Oral History, Lee Smith’s fifth novel, was published in 1983 and garnered national attention due to its status as a “Book-of-the-Month Club” selection (“Biography”). Oral History opens at the base of Hoot Owl Mountain, home to the remaining descendants of the almost mythical Cantrell family. A younger and somewhat estranged family member, Jennifer, comes to the Appalachian setting to gather information about her unknown past for a college assignment, appropriately termed “Oral History.” She is drawn to the small, now coal-mining community due to a legend surrounding the Cantrell family and their former home, Hoot Owl Holler. The legend morphed into a ghost story involving a haunted cabin, witchcraft, and a supposed curse on the family at hand.
Daniel Pastorius also talked about how beautiful the city was. “ Of that town I can say no more at presents than that it lies on black rich soil and half surrounded with pleasants streams like a natural defence”. They also talked about the Native Americans, William Penn talked about their language, religion, manners, and customs. He also talked about how they help their fellow people.
There is a sense of vivacity within spoken stories that written stories struggle to capture on occasion. The fact that this story was recorded in the Haudenosaunee’s
Harry Crews is one of the most well-known and influential southern writers of the twentieth century. He has written many novels, short stories, and biographies throughout his life of being a writer. His stories often pertain to the dramatic and exciting life of living in the south in small towns such as the one he grew up in as a child. Throughout Crews’s life, he was involved with a lot of violence and family problems such as divorce that led to anger. All of the problems that Crews had throughout his life allowed for his writing to be extremely detailed and exciting for the reader.
A story has to be told by somebody. Explore in detail your impressions of the “story-teller” in Mountains Beyond Mountains. Was the “story-teller” the same as the writer (implicitly or explicitly) or not? How does this question influence your reading?
Kaden Kroslak Professor Stumpf English Composition II 2 February 2023 Introduction Essay 1 First Draft Authors Joey Franklin and Tanner Barrett are two writers who have written great stories on battling adversity. Not much is known about either author, but much can be seen about who they are through their writing. Today, Joey Franklin continues in his prosperous career of writing and English based subjects as he is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. “His essays and articles have appeared in Poets and Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere” (Franklin Joey; goodreads). Joey Franklin’s story in his time working at Wendy’s is an enjoyable, real-life story based on his experiences in a new temporary
Can life really be connected to literature through characterization? Have you ever thought about looking at life through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person? Literature and life can be connected due to the fact that, when reading books and/or short stories, we can connect to the character’s personality, conflict, and how they see things. Sometimes in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person. While reading a book, you can be sucked into the story and theme the author is showing you through words and then you start to be connected to the book and everything in it.
“What is so special about Pennsylvania? Who would be willing to go get settle there?” In the seventeenth century German colonists started moving to Pennsylvania. In 1700 there was an agent by the name of Francis Pastorius, he wrote a description of Pennsylvania as he lived there. Nearly fifth years later in 1754 Gottlieb Mittelberger wrote about his time in Pennsylvania in his book titled “Journey to Pennsylvania.”
During the colonial period many settlers came to the New World to escape persecution for their Puritan beliefs. Writers such as William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson all shared their experiences and religious devotion throughout their literature that ultimately inspired and influenced settlers to follow. This essay will discuss the similarities in Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson’s work as they both describe their experiences as signs from God. Anne Bradstreet came to the New World as a devoted Puritan as she repeatedly talked about it in her poetry. In her poems she discusses many tragedies that happened in her life such as; the burning of her house and the death of her two grandchildren all of which she thinks were signs from God.
The informal language, creative word choice, and diction used by all of the characters in this story are true to the Southern Gothic genre short story style (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Southern imagery extends beyond the characters to the setting and language. As we read about dirt roads, southern plantations, “red clay banks”, and crops in the field, we are
Over the next two years, six of her stories were published in the southern Review, a serious literary magazine one of whose editors was the poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren. She also received strong support from Katherine Anne Porter, who contributed an introduction to Welty’s first book of stories, A Curtain of Green (1941). That introduction hailed the arrival of another gifted southern fiction writer, and in fact the volume contained some of the best stories she was ever to write, such as Petrified man. Her profusion of metaphor and the difficult surface of her narrative-often oblique and indirect in its effect-were in part a mark of her admiration for modern writers like Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Although Welty’s stories were as shapely as her mentor’s, Porter, they were more richly idiomatic and comic in their inclination.
About a fifteen-minute drive from my family’s house in the suburbs, Pittsburgh is home to me. I have spent abundant time downtown, downtown. Driving across the Fort Pitt Bridge, on your left, past the confluence where two rivers become one and you observe in huge red letters, “CARNEGIE”. Rather than indulging your interest,
The anecdotal story is also used to provide the reader with what the author feels about his father. After explaining that his hammer’s handle is made out of hickory, the speaker
There are many mini stories throughout this work. The author tells an extremely brief tale about Illinois Avenue. Three men catcall a girl, but she replies with a smart remark and keeps walking (McPhee 362). These stories offer tiny snippets of life and enhance the even greater story that his being told; that story is McPhee’s battle with his opponent. The games between McPhee and his opponent represent how people fight to find happiness and success in life and show that sometimes, failure is inevitable because the adversary is “dumbfoundingly lucky” (McPhee 364).
Authors paragraph: The story was written in 1856. He lived in new york when he published his short story in the New York Times. He was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Is it simply a comment on the oddities of human nature?
