O'Brien creates an intentional paradox for his readers when he writes the violent, but grabbing story of Rat Kiley and then at the end of the story, tells the reader that the characters and events of the story did not happen just as he described them, but that they happened in a totally different way to other people. But he insists that the story is true. With this, O'Brien challenges the reader to discover the truth of the event. O'Brien gets the reader to figure out what fiction of this book is actually worth. Firstly, did O'Brien confuse the reader when he said that the events did not happen after the reader became involved in those events?
It is this pride that constantly rejects Montresors’ pleas for returning back. AS mentioned before we don’t know where the story would have gone had he accepted the request of turning back, but it leads us with evidence of the type of character Fortunato is. One can only imagine just how constantly he berates Montresor, and you now have an idea into why Poe made it clear not to specify the insult that enraged
Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). 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.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” This quote suggests or can be interpreted as: that a person may perhaps do something illogical and unreasonable because of mixed feelings, jealousy, or insecurity and deeply regret it later on. I agree with Abraham Lincoln as his quote’s interpretations can be demonstrated throughout the events that partake in the novels A Separate Piece by John Knowles or the book The Time Machine by H.G. Wells through the use of the literary elements symbolism and characterization. ghghs In the novel A Separate Piece Gene is the novel’s narrator, and he tells the story as a flashback, thinking back on his days at the Devon School. He and is roommate/best
Procopius In The Secret History Procopius writes an extremely unfavorable account of the Emperor Justinian and his time on the thrown. He focuses his writing not only on Justinian and his wife Theodora but also his general Belisarius who Procopius accompanied on campaign and Belisarius’ wife Antonina. This account was extremely different compared with various other historical accounts and leaves the reader somewhat skeptical about the accuracy of the book. Justinian’s accomplishments far outweighed the stories that Procopius wrote about so historians like Peters and Sarris have called him and enemy of the Emperor and even a shady character and instead they focused on his accomplishments and how his laws, with some updates, were used until the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. (Peters, 94) Procopius in The Secret History criticizes Justinian throughout the book.
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.
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.
As I Lay Dying The novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner tends to make readers confused when beginning to read it due to the theme the book entails. One of the main themes in the novel would have to be the difference of what are the truth and the explanation of what is true. Without a doubt any point is able to end in a massive amount of what is biased due to the different characters and their individual point of views. Each thought they have on what they believe true is dependent on their previous outlooks and thoughts. With that being said anything that is alleged can’t always necessarily be the truth.
By calling into question the truth of his stories, he disorients readers who are expecting to read a standard fiction, where the events are undoubtably false. He also shows readers why reinventing a story may be more important than telling the story just as it is remembered. Norman Bowker disapproves of O’Brien’s first attempt to describe a horrific battle, and, therefore, O’Brien feels the need to rewrite the story. Essentially, O’Brien must remember the event in a new way that makes the story more real for Bowker and other readers. Finally, O’Brien explains to readers why stories must be told, even with the risk telling the story the “wrong” way.
Pamela Lora Ap Literature Period 2 10/29/09 “Oedipus Rex” Previously I have mentioned we have common flaws, one flaw that was pionted out in the play was selfishness. One of the characters that had that flaw was Teiresias, the soothsayer. In the play Oedipus calls Teiresias to come and see if he could see who was the murderer of king Laios. But Teiresias saw more than that but he didn’t want to be the one to tell Oedipus the truth. So Teiresias kept rebelling against Oepidus to let him go and not to bother him.