Welcome, welcome! Come one, come all to Aidan’s Amazing Writing Emporium! The reason for this piece is to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction writings from a selected time period. The time period I chose was the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was when societies went from making everything by hand to using machines and factories. It was a huge leap in human achievement and helped businesses make a lot more money than they used to, but also forced lower class people to work long hours in factories to produce goods. For the fiction writings, I chose the book North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn and the short story “Life in the Industrial Revolution" by someone with the online username of PukaMaseillaise. They …show more content…
Thirdly is the setting of each writing. "Life in the Industrial Revolution" takes place in a poor town and dangerous factories, while North and South focuses on the life of a lower class girl who lives in a quiet town at first and then moves to the city but does not work in a factory. From LIR is this text quote: "We were forced to move to the city and work in a factory, where we tend machines all day long until the day is over..." In LIR, the narrator lives in a hut with many others and attends a factory six days a week with very long hours to work and earn money. Next is the fiction to nonfiction section. For my nonfiction books I chose The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation by Michael Leapman, The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen, and The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century 's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage. These books also compare and contrast in some ways. Firstly, the use of steam engines. LIR and Most Powerful Idea both include steam engines and how they worked in factories. (You’re going to be hearing the words “steam engine” a lot in this essay.) Second, are the “specifics” of the steam engine use. In LIR, the steam engine is used to run machines in factories where people tend to them to make money,
In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.
Animals help humans in our lives for sharing their features. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the changes are positive, and other times it is negative. Either way, here is no avoiding change. Animals are kind, helpful, and playful.
Darkness at Noon, written by British novelist Arthur Koestler in 1940, is a criticism of Stalinism and the methods used by the Communist Party in the USSR. The novel was set in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Even though the story depicts actual occurrences, it does not specifically name either Russia or the USSR, but the characters do have Russian names while other generic terms are used to depict individuals and associations. For instance, the Soviet government is alluded to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is alluded to as "the Dictatorship." Joseph Stalin, a terrorizing dictator, is represented by "Number One." The novel is a strong and moving picture of a Communist revolutionary caught up in the terror
The possesion of land has proved to greatly amplify and draw out several different stereotypes and conflicts between societies in the world 's history. From Many different accounts all over the world today there has always been a dispute over land. However other disputes shadow in that of the colonial New England settlers and the Native Americans, both virtually revolving their lives around this concept of land distribution. For the settlers it meant wealth and prosperity, for the natives it meant staying alive. William Cronon 's book, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, illustrates the differences between these two separate societies and describes what life was like during the period of exploration and settlement in the New World. There are several other facts or opinions that one could take away from this passage, but the three main points are differences in the Colonist and Native conceptions of property, as well as how cultural stereotypes and eventual conflict emerged from mutual understanding of the land and use of property by each group.
Reading the book, The Other Side of the River, by Alex Kotlowitz, the author writes about the relationship between two towns in Michigan, and the death of a young boy named Eric McGinnis. The two towns, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, are called the “Twin Cities”, but are ironically not related in any way. St. Joseph is 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and is 92 percent black. Throughout the book Kotlowitz questions the residents from both towns and how they are affected by the environment around them. The author also starts with the climax on the first page of the book – the death of Eric, and uses this as an technique to tell the story of the disagreements between the two towns.
Literature changed drastically between the nineteenth-century and twentieth and twenty-first century. Idealistic views that British writers once held, turned into skepticism as Great Britain enter war and inequalities grew greater. The writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries wrote realistically what was happening in the world. The Moment before the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer and “The Day They Burned the Books” by Jean Rhys are both stories that show the shattering of Idealism in twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
When Frances Cornford wrote “The Watch”, she must have been in an unbelievably dark place; the poem is downright depressing. However, regardless of the macabre nature of the poem, it is executed in supreme fashion, and creates a real sense of dread in the reader. Cornford, a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was not a particularly popular poet. However, in “The Watch”, she manages to convey a powerful message to the reader, and demonstrates her poetic skill in stride. The theme of this intriguing poem appears to simply be ‘Memento mori’, a reminder to the reader that death is inevitable and inescapable. Cornford conveys this message to the reader using an arsenal of literary devices, most notably the mood, tone, symbolism, and epizeuxis.
