When I read the poem "The History Teacher" for me I thought that Collins is making a statement about the teaching of history. When I first read, I actually quite enjoyed it. It has a little comedy but it also has a little of sadness. I think he's maybe protecting the students from the cruel and harsh realities of life, even though they need to be exposed. My reaction when I read this was that I felt very sympathetic for some reason.
Besides that, the way he tells the story is very captivating and intriguing. It makes you want to read on further, if only to try and figure out how his mind works. I am really enjoying him as a character so far in the novel. The setting is also almost
3. How does the Author want us to respond to the Character? The Author wants us to understand how Mentally Challenged people really do try hard to do what is normal; however, they are incapable which is why some people laugh at him. The Author may want some people to help, instead of teasing them and in the story an example is shown, a friend (not a good one until after) helps Charlie out due to the fact that some co-workers are bagging him. 4.
It is written in the present tense, which means the story we’re about to hear has taken place in the past. A lot of readers will wonder, “Why does the author even bother doing this?” Foreshadowing is one of the best elements to use, but also one of the most difficult to use well. It can make the reader want to keep reading and also set a solid tone for your story. We now know, if we’re reading cautiously, that something happened to the car, and that this story is about what happened. This is a paragraph that makes us want to keep
Voltaire wrote this book to further demonstrate his unhappiness with the church, government, and philosophies at that time. He was hoping to inform readers about the ridiculousness of the authority by means of entertainment through satire. This book was not only packed with information, but it was also a fun read relating back to Voltaire's witty and intelligent personality. Since the book was written this way, the greater public was able to understand it, not just intellectuals and nobility, and his ideas and thoughts were more easily spread because of Candide's enjoyability as a novel. I believe the main message Voltaire was trying to get
Lord of the Flies as an Allegory to the Fall of Man Many times, we see that authors have used allegories in literature, not only because they supply good backbone and structure to create a story upon, but because they help to relay history to a younger generation in a way that is interesting and stimulating. This also serves as a reality check to an older audience that has strayed from the morals and values enshrined in the original story. More than any other, we see that these allegories are slightly abstract retellings of passages taken from the Bible. To be an allegory, however, a novel cannot simply draw a moral from the Bible, or any other work, and embellish upon it, but instead it must match in every symbolic way to the piece which it represents. This is the case in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies in relation to the Fall of Man depicted in Genesis 3:1-24 of the Bible.
When he says ‘what might have appalled us when we started out trip a few days ago no longer impressed us much’, the reader gets the impression that Alagiah is a heartless, cruel man. However, as the extract goes on, the view of Alagiah’s character changes quite rapidly, as his emotions are more involved. Alagiah also uses senses to describe what he was feeling and experiencing. A good example of this would be ‘it was a smell that drew me to her doorway’. This utilization of synaesthesia is effective as it creates a better relation with the reader by combining two senses- touch and smell- to create one realistic effect.
Bad Books are good? There are several lessons that the new readers always get from reading some kinds of books. In his essay, “On Writing,” author Stephen King illustrates his different opinion from reading the books: “Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (367). The author believes that reading bad books can take some positive points for the growing writer after he reads a lot of kinds of different books. That issue is the result why he thought like that kind of strange.
Free-writing and idea mapping are fantastic ways to begin thinking about the general topic, and also allows the author to find how they can relate with to the topic. Once the author has a grasp on their ideas and what they want to write about, as well as grasp of who their audience will be, he or she will begin outlining the structure of their ideas. This second step requires the author to organize the information that they want to share. Outlining their ideas will allow the author to begin writing and transition between points without confusing their audience. The third step, in the writing process, is writing a rough draft.
This image symbolizes the entire novel, because the whole story mainly revolves around Henry and Barkley’s intimate relationship and how it was affected during a time of war. I found the novel interesting at first, however as it began to get further into the relationship of Henry and Barkley, it started becoming boring as events in their relationship were being repeated and were becoming more and more predictable, taking away the surprise factor. The novel was written in first person, which made it more interesting to read, because it showed the point of view of Lieutenant Henry, from his thoughts to his actions. His writing also contained strange patterns, which was followed with either very short sentences or very long run on sentences. His writing style in this novel really enhanced the point of view.