Short Story of Rei's Death

As Montag begins his life on the run, he meets a group of fugitives called “book chapters.” These men, many of whom were once college professors, have devoted their lives to memorizing small bits of books for future generations. The reader receives the sense of these “chapters” existing in other towns through the words of Granger, a leader of sorts: “Some of us live in small towns. Chapter One… in Green River, Chapter Two in Willow Farm, Maine. Why, there’s one town in Maryland… [with] the complete essays of… Russell”

Joseph’s narrative voice exhibits images of truth and story within a story. He completes Becca’s chapter on her quest for her Grandmother’s past. The novel is divided in 4 sections. Home, castle, home again and the author’s note. They separate the steps that lead to Becca’s journey.

"Are you sure Taya?" He reached out and grabbed my arm and held it between his fingers, rubbing my soft brown skin.

“I do what I can for them, but it is not enough… though their bandages unravel… believe me I love them…” establishes conflict and insight on the complex relationship between the novelist and the characters in the novel “Marching Through a Novel” by John Updike. Updike shows the complexity of being a novelist and creating characters through personification and metaphors.

Readers tend to look closely at the chapter structure and interpret them as individual pieces without stepping back to see them as a whole; yet, Hemingway notes that there is, in fact, a sense of unity between the chapters and vignettes. An obvious unifying thread is the presence of the Nick Adams stories. “Indian Camp” introduces the reader to a young, impressionable Nick. What follows are several interspersed stories that trace his coming of age in pieces such as “The Three Day Blow” and “The Battler.” The book concludes as the post-war Nick Adams provides an account of a fly-fishing adventure, bringing a sense closure to this central character. What complicates the book are the vignettes that are interspersed within the story sequence. This structure works to juxtapose thoughts and ideas, perhaps even disorient the reader, thus challenging the reader to find new interpretative strategies, much like a perspective one might need to look at modern art. Hemingway carefully chose this structure (just as he so mindfully chose his prose) as a way of framing Modernism through the written

The reader receives the impression that Nick’s self analysis of his own character tries to influence their opinion of him. Therefore the reader becomes inclined to question his judgements. Nick Carraway’s narration takes the reader into his confidence; he describes significant experiences in an almost voyeuristic way. Nicks narrative style uses elaborate and very mature vocabulary that gives extra depth and description to his account; drawing the reader further into the story. Additionally Nick’s tone creates a sense of authority and immediacy which encourages the reader to read on.

Another big point in Prose’s essay is the assignments associated with high school literature. She argues that teachers make students write around the books and not about the books they read. “No wonder students are rarely asked to consider what was actually written by these hopeless racists and sociopaths. Instead, they’re told to write around the book, or, better yet, write their own books,” (430). The assignments that teachers give these days are nto about the book or the story itself. They usually ask the student to rewrite the ending, or ask what the student would do if they were in the same situation as the character. Prose argues that high school students are seen as having the same experience as some of the characters they read about, such as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. “And is it any wonder that

“Yes?” He turned to look at her, although he didn’t look directly at her, more at the creature she was holding.

Staring at the screen, the young author sighed in frustration, her fingers once again failing her as she was distracted by the din of the news on TV. Resigned, she shut it off and turned back to her blank document wishing for the ability to channel her emotions towards the high expectations placed before her, as well as the stigmas. She was growing tired of the starkness of the world around her.

her hair by now plastered to the side of her face. As she reached the

She pushed a few loose strands of her raven black hair from her face, regarding him scrutinizing

"Nor can I, but he deemed it of great importance." Trenor brushed her long black hair, tying it back with a small plait that wrapped around her coronet.

The cold also affects Ethan’s feelings as it takes the warmth from the stove to melt “Ethan’s dark thoughts” that were induced during his time in his cold study (75).

Hall and Nabokov both shape their stories around things other than themselves for the majority of their memoirs. While Hall’s focuses on the stories of others and how they changed him, Nabokov focuses on all of the thoughts and ideas that formed around the age of 4. Though these subjects go against the traditional memoir format, they further both men’s arguments with those who wish to read about them. Despite the differences of these two men’s lives, they connected their audience through their memoirs that showed the changes that can alter a person. The authors chose what best fit to the stories or the events they chose important enough to write, and the generic memoir conventions were not

“I…I um,” she stammered. Giovanna pushed a long lock of chestnut hair out of her face as she grabbed her glass, gulping down her wine.