The book Middle Passage by Charles Johnson tells a story about the triangular slave trade which took place early in America 's history. This book was written with such close attention to detail that it gave the reader a sense of what life was like on board a slave boat. Johnson 's writing style included many different techniques including the use of varying structure, imagery and language. All of these devices helped create a very successful story about slavery.
In the article "A World Turned Upside Down By Mary Morton Cowan " how the Black death affected the earth And how it affected Europe and ended many lives. In the article "like black smoke," Dianna Childress' purpose is to show how the black plague spread. Finally, the Black Death petered out somewhere in Kiev, having come almost full circle back to Kaffa.
Clare B. Dunkle made this story easy to understand and creative thinking, One thing in this book I will be talking about is the wonder babies. They are a huge part of the book because they are so much smarter than regular humans. I will also talk about the dome. The dome is such a mysterious place, because everything is the opposite of our world. There is vibrant colors, robot people and everything is “perfect”.
These events provided inspiration for the prominent authors of the time. Literature was no longer focused on fanciful writing, but real issues such as slavery instead. Authors during the period of Realism and Naturalism began to focus
In the opening of Twelve Years a Slave, it shows slaves cutting sugar cane with their “masters” continuously barking out orders for the them to follow. In the next scene, while the slaves are eating their meals in a beat up shack, Solomon Northup distinguishes the dark coloration of the blackberries and attempts to make a quill and ink. Despite solid labor, because of the thinness of the juice, his efforts deemed to be unsuccessful. While trying to get some sleep in the shack, a woman who is near Solomon begins to get sexual with him. Then, after the sexual encounter, he has sudden recollections of joyful, happy memories with his wife and children.
Twelve Years a Slave is a book which is written by Solomon Northup. He was born in New York. The book retail the author’s life story as a free black man from the North. He lived, got married to Anne Hampton, a woman of mixed (black, white, and Native American) and worked in New York, where is his family stayed. Besides, he was a great laborer and a violin player. In 1841, at the age of 33 a two con men offered him a profitable work with a high-paying job as a musician playing violin in the sierk, so he traveled to Washington D.C. And that 's where he was drugged and kidnapped. They sold him as a slave in Louisiana into the Red River. He worked for 12 years on plantations before he was released after 12 years being a slave. In these twelve years, he moved to a several slave’s masters. In most of these years he lived under a cruel ownership called Edwin Epps who was a planter in the south. In 1853, he was finally released by a group of his friends from the North, who came to rescue him. After he returned his home in New York, he decided with the help of Editor David Wilson to write a novel called a Twelve Years a Slave, describing his story and what happened with him along his slavery time.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a story about a slave whom was once free but was abducted and was sold into slavery. This story is an explanation of the suffering of slaves in the antebellum period and a demonstration of the inhumane treatment. “Before I came here I was free, a free man.” The setting of the story was in New York, Washington, and Georgia during the antebellum period. Twelve Years a Slave recounts the genuine story of Solomon Northup, conceived a free man in New York, who is hijacked and sold into bondage where inconceivable torments turn into his day by day reality for the following 12 years.
The effect marriage in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando has upon the modern individual will be the focus of this essay, whilst also considering the role the wedding ring plays in defining the terms of marriage. Woolf portrays Orlando as a modern individual largely because she is free from a number of social conventions and familial pressures other women of the time are subjected to. Despite this, it is the pressure of marriage that she cannot escape: even after she has married Shelmerdine, Orlando is thinking of ways to live her life as before. In contrast to her statement of being forced to consider ‘the most desperate of remedies, which was to yield completely and submissively to the spirit of the age, and take a husband’ (121) Orlando is