Midwinterblood By Marcus Sedwick: Literary Analysis

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat is a collection of nine different stories that tell about the enduring suffering of a select few that suffered under the Dictatorships of François Duvalier (Papa Doc: 1957-1971) and Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc: 1971-1986) (___) The nine chapters of the book bounce back and forth between the past and the present to show the impact that the dictatorships had on these people and how it is still affecting them today as immigrants. The novel mainly focuses on a former dew breaker that resides in a Haitian area of Brooklyn, New York. A dewbreaker was someone that was a torturer during the Duvalier dictatorships, who participated in the

In the story Midwinterblood the author portrays that Merle is beautiful. The author describes her as beautiful, by having Eric fall in love with her during the first section. Eric always thought about her and how beautiful she was. She tried helping him, but ended up dying next to him in the end of the section. The author also makes her sound beautiful in the second section having Edward the archeologist falling in love with her at first site. He walks up to the door trying to find Eric to thank him and after he knocks Merle answers the door and he instantly thinks about how gorgeous she is. Edward and Merle end up getting a little romantic towards the end of the section. The author makes Merle sound beautiful by having Eric and Edward

Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” is a marvelous and unusual text. Within the first part of his book, also called C.V., he explains his life experience up to the day he finishes the book. King expresses his life with multiple literary elements that assist the readers on imagining his life of adventures, catastrophes, fears, and loves. Following are three of my favorite passages that caught my attention.

In the novel, “The Scarlet Letter”, a woman named Hester Prynne commits a sin. She commits the sin of adultery which results in the birth of her daughter Pearl. Hester now has to wear a scarlet letter on her chest for the rest of her life. Unbeknownst to everyone else except Hester, Dimmesdale, is the father of Pearl. Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, now seeks revenge for what Hester has done to him. He learns that Dimmesdale is the father but tells no one because he wants to have something over Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale reveals his sin to the public of Boston and dies. Pearl and Hester leave to make a life for themselves.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is one of the better known, yet lesser understood theater installments by William Shakespeare in the Sixteenth Century. The play was first performed September 21, 1599 in the Globe Theatre in London, England. In the play there are many different and unique characters, some complex, some simple. Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, better known as Brutus, is one of the characters in the play and the protagonist of the play. Brutus is introduced fairly early in the play, Act I, Scene II to be specific. Brutus is one of the characters on the more complex side. Shakespeare developed the character of

In the book Midwintersblood by Marcus Sedgwick Eric explores Blessed Island, at one point he goes swimming and his clothes are laid neatly when he comes back to get dressed suggesting the island is magical. "He undresses quickly and eases into the water from a warm rock" narrated the narrator (Page 21). "He knows he dropped [his clothes] in a pile where he undressed. Now they are laid out neatly, spread flat, to warm on the sunny rocks. He looks around, but can see no one" (Page 22). Eric begins to wonder why the clothes are folded and

If people do not know how to think, there will be no difference between dogs and human because dogs only know how to obey. The friction novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury describes a dystopian society where the government burn all the books because they think people can only be happy if they never question and think about their society. Ray Bradbury’s primary message in Fahrenheit 451 is that people need to know how to think instead of learning what to think, this message is shown based on the situation involving Mildred and Montag.

Love, one of the best parts of life, provokes positive thoughts from most people. Every story involves some aspect of love, no matter the genre. From a young age, life teaches that love acts as something so special and precious. After all, love can break any curse. On the contrary, love can actually be seen as destructive and extremely negative.

The interlocking or weaving thread that pulls the short stories together in the novel, Midwinterblood, by Marcus Sedgwick is the two main characters that keep reappearing in every short story. The two characters are Merle and Erik. Even though Blessed Island has the flowers that seem to be cursed in some way to make Eric either die or feel very sleepy which is oddly peculiar. My reasoning for this is because Eric feels like he has been here before and other characters also believe that also. "I, thinks Eric Seven, have lived this before." This quote is intriguing because he says this in his head and it makes the reader think why would he say that. Well as you read the story you figure out that the stories yet to come all feature the name Eric

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, a retired English teacher named Faber convinced us all of the three missing components of the set society and possibly in our own, “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number 3: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.” (81). His first argument was the quality of information, in this case, he was referring to how books hold documentation of independent ideas and newly webbed thoughts, the two things that the government appears to look down on. Creativity seems to be spun into this label of abnormality, where all are expected to be equal resulting in those of high intelligence not being able to live up to their full potential, and

I decided to do my essay on the Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff. The reason I chose this story is because winter is my favorite time of the year; I absolutely love snow. The title of this story itself caught my attention. In this paper I will be talking about how the characters interact with each other and how the environment or the setting effects the characters. While talking about the setting, I will also talk about the symbols and the themes.

Winter’s Bone, is a book that was written by Daniel Woodrell, and it examines how the destitutions in life are time and again a facilitator for personal character development. The setting of this book is in Ozark Mountains’ backwoods, and the story is filled with adverse characters who involve themselves in in drugs, crime as well as domestic abuse on a day-to-day basis. The star of this book is a young girl, Ree Dolly, who must take a daring stand for her family’s survival. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins details the exploits of Katniss Everdeen, who has been forced to take part in a fight-to-the-death contest against other children. The setting of this novel is in Panem, a nation built on what was at one point North America.

Losing a loved one is difficult, but questioning if they are really alive takes a toll on one’s daily life. In Heaven’s Keep, Jo’s plane disappears without a trace and no one can seem to find it until people start digging deeper into the story. ?Could Jo still be alive, but nowhere near where the plane disappeared? Her husband Cork, son Stephen, and family friend Palmer set out to find what really happened on that plane and where Jo really went. Visualizing Aurora, Minnesota, evaluating where the airplane went, and questioning how Jo died is simple because the author used great detail in the book Heaven’s Keep.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun play focuses on the aftermath of world war two when black Americans faced segregation and racism from the whites. The characters try to thrive in the poverty-stricken and segregated family and try to achieve their dreams amid the whites. Everyone in the family has a hope of escaping hardship including Ruth, who besides living in such conditions is expectant which only complicates the situation further and she thinks of aborting the pregnancy. Luckily hopes begin to beam, and Lena (Mama) receives ten thousand dollars, she buys a house and gives the rest of the amount to Walter to venture into his business idea. Unfortunately, he ends up being scammed and losses the money without saving some penny for Beneatha's school. Walter is then left in a dilemma on whether to sell their new

The story Midwinterblood so far has had many intriguing components. The main one that stood out to me was the part of the plot that was not answered, why there were no children. The reason it stood out to me so much is that it was never answered. The question is first posed on page 18 right before Eric goes to bed. "He has been on Blessed for several hours. He has met a few people, and seen many more. But he has not seen a single child" (Sedgwick 18). I have a feeling that this might be a clue, because it goes unanswered. I will definitely be looking for clues like this further on in the book. To wrap it all up, the most intriguing component to me was the fact that there were no