Extra Credit Andrew Clements Character Analysis

All these features play a crucial part in engaging readers

In A Small Place, she says, “Isn’t it odd that the only language I have in which to speak is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?” (Kincaid, 31) Here, it is clear that she thinks deeper than the surface. She mysteriously seems sure that the language of a criminal can only justify the criminal’s actions. This terminology is proven to be not entirely true, but it still comes to show Kincaid’s almost dark thinking patterns. It reflects her hate of certain humanities.

Instead of touching the readers hearts in a sentimental way, Mansfield managed to tap into our fears. I was surprised with Richard Nordguist’s perspective on the short story because he seemed to take a different meaning from it than I did. Towards the end of this review he states that Miss Brill was amidst of self-discovery when she was let down and after thinking back on the story I can agree. Nordguist suggests that just like Miss Brill, we also fear of being “laughed off the stage” and I plan to integrate that idea into my paper. I really enjoyed reading this review because it gave me a deep and distinct viewpoint on this short story which will help me add thoughts and ideas to my

His novels are moving and romantic and you just do not want to put them down. Sparks has a way of making the reader feel as if they are part of the story. He makes characters that readers can easily relate to. His novels are constant best sellers. According to Gale Student Resources in Context (2008) readers and critics regard Sparks as “a master in the dramatic fiction genre,” and many consider him as one of the few authors who can write beautiful love stories.

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It causes him to be isolated from the society, and he sometimes feels loneliness in his life. Similarly, the girl in “First Muse” feels sadness and loneliness when she realizes that there is the literary border. She says, "I was stunned ...and fought back tears" (Alvarez, 3-5). Additionally, she says that "Maybe I could be the one exception to this writing rule?" (16).

Most people, at some point in their life, hit a wall of negativity. Mary Oliver, in her poem, “The Journey,” emphasizes the trouble negativity has in the accomplishment of her goal, and later on how she pushes through it. Oliver’s purpose of writing this poem is to motivate those who may not have the overall strength to conquer all the hardship that is against them. She adopts an ardent tone in order to attract an audience who may be lost within life and to pull them into her writing. Oliver used emotion, voice, and ethos in order to strengthen her overall message of overcoming negativity.

Persepolis can be a perfect example that can leave an impact on the readers about the issues that are addressed. For example, the unfair treatment of women in society or inequality between men and women, religion vs modernity, and etc. Reading such kind of novels can help the readers understand the world more

I personally did not think that Demetri did not want to fall in love, I feel as he only wanted to have fun with the next pretty young woman he met which happened to be Anna, and her dog. The effect of the story did throw me off while reading this story due to the fact both of the characters are basically like this is so wrong buy yet so right in the moment when the affair is taking place. I feel that the author was wanting me to sympathize and also disagree with what the characters end up doing in the story. I feel that author wanted to let me know that they were very oppressed in there very different

Hill used symbolism to embody and further explain, especially, Kingshaw’s fears. She also used the literary device of foreshadowing to create suspense of the unforetold events that were to occur, leaving all readers captivated by her suspicious words. Last, but not least, imagery was used by Hill to contrast the mood and tone of each environment and scene in relation to the surroundings of the characters. Susan undoubtedly achieved, with all of these aforementioned literary devices, the captivation and insight she hoped to portray to all her analytical readers. She depicted a world where love, the lack there of, destroys everything in its path, and how much it will impact and hurt all those around

Other techniques that were used include hyperboles such as when the unknown hitchhiker also stated “If I opened my mouth it would spill out like a torrent of acid” (Page 24). The story also used the techniques of imagery where the hitchhiker described what their sister looked like “then the memory of Melanie’s grey face with the bruises around her neck and the dried blood in her hair jumped up to haunt me”. (Page 23) The writer, Sherryl Clark also used hook as she kept the reader guessing.

A seemingly unlikely pair, they are drawn together by the one common interest; their love of writing. While they do have writing in common there is still some contrast; Skeeter was able to finish school and obtained a degree in English and Journalism whereas Aibileen was forced drop out of school when she was a child to help support her family. Subsequently she “writes an hour, sometimes two every day” so that she stays sharp. (175) Aibileen was apprehensive of her relationship with Skeeter, she worried that she could not truly trust her and that she would be in trouble, but as they continued to write the book Aibileen knew she would need to put her trust in Skeeter. Trusting Skeeter was especially difficult since she was telling Skeeter stories she had never told anyone before, such as why she writes every day.

Katharine Brush 's short story "Birthday Party" is about the perjury of a third person 's judgment about a birthday party thrown by a wife for her husband. Is truly a story with an objective to challenge defining how a man-woman relationship should function. This short story reveals how joyless a marriage can be when spouses are too unimaginative to stray from the bourgeois affection. The use of descriptions, perspective, diction and syntax portray the husband’s insolence so well that its purpose to induce the reader’s disgust is utterly achieved. Sensory details reveal how insignificant the celebration quickly rises into a heartbreaking emotional embarrassment.

We, Nery Chavez and Fatima Khan from Harmony School of Discovery are writing this letter to bring to your attention something that we believe is unfair and requires inquisition. We believe that our dear friend and, until recently, classmate, Riley Brast should be re-enrolled in the senior class at Harmony School of Discovery for the 2015-2016 school year. Riley Brast has attended Harmony School of Discovery since the 2011-2012 school year, her eighth grade year. Since then she has grown as a person, as a student, and as a friend.

Ben had trouble with writing when he was a kid and was made fun of a lot because of this. Ben says, “Not until college did the idea of actually being an author creep into my head. An English professor called me in after class to comment on an assignment I had written. He told me my grammar skills were those of a fifth grader. Fearfully, I asked if I should drop the class.