Mary Fragalla Mrs. Teague Honors American Literature 10 December 2015 Reading Portfolio Assignment Author’s Background and Purpose John Knowles wrote his novel "A Separate Peace" after his memories from his years at the Phillips Exter Academy in New Hampshire. John Knowles grew up in a small town in Fairmont, West Virginia. He came from a wealthy family.
In Peace Like A River, Leif Enger uses an allusion to enhance the meaning of Reuben’s achievement of shooting a goose and the becoming At the beginning of the book, Davy says a quote to Reuben after killing the goose, which was “All yours Natty”-after Natty Bumppo, Mr. Fenimore’s matchless hunter (8). The allusion demonstrates that Reuben is maturing and growing; Reuben can face the dangers of the outside world like earning money for his family. Plus, Reuben is a man starting his measure of strength and pride.
When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped. They realize that her and her family get divided overnight. They are trapped on the eastern side where they were living. While her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West. Four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side.
Leif Enger’s Peace Like A River tells the story of Reuben, who searches for Davy, his brother, a fugitive, all the while witnessing his father’s miracles. Peace Like a River depicts an unbreakable connection between Reuben and his father Jeremiah; the two of them would do anything for each other. Throughout the novel, Reuben and Jeremiah’s health seem tied to each other. Reuben is at his strongest when Jeremiah falls ill, but when Jeremiah seems healthy and happy, Reuben’s asthma controls him, and in the end, Jeremiah gives up his life for Reuben. Firstly, Reuben is healthiest when Jeremiah becomes sick.
From Mexico to the United States, a very dangerous journey some take to have a better life or to reunite with their family. Even people who are as inexperienced, such as Enrique, go through this dangerous path to reunite himself with his mother. In the novel, Enrique's Journey, author Sonia Nazario uses literary devices such as theme, characterization, and POV to show us how events change a character along the way and reveals how a character truly is. Sonia Nazario uses theme to show us the drastic change in character, characterization to show us how the dangers of this journey has an impact on someone, and POV to show us how the character is someone else’s perspective.
The first person point of view allows the reader to understand John’s thoughts, emotions, and opinions, which shows the level of impact that each event
A Separate Peace, Unit Test Hamza Eldohiri The story “A Separate Peace”, written by John Knowles, was written at the time and takes place during World War II when battles and conflicts amongst nations were evident. Each nation involved struggled and fought their hardest in order to satisfy the good of their nation. Not only is the setting in the story taking place during this time of quarrel, the story also demonstrates areas of self-conflict and an internal battle throughout. The characters in “A Separate Peace”, are described as experiencing this self-conflicting, internal battle. Gene (also the narrator) is specifically depicted as he goes through his battle in life.
In the nonfiction novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie battles an internal conflict of his actions whether he should help his family or not. Elie ultimately resolves this conflict by not taking part in helping his family at all in the end; however this choice illustrates his true character as both caring and stoic. Elie’s decision to care about his family before he also reveals the universal theme that he should help himself before others. Elie is willing to obey the concentration camp rules and discard his own thoughts and he has to an internal conflict that he has to overcome and obey the rules and not be scared.
There are many advantages and disadvantages for portraying history in this way for the representation of the Battle of Gettysburg and the civil war. Advantages of this type of presentation of information in a historical fiction novel include the fact that the first person viewpoints allowed the reader to feel empathy towards the characters. This empathy is felt by the reader because the reader has the ability to spend so much time connecting to the narrator’s life and to get into their head. The readers are allowed to “enter” the head of the protagonists and all emotions that the characters feel are instantly felt by the reader because of that connection. The first person viewpoints also allow readers to understand the logic and motivations of the characters in the story.
“True!- nervous-very,very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” (par. 1) First person point of view is unique, because it shows the reader every thought of the main character. Other points of view convey the thoughts
In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, the narration of the story is a mix of third person limited and first person. The first person narration gives the reader the ability to hear what is going on in the mind of Ellen and receiving her point of view on different events is what makes her character feel more alive and believable “So, my dear Lord, this is my death and I wasn’t even thinking about it. My children have come to see me die. But I can’t, it’s not time (Porter 7) . The first person point of view offers the reader a look into Ellen’s emotions, enabling the reader to feel the despair and pain that Ellen must suffer through before she dies.
Friendship can be described as a mutual relationship requiring 2 people to facilitate trust and support to one another. However, friends can look at their relationships very diversely in level seriousness or respect for one another. In, A Separate Peace examines how differently friendship can viewed in the eyes of 2 individuals. The story looks through the eyes of Gene, a boy who has an internal struggle to find self-worth. He consistently compares himself to his so-called best friend Finny, a conflict of self-interest eventually leading to a gruesome injury.
Since Beah told his story from the first person point of view, the reader was able to see, feel, and try to relate to what he was going through during this horrible time in his life. Next, Beah chose to put certain information into his
An example of this situation appears in O’Brien’s short story called “In the Field”. It is a story of soldiers looking for their friend’s corpse in the muck and it is narrated by the third person point of view. Two sentences from the first paragraph of the story are “Kiowa was gone. He was under the mud and water, folded in with the war, and their only thought was to find him and dig him out and then move on to someplace dry and warm” (155). These two sentences make the reader aware of the narrator’s point of view while explaining the reasons for that.
The use of the first person point of view helps to portray the sadness and sorrow of the man, and overall to appeal to the pathos of the reader by going after their
