Analysis Of The Story '  Dear Reader '

The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self. This assignment has opened my eyes, despite my initial difficulty in writing it. When I was asked to write down my earliest memory of writing, at first I drew a blank. All of a sudden, it became very clear to me, probably because it had some

One of the constraints that effected the quality of this paper was the fact that the story was written five years after I experienced this amazing moment in my life. As a result of the time difference, small details were forgotten resulting in a lacking story. At the time, I was filled with emotion. Yet, with so many years between the experience and the time the story was actually written down, the exact emotions I felt at the time of the event were forgotten. Well written papers tend to have emotion laced throughout them. If I would have written the story right after it happened I know there would have been more feeling and details put in to the story that got forgotten over the years. Another constraint was the time allowed to write the paper. There was not enough time to dive in and process the story in the depth that would have made it a better paper. If more time would have been allowed I could have had more time to think about the moment when the amazing experience happened. By bringing up the old feelings felt in the moment, it would have allowed me to really thinking about what was being written

My knees shivered as I walked up the huge steps onto the bus. Millions of things were running through my mind; I was nervous. There was a loud chatter throughout the bus, but it wasn’t normal chatter. Everyone was on a light edge as we were all more than aware about what we were about to face. The bus pulled up into a familiar area. Elsternwick was busy and the sun was bright. I personally am always in Elsternwick and I never knew the museum was

RJ was Alya's "boyfriend" and this trip would have been like real date for them not just playing together at recess. Ayla and I make a deal that if she gets the window seat now then I can have it when we are coming back. Ready to shut out the sound of my yelling peers I put on my earbuds and select a song from one of the many albums my dad has, nothing current but all good songs. Ayla soon climbs over me to sit in the aisle seat despite our agreement to talk to friends on the other side. I stare out the window I now sit by and wonder how long the drive was going to be. We are still in the parking

Nick fidgeted with his train ticket and bent the corners. He buttoned and unbuttoned his flannel shirt and he re-tied his shoelaces. He could now see the train slowing to a stop as it pulled into the station. It was big and loud. Nick couldn’t remember the last time he had been on a train. Nick stood up. He picked up his things.

This is a story about two people that found a lot in common. Vivian Daly was 91 and was an orphan-train rider when she was a child. Molly Ayer was a seventeen year old gir that asked the questions that no one had ever thought to ask Vivian Daly. Since Molly Ayer was close to being 18 she was about to be kicked out of the foster care system and her foster home. Molly had community service hours that she had to fulfilled. If they weren’t she was going to juvie. Molly had chosen to clean out Vivian Daly’s attic. Vivian’s attic was full of old trunks that held the secrets of her past. When Vivivan was younger she lived in New York City and was put on the orphan train to get a new start in the midwest. She had lost most of her family when the tenement

Overall, the narrative was great. The conflict of the narrator’s struggles with expressing emotions is well established in the Preface: “It Could All Be So Easy” and is addressed directly in the “Mom’s Quiet Voice” with the narrator wishing she could had verbally expressed how much she loved her grandfather. The writer’s voice is consistent throughout the narrative: blunt and candid, especially in the last paragraph of the Preface. “Why can’t people just say what the fuck they mean? Is it that hard to admit you need someone, and you love them, and neither they or you are alone in the world? Isn’t that what they want to hear anyway?” The use of rhetorical questions helps to illustrate the narrator’s attitude about the conflict. The tone

In “The Story of an Hour,” one of the messages about marriage that is trying to be sent is that the system of marriage itself, not the husband, does women wrong. The narrator shows that Louis crying at the news of her husband’s death, “with sudden, wild abandonment” (169). The word “wild” implies a sense of nature and that her initial reaction was instinctual and natural. Such a reaction is normal towards a husband who has been very loving of Louis as far as the narrator reveals. Although remorseful in front of others in public, Louis feels very happy in private. Louis feels liberated that she is no longer held in bondage to her husband, but still feels depressed as she is

People that have helped Layton “see” that which he had not seen, “love” what he once considered unlovable, and “be” in an often imperfect world are his mother, Aunt Sue, his Grandmother, Uncle Jimmy, friends, people he encounters in his life, and famous black individuals. There are many that are found in the book.

In Marilynne Robinsons Lila, Lila sees herself as the people of Jerusalem. She is abandoned as a child and left to die. The people of Jerusalem were also abandoned and left to die. Throughout the passage, both Lila and the people of Jerusalem try to forget their past and start a new beginning and a better future. They reflect on their past which helps them move forward.

Character: On this book, Margaret Atwood uses the main character, Iris Chase, as the symbolism against the suicide of her sister, Laura Chase. She writes this novel in order to reopen the investigation to the reason behind her suicide ideas. This gives an idea in a way that she wants to find out what happened to her loved one. “What virtue was once attached to this notion- of going beyond your strength, of not sparing yourself…” ( C.3 Pg.73). Plot: The story was published by Iris Chase based on her extramarital affair with Alex. Later, Iris published her story in name of Laura after she committed suicide after learning of Alex’s death during the war. “ Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge” (Page 1). Setting: The story takes place in the 1950s in the Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga as well as in Toronto in which it is seen with industrial buildings and it looks a little run down. “The abandoned quarries are still there on the outskirts, deep squares and oblongs cut down into the rock as if whole buildings had been lifted out from them” (Pg. 49). Theme: The theme of the story is that fiction is taken from the real life, but demonstrates it in a way so that the reader can not notice the difference between the reality and the fiction behind it. This gives a broader understanding of which what the author wants to get across from and prove a point. “She had a single photograph of him. She tucked it down into a brown envelope… and hid the

In my short memoir I primarily discuss one of the most memorable and life changing days of my life for me and my family. The suspense and the focal point of the story is related to the mail that came. The happy feeling I had can only truly be understood by someone that went through the struggle of living in a third world country as a middle class citizen. The memoir was written in first person point of view. I describe some of the early events in the story before finally knowing what was inside the mail in very detail to illustrate the mixed set of emotions. For instance discussing the tears of my mother showed the happy emotions my mom was having after knowing the wait was finally over. I also use dialogues to discuss my thoughts to engage

I believe the emotional tone of this essay is one of sadness and helplessness to what is going on with the other person when the main character feels differently. The essay is filled with the feeling of sadness from the start to finish. The emotions described go with that theme of

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.

I think the writer's purpose to writing this story is for everyone to know what her family is like and went through. She wants us to know how