I can make myself feel again." O’Brien’s statement tells how his emotions can be expressed by make believe stories or story-truths. In order to make a story important, he must show the reader what he felt by describing the event in such a way that makes the reader feel like the action is right in their face. Juxtaposition is used to show story truth importance by explaining how similar story-truth and happening-truth are in any story. O’Brien states how in a happening-truth “there were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look.” He explains the story-truth as though he were still there.
The sense a reader get from reading their stories allows them to experience their mysterious styles. “Mysterious” might be the wrong adjective for some people, but after analyzing their stories carefully, full of unexpectedly important details, it leaves us with two intriguing questions. Did they know what they were really saying when writing their stories, or is it only the reader’s interpretation of them? We may be able to find that out later on. A child-father relationship may be seen from different perspectives.
It just seems to unethical to me even though I can see how they would be useful. This novel made me think about many aspects of human life. Not only did I ponder how we as a people treat each other and people that are different than us, but I pondered our future and how realistic this novel’s plot can be. I am incredibly glad that I decided to read this book again because I missed out on so much the first time I read
Words, Words, Words "Don't judge a book by its cover" is a turn of phrase which cautions one to truly know and understand a person before passing judgment upon them. In literature, this is the duty of the author: to introduce his or her readers to the characters; to let the readers get inside the heads of the characters and see the world from their perspective. In the realtivism of the literary universe, only through empathy can character be judged. Some authors hold the reader's hand and tell them exactly what to think about a character; they spell out exactly what that character's motivations are and whether these are congruous with the morals of the world the author has crafted. Other authors, such as William Faulker, leave the challenge up to the reader.
Abstract This essay seeks to overturn Kyle Baker’s claim that he represented the “true” character and “true” story of Nat Turner in his graphic novel Nat Baker. This essay first briefly examines the famous novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, that is based on the same source as Baker’s graphic novel. This essay explores the techniques that made this novel controversial, and questions why this novel was more highly criticized than Baker’s graphic novel. Through a general explanation of the difficulties of interpreting history, one learns that it is truly impossible to depict history in a full, unbiased, honest form. Daniel S. Fabricant explains in “Thomas R. Gray and William Styron: Finally, A Critical look at the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner” the various reasons as to why many, such as Baker, have trusted Gray’s document as well as why Gray’s document needs to be questioned.
Matt Sotl 3/28/08 Quarterly Reading Essay Period 1-2 Mr.S Comparison of 2 tragedies’ In books and novels, there is a predominate theme that plays a large toll on the books purpose. When two books are similar like these two books, it is hard to figure out why it is that he books are alike but it takes so long to figure out the plot differences. That is why you actually have to analyze the books afterwards. The author of The Things They Carried has very good ways of showing us what the true reason of the books should be. He put in the fact in one of the paragraphs that he was “unclear” about whether or not he actually threw a grenade and killed a man out side” said O’Brien.
O'Brien creates an intentional paradox for his readers when he writes the violent, but grabbing story of Rat Kiley and then at the end of the story, tells the reader that the characters and events of the story did not happen just as he described them, but that they happened in a totally different way to other people. But he insists that the story is true. With this, O'Brien challenges the reader to discover the truth of the event. O'Brien gets the reader to figure out what fiction of this book is actually worth. Firstly, did O'Brien confuse the reader when he said that the events did not happen after the reader became involved in those events?
Crystal points out that texting is not the first advancement to have prophecies of doom to language. “Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into peoples’ minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. Scares accompanied the introduction of the telegraph, telephone, and broadcasting” (336). While these were all unfounded they will continue to accompany any new advances. People are instinctively fearful of change in any way, but as time passes all things must change and evolve to survive and become better.
Censoring a Classic The article “Don’t Censor Mark Twain’s N-Word” by Leonard Pitts Jr. discusses the changes made to a great piece of American Literature. The n-word will no longer be used in the newly published versions of Mark Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Pitts claims there are many reasons why this should be considered wrong. Pitts explains that it was the author’s choice to use that word. The readers also have a choice to read the classic or not but, changing it should not be in question.
Stephen Gadaleta Brooke Falk 101: Expository Writing – LW December 7th, 2009 Adaptation Leads to the Truth When telling a story, more often or not, the truth is what counts. If it is revealed that a story is not real, many would be disappointed. The emphasis on reality and truth are both key ideas in Annie Dillard's, "The Wreck of Time" and Tim O'Brien's, "How to Tell a True War Story." Dillard writes with a vigor, she outlines many different statistics and does a lot of number analyzing, in order to convey her idea. Dillard does not write to entertain, she writes to awaken readers to thoughts and ideas they previously ignored.