Comparing Wanderlust And Flash Nonfiction

Making shapely fiction by Jerome stern actually taught me a lot more about writing than I anticipated. Before I read the chapters I needed to read I had already written my flash fiction. After I finished all my pages I quickly went back to my flash fiction and change everything that I saw that I did wrong, since I just learned it in the book. For example, in my flash fiction I had my character express thinking and her thoughts. Before reading this book, I was unaware that one didn’t have to put it in quotation marks when expressing a thought. Therefore, I quickly went and changed it.

In both the movie Into the Wild and the book Grizzly Man, Chris McCandless and Timothy Treadwell conduct themselves in similar ways. However, the writer of Into the Wild, Krakauer, and the director of Grizzly Man, Herzog, portray the men in different ways. Timothy Treadwell in Into the Wild, is presented in a negative way as if he was insane. Chris McCandless was presented relatively fairly, in both a positive and negative way.

An alternative reason as to why this section of the book is useful is the understatement of one’s own creativity. At the end of the section, Barry states, “to be able to stand not knowing long enough to let something alive take shape! Without the two questions so much is possible. To all the kids who quit drawing…Come back!” (135). Barry understanding that creativity is limitless is when she can finally let go of the two questions that had plagued her mind for years. This new understanding has given her back that sense of fulfillment of drawing without

With his opening sequence McCloud illustrates that because the acting of showing is instinctual, incorporating visuals with literature would be logical. The series of panels in which the boy is struggling to explain verbally, not visually, what the toy is capable of captures McCloud’s audience instantly because it is an experience that many have had. It is not unusual for a child to use visual markers like “this” and “that” when explaining objects, events, etc. McCloud then goes on to explain that it is expected for children to graduate from books with mostly pictures to novels with no pictures at all as they mature with time. This is attributed to the cultural perception of comic books. According to Stephen Weiner in his book Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel, “newspaper comic strips were always

In addition to how Marshall uses illustration to convey complexity and abstractness, foreshadow, and cause the reader to shift their focus he also has a very distinct style about his work. The style and design of his illustrations are consistent across his works and allow for more to be gained about the story.

When reading a story, the reader has to pay attention to the specific pattern of the story. There can be unique patterns that can help explain the story. There can be explicit details that can add to the story. For example, a little tiny speck in the corner can explain why the character’s mother died. The speck could have led to mold, which could have led to cancer, and killed the mother. If a reader does not pay attention to every little example, they might not understand the story. In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” imagery develops the story to help a reader understand the plot. Imagery makes a story whole. By engaging all of the senses, imagery can explain things that simple statements cannot. These techniques can

In the story The Veldt, Ray Bradbury uses vivid imagery to transport the reader to a lush African veldt and describe it in rich detail. This imagery describes the characters in the story as well as it does the locations. Listening to The Veldt, your imagination crafts a picture of the characters and their home. Other readers may argue that this story has a different meaning. There are many ways to interpret why Ray Bradbury has used crafts to enrich his writing. However, there is only true reason that the author has used these crafts to communicate the writing’s true meaning. This reason is to provide a more realistic story to his readers. And by using this imagery, he is able to create a detailed image in each reader’s mind of the story, its characters, and, most importantly, the settings.

An alternative reason as to why this section of the book is useful is the understatement of one’s own creativity. At the end of the section, Barry states, “to be able to stand not knowing long enough to let something alive take shape! Without the two questions so much is possible. To all the kids who quit drawing…Come back!” (135). Barry understanding that creativity is limitless is when she can finally let go of the two questions that had plagued her mind for years. This new understanding has given her back that sense of fulfillment of drawing without

Ray Bradbury uses imagery of where the characters are and what the atmosphere is like to develop that it looks nice, but the parents can't see the potential disadvantages that lie ahead. For example, when the author says, "...presently and African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in

Furthermore, the illustrations paint a beautiful picture that I like to think is an insight into a child’s mind, which I is a key element in this book and what makes it so great. Since the book is narrated by a child the intentional simplicity of the words and the controlled chaos that is the illustrations breathes unadulterated life into a rather normal children’s book.

Short fiction can be seen as a literary medium through which the writer concisely creates a story that is almost as fleeting in its detail, as it is in its length of words. Imagery can be used in varying manners depending on what the writer is trying to achieve. In the short story ‘Sleepy’ by Anton Chekhov, we see a more vivid and palpable type of imagery that’s almost figurative and has the ability to lull the reader into sharing the protagonist’s feelings rather than just her

In one particular excerpt, “…Hilda and Heidi have had a baby, with which they’re thoroughly displeased, it’s got no credit cards and can’t speak French, they’ll send it back…” this could be seen as a metaphor for readers’ high expectations with an author and the expectation to provide gratification early on in their story; however, Barthelme is determined to not give instant gratification to his audience prematurely as he believes it does not make for a good piece of literature. Another excerpt in which he references the importance of not focusing on meaningless details is when he brings up Rauschenburg’s goat and how if one spends their time fixating on finer details instead of the message of a story as a whole, the work “collapses more or less behind their back”, when it would have been better off being left for interpretation. Barthelme himself does not wish to be a deconstructionalist, as he finds the mystery to be an important aspect to

This use of short sentences impacts the reader and really catches their attention. Instead of drawing out a long explanation, he used these short sentences to quickly convey the importance of how unknown that outer space really is and how we are are only one small letter in a huge 400 page book.

I chose to read and comment on Barbara Kiefer’s “Envisioning Experience: The Potential of Picture Books.” Kiefer’s main point in writing this essay was to get the message across that children enjoy picture books that allow them to identify and make connections with the characters or the plots, and that while reading and analyzing the pictures, they gain a better sense of aesthetics and how to interpret them.

   To a reader unfamiliar with his work, Raymond Carver's short story, "Little Things" may seem devoid of all literary devices owning to good writing. Fortunately, these people are mistaken. With his minimalistic style, it is what Carver doesn't write that makes his work so effective. Most of Carver's short stories describe situations that many people could find themselves in and that is why his work is so appealing to readers. They are not restricted to harsh explicative details or over-dramatized language, but are allowed to create their own rationale for the actions of the characters and the consequent results.