'As I Lay Dying' – this immediately perplexing, and traditionally grammatically incorrect statement, serves as the title for one of Faulkner's most intriguing and innovative novels. The title, like the entirety of the novel, experiments with, and challenges traditional litera...

In Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Douglas himself narrates the novel using story telling to bring both the reader into the story, and the theme into focus. Through his narration, Douglass also uses narrative strategies like anecdotes, and plot twists. Even with it being a true story, Douglas...

The Leadership Moment is a collection of "nine true stories of triumph and disaster and their lessons for us all." The stories are familiar: Eugene Kranz and Apollo 13; John Gutfreund and Salomon Brothers; Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Civil War, to name a few. The stories are drawn fro...

Orwell uses the first person point of view because he witnessed a dead man, hanging by his neck from a rope. Orwell describes the scene as if the readers are witnessing the scene also because he detailed the clanking noise of the mechanism, the twisting of the rope, and the dead, dangling body. Orw...

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 ...

Short stories, like every other type of literary genre, are utilized to convey a particular message and meaning to the reader. It's not always directly expressed, but sometimes conveyed in such a way that the reader must decipher it after several deductions from analyzing the text. I...

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...

Generally, it is believed that in order for an author to write a successful text, they need to effectively engage their audience and maintain their interest throughout by incorporating aspects they know will prove appealing and entertaining. However, the more experienced reader should have develope...

Gary Soto's "Mexican's Begin Jogging," explores an array of emotions twisting from desire to anxiety as the narrative unfolds into an inspiring tale of courage and freedom. It delves into the constant struggle to strive for something better in one man's race towards a new...

In Harriet Jacobs story Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jacobs presents a first hand account of what it was like to grow up as a slave in the south. Jacobs displays a talent for understanding what readers are curious about with regard to what it was like to be a slave and what it was like ...

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...

Realism represents life as it really is or was. It can be identified in terms of the effect on the reader. That is, realistic fiction is written to evoke the feelings of the reader and give the sense that its characters and their experiences are a part of reality. The novel Fly Away Peter by David M...

Cannibalism: It still exists is written by Linh Kieu Ngo. The essay mainly discusses types of cannibalisms. I believe the author elaborated well on the subject of cannibalism because he organized his writing coherently and clearly, so the audience can comprehend the aspects of cannibalism. In additi...

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...

My Antonia This remarkable piece of literature by Willa Cather is layered with its sense of place, connections between people and between people and places as well as visual, and surprisingly simple, descriptions of prairie life and events. The characters and the story are far more complex tha...

Art Spiegelman's graphic noval, Maus I, is a unique work describing a family's story and eventually their survival of the Holocaust. Spiegelman steps outside the normal writing boundaries by putting his piece into comic book form, which in the long run only enhances it. Because of the fo...

The ending in the novel Hetty Dorval written by Ethel Wilson the ending that is created appears to have little narrative closure to the reader. However, there is the idea that the ending could be symbolic and relate to other aspects of the novel. Upon a first reading the ending is not entirely ...

Many authors such as Francesca Robinson and Monique Berkhout, who co-wrote Madame Joy, use their work and artistic licences to write expository texts, encouraging a whole new perspective with which to consider the world around us. In their text, Madame Joy, Robinson and Berkhout review man's r...

John Sinclair Ross's story, "The Painted Door", tales place during the settler times on the prairies. The beginning of the novel is written as an omniscient narrative. At the end, the story shifts slightly to limited omniscient or third person; the reader has knowledge or both Ann ...

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...

In the beginning of Chapter X, I realized something serious was about to happen in the reading. Anytime that Linda would write, "Reader," I knew that she was trying to make sure that the reader was paying total attention to the narrative, because what she was expressing was extremely impo...

Perfection: The standard by which everyone and everything is compared. It is a measure that people pursue and rarely achieve. The pursuit of perfection causes many people to realize their faults and their human characteristics. In "Love Song: I and Thou ," Dugan's realization of hi...

It is common for either very well written books or those made popular by the general public to be made into movies. Most people who are avid readers make a point of reading the book first before viewing the movie. They believe seeing the movie version first "ruins" the book. This point i...

The works of James Phelan (Reading Secrets) and Michael Levenson (Secret History in 'The Secret Sharer') both take a look at Joseph Conrad's short story, "The Secret Sharer", from two different critical perspectives. Phelan discusses "The Secret Sharer" from the ...

Rome is one of the most beautifully ancient cities in the entire world. Its buildings, stones, and walkways hold a history all to their own, and each one has withstood the ages baring, and yet concealing, all. From the Pantheon and the Spanish Square to other famous monuments like the Colosseum, whi...