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Ap English Literature Comparative Essay

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In the world of literature, storytelling captivates readers. With so many narratives, places, and scenarios developed, it captivates the mind and heart. If we look at the realm of literature, we will find several examples of references from various forms of storytelling. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin, and “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” by N.K. Jemisin is an example of this. Both of these stories use storytelling techniques to allure the reader. This analysis will help readers to understand these two works, where the authors use that manner to captivate their reader’s minds. In their stories, LeGuin and Jemisin used their experiences for their characters and made a huge turning point in the story and managed to invite the readers to their minds where morality and consciousness intersect. In both of these …show more content…

In the minds of the readers, the glamor of the world that they build lasts longer than the story. The art of storytelling is written in such a way that readers get captivated, and are drawn toward the world of storytelling, where narratives unfold across the settings, and lure the mind and heart out of the reader. Storytelling is used by some great writers that lure the readers, as shown in this paper where analysis of works like 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' by Ursula K. LeGuin and 'The Ones Who Stay and Fight' by N.K. Jemisin is shown and discussed on how the authors lured the readers. The author has used their experience as the heart of the narrative to give the readers a great time of their moral and consciousness thread. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a short story written by Ursula K. LeGuin whose plot involves the citizens of the castle in a society with a secret at the empire’s heart. The sufferer is a child and lets the audience ponder on the joy of the empire and the journey of the sufferer's child. In The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, LeGuin set out to evoke a society that appears to be

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