College? Who needs it? Not me, that\'s for sure. At least, that\'s what I had thought for a long time. In the last two years of high school, I didn\'t do much. I knew that I wasn\'t going to go to college. No matter what I told my parents and teachers, I knew it wasn\'t for me. All I wanted to do w...

Narrative Infancy There are many stories in the Bible that we can relate to, the one I chose was the birth of Jesus. When Joseph discovered that Mary was pregnant he was shocked because he assumed that Mary had cheated on him. The only way Mary could have become pregnant was if she slept with an...

In Annie Dillard's "The Chase" she starts by detailing how she participated in sports in her neiborhood. She insists that no girl activities could compare to the thrill and excitement that she got of playing boys sports. In the wintertime there were not any sports that they could play, so they thr...

Time and GuiltIn Tillie Olsen's narrative "I Stand HereIroning," I interpreted that there was a reflection ofthe loss of time and the sense of guilt between amother and daughter. This is displayed in the authorsword choice, point of view, imagery and tone. Olsen begins her narrative while ironing an...

Point of view is always important in understanding a story. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," he allows the reader to identify with the story. Marquez dictates with a great deal of emphasis, in regards to the narrative, and the overall understandi...

On one level, "A Gentle Creature" is a love story. However, instead of fulfilling romantic ideals, "A Gentle Creature" portrays a battleground. Instead of a tale of mutual happiness through mutual submission, it tells of a power struggle between the narrator and his wife. ...

Composing Your Essay In deciding what to write about, keep in mind the basic requirement for a good story: it must portray a sequence of connected events driven forward by some tension or conflict that results in a recognition or new understanding. Not every memorable event in your life will end ...

Mary Reilly In comparing the novel of Mary Reilly to the motion picture I noticed a few differences in the two such as the slightly changed narrative. In the first scene of the novel, to begin with, we are introduced immediately to Mary's childhood horror from her point of view. This give...

Alice Walker in her story "Everyday Use," weaves a very interesting portrait of family life. Her narrative really was quite interesting and kept my attention. I really enjoyed her many examples, with which she incorporated the reader. She several times compared things in the story to things you (the...

Narrative EssayWhen I was eighteen years old, I was extremely nervous to take my first spring break trip to Rocky Point, Mexico, but as soon as I arrived I realized that Mexico was not as bad as it has been made out to be. After my friends and I arrived, we unpacked, and headed for the beach. Our h...

After evaluating my perception of The Last Night that She Lived, by Emily Dickinson. The message in this poem is we take life for granted and we don¡¯t appreciate it until we are threatened with losing it. Emily used what seems to me as free verse with no apparent rhyme but alliteration at time...

Conveying hate for the ways of the world, Jesse Allen, a 17 year old from Canada writes a poem called Feelings of Untold Conscience. This poem is a descriptive narrative of what the world is turning into today. The first four lines speak of the how hate is leading to death and the corruption of ma...

Tarzan of the Apes When I was reading the story, "Tarzan of the Apes," I realized that throughout the whole story he describes the characters very narrative. He describes specifically the characters feelings, movements and characteristics. On the following, I will write about how the...

'This is a novel about love in all its forms.'What does Paul learn about love from his various relationships in the novel?In the 'rites of passage' narrative Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, Paul learns about 'love in all its forms'. Through his relationships with his parents, his girlfriend then wife ...

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, by Virginia Hamilton, was first published in 1982. The estimated reading level for this book is twelve years old and up. Some of the issues examined in the book, such as child abuse, disease, and drug use, will be better understood by junior high age students. This nov...

The subject of war has been portrayed in a multitude of texts over many years, as it has issues that seem to re-occur and still stay relevant to our ever-changing society. Two common forms of presenting such issues are through film and narrative, like in the film "Born on the 4th of July"...

I found "The River" an intriguing tale, full of mystery and unexplained phenomenon. If someone if unaware of the whole book, Kindred, or even of the writer's actual purpose for penning it, he cannot put The River in the perspective of slave narrative. Rather he could enjoy the chapter...

The post-production in the movie Donnie Darko played a huge role in the filming of this movie. The audio, which was music from the 80's, give the movie the feeling of the time when the story took place. The narrative had to be done before the actual shooting because they had to know when and wh...

CALL OF THE WILD BY JACK LONDON ANALYSIS OF A SELECT PASSAGE FROM CALL OF THE WILD This passage is taken from page 10, I selected it as I believed it was one of the primary openings in the book that showed Jack London's ability to describe both the psychological and physical characterist...

The book Hatchet is about a 13 year old boy that is trapped in the Canadian wilderness after his plane goes down. In this book the main character Brian has to fight for his life alone. Brian has to defend himself and find food and a city boy doesn't know all of these things. Brian is lost and he onl...

In the passage from "The Pupil", various elements come together to help create the story. Henry James details the mocking of society's precious social classes with the use of dramatic tones and verisimilitude among the character relationships. Feelings of inferiority, disbelief and arrogance s...

The Accident It was a normal Friday night in down town Salt Lake City, Utah. I, my aunt and uncle, my two cousins and two of their friends were out cruising in my aunt's new birthday present- a '92 Camaro Z28. I drove the car because my aunt and uncle had been drinking and were a little s...

Our Worst Idea Have you ever done something extremely stupid? Well, I have and I really regret it. I'm sure that my cousin that was with me regrets it too, just as much as I do. It was about 4:30 A.M., the Saturday before the first day of school, and I was spending the night with...

According to Jan Harold Brunvard's glossary in The Vanishing Hitchhiker, legends are "folk narratives that deal with the realistic incidents set in the past." Brunvard gives the reader an analysis of each of the most well known urban legends. These stories are told in order to frigh...

Literary Analysis of Chapter 23 of The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, he describes, in Chapter 23, how the migrants entertain themselves when they are unable to find work. Some migrants turned to music while others turned to storytelling, alcohol, or listening to radical mi...