The Deerslayer

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”

Gary Paulsen’s fictional character Brian Robeson has to survive a plane crash in the Canadian Wilderness in the time period of the 1980’s. Along with the fictional character, the setting that the book takes place in is also fictional. Although the setting is fictional, the Canadian Wilderness is real. Gary Paulsen created the L-shaped lake and the environment around it in his mind. The animals’ features were all created from his pure imagination, which helped make the book even more fascinating. The environment that Brian Robeson survived in formed a great realistic impression, although it was created from its author’s own imagery.

“Once More to the Lake” is an essay that was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1941 by author E.B. White. The author tells the story through a first-person point of view and describes his experience at a lakefront camp in Maine. The essay shows White going through an internal conflict between perceiving the lake and acting as he did as a child and observing the lake and acting as an adult. White’s experience and views as an adult almost seem identical to his experience as a child until it is effected by his recognition of the technology difference in the boats. Certain moments, such as when the author and his son are fishing, reminds White of when he spent those moments with his father. These nostalgic moments help White realize that even though human life is transient and insignificant, but experiences are eternal. The author sees that even though his revisit is slightly different, his son still has the same experience that he had when he was young.

In his short story “Greasy Lake,” T. Coraghessan Boyle employs the setting to reflect the state of morality and corruption of a society’s youth, create an appropriate atmosphere, and better develop the characters of the story. Boyle is able to achieve this by centering the story at the Greasy Lake and utilizing the Lake as both a setting and character.

Meanwhile in the powhatan tribe in the new world Pocahontas daughter of chief powhatan dreads being wed to kocoum , a brave

“Once More By the Lake” is an informative short story featuring a man who seems to feel as though he is losing his identity. As a parent, he doesn’t realize that as time passes by his family’s orientation is changing and, as a result, seems to lose himself in time as his surroundings and his son’s actions remind him of himself. Nonetheless, throughout the story, the author uses great detail to put the main character’s feelings on display by using experiences and emotions that are relatable to the reader. The childlike mannerisms and impressive attention to detail exhibited in the essay show how the narrator sees himself and showcases the author’s use of imagery. Revisiting his childhood lakehouse brought past memories to the surface which, over time, shows the main character’s emotional ties to the lake. In fact, in the story, the narrator says, “It was the arrival of this fly that convinced me beyond a doubt that everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and there had been no years” (White 2). Throughout the story, White challenges the reader's mind by describing his situation to the reader and unintentionally drawing from them the conclusion that life as one knows it is destined to change at any given time, including one’s

Imagery, detail, and symbolism play a crucial role in this work. Imagery has the function of painting a picture of the situation in the reader’s mind so that he or she is able to develop a version of the story individually. It makes the reading a more personalized experience that helps the reader to understand what’s going on. When O’Brien was just about to escape to Canada to avoid being drafted, he described the scene that was presented in front of him. “The shoreline was dense with brush and timber. I could see tiny red berries on the bushes.” In this quote, the reader can visualize the setting of the lake where he has to make his life-changing decision. It appeals to the visual sense by describing the shoreline and even the sense of

The day-long hunt is described vividly by the author; the deer flee in fear, "dashing through the dale, dazed with dread." The hunters shoot their arrows that "tore the tawny hide with their tapered heads." Hunting horns "like the cracking of cliffs their cries resounded," the horns making a loud sharp noise that explode. The day goes well and ends with the setting of the sun. This ends this segment of the hunt.

He talks about “the smell of the swamp” and “the sun shone endlessly day after day”. By appealing to the sense of the reader, the reader is really able to put their self on the lake in Maine and paint a picture in their head of what it was like waking up day after day on the lake. Also by appealing to the senses of the reader. He says things like “rusty screens” and “doughnuts dipped in sugar”. These all appeal to any of the five senses of the reader and with the mix of that appeal as well as the immaculate details he adds in, White is able to allow the reader to create a picture of their own while still summing up his trip to the lake and really creating what he truly saw summer after summer as he traveled there as a kid and now as an adult with his own son and seeing everything change over the years. White puts a lot of detail to his writing which he makes the reader able to see what he sees in that lake. For example he uses metaphors such as “stillness of the cathedral”. To describe the clamminess of the area he was

Being born and raised in an area that was homesteaded by my ancestors has always piqued my curiosity about local legends. This can often leave one biased because we tend to accept things our parents and grandparents tell us as whole truths. Often this is not the case. Sometimes being passed down by word of mouth a few facts get misconstrued. I find this book very interesting because some of my family lived near these places during the time these events happened. I travel the same streets and visit the towns where this took place.

Thomas Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor begins with an introduction that provides a framework for the next five chapters. The author explains that any story can fit into a general, archetypical theme, and he spends the first five chapters of his book speaking on these critically prevalent themes.

Boyle, Tom Coraghessan. "Greasy Lake." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999.

In the short story “Greasy Lake”, we see the crucial role a setting can play in literature. We can also see how closely the plot and characters are related to a symbol within a story. When looking at the lake as a symbol and not just a setting, it

Also there's is no lake at Camp Green Lake, but there are an amazing amount of holes. The author, Mr. Louis Sachar, examines the inspect of their history and the nature of hope and human warmth, all while obtaintaining a big humorous amount of quality. In my opinion, this is a book for children ages about 13-17, because in some parts of the

Both characters tread the dark waters of the lake, searching for the answers that are lost to the lake’s depths. The fixation they have with the lake influences their actions and