Analyze the title.
The book Vampire Academy is named after St. Vladimir’s Academy. This is a special school where vampires learn magic and half-mortal teenagers are training to keep them safe. I think the author chose this title because St. Vladimir’s Academy is where most of the story’s events take place and the school is known as Vampire Academy.
2. Analyze the author’s purpose and why. Why do you think he/she wrote the novel?
Richelle Mead wrote this novel to entertain people who like to read books with action and romance. I think Richelle wrote this novel because she likes vampire stories and wanted to make one of her own combining Russian and Romanian mythology.
3. Describe the protagonist
Rosemarie “Rose” Hathaway is a developing
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Victor Dashkov is a flat character, because he is manipulative and looks to get his way in every situation. Victor Dashkov manipulated his daughter, Natalie, into thinking that turning Strigoi is a good idea and that it will help save him. (page 292-295)
5. Analyze one symbol, identify it, explain it, give paginated example, and tell the author’s reason for using it.
The Molnija mark, молния Russian for the word “lightning” is a mark on the back of a Guardian’s neck that signifies the number of Strigoi that Guardian has killed. This mark looks like two lightning bolts that intersect in an “X”. The author uses this mark on Guardians so that other people who see this mark know how many Strigoi that Guardian has killed. (page 13)
6. Analyze the imagery, explaining if it is auditory, visual or tactile. Why did the author use it? Give a paginated example.
A certain scene in “Vampire Academy” consisted of a dead fox with a slit throat appearing on Lissa Dragomir’s bed and the next day another animal. This other animal came with a note reading: “I know what you are. You won’t survive being here. I’ll make sure of it. Leave now. It’s the only way you might live through this.”(page 160) This is an example of visual imagery because the author is trying to get the reader to imagine the scene with the animals, because the animals and Lissa’s bed were described as “a bloody
Auditory imagery is when words are used to let you imagine noises or sounds, and sometimes to help you understand the intensity of a sound. The next example is when Scout hears Miss. Caroline scream because she saw a cootie in Burris Ewell’s hair. “A sudden shriek shattered my resentments”. Nothing was actually shattered the sentence is exaggerated to show and help you get an idea of how and loud and sudden the shriek was. This sentence influenced the plot of the story because it showed how scared Miss. Caroline was of the bug found on Burris Ewell.
3. Examine the cover of the novel. What images do you see? How do you think the images are connected to the story?
One excellent example is, “Imagine that I’m a professor, you walk down, come though the doorway, sit down at a table…” (Gladwell, Primed for Action). Gladwell describes a character moving through a simple situation. Although this example may seem a bit vague, it provides an image within the reader’s mind of what that particular situation may look like. As Americans, we do this quite frequently, when we think of a certain event or social gathering we are planning on attending or even being forced to attend, we draw up and image within our minds. Sometimes said image may be a good image, with everything occurring exactly as you have thought those events would happen. Sadly, many times within our minds, not everything is pictured in a positive way. We may think of a social event where we may be shunned by everyone else attending the event because of one bad comment we spoke, or our taste in music or other entertainment. Another example of imagery within the book is the quote, “Predicting Divorce, like tracking Morse code operators, is pattern recognition.” (Gladwell, the Secrets of the Bedroom). This example, once again, gives us an image of this certain situation with the use of “Morse code operators” to provide some sort of image for our minds to
a. Is there some section that clearly lets the reader know what subject the composition is about and what the writer’s purpose is? If so, where does this section begin and end? In this section, can you find an answer to the central question that the text has been written in response to, or can you find an indication of the text’s central argument?
Question: Discuss how the author has positioned you to respond to the characters/ subjects in the text.
In the excerpt of the book "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr, the author uses the literary element of imagery in order to strengthen the main idea that blind people view the world in a different and unique way. This view is one that people with sight cannot understand nor picture. Doerr implements this element when describing how a blind person views the world. When describing how they view color and objects it sets an image in the readers mind to give them the ability to relate and to better understand the blind character. By understanding a sliver of how a blind person views the world the readers form a vision of their own. The Author uses imagery when describing how the character identifies certain objects and distinguishes one object from another.
There are many aspects for my mind to conceive while reading the articles why I write by George Orwell and Joan Didion. There are many different factors in triggering an author’s imagination to come up with what they want to write, and why they want to write it. In most writings a purpose is not found before the writer writes, but often found after they decide to start writing.
