Emma Healey's 'Elizabeth Is Missing'

Eugenia Collier, the author of the short story Marigolds makes great use of literary devices such as imagery, diction, flashback, and juxtaposition in a way that creates a voice for the narrator that conveys both the regret over, and possibly the longing for her childhood. The diction, that is, the vocabulary choice is expertly combined with imagery, or the unique descriptions and sensory details, in order to allow the reader to formulate the experiences and the surroundings of the narrator's childhood in their imaginations. Flashback is used to allow the narrator to not only explain how she viewed the events of her past as a child, but to compare these views with her adult feelings of the same events. Juxtaposition aids in further explaining the connection between the setting and emotions of the main character, creating a better picture of the narrator’s life. These elements all combine to construct a narrative that effectively conveys the coming of age theme.

Memory is used as a powerful conduit into the past; childhood experiences held in the subconscious illuminate an adult’s perception. Harwood uses tense shifts throughout her poetry to emphasise and indicate the interweaving and connection the past and the present hold. By allowing this examination of the childhood memories, Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death.

The two stories have contrasting ideas about the characterization of the elderly and the young. “A Visit of Charity” has the young optimistic and the elderly pessimistic. However, “Behind Grandma’s House” has the view of the elderly being optimistic and the young being pessimistic. The two stories also have contrasting views on the idea of philosophy ideal of the old versus the new. “Behind Grandma’s House” provides the ideal that the elderly is wiser and, therefore, are also more optimistic about life. However, “A Visit of Charity” provides the ideal of the youth being full of life and being very optimistic about life. On the other side, elderly being worn by the stresses of life so by the time you are old, you become

The young waiter has a harsh view of him as well because on occasion the old man has been so drunk he walks out on his bill. The younger waiter has a different respect for time, it’s precious to him and he values it. “I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o’clock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?” “He stays up because he likes it.” “He’s lonely, I’m not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me.” “He had a wife once too” (153). The older you get, the more time wears down on you, and you begin to now, greater than ever, feel your mortality. This theme is used to help the reader understand the older mans pain and that no matter how young and confident someone is, they will eventually grow old and die.

The character grandmother in O’Connor’s story has grounds the reality of the events and drives the family into tragedy. She is a central character in O’Connor’s story and is depicted to be a dynamic character stuck in the old ways. Through her actions and the idea of being stuck in the old ways of thinking, she leads her family into tragedy. Being the main character in the story, Grandmother significantly adds to the development of the plot. The author manages to win the attention of the reader from this character owing to the manner in which she shapes the storyline. Grandmother’s reminiscing of the old ways claims a distinctive curiosity from the reader and helps in

In conclusion, Gwen Harwood deals with the constant relevant issues of loss and consolation by the enduring power of poetic treatment of age and youth. In my opinion, on the most profound of universal truths, there is no certainty in life and we must deal with events and situations as we encounter them. Harwood’s poetry distinctly presents a

Many authors use storytelling as a vehicle to convey the immortality of past selves and those who have passed to not only in their piece of literature but in their life as an author. In Tim O’Brien’s work of fiction The Things They Carried, through his final chapter “The Lives of the Dead,” O 'Brien conveys that writing is a matter of survival since, the powers of storytelling can ensure the immortality of all those who were significant in his life. Through their immortality, O’Brien has the ability to save himself with a simple story. Through snippets of main plot event of other chapters, O’Brien speaks to the fact the dead have not actually left; they are gone physically, but not spiritually or emotionally. They live on in memories as Linda lives on in the memories of O’Brien and as many of his war buddies live on through his stories. He can revive them and bring them back to the world through his writings and through these emotions or events he experienced with them and with their deaths can make them immortal. Through the reminiscent stories of Linda and O’Brien’s war companions and himself, O’Brien conveys that storytelling allows people to reanimate others who have died and past selves to create an immortality of humans.

You experience the losses she and her family did from Alzheimer's. This book gives you insight into the brain of someone who

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards is written in third person omniscient, where the narrator is all knowing about all the situations occurring in the novel. The novel takes a form of present tense with flash backs to past tense. It begins in present tense as Norah is only weeks away from labor and there are flashbacks of how she met her husband David. The story continues to move back and forth to bring back memories from the characters and past events. From the novel, it is noticed that the narrator knows the feeling of all the characters and the setting is changed between the two different families, David, Norah, and Paul; and then Caroline, Phoebe, and Albert.

This book is a memory story: a man in his sixties looks back on his boyhood of the middle class boy recalling the events that took place on a summer visit to an aristocratic family in Norfolk in the 1900’s. The author uses double narrative, the young Leo's actions told by the older Leo, and it shows us how it has affected his life

Aging is a process that brings up many elements to question from the one that is aging, and from society. As a matter of fact, we all will one day face this process; therefore, this article is one of many that points out the process of aging that may be caused by one’s cultures. Also, many discrepancies have been discussed on why the aging and psychopathology is associated with each other during the aging process. However, this article points out that many aging processes are different and is based on the culture of that individual. It also gives different perspectives on the aging process from different cultures. One in particular was from Britain, and it stated that they

However to consider the realistic features in tension with the role of memory, the audience must focus on Friel pretending presence of characters and incidents on stage, embedded within the text that provide a fundamental tone of loss and everyday details of the characters lives. In details, Michael Mundy's memories is the essence of the play outlined around family and

Therefore, by presenting arguments for both sides, Kaufman shows how both keeping memories and forget them shape someone’s personal identity throughout time, but on different

Getting older is unavoidable, something every person go through in his or her life, and is the main theme in “The Last Circus”, an American short story. In the story, a boy visits the big circus, that is coming to town. Whilst that is happening, the boy’s experience of the circus ends up meaning some-thing completely different, from what the circus was all about in the first place. In this essay I will be going in depth with the main character and the symbolism.

Our human condition is defined by mortality, contingency, and discontentment. This reality combined with the new outlooks of relationships between our lives and the objects that surround us in our world, have caused authors in the twentieth century to question traditional Western thought. In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust extends these comparisons to include one's use of memory and