The book “Kira-Kira” is something everyone is recommended to read. Written by author Cynthia Kadohata, the story has a good plot and no loopholes. In this writing, I will try to persuade you, as a reader, to read this book.…
The whole book goes with the relation between the writer himself and the inmate Zeno. The author…
With the change in speaker in each part of the book, the read gets to see the most significant part of the person’s life. The memoir begins with Thompson’s rape, in the perspective of her. Telling the horror of Thompsons experience strengths the reader’s sympathy towards her as pathos dominates the first section of the novel. Being inside Thompson’s mind and knowing her strength throughout the crime acts as a characterization method for Thompson. Since the novel is nonfiction, the typical characterization methods used in other novels are not possible. Knowing how Thompson thinks and feels creates traits for her which later makes her conviction of Cotton understandable. The transition to Cotton during his time in prison enlightens the reader on Cotton’s life and also his innocence. An inside look of what a double life sentence can take from an honest man is shown as Cotton reveals his hardships during his memoir. Again pathos was used, showing the struggles and confrontation Cotton faces during his imprisonment. The theme of forgiveness results after Cotton’s perspective and thoughts are expressed and he chooses to forgive Thompson for her mistake.…
They all present unreliable first person views of experiences filled with regrets, mistakes, contradictions, lies, and fear. Readers pity Stevens for his blindness to the subtleness of communication, but Jack is also blind to much of life’s realities, without the lovableness to pity him. Contrastingly, the unnamed narrator is hyper observant of his surroundings; hence, he uses situations to his advantage or cleverly retaliates, like when he plays along with the racist head of Oriental Studies. Unlike Stevens, the unmanned narrator and Jack have more at stake if their identities falter, due to Stevens lack of connections and his profession; additionally, the unnamed man’s life is literally always at risk in some capacity, and Jack faces a toxic spill and tries to kill a man. Plus, the unnamed man and Jack have people they love that they need to consider. Mainly, betrayal of self results from the three protagonists’ fabricated personas. Each novel closes with the narrator existing in a liminal space, where the path they will follow is unclear; correspondingly, the novels’ ends are ambiguous because life is not just black or white, but each man has the choice to change their role in life. Still, the protagonists…
Kouros is a marble statue from an unknown artist. The 6’ 4” statue is from the Archaic Period in Greece, and currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York. The representational, closed statue shows a naked man. His hair is a little longer than shoulder length, and has his arms at his side, fists clenched. His left foot is in front of the other. The entire statue is on a square marble base. This is a representational styled statue showing a Greek man roughly from 600 BCE.…
Guilt can drive people to the ground. It can ruin ones life from top to bottom. Some people spend their whole life being guilty and they lose sight of what is really important in life. They spend way too much time trying to redeem themselves and it is in their conscious forever. In the case of Amir, he spends his entire childhood and midlife trying to redeem himself. He feels guilty for many reasons and all of his struggles in the novel are because of his feelings of guilt. Guilt and redemption are what drive this novel.…
In lesson 6 we had to summarise how each character might feel about the murder. In lesson 6, we used guilt spilt staging, voice & contrasts, We used one of the forms of stimuli of ‘play scripts’ . In the play script we explored the line ‘ I told him not to come back didn’t I mel’ to understand how all the characters feel guilty. The characters feel guilty because marky has been murdered. All the characters feel conscience-stricken and guilt ridden. The script changes throughout the ending of the play it raises the tension by shortening the dialogue. The characters speech becomes shortened and there words become more scarce and sudden . We then did a police interview by the use of drama medium ; split staging. Split staging can use two or more different levels, and the audience can see characters better if one group is behind the other and using the raised level. Me and shea was the police officers interviewing dig and sophie which in this case was Hodan and Arthur. We asked them questions such as , how do…
Thesis Statement: John Grisham develops his character and themes in his novels to show his personal experiences.…
These craft moves include varying word choice and the stories unique point of view. In the long paragraph, O’Flaherty writes, “ He struck a match inhaled the smoke hurriedly… almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself… took another whiff and put it out… and crawled away” (1). O’Flaherty depicts the varying word choice by making it very descriptive and to explain the sequence of events. O’Flaherty is making this long paragraph very descriptive using the words hurriedly, flattened, whiff, and crawled. These words explain the series of events fluently and expressively. This is not the only craft move that O’Flaherty uses. In the long sentence, O’Flaherty writes, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (4). O’Flaherty describes the point of view as third person. “The Sniper” is using the point of view from third person so that you can see everything thing that is happening. The point of view is omniscient because the reader knows the Republican Snipers feelings, but the story is not told by him or any of the other characters, but the reader knows everybody's actions. Throughout the story O’Flaherty creates a lesson using varying craft…
