Endangered Shrefer Analysis

The stories “Being Prey” and “The Sound of Thunder” have many comparable literary elements. Elements such as mood, theme, and antagonist can be analyzed to find similarities and differences.

Change is unavoidable. It occurs in everyone’s life, no matter their circumstances. These changes can vary from being minor to being very significant. Although these changes can affect an individual in its aftermath, there is a lot of fear and anxiety that many people have prior to the change occurring. For example, a young child may worry about starting school due to the new environment and people. This essay will highlight the major changes in the story, “The Giraffe”, and changes in my life that shaped my thinking today. Furthermore, I will explore the similarities and differences between the events that occur in the story and in real life. This essay will highlight that you should embrace change, accept new experiences and face reality

Every story has a setting. Whether it is in this world or one that is completely imaginary, the setting of any story is necessary in order to understand the characters. The characters in the following three short stories are shaped by their setting and would not be the same if the setting was different. Over the course of each story it is easy to see how vital the setting is in order for the reader to fully understand the characters and their lives. Therefore, while the reader reads these stories they must analyze how the setting affects the characters, the obstacles that the setting creates, and what it tells us about the characters.

The author uses sensory details of sounds, smells and feelings to highlight to horror of the violence experienced by Chika. ‘…smell is sickening, of roasted fish, unlike that of any she has ever smelled’. And also author uses future tense and repetition ‘never find her sister’ to highlight the tragedy and horrific event of the war and violence. Throughout the story, the author demonstrates the futility of war and violence identifies that there is no positive affects to anyone at all.

Grasping their audience’s attention by making them ponder the significance of every word is the objective of all writers. “The Rattler”, is filled with numerous literary devices which force the reader to go back and analyze each detail. The narrator, who lives in a rural area, comes across a rattlesnake one night. Conflicted, he struggles with the decision as to whether he should kill the potentially dangerous creature and go against his values or let it survive. The struggling throughout the story continues his man versus snake and man vs self conflict. The devices used by the author emotionally guide the reader throughout the tale and the reader joins in the narrator's thinking process. Literary devices allow readers to connect to the story and interact with each part, opposed to simply reading the text. Strong literary choices make the text excitable, often invoke personal, emotional connections with the reader. Through properly used and well placed literary devices of personification, imagery, diction and symbolism, the author of “The Rattler” leads the audience through a conflicted journey of emotional distress.

Wendy and Peter are wild, unruly children, and the African Veldt and its lions are mirroring the wildness of the children within the wildness of the Veldt

To start with, the narrative in “The Elephant in the Village of the Blind” is very simple; the main

Analyze the development of a theme in a novel by identifying challenges to and factors in survival for Salva and Nya in A Long Walk to Water.

There are several characters in this book, including both adults and children, that demonstrate integrity and/or social and political responsibility. These dynamic characters include, Mariatu, Marie, Mohamed, Yabom, Kadi, and Salieu. These characters have a positive change throughout the memoir, The Bite of the Mango, and they learn from their experiences in the civil war to strengthen their character.

In our contemporary civilization, literature plays an important and impacting role in our daily lives. Adapting to the different likes and tastes of modern day society, books and novels have different types and genres, all having in common the objective to please the reader and to convey morals and themes to the audience. In the 20th century were written 2 novels, The Chrysalids and Animal Farm, which will be compared and contrasted in the following essay, demonstrating the fact that they both target the general audience and not one particular group of readers. The comparison between both novels will be done via the contrast of specific literary elements such as the plot and the moods of the novels,

    “The bad in the past can lead to the good in the future” (in class discussion). As inspiring as this theme may be, when still drowning in the “bad” the future feels like forever away. In Katherine Applegate’s novel, The One and Only Ivan, an inspiring tale of perseverance is revealed. Ivan, A gorilla, taken from his home in his early youth, lives in a mall exhibit. He watches human interactions and befriends animals near his domain. Stella, an elephant and a friend,is a special part of Ivan’s life. She asks him to ensure that their newest addition, a young elephant named Ruby, is cared for. An ongoing infection in Stella’s leg eventually takes her life, and Ivan is more determined than ever to get Ruby out of the mall and into a zoo. Eventually through determination, persistence, patience, and love Ivan and his friends have a happy ending.

brilliantly brings out this theme through the use of setting and atmosphere, the title of the story and its

Authors use literary elements dramatically in short stories to influence a certain feeling on the reader or to send out a certain message to the audience. Throughout the stories, “The Interlopers” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, both authors use elements to make their story appealing to the reader. Saki, the author of “The Interlopers” uses his examples of literary elements precisely and tremendously, which makes his story better than Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”.

In the novel Endangered by Eliot Schrefer, Sophie, the protagonist, character displays bravery throughout the first three parts of the book. For example, she jumps off of the UN van, gets Otto, and runs into the enclosure with all of the other bonobos. On page 61, according to the text, sophie states, “Saving myself would mean destroying him.” To explain, Sophie is showing bravery by risking her own life to save Otto’s life. She is doing this because baby bonobos are supposed to stay with their mothers for the next three or four years after they are born or else they will die. Sophie is acting as Otto’s mother figure since Otto was taken from his mother before Sophie bought him. Along with this, bravery is shown through Sophie’s character when

The author uses pathos to get people to feel sympathy for the family in the village who lost their son when he got mauled by a lion. This quote greatly supports the author's purpose for writing this article. Finally he supports this claim asserting people are too ignorant to make a feasible claim about the situation. He uses diction and parallel structure to appeal to pathos when stating, “Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allow your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forest when you turn yours into concrete jungles.” The author uses parallel structure when repeating, “Don’t “ to emphasise his overall point. He also uses diction to assert his claim when he uses the words, “extinction, bemoan, and concrete jungles”. He specifically used these words to get us to feel the injustice about how the Americans are acting about Cecil’s death. Overall, Nzou combines his condemnatory and critical tone with these appeals to effectively point out to the people who are “crying” about Cecil’s death that lions are harmful to people and killing lions happens all the time in the area. This article would be informative to the public who are outraged about Cecil’s death and