manner. How does the order of the telling help shape the story’s meaning? What details foreshadow…
In this nonfiction book based in the years of World War 2, the tragedy that happened to Finny during a summer at Devon set the topic for the story about the novel. During a summer at Devon Finny’s best friend, Gene, who is thoughtful and intelligent and had also developed a love-hate relationship with Finny, made a decision that would end in the death of Finny. They day when Leper, Gene, and Finny were all jumping off a tree at the Devon River there was a serious accident. When Gene and Finny were on a branch in the tree Gene spasmodically decided to shake the branch in order for Finny for all off, although Gene would never admit this to be true. Finny broken his leg and was practically crippled. This “accident” came to be the main aspect of A Separate Peace. Directly after the accident Brinker was interested in what actually happened that day at the river since it was accepted that Finny just fell off. One day when Gene was alone in his form room Brinker and his friends forced Gene down to the butt room, a room where smoking was allowed. Brinker further investigated that day during the summer by interrogating Gene. Gene felt uncomfortable so he fled. As he returned to his room he saw a very familiar face, it belonged to Finny. Finny had returned from resting at his house after the accident. Life went on and Finny continued to be the leader he was born to be, he instigated a snow ball war and school carnival.…
The clear negative tone of his writing gives readers the same, or a similar viewpoint as Kempner. He uses words with negative connotations like “abortion”(3), “hard road”(10), and “driving rainstorm”(26). He clearly sees the war as an unbearable misfortune in which he had the most lurid…
In the beginning of the story Hester emerges from the Puritan prison with the scarlet letter “A” on her chest, and a child in her arms. However, she shows no motherly love or affection toward Pearl, as she walks or stands on the scaffold with her. As the story continues Hester and Pearl’s relationship is illustrated as a relationship of two companions who are both outcast from the village rather than a love filled mother-daughter relationship.…
The passage is organized in a sequence of events where the reader thinks Hester and William’s relationship is not very good or strong, but after revealing what the topic is the couple are discussing the reader begins to see introduced conflict. Later on in the passage when the husband reveals his experience it shows the reader that the couple loves each other still.…
There are some descriptions in this extract which suggest disturbance. These create a mood for the final events in the novel. Find these, and comment on them.…
He tells the story of a young girl and boy in trying situations and persuades his audience to feel sorry for them. The boy lives in a bad area. His father is “jobless” and his mother is a “sleep-in domestic.” The girl must take on the “role of [a] mother” because her “mother died.” What reader can help but feeling sorry for a young child who has no hope? They still live in fear and desolation and have no hope, for their race is sinking. Once, their people worked with “George Washington” and “shed blood in the revolution.” But, they fell from higher hopes and were put on “slave ships... in chains.” The reader can’t help but feel sorry for a race that has been so abused and taken advantage of.…
The Lamb uses 4-part choir only. This consists of sopranos, altos, tenors and bass. The ranges of the higher voices are narrow with the soprano only having a range of a augmented 5th and the Alto’s range of a major 6th, the tenor has a range of a major 7th and the Bass has a range of a major 9th…
In order to fully understand the novel, it is necessary to understand the historical context that permeates the novels most important themes and interpretations because William…
David Updike’s story “Summer” describes one summer holiday of a boy named Homer. He is faced with the external conflict on an unrequited love. Homer, the protagonist, is spending the summer at his best friend, Fred’s home near the lake. The summer, for the most, followed the usual flow of ‘athletic and boyhood fulfillment” (para 11) for Homer and Fred. There were the tennis matches and hiking, the alcohol and hanging out late at night and the reckless driving of both the car and the motorboat out on the lake. However, what made this summer special to Homer was that he had fallen in love with Fred’s sister, Sandra, the antagonist. Sadly, though, she did not seem to really notice him despite all the times they spent together, and so he suffered the heartache of regret and longing as he faced his conflict of an “unrequited” love.…
After his professor introduced William to Jane Austen, he developed a love for Austen’s writing, the love he had for her also became love for his professor. He thought of his professor as his father, he shepherd William with helping him choose a career, find an affordable apartment, and help write his dissertation. William learned a lot from his professor, he was old enough to retire when William had him freshman year but had still stuck with what he loved. That no matter how drastically the world was changing, good or bad, he could always look at the bright side, and he never jumped to conclusions when talking to William he was always open to hearing what William had to say. I think this helped show William that being patient and to have someone push him in a direction he would have never went on his own.…
Symbolism is an element present in writing. “The Red Convertible,” a short story written by Louise Erdrich, tells the story of the destructive nature of war. With the name in the title, it is only natural that the convertible plays a very important role in the short story. The condition of the car throughout the story shows the stages of a relationship between two brothers. The main characters in the story, Lyman and Henry Lamartine, develop an inseparable bond through a red convertible. Their relationship changed drastically when Henry, the oldest of the two, was drafted into the Vietnam War. Upon returning from the war “Henry was very different” and “the change was no good” (327). Despite what many may think, the convertible is not the only symbol in the story. Henry’s clothes and boots show the permanent effect of war, and the power of a photograph show the effects that war can have on a person’s soul. Erdrich’s ultimate purpose in “The Red Convertible” is communicating the emotional and physical pain war creates for a soldier and his family.…
K.’s constant demonstration of provoking offensive attacks towards Fraulein Burstner displays the protagonist’s abnormal characteristics of being aggressively romantic and disrespectful, in which illustrates K.’s eagerness in establishing superiority towards surrounding acquaintance. Prior to K.’s own desire in permitting forgiveness for causing some sort of disorder, the belated appearance of Fraulein Burstner in the late hour had been utterly regarded as “introducing disturbance and disorder into the end of this day”(p.18). By the action of approaching Fraulein Burstner, K. had deliberately summit himself into a world of uncontrollable situations through the use of term “introducing disturbance and disorder”: its simplicity tone, its straightforward…
In the first paragraph alone, many important aspects of the narrator's character are revealed. It is revealed to the reader that the narrator was in love and is grieving for the woman he loved. It is also in the first paragraph where the major conflict is revealed. The major conflict, in which the narrator is involved, is his own torment from the memory of his dead wife. This is evident when the narrator says, "When I saw our room again, our bed, our furniture, everything that remains of the life of a human being after death I was seized by such a violent attack of fresh grief that I felt like opening the window and throwing myself onto the street." Initially, the author intends the reader to feel sorry for the narrator and his loss. The thing that motivates the narrator in the conflict is his resolution to finish grieving before it consumes him. This is evident when he says, "Happy is the man whose heart forgets everything that it has contained."…
-In what ways can "A Sentimental Journey" be seen as a sentimental novel or a dramatization of the importance of sensibility?…