Thomas Tryon The Other Analysis

In the book, The Other Wes Moore, readers are introduced to two naive boys who share the same name and live an almost identical life at the beginning of their childhood. Author Wes Moore tells readers a chilling story about how he and “Other Wes” were raised in neighboring Baltimore neighborhoods and grew up living an almost identical life. The story is based on how the two men face many obstacles throughout their life that essentially depict their own futures. As the boys become more familiar with the idea of violence and drug related activity, the proposal of living the same life suddenly becomes extinct. The two Wes Moore’s eventually end up living two completely different ways of life and it can be argued how they ended up the way they did. The idea of environment, education, and even expectations are all themes readers are presented with in the story. Although all of these factors play a vital role in the development of Wes themselves, their environment is essentially what had the greatest impact on their futures and is what set the tone for the rest of their lives.

In the small troublesome city of Baltimore, there grew a set of twins. As a matter a fact, these were twins not by birth, but by heart. There paths intersected when Wes Moore had just finished his bachelors at Johns Hopkins and was headed to Oxford University, when he received a phone call. It was his mother, Joy Moore, as he answered his mother told him that in their neighborhood were many wanted posters of a man named Wes Moore. The poster read, do not approach he is dangerous, contact police. His mother’s anxiety abated when she found out that her son had no connection to the crime. He later went on to write a letter to the other Wes Moore about his past. He started to learn that both had grown up fatherless, they had altercations with the

In his latest novel, Jasper Jones (2009), Craig Silvey uses syntax, visual and olfactory imagery, personification and symbolism to describe the inside of Mad Jack Lionel’s dingy house, creating a sinister, gloomy and malicious mood. As this setting is observed through the youthful eyes of the Bildungsroman novel’s narrator, Charlie Bucktin, you receive the eye-opening thoughts and perceptions of a child combined with Silvey’s precisely crafted language, producing an impactful and evocative passage.

Pat Barkers novel “Border Crossing” focuses on whether a child, Danny Miller, is capable of murder. Barker uses juxtaposition and symbolism to explore different themes within the novel. A few prevailing themes within Border Crossing are the innocence in which children possess, lying versus truth, and the differences between good and evil. Such themes are explored mainly by the leading characters Danny Miller and Tom Seymour.Barkers novel draws in the reader with the parallel between good versus evil, Barker also questions human behaviour and were we born this way or are some people turned into evil creatures. This essay will be focusing on the contrast of characters and third person narration.

“This is a story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free… The other will spend every day until his death behind bars...” (Moore, XI) In The Other Wes Moore, the author, Wes Moore, and the other Wes Moore both grew up in similar, yet different, circumstances and had completely different outcomes. This captivating narrative demonstrates how the choices you make, make you. In the introduction, the author Wes Moore validates this statement by saying, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.” (Moore XI) The author, Wes Moore, shows the readers that a person’s environment, circumstances, education (or lack

The identity of Australia as a place comes from both its physical features and the atmosphere, which is often created by its physical appearance. Three artists who have depicted the Australian landscape in different styles are Arthur Streeton, John Olsen and Sally Morgan. Streeton’s works are in a realistic but lively style typical of the Heidelberg school. He was intent on recreating the light and warmth of the land. Olsen and Morgan’s works, on the other hand, offer more abstract interpretations of the land. During the 1960s and 1970s, Olsen captured the essence and the energy of the landscape with his bold and bright brushwork whilst Morgan’s work from the 1980s portrays Australia from an indigenous perspective, which she achieves through her use of Aboriginal symbolism and cultural imagery.

In both, Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” the protagonists, Young Goodman Brown and the narrator experience a journey into the subconscious. Both stories have an overlap that blurs the boundaries of reality and fantasy. It is truly the supernatural aspects of these two stories that force the protagonists and the reader to delve into the realm of the subconscious and to scrutinize good versus evil and real versus imaginary.

The short story “The Rats in the Wall” by Lovecraft, told in first person narrative, gives the reader a strong sense of his feelings and emotions. The narrator is the last of his family lineage, having lost his father, wife, and son. This loss plays and influences the horrifying events throughout the story.

Both “Knocking” by Rick Hautala and “The Road Virus Heads North” by Stephen King are masterfully crafted horror stories that lead readers on a psychological rollercoaster. The authors are able to generate such a detailed and in-depth atmosphere that it causes readers to picture themselves in the terrifying situations that they have devised for those reading. Through the evolution of “monsters”, point-of-view and atmospheric conditions which help to create a mood that engulfs readers both King and Hautala are able to write brilliant horror stories.

