The Grand Duchess Library: An Analysis

The excerpt from the novel Under the feet of Jesus, by Helena Maria Viramontes, shows the development of Estrella from being angry to understanding what she needed to accomplish to succeed. Viramontes uses figurative language, selection of detail, and tone to show the changes Estrella’s character goes through to figure out how beneficial it is to know what the letters in the alphabet looked like in order to be able to read and to be interested in wanting to read.

American writer and critique Edgar Allan Poe is very well known for his gothic tales of mystery, suspense, and horror. While his impressive collection of work carry thrilling themes of fear, death, and tragedy, Poe’s work goes beyond the purpose of literary entertainment and revealing his own inner demons. His writing may be heavily influenced by his own dark and tragic experiences and losses, but it also reveals unique characteristics of the disturbing nature of all people in general. One of these characteristics is explained in his short murderous tale The Imp of the Perverse. This tale explains how a significant part of human nature is driven by

Contemporary civilisation places immense significance upon writings that stimulate the human psyche. Weldon extrapolates upon this notion through her epistolary work Letters to Alice. The author imbues the audience with the extended metaphorical image of the “City on Invention”. This developed and intricate allegory facilitates comprehension regarding the depth of literary matter. Such complexity is explicated by the alliteration of “mind meeting mind” coupled with the sarcastic “It’s getting crowded”. The City exists as a metaphysical realm negligent of boundaries, thus exemplifying the human mind and appetite for growth. However, Weldon makes tantamount didactic statements that transcend metaphorical allusion and convey explicit points. The high modality language of “no one burns Emma” is symbolic of humanity and its inherent need to preserve and learn about the foundations of its society. Furthermore, Weldon employs a mocking tonality in “real history” to reveal her didactic perspective pertaining to literature, furthered by the authorial intrusion of “you must read”. Weldon re-enforces the relevance of literal compositions, outlining the dire need for its prevalence in society. By observing the past through an inscribed lens, humanity progresses. The written word acts as an artefact through which contemporary society may learn to better themselves by considering the nature of each

Various authors develop their stories using gothic themes and characterizations of this type to lay the foundation for their desired reader response. Although Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Peter Taylor’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” are two completely different narratives, both of these stories share a commonality of gothic text representations. The stories take slightly different paths, with Poe’s signifying traditional gothic literature and Taylor approaching his story in a more contemporary manner.

Elijah is characterized by his desire for praise from the other soldiers in his battalion. Having learned English in residential school, Elijah quickly adapts to the ways of the wemistikoshiw, even adopting a British accent and changing his last name to appeal to his comrades. If you consider the windigo-esque attitudes of the European settlers, this could be foreshadowing his grisly fate. To cope with the stress and guilt, Elijah medicates himself with morphine. When he’s high, the euphoric effects cause Elijah to feel superhuman and confident on the battlefield, becoming “the invincible hunter. . . using his osprey’s vision to spot the enemy” (212). Basil Johnston, a Chippewa educator, has described the windigo of oral storytelling as “gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones.” Elijah has also become thin and hollowed out, trading food for the sustenance of killing and morphine. Having the power to eliminate someone brings forth a sense of energy that “fills his belly when it gnaws for food” (200). Elijah morphs himself into a ruthless killer to ease the effects of the war on his conscience, and in the end, he is squandered by it. After his windigo transformation, Elijah is unrecognizable even to his own childhood friend Xavier.

Staring at the screen, the young author sighed in frustration, her fingers once again failing her as she was distracted by the din of the news on TV. Resigned, she shut it off and turned back to her blank document wishing for the ability to channel her emotions towards the high expectations placed before her, as well as the stigmas. She was growing tired of the starkness of the world around her.

Marilynne K. Roach is a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts. She went on to graduate with a BFA from MCA (Massachusetts College of Art) but she uniquely gives credit to the public library systems for the rest of her education. This is very interesting to me because she says that libraries are what she owes to her education to. Because of all the books she reads she later turns out to be a great book writer herself. The library system really did impact Marilynne’s life drastically. But besides illustrating other writers work in history she also has written and illustrated many books of her own, this including “Six Women of Salem”.

The anecdote entices the reader and her poetic description of the way each stroke of a letter can be subtly varied and the way the letters smudge. Connects her with the reader as a person and not an endorser.

Roozen studies how Lindsey Rachel’s literacy practices helped when applied to writing her feminine ideal paper. Lindsey copied and underlined her religious verses down so she would be able to analyze the text and better understand the meaning of the various verses. Her verse-copying method helped her in writing the feminine ideal paper in which she repurposed her practice by taking notes and writing down quotes that would assist in formulating her paper. Copying the text helped her further focus on the main point of her discussion and important lines from the various passages she was studying. Lindsey also repurposed her use of outlining in graphic design to help her organize essays.

In the New York Times bestseller Reading Like A Writer, Acclaimed American Author Francine Prose returns with potent insight and the works of the most superlative writers of our time, in this guide to mastering the art of writing through reading. Prose graduated from Radcliffe College in 1868 but had received most of her training through avidly reading throughout her whole life. Her debut novel, Judah the Pious (1973) won the 1973 Jewish Book Council Award. Her preceding works in the following years had made stands in the literacy world, her most notable ones being Blue Angel (2000); a finalist a for the National Book Award, and A Changed Man (2005) that had won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also recently written an acclaimed nonfiction Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.

Although Perry’s retelling is embellished with relatable stories pointing to peer pressure, insecurity, and other classic human struggles as being the reasoning behind the murder. These ideas are displayed through diction and imagery; therefore solidifying the theme that evil is often not sinister, but an extreme, yet human, response to struggle and despair.

With the style of tone set from the outset of the story, an accessible door to the extent of clarity the passage will later use is opened. With many historical documents and/or journals from times ago, an arduous task it is for many young students to comprehend. However, with this particular journal entry, Grantham creates fairly easy writing.

Author Anthony Di Renzo notes the effectiveness of O’Connor’s use of thematic revelation.Rather than opposing one another, good and evil instead exist as “equally odd, equally absurd, and equally shocking” (122).The good and evil ironically converge to relay the message of grace, common throughout her works. O’Connor wanted her stories “to reach the unbelieving reader,” and the shocking aspect of the grotesque was the most effective way to reach him/her (Hawkins 28-29).

The use of the word ‘blood’ contains the recoiling images of horror and disgust that are associated with it. However within the play ‘Macbeth’, blood is also

Edgar Allan Poe is an American poet well-known for his eerie and gothic based themes. In fact, his tales of mystery and horror were the first to give rise to detective stories. In his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), Poe invites us to experience a sinister and mystifying murder through the mind of the murderer, the narrator himself. This self-narrated tale takes place in a house that the narrator shares with an old man. The story’s focal characters are the narrator and the old man, both of whom are left nameless. It is probable that the narrator is telling the story from either prison or an insane asylum. He tries to justify his sanity; however, his actions prove otherwise. This tale revolves around the narrator 's passion to kill the old man because of his “evil eye” and the obsessed mind of the narrator who hears the beating of the dead man’s heart—solely within his own tortured imagination which causes the reader to question if the narrator is mentally sane or not. By analyzing how Poe’s early life influenced his work, I will demonstrate how Poe’s story engages readers with two widely occurring, but rarely explored elements of human experiences: a guilty conscience and the descent into madness. He takes his inner emotions to the extreme through his work and portrays the message that a guilty conscience will drive you insane. I will be analyzing how Poe’s early influences affect the