ENG 102 fiction essay instruction

The stories bear minor similarities and differences that the setting influences the plot development by era and place, main characters backgrounds, and environment /time frame of stories.

Every story begins and ends with its characters. During the time spent reading the story, you adventure through the journey with the characters; learning their qualities and quirks. We tend to compare and contrast the characters in the story with each other, because it’s common to try and spot what makes the unique and how it makes the story flow and work. But in this essay I’m taking two different characters from two different stories, and I’m going to attempt to describe their differences.

characters are in many ways divergent, and it is in fact these traits that reveal the most about

In history authors have set certain stories in different landscapes and settings for specific reasons. These settings help convey the story and its overall environment. When looking at themes and settings the reader can somewhat easily grasp the plot of a story. In stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Doe Season” the setting is very important to the scheme and the plot. In the “Tell-Tale Heart” the setting is centered around a dark motel which adds a since of fear and mysteriousness to the heart of the author, but in “Doe Season” the setting is based on being in the woods of Pennsylvania with a family. Based on the differences of setting in David Kaplan’s “Doe Season “and Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell-tale Heart” one can conclude that settings in a story can factor in a character’s behavior, emotional state, and affects their actions.

In David Barber’s book, he focuses on four main character types. They were known as active – positive, active – negative, passive – positive and passive – negative. These types were based off of the personalities of the first

Despite the different names, settings, and plots, every character is plagued by a series of circumstances outside of their respective

I never thought the day would come where I’d have to admit to myself I had an addiction. The hardest part was to except the fact I was an addict of painkillers and admitting it to my family so that I could get the help and support needed to get clean. The road leading to my addiction started with the factors of my childhood, always trying to fit in and not being supported emotionally from my parents. Having a child at the age of sixteen was the second factor, which made me grow up faster than a normal child at my age would have had to. Living the life of an addict was a struggle everyday but, getting help was the hardest part of it all. I’ll live with this disease for the rest of my life because recovery is a

To answer these questions, one has to look at the lifestyle of the characters and how they were treated. In contrast

The first character that I feel most represents this for a start, is Cliff. I feel the eccentricity of his personality prohibits him from being happy with the kind of love he has in the relationship with his wife and I feel this is the main reason for the distance between the two characters. Cliff finds happiness in other ways by taking his niece to midafternoon movies and engulfing himself into his documentary work. Cliff is always questioning the intentions behind an action. For example, when he is walking out of the theater with his niece; he turns to her and gives her a simple yet profound piece of advice about teachers. He tells her not to listen to, not to pay attention anything they say, but just to study the way they look like because this is the way for her to see how life is really going to be like. Cliff also question’s the motives of his wife’s brother, Lester. This could be because he is successful and he got this success through unconventional ways that Cliff doesn’t agree with, but I feel deep down inside that Cliff is envious of Lester’s success. Cliff is always questioning and I know that we do not need to mention Aristotle, but he can be seen as thinking on this level, always questioning a motive, never accepting an answer and

What are the various perspectives of other characters in the movie when relating to this character (these characters)?

The setting creates the enviornment for the entire story, the time and the place. Every single part of the story revolves around this. What the characters look like, how they talk to eachother, where they live, what is going on around them. The main conflict is even determined by the time period and where in the world it takes place. For example, the story "The Cask of Amontillado" is set in Paris, France around the rennaissance era. but theres more to the setting than just that. "It was about dusk one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that i encountered with my friend." This describes more about the enviornment around the characters in the beggining of the story. Then the setting shifts,"Its walls had been lined with

All of these main characters shared a lot of common attributes. The first and most important attribute was trying to overcome multiple

The first of the two stories I chose to compare and contrast is titled “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the second story is titled “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence. I will compare each of their themes, characters, and plot developments in which they are both similar and different. One of the strongest comparison would be that both stories deal with the subject of luck in one sense or another. The Lottery being considered a game of chance in which luck plays an important factor in being the chosen winner but Luck in the Lottery has a different twist of fate because the winner of the Lottery is actually the

Passions drive people, and the townspeople in “The Lottery” and Paul in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” are no different. Each of the members of the unnamed town has a strong passion for tradition. The original black box used for the lottery is described as being, “lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born” (Jackson 251). This sentence gives the reader an understanding that the lottery is an ancient tradition that has become an integral part of the town’s lifestyle. Such a tradition can only be carried on for this length of time if the people are passionate about preserving the tradition. Paul had a passion to be wealthy as a way to prove to his mother that he was lucky. From a young age, he saw that his family always wanted more money to support a better lifestyle, yet

Nelles looks into numerous broad differences and includes stories to explain through example. One of the being setting and the depth associated with its description. Nelles notes how authors of this genre tend to include details by including metaphors. He compares this element of setting in saying it is rare to see distinct setting in microfition. Instead, authors tend to use familiarity in a way to keep the story short and to the point as efficient as possible.