Personal Narrative: The Devils Message

Intent and Motive in The Devil and Tom Walker and The Devil and Daniel Webster      Washington Irving, in writing "The Devil and Tom Walker", and Stephen Vincent Benet, in writing "The Devil and Daniel Webster" illustrate to the reader the consequences of man's desire for material wealth and how a person's motivation for a relationship with the devil affects the outcome of the "deal". In these two different, yet surprisingly similar narratives, the authors present their beliefs about human

summary In the story The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, a man named Tom Walker and his wife made rash decisions based on their personal greed. Tom Walker stumbled across the devil while taking a short cut home one day. The devil tried to make a trade with Tom which consisted of trading Tom’s soul for Captain Kidd’s loot. Tom turned down the deal in spite of his greedy wife. This frustrated her so much to the point where she went out to make a deal with the devil herself. After going missing

“The media may be new, but the punitive messages and appetites remain the same today’s tech simply provides new outlets for the worst behaviour” (Gaskill). For over 19 years, social media sites have changed the way humans communicate. Social media sites have affected individuals in positive and harmful ways. These sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in some way have used “witch- hunting” to harm others. According to the Merriam Webster, witch-hunting is “the searching out and deliberate

Social Media: The New Name in Witch-Hunting “The media may be new, but the punitive messages and appetites remain the same. Today’s tech simply provides new outlets for the worst behaviour” (Gaskill). For over 19 years, social media sites have changed the way humans communicate. Social media sites have affected individuals in positive and harmful ways. These sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in some way have used “witch- hunting” to harm others. According to the Merriam Webster, witch-hunting

Devil on the Cross: Wariinga Character Analysis and Development Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is a compelling and curious novel that examines both the physical and mental journey of a young woman, Wariinga. Along the way she encounters many people and challenges that shape her identity. Eventually Wariinga develops into what Ngugi considers ideal Kenyan femininity to be. However, when the reader first encounters her in the novel, she is confused by the message of what it means to be

light on this matter by commenting on the French king’s act of cleansing the court; giving the image of a good court being ‘like a common fountain’ which should flow ‘pure silver drops in general’. Essentially, his dialogue seems to indicate his own personal motivation to cleanse the Italian court and restore honesty and good within the country and its leaders. Ironically, as they speak of the ‘flatt’ring sycophants’ which the French king

All literature has an underlying message of a constant battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is no different. The forces of supposed good and evil come to clash with the persistent battle between Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. This conflict between the two forces can be seen to represent the forces of God and Lucifer (or the Devil), as both the literary and religious characters share a number of characteristics. Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein uses

that knowledge would eventually have on his life. His mistress, Sophia Auld, began teaching him how to read until his master Hugh Auld warned her against its effects on the regression of Douglass’s quality as a slave. In his renowned autobiography, Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, published in 1845, Douglass uses well-developed literary techniques in order to communicate his philosophical ideals about the institution of slavery and the inhumane horrors

person and it seems like Malcolm was writing this of his own. But it is important to understand that the autobiography is not written by Malcolm. Alex Haley recorded his words. The readers only have the visibility that this is a whole consistent narrative. From the point of view of determining the personality and development of Malcolm, the Autobiography is as captivating as it is exciting. It tempts the reader into combining the Autobiography with the real life and personality

imply that a floating chain of signifies are present and the reader must choose some and ignore the rest (1977, p.32-55). Polysemic codes are present within the initiation of the narrative structure and the morning routine of man is shown through a paradigm of signs. The signifier syntagmatic relations state the coded message interpretation. Malicious belligerent connotations and own denotation is presented by signifiers which brings forward various signified for the audience and construal based discernment