Death

Imagery is visually descriptive, or figurative language in literary work. A clear example of imagery is shown in the story “The Veldt”. "Now the hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odour at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland. The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden waterhole, the great Rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds, the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky. The shadow flickered on George Hadley's upturn sweating face.” This quote gives you such description that you can picture and almost feel and see what the character is experiencing. Imagery is a strong literary device which receives the author's descriptions into

Characterization also reveals the subtext, or underlying meanings in literature. It does this by revealing what the character is like and what their motives are. Over the plot of the story, more characteristics are found out about the characters and you can figure out why the characters are doing what they are doing. Characterization in The Crucible helped reveal the subtext that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The direct characterization of Abigail Williams proves that you can’t assume someone's feelings just by the way the look. Since Abigail was good at concealing her true feelings, you can’t assume that the feeling she shows is the one she is actually feeling. The indirect characterization of John Proctor proves that you can’t think someone is innocent just because of their

Dogs have always played an important role in most American families. There has always been a saying “a dog is a man's best friend.” Through the poem you are able to look out into the world through a dog's perspective. In the poem “Golden Retrievals” by Mark Doty, the author uses informal diction, concrete diction, and repeated structure to show the dogs loving view of the world.

Character is a very important element of fiction because without characters, a story falls apart because readers only care about the plot and other aspects of fiction because of how it affects a character or characters. Characterization is the process with which the writer reveals the personality of a character or characters. Characterization can also help reveal the relationship between characters and how they feel about each other. If a writer knows how to use characterization properly, he or she can really bring the story and characters to life for the reader. “My Kid’s Dog” by Ron Hansen is an excellent example of how

With characterization the reader is able to find out who a character is and what he/she is about. Characterization is a huge part of literature and is almost always present in a story. Without characterization the reader would be left with boring, plain characters. Characterization is super important in literature because it adds a whole new aspect to a story that the reader would have never known without characterization.

Death is one of the most avoided topics because of the finality that comes with it and the fear of the unknown after death. However, there are quite a number of authors such as AtulGawande, Elisabeth Kubler-ross and Ira Byock who have attempted to go ahead and deal with death as a topic and other connected topics.Each of these authors have delved into one of the most revered topics that is death including related topics that come with it such as the dying process itself. Ira Byock’s Dying well: Peace and possibilities at the end of life is a book that looks at the moment prior to death when an individual is terminally sick and is at the point of death. A

Characterization helps along with both the stories to prove the authors purpose and showing diverse aspects. In Everybody has Everything,

Characterization allows for you to get a grip on each and every character in a story. If a character wasn’t described, you wouldn’t know what kind of person or choices they’d make. Details on each character help separate and show differences. The characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are very different in personalities and problems. Kesey describes Chief Bromden, the

The author uses diction to shape the tone of the passage. That tone is critical of dog owners, but at the same time showingdisplays a fondness of dogs. You can see this tone throughout the passage in the author’s diction

Death is something that many people fear and many people face. Most people do not know exactly when they are going to die, but being given a sort of idea of that can change the way someone thinks and acts drastically. Death is in escapable. Everyone must die eventually, some young, like my friend in fifth grade who passed from being in an ATV accident, and others old, such as my 15 year old cat who recently passed.

Characterization is how the characters in the text are viewed and developed as the text expands. For this, I will consider the character, Nyla (purple). Nyla is an innocent girl with dull eyes and voice. Her innocence is revealed as tells of her first time sex encounter and also in her lack of understanding of her mum and sister’s relationship. Her confession of sex to an older man is like that of a young misled child. She is ignorant of the world and its dangers. She just completed high school and is very excited, happy to lose her virginity to childhood sweetheart. Reality drowns on her when she finds out she is pregnant and needed to abort. Her innocence gives her away when she tries to

Death is the cessation of all biological functions of a person or organism. The concept of death is unique for everyone and depends on an individual’s cognitive maturity, but it is most frequented with a negative connotation. For some people, the reason why death has a negative connotation is because dying is losing the most valuable thing that exists: life. In actuality, the resistance to death is hardwired into the brain as part of the self-preservation instinct. In addition, we have the ability to imagine what does not exist and wonder what comes after death.

Characterization is a literary element used by the author to present qualities of characters in a literary piece, the purpose of characterization is to make characters credible and make them suitable for the role they play in the work. Authors present various characters possessing dissimilar qualities, to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel “The Scarlet Letter”, the author Nathaneil Hawthorn’s depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters contribute vitally to the plot of the novel.

A story is usually as good as the characters that you encounter while reading. The way a writer reveals a character is called characterization. One form of characterization is direct characterization. Direct characterization is when the author tells you directly what characteristics the character has. An example of this is “Bob is smart, brave and honest,”. Another form of characterization is indirect characterization. This is when the author shows the character in action and lets the reader decide what kinds of people we are meeting. “The open Window”, by Saki, is a great example of characterization as the author develops the characters of Nuttel and Vera indirectly through their speech, how they look, and their thoughts and feelings.

The image that I chose was a photograph taken by a woman named Elena Shunilova. The photo was taken of her child and their family dog. To me, this image is beautiful. In the center, there is a young boy kneeling down next to a very large dog. It appears to be just transition to winter from autumn. The ground is still brown but snow is faintly falling around the boy and dog. The young boy is wearing a navy blue snow outfit with tan fur accents around the hood and in a ball on top of his hat. His eyes are closed as he is embracing the large dog sitting next to him. It seems to be cold out based on his rosy red cheeks against his very pale skin. The dog stands tall and appears to be older than the boy by the matting in the cream colored fur on his chest. He is black around the jowls as well as his eyes and ears. If the boy were to stand tall next to him, he would barely be taller. The dog’s eyes are also closed and his front legs are in a wide stance. The bottom and top of the image are slightly blurred, and very dull in color. It appears to be a very cloudy day. The image itself as well as the setting is enough to raise curiosity in the story behind this photograph.