In “A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men” by Thomas Scareth, the author’s purpose is to show the reader that Of Mice and Men is great tragic literature that provides the reader with many complex ideas through a simple story. One point Scareth makes is that sometimes tragedies are needed to show a positive about humanity when he says the story is,”but a tragedy in the classic Aristotelian/Shakespearean sense of showing humanity’s achievement of greatness through and in spite of defeat.” Scareth explains humans can do good things through seemingly bad things. Achievements can be made even through turmoil. I agree with this point because while George does something horrible, killing Lennie, it is done out of love and his need to protect him.
Bad things happen to good people. A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket, is a story about the orphans that are in a bad situation. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire parents died in a fire while Count Olaf is trying to steal their fortune. They escaped Count Olaf and got to safety for a little. They learned that bad things happen to good people too.
Frequently in life, it is said that the harmony and relationship between positive and negative must coexist in every situation. To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, tells the story of a young girl, Scout, and her brother Jem, as they grow up in a segregated American south. Their critical coming of age lesson can be seen in the children’s experiences with Mrs. Dubose, an angry, insulting woman who is later revealed as a courageous figure that battles her morphine addiction by her own means. In chapter eleven of To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem acts out against Mrs. Dubose in defense of his father and family through destroying her prized, beautiful camellia bushes. As punishment, Jem’s father Atticus condemns Jem to read to Mrs. Dubose
Society negatively influences individuals and the life choices made. In brief, the three books The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare all show the negative impacts society can have on individuals. In the book The Glass Castle, the Walls a poverty stricken family, lives a poor life without food and barely any shelter. Jeannette, the middle daughter changes their lives forever, and for the better and succeeds the most.
In On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s * The Blue Estruaries, Julia Alvarez conveys the speakers discoveries of her own interests in poetry after she discovers a novel on poetry. However, the speaker doubts her abilities in the practice due to the hardships that result from her being a female. Through the use of diction and imagery, Alvarez successfully expresses the speakers realization of her interests in the matter and the immorality of shoplifting. Julia Alvarez introduces a speaker whom has recently discovered a novel that introduces her to poetry and her admiration for it.
Attending both Dartmouth College and Oxford University, Geisel did not plan on pursuing a career in drawing . At Dartmouth Geisel became the editor of the school’s magazine The Jack-O-Lantern but would create “bizarre cartoon animals that would eventually become the backbone of his book illustrations”(“Theodor Seuss Geisel”). Working on the school’s magazine, Geisel slowly started his career in drawing ,but of course he did not think about becoming a children’s author. Being the editor of The Jack-O-Lantern enhanced his experience at Dartmouth because he made friends he shared interests with. Geisel attended Oxford University with an attempt to get a doctorate in English Literature, but later that changed.
There are times in life when one must tell a little white lie, but there are other times that one may take their lie too far. In Burton Raffel’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain selfishly deceives the Round Table so that he may achieve his own ambitions. Gawain tries to show the Round Table that he is more courageous, capable, and chivalrous than he really is. One of the motives behind Gawain’s deception is that he wants to be accepted by the other knights in the Round Table.
To enhance how reading has inspired her, Welty uses language such as fairytale diction, descriptive imagery, and hyperboles to connect moments of her childhood experiences that eventually built up her writing career. To convey the immense effect of these experiences, Welty begins the passage with her encountering
Alden Nowlan’s poem “An Exchange Of Gifts” is about literature; how a person can read the same text twenty times and still have a different experience every time they read it. Each time we read a story, our visualizations and understanding changes. Each time we read something. we pick up on details we missed the first read through. Our backgrounds, experiences and when we read the text can all play a factor in how we imagine a text.
There are various themes in the book To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) by Harper Lee. What stuck out was “Don’t spread lies”. This is my claim because people were spreading rumors about Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley who were both very important characters. The people in this story said Tom had raped Mayella. The people were telling stories about Boo that he had gone to jail when he was little, which caused many people in the town to be afraid of him.
As I had the rare ability to draw photo-realistically, art classes were easy and enjoyable throughout the majority of my educational journey. However, as I furthered my studies in art, I was introduced to countless other styles in existence that I was not able to replicate. Contemporary art, in particular, was difficult for me to comprehend as its conceptual basis was simply labyrinthine to me. To resolve such difficulties, I scrutinized many works of great contemporary artists and after an extensive period of time, I finally came to an understanding that the essence of the style is that the inference drawn by the beholder effectively becomes the truth. As an artist, it was simply a necessary concept to learn but as a writer, it was an extremely advantageous principal to utilize in my writing process.
During L. Frank Baum’s, the Wizard of Oz Dorothy had to learn the lesson “There’s no place like home” while throughout her journey in the City of Oz. In the first place, after Dorothy winded up in Oz and meant the Good Witch of The North, Dorothy immediately asked her “Oh, I'd give anything to get out of Oz altogether, but which is the way back to Kansas?” Quickly when Dorothy asked this, she was realizing that none of her family is here and she it out of her comfort zone, so she would rather go home than stay in Oz. Also, when Dorothy received the red shoes they symbolized urgency, power, and magic meaning that Dorothy always had the power and will to go home at all times while she was in Oz. Even though Dorothy had the magic to take herself
During my childhood, I spent a vast amount of time drawing and reading. I would spend my entire Saturdays reading books about knights in shining armor, elves, fairies and mystical magical worlds. Spawned from these hours of reading came a very active imagination. To take the images I saw in my head and make them a reality, I would use common tools such as paper and pencil.
Many readers have attacked the romance in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels such as The Scarlet Letter. There are many lengthy essays that compare on the gothic romance of these novels. Hawthorne felt that romance “has fairly a right to present the truth under circumstances to a great extent, of the writers own choosing and creation”. Romance mainly relies on symbolism. In Hawthorne’s novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables he shows many symbols.
As Matthew Gregory Lewis indicates, however, the ballad also differs from fairy tales in some respects, in spite of sharing a set of motifs with them. The fact that Sir Gawain has to transform a woman back contradicts the composition of the classical fairytale; even though the motif of enchantment is technically given here, it works in a slightly different manner than usual: in the well-known fairy tales the audience typically comes across transformed princes rather than princesses (cf. Haase 2: 770), such as in the originally French tale Beauty and the Beast or the Brothers Grimm's The Frog Prince; consequently, it is usually the heroine breaking these spells, as the princes can only be disenchanted by a woman, usually by means of an act of
