Like a Winding Sheet

As a means of assessing the extent to which the work was successful, I evaluated the books ability to answer the questions the author himself posed to the audience. These questions were discussed in the introduction where Ozment presented two questions before he launched into the narrative in search of their answers. Ozment asked: “What exactly had [Anna] done to cause her father, the Burgermeister, to denounce her as an “evil serpent” and the government of Hall to declare her a renegade?” and “Why did the behaviour of one woman rivet the attention and disrupt the lives of so many important people for so long a time?”. According to Ozment, answers to these questions can be found “in the internal workings of a distant society and in the inner lives of people who were both like and unlike ourselves” (3). Therefore, in considering whether or not this book was successful I looked

A strong essay goes beyond the explicit and makes logical inferences about the psychological and literary elements of the stories

When reading literature we often attempt to use particular threads of thought or lenses of critique to gain entry into the implied historic or legendary nature of literature. To accurately process a tale in the light in which it is presented, we have to consider the text from multiple viewpoints. We must take into consideration intentional and affective fallacies and the socioeconomic circumstances of the presenter/author/narrator. We also have to consider how our personal experience creates bias by placing the elements of the story into the web of relationships that we use to interpret the external world. There also is the need to factor in other external pressures, from societal norms, cultural ideals, and psychological themes, and how

The purpose of this essay is to correlate the theme of three different stories that had been read. I decided to choose the stories “Good Country People”, “Hills Like White Elephants”, and “The Storm.” I believe that the theme across these stories is to beware of the wolf in sheep clothing. In these stories, there was an antagonist that posed as a protagonist who even though their intentions may have looked well skin deep, the underlying intentions against the main character were not of good intent. I will describe certain situations in each of the three stories that show the theme I have noted.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

The narrator through out most of the short story comes of as a pretty shallow character. Besides his stereotyping tendencies he comes of as callous and un-imaginative. He shows his lack of

The world is a massive place full of endless literature, beginning from ancient scrolls to daily news articles, filled with many secrets, perspectives and surroundings that help connect literature to an individual’s daily life. Some writers use the skills of literary elements to express and discuss an event that has happened to them or what has happened to others. This helps others to comprehend the perspectives of the author’s understanding toward an incident that one might experience. For instance in Flannery O’Connor’s short story, she uses many literary elements to express her views over most of her stories. O’Connor expresses her views in her short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by using the literary elements of point of view, irony, and setting.

These stories are both very diverse and regardless of being from two completely altered worlds, the likeness of characters between each story is easily identifiable. This essay will outline the similarities and clearly identify the comparison of characters between these two stories. Even though these stories are unlike one another, the comparison between books show similarities in the characters that impact how they act and who they are. The clearest

Why are people always taught to read a story for the deeper meaning and symbolism without ever concerning themselves with the actual writing of the story? Most authors, when writing a short story, put considerable effort into the most minute details, this allows them to control the environment, pace, and unique feelings found in their story. As the reader progresses through the narrative they skip over many of these details to take in the larger picture, this is only natural. But it would be ignorant of a scholarly reader to not revisit and take note of this deeper level of the writing, it would leave them oblivious to the thought and care that the author has put into crafting their work; this deeper level is far from just symbolism, it is

The main analysis this essay with cover is comparing how the three stories discuss and express class and heritage, as well as how death can cause people to not only think things in a different way but also how death can open your eyes to something you never would have seen otherwise. Another thing that is potentially easily missed is how each of the individuals writing styles and backgrounds affect the ground work of the stories and how they progress.

Just like when we first meet someone new, we tend to make assumptions and judgemental thoughts about what we’ve discovered within the first few seconds. While reading the story for the first time, the audience has made the same assumptions, but later is proven wrong when they have dived in too deep into the story. The story shows that the more you get to know something or someone, even when you think you know the truth, can turn into the unexpected. That many people have different perspectives and different ways of interpreting different things which could either lead to their success or their utterly complete downfall. Due to these unexpected changes, people tend to act without thinking and letting their emotions cloud their

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

Contrary to Woolf’s critique of Wells writing style, it is clear that while the style of the narrative may be vastly different, there is also a wealth of shared thematic interests between the texts; the exploration of the unconscious and undermining of aesthetic values provide cardinal roles in both. TtL must be read as a work of dissonance in itself, in which every character’s perspective and narrative framing helps construct the whole – the novel in this case. Throughout the text, “characters sympathise and speculate about one another; they fill in details of another’s past”, and it is only through this consideration of numerous perspectives that, similarly to the construction of the text, we are able to piece together the many facets of the characters found within, thereby understanding the nature of division (Levenson, 24). Regardless of Woolf’s apparent disdain for realism, the text presents a thoroughly realistic construction of perspective displaying “how life, being made up of little separate incidents, which one lived one by one, became curled and whole” (Woolf, 53). TTM is a work equally born out of division, through which Wells navigates his own dissonance.

Interpretive fiction is a way of writing in which the writer’s goal is to help take the reader deeper into the real world and provoke our thoughts, broadening our awareness of life, and our perspective. Many stories are interpretive fiction because they give the reader not only the fictional ideology, but also some insight on real-world issues and tend to really make the reader take the time to think about what is the big meaning behind each and every story. “Miss Brill” written by Katherine Mansfield and Identities, written by Wd Valgardson are both short stories that are examples of interpretive fiction. Both of these stories have a deeper meaning related to the misjudgement of others, the effects it has on people, and the reality of how people perceive the world and each other. One’s self-perception differs from reality and often one only learns this reality through the collective perceptions of the world with which we interact. Unfortunately, some of these perceptions can be guided by judgement.

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