How To Write A Peculiar: A Short Story

the creativity one can grasp as explained in the short story, “Isn’t Everyone a Little Bit Weird.” In the short story, one of the framers of the United States constitution, Benjamin Franklin, is portrayed both as a genius and as an odd man; expressing Franklin’s peculiar habits and actions. However, despite the fact of being unusual, he saw things in ways in which other people accepted as fact. The author of “Isn’t Everyone a Little Bit Weird” writes, “ It may have been Franklin’s weirdness that made

that certain adrenaline rush, how we go to watch horror movies to have a peculiar sort of fun and to feel normal about ourselves. First of all, humans do watch horror movies to face the fears they have. “Strawberry Springs” is a perfect example of how we crave horror “ to show that we can” (King, “Why We”1). We can really relate to the narrator, the victims and the events that occurred in “Strawberry Spring”, but we’re able to feel normal about our lives when the story gets unusual. A Lot of things

trouble. He was quite a peculiar child and even more of a peculiar adult. Perhaps the most unusual thing about him was his journal. He never kept a real journal, in which one would put real journal entries about one's daily life and noteworthy anecdotes. Instead, he kept a rather odd journal, in which he wrote down his rather odd experiences. He didn't write in it daily, but whenever he felt drawn to it, he would take the journal out from under his tired, old mattress and simply write. The entries would

detective story with his trilogy involving Det. Dupin in Murders in the Rue Morgue, the Purloined Letter, and the Mystery of Marie Roget. Poe uses the peculiar eccentricities of hero Detective C. Augustus Dupin to make these mysteries enthralling to the reader. Dupin is purported to be the forerunner to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s genius detective Sherlock Holmes. Poe created a new genre that captivated the imagination of his readers and paved the way for both English and American authors to write detective

influenced through the use of written texts. Texts often feature themes and issues about the world around us, helping open our eyes to issues that could affect us, as a society. In Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, both main characters; Charlie Gordon and Jacob Portman were perceived by society as outsiders. They didn’t fit within the norms of what society views as normal, and as such became outcasts, due to the differences that each

social interactions, and can even be looked down upon. In the short story “School Run”, written by Kate Marsh in 2013, where the protagonist falls in love with a boy, named Magnus. Although, a lot of people mock him, for his way of dressing when they were

dress code for people. However, fashion is a personal opinion and what one person might consider as cool, others might see it as ridiculous, and as a result some people are shunned from social interactions, and can even be looked down upon. In the short story “School Run”, written by Kate Marsh in 2013, where the protagonist falls in love with a boy, named Magnus. Although, a lot of people mock him, for his way of dressing when they were

including Jodie Foster, Alex Proyas, and Mark Johnson. “Screenwriting taught me to focus on story, to externalize and dramatize and always keep things moving forward.” (Loory) In addition to his job as a screenwriter, Loory was also

there perplexed by what my third grade teacher’s assignment asked me to do. I read the short story and knew the character’s names, but what was the meaning of the story? I kept asking myself the question hoping that I would understand what I had to write about on the blank page with empty lines. I figured that I should utilize the resources around me, so I could ask my parents and they would then explain to me how to answer the puzzling question. I called my parents, the same people who ask me to

people break the Road Traffic Act or something like that. This is the way a lot of people would describe getting a ticket. But this description does not fit the way Toby writes his tickets. Toby gives tickets to random people, who he believes are breaking the rules of a well-being society. It might seem very peculiar, that Toby writes