Rupert's Quest To Slay The Dragon

This text type is a Narrative, Narrative texts have to do with real life events and time that occur, I think this text type is appropriate for this novel because it is a fictional book with fairy tale characters. It is characterised by sequencing of events expressed

“Slaying the Dragon” by Deborah Gee is a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era. From the racist use of white actors to portray Asians in early Hollywood films, through the success of Anna May Wong’s sinister dragon lady, to Suzie Wong and the ‘50s geisha girls, to the Asian-American anchorwoman of today. The movie also shows how stereotypes of exoticism and docility have affected the perception of Asian-American women.

The genre of this novel is adventure. The novel’s purpose is to entertain. The audience for this novel is all genders, ages 6-13.

The hero trope is used in many different genres in many different ways, but the genre in which this trope and the ‘hero’s quest’ appear in their traditional form is that of narrative heroic poetry. One such example being the eight century poem Beowulf. Which when tied and compared to a much more modern take on the traditional hero genre in the form of David Malouf’s “ransom” showcase the different ways in which the hero trope can be explored. Throughout both these texts, the author directs and challenges the reader's ideas of heroism. Within Beowulf especially where the traditional ideals of being a hero are challenged and reformed, to create depth and interesting new ideas thus come into play that co-exist with traditional hero tropes and the unique genre to become a new thing. Also within David Malouf’s ‘Ransom’ the genre is challenged by modernising a familiar traditional hero tale and inter-textualising it. Creating a whole new form of telling the heroes quest, without relying heavily on the original tale for details and instead brings forth more attention to characters that are in the background or barely mentioned in the original text.

When developing the different points to analyze I found that the way I was setting this paper up was truly showcasing my abilities to analyze a passage from a well know author. While going through the text, I found a vast amount of imagery,” When considering the imagery in the folktale one of the first

Please Note: Diction, detail, point of view, organization and syntax are all devices that the author uses to make the tone of the story evident to the reader. Your commentary should

The story begins with the description of a deep night and two men bent by their lonely fire. These men are speaking about a strange, mysterious creature, which seems to ruin everything on its way. They are talking about a dreadful dragon, which is described with much detail: “This dragon, they say his eyes are fire. His breath a white gas; you can see him bum across the dark lands”, “Passing, the black brunt of its shoulder smashed the remaining horse and rider a hundred feet against the side of a boulder, wailing, wailing, the dragon shrieking, the fire all about, around, under it, a pink, yellow, orange sun-fire with

Warfare. Rejection. Trickery. Peace. One word stands out and doesn’t belong in Homer’s story The Odyssey; peace. Odysseus went through 20 years of being kept from his wife and son. He fought men and monsters, was rejected by wooers in his own city and people tried to tricking him during his journey back home. He didn’t find peace on his journey. He was always lamenting over missing his home and family. When he finally did make it home he hid his true identity as a beggar while he planned his revenge against the wooers who stole from him and took over his home. In the end he revealed himself and there was a battle where the wooers were killed. I think Odysseus was justified in his actions against the men and women he killed. Odysseus’ actions were appropriate based on the loyalty he showed his family, the terrible behavior of the wooers towards Odysseus and the fact that he showed mercy to some innocent people.

It’s made for entertainment not for its factual content and can be disregarded as such. She wants the reader to adopt this mindset so that the reader unknowingly accepts her argument before she even states it. She associates this idea of a fairy tale with all the focus around television and all the claims that have been made about its influence in our lives. How we’ve essentially made “a whole mythology” around what powers televisions hold over us. Following this idea of the claims about television being a part of a fantasy the author manages to simultaneously, insult the argument by showing the degree to which we have accepted it is comparable to believing in “myths”. By making an appeal to the audience, as it is written informally and is much easier to approach and understand. She also sets up the counter arguments as proponents of the myth making them easier to discredit. This first paragraph sets the tone the rest of the article uses. And she continues with this tone by making each point of the opposing argument another one of these “myths” so at the start of every paragraph we immediately think, this is not true, it’s just made for entertainment. Eventually, the reader begins to accept her argument before even reading it because of how effective her appeal to pathos

Defeating Dragons and Minutes That Matter have many similarity and differences! Defeating Dragons is about a group of teens who help the local people of Aniak, Alaska they work 24 hours 7 days a week.Minutes That Matter is about a group of teens who send phones to soldiers who were overseas so they could talk to there family.These two groups both help people,whether it's helping them communicate with their family or helping them if they're hurt.They also are different in some ways Defeating Dragons help if there's an emergency, and Minutes That Matter help the soldiers keep in touch with their friends and family.

 We must dismiss, of course, from mind the notion that Beowulf is a “narrative poem,” that it tells a tale or intends to tell a tale sequentially. The poem “lacks steady advance”: so Klaeber heads a critical section in his edition.

The Medieval Period in history brought along scores of fables about everything from knights engaging in courtly love to corruption in the Catholic Church. The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer expertly encapsulates many of the great motifs of the era. The Tales are a series of stories and descriptions of characters of all social classes that were composed in the late 1300’s. Chaucer utilizes a multitude of literary techniques to convey his personal views of people, and ultimately, what they represent in society. The author uses such devices when depicting two morally contrasting characters, the Parson and the Summoner, that are documented in the Prologue.

Throughout the history of man, humans have been faced with the decision to either follow the path of morality or the path of evil. Especially in the case of choices, fortitude becomes necessary, as one cannot give in to their inner demons. In the book Grendel, by John Gardner, the quote, “My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it” (74) shows the true purpose of the Dragon - to demonstrate the path of malice: the path of disinterest. Also, the Dragon shows little to know caring for others, especially in the case of overall interest in the happenings of the world. This idea of indifference plays tricks in Grendel’s mind, which makes sense, as dragons through literature represent evil, greed, and violence, making this character the perfect foil for Grendel.

The story is structured as a series of parables. Parables are stories that have hidden meanings or life lessons that you figure out as you read. The stories are connected because each story is being told by a different contestant in a storytelling contest. The Canterbury Tales is the first instance of an author creating this kind of nested structure to house multiple smaller narratives. With Chaucer came the advent of the frame

According to “The Bedford Book of Genres” A Genre is a compositions kind, category or sort”. One type of genre in Children’s literature is the Fairy Tale. Fairy tales can be difficult to define as many of the characteristics cross over into fables and folklore. In the beginning fairy tales were original targeted at adults as well as children and were both oral and written works. It is a type of short story usually about elves, fairies, dragons, or other magical beings with the point of teaching a lesson and involving a far-fetched sequence of events. This form may be used by authors as a way of examining the human condition or to recreate a sense of the fantastic. They have a conventional, happy ever after style full of magic and romance.