A few days later, the suspect is caught based on the witness account of events. The witness is asked to testify in court but refuses because he or she believes retaliation will soon follow from identifying the murderer. The witness is subpoenaed by the courts to testify. Should the witness have to testify? This is the question posed to many journalists when asked to provide the source of their current news story.
DuWayne Grinnell ENG 263 5/2/13 My Analysis on Bartleby the Scrivener The story is very interesting as the self-characterization of the narrator was significant to the plot. The narrator is a safe man who takes slight risks and attempts to adjust to his surroundings. I had observed that the narrator was deeply concerned about the financial security and comfort of life which were his core priorities. Bartleby was a confused loner who was hired by an old lawyer (the narrator) to work at his business which entailed titles, mortgages and bonds. Bartleby was basically hired for copying the text but eventually he started refusing the work requested by the lawyer.
When Anders gets shot in the head, the first things the narrator tells the reader are those which did not pass before Anders’ eyes. What are told to the reader are the things he has experienced in his adult life. The narrator returns to Anders real thoughts after, and takes the reader back in time to his childhood. In the last paragraph, a reader once again returns to the present moment with Anders. Anders critiques the bank robbers as he would criticize one of the books he would read for work.
The narrative of My Ántonia is a look into the past, but in his narration Jim rarely says anything directly about the idea of the past, the overall tone of the novel is very nostalgic. Jim's motive for writing his story is to try to reestablish some connection between his present as a high-powered New York lawyer and his vanished past on the Nebraska prairie; in re-creating that past, the novel represents both Jim's memories and his feelings about his memories. Within the narrative itself, characters often look back longingly toward the past that they have lost. The author also adds Motif a setting in which a person lives and moves. recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text's major themes.
In the short story The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, Leo creates a story that shows a society that is very materialist and all about being the in the upper class. Tolstoy has many characters that show this in the story but the main character of the story really shows this through living life and being confronted by having to find the true meaning behind life and death. Ivan Ilych the main character of the story lives his life through work. He is a man that is well school and goes to law school and comes out with a perfect job. He starts out as an examining magistrate in the reformed judicial institutions and moves to a new province.
Bartleby, The Scrivener is the story of an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business who relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known who is Bartleby. We’re interested in the last passage of the story which relates the death of Bartleby and reveals a little more about this mysterious character.We should ask ourself :What critic of the modern society the author wants to convey throughout the text? Firstly, we’ll see how the first part of the text can be described as an allegory of death and then how the last part of the text sums up Melville’s idea about capitalism. Environment has been important so far to the story, and Melville's concise and powerful description of the prison yard continues the trend.Death imagery is abundant in the first part of the excerpt. The description comes not during the first visit, but right before the narrator finds Bartleby's death.
First the author shows the theme by integrating character’s actions throughout the story. Before Charlie becomes intelligent he wrote, “I want to be smart.” (Pg. 221) I think this quote confirms the theme because since he wasn’t smart he could have separated himself from smart people. As Charlie was reading a book called Robinson Crusoe he wrote, “I feel sorry because he’s all alone and has no friends.” (Pg. 229) I believe this quote reveals the moral because as he reads this book he find out Crusoe is all alone and isolated and even though Charlie doesn’t realize it yet he himself is isolated and lonely as well.
The Shawshank Redemption The film, The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont, is based on the lives of several prisoners at Shawshank State Prison. All of the prisoners and the prison itself are somehow redeemed or changed in the duration of the film. They battled against institutionalisation and fear and some learn to hope for a better future. The main character in the film is Andy Dufresne. He is a young banker who is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life at Shawshank State Prison.
To say he worked with zeal would be an understatement: no, he worked with love”(p.143). Akaky is so content with his job and with his life that bothers not about anything else such as socializing or making friends as said; “No one could remember ever having see him at a party. After he had copied to his heart’s content he would go to bed, smiling in anticipation of the next day and what God would send him to copy”(p.145). A conclusion drawn from this reading
Body and mind become one, a beautiful peaceful experience. Let your subconscious mind take over guiding you to your own special place. This place is where you feel at ease. Anywhere is possible, you are safe in your own space. You start to use all your senses to feel your way through your special place.