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s “Don Quixote” meets Robert More’s “Utopia” HONRS 202 SPRING 2012 LAUREN SHERMAN 4/4/2012 Through many translations, edits, and condensed versions of stories, modern textbooks today often leave out a great deal about many classic stories. A group of scholars have recently found part of the original story, Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This group has undergone an intense process to translate this text to a modern-day understanding and has given its readers a much better understanding of a critical part of the text. In this excerpt from the salvaged story, Don Quixote actually meets his rational sidekick, Sancho Panza in a small town called “Utopia.” This is the true story of how Don Quixote met Sancho Panza… As Don Quixote rode in with the sunrise, his eyes slowly widened as he neared what looked like to be civilization. The sun set and rose so fast Quixote never gave a second thought of visiting a town one of his favorite books referenced.
Abstract Defining the term post-colonization and its manifestation in Lord Jim, Conrad’s masterpiece, is the main idea, being discussed in the following pages. Whether Conrad is an anti- imperialist or not is a controversial idea that usually misleads many critics; however, there are many postcolonial signs in his novels. The main setting of the novel, Lord Jim is a colonized island, beside the main character, Jim is named Lord Jim in this island. The author introduces a character named Marlow to express his idea to the readers, this technique is used in his other work, the Heart of Darkness. The story ends with an upheaval and Jim as a colonizer is killed.