Preview

Janet Frame's 'An Excerpt From Face In The Water'

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
188 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Janet Frame's 'An Excerpt From Face In The Water'
Face in the Water ends with the following passage. “I looked away from them and tried not to think of them and repeated to myself what one of the nurses has told me, “when you leave hospital you must forget all you have ever see, put it out of your mind completely as if it never happened, and go and live a normal life in the outside world.” And by what I have written in this document you will see, won’t you, that I have obeyed her?”(Chapter XVII Pg 253) The entire time I was reading this book, I could not await to find out why Istina was in the hospital. What had she done? I just knew she had murdered someone, but we never find out what she did to be but in the hospital. I think the reason Janet Frame let the details of Istina life before her
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The Theme of 'The Man in the Water' by Roger Rosenblatt
    • 395 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Theme of 'The Man in the Water' by Roger Rosenblatt

    In the essay "The Man in the Water" by Roger Rosenblatt, the Man in the Water did something heroic that most other people probably would not do. He and a great deal of other people were in a plane crash and landed in the Arctic Ocean. They were floating in the middle of freezing cold water with no one around to help. Soon enough, a helicopter rescue team came to save the group of people that had crashed by pulling them out of the water. Every time the rescue team lowered a lifeline or a flotation ring to the Man in the Water, he passed it on to another of the passengers that were with him on the plane. That selfless act was beyond doubt, heroic and admirable.…

    • 395 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Margaret Peterson Haddix's Among The Hidden
    • 265 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Margaret Peterson Haddix's Among The Hidden

    What would you do if you were the third child having to hide your whole entire life? Well in the book “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is very suspenseful. In their town that they live in they are only allowed to have two children, but one family decides to have three. Luke, as the third child is not allowed to step outside, he has to stay hidden, because they are too scared the population police will come and get him. Therefore this book is a mystery, because it leaves you with a cliffhangers. The book is told in first person point of view, the genre of “Among the Hidden” is a mystery. “Among the Hidden” is rather short at 153 pages.…

    • 265 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Pat Conroy's 'Passage: The Water Is Wide'
    • 953 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Pat Conroy's 'Passage: The Water Is Wide'

    Reaction: One of the important things to note about Conroy is his sense of humor. He engages the children by making them laugh both at himself and at themselves in order to break the invisible barrier between his life and theirs. He also understood that the children learn more from their parents than him. He learned that he is a influence on their lives and teaching life lessons is an important part of the job as a teacher.…

    • 953 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Ellen Prager's Chasing Science At Sea
    • 565 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Ellen Prager's Chasing Science At Sea

    Alldredge, A. 2009. Review of Chasing Science At Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts, by E. Prager.…

    • 565 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Wallace, David Foster's This Is Water
    • 163 Words
    • 1 Page

    Wallace, David Foster's This Is Water

    Wallace while covering the topic of having the innate ability to choose how you see day to day life engages and enthralls the reader through the slight use of humor and contemporary sense full writing. While simplifying by generally extracting a piece of an event from the normal day of a worker, Wallace depicts the process of "Default" settings in one's own way of thinking. Wallace clearly defies normal structures of providing advice by genuinely speaking in a tone in which the reader feels connected. Pathos provided necessary flow between his words and the act of choosing to opt out of the "Default settings" Wallace pertains to motivate the audience to actively…

    • 163 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Wallace David Foster This Is Water Summary
    • 206 Words
    • 1 Page

    Wallace David Foster This Is Water Summary

    Wallace, David Foster. "This is Water." Kenyon college commencement speech. May 21, 2005. Wallace's speech gives a look at reality. The way an American adult's life is. The way how everything is routine, how if not "well adjusted," you will be self centered and in default setting. He describes the daily routine of an American adult, and how he goes to a supermarket, packed with more people. He gets frustrated and annoyed by all of these people; how they are just wasting his time. He then starts thinking how all of these people are going through the same thing he is going through; they have rough days just as he does. If someone was to think outside the box and actually focus on the beauty of this world, they will not be bored, annoyed, frustrated,…

    • 206 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Rainbow Fish By Marcus Pfister
    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Rainbow Fish By Marcus Pfister

    There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” This is a famous quote said by Marcel Proust. Books over the centuries have had an influential impact on the lives of many. Arguably, there are none more influential than children’s books. Children’s books contain important life lessons and teach many children the basic values they will hold for the remainder of their lives. Examples of the best range from the well-known Dr. Seuss books, to the always-popular Winnie the Pooh books. Although those are historically popular, The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, is one that should be kept in mind. With it’s enticing illustrations, simple and descriptive context, and lesson it portrays, the children’s book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister should be considered for a spot on the “Top 100 Children’s Books” list.…

