Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

The narrator dismembers the old man’s body after making sure he was completely dead. He then proceeds to conceal his body parts underneath the floor boards and makes sure he hides all evidence from the crime. The old man’s scream from earlier caused a neighbor to report to the cops and the narrator confidently invites him to look around. He states that the screams came from him after the nightmare he had and that the old man has left after the country. Being that he was so confident that they would not find out about the murder, he provided them chairs to sit in the old man’s room, right above where his body laid and engaged in conversation with them.

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

...."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.

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,

In my dreams, I am actually loved; I am appreciated by people; I am accepted for being what I am; I can live how I wish to.

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.

Turning a corner, Tom slowed his pace as he approached his apartment building. Although he longed for the comfort of his home, the thought of facing Booker filled him with dread, the psychological burden weighing him down. Consequently, he purposely dragged his feet, delaying the confrontation and the inevitable argument. He’d reacted badly to the news of Booker's tape, and his guilt hung like a noose around his neck, waiting for the moment his mind yanked at the metaphorical rope, and the painful castigation crushed his airway. But while his remorse was real, his jealousy was a far bigger beast, a raging fire-breathing monster that easily dominated all other emotion. It was a deep-seated sensation that encompassed feelings of fear, rage, and

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…”.

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.

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).

Through the eyes of the killer, the reader begins to see the story unfold. Right from the start, our narrator tries to argue his sanity, which causes the reader to immediately question it and rightly so. This mad man tries to prove how sane he truly is by depicting different details of the murder. A perfect example of this can be found half way through the story when the author says, “If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body… First of all I dismembered the corpse.

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.

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