Willa lived a life with not so many surprises, but she got around alot and was able to incorporate what she saw to her writing. Her novel My Antonia is a great example of this (Arnold 1-2). Nine years old Willa cather was left with unforgettable influences: bare, like behind her hand, or sheet iron, that resembled the land’s she was on (Gerber 20). At a young age ather was already influenced by multiple cultures. Also as the oldest she also had to mature a little quicker among the rest (Bloom 11).
The book I chose for my independent reading project is called “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. The project I chose to do is a book box because the book I’ve read has a lot of items that correspond to the events and characters in my book. The items I have chosen from my book is a journal, a diaper, a ring, a cell phone, and a pregnancy test. The first item I chose was a journal. The reason I chose this item is because in the book, the main character Pattyn Von Stratten used a journal write down all her troubles because her librarian Ms. Rose told her it would be good for her.
However if the responder were to read Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, the connections between the two would shape and then reshape the responder’s understanding of both texts. The two texts are connected most obviously through Weldon’s commentary and analysis of Austen’s writing and social and historical context. However the two texts are also connected through their didactic purpose, examination of values, use of epistles and their female author’s status and feminist messages. Whilst all of these connections do enrich each text, it is to a limited extent as both texts also work in isolation. Aunt Fay writes to her niece Alice in the hope of teaching her about Austen and her writing and what better way to do that than by direct reference to Austen’s most successful text, Pride and Prejudice?
After a lot of thought, she decided to give it a try. Soon she had published her very first book called When Charlie McButton Lost Power, and it was instantly a favorite for elementary school readers. When Suzanne saw that her book was so popular, she decided that she wanted to take her writing to the next level by writing a book that would capture the attention of older readers. In 2003, she published her first novel called Gregor, the Overlander. This book was loosely based on the fairy tale of Alice in Wonderland, except the main character falls into a manhole instead of a rabbit hole, making the
Accessorizing Clarissa: How Virginia Woolf changes the clothes and the character of her lady of fashion Mark Gaipa When we peer into the origins of Mrs. Dalloway and reflect upon the first words Virginia Woolf wrote about Clarissa Dalloway’s day, we encounter a small but vexing problem that has the potential to alter how we think about the published novel. The problem concerns a specific word Woolf uses in the opening line of her short story “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street,” which she wrote in the summer of 1922 before she realized Clarissa’s story would become a book.1 As readers of Woolf know quite well, that first sentence, “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself,” provides the very line Woolf would use to start the novel – with the exception of the word “gloves,” which Woolf would replace with “flowers.” And anyone who has read these two texts side by side has undoubtedly felt how consequential this substitution is: as we move from story to novel, the new purpose for Mrs. Dalloway’s trip to Bond Street seems part of a broader change that Clarissa’s character has also undergone, from snobbery to sympathy. I will have much to say in this essay about Woolf’s removing Clarissa’s gloves in her novel, but the word in the story’s first line that troubles me is not “gloves” so much as the one that follows it – “herself.” Quite simply, what meaning can this word have – along with the sentence in which it appears, “Mrs.
I really like Sonya Sones work, I read her first novel Stop Pretending when I was in 7th grade, and loved her work. Everything she writes about are things I’ve gone through, tried, or thought
There are two plots in the novel, you have the present day plot which follows Becca on her search for Gemma’s past and the fairy tale plot, which follows Gemma’s telling of Briar Rose to her 3 granddaughters. Story telling plays an important role to Becca, Gemma and Josef and they play a significant part in the novel. Everyone in the story has a story to tell. Becca’s story is about her going to Poland to find out the truth about her Grandmothers past,
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was an interesting story about an abnormal woman in the community that everyone talked about. “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, remind me of the stories my grandfather use to tell me about his community he grew up in. Reading literature is a great way to get in touch with yourself
Suze Orman started the book with the death of the American Dream, you’d think it’s actually funny how she started the beginning of a book with a dead dream but along with that she also stated the New American Dream. The rebirth of a dream. The book is not about death, it’s about letting go of the past and starting anew. And for us to start again, for us to rebuild that dream we have to believe in ourselves that we can do it, and that’s what Orman have kept on doing from chapter one. She taught us things that we think we know but really don’t; she made us face things that we are in denial of.
Harlem Renaissance Writers The Harlem Renaissance is an explosion of black artists, poets, and politicians. It means a blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. But, what I’ll be talking about are the poets. A writer makes poems, novels, or short stories. It can be used to express feeling, love, or their personal thoughts about the world.