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Uncovering the Effects of Anthropomorphizing Animals in Maus There are many works in Children Literature, Aesop’s Fables, and George Orwell’s Animal Farm anthropomorphizing animals, so it is not surprising to see humans being treated zoomorphically in Maus. In this essay, it argues the effects of having animals represents humans in Maus, namely creating and yet challenging the stereotypes, reflecting the reality, conveying the meaning more in depth, and engaging the young readers more. First, the use of animals has unintentionally created stereotypes.

Another personality trait readers can infer from the text is, Jack's ability to make friends. Throughout the first day of the journey, Jack meets a cat, dog, bull, rooster, and goat. Each animal Jack meets joins the journey to find Jack's fortune. An example of Jack meeting and adding a friend to the journey can be found in the beginning of the excerpt, and it says, " He hadn’t gone very far before he met a cat. “Where are you going, Jack?” said the cat.

That is why there is a non-chronological sequence in “A Rose for Emily”. The readers learn about Miss Emily from her funeral and then more details about her as the story goes on. This keeps the reader wondering what is going on with Miss Emily, so the reader could have a foreshadowing. The story is narrated as if one member of the town is telling a store to a new neighbor. This story has descriptions of people and events caused by memories based on specific situations; so it can say that is not only non-chronological but also associative.

As the speaker travels around to find the story teller, he sees the sun as it was “threatening us as we climb closer.” In a child’s mind, everything is fascinating and they tend to see through the physical and literal appearances of ordinary objects. The same concept applies to the moving “shadows” that “stood up and walked.” Children believe everything in the world to be fantasy-like, and as they listen to the stories, their minds indeed direct its attention everywhere. These personifications are used to give a childish and immature point of view on the experience, which draws the audience in step by step into

This paper will address some of the ways in which the superhero fantasy is part of children 's culture both as a media product and as social and cultural practice. Introduction Role models are important when a child forms a moral self and identity. There are various types of role models and heroes in the stories that children read. This study focuses on the superhero genre that is seen mainly as defenders even though they have many roles in saving the world. There is wide agreement about superheroes ' role as defenders.

Edgar Allan Poe 's use of the unnamed narrator in his stories, The Black Cat and The Tell-tale Heart, creates the effect of unreliability in the main characters. From a first glance however, one will notice that the main character’s in these stories have very little in common. In spite of these differences, the stories still very remain similar. The Black cat and the Tell-Tale heart both share common themes.

Metaphors in a story can hint at feeling that the character is feeling. In life there is no guarantee of how things will turn out, and that’s how Pi feels when he says, “sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other”. (218). Loneliness was Pi’s nightmare he proves that by saying, “when it is dark, the darkness are claustrophobic”, (216). Martel with the use of metaphors to show Pi’s perspective how things.

“At length, with a wild desperation at heart, I quickly unclosed my eyes. My worst thoughts, then, were confirmed. The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. I struggled for breath. The intensity of the darkness seemed to oppress and stifle me” H.P. Lovecraft, a gothic literature writer, addresses the fear of the unknown as, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”, Put a child in a dark room, and they may express concern, due to the fact, that something may be lurking in the shadows; Now give that same child a light so as to be able to observe the surrounding area, they will sleep soundly.

Poe uses imagery to explain the atmosphere of fear and the continuous breaking of Usher. Poe portrays the surroundings of the narrator as dark, giving an image of the setting “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year” (Poe 310). The image of a dark day is installed in the reader by this line. This line also gives the reader the image of being alone on a dark day in the autumn. Poe also uses imagery to make his readers a sense of fear “I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit” (Poe 310).

(O 'connor 1009). She starts the story off with a sense of darkness and suspense which goes on through the whole story. As the story proceeds the violent and disturbing imagery

Apart from providing information to the children audience, another main purpose of the SDH subtitles is to facilitate their learning. As is proposed by Neuman and Koskinen, ‘captioned television’ is beneficial in ‘learning vocabularies and concepts’ (1992: 96). In order to help the deaf and hard-of-hearing children enjoy the content and learn vocabularies at the same time, specific strategies are applied in subtitling process. 3. Analysis of Subtitling Strategies Used in ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ 3.1 Title of the Song ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ is a popular song in the film:

The cover and title of the book evoke dark and fearful emotions and images that make me curious, yet nervous to open the book. The design on the cover looks mysterious and the figure on it is imposing, which induces unnerving feelings. The title is simple, yet illustrates darkness and uncertainty. I know all about Night by Elie Wiesel because I was required to read it when I was in eighth grade, and I remember it as a haunting, emotional story that told about Wiesel’s experiences

Banquo indicates that he is aware that his dream from the night before foreshadows the events of the current night. Even the Old man who is not apart of the same conversation as Banquo agrees that “Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore/ night/ hath trifled former knowings” (2.4.3-4). Since the Old man has lived for a so long, he carries with him some awful memories but to him this night seems to be the worst, due to the death of the king and other men. The Old man answers the Banquo’s question for earlier in the act for which it should’ve been answered rather than Fleance who is too young to understand. To conclude the act, Ross much like Fleance finds it strange that the night seems longer than it should when he says, “And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp” (2.4.9).

There are many different types of shows and cartoons that we watch in our daily lives. Fighting in Cartoons causes some kids to have violent nature. As kids we absorb information much more early, that why as kids we put things in our mouths to experiment. Fighting in cartoons causes violent in our kids an example of these cartoons is Pokémon. From the cartoons we begin idolize the character and want to become more like them an example of a cartoon is SpongeBob because SpongeBob has been running for years and there’s bound to be some kids that idolize and want to be more like SpongeBob.

Greasy Lake “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story about a 19 year old young boy, the narrator, who learns that his bad boy image is just an image. Describing himself and his friends, Digby and Jeff, as “dangerous characters” (Boyle 77), he soon realizes that he may not be ready for such a title. Out with his friends one summer night, the narrator, Digby and Jeff head to Greasy Lake in hopes of getting into some type of “adventure” (Boyle 78). Thinking that they have spotted their friends car on Greasy Lake they attempt to play a joke on him and his girl. Once the young boys approach the car they soon realize that the car belongs to some other “bad greasy character” (Boyle 78).