Essay on The Gutting of Couffignal Analysis

This book report discusses the plot, significant characters, setting (e.g., time of the story took place, historical background), problems and resolutions, themes or messages of the story. A reflection of the author’s writing style will be presented followed by a conclusion.

As the story opens, already the reader is confronted with the topic of concealing the truth. The narrator speaks

Cofer starts the essay in the present, but then she takes the reader in her past by giving background on her childhood and the events that followed, in chronological order, until she became an adult. The opening paragraph draws the reader in, it makes the reader empathize with the author, and feel angry for the humiliation Cofer went

In the opening pages of the text, we are introduced to the main characters through the believable and

Remarque prefaces his novel with a short statement to emphasise its purpose to the reader. In the preface Remarque clarifies that the book was created as neither an accusation nor a confession, it had not even intended to be an adventure

DIRECTIONS: For each of the below individuals write a one paragraph description of the individual’s historical significance.

Authors make use of details or patterns, portions to some prior story to add depth and texture to the story, bring out a theme, lend irony to a statement, and to play with the reader’s deeply ingrained knowledge of fairy tales.

With the use of short sentences such as ‘you go alone’ Wells, H.G. (p43-50) and ‘he corrected me in one particular’ (p44) Wells builds up tension that keeps the reader engaged and enthralled with unease at the beginning of the story. As with the narrator no names are given to three elderly occupants of the castle, this increases the reader’s suspicions by making it less personal

In conclusion, the epigraphs in the book can show the reader a different type of tone of the text. These epigraphs helped connect the reading with the novel and also helped establish a better understanding of the mood. The epigraphs also inform the reader about the content of the story and

out basic information on what the author will talk about. It introduces the characters, time, in this

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

To begin with, the most striking feature of this work is that it is a story

In detailed, you started off using of pathos by a story which describes a specific

the story is an important one, which brings to the forefront the particular allure of

narration. At first, I had no idea where this story was going to take the reader. The