many purposes, and have subsequently been analyzed for decades. Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” are two prime examples of brilliant character development and usage. Poe and Hemingway develop and utilize their characters in varying ways. For example, while Poe’s characters in “The Cask of Amontillado” have symbolic first names, Hemingway’s characters in “Hills Like White Elephants” do not even have their first names mentioned. Poe and Hemingway prove in
adventure to horror and tragedy. Then I got to high school, the land of long and complex readings, expository essays and research papers that were far too lengthy for my liking. At this point, I found it hard to connect with literature or writing; I felt like I had hit a brick wall and my creativity left out to dry. Mr. Peterson’s assignment’s did nothing but add fuel to my fire. Freshman year went by slowly, but towards the end I found that Mr. Peterson and his English class were growing on me; not to
TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS The purpose of Text Interpretation and Analysis is a literary and linguistic commentary in which the reader explains what the text reveals under close examination. Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed “model”