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In the short fiction “The Reverend Rebecca Esther”, Steven Allaback is weaving in a criticism of the treatment of people with mental illness as well as elitism in religion. Allaback uses secondary characters such as the owner of the restaurant Peter took Mrs. Esther to, and the Christian college students Mrs. Esther encountered in that same restaurant, further proving the notion that fiction can be a mask for social critique, and Allaback builds that critique on the way society treats Mrs. Esther.

Recently, scholars have analyzed King’s (2003) chapter You’ll Never Believe What Happened is Always a Good Way to Start, with the intent to discover King’s rhetorical techniques and overall purpose. At the time of his speech, the world was “predominantly scientific, capitalistic, Judeo-Christian” (p.12). Firstly, Cassandra Plettell (2017) found that King utilizes ethos to demonstrate how stories may alter an individual’s perception (p.2). Similarly, Emma Murphy (2017) found that King uses ethos and pathos that “portrays the idea that stories have the ability to greatly impact individuals’ lives” (p.2). Then, Ajodeji Edna Adetimechin (2017) found that King uses ethos, pathos, and logos to convince his audience of the influential power that stories “have in shaping perspectives” (p.2). In general, they have found that King’s purpose is regarding the influential powers of stories with the use of ethos, pathos and/or logos. In addition to Plettell, Murphy and Adetimechin’s finding, I would like to go a step further and argue that King’s overall purpose is to persuade the audience that the Genesis creation story has formulated a culture that lacks forgiveness, compassion, and unity (King, 2003, pp.24-27). Inclusively, I will argue how King utilizes his personal experiences with stories, emotional appeals, and writing arrangement in order to gradually persuade his highly intellectual audience.

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

In the book, the Truth About Stories, Thomas King sheds light on the power of stories. King explicitly enforces that one must take caution in the way he or she tells a story, since it will shape one’s thoughts, decision-making and future (2). Through the use of literature, King weaves his way through native history, anecdote by anecdote, informing his readers about the importance of storytelling. “Stories are wondrous things,” the author writes. “And they are dangerous.” (9). To prove this, King mentions two creation stories; the differences in these stories is the way in which they are told. The first is a famous native story called, “the woman who fell from the sky”; this story is told in a complex, persuasive way (10-20). This story discusses a society emphasizing the value of cooperation as the animals work together to create a better world (21-22). The second story, a Judeo-Christian biblical story, describes a Western Capitalist society. It is told in a historical, punitive and direct fashion, underlining a society of boundaries and punishment. King highlights that storytelling is not just simply telling a story, rather it is how the stories are told. King uses these particular stories to show how different stories shape people’s perspectives, which impacts their ideas, thoughts and decision making. Therefore he addresses how sensitive storytelling may be, for once a story is told, it can never be taken back (10). This is true in all realms of life, cautioning

The utilization of traditional and non-traditional gender roles in the novel “Song of Solomon” written by Toni Morrison shows the influences, expectations and impact that the gender roles have and place not only on the individual characters but on men and women in general and within the different communities.

Throughout history, literature has served as a prominent tool in the examination of social values, ideas, and dreams. In addition, literature has provided a vital connection between historical, social, and political events. Through the incorporation of religious principles and philosophies, writers have discovered a way to portray different time periods, characters, feelings, and most importantly God.

In a man’s world, women who want must suffer. They are turned away from personal achievement and forced down a path that encourages a devotional, misguided love. The desperation derived from this obsessive love inevitably causes destruction to its bearer in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. In her novel, the protagonist Milkman searches for his personal and communal identity against a backdrop of disenfranchised, lovelorn women, and the reader watches as their inescapable desires for affection bring women to ruin. Morrison’s female characters are constantly wanting, propelled by their quest for intimacy. In this novel, female love is all-consuming and obsessive to reflect age-old oppressive patriarchal values; women are primarily defined by the men in their lives and achieving a home and a husband should be paramount for even nonconforming women. This wreaks havoc on the psyches of Hagar and Corinthians and begets endless anxiety over marriage and commitment. Through the consistent disintegration of her female characters, Toni Morrison examines the repressive, traumatic ‘ideal’ path for women and its prevalence in our and her novel’s society.