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Baptism In Water
    • 239 Words
    • 1 Page

    Baptism In Water

    Thomas C Foster spent a significant amount of time discussing water, more specifically, what it symbolizes when characters get wet. There are two options when someone is submerged in water: to drown, or to come back up. Both outcomes can have a deeper meaning within the context of a book. Water is often associated with baptism and authors create interactions with water in order to “baptize” a character. Baptism can have different meanings, but is often a transition into the rebirth of a character. This could be literal or figurative. For example. a character could emerge from the water changed. What follows would be the transformation of their identity and/or behavior. Water can also serve as a transition between worlds, and mindsets. Whether…

    • 239 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Drown By Junot Diaz
    • 700 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Drown By Junot Diaz

    DROWN BY JUNOT DIAZ Pat Murphy & Iris Foley Junot Diaz • Born in the Dominican Republic – December 31 1968 • Like many of his characters, had a strained relationship • • • • • • with his father Books include Drown This is How You Lose Her The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – won a Pulitzer Prize Was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship Teaches creative writing at MIT…

    • 700 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    David Foster Wallace's This Is Water
    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages

    David Foster Wallace's This Is Water

    David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” is a commencement speech to a group of graduating college seniors, telling them the harsh truth about life as an adult American. He utilizes this piece to ponder the problem of how and why we as humans view the world in the way we do, regarding our specific viewpoints and respective realities. He thinks upon this problem by analyzing the human psyche’s “default-setting” of being self-absorbed, and how by “learning how to think”, this cycle can be broken, using a commonplace example of a long day of work followed by a trip to the grocery store to showcase how all of us focus upon ourselves and our own intentions (3, 2). He ends up concluding that to live a common American life is “unimaginably hard”, and how we perceive this life and the world around us is what will grant us “awareness of what is real and essential” as we live it (8).…

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    James Mcbride's The Color Of Water
    • 977 Words
    • 4 Pages

    James Mcbride's The Color Of Water

    In the end people have the power to influence and change other people’s lives, in The Color of Water by James McBride; James learns many important life lessons from the people around him and in his life and how to be a leader not a follower. Perhaps the greatest influence on James is the Chicken man who teaches James to get an education, to help James to find determination in life, and not to get in to a man and woman argument if you’re not in it with them.…

    • 977 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Once More to the Lake by E. B. White: Growing Up with Time
    • 1080 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Once More to the Lake by E. B. White: Growing Up with Time

    “Once More to the Lake” is about a father who takes his son to a camp he had visited often as a boy with his own father. While on this trip, the man often reminisces about how this camp has not changed a bit and that he often feels like he has gone back in time and is the boy he was when he first came, not the father he now is like when the speaker says “[…] or I would be saying something, and suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words […]” (White 371). The purpose of this essay is that in life we all know we have to grow up at some time, but like the man in this piece, we all have to realize that it is okay to keep those memories we formed as a child but not to stay stuck it the past and need to learn to separate from your childhood self and recognize you are getting older.…

    • 1080 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Anne Fadiman's 'Under Water': An Analysis
    • 407 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Anne Fadiman's 'Under Water': An Analysis

    1. Anne Fadiman narrates the events of “Under Water” in first person. She prepares us by describing the setting and the conditions and intentions of the event. I think Anne wants us to realize that everyone on the trip, including the instructors, are human. Even though they knew there was no chance of saving Gary, or even possibly reaching his unresponsive body, they tried their hardest.…

    • 407 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In Fish Cheeks, By Amy Tan
    • 115 Words
    • 1 Page

    In Fish Cheeks, By Amy Tan

    Questioning, the man above on why the features look the way they do, consequently it drives anyone insane, hoping no one notices these imperfections. With this in mind, in Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan, the fourteen-year-old girl is getting all worked up about Robert the boy she fell in love with, on what he was going to say about her unmannered family that Christmas Eve. The young man does not even acknowledge her! Controlling another human beings’ thoughts is impossible notably, Amy is worried about something she has no control over. Concerned about something that is impossible to change. It is important to realize that no one is perfect, and everyone has their own flaws.…

    • 115 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    A Sorrowful Woman by Gayle Godwin
    • 2640 Words
    • 11 Pages

    A Sorrowful Woman by Gayle Godwin

    One winter evening she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tender golden three. The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again.…

    • 2640 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics