The Unknown Man

character analysis of the unknown narrator reveals his ideas and thoughts, his strengths, and his weaknesses. The pressure the unknown narrator goes through brings out his ideas and thoughts. Many thoughts ran through his head including should I kill him and was it alright to kill him. Including the text states “I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty” (O’Brien). This shows that he didn’t think before killing the man, but he has internal conflict

hurry to get it over with because of how uncomfortable and scary it is. Iyer, Pico. "The Unknown Rebel." Time. Time Inc., 13 Apr. 1998. Web. 05 Jan. 2017. “The Unknown Rebel” is about a man who stood up against violence, risking his life for what he believed in. in this story, the streets in china were invaded by tanks and the people of Tiananmen Square did not know what to do. One man, who remains unknown still, went up and stood before the tanks risking his life to try to stop the violence. The

In the two short stories "The Lawnmower Man" and "Gray Matter," by Stephen King. Stephen King excels at captivating the audience with the use of elements of horror throughout his writing. He draws people into his writing by evoking the sensation of fear and suspense in the audience and in addition, the audience is consistently eager to discover what unfolds next. In Stephen King’s writing, the reader can see similarities with the use of the same elements of horror throughout his narratives. In these

everyday life however when an unknown factor is present, fear can ultimately become an outcome of this equation. An author may use transformations as a tool to help frighten readers by providing an unknown element causing a feeling of uncertainty to pass through the reader. Many authors use this technique as a way to spike surprise or fear throughout their stories, this technique can be seen in multiple short stories and novels including Wild Things “critique,” The Invisible Man, and “Where Is Here.” Transformations

Fear of the Unknown “To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils” (Socrates). The works “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner and “Guest of the Nation” by Frank O’Conner address the issue of death. Both stories suggest that death is something that we cannot

The Unexpected Truth The Poem Unknown Citizen and the short story The Lottery give examples how people can rebel and conform in different ways. The way these stories were written evokes a lot of emotions, from anger to confusion. In life there are two people in the world, ones who conform to every whim and those who will rebel to create a difference in their society or others. The Unknown Citizen, by W. H. Auden, is about a man who obeys the law and does what needs to done by a normal citizen.

Authors Create Suspense? Authors create suspense by using certain vocabulary, creating an unknown factor, and using punctuation to describe the event. In the short story The Tell-Tale Heart, written by Edgar Allan Poe, is about an obsessed man who is stalking an Old man because of one of his eyes and eventually kills the old man. Another short story, The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury, tells the story of a lonely man wandering an empty world until he has a mysterious encounter with a police car. Both of

Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. In the painting, a lone man standing on a crag of rocks overlooking the sea. His left foot faces the sea and is higher than his right. His slender cane sits on a third point on the rocks. His blonde hair is flopping in the sea breeze, but his long, green, pleated at the bottom coat is unaffected. His green pants are swaying in the wind. The sea looks to be angled downwards with the man in the center. There are at least three more visible outcroppings of

The stories that I choose from Richard Matheson’s I am legend is buried talents, which contained a horror theme of fear of the unknown. The story began with a man who dressed in a wrinkled, black suit who has no facial expression walked into the carnival. He walked to one of the booths that surrounded by cloud of people that playing a Ping-Pong game. It was a game where players throw Ping-Pong into goldfish bowl to win a prize, which he quietly joined in later among other players. In the beginning

inability to construct an entity of the unknown without the suggestion of an unrelenting air of terror is acknowledged within Lovecraft’s configuration of the weird tale. With reference to the quotation provided, ideas around the notion of fear and the unknown will be identified and explored in three of Lovecraft’s stories: Dagon (1919), The Picture in the House (1920), and The Outsider (1926). This essay seeks to not only decipher the nature of the unknown presented within each story, but the nature