Though the inequality between genders was not fully resolved until later, the Women’s Rights movement was also beginning to take place at this time (Literature and Its Times…). An apparent problem of American society, then and now, is its tendency toward stereotypes, which will be further discussed later. Hansberry uses her characters and their dreams to draw upon the impact stereotypes have on a person’s ambitions and self-identity.

Cherry 2 Source Text Excerpt Analysis A writer of story-books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation,-may that be? (8) he imagines his ancestors’ disdainful view of him as writers were looked down upon and he believes he will be viewed as unsuccessful, worthless and disgraceful. “This long connection of a

All humans want to be fully satisfied; however, this cannot be achieved without a life lived through God’s word. Thus, pride is the main theme in the novel. Through a Christian’s perspective, the characters, setting, and themes are

The majority of the authors, in their unique ways, enlighten the readers through their books about societal norms, which include a human’s need to partake in society. The characters throughout these novels, in different circumstances, each embark on a journey to find their rightful place in society while leaving their familiarities behind in order to allow a better future for their families. The constant desire for survival instills vigor into the characters to combat the struggles they encounter on their voyage. Along with these hardships, the characters bid to refrain from conforming to American values, despite the circumstances forcing them otherwise. The different pieces of literature place emphasis on the obstructive natural conditions,

Thinking back to how the new criteria allows for novels of popular literary genres to be considered, one may be drawn to Dick's treatment of religion within the text which is particularly interesting, and pertinent to this essay for there is a blurring of the lines between high and low culture. This highlights how a novel of genre is capable of providing stimulus for interesting social, political and religious debate. This blurring of the high and low occurs because many of both the 'chickenhead' (Dick, 1968, p.14) masses and the intelligent minority each hold a belief in Mercerism. Mercerism is a religion based on the teachings of Wilbur Mercer, the two main principles of which are that one who practices should be empathetic to other individuals and secondly, that each individual should work for the good of the community. These principles could be construed as instrumental, with the author encouraging similar behaviour and beliefs in his readership. However, it is important to remember that the text does not necessarily speak for its author directly. Nonetheless, the second of these two principles encourages a togetherness which is advanced by the concept of the 'mood organ' (Dick, 1968, p.1), which can can be dialled to alter the feelings a user is experiencing. The 'Penfield'

They envision themselves as the characters who can cross boundaries where in reality they would be forbidden to do so. (Mori 29) Most individuals who are bound by societies norms and rules look to literature, as this helps them cope with their inner desire of trying to be someone other then who they are. “They express their rejection of female compliance and self-sacrifice by fantasizing themselves as lawbreakers, sexual aggressors or sadists, and thereby transform their self-image” (Mori 37) As the literature progresses the reader finds themselves engrossed into a novel where the character has many different roles which enable the reader to step into this secondary world with ore then just one adventure in

Stories have always been a means of imparting the wisdom and knowledge of a society to young and old alike. Works like The Odyssey and Beowulf contain as much moralizing as children’s tales from Aesop’s Fables, the only difference being that The Odyssey and Beowulf’s morals are revealed in subtler ways. With the advent of the novel, many used the new genre as a way to moralize to women through novels such as Moll Flanders or comment on society such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Yet, Henry James in his essay, “The Art of Fiction” seeks to dispel the notion that novels must moralize by offering a new, better purpose for the novel and allowing novelists artistic license in how they create their stories. However, though his ideas may have been fresh at the time, not all of them have held up over time. Though he sought to separate morality from the novel, the two still work together to create memorable, lasting fiction.

Generally, literature imitates life; the authors write about the tragic consequences of covetous lifestyles to provoke readers. Consequently, after being inspired from these works, readers become enraged and demand a moral change in their lives. Of course, these realizations are built on the belief that their lives are filled with too much selfishness so they must become gratified. However, these moral transformations occur and are unsuccessful because people do not change. While I emphasize this belief of mine, I must point out: one’s moral beliefs, their character, their principles, their truths, all do not change. Moreover, people’s lifestyles, appearance, thoughts, and behaviors do transform as they grow. Once faced with idolization, one will learn of other’s true and immutable character. What one owns, how they spend their time, and who they associate themselves with, shows one’s indisputable nature. Regardless if an opulent possession was being earned or given, the novelty will reveal one’s true and unchanging character.