The importance of discovery is measure by the impact it has on people. To seek knowledge and enlightenment is a central part of human nature. The importance of discovery is usually determined by the amount of impact it has on us as the unimportant discoveries are usually realised and forgotten. “Small Mercies” and “Big World” are short stories from the anthology The Turning by Tim Winton which assesses the impact discoveries have on each character. The song “don’t want you back” by Backstreet Boys and the poem “a snowflake falls” by Ruth Adams are powerful examples of the amount of impact discoveries have on the characters .
In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”,he uses a first-person narrator to tell the story to emphasize the bewildering aspects of the transcending moment that he relates in the story. The narrator is concerned only about how the visit from Robert will affect him and is contemptuous of what role Robert may have played in his wife’s past. At the same time, the narrator lacks self-awareness. There was no conclusion at the end of the story. Carver finishes with leaving the narrator with his eyes closed imagining the cathedral he has just drawn with Robert.
In order to create a sense of authenticity, Nam Le abides by verisimilitude in his short stories “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” and “Tehran Calling” in his collection The Boat. His short story narratives utilise compression, poetics and sentence structure which are artifices to create mood and meaning. In this sense this type of fiction is realistic, but untrue. Readers are aware of this from the outset of the novel with Le’s first short story, which overtly illustrates that the stories in the collection are works of fiction. The autobiographical nature of the first passage in “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” introduces the reader to the apparent truth and reality of the story, signalling also what is to be expected in the rest of the collection.
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
Literature is the art of written work and can; in some circumstance can cause issues like different emotions, thoughts, imagination about a particular literary work. Readers tend to form their own opinion about what they are reading. An author expects criticisms and opinions about their work, one may not truly know what the author may think and fill when they are writing their piece. Writing is an art, it tells a story, like a painting tells a story. Writing is how the author is feeling or what the author has experienced.
Webster’s dictionary defines theme as “a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work.” Authors use themes because it is what brings the work together and what gives it a meaning. Without a theme, a piece of work such as The Odyssey would just be words and events, with no meaning to them. A theme gives each scene and sentence a purpose. An example of a theme in Homer’s The Odyssey is love. Homer uses many themes by not telling us what they are, but by showing us and leaving us in suspense.
By using different literary methods authors are able to give their readers a better understanding of the message behind the piece of work. Using methods such as themes and symbolism allows readers to find the underlying meaning of the story rather than just simply reading something with no meaning or emotion behind it. While reading Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken and Eudora Welty’s short story A Worn Path, people get a sense that life is a lonely place full of sacrifice at times. Although these two pieces are different, their use of symbolism gives readers a better understanding of the characters in each work and figure out their real struggles with the choices they make. Literature is meant to take its readers to another place and allow them to become part of it, whether it be a story or a poem or play.
This gives it the edge and uniqueness that may get a little gory but reading this story takes you on a journey you'll never forget. First, Bloodchild opens with the line, “My last night of childhood began with a visit home” (Butler, 1). This expresses how it is an coming of age story. Which is critical because the beginning of the story distinctively explains human themes like coming of age and loss of childhood which can confuse the reader throughout the story . Gradually beginning to uncover the
The style and level of clarity and author chooses to depict a theme or moral can completely reverse what the reader elicits from the story as a whole. A piece of writing can portray numerous underlying messages, but depending on how well the writer paints this image, the comprehension can dramatically vary. In the short story, The Rocking-Horse Winner, the author D.H. Lawrence uses various literary devices to spin an interesting yarn about an “unlucky” family that becomes engulfed with a greed for wealth while giving innuendo to a valuable sense of morality. The critical article, The Rocking-Horse Winner: A Modern Myth, written by Donald Junkins makes an obvious point about the issue of responsibility of “the intolerable burden of attempting to solve the mother’s ‘problem,’ which is…the lack of money in the household” Junkins 1. Junkins goes on to state that the story “dramatizes modern man’s unsuccessful attempt to act out and emerge from his oedipal conflict with the woman-mother” Junkins 1.
However, as the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel progressed while reading it, it was evident that in situations where any choice is largely constricted or that the environment is largely unfamiliar to them, people will cross physical, social, mental, psychological, emotional and moral boundaries just to reach something they desire. Similarly, these concepts can also apply to general life. We cross physical boundaries when we travel or when people fly from country to country as an immigrant or a refuge. It could be the notions of wilderness or the further explorations of a new “world”. It is commonly seen in poems that crossing boundaries could also mean the boundary of being at home and experiencing the “wider” world.