In the book Baseball Great, the author, Tim Green told the story from the main characters point of view. That helped build suspense because it showed what was going on inside his mind with all the adversity going on with his baseball team and with his dad losing his job and how he overcomes it. He also used used plot structure to engage the reader by having many unexpected events happen to make the ending very suspenseful and unpredictable. For example," 'I tried, Garry. ' Dallas Said.
On Tuesday, November 8, author Alex Gilvarry gave a public book reading from his book “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant," in which from the chapters in his book he discusses a Filipino man who came to America as an immigrant and describes his time working in the fashion industry. The Filipino immigrant takes about his ambitions of wanting to compete with the best and ultimately achieving his dream of wanting to show off his fashion designs. But along with his dreams, includes money, and the man meets a neighbor named Ahmed who helps him contribute to his dreams by lending thousands of dollars in cash. He also gives him bizarre advice on his love for a woman named Michelle in Savannah Lawrence College saying she isn’t worth his time
“Tuesday of the other June” by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction story about a girl named June who gets bullied at swim class by another June. In the beginning June is talking to her mom and her mom doesn’t want her to get in any trouble. In the middle June starts this swim class and meets another June. June starts to get bullied by the other June that beats her up. In the end June moves and she moves next to the mean June who beats her up.
What makes up the best story? Is it the character development, the length, the flow and structure, or the setting, maybe a gut wrenching plot twist? There are different combinations of criteria used to determine if a story qualifies as the best or not. Although I think the strongest set of criteria is: the purpose of the story, details in the story (information about the characters, the setting, background information that shapes the story). These two requirements involve important parts to a working story.
However, most of the time these stories do not in fact have happy endings, but genuine tragedy and struggle. Furthermore, as the chapter arrives at its conclusion, Alvarez presents Laura’s telling of stories as
The Elements of A Good Story What makes a good story? Oftentimes writers encounter questions like this and start to wonder about the writing essentials of a good story. As many skills and beautiful words that make up a captivating story, it will have to be one that makes connections to the readers. Only when readers are able to make a connection to their experience or values, they start gaining from the story. Through creating conflicts, conveying the theme and a relative background, the writers of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Sonny’s Blues” fully express their values and thoughts by the “bridge” between readers and them.
Sleepy Hollow, directed by Tim Burton, is an eerie and a suspenseful film with stunning visuals and a spine-chilling atmosphere. In my opinion, this film portrays the overall theme of suspense through various scenes in the film. The curse of The Headless Horseman is the legacy of the small town of Sleepy Hollow. Spearheaded by the eager Constable Ichabod Crane and his new world ways into the ominous secrets and murder; and now the secrets once laid to rest which has been forgotten has now been reawakened, holding a dark secret of a past once gone who is The Headless Horseman. This film contains lots of gore and graphic horror violence.
Story is an integral element in human life. Stories are the way humans have shared and learned for thousands of years. Storytelling is different from story writing. When a story is told, the original content lingers as long as the storytellers maintain that content. Once the story is retold it takes on different details and meaning.
Sometimes in your life you have happy moments but sometimes you don’t. These stories are amazing because they all have a point of view in there life. All these stories have a moment in their life. In some book or stories it shows when they are happy and sad. For example the book Hatchet by Gary paulsen is an amazing adventure about a city-boy named Brian that got stranded in the middle of the Canadian forest by a horrible plane crash.
The plot on how to build a house by dana reinhardt is interesting to me because it had a way of making things more intriguing.the way it was written made you want go to the next page maybe not that much in the beginning but after a while you wanted to know who this one person was and what was this person like. I believe that a book can be considered good if it is a great story with average writing. A great story with many struggles and ultimate success can be told even when the writing is average. Some storylines are not compelling, but they are so well written that people will recommend them. It would make you question what does divorced parents feel like.
No one will feel attached to a character that has a plain, boring story. Second, the book must have an intriguing plot and/or plot twists. To keep readers engaged, a novel must have good or interesting plot. A key element of this is having plot twists or unexpected turns to keep readers guessing or to keep them “in to” the book. Due to the unique but realistic characters for
Short stories are a beautiful thing, mainly due to the fact that anybody can read them. You don’t have that anxiety of opening a new novel with uncertainty that you’ll finish the entire piece, and the satisfaction you feel when you reach the end is better than ever. Not having time to finish a novel once you’ve started it is extremely discouraging, and can make you want to give up reading all together. However, with short stories you will always feel that feeling of accomplishment once you’ve gotten lost in the characters and experienced something new. You may love it so much that it acts as an incentive to pick up another story to read.
For example, the witch from Hansel and Gretel did intend to eat Hansel and Gretel; however, these components are bearable because the protagonists get their happy-endings nonetheless. Once readers start shifting to young adult and adult fiction, as discussed in How I Live Now and Fight Club, ‘happy-endings’ are not as straightforward. Characters also become more complex. Readers delve into Darkus’ emotions where he is
It 's interesting how the English language has 26 letters in its alphabet, and writers can turn them into lengthy and twisted, warm, emotional, or even a symbolic work of fiction. More than a great imagination is needed to created a compelling fictional story. It 's the way words are used to pull in readers, push them away, or bring them together. A story 's ability to he discussed is what makes it a good work of fiction.
To have a great story, it has to make use of literary elements to give detail and depth to a story. Stories can leave a feeling or thought that can make the reader think about what they just read. Making use of literary elements can help give hints to what the story is gonna be about or what is going to happen in the future. The four stories that our class read use these two elements and a few of the stories can almost tell the entire story just in the first two pages. Two of the most well used literary elements is symbolism and foreshadowing.
