The Bedford Reader

such as Faulkner and OíConnor due to her ability to place her characters in confrontation with tradition. Because of her implicit style of writing, many readers can easily relate to the characters, settings, and plots of her

Good vs. Evil in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor shows her readers a realistic look at their own mortality in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The story is about a family of five, a father, mother, grandmother, and two children, starting out on a vacation to Florida from Georgia. The family, on their way to a routine vacation, takes a detour that will change their lives forever. Through the use of literary elements like symbolism and characterization, O’Connor creates a theme of

Karen S. Autrey EN 106 Gender Separation Nike had made great gains with highly successful advertising campaign that positioned the corporation as the champion of girls’ and women’s rights inside and outside of sports. One influential TV spot included images of athletically active girls and women, with the voice-over saying things like, “If you let me play, I’ll be less likely to drop out of school.” (Dworkin and Messner 556) In the above example, Nike is showing support to women athletes

303 23 June 2013 Essay Assignment One: Reader-Response Criticism Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is a short story in which the author attempts to convey several different messages or themes throughout the literary piece. Themes in literary works can sometimes be better understood by analyzing the piece with a specific literary criticism technique. A few of these literary criticism techniques include Marxist, Formalism, and Reader Response just to name a few. Given Hawthorne’s

in sequence. Though it seems easily overlooked, the title “Killings” is very important due to the fact that the thrill of suspense is left in the mind of the reader. The title encourages readers to question who and what. It is also an intricate setting for the plot’s mood. It implies that a murder has taken place, but that is all the reader knows. The chronology of the story uses a style called "in media res”, a term used to describe the common strategy of

Markham 1 In order for a writer to make his readers understand the hidden meanings of events, literary techniques such as characterization, point of view, symbolism, setting and them must be present. "The serious writer's goal is not to tell us a story, to entertain or to move us, but to make us think and to make us understand the deep and hidden meaning of events." This quote by Maupassant reveals why Hemingway, the author of the short story "Hills Like White Elephants," and Russell Banks the author

people later on? Likely not. It’s likely he was very set in his way, he followed what the policy had said. Sammy also quit on a whim in hopes to catch the attention of the girls, to be seen as their “hero” (Updike 95) and standing up for them. As a reader I didn’t see it as being that bad, what was a bit more was how Sammy described one of the women’s breasts as “two smoothest scoops of vanilla (Updike 95).” The entire begging of the story was as if both Sammy and his co-workers were checking out the

in his journey, the contrasts between the free north and the bonded south, the hurdles that remained after obtaining freedom and his unstoppable will to succeed as a free man. He starts off by explaining to the reader his reasoning behind not providing the details he knows his reader is curious about surrounding his arduous escape from bondage. He does this in order to protect those who had escaped, those who might still need to escape and does not wish to afford the slave owners any advantage

does Faulkner deliberately choose to present events out of time sequence? In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, information is given out of order throughout the story. The story actually begins in the end with the death of Miss Emily Grierson. The reader then notices a flashback to the year 1894 when Emily was still alive. At first the jumping around in the story is a bit overwhelming till you realize what the author is trying to do. We are then taken another thirty years or so back to her father’s

around.” (Erdrich, 313) When reading the story, the emotions of the reader imitate the emotions of the characters. For the first time the two bothers were going to hang out together with the Olds. This meant that they were reconnecting, which the power of Henry agreeing to the idea, shows the excitement. Although the story ends in a different matter, the setting is the mirror for all emotions, the description of what the reader should be