Even before one reads this book they cannot understand what it truly means to break away from hardship and into love without reading and comprehending the passion and love in each and every line of this poetry. Thus, I will explain to you why exactly I feel this form of poetry is good if not the best way to express ones experience with falling in love! For instance, the very first page of Street Love says it all. It explains where Junice comes from, where she has grown up, and how this life has made her who she is today! Page one (1), line thirteen, states “Harlem is not an easy place to grow old” – and this is very much backed up throughout the story in her case.
Themes Though it is a remarkably short piece of fiction, “The Open Window” explores a number of important themes. Mr. Nuttel comes to the country in an attempt to cure his nervous condition. He pays a visit to the home of Mrs. Sappleton in order to introduce himself, and before he gets to meet the matron of tha house, he is intercepted by her niece, who regales him with an artful piece of fiction that, in the end, only makes his nervous condition worse. Appearances and Reality It is no surprise that Mrs. Sappleton’s niece tells a story that is easy to believe. She begins with an object in plain view, an open window, and proceeds from there.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Literary Critique Ellen Hopkins - Crank Ellen Hopkins manages to twist the deep pit in your stomach and make you feel emotions you might not know you could feel, with her book, Crank. I whole-heartedly give this book a ten out of ten rating. The novel Crank is written in free verse poetry, which is a different style than what I am usually attracted to, but I found that it took the story to a whole new level. Although, it is a work of fiction, Crank is loosely based on the true story of the author’s daughter, making it all the more haunting. Kristina Georgia Snow and her alter ego, Bree, start at the beginning and lead you through the chilling story of her downfall due to her addiction to crank, better known as crystal meth.
On that same day, when Augustus introduced himself and told everybody that he feared oblivion, right at that moment Hazel knew there was something about him that stirred up her insides which she never felt before towards any other guy plus the fact that he was hot. That started her interest towards Augustus, they then started to have conversations, countless text messages and phone calls. Gus (as to what his parents calls him) is convinced by Hazel to read 'An Imperial Affliction', her favorite book, then becomes almost as obsessed with it as she is.As their relationship deepens, Hazel begins to feel herself pulling away from Gus. Gus had saved his wish from "The Genies" (somewhat like ‘Wish kolang’) and wants to use it to fly himself and Hazel to Amsterdam, Netherlands to meet Peter Van Houten, the reclusive alcoholic author of 'An Imperial Affliction'. While she is overjoyed by the proposal, Hazel decides that she does not want to pursue a relationship with Gus, because she doesn’t want that Gus will suffer from the same agony he felt when Gus lost his former girlfriend, Caroline Mathers(who didn’t survive in cancer).
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
A successful story should be something that makes you think and wonder how you can relate to it in your life. In ‘Looking for Alibrandi, I think, many people who read it can relate too some of the feelings felt by Josie. Some of the common relations to the book people have are, John Barton’s suicide and how Josie grieved or to the hilarious situation of ‘the Hot Pants magazine quiz’ at the beginning of the book and how Josie attempted to get out of being caught, as everyone would try to do in her situation. ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ I think was successful of achieving the expectations that a reader expects in a novel. One of the expectations of a successful novel is ‘Entertainment’ this is needed to keep a reader amused and not bored with the book.
Although Jem believes that Mrs. Dubose is a thoroughly bad woman, Atticus admires her for the courage with which she battles her morphine addiction. In one chapter, Jem breaks Mrs. Dubose’s camellia plan and his punishment was to read at her house for a month or two for an hour a day. Jem hated every minute of this, but taught him some good lessons. The responders get a sense of this woman “hating everything and everyone” when the character is introduced, again, as with Boo and Atticus, we see that there is much doubt and misjudgement to her. Atticus considers her one of the bravest people he knows and he wanted Jem to see that about her.
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay To Kill a Mockingbird was such a moving emotional book, that with every page I read, I just wanted to keep reading more. I believe that if you are a person that loves to read about racism, stereotypes and the strength of love in a small town than this is your type of book. Harper Lee, has managed to capture all those things in a way that will make you want to keep on reading. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses imagery to show that family isn’t always bonded by blood. One time when we see imagery to show that family isn’t always connected by blood is when Atticus’s sister Alexandra goes to stay with his family, to help “control” Scout.
the narrator from “The Black Cat” expresses, “Pluto -- this was the cat's name -- was my favorite pet and playmate.” and after the event of the narrator’s first wrongdoing towards the cat the narrator recounts “When reason returned with the morning -- when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch -- I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed.” Through this we see the effects of mental deterioration partnered with alcohol and the destructive pattern it