Dick Rhodes

Confusion is an archetypal storytelling motif, seen in such classics as Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare as well as modern television. This motif, whether it’s referenced as the fog of war, confusion, or simply misconceptions, has progressed intriguing plots for centuries. Often, confusion follows one seeking to find transparent, black and white truths where they don’t exist. In modern literature, a prime model of the effects of confusion can be seen in Ian McEwan’s Atonement. Atonement, being a novel founded upon a principle of varied versions of reality created through misunderstandings triggered by adolescence and a lust for control, shows how the act of seeking clear black and white answers in a gray world often leads to a loss of control

The characters’ only desires revolved around acceptance, but they could never achieve it. The constant cycle of rejection drew the characters into madness, and finally, resulted in violence. Rejection continues as a matter not easy to cope with, an obstacle similar to a vast sea of confusion and emotion, which ultimately caused these characters to transform in an immense

As many have noted, O'Brien ingeniously facilitates a mood of incongruity, or disconnection, between fiction and fact in The Things They Carried through sheer structure. By blurring lines between fantasy and reality, THINGS truly becomes a contradiction of itself. As Catherine Calloway notes, one of the ways in which O'Brien achieves this blurring of lines, is to model the narrator of THINGS after himself, a drafted Vietnam war veteran, a Harvard graduate, and a writer with the same name of Tim O'Brien (para. 3). O'Brien is aware that the practiced reader knows not to confuse the narrator with the author, and yet the reader is encouraged to do just that. The purpose, of course, is to keep the reader as unbalanced, as unsure, of what we are told to be truths, as is the Vietnam soldier.

Have you ever wondered how a book could have so many twists and turns. This book is a long journey of ups and downs, but a great theme and setting. In the cay Philips character reveals that through many conflicts he developed bravery, respect, and independence.

     As the book moves through the plot and is approaching it’s climax you can only wonder if Good can prevail through unimaginable odds or if Evil will conquer.

This incorporates Pathos as the reader feels empathy for the young men who suffered at the hand of military commanders. Another underling Pathos involvement to the audience is their own self examination of their conscience as they read about the tribulation of others and possibly put themselves in the situations. The initial sentence of the first paragraph aims to involve the audience creating personal attachment to the text, impelling them to continue reading. ‘We are all governed by our conscience, a persons conscience is what shapes our decisions about what is right and what is

Sula and Nel’s search for identity through either choosing to join or refute society parallels the desire for peace insinuated by the title character's name, which translates to peace. The search for identity throughout the novel by all the characters portrays the desire of a society to achieve peace and a

Another type of killer is the over-controlled hostile individual. The over-controlled hostile are the type of individual who are emotionally rigid and appear to be very serious or polite, rarely express their anger. The over controlled hostile killer will not yell and may be offended by others yelling. This individual is cognitively rigid which means that they have strict interpretation of the rules, posses high morals and they see themselves as good people, are quite judgmental seeing others in society as bad people,The best way to describe the anger of this person is similar to a pressure cooker.

Still, many fiction writers will tell you, man is rarely a reasonable creature. He is complicated. He is consumed by irrational passions and uncontrollable urges, as well as by reason and logic. He is weak one moment and strong the next. He can be confused, villainous, heroic and kind at once. And it is in our ancient myths that many writers find the core of the human struggle to make sense of the world and to find one 's role — in short, a roadmap to the human psyche.

The characters’ confused perceptions

Both Ridjal Noor and Penelope Lively use a multitude of literary tools in order to portray the good and bad in people in their respective stories. Both 'Anil' and 'The Darkness Out There' act as a Bildungsroman - a story that walks the reader through the influential events in a person's life; through an external context, the reader sees the growth of the protagonist to maturity and how a change in experience induces an epiphany in them, which would affect their morality. This in turn shows how good and bad they turn out to be by the end of the story. In 'Anil', Noor exhibits the moral ethic of the protagonist, Anil, and how he turns out to be a victim of evil - which could later signify him as a vector of evil.

All humans want to be fully satisfied; however, this cannot be achieved without a life lived through God’s word. Thus, pride is the main theme in the novel. Through a Christian’s perspective, the characters, setting, and themes are

The book is divided en two distinct parts. The first introduces the warring situation of the country and the two main characters. Ahriel, the beautiful, elegant and placid angel with a great sense of justice that has been taking care of Marla, the selfish and astute princess who is meant to bring peace to the world. However, in her blind trust towards her protégée, Ahriel is unable to see the greed in Marla who has been messing with black magic. Nevertheless,

The book revolves on the story of Nevare Burvelle, of how he suffered by putting his life through immense pain and false accusations. A story of murder, thrill, magic, and adventure. A preordained soldier serving the king of Gernia. A life of a soldier struggling with crimes he did not do, and condemning him.

Many authors like to write fantasy novels, stories that detached themselves from reality, novels that tell us about magic, parallel dimensions, between others. But even in these fictional stories there is still the presence of the universal themes that can be touched not only in this kind of novels but also in the simpler ones, themes like the fight between good and evil, love, between others.