The Bedford Reader

Hell opens his Mouth wide to receive them; and if God should permit it, they would be hastily swallowed up and lost”(Bedford 349). In this passage we see that Jonathan Edwards describes Satan as a serpent, as we stated before, this shows how much Edwards’ wanted to push the fear of the devil into people's everyday life. Edwards could have used anything to describe satan, but if the reader looks back at the Puritan religion, serpents were valued as an evil spirit. Jonathan Edwards knew the feelings people

differentiate neat people and sloppy people, how neat people are lazier, and how neat people are wasteful. Her qualities help explain to the readers why she thinks that her answer is true. One quality Britt uses in her essay is oral description, to tell her readers how neat people and sloppy people are in her eyes. In one example, Britt tells her readers, “Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.” (Britt 233) Britt also uses verbal description to support

The point of view that Katherine Mansfield has chosen to use in "Miss Brill" serves two purposes. First, it illustrates how Miss Brill herself views the world and, second, it helps the reader take the same journey of burgeoning awareness as Miss Brill. The story is written in a third person omniscient (although limited) point of view. Miss Brill also interprets the world around her in a similar fashion. She is her own narrator, watching people around her and filling in their thoughts to create

Summary Assignment In the article "In the Name of Love" by Miya Tokumitsu, it is argued that the popular expression “do what you love” has negative effects. Throughout the article, she claims that following this principle leads to self-centered people, denigration of other forms of labor, and exploitation of workers. In her article, Miya Tokumitsu states that most people who follow the principle “do what you love” become self-centered. Being focused on ourselves and our happiness, as the author

Literature Theme Comparison Love is a popular theme in a multitude of literature pieces throughout the times. Forbidden love seems nearly as popular as does love gone wrong and unconditional love. Two tales that contain the theme of forbidden love, the theme of love gone wrong, and the theme of unconditional love are: William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Fay Weldon’s “IND AFF or Out of Love in Sarajevo.” Though these stories were both written many years apart, they have a commonality

So Much More Room for Growth The protagonist of “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison undergoes a tentative initiation. An initiation story is a story of acquiring, whether accidental or on purpose, information about oneself. Mordecai Marcus breaks initiation stories into three parts: tentative, uncompleted, and decisive. Marcus writes in his essay, “What Is an Initiation Story?” that tentative “initiations lead only to the threshold of maturity and understanding but leave them enmeshed in a struggle

process, the part that is of upmost importance that makes an essay into a great essay is a well formulated thesis statement, as a thesis will set the tone for the essay and allow points to flow from one to another. The tone of an essay leads the reader in a direction that guides them to have a specific opinion or strong emotion that is provoked at the end of the essay. This tone is well set by the thesis statement at the end of the introduction to the paper, this thesis will be the start of what

images and sound to both dehumanize and mechanize the female speaker, while John Updike uses imagery and sounds to make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker, connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors, such as metonymy, and paradox, to give an actual picture of the office machines actually performing

John Updike’s A and P as a state of Mind by Nancy Lager This student sample by Nancy Lager is an average paper. The author has used clear and simple grammar to put her points across. Thus, the paper is suitable and easily understandable by both intellectuals and laymen. Also, every paragraph of the student sample has the main idea. For instance, the first paragraph is the introduction of the whole paper while the second paragraph talks about why Sammy did not like his place of work and why he eventually

Literary Analysis of How to Tell a True War Story The short story that will be discussed, evaluated, and analyzed in this paper is a very emotionally and morally challenging short story to read. Michael Meyer, author of the college text The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, states that the author of How to Tell a True War Story, Tim O’Brien, “was drafted into the Vietnam War and received a Purple Heart” (472). His experiences from the Vietnam War have stayed with him, and he writes about them