Summary Of Hi Ryan By Anne Dillard

“Tall elm trees made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our vacant lot” (Hinton, 47) What will happen next? In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton uses profound description of the setting to establish mood in the text. In a novel such as The Outsiders, it is of major importance that the author establishes setting and mood for the novel’s plot to develop. This is where ambience marries mood in a story.

The setting is very joyful, graceful and inviting, but within the town hides much evil (mostly Miss Strangeworth) which one might also say is fairly ironic. The author is very skilled at making a well developed setting, which suits the themes of deception, secrets and incorrect first impression very well and makes the reader think more to conceive what is really happening or how the setting connects to theme, characters and other literary devices.

In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, there are several stories that intertwine into one novel. Each of the stories takes place China where the roles and the actions of woman are vastly different compared to American tradition. In the different stories, they all are about different mothers and daughters. Throughout the book, the reader can see the development in each relationship between mother and daughter with their conflicting backgrounds from China to America.

For instance, the narrator writes, “A month after school ended, Dad accepted a job in Minneapolis… He had no interest in Minneapolis or anyone who lived there” (Ryan 22). This quote shows that Freddie had to move from his childhood home in San Diego to an unfamiliar town. He had to leave all of his friends and start over without knowing anyone or anything about the setting. This setting helps to create the theme because he had to learn to accept change, specifically meeting new people and going to a new school. Since this unfamiliar setting made him feel uncomfortable and alone, he had to choose to change his attitude and embrace his new setting. Therefore, the theme of the story was conveyed through the

1. What descriptive details does the author use to make it clear that the setting of the story is a small town?

The writing life is the short story book which has seven chapters. It talks about how to become a good writer and how to create a good writing by passing through the perspective and personal experience of Annie Dillard. In the part of how to become a good writer, she tells her personal experience about what is the things that help she to become a good writer. Also, what is the things a writer should have and what is a person a writer should be. In the part of how to create the good writing, she compares the writing with other handicrafts such as painting, photographing, singing, and wood working (Dillard 3-6). In addition, she gives us about the idea of “Line of Words” that is the major part of creating a good writing.

In Harold Bell Wright’s novel “The Shepherd of the Hills,” setting plays a tremendous role in creating an effective story line and contribute multiple aspects to enhance the accountability of the story. Setting is one of the most valuable aspects of a successful novel and plays a part in creating a sense of realness to the reader. Winifred Madison, an author of multiple novels, says that “One of the joys of reading is that it takes you somewhere else or, by comparison, makes the place where you live more understandable” (1). “The Shepherd of the Hills” has a setting that the author personally connects to the real-world location. Just as Daniel Howitt was an outsider, Harold Bell Wright visited the Ozarks as a stranger and experienced the

Throughout the story, Lost in the City by Edwards P. Jones there are many different ways the city influences the different characters. Lost in the City takes the reader through some difficult times of many African Americans in Washington. The different characters form bond that cannot be broken in order to handle what life throws at them. In the stories "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" and "The First Day" the city influences the different main characters in different ways, to help them come of age.

First and foremost, the children in the novel are presented as more perceptive and more honest than adults. Children in general tend to be portrayed as innocent in literature. Unlike adults, they don’t really know why things seem to be the way they are and don’t know from right or wrong. In this case, the author might have included these children to act like “judges” in the book. He could have also wanted to bring out some aspects of the novel using the kids.

The reader will find it difficult to draw connections between these neighbors and themselves when they hardly even know many intimate details about the lives of these characters. However, this is because the reader is put into a position where they are viewing characters from an outside perspective in the same way that the neighbors view each other: with little information about their lives. This is backed up in Neal Alexander’s article, titled “Profoundly Ordinary: Jon McGregor and Everyday Life”, where Alexander comments on the anonymous nature of the neighborhood, stating “The calculated anonymity that results is clearly intended to make a point about the nature of contemporary urban life, where neighbors typically maintain a defensive reserve toward one another” (Alexander 729-730). The novel maintains a type of irony in that it must detach the reader from the story in order to connect them in the same way that the characters are connected.

A small and lonely western town in the 1950s, with the population of only 270 people. Although the town was small and lonely many horrific things happened not only throughout the book, but was also based on true events. The atmosphere of the novel changes throughout the book. In the beginning it seemed like any other ordinary small town, but then you realize how the Clutter family is not as perfect as what everyone thinks they are. Bonnie Clutter, who suffers from severe depression to Herb Clutter who only cares about what the people of the town think of him instead of actually connecting with his family. To lastly the deaths of the Clutter family, to the madness of Perry and his homicidal tendencies, the overall atmosphere of the novel I would say is

point of the story. In the beginning of the novel The Street by Ann Petry, the setting is in an

The setting: The neighbourhood is very stereotypical, the pastel colours gives off almost an artificial vibe, all houses and cars are very similar it shows how everyone wants to be accepted and nobody wants to stand out from the crowd and be different. Edwards dark, abandoned castle at the end of the cul de sac shows the contrast between their two different realities. Tim burton used this as another way of pointing out Edwards differences.

Daughter of Deep Silence is about the life of Frances Mace after surviving a cruise ship attack which caused the deaths of her parents and her best friend. However when two of the other survivors do not tell the truth about what happened, Frances has no choice but to make a smart plan to avenge the death of her loved ones by exposing the truth to the world.

Ryan Hreljac (Hurl-jack) a young boy, from Canada ON Kemptville. He was in grade one and got an idea, to build a well in Africa. How is started well, Ryan’s teacher was talking to the class about problems facing people, in different parts of the world. Mostly about bad drinking water, and that a lot of people are getting sick and dieing. Then Ryan learned that it only cost $70 to build a well in Africa. So to earn the money from his parents, he did chores around the house. Then the time came, Ryan and his parents contacted WaterCan. Ryan was told that $70 wasn’t enough to build a well, Ryan needed $25 000. So he went back to his chores and he also got money from people, who heard about Ryan in the newspaper. (Also Ryan’s teacher decided to do pen pal letters, to kids in Africa, Uganda, Agweo village. That’s when Ryan meet Jimmy, they became friends.)