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A Fantasy Story

... starship just to explore it anyway. We started to walk around on the planet and we felt shaking constantly. I thought it was just constant earthquakes and that they never stopped, but I knew I was wrong when I saw a lot of creatures just running around. I knew they were making the shaking because of the number of creatures. It looked like the creatures where hostile because they were fighting with themselves and with one another. We turned around and walked the other way to a canyon that we had seen as we landed on the planet. This planet was ...

Number of words: 1974 | Number of pages: 8

Woman To Man

... Wright is a well-known poet adds to the evidence that this is a poem. This text has more than one intended audience. The primary audience is Judith Wright's husband. It is a well-known fact (in literary circles) that Wright addressed this poem to her husband when she was pregnant with one of their children. The intimate nature of this exchange between Wright and her husband is evident in her use of personal pronouns: "…you and I have known it well"; "…your arm…"; "…my breast…". The second intended audience is every woman ...

Number of words: 1584 | Number of pages: 6

The Black Cat: What Goes Around Comes Around

... he states “to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul”(80). Poe describes his affectionate temperament of his character when he writes “my tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions”(80). He also characterizes his animal friends as "unselfish" and their love as “self-sacrificing” illustrating to the readers his devotion to them for their companionship. The author uses foreshadowing in the statement “we had birds, goldfish, a fine dog, a rabbit, a small monkey, and a cat”(80 ...

Number of words: 1210 | Number of pages: 5

What Is Literature

... can be found in many different forms, such as poems, novels, diaries and letters. The literature will have an impact on its audiences regardless of which form it is in. One literary work that had an enormous impact on its audience is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail." Not only was this one of the most significant documents in the Civil Rights movement, but was also one of the most well-written, most powerful and most persuasive pieces of writing. "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed tow ...

Number of words: 559 | Number of pages: 3

Lord Of The Flies

... for more exciting things. The killing of a pig slowly begins to take over the boys life, and they begin to go about this in a ritualistic way, dancing around the dead animal and chanting. As this thirst for blood begins to spread the group is split into the "rational (the fire-watchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters) (Dick 121)." The fear of a mythological "beast" is perpetuated by the younger members of the groups and they are forced to do something about it. During one of the hunters' celebrations around the kill of an animal ...

Number of words: 1154 | Number of pages: 5

Comparison: Dover Beach And Do

... is left to wonder and inquire about the whole picture the remainder of the story. The poem "The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life," written by Anthony Hecht in 1968, undermines and debases the introspection and romanticism of Matthew Arnold's, "Dover Beach," written about a century earlier in 1867. Introspection is the reflective examination of one's thought process and sensory experience. From the very first line of "The Dover Bitch," the introspection of the Matthew Arnold’s poem is completely deconstructed. The parody is a casual ...

Number of words: 1285 | Number of pages: 5

The Role Of Women In Medea

... choice of women support characters such as the nurse and the chorus is imperative to the magnification of Medea’s emotions. The very fact that the nurse and chorus are female deepens Medea’s sadness, impassions her anger, and makes the crime of killing her own children all the more heinous. Medea’s state of mind in the beginning of the play is that of hopelessness and self pity. Medea is both woman and foreigner; that is to say, in terms of the audience’s prejudice and practice she is a representative of th ...

Number of words: 1040 | Number of pages: 4

Sherwood Anderson's "Paper Pills": Deception In The Title

... a huge nose and hands” (71) that Anderson puts as a description, making Reefy seem old, ugly, and worn out to the reader. The doctor kept to himself after his wife died. Reefy started smoking a cob pipe and sat in his empty office by a window that he never opened. On a hot summer day the doctor tried to open the window but when the window did not budge, Reefy did not attempt to reopen the dusty window again. Reefy was so devastated about his wife passing away that he did not care about him self for over ten years. The yo ...

Number of words: 535 | Number of pages: 2

Franklins Preface To Poor Rich

... sixth virtues. Franklin tells us that in order to be industrious, we must always be employed in something useful. His proverb, "Employ thy Time well if though meanest to gain Leisure", lets the reader know that time shouldn’t be wasted on doing things that won’t better yourself or others. Franklin tells us that in order to be frugal, we can’t waste anything. People who spend lavishly should listen to the maxim, "Silks and Satins, Scarlet and Velvets put out the Kitchen Fire". This saying reminds us that ...

Number of words: 458 | Number of pages: 2

Naturalism In "The Open Boat"

... life. Crane's are written very descriptively to give a better understanding for the story. Stephen Crane also wrot the, The Red Badge of Courage. Even though Stephen Crane never truly experienced a battle or war he wrote, The Red Badge of Courage as if he has. Themes of naturalism greatly prevail in Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat." The first aspect in Stephen Crane's, "The Open Boat," is realism. In the story, Crane as the correspondent has great significance in that the correspondent in the story is based on Crane himsel ...

Number of words: 1454 | Number of pages: 6

Treatment Of Inner Evil - Tell

... is a statement that eludes recognition of his latter evil deeds as being an inner driving force (Poe 3). "If you still fancy me mad, you will think so no longer." Here lies yet another description of the narrator's defense proclaiming his sanity which was resounded even after killing the old man (Poe 6). The physical evil as inferred by the narrator, has been blamed upon a single eye belonging to old man. The eye "haunted" the narrator "day and night" which ran his "blood cold" whenever it looked at him (Poe 3). "It was not the old ma ...

Number of words: 618 | Number of pages: 3

The Darkness Of Insanity

... fate is in his own hands, and man must always be active. The first code, a person must be responsible for his actions, is shown in his short stories, "the Battler" and "The Killers". In "The Battler", Nick Adams gets beaten down into a deformed lonely man because he chouses to fight and continue to fight. This quote from "The Battler" shows that Nick is in bad shape. "(Nick) was dead looking in the firelight" (Hemingway 131). In the short story, "The Killers" this code again is portrayed. Ole Anderson, a character in "The Killers", di ...

Number of words: 599 | Number of pages: 3

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