Question: Describe an important setting in the novel. Explain how it helped you understand a key character The autobiographical novel Winterdance, written by Gary Paulsen, is based on the author's experience both training for running the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. An important setting that helped me understand the key character, Paulsen, was the Iditarod race. The physical conditions of the race helped us understand Paulsen running the race in a difficult and harsh manner can give a hope to never give up no matter what happens.
Figurative language is sometimes used to make events have certain moods such as happiness, sadness, mystery, and suspense. The book focuses on a deadly virus that is highly contagious and is very oppressive. The virus had originated from the central rainforests of Africa, then had suddenly appeared in Germany. The book describes how Charles Monet bled out from the disease in the Nairobi Hospital waiting room, how monkeys contributed to spreading the disease, the effects the virus has on the body, and how the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID tested the virus on monkeys and tried to find a cure for the virus. In The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, the author uses figurative language such as foreshadowing
Debra Marquart has written a memoir titled The Horizontal World to emit readers of her love for the upper Midwest. Marquart uses diction and contrast to characterize the Midwest. In doing so, Marquart hopes to show the importance of this region to those who already have a generalized opinion of the Midwest. In the passage, Marquart uses concrete diction when describing how people such as those who visit view the upper Midwest.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a powerful play that delves into the Salem witch trials of 1692. The play is rich in figurative language, which adds depth and complexity to the characters and themes. Three types of figurative language used in The Crucible are symbolism, metaphor, and irony. Through these literary devices, Miller heightens the tension and intensity of the play, and helps the audience to better understand the characters and their motivations.
The overall construction of the Constitution designates that Congress may not direct State officials: “The Framers explicitly chose a Constitution that confers upon Congress the power to regulate individuals,not States.” It is the President's job, under the Constitution, to oversee execution of federal laws, but “The Brady Act effectively transfers this responsibility to thousands of CLEOs in the fifty States, who are left to implement the program without meaningful Presidential control”. However, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the majority opinion misinterpreted Congress's power under the Constitution. Congress may not wrest the powers that the Constitution reserves to the States, but when it exploits its legitimate constitutional powers,
It is unusual in a story for the setting to serve the function of a character. In the novella Ethan Frome, the setting takes on a major role by mirroring the evolving mental state of Ethan Frome, the story’s reticent protagonist. The author Edith Wharton, uses the literary element of imagery to incarnate the inanimate setting in order to serve as an additional character. The imagery Wharton uses describing the snowy New England countryside, gives the reader the ability to observe Frome seeing the world at first, as colorless and hopeless. Later, Wharton uses imagery about the setting again, to reveal Frome’s transition to seeing that same world as brilliant and auspicious.
The Out of Many textbook discusses the history of America. A huge part of the history in America is industrialization. Chapter 19 of the textbook talks about the industrial city in which The Jungle by Upton Sinclair opens the realities factory life and work in the early 1900’s. The Jungle tells about the lives of the workers in factories, specifically meat, and how harsh and disgusting their work really was. The topic of industrial cities and their living and working conditions from the Out of Many textbook is weaved in The Jungle .
In the excerpt from the memoir The Horizontal World, Marquart describes her experience of living in the midwest. Marquart includes her own point of view, as well as the opinions of others who do not live in the midwest. Marquart includes literary techniques to support her characterization of living in the upper midwest. Marquart recalls her life and experience of living in the midwest, and how other outside statements have changed her point of view.
The movie The Village showed mixed elements of both Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism. Dark Romanticism means the dark part of nature and the human soul while Transcendentalism means the opposite of Dark Romanticism which means they see the good side of nature and human soul. These mixed characteristics were shown in the movie like gothic symbolism, darkness or madness of the human mind, and love in nature. The village was about people who went away from society to live in a simple life away from sorrow and heartache. The people were not to cross the boundaries or else they would face those they don't speak of.
The important message from this is that to make a good story you have to use a lot of vivid detail to make a believable and setting that you can see in your mind. If you don’t use any vivid detail in your story to build the setting the read will get lost in the complexity of the world you created, so it is important that you help them visualise the world you put them in. Nevertheless make sure that in the future, whenever you write a story, make sure that your reader can the world that you immerse them
Sherman Alexie uses a combination of reality and fiction in order to show the reader what he thinks the lives of people on the Spokane Indian Reservation was like. In regards to what differentiates the fiction from the non-fiction of the stories you could look at present day Native American Reservations. Some reservations are still plagued with alcoholism, and poverty of the past. While the characters and stories are just vessels to deliver the message and show what Sherman Alexie portrayed the reservation live to be. The reaction and impact that this has on the reader is the same as the age-old use of story telling.
One cannot prevent them for the reason that they just happen. 2. Term: Regionalism refers to work of Literature takes place in a specific area of the country. This is shown by the author’s use of dialect, explanation of landscape, beliefs and customs of the characters.
Although both of these stories have many literary elements in the story, the three that are the most important are setting, irony, characterization.
Perhaps the most significant myth in American culture is that of the American frontier generated by the European encounters with the American West. The most noticeable part of the frontier myth is the mythic struggle between modern civilization and wilderness. Frontier is defined as “the meeting point between savagery and civilization”. Turner believes that the American frontier is closely related to American civilization and that frontier
Edith Wharton is an important, though neglected novelist in the history of American literature. Her novels study the status of the women and explore their relationship with men in a male dominated society. Again and again she presents the state of exceptional, rising, ‘New Woman’ of the turn of the century to break out of her compressible role and attempting a venture rebellion. The Age of Innocence is on the theme that deals ironically with the affluent social world of New York. The novel has a theme of entrapment and the struggle of the intruder, both to maintain an adult sense of self in a childish society and to rescue a trapped male from that society.