2. Identify the author’s main idea(s). In other words, what is the main point the author is attempting to make about the book?
It is worthy of note, as Christopher Frayling claims, that John William Polidori was the foremost nineteenth century authors whose penchant to blend together components of vampirism into a coherent literary genre was an immediate success in his ever prominent story The Vampyre. Here are some testimonial lines taken from Christopher Frayling’s book Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula. In this book, Frayling writes:” Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form that is recognized today- an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society” (Frayling )
Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Vlad III, Dracula, Drakulya, or Tepes, was born in late 1431, in the citadel of Sighisoara, Transylvania, the son of Vlad II or Dracul, a military governor, appointed by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Vlad Dracul was also a knight in the Order of the Dragon, a secret fraternity created in 1387 by the Emperor, sworn to uphold Christianity and defend the empire against the Islamic Turks. Transylvania, along with Moldavia, and Wallachia, are now joined together as Romania. The name Dracul can be interpreted in two ways, the first translation from Romanian would be "Dragon", but it sometimes also means "Devil". Vlad was not called Tepes, which means ""spike" in Romanian, until after
The vampire is the popular character in folklore from early civilization to modern life. The vampire appears in people mind with the passion of immortality, fear, love and mystery. People are attracted with vampire because the superstition of the vampire has done for centuries. Are they real? What are they? Where they come from? There are a few of thousand questions about the beliefs of vampire during many centuries. People don’t stop their curiosity with vampire- the legend that emulates the world cultures and religions. One of the most important reason that made vampire still popular until today is the great transformation. During the time, with the creative of human, vampire reforms to fit with modern age. According to the “Jung and the Jungians on Myth”, Steven Walke implies myth is a metaphor and come from the collective of human psyche. People use vampire as the tools to explain human thinking. Therefore, the charging in the thinking of people in different period of time will effect to the symbol of vampire. The research will explain the transformation of vampire by diving to three main topics: the vampire in the historical and religion thinking; the charging of vampire in literature and movie; the symbol of vampire in modern people thinking. Although three main topics seem separately, these connect and develop other idea like cause and effect. Depend on the information of history, the image of vampire in novel become reality. From the idea of vampire in novel, modern
Why do we need a purpose for writing a book? For example the book The Maze Runner by James Dashner? An Author Purpose is the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. James Dashner who wrote the novel The Maze Runner was trying to inform us, Sense of hope and to entertain his readers by studying their brain patterns. They were trying to figure out how the brain patterns of a non-immune.
The vampire is one of the oldest mythological creatures in the world. It has been around for thousands of years and is found in nearly every culture. There are many different kinds, the red-eyed corpses from China, the Greek Lamia- a woman with the lower body of a winged serpent, the Penanggalang in Malaysia- a woman with a detachable head, etc. The most commonly known, however, is the Romanian vampire, it is used often in pop culture, from movies, to television, to literature. The myth of the Romanian vampire became popular after the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, After which it evolved to symbolise many things such as sexuality, eternal damnation, eternal love, and the human longing for immortality.
Imagery is a strong element that helps portray a lot of internal feelings for the audience to fathom with, thus creating an experience that the audience can enjoy. Imagery is the language represented by sense experience and a literary device that helps create a mental picture for the reader to understand what the writer is trying to say to the audience (Johnson, Arp 779). The following is the poem by Langston Hughes: “The calm,/Cool face of the river/Asked me for a kiss.” (Hughes 1-3) When examining the poem, “Suicide’s Note”, it is full of imagery with only three lines present. The
This was because an epidemic of “vampirism” spread across Eastern Europe at the end of the 17th century (“Count Dracula’s Legend”). The vampire from the book was originally going to be called “Count Wampyr” but Stoker changed it to Dracula in the end (“Tales of Dracula”). Many historians, including Elizabeth Miller, believe that this is the only connection between the two. Miller states, “Whatever Vlad might have been, nowhere is it stated that he was (or was believed to have been) a vampire. While some of early negative reports aligned Vlad with the devil...this was not a vampiric association. The word "vampire" was never used in connection with Vlad until long after Bram Stoker's novel appeared and it became popular to assume (incorrectly) that Vlad was Stoker's inspiration for his vampire Count.” The connection to Vlad Dracula and Count Dracula might only be the name. Because “Dracula” means “Son of the Devil”, it’s possible that Stoker just liked the evil connotations of the name and took it for his book without actually basing his vampire character on Vlad