The Baddest Dog in Harlem In this analytic essay I have worked with the text “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” and analyzing it down to get a better understanding of the story. “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” is a short story written by Walter Dean Myers. The short story is written in “I person” and the target group of the story is teenagers and people in their twenties. The story is primarily set to get out to black people‚ as the story takes places in a ghetto society. The story is not only set out to
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HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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In this very short story‚ Alice Walker tells of a young‚ African American girl who‚ while gathering flowers‚ stumbles quite literally upon the body of a dead man. The atmosphere‚ language and subject matter of the story suggest the southern United States as a setting-sometime in the mid- to late-20th century seems an appropriate time period‚ though this is far less clear. The contrast between the story’s beginning and end is striking. We begin with a light-hearted description of the life of Myop
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What is a Story? * a narrative‚ either true or fictitious‚ in prose or verse‚ designed to interest‚ amuse‚ or instruct the hearer or reader; a tale. * a fictitious tale‚ shorter and less elaborate than a novel. * a narration of an incident or a series of events or an example of these that is or may be narrated‚ as an anecdote‚ joke‚ etc. * Therefore‚ narrative or story in its broadest sense is anything told or recounted; more narrowly‚ and more usually‚ something told or recounted
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Red Dog Essay: In the film Red Dog‚ Kriv Stenders retells the story of the humorous Kelpie know to us as Red Dog. He shows to us how the loveable dog brought back together the dysfunctional community of Dampier. Set in the remote and isolated area of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The people of Dampier really need a companion with who they can share their personal feelings with and simply have someone to be able to talk with who will just listen. Red dog helps rebuild the already
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle
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Ghost Dog “It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. If one understands things in this manner‚ he should be able to hear about all ways and be more and more in accord with his own.” Thus is the struggle of Ghost Dog‚ an African American trying to live by the Bushido code of the Samurai‚ as dictacted by the book the Hagakure: Way of the Samurai‚ while living in a world dominated by
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writer and audience by removing most I’s and you’s‚ and by using elevated‚ specialized language. Formal tone suggests a serious‚ high-minded‚ probably well-educated audience. Informal: Introduces the personal. When a writer is informal‚ the kinds of stories she relates‚ the way she presents herself‚ even the words she uses suggest audience attributes by indicating what she expects them to accept. Irony: Points to discrepancies between what exists and what ought to be. It is asubtle tactic that assumes
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Practical analysis 1 While reading the following story‚ I noted its plot structure: 1. Are the events arranged chronologically? Do they catch and hold the reader’s interest? All the events arranged chronologically‚ they catch readers interest‚ because after two Soapy’s attempts ”to go to the Island” that were failed it’s interesting to know what’s the end will be. 2. What is the role of the exposition? The exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background
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THE LOADED DOG – HENRY LAWSON The short story “The Loaded Dog”‚ written by Henry Lawson in 1901 displays a significant aspect of distinctively visual through Lawson’s effective and apparent use of imagery. Lawson’s effective use of imagery stimulates the reader’s five senses in order for the audience to visualize what is actually happening. Such a notion of distinctively visual is evident in Lawson’s childhood where he contracted a condition that affected his eyesight negatively‚ thus he relied
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