Where I stated, “I believe this novel was Bronte’s life work, masterpiece, and what she felt about this world in general,” is a prime example of my explanation of the novel. Even a few times, I found myself going back to my explanatory essay in reference, because it gives an almost perfect summary of the book. The fact that you can pick up a well thought out explanatory essay on any subject, read it, and then gain an adequate understanding of the matter is convenient. We live in a fast paced age, where time is everything and some would rather read an essay than a book. In taking this class I also learned about the evaluation essay, which is one that gave me new perspective on the book Wuthering Heights.
Every serious story led to another joke that kept begging me to keep reading. He was very straight forward with the things he said and thought, and made comparing his stories to everyday life scenarios a lot easier and helped me to learn to laugh. I really enjoyed my time reading Me Talk Pretty One Day. I’ve never laughed so much and haven’t wanted to put a book down. This is definitely a book that I would recommend.
After finishing Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, I can honestly say this is my favorite collection of short stories I have read thus far. It took me a quite a bit of time to reach this point, though. Towards the beginning of reading this anthology, I found myself being far too analytical typically expected of an English course, often times looking for notable events, themes and other elements of writing. I quickly realized the nature of Carver’s writing: simplistic, stark and candid. On the surface, Carver’s stories may come across as lacking and dull.
I was lucky.” The main highlighted purpose I observed in this story was the use of expression as well as comparison and contrast and a second pattern of illustration to describe how he became such a great writer in his life. Throughout the story, I found the author uses the expressive purpose when he reveals himself as a low class trying to survive when he says, “We were poor by most standards.” He then goes on giving a second example of expressive purpose when he clearly shares the same interest as his father by saying, “My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.” These two examples are very clear to me that Alexie is expressing his feelings as well as revealing himself to the reader by describing his economic status as a child, as well as his emotions of loving his father and books. On the other hand, Alexie main pattern of the story is comparison-contrast. This pattern is highlighted when he is comparing himself to his peers. He mentions how the other Indian kids struggle with basic reading in school, while he was reading newspaper, bulletins, junk mail and anything he could possibly read.
After an accidental meeting, Forrester becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor, providing guidance to help the young man’s exceptional skills. Soon, Forrester’s harsh view of the world begins to change as both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship. Forrester and Jamal may have a lot of differences but they also have many things in common. Forrester's passion for reading is reflected by the number of books. Lining his walls and stacked on the floor of his apartment.
Intention is used commonly and very clear in this novel. The author uses a lot of rhetorical questions to get the reader thinking. He lures in the reader with a lot of dramatic irony to get the reader thinking. His intention is for the reader to keep flipping the pages in order to figure out the true ending to the story. In the story the writer begins it with a causal story line, he later follows it with very elusive and interesting concepts to help build the story up to its climax.
Critical Review on “How David Beats Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell The author of the article “How David Beats Goliath” is Malcolm Gladwell. The purpose of the text is to educate the reader about the advantages of being unconventional. Another purpose was to compare Vivek Randaive’s life to the myth of David beating Goliath. This article is lengthy yet well written, keeping the reader engaged. The charm of this article comes from the author’s writing style.
Gabriela Rivera Eng 101 Marino May 3, 2012 Cultural Intellectualism In the essay “Superman and Me”, Sherman Alexie writes of his education that “I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life”(2). In other words Alexie feels that reading was his key to a better and more successful life. Reading is the foundation of Alexie’s strength to battle against a non- intellectual life.
Because Alexie's parents had to work hard to make ends meet, they didn't have time to educate him. Apparently, he has lacked of parental support, but Alexie still has striven to succeed, to save his own life by teaching himself how to read the book instead of refusing to fail in life. This made him becoming a famous writer and realized reading and writing is his passion. First of all, lacking of parental support in education is the biggest problem that Alexie faced when he was growing up. It impacted so much in his life.
On Becoming A Writer Javonne Powell Mr. Ahmad Wright ENG 115 July/11/2015 In the essay “Becoming a writer”, written by Russell Baker, [The author] describes the role of his English teacher, Mr. Fleagle, in his discovery, of his love of writing. He tells how he thought writing was boring and how he never liked writing essays. Mr. Fleagle was known for being a boring teacher. [He] gave the class an Informal essay assignment, and the day before it was due,[Baker] chose a topic and write about it. Even though it wasn’t in formal essay form, he turned it in.