Compare Killing Orders with traditional noir detective fiction, there are many similarities since Killing Orders still classified with the hardboiled detective fiction genre. The narrator V.I. Warshawski as a realistic and tough hardboiled detective, as well as the corruption of the society all show up in the noir detective fiction including Killing Orders. However, the representation of women in the Killing Orders makes it distinct from others, where the book is at its best. V.I.
Both authors use enticing writing styles and literary devices to unfold tales of premeditated murder. Characters Emily Grierson and Montresor are both very similar in their worldviews, yet quite different when regarding their crimes. Exploring concepts such as time, motive and death will illustrate the points of comparison and the reasons behind the need to avenge. The concept of time plays a huge part in Emily and Montresor’s actions and state of mind. The settings used in both stories define this concept very well.
Compare and Contrast A Rose for Emily and Trifles Both of these stories are in the same type of mystery style. They have an unpleasant but interesting sense about them. When reading A Rose for Emily, I knew there had to be something shocking in the end. The way the towns people dished the dirt about Miss Emily was interestinf. They seemed to only pay attention to her.
Much of the literature written during the late nineteenth century marks a transition in African American history, as a lot of the literature brings to light truths and information that normally one might not be aware of when it came to slaves and the plantation life. Authors, such as Charles Chesnutt, created stories that use literary devices such as satire, irony and symbolic situations to relay messages and to comment upon the the treatment and life of the African American people during their enslavement. The definition of a satire refers to making fun of or ridiculing a human shortcoming with the intent of enlightenment or correcting the subject of the satirical attack. In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Passing of Grandison”, the focus of the satirical nature rests upon the popular conceptions of the old plantation life at the time. Chesnutt also creates situations and characters that are brimming with irony with the intention to show the reader an exaggerated depiction of master-slave relationship.
Critical Analysis of O’Connor’s Revelation. Flannery O’Connor is by far one of the most religion oriented writers in the American South. Her Southern upbringing and Catholic faith allowed her to paint a very straightforward picture of sin, inequality, racism, and salvation in the short story “Revelation”. O’Connor sums up her thoughts about South, “What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she has absorbed from the Scriptures and from her own history of defeat and violation (Arbery).” During her lifetime South consisted of people who were prejudiced toward people of color and lower social status; therefore, those who were less fortunate had to experience racism, inferiority, and even hatred. “As late as 1983, Cleanth Brooks declared the American South “something of a subculture,” differing from the rest of the nation both in its “attitudes toward family, religion, place and history” and in its special “interest and aptitude for narrative that includes a vigorous oral tradition as well as formal narration in stories and novels (Davis).” O’Connor was able to recreate Southern attitude and understanding of religion.
The reader gets an inside view of the murderers perspective for many events including the actual killings and their trial. Even though it is hard to comprehend, the reader can better understand the motive and make sense of how the men were feeling while they committed the crime. In Cold Blood takes the reader’s mind into more depth than the average true crime story. It helps you think about what is happening from another perspective, a perspective you did not think you could understand. It does all of this while still having all the elements a well-written book needs.
The elusive maze of Flannery O’Connor In A Good Man is Hard To Find Flannery O’Connor expresses the many ideas and logic which touches many controversial issues through subtle meanings and symbols. Every word said, and action taken is a puzzle piece to the different meanings, theme, and motifs a reader is able to derive from her writing. Although the story begins with a different mood and setting, everything dramatically changes and what emerges is a mystery wrapped in a whole different perspective in the characters. The Misfit who’s later introduced in the story describes the grandmother as, “She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life” (O’Connor 413). A good man may be hard to find, but a good woman is also hard to find.
202) and the way O’Connor describes the way she was dressed (DiYanni, 2007, p. 203). She was also a manipulative “lady” of the South in that she tried to convince the other characters to bend to her will in a very genteel way throughout the story. She came across as selfish in that she wants her own way but also selfless in that she is concerned about her family. Her concern is stated in the beginning of the story when she tells Bailey of the escaped convict who is headed to Florida and advises that they go
Daniel Widner 5/14/12 S. Hunter Research Paper Writers are influenced by expieriences of their lives. This is seen alot in the works of Edgar Allen Poe. His writings are not only influenced by his life, they are sometimes seen directly from life experiences. The most damaging experiences in his life showed up often in his poems and stories that were directing to alcohol, disease, death and negative male role models. Poe's life was a one filled with tragedy and death.
Gothic Tradition Analysis Flannery O’Connor was born and raised in Georgia and lived from 1925 to 1964 (DiYanni, 2007, p.184). She was raised with a very southern influence and incorporates this into her writing. O’Connor was Roman Catholic and would work evil and redemption into her stories like “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. In this story, she capitalizes southern violence and the need for having religion. She writes in a term called southern gothic, meaning “a style of writing practiced by many writers of the American South whose stories set in that region are characterized by grotesque, macabre, or fantastic incidents” (Southern Gothic, 2009).