Knowledge Is Power In William. Scott Westerfeld's 'The Uglies'

Setting explores the main idea of disempowerment and isolation and aptly allows the audience to contrast it with the life of the main character. From the story, we are told that the setting is in a newsagency shop in a country town near a harbour. We are also told that the country town has a smelly harbour breeze. By using the country town as the setting, the author has placed us as readers to imagine isolation and places being far away, making it easier to convey ideas of the story. The isolation of the country town illustrates the life of the main character. She is isolated and stuck in the shop and town where she has no power to leave due to her parents. For example, “Once a day the big Greyhound rolled past going north to the city” and “Sometimes she would bicycle out to the edge of town and look along the highways”. Using the word city, the author is creating an atmosphere of adventure and the highway creates a sense of belonging. Through setting, the author is able to covey the main idea of isolation and disempowerment effectively and letting us as readers connect the relationship between the setting and the main character’s life.

To conclude, both stories involved horror short story and narrates two different stories. It released a feeling of given destiny all the lead. Our destiny already exists. We may do anything to change the fact about it. When death come for us, there isn’t turning back. When we get our noses into something we aren’t suppose to know, there isn’t turning

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 language in this short story allowed the reader to enter this community and gain an understanding of their

Writing about integration into a completely different society and, even a completely different world, is, in my opinion, very difficult. To be able to really well describe all the feelings and conflicts which, unfortunately, are present while speaking about such an issue, one needs some own authentic experience, and since the author of this short story is of Japanese origin, there is a very good chance of reading a great piece of work.

The way in which this story is told I find is very unique. The Book Of Unknown Americans is written in a first person perpective where each chaacter gets to personnaly introduce themselves and explain their life story. When reading this book it almost feels as if you are talking one on one with a close friend. Henriquez has a way of pulling your right through text and submerging you into the same word as the characters throughout the book. Henriquez makes a point of keeping the characters thoughts and emotions very clear, its as if we are the character. Its very easy to realte to eachinduvidual in the story, which is purposefully done by the auther in order to make Henriquez message clear on what she wants us, the reader, to take away from her fictional book. No matter where we come from, we all want the same things in life, to find love, safety, and a sense of purpose inthis world. Just becasue osmeone is a foreigner does not mean that their ambitions what they strive for in life are foreign concepts as well. We are all human and must treat one another as nothing less.

The society questions why it is so challenging to communicate with foreigners. "The Country of the Blind" is a short story first published in 1904 by H.G. Wells. He is well known for his science fiction novels. This short story is focusing on sight and blindness and brings up the theme of prejudice versus learning. In the novel we follow a traveller, who ends up in an unfamiliar strange place, which set him in learning trail, figuring out who he really is. How does the writer illustrate the difficulties with foreigners in this short story?

The other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. The novel is about two boys that grew up on the same neighborhood but toke different paths in their life. Two boys that grew up in the same neighborhood but toke complete different paths like author Wes joining the army and becoming an author while the other Wes takes the wrong path and ends up life sentenced. The purpose of the novel is to show that being in a bad environment doesn’t always impact how your life will turn out, it all depends on the effort that you make for that path that you want. The other Wes Moore, portrays the argument of how nature vs nurture determines someone individual success.

Knowledge can be the key to freedom or to one’s demise, depending on how one choses to act, but no matter what, gaining knowledge is rarely an easy task. Even for students who have information readily available to them, like Victor Frankenstein at the University of Ingolstadt, are constantly under the arduous task of learning. When learning has to be done by any means necessary or in secret, like Frankenstein’s monster or Fredrick Douglass, the acquisition of knowledge becomes even more daunting and makes the learner even more ardent in their pursuit. Once a person obtains knowledge, they see their surroundings for what they are and become discontent; they realize their potential and take action to change their life, which can be seen through the eyes of Victor Frankenstein, his monster, and Fredrick Douglass.

It is interesting to see how foreign culture is seen through different eyes in each of the personal mini-stories that comprise this book.

There are many ways to interpret a book, one can read it as a character’s adventure, a conflict of ideas or emotions, or a story. For myself, I read the books, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville, in an ironic sense; and while doing this, I noticed that both books showed an intuitive sense of sociology. Furthermore, what mattered most by reading the books ironically is that it is easy to see the outcome of a situation which is pleasing to be conscious of. It is easy to see the outcome of a situation because when one is paying attention to a character, one’s attention is toward a character, except when one’s attention is on an entire situation, one’s attention is on the flow of events and then the

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

In the novel The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Special Circumstances is a futuristic faction of people who are determined to find “The Smoke”. They are very interested in finding them because of the advantages in doing so will help the “Special Circumstances,” in finding reasons to escapes and how to control them.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him, a quote from Jonathan swift a man known as an expert of satire. There couldn't be a better way to start this novel about a person who is convinced of his own genius, and the idiocy of those around him. Yet, at the same time, he is in almost every way the most outrageous candidate for such a suitable name. , this book itself is a spoof. From the techniques toole used to the portrayal of modern society and one of American's greatest writer Mark Twain. The characters are what make this novel, they are all connect by some way or other and end up affecting each other most of the time without even knowing it.

Once the student is back in his room, he begins pondering his life's situation. He is sensitive to his current environment, and imagines Harlem and New York talking to him, as if they were friends. They are the two worlds he is a part of, and he tries to resolve the differences by acknowledging the similarities. He recognizes that his life has many things in common with other people; working, loving, reading, learning, eating, sleeping, etc. Only the objects of expression are different.