I want to be a freelance creative writer (science fiction) because I have always loved writing. I have more full notebooks with funky colored ink than Cher has pairs of shoes. When I asked my roommate what my ideal job should be (I always love an outside opinion), she said science fiction writer....

As I write my reader response on Grace Paley's story "Distance" the only weak point I found was the dialect, making it was hard to read. The short story begins awkwardly confusing, and ends abruptly. Other than that, I found the story to be creative. I put down the book having known a funny, toug...

TEXT RESPONSE MR ENIGMATIC 5) Choose one of Rhett's pieces of writing for which there is no commentary. Respond to it either personally or in the style of Carson. I have chosen to write as Ms Carson to the story from page 55-63 This is the sort of piece of writing I was expecting y...

Edgar A. Poe After reading some of his works in class, one realizes that his mysterious style of writing is greatly appealing. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, it was said, "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurkin...

This is the biography of John Champlin Gardner, Jr., an American writer, who was born in Batavia, New York. He was a teacher, lecturer, and prolific writer of fiction, children's books, poetry, radio plays, and scholarly medieval studies. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduated i...

this is done through his use of setting and narrative style. In many of Poe's works, setting is used to paint a dark and gloomy picture in our minds. I think that this was done deliberatly by Poe so that the reader can make a connection between darkness and death. For example, in the "Pit and the ...

Ray Bradbury Biography U.S. author, born in Waukegan, Ill., on Aug. 22, 1920. In his stories, Bradbury wove together the intrigue of changing technology with insightful social commentary. One of his best-known works was 'The Martian Chronicles'; a collection of interrelated stories concer...

William Faulkner Many great writers are criticized about the way they write there: novels, poems, essays, etc. Even some of the skilled writers are criticized, William Faulkner was a great writer that wrote several novels but was not criticized that much about the way he wrote. Although Faulkner...

Ray Bradbury is more than just a legendary American novelist. He is also a short story writer, essayist, playwright screenwriter, poet, an owner of four cats, a father to four daughters, a grandfather to eight grandchildren, and he was a husband to Maggie until her death in November of 2003. They we...

Upon reading Welty's stories you realize they are not what they appear, but are merely allusions used to portray a deeper meaning. There are many factors that can be contributed to the effective portraying of Welty's allusions. A good example would be how her characters become almost lif...

The Advantages of a First-Person Perspective in Literature There are several angles in which an author can tell a story. Writing a story in the first-person perspective, though, is the best angle because it has many advantages for both the reader and the author of the story. The reader will lea...

"Game" Written AnalysisBackground--Barthelme was an artist and sculptor. This fact explains his meticulous attention to giving the reader the setting so realistically. Donald Barthelme " paints" the setting in the reader's mind. As Donald artistically puts together the story elements, his creative...

Can You Tell a True War Story? Tim O'Brien's short story "How to Tell a True War Story" is his fictional depiction of one of the narrator's experiences in the Vietnam War. This first person account of a tragic death of a friend is the example that the author uses to prov...

In Alice Walkers essay, \"In Search of Our Mothers\' Gardens\", the question of what it is meant to be a black women and an artist is discussed. Walker defends past generations of black women by saying that many of them had great talent that went unnoticed due to their rank in society. These women w...

"A rose for Emily" reveals William Faulkner's highly technical style of writing. The motif of the story can be understood in several different ways such as cultural conflict between Southern and Northern America or as conflict between old and New generations. However there is more than that which au...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century. His writings are very much involved with the dark and mysterious perceptions of life. His works have attracted attention since his death by fans and critics. Other writers have tried to master his unique style, but ...

Flower's for Algernon Recently in class we read a short story called "Flower's for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. Daniel Keyes wrote "Flower's for Algernon" in 1959 and the novel has not gone out of print since that time. The novel has been turned into a TV movie and adapted f...

There are two kinds of writing, Commercial and Literary. Commercial or escapist pieces are purely for the reader's entertainment and for making money. Literary works however are often crafted with a deeper meaning designed purposefully to make the reader think and are rarely predictable. The...

To the Stars Ray Bradbury was a great writer on many levels. He could write novels, short stories, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry. An active imagination and a fascination with outer space combine in many of Ray Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury surpassed an unstable childhood to become a worl...

Transcendentalism is used frequently as main topics in the stories "Nature" and Walden. These two themes are heavily concentrated on though these two stories are similar on the aspects of themes, though they differ on the thoughts of civilization and governments. These two stories also differ in th...

The author has given special importance to each of the twelve stories andthe readers can be amused by each of these stories. The twelve stories inJin's collection are all set in the city of Muji.Due to the wideappreciation and praise which Ha Jin has received for his novels, he ...

Boyle versus RossGreasy Lake was written by T. Coraghessan Boyle in 1985. Seven years later in 1992, a band by the name of Seven Mary Three was formed and the song "Water's Edge" was recorded. There are many similarities between the short story by Boyle and the song by the alternative "grunge" grou...