Essay - “Elephant” When most students go to school they feel motivated by the thought of learning new things and to be able to hang out with their friends in the breaks. A student may also be aware that all the tasks and assignments at the end will come to their own benefit. If the final exams turn out well the examination certificate will be worth showing future employees. But sometimes the motivation that drives people disappears and leaves them with an empty feeling of being stuck in some way
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Compare and contrast: Hemingway v. Faulkner Each writer has its very own and unique style when writing a story. The style a writer uses to write a story shows the tone being use‚ symbolism‚ characterization and description‚ enough for the reader to understand the story. Two well-known writers with completely different styles are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. “Faulkner uses many words to weave an intricate picture in the reader ’s head of what is going on‚ and Hemingway uses many monosyllabic
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are two kinds of points of view: the first-person point of view‚ and the third-person point of view. In the first-person point of view a fictitious observer tells us what he or she saw‚ heard‚ concluded‚ and thought and is usually characterized by the use of the pronoun “I”. The speaker or narrator may sometimes seem to be the author speaking directly using an authorial voice. For example‚ Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby” tells the story in a first-person point of view‚ sharing with the reader
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Elephant by Dolly Clark -An analysis and interpretation The main character of the short story‚ “Elephant” by Dolly Clark‚ is called William. William is an author just like his namesake William Shakespeare. But only the name and their profession bind these two persons together. Because although William is an author he is not quite as magnificent an author as the famous Shakespeare was it. In fact he is just a biographer who is “writing £1.99 stories for the record shops”. William does not seem
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Elephants Attention Getter: What’s big‚ grey and stands in the rain but doesn’t get wet? Elephants!! Background info: It is estimated that there were once more than 350 species of elephants in the world. Today we only have two of them left (well tree) the Asian‚ the Africa and the mix of them. Both of them are at risk of extinction. Between illegal hunting of them for ivory as well as the destruction of their natural habitat things are simply closing in on them at an alarming rate. Specific Purpose
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* Feminist criticism defines a literary theory showing how women were portrayed as less valuable than men in literature throughout history. Usually called feminist literary criticism‚ it studies how early writings condoned the oppression of women because men dominated society. Feminist criticism also explores how women writers were taken less seriously than male authors from a historical A criticism advocating equal rights for women in a political‚ economic‚ social‚ psychological‚ personal
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Elephant Inspiration is the most important factor when you write. You have to have the motivation to write and tell a story. You can get writer’s blockage when you write and become in desperate need of an interesting subject to get the work done. In the short story “Elephant” by Polly Clark we hear about William who is a writer. He writes short biographies of pop stars‚ that you can buy for only £1.99. William is not interested in pop stars‚ and really wants to write biographies of male film stars
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Hemingway and the Struggle of Masculinity in WarMen in A Farewell to Arms and For Whom The Bell TollsThe name of Ernest Hemingway has long been associated with the idea of a strong‚ stubborn man who is very socially inept. In both A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ we are introduced to an extremely cold‚ unfeeling character and we see how they evolve from one type of man into another. Frederic Henry and Robert Jordan are both Americans serving overseas in some conflict‚ Henry being in
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the 1920’s is often referred to as the “Lost Generation.” This was a time of hopelessness and heartache from the damages of the war which caused carelessness and lack of responsibility. Everyone was affected in some way and often could not handle the situation‚ usually turning to alcohol to relieve all problems. According to Gertrude Stein‚ the literary figures of the 1920’s “drank themselves to death”‚ especially two of the greatest writers of the 20th century‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
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point of view‚ voice and style‚ and theme. “The theme of a story abstracts its meaning from the concrete details of its plot‚ point of view‚ characterization‚ setting‚ and style” “Theme is a generalization about the meaning of a story. It is more than the subject of the story… [and] is also different from the plot. …Theme comes last in a discussion of the elements of fiction because it is the consequence of all the other elements in a story. The structure and theme of a story are fused like the body
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