mirrors the narrator's behavior. There for she too is also behind bars. Another parallel between the actions of the narrator…
Through the conversation and interaction he has with Lynne, we learn that the narrator is someone who has many worries in his mind, is unstable and fragile. This is where ambiguity kicks in. He saved a life early in the day, but how come he becomes so weak and frail by the end of the day. Thus, to further understand this character, the author leads us to the narrator’s personal story and his relationship with his girlfriend. Through the way the narrator describes the scenes happened to him, I would say the narrator is a keen observer, but he is also someone who constantly has unstable relationships. At the end, when the author brings up the narrator’s son and demonstrate how important they meant to each other shows the last characteristic of the narrator: value the…
Both characters show how insane they are by attempting to rationalize their crimes. They both attempt to explain with precise details that the reasons in which they…
The protagonist in the jury room, juror 8, and the antagonist in the jury room, juror 3, both back up their opinion as to whether or not the Hispanic boy is guilty or innocent. The jurors reasoning behind their opinions are based on facts and details from the trial and are very logical and believable. Juror 8 and juror 3 both try to persuade the other jurors with their reasoning and they both believe strongly of their opinion. The protagonist and the antagonist have many more differences than they do similarities; this brings the dictation to last for many tense and hostile hours.…
Hedayat’s ‘Dash Akol’, was later on made into a movie in 1972 by . There are very subtle differences between the story of ‘Dash Akol’ and the movie of ‘Dash Akol’. Yet, the major difference was the new character of **, the dancer. Some of the subtle differences include, Kaka stutters and this is a known and accepted fact in the story yet in the movie he does not. Also, Dash Akol in the movie drank only tea and wine while in the story he was known to “down a bottle of vodka”. Dash Akol in the movie was present during Haji’s death while in the story he was not. Haji also had other children other than Marjan in the story but in the movie there was no mention of them. In Shiraz people began to lose respect for Dash Akol as he disappeared and dealt with Haji’s estate and affairs in the story, in the movie he kept his respect. The movie concentrated mostly on the feud between Kaka Rostam and Dash Akol rather than Dash Akol’s love for Marjan as in the story. In the case of Kaka Rostam’s stuttering being left out of the movie was probably because of aesthetic reasons. It would be awkward to hear Kaka constantly stuttering and would possibly take away from the meaning of his lines. Yet, one may also argue that the stuttering should have been included because it would have been more authentic to the original story. Hedayat as an author made Kaka Rostam stutter and this from, Hedayat’s point of view was important enough to write the character this way, therefore it should have been included. I believe that , changed from the original version of the story and made Dash Akol not drink vodka or heavily, because Dash Akol only drinking wine and not being a drunk added to his character of being a hero. Haji’s other children were left out of the movie, in my opinion because they did not add or take away the story in any way. Therefore * removed them to focus the story on the main child of Haji that was important, Marjan. A lot of the changes from the literature to the movie…
In 'I'm the Kings of the Castle' Susan Hill realized that in order for the book to be a success, the reader must feel sympathetic towards Kingshaw, so that they will believe in the likelihood of his suicide. She arouses the reader's sympathy through her narrative technique, the role of other characters and many other techniques that will be analyzed in the essay. Her skilful presentation of Kingshaw's story gives a disturbing insight into the potentially tragic consequences of a child's experience of cruelty and isolation. Hill employs narrative technique effectively in creating a sympathy for Kingshaw from the audience. Hill's control of the third person is effective in exaggerating Kingshaw's experiences. For example, the pivotal episode where Kingshaw is running away from the crow in the fields is portrayed in a way so as to evoke a sympathy for Kingshaw; "Kingshaw began to run, not caring now, if he trampled the corn, wanting to get away, down into the next field." Hill has emphasized the tone in the narrative voice, there is a sense of panic which is brought on by the overuse of commas. The third person narrative voice evoking this sense of panic and highlighting Kingshaw's frightening experience with the crow is significant showing that Hill has attempted to write sympathetically for Kingshaw. Within the same scene, Hill has drawn Hooper away, presenting him as some distant evil and ultimately highlighting the protagonistlike character of Hooper. "He looked up. Hooper stood in the window of his bedroom. He watched and watched." Hill portrays Hooper with more obscurity, In contrast to the vividness that Kingshaw and his actions have been described. Hill describes Kingshaw's fears and anxieties through recognition of one's social situation, through the use of the reader's emotional response and by the fact that Kingshaw was shown sensitive as soon as he received the message when he arrived at Warings. Hill uses Hooper's eagerness for Hooper to know about…