ALLUSIONS IN FAHRENHEIT 451 Literary allusions often are used to relate a novel to various other pieces of literary work. Ray Bradbury used a multitude of literary allusions to enrich the plotline of Fahrenheit 451. These references provided subtle hints of depth in the novel to the reader. Some allusions helped the novel by adding to the plot, providing a relatable experience to the reader, referencing familiar stories and fables, and giving characters and settings that special something called an “it factor” that the reader could find special. Some allusions, however, were harmful to the plot or to the reader, most often by confusing the reader if they did not know the context of the original quotation.
In her speech, Atwood challenges the ideals regarding women presented in literature and society, and in doing this also challenges the ideas of extreme feminists. It is in her casual and conversation-like style in delivering, however, that she constructs textual integrity through the use of many rhetorical devices to enhance the style and message of her speech. Her style, although considered ‘rambling’, overall benefits her topic of ‘Problems of Female Bad Behaviour in the Creation of Literature’ in the way that her anecdotes and allusions to many other texts involving the role of women enhance her argument as pieces of evidence. Quite early on in the speech, Atwood uses a personal anecdote to display the role in which fiction plays in society. In the anecdote, involving a play including her nephew where the two lead roles did nothing but eat breakfast, Atwood
It’s all real, but it’s not all true 1. Bush is bothered by the human tendency to assume works of fiction are, in fact, semi-autobiographical pieces about the author because she feels that “writers live through their narratives instead of reflecting their lives in them.” Bush also feels that the readers need to realize this, and wishes that fiction remain fiction, and be based on its own merit. The autobiographical fallacy is the temptation to read a writer’s life into their fiction. In other word’s it is a term that means literature can be interpreted as reflections of the life of their authors. 2.
Fiction texts make great entertainment but matter little to the real world. The assumption is often made that fiction texts are limited to purely providing their audience with light entertainment, however, this is not entirely the case. The writer not only has the ability to create interesting characters, but can introduce new ideas and perspectives to the reader that they may not have considered prior to reading the text. The short story ‘Debut’ by Kristen Hunter is an example of how I, as a reader, was able to explore issues associated with the pressure and expectations that society puts on people and how it continues to occur in today’s society. ‘Debut’ confronted the issues to do with race, sexualisation of woman as well as beauty and how it affects your standings within society.
“A sad sympathy filled her eyes. Sharada lowered her knife”. Her personality appears to take a radical turn, though it is not documented through a conversation. Due to the fact that the authentic character of Sharada is exposed mainly through her psychological and inner expansion, leaving the audience to fill in several facets of the story in its maturation, this story can not only be placed under the Poe genre of short stories but it can also be set in the category of the “ideal short story” stories within the Poe
So far in this class I have learned a few different parts of writing a memorable story. I have also learned there are few stories, and most of which are not that great that do not incorporate these themes and ideas. I have learned about “summarizing Scenes”, which is a useful way to help find or create the plot or plots of the story. I have learned “Characterization,” what makes the character's in the story come to life, and be memorable. There was also learning about the “Conflict” of the story, the event that the story needs to be interesting the one thing that pits at least 2 main characters together trying for opposite outcomes.
An Analysis of Nonfiction English 125 An Analysis of Nonfiction Literature is defined as nonfiction when the story is based on factual information. Although the piece of literature is true to the author, there are many literary concepts that are used to paint a clear and concise picture for the reader. The author as well as the reader must use their imagination to get the most out of the literature that they read. In Salvation by Langston Hughes and Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone by Andrew Lam, irony, and imagery are used vividly to express their thoughts and relay a message to the reader about what has happened to them in their childhood. Both of these pieces of literature speak to the essence of growing up and not understanding
Reading Response #5 As Cynthia Ozick says in her essay “She: Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body”, “an essayist must be an artist”. In this essay she explains the importance of writers when it comes to essays. Each essay has a different content, but they each embody their writer. Their words are taken from the warm body that they come from and are translated onto the page. At the conclusion of her essay, Ozick personifies the essay as “she”, giving us a better idea of what an essay would look like or would do if it were a “she”.
A time where female writers’ had to be guarded, and confined, in expressing their opinions, the narrative voice, ‘Call me Mary Beaton, Mary Seaton…’ aided the conveying of Woolf’s argument, as it engaged with women on a more personal level, through making her character a universally identifiable ‘every-woman’, rather than an individual displaying her anger towards the system of patriarchy. This narrative writing style also had the power to shield her personal self to some extent, which partially removed direct
Many writers often express the truth and meaning of a story through one of the literary techniques, symbolism. Throughout the story, The Flowers, Alice Walker repidiatly uses symbolism to express the deeper levels of meaning in her story. During the events of this very short, but well constructed text, Walker exercises the usage of symbolism to show the true meaning of what this story is all about and who the characters really are and what they represent. to give the reader a greater understanding of this story, Alice Walker provides in depth meanings of the events that take place in this story. Myop's tragic discovery, which had been the result violents and discrimination of racism, was a life changing event for her.