Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

"I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye --not even his --could have detected any thing wrong. There was nothing to wash out --no stain of any kind --no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for that."

Placing a fresh sheet of paper in the typewriter, Tom cleared his throat. With a long, drawn out yawn, he laced his fingers together and stretched out his arms. His joints cracked, and once satisfied he was limber, he waggled his fingers theatrically over the keys before proceeding to type. As far as the young officer was concerned, there was only one downside to policing; the mountains of paperwork that needed filling in on a daily basis. Offense Reports, Incident Reports, Arrest Reports, Accident Reports, each case required daily documentation, the demand for accurate reporting adding hours to each officer's day. It was a necessary but unfortunate part of the job, but Tom undertook the chore in the same way he tackled the

The most crucial plot in the first chapter is that it is taking place in the past. In addition, the author introduces you to the narrator of the story Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald also spends time explaining how and why Nick came to be in the position to tell this story. He also spends a lot of time telling us where the story takes place.

11. What type of pants does Tod try at the thrift store? He tries flared pants.

Whenever Nick mentions the eyes he always realizes something else immediately afterward as if the eyes were reminding him or telling him. The eyes appear to be Nick’s guide. When Nick, Tom, and Jordan are in the car with an awkward silence between them, Nick notices the eyes’ watching over them and he becomes reminded that the car needs gas. Then, when they are getting gas he feels like he’s being watched so he looks at the eyes than above him to notice Myrtle looking at them with terror. The eyes are like Nick guardian that hints at him where to go so that everything lines up. It wasn’t just by chance that Nick notices the eyes just in time for Jordan to notice the garage that contains to women Tom is having an affair with in it. The eyes

(beginning 2 ) “Janie if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. Ah want to make a wife outa you” (Hurston pg 23).Joe Starks tells Janie he will be waiting for her sunup tomorrow if she wanted to come with him. So Janie kinda considers it but first she has to talk to Logan about leaving him and he kept it short and said do what you have to do. He didnt really care so much what she did but he thought she was gone go out there and get her feelings hurt.“Ah guess some lifed nigger is grinnin’ in yo’ face and lying tuh yuh” .(Hurston pg25) Logan said.Janie runs off on Logan to be with Joe and he made her and himself a little town called Eatonville then he also became the mayor of the town and he also owned a store,

...."and my small earnings from the flocked were only a little augmented by my mornings' work at the rectory and occasional service at the Hall, when they needed extra hands.

This passage is taken from Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 novel ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho’, which is a self-proclaimed gothic ‘romance’ that details the, later explained, supernatural experiences of Emily St. Aubert at the hands of Montoni. Situated at the beginning of third volume, this passage details Emily’s imprisonment in the chamber by Bernardine and the unveiling of a ‘corpse’. In this close analysis I will focus on the ways in which Radcliffe uses literary devices in order to mislead the reader and build suspense. Firstly, I will look at the narrative before moving on to the language and, finally, addressing structure.

1 prediction This quote “I fear it i . The horror that killed Sir Charles is prowling the moor once again.” leads me to believe that someone else will get murder later in the story. Act 2 - scene 1 1 Element of suspense When they find the letter which says “If you value your life, leave Baskerville Hall tonight.

In paragraph three he says “And every midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it…” He would watch the old man sleep every night until he finally killed him. In paragraph 12 he then kills the old man and explains what he did. “I dragged him to he floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then sat upon the bed and smiled gaily…”.

Having a horrible atrocity with an unknown culprit, such as a murder mystery, causes the reader to desire justice to be served on the criminal and thus gives the reader incentive to find out the culprit and to observe his punishment at the end of the book. Consequently, having an unknown, violent, lawless offender as the criminal in a mystery story heightens its absorbing ability, and this aspect is present both these books. In A Morbid Taste for Bones, while a team of men searched for the suddenly missing main character Rhisiart, “Bened the smith, crashing through the bushes at Brother Cadfael’s left hand, uttered a great shout of discovery and dismay, and everyone in the wavering line halted and shook to the sound” (Peters, 68). Bened cried so because he had found Rhisiart dead with an arrow in his body. In The Man in the Passage, Father Brown, an innocent Catholic priest-detective, rushed to a passageway where “Aurora Rome lay lustrous in her robes of green and gold, with her dead face turned upwards” (Chesterton, 54).

There are different literary elements working together in order to help readers to understand the text. Each element has its own functions, and it will affect the text specifically. In this essay, I will focus on the element of narration, narrative voice, and point of view for my critical analysis. Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and Dashiell Hammett are the authors that I will discuss. Different authors used different types of narration in their stories.

The narrator of the story suffers from heightened senses which makes the narrator despise the clouded eye of his roommate. Due to his condition, he is driven to the point of plotting the murder of the cloudy eyed man. However, the narrator argues that since he planned the deed so meticulously, he could not be crazy and that “madmen know nothing” and he was no madman. There is reason to believe he is lying about the state of his sanity because the narrator does end up killing the man to rid himself of the evil eye. Affected by his anxieties, the narrator begins to hear what he believes to be the heartbeat of the man he has murdered. The heartbeat did not create a sense of regret in the narrator, rather “it increased [his] fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” The unreliable source of narration is due to the mental illness which allows for the narrator’s judgment to be misconstrued. Guilt of conscience is the main theme and allows for the overall character arch of the narrator as his heightened senses, or more realistically, his anxieties, are the cause of his confession. Although the narrator had killed the man, he was not evil. The narrator was not in the right mind to take action and immediately had the guilt weigh heavy on his mind, causing it to slowly collapse. Nevertheless, the narrator, for these reasons, remains unreliable and mentally

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he

First, this story’s suspenseful, eerie mood stirs powerful emotions from the reader. For example, M. Bouc gravely announced, “‘And now a passenger lies dead in his berth - stabbed’” (40). This is an example of an eerie mood that makes readers fear for Poirot. This also adds to this story because it gives readers an understanding of the character’s emotions; likewise, they can relate to Poirot’s fear in the story. Similarly, Mrs. Hubbard gasped, “‘A great knife - all over blood!’ And suddenly toppling over, she fainted heavily on on M. Bouc’s shoulder” (158). This is an example of a suspenseful mood that keeps the reader wondering what will happen next. Moreover, it strengthens the story because it helps the reader understand the message the author was trying to convey; had the mood been different, readers would have been more likely to suspect Mrs. Hubbard, considering the knife was in her room. In conclusion, mood adds to the overall greatness of this story by stirring up