Brian Evenson, a well-known fiction writer, who gets his inspiration from horror, creates stories with characters meant to confuse his readers. His novel, A Collapse of Horses, is a collection of short stories, broadly focused on the uncanny, the uneasy, and the mysterious. As Kevin Canfield writes, “Evenson is a writer with an uncommonly dark vision, and in 2016 he figures to find his biggest audience yet” (Oddities, atrocities, a feeling of doom: FICTION: Disturbing and improbably funny stories from a writer with an uncommonly dark vision).

Dreams are satisfying; they make you feel like as if you're flying on a cloud, or you had just sold a best-selling book or you'd just fixed a broken machine that hasn't worked for years. I, Hugo Cabret, had a really good dream until the sound of the bothersome clock rouse me up into a ray of blinding light and the air of dust and loneliness. Up until then, the unrealistic dream had deluded my eyes to see the fixed Automaton sketch its message, brainwashed my mind to have its full attention on Papa Georges' horrendous and unspeakable past, and obtained my soul captured by Isobel's beauty and interest in books. It's been so long since I've read a book, that the words I'd learned to peruse as a youngster has vanished from my brain. Therefore, I greatly relished the time I had with Isobel when regaining the ability to read again and I hate to admit it, but also spending a little more time with her. Unfortunately, my solace suddenly terminated, just when Isobel was going to

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a series of psychological stories, among these being “William Wilson” and “Angel of the Odd”. William Wilson is a mysterious story about a supposedly evil doppelganger, while Angel of the Odd is a bit more light and about the dreams a drunken man has about strange incidents. These two stories are clearly contrasted in tone but can be compared in many ways based on the storyline and underlying ideas of the writings.

Maurice Hunt’s Analysis of Richard the Third in Shakespeare's King Richard III and the Problematics of Tudor Bastardy dives into the world of succession and legitimacy and politics in the time of Shakespeare and these histories to provide context and narrative in which Shakespeare uses this history as a back handed comment to the Plantagenet of the time Queen Elizabeth I, a Tudor. Maurice Hunt goes into to great detail of the politics of succession and how Richard uses it to his advantage while Shakespeare. The author of the article places a back drop of how illegitimacy effected the Tudors even before the time of Ricard III. “Owen Tudor, and Catharine of Valois, the widow of Henry V, fell in love and had three sons (Edmund, Jasper, and Owen);

P. Lovecraft story, “The Outsider,” the narrator, who was never given a name, was mysterious in nature. He lived in a lonely castle and had no friends. He went looking for adventure and decided to see what lied on the other side of a church (love) and a graveyard (darkness). The narrator is yearning for human contact. A feeling of belonging and a sense of love is what he needs to fill the void in his chest. The Outsider is unaware of his outward appearance. He might be not only yearning for sunlight, but also to shed some inner light on whom he is. The narrator is plagues by the memories of his childhood. These are memories of fear and sadness. “Wretched is he who looks back upon…” (Lovecraft ) He is strangely content with the thoughts of his younger years, clinging to the memories. The narrator does not know where he was born or who his parents were. He knows that someone took care of him, but cannot remember more than an old worn face. Yearning for love and acceptance, he struggles with his inner self. “To me there was nothing grotesque in the bones and skeletons…” This was a description of his everyday life. Death did not scare him. Many of the transformations in this dream story are composed of death and decay rather than uplifting and gorgeous. Yet, the narrator would dream of the outside, lying in the fields reading books with happy people and sunny skies. This is directly related the Outsider’s identity because he lurks

Double is one of the most frightening themes of Gothic literature as it discloses humans’ darkly hidden desires or natures through their transformations. The characters’ transformation into double can be either literal or figurative. Either way, it demonstrates the decay of ones’ souls when the controls of their desires are lost, which result identity crisis or extreme panic and usually end in death. In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the picture illustrates Dorian’s figuratively split self, which his prayer has granted him through the immortality of youth and beauty. However, this unreal self shadows his real self and causes his identity crisis as time goes by. On the other hand, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll creates a chemical drug that turns him into Mr. Hyde- a literal double. This transformation frees him from the despairing Victorian society. However, once he wants to escape his double, but he has lost the control of his transformation, it imprisons him in the unwanted form forever. The temptation of having this literal double and the punishment when lacking control of it give an unbelievably terrible fear about double power. Therefore, Jekyll’s double manifests double theme more effectively than the figurative double of Dorian does.