In this paper I would like to discuss about “multiple personality’’ for my paper now. I decide to choose a novel “The Minds of Billy Milligan” written by Daniel Keyes. From my first sight I saw this novel, it was very interesting to me. First I thought why I liked this novel because the title “The Minds of Billy Milligan”, and at that time I was thought “how come a people have more than 1 personality”, but after few days later when I wanted to buy it I lose it. I did not know how to got it back, I tried to save my money to bought it, but when it’s ready I lost the novel.
Title: Make it Clever Edgar Allen Poe wrote a short story called “The House of Usher.” In this short gothic tale there are three main themes that really stood out to me: friendship, incest in the 1800’s, The first theme is Friendship; it is a very important theme that was seen in the beginning of the story. The narrator drops everything in order to answer his friend Roderick’s message to come and help cheer him up. He has a foreboding feeling as he approaches the house which is in a disheveled state, even the walls were starting to crack The next theme is morality. The Roderick twins and the house are symbolically connected by their families’ history of living in the house. The house's state of disrepair is a symbol for the moral, physical, and mental state of Roderick and his sister.
At the first second I got my assignment sheet, which required me to describe my literature life, the only thing came to my mind is how I develop my writing ability. I consider the word “literacy” as the ability to read and write as I read those narratives from Amy Tan and Min-Zhan Lu. However, after the whole week’s working on literacy narrative, my idea of it had been reshaped. I got totally no idea what to write about at the beginning, as I don’t think there is anything special about how I develop my reading and writing during my life. My train of thought just stuck there, until I asked my teacher about it.
Why was it a good short-story? I despised this short narrative; however, it may have been admired due to the fact you could totally see the whole perspective from the Main Character, Charlie, because he wrote Journal Entries. Also, it was good to see for the first time, to see the perspective from a mentally disabled person, I mean, would you expect a story to be successful if the main character was Mentally Disabled? No, however, this guy did it by turning the story in to numerous journal entries written by a mentally-disabled man in his 30’s, which gave us the ability to fully understand the feelings and actions of Charlie. 3.
The narrator attempts to reassure his audience he is of sound mind. For example, the narrator says “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.” Another irony in the story is that the narrator refers to how he loves the old man and was never so kind to him as he was right before the murder. This is ironic because he loves the old man by the systematically plans to murder him. Poe uses imagery throughout the story by referencing the clock and time as a way to describe how slowly he moved. The narrator says “A watches minute hand moves more quickly than did mine”, the narrator sees himself as a clock, counting down the old man’s
Fowles is constantly trying to highlight the differences between art and reality in order to give his characters independence. Up to Chapter 13’s digression, Fowles’s readers have been allowed to consider that they have been reading a conventional Victorian novel to a certain extent. However, Fowles’s repetition of ‘perhaps’ encourages his readers to view the text in a more fictional way. When Fowles teases the audience by saying; ‘perhaps I live now in one of the houses I have brought into the fiction’ – he humorously says that his fictional characters are ‘perhaps’ an ‘illusion’ therefore stating that the whole novel is an illusion. From the outset we already know that their author controls Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as Shakespeare already writes out their destiny for them.
Since this was written as a play write first, I just wondered whether you had actually written a backstory for this piece, or if you just came up with the characters circumstances without putting it on paper. I asked if a life experience inspired this story because I was interested in how you came up with the idea for this short piece. Also I was wondering how difficult it was to transition this piece from a play write to a short story. I have taken a few writing and theatre courses and I personally have seen the differences between the styles. I was just curious about the difficulty in going to a short story from a play write due to the stylistic
Love them or hate them, teachers in elementary school use novel studies to improve their student's techniques in reading, writing, and comprehension. While they do teach students essential lessons, this ancient and outdated system needs to change lest they lose them to the distractions of the modern world. As disheartening as it sounds, novel studies changed my hobby of reading and initial impression of writing, into a tedious chore that I dreaded doing every class. Before I knew what novel studies were, I would say that my love stories were unmatched. I would crave to hear about some faraway place, where the characters would have action-packed life, dedicated to defeating some menacing evil.
Umarah Kabir Honors English Period 6 10/28/11 Look Again and Take a Closer Glance “Never judge a book by its cover” (Unknown). With one glance at someone, many of us probably can guess someone’s personality, but the truth is not all is what it seems. The authors of various short stories “The Most Dangerous Game”, “The Open Window”, “The Possibility of Evil” and “Marigolds” use suspense, irony, and the element of surprise to spark the reader’s interest, and to keep them lost in the story. Miss Lottie from “Marigolds” is one of the various examples of how people are not always what they seem. “Miss Lottie seemed to be at least a hundred years old.
From the Writer “Dorian Gray the Escape Artist” is the culmination of my work in my WR100 seminar, Fantasy at the Fin-de-Siècle. The final assignment was to create a research paper based on an interesting problem or paradox I had found in Oscar Wilde’s book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. For me, one of the book’s most fascinating elements was Dorian’s immature behavior; though he grows older, he never seems to “grow up.” At first, I investigated how my idea related to aestheticism and what Dorian’s immaturity showed about aestheticism; however, I could not find a solid way to prove my thesis. My greatest problem was being unsure of how writing a paper based on a research problem in The Picture of Dorian Gray constituted a researchable argument and not just a literary analysis. Hoping to gain a different perspective on the assignment, I met with fellow classmates to talk out my problem.