The Goophered Grapevine

Julius was a very opinionated person, who was all about himself and not looking after his own team or anyone else for that matter. For example when Julius was confronted by Gerry, during this conversation Julius said ‘I’m supposed to wear out myself for this team? What team? Nope that’s not what I’m going to do is I’m going to look after myself.’ When this confrontation was happening there were many close up camera shots, this was because the director wanted to show the emotion and anger in the faces of Gerry and Julius. This shows that Julius is a very opinionated person and he only cares about himself, this is shown in what he told Julius.

In the frame structure, the two voices operating off each other raise a question of motive between the two narrators. Julius' motive is clearly to mislead John and Annie so that he will

During the period between the civil war’s end, and about 1914, an American literary movement occurred. This movement is known as realism for its adherence to real life, but should not be confused with naturalism. Mark Twain played a part as one of the Literary minds of this era. In his Poem “the War Prayer”, Twain shows examples of realism about the townspeople, non-believers, and the negative parts of the war.

The Goophered Grapevine" is the short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt. Chesnutt is the first the novelist and an African American writer. “The Goophered Grapevine" is the first and the best work of African American to show up in the Atlantic Monthly in 1887. The Atlantic Monthly is one of the prominent magazines by this time period. Charles W. Chesnutt was born on June 20, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the first child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and Ann Maria Sampson, free blacks who had moved north from North Carolina. In 1866, after the Civil War, the family, now with five children, moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina. Chesnutt’s writing uses the style of dialect used in the Sothern by the African-American. The story is about

“You can change the laws, but you cannot change the hearts of the people.” The year of 1865 was definitely not a year of prosperity and idealism. During the last months of the war and the first months of the post-war era in the South, many families suffered and faced challenges that made it difficult for them to progress in society. Among those families were Cornelia McDonald, Louis Hughes, John Robertson, Samuel Agnew and their families. These four Southerners faced an unpredictable future. In the narrative written by Stephen V. Ash titled “A Year in the South 1865” depicts the daily life of these four “ordinary” people in the South and how their different backgrounds affected their abilities to adjust themselves at the end of the war.

As the United States grew as a nation, it developed its own identity throughout literature and other arts. While American Literature initially mimicked the styles of its European counterparts, by the turn of the twentieth century, two uniquely American movements had emerged: Realism and Naturalism (Levine 7). Realism is characterized by informal language and middle class characters creating a familiarity for the audience when reading (Levine 7). This literary movement can be found throughout the works of many of the time period’s authors, including Samuel L. Clemens, commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain (Levine 112). In one particular work of his, “The War Prayer”, Twain uses common themes of Realism in order to illustrate his point and establish a connection with the reader. Twain utilizes vivid imagery and vernacular language to more effectively capture a common event that the general public would be familiar with during the time period the piece was written in and voice his opinions on decisive issues regarding war. Considering the response to the story’s message and how this response has evolved over time, historical criticism can be used to demonstrate how “The War Prayer” is within the literary style of Realism.

The Senate of the Roman Republic are the ruling power over most of the known world. Yet this powerful and influential senate is easily threatened by one man; Julius Caesar. To the senators Caesar is the catalyst for the downfall of a Republic they had worked so hard to create and protect. The playwright William Shakespeare dives into this world of betrayal and ambition with his play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Using his voice as a writer he takes the audience into Rome and lets them experience each riveting moment of Caesar’s fall. The play shows that Caesar is not the cause of Rome’s eventual downfall, but the senators who conspire against him and ultimately kill him are the ones reprehensible. Shakespeare introduces the

Internal conflict is a big part and influential part of Julius Caesar. Internal conflict makes up the play of Julius Caesar because many of the characters are conflicted internally. Many characters such as Brutus and Caesar are conflicted internally. Brutus is conflicted internally because he does not know wether to kill Caesar or not, and he says this in his soliloquy. Brutus does not know wether to kill caesar or not because Brutus considers Caesar a friend.

Power is something that most people want in their lives. You can’t do this by yourself. In obtaining power you need the assistance of those that share the same views as you. The idea of power is represented in many novels but, one in particular is Julius Caesar. Two characters in this play inhabit this trait, they are Julius Caesar and Brutus.

The tragedy of Julius Caesar is a well-known story, though told from the “friends” of this ambitious Roman. In the first act, most information of Caesar is given through other Romans, yet only speaks occasionally. While many opinions from various characters are presented on the problem of Caesar and how to solve it, his own opinion is not mostly expressed till the second scene of act two. With this scene, Caesar speaks directly about his concerns about what is happening around him and what he plans or has done about it. Not only that, but the plan of the conspirators begins to unfold at the end of this scene. This scene is vital to the story

On day one we sat down and talked about making a idea for the project and all agree on a volunteer day which we would get students and parents to come together and clean up Grape Day park that day we completed our goal on finding what the project is.

Perhaps there is no more complex time in life packed with conflicting personalities and raw reality than the world of a teenage middle school student, it may seem that one minute someone is your best friend and the next they are stabbing you in the back. One place other than a middle school that you can experience such conflicting personalities and raw reality is in the classic play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s famous play exemplifies all of these complex realities of life through two of the main characters Caesar, and Cassius. Throughout much of the play, Caesar acts very controllingly and confidently as a leader should, then by the next scene his personality may have changed drastically to who he really is, a

Julius Caesar and William Shakespeare have many themes in the story and, throughout the scenes. I came upon the theme of people with power can control people and cause other to do things without them having a say so in the situation. The odd thing in the story is Caesar had gained so much power that it's nearly impossible for him to lose it. Julius Caesar was the only one known to have that much control over people, it was like a mind control type of thing. These were vast amounts of people that Caesar had control over and that might explain a reason for him not being to lose his power. Working on a Friendship could be considered another lesson of Julius Caesar and William Shakespeare. Throughout the story people had fall outs and other

In Act 2 Caesar starts to feel that his power is starting to be challenged and others will try to murder him and take over Rome and take his power. Caesar is the protagonist because a lot of events happen around him. Brutus does a lot for Caesar and believes he should rule Rome.Brutus also has an impact because he and others planned on killing Caesar. Caesar is the protagonist because he wants people to be like him “He thinks too much, men like him are dangerous(Shakespeare.).Caesar wanted the people to be like him or cassius because they were able to do things not a whole lot of people could’ve. Caesar was frightened that Cassius was a threat “So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads too much.He is a great observer, and he looks quite through the deeds of men (Shakespeare)”. Caesar knows and feels Cassius is the threat to his power and Brutus is also a threat to his power because he wants to rule Rome and wants Caesar to be gone. After things that have happened Caesar knows Cassius and Brutus are a threat to his rule of Rome and he now has to protect himself more than ever because they can plan to kill him and one of them can take his power.

In the play it is very evident that the notions of power, authority and control are illustrated through the protagonist Julius Caesar. In the story, it is clearly visible that Julius Caesar is heading for absolute power, which cause tension with other leaders which leads to him to become seen as a threat leading to his death. William Shakespeare refers to Julius Caesar as “These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing, Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, / Who else would soar above the view of men / And keep us all in servile fearfulness”. The use of the symbolism of the bird and the anthropomorphism shows that as he started to gain power and the public started to favour him, he started to be feared among those others in power, due to their concern that he would gain too much power and would take over