Introduction: Multi-award winning Australian novelist, Tim Winton’s book, ‘The Turning’ published in 2004, provides an insightful and fascinating reading experience. ‘The Turning’ is set around the Second World War over a span of 20 years in Perth, Western Australia. Winton utilises diverse language and literary techniques/devices where he creates a stunning collection of connected short stories about turnings of all kinds. This is developed through setting, character, and theme to effectively engage the targeted audience. Winton establishes theme as a major technique in three relatable short stories, ‘Big World’, ‘Sand’, and ‘Damaging Goods’ as he focuses on the relationship and connection between characters.
The governess saw this as a threat and thought that Miss Jessel might do harm towards Flora and her natural innocence as a child. The governess decided that she has to take action to protect Flora when she goes missing one afternoon. After discussing where Flora could have been with Mrs. Grose, they decided that she has run off with Miss Jessel. “She’s with her?
Famous writer Maya Angelou once said, “Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but dont be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.” People, like Elie wiesel and Abraham Lincoln are heroes who tried to make the world a better place.
One of the most important aspects of “grit lit” is the violence that occurs in almost every novel. The violence that reoccurs throughout all of the “grit lit” novels allows for a more exciting plot and character conflict throughout the novel. One of the most influential and famous southern writers is Harry Crews. Crews is responsible for many different novels, short stories, and autobiographies, and almost all of his works include some type of violence. The main reason for violence in southern literature is due to the unordinary, low-life characters that the author includes to allow for a violent plot.
“The stories in ‘The Turning’ focus on moments of change for the characters, sometimes as the result of a significant event, deliberate decision, a chance meeting or a seemingly trivial act.” The stories ‘Big world’ and ‘Aquifer’ are two short stories from the book ‘The turning’ by Tim Winton. They are both perfect examples of short stories with characters that change due to significant events in their lives, most often their childhoods. Significant events that occur during childhood are very likely to follow and affect how the person changes and stick as vivid memories even as an adult.
In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien, the author, narrator, and main character, obviously portrays many roles. He writes the novel as a way to endure all of his pain and suffering that he experiences in Vietnam. O’Brien narrates the war from his perspective, expressing many obstacles that he has to overcome, such as: swallowing his integrity to go to war, debating if he should tell his daughter the truth about the war, and lamenting all of his problems that the war caused him. O’Brien does not agree with the war. He says, “I was drafted into a war that I hated…
The novel Seventeen Second Miracle describes the teachings of a humbled man named Cole Conner, who illustrates to teens that one act of kindness can turn into a miracle. Cole holds discussion groups in which he informs high schoolers about his late father Rex’s standards of living and the way in which he impacted several people’s lives. Cole meets with students, Kendra, Travis, and Miles at his wife’s bookstore, Paper Gems, in an attempt to change how they treat others. However, their worlds will all change when an unfortunate tragedy happens and Cole himself has to learn about applying his father’s teachings.
The checkered past and symbolism of the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s novel ,The Shining, reflects the characters’ pasts and influences their actions in order to show the building as more of an antagonist (of sorts) than a setting. One example of support for the claim is when Jack Torrence is having a dream after discovering the blood and bits in the Presidential suite from a gang fight years prior, where he believes that he is killing an intruder of the hotel with a mallet, but as he threw the mallet down, “the face below him was not of the intruder but of Danny’s. It was the face of his son. Then the mallet crashed home, closing his eyes forever. Suddenly Jack awoke standing over Danny’s bed, his fists clenched tightly.”
In the book, The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, the mental state of the main character, the governess is questionable and often argued by the audience. The governess reports several sighting of two ghosts, Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, however, the strange events degrade the credibility of the governess and readers must decide if they were real or fake. The governess is insane because she imagines the ghosts, displays excessive fear and anxiety and is extremely paranoid over the safety of her charges. All of this reasons are symptoms of insanity which lead us to logically believe she has a mental illness.
Crime, money, and con artists of every kind. Jim Thompson is an avid writer whose stories depict a wide variety of literary elements superior in quality in his story The Grifters. The application of literary elements allows the reader to further comprehend the story and allows for the story to continue being intriguing. In addition, The Grifters is a novel written about about betrayal and shows how various con men live their lives from day to day with money being the main incentive. As a matter of fact Thompson throws twists and turns throughout the story, the story is an utter page turner.
Kaitlyn Coleman Mr. Edwards ENGL 2130 9 March 2018 Nature’s Role in Realism Literary naturalism uses raw and natural emotions to express the importance of nature in literature, and it is a branch of realism. Literary naturalists relate humans to their animalistic characteristics. By doing so, the author shows that humans and animals are the same, and a humans ontology is irrelevant.
First person. For centuries the notion of war as an exciting and romantic endeavor has existed until Stephen Crane DE glorified war in his novel The Red Badge of Courage. He tells about the true nature and experience of war through a young soldier Henry Fleming and contrasts it with his romantic imagination. Crane introduces a more realistic approach to war which is in contrast to Henry’s expectations.
In The Turn of the Screw some cases the author, Henry James, tries to lead the reader to interpret that there is an apparition in this old gothic house and that the governess might be the
“The Pit and the Pendulum,” the story of life and death. The narrator is sentenced to death during the inquisition, waiting for his execution, he is trapped in a dark dungeon. The narrator believes he is going to die in this dungeon which is unusual because executions are usually public. In this dungeon is a small pit in the center and a pendulum swinging from the ceiling slowly descending to kill the narrator. The pendulum retracted into the ceiling and the narrator thought he was going to live, but the walls of the dungeon started to heat up and close in on the narrator pushing him into the pit.
Psychoanalytical Criticism of Turn of the Screw- The Governess’ Descent Into Madness When one looks at Freud, they can see that he was primarily concerned with the unconscious, as well as the conscious mind. He sought out the answers to the unconscious motives that drove people then, and still manage to drive us today. In Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw”, we see an unnamed governess and those around her act strangely. These predominant questions arise - Did the governess actually see the apparitions of the governess and servant before her?
