Death

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

We often rely on imagery, a literary device that uses vivid descriptions and appeals to the senses, in our storytelling to point out the important facts in our stories. It helps our audience picture the scene and understand the severity of the situation. In my opinion, a well-written scene can be incredibly meaningful and thought-provoking with the help of imagery, sometimes even more so than a photograph. In literature, this is no different. Authors will describe characters and events in great detail when they feel it is important to the story. They will use imagery to point out character traits, themes, symbols, and motifs. A good author paints you a picture so you can imagine the places, colors, expressions, textures, with all the fine details.

In the excerpt of the book "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, the author uses the literary element of imagery in order to strengthen the main idea that blind people view the world in a different and unique way. This view is one that people with sight cannot understand nor picture. Doerr implements this element when describing how a blind person views the world. When describing how they view color and objects it sets an image in the readers mind to give them the ability to relate and to better understand the blind character. By understanding a sliver of how a blind person views the world the readers form a vision of their own. The Author uses imagery when describing how the character identifies certain objects and distinguishes one object from another.

Mental images are created by the brain from memories, imagination, or a combination of both. Writers use imagery to help create mental images for the reader. Imagery is when words are used to appeal to your five senses, sight, taste, smell, touch, and sound. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird many types of imagery are used. Examples of imagery being used in the book is when the Radley place is being described, Scout’s teacher Miss. Caroline is being described, and when Miss. Caroline’s shriek was described.

He applies it to show the reader how the story is going and how the characters feel. It can also be used to show us how the characters are different from others. A good example of this would be, “Mr. Leonard Mead would pause, cock his head, listen, look, and march on, his feet making no noise on the lumpy walk.” (The Pedestrian.) Here the reader can see how the character acts to his surroundings, letting us know that the character is observant and is interested in the things around them. It gives the reader a good idea of how the character thinks and is going to act. Another example of characterization would be, “Eckels pronounced this verdict quietly, as if there could be no argument. He had weighed the evidence and this was his considered opinion. The rifle in his hands seemed a cap gun.” (A Sound of Thunder.) Here, the reader can see how the character is acting, and how he feels. This gives the reader a better idea of what is going on in the character's head, and can help the reader put themselves in the characters shoes. This can also help the reader to guess what is going to happen in the rest of the story, and what the character is going to do next. Characterization can help the story in different ways. It can help the reader understand the character, and it can also help the reader guess what is going to happen

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 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

‘There are many opinions in which death is hidden in a western contemporary society and viewed with anxiety and discomfort’ (Bryan, L 2007).We are living in an aging population, therefore death is going to become an even bigger social issue as we get older. Depending on where you are in the world, deaths can have a negative and unwanted experience, especially in the Western society when science dominates people’s beliefs. A bad death would be categorised by someone dying young, or a result of a terminal illness in which people have struggled with their whole lives.

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

Loss, a universal feeling that is explored in a “Dogs Death” by John Updike takes a look at lost in a saddening view where you can see a family that loses its cherished puppy and the way the poem goes about accentuating and empathizing the loss felted in the poetry. John Updike delves into these emotional feelings within his poem by using a vast amount of different poetic techniques. That make the poem a journey in viewing and understanding it’s given points, this poem artfully crafts all these techniques such as the use of tone, theme, and symbolism to make a poignant commentary about loss and its underlying theme. The use of tone in this poem can be considered one of the most important elements that can be found within it, as throughout the

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.

It lurks in the back of everyone’s mind, soundless and black, never seeming real until landing right in someone’s ear, whispering that the time has came. A term created at the same time as life, death originally defined itself as “a permanent cessation of all vital functions; the end of life” (“Death”). The uses and views on death seem endless: some fear it, unable to imagine a world without themselves. Those involved in Christianity believe that death starts the beginning of eternal life in a place called “Heaven”. In everyday life, death surrounds everything. Everyone and everything that ever lived, eventually ceases to exist in the world after the inevitable death.

Death is defined as the permanent end of something that is not alive; a cease to existence; the absence of life. It is human to fear death. It is human to fear the unknown. It is human to fear. Our society has engrained in our heads that death is something to mourn. That it is the end to all good things. That death is unjust. We visualize death as a thing that is filled with darkness, colored in black, and cold in its non-existing soul. I first pictured that when I walked into room 2218 at Emory University Hospital.