Our Thirteenth Summer Literary Analysis

Have you ever been left by a so called “friend”? When I say left, I am referring to all sorts of different ways of being excluded at some point by someone you call a friend. This of course includes them no longer acknowledging you, them slowly drifting away from you but closer to someone else, and them leaving you hanging both physically and mentally. The theme of “people drifting apart brings one person closer to themself” is used in many novels and short stories as it is a very relatable topic and can get the reader to feel closer to a character and feel more emotion toward them.

The story “This Moment” by Adriana Paramo and “ I Remain very sorry for what I did to the little black kitten” by Jenny Boully communicate a theme of regret abandonment and neglect, followed by events that have happened in their life that caused a burden on them from Paramo losing her daughter to the system while Boully regret throwing a helpless car out of the car. The author Adriana Paramo use first person point of view and setting while Jenny Boully use characterization and point of view to convey the theme by allowing the readers to relay great tone to develop the story direct characterization, judgement and the unique style of dialogue. In this Moment ,Paramo helps reveal her theme of life in the essay by using her method and distinctive point of view .The point of view allows the audience to visualize and experience of being inside the characters mind while Boully point of view conveys a image , In the text Paramo states “And I cry .Not

The setting shapes the mood and tone of a story and has a great affect on what happens in a story. The setting influences the events that take place, how the characters interact and even how they behave. Settings show where and how the character lives, what they do, and what they value. Characters have a relationship with the setting just as much as they do with other characters in the story. This is seen in the effects the setting has on the development of the Character Elisa in the story “The Chrysanthemums.”

Colin Singleton is a scrawny nerdy teen who finds interest in obsessing over a very particular thing, or name: Katherine. He is a tall and intelligent person who spends his time studying and constructing anagrams. Anagrams are words constructed from other words. Because of this he has a very wide vocabulary. Collin has 2 people throughout the book who help him through his situations.

The Foundation of a Story In “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, the setting is slightly peculiar. The story takes place in the future and the past. It begins and ends in the year 2055 at a time travel hunting business, however, the majority of the story takes place millions of years before, during the time of the dinosaurs. Throughout the story, the setting sets the tone, motivates the characters actions, and leads to the theme.

The setting in a story might be often overlooked, but in most cases the place where the action takes occurs, can be as important as the main characters. In the book Cannery Row by John Steinbeck this happens, the place, the town becomes important throughout the whole book, it can even be argued to be the main character. Similarly, in Dinaw Mengestu’s essay Home At Last, he describes Brooklyn as the closest home for immigrants, becoming the common thing in all the community. Both texts are highly influenced by their setting, with a different one, they would lose their meaning and main idea. Even though both texts share similarities their settings couldn’t be more different, starting by the location (rural vs. urban), the period of time and the people and how they perceive “the other.”

Essay about “The Swimmer” Fear can be a lot of things. It is defined differently from one person to another. The fear of falling, the fear of being alone. Fear is a wide concept that contains so many meanings that you cannot count them. Fear has the ability to keep us from doing something we want-

Essay about “The Swimmer” Fear can be a lot of things. It is defined differently from one person to another. The fear of falling, the fear of being alone. Fear is a wide concept that contains so many meanings that you cannot count them. Fear has the ability to keep us from doing something we want-

Visual storytelling comes with many different media suchs as films, theatre and animation. All of them have one thing in common, which is telling a story through visuals, showing the audience what we want to tell. Even a photograph can tell a story. In visual storytelling there are many elements that brings it to life, for instance the characters. Great characters can carry the whole story as we are seeing it unfold through them.

Summers have an air of relaxation to them for most people, but for me I can barely find a moment's rest. Because I work in the hospitality industry, summer is the busiest time of the year. My apartment is a 3 minute walk from the beach and yet I only rarely get to enjoy it. Although there are days, there are precious