Salinger‚ J(erome) D(avid) (1919- )‚ American novelist and short story writer‚ known for his stories dealing with the intellectual and emotional struggles of adolescents who are alienated from the empty‚ materialistic world of their parents. Salinger’s work is marked by a profound sense of craftsmanship‚ a keen ear for dialogue‚ and a deep awareness of the frustrations of life in America after World War II (1939-1945). Jerome David Salinger was born and raised in New York City. He began writing
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American Literary Movements Puritanism (17th century) - a style of writing that adhered to five basic tenets of religious life: original sin‚ limited atonement‚ irresistible grace‚ perseverance of the saints‚ and predestination. Puritans believed that God divinely controls the universe and all humans‚ regardless of social or economic status‚ are equal in God’s sight. Central to Puritan success is the extreme self-determinism that still contributes to American idealism. Important writers of this
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“A Jury Of Her Peers” is a short story about a women who is being investigated by her peers and is taken to trial regarding her husband’s death. A significant theme displayed is gender roles and how it impacts the story. The gender roles displayed throughout “A Jury Of Her Peers” are a women’s ability to express empathy‚ the manner in which both genders approach the investigation‚ and the different gender perception given on Mr. Wright’s cause of death. In “A Jury Of Her Peers” the women convey
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Georgia had Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers; Mississippi had William Faulkner and Eudora Welty; Louisiana inspired the major works of Kate Chopin and Tennessee Williams. Alabama had. . . Enlarge Image mocking Closemocking Associated Press Gregory Peck and Brock Peters in the 1962 film version of Harper Lee’s novel. . Well‚ while Zora Neale Hurston and Walker Percy were born in Alabama‚ those two great writers didn’t stick around my home state for long. And as for Harper Lee—Alabama
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Mississippi in the fictional Oknapatawpha County. Faulkner wrote about the history of the South. He was influenced by American fictionist Mark Twain and many other Southern American writers such as Robert Penn Warren‚ Flannery O’Connor‚ Truman Capote‚ Eudora Welty‚ Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. • William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway have complete opposite writing styles in the way that Hemingway uses short‚ simple sentences‚ and Faulkner uses more complex sentence structure. They had an ongoing feud
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Adams‚ Andy Bad Medicine A College Vagabond A Winter Round-Up At Comanche Ford The Passing of Peg-Leg Alcott‚ Louisa May Scarlet Stockings A Country Christmas The Brothers The Cross on the Old Church Tower Aldrich‚ Thomas Bailey Marjorie Dah The Cruise of the Dolphin Anderson‚ Sherwood The Door of the Trap The Dumb Man The Man in the Brown Coat I Wanted to Know Why Arthur‚ T. S. The Humble Pharisee The Two Husbands
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Every story has a narrator who presents the action from a particular point of view. The point of view determines who is telling the story‚ who it is about‚ and what information the reader is reading. Essentially‚ the point of view is the “eyes” through which a story is told. When determining point of view‚ it is important to know whether the events of the story are being interpreted by the author or by one of the characters. Also it is important to be able to understand and recognize voice and focus
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later about the opinion or point of interpretation stated in your thesis (since we often discover new insights as we write)‚ reword it and revise the rest of the essay accordingly. Sample Thesis Statements about the short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty: On character: In “A Worn Path‚” Phoenix Jackson is a frail old woman with physical and mental weaknesses‚ but she appears as a strong heroic character by the end of the story. She uses common sense‚ wit‚ and courage to overcome the obstacles
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LORD OF THE FLIES What is human nature? How does William Golding use it in such a simple story of English boys to precisely illustrate how truly destructive humans can be? Golding was in World War Two‚ he saw how destructive humans can be‚ and how a normal person can go from a civilized human beign into savages. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses the theme of human nature to show how easily society can collapse‚ and how self-destructive human nature is. Throughout the story Golding
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