A Literary Analysis Of The Elevator By William Sleator

In the story, “On the subway”, the author Sharon Olds uses literary devices to help the reader get a clearer understanding of the theme of the passage. This devices are seen on the style and grammar being used in the story such as symbolism and imagery which illustrate the point of view the protagonist has towards society.

Jack Finney is an American author that has written many books in his lifetime, one being “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, a short story about a man who risked his life for his job. In this short story fear takes over this man’s body, he is faced with acrophobia, which is the fear of heights, and many other challenges. There is a lot of suspense created in this story and Jack Finney uses internal and external conflicts and cause and effect to fabricate that suspense.

Every day I have one specific fear. Once you grow over six feet tall, you cannot fit into certain spaces. I have a pretty bad case of claustrophobia, fearing that I will never get out of the small spaces I find myself in. Just like me, Martin had claustrophobia and many other fears in William Sleater’s book “The Elevator”, he shows Martin’s deepest fears of an elevator, a fat lady, and his father’s opinion of him. Rushing to get to school, Martin took the dreaded elevator down to the lobby. Everything was fine until the elevator stopped, and a portly lady in a green jacket stumbled in, taking up half the elevators space. She stared at him intensely until he got off, rushed through the lobby, and ran to school. He couldn’t stop

The author, Sleator writes “he was always uncomfortable in elevators, afraid they would fall.” Martin’s fear of the elevator falling and being trapped inside tells us how he feels in life, alone and trapped. In the Lamb of the Slaughter, Mary, a devoted housewife who eagerly awaits her husband's arrival home from work each day. The author Dahl write

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are hundreds of airports just like this one all around the world. I cannot be intimate with a location that is constantly repeated because it does not exist as an individual place. The structure of the airport does not require individuality in order to function. Its production of repetition and homogeneity is the basis for its efficiency worldwide because it creates an order through which people's movements can be controlled smoothly.” Those places have become spaces of transition, junkspace. They usually don’t carry notions of history of cultures. They don’t contain within themselves enough spirit of quality spaces. People move in and out without experiencing them as meaningful moments to be inhabited. People come to the airport in order to leave. They pass through a series of hall ways in such a hasty pace with anxieties to get to final destinations.

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Of all the battles young Martin faces from William Sleator’s “The Elevator”, a reader can grasp one of the greatest and most important themes to fit this story. When Martin and his dad move into an apartment, Martin is apprehensive about it because of the fact that the place is old and practically falling apart. For one, Martin is afraid of elevators, and he has to use an old one everyday. To top it off, he has to ride the old thing with a mysterious, creepy, fat lady. Once Martin’s situation gets to the point of being unbearable, he confronts his dad telling him about the creepy lady on the elevator. Martin’s dad is the exact opposite of how a father should be. Martin’s dad insults him whenever he looks to him for help. Also, Martin doesn’t

Martin, the main character of “The elevator”, is afraid of elevators. His situation got even worse when he moved into his new apartment with his dad. The apartment was old and dirty. The elevator that was in their building could only hold three people. The stairs were just as bad. They were dark and dirty as well. To make matters worse, they lived on the seventeenth floor. Later on in the story, Martin breaks his leg and is forced to ride the elevator. Martin’s dad thinks he’s being a coward and makes fun of him in a way. His dad doesn’t think he should worry about this woman and doesn’t really listen to what Martin says about this lady who always stares at him in the elevator. In William Sleator’s “The Elevator,” readers learn that you should

Tobias Wolff’s short story, “That Room” is a very suspenseful story that has the reader on the edge of their seat while reading it. Suspense and excitement is created through the plot and theme of the story which are both developed through four main literary devices. In the story, the narrator is put into what is potentially a life or death situation and it is at this point that he becomes aware that one is never really in full control of his or her own life. Throughout this literary analysis I will discuss the plot and theme of the story in terms of how Wolff uses setting, tone, characterization, and symbolism to enhance both the theme and the plot.

“...he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone…” The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury is a short story that focuses on the idea of how lonely it can be in a world of technology. Starting the story with Leonard Mead, the pedestrian, walking around the neighborhood and talking to the houses as if they were people not talking to the ghosts within the windows. During mid walk he ran into some trouble with the police leading him into being arrested for walking without a valid purpose. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury portrays this idea of how lonely it can be in a world of technology by using metaphors, dialogue and symbolism.

When the elevator opened and he saw the fat lady he was shocked. martin scooted to the back of the elevator. Martian did not run out of the elevator. He looked up to see what floor he was at. He was only at floor 10. 7 more floors. But then if he got off the lady would know what floor and number he was in .So when floor 17 came martian stayed on. At floor 18 he got off and took the stairs down to 17. The fat lady took them to. She flowed him all the way to floor 17 .martin went as fast as he could on his crutches for his room walked in and locked the door. Then he heard the door next to him close. She lives in the room next to him. He woke up in the morning.

William Sleator does not specify him being claustrophobic. However, William Sleator shows that he is by text evidence. On the lines 14-15 there is text evidence that shows Martin’s fear of the elevator… “Coming home from school the day after they moved in, Martin tried the stairs.” This action shows avoidance. Martin is doing everything that he possibly can to avoid riding on the elevator because he is afraid of it. Another example is found in lines 4-6… “Of course he was always uncomfortable in elevators, afraid that they would fall, but there was something especially unpleasant about this one.” William Sleator states in these lines that Martin is, and always has been uncomfortable in elevators. Martin is worried about the elevator falling and he is very disturbed about this particular elevator and it’s

On the subway, have many ideals of violence in where the author expresses a life of a gangster. The technique devices used in the excerpt shows the imagery, symbolism and foreshadowing throughout the poem. This excerpt was created for young people that are into the gang life to have a change of heart and realize the mistake of what they’re about to do. The first technique that I discovered was imagery.

“Hello, Martin,” she said, and laughed, and pushed the STOP button. While on the elevator Martin was scared so scared he was shaking it wasn’t a pleasant feeling for him and it was even worse knowing that she knows his name now. He was wondering how she knew his name and why his dad got off and talked to her. Are they dating? Are they going to play a prank on me? Martin had all of these thoughts rambling in his head he wondered what she was always staring at him for. The fat old lady asked Martin what he was doing, Martin stood silent wondering what was going to happen to him. The old fat lady pushed the 17th floor and then pushed the stop button so it wasn’t light up anymore they make it to the 16th floor and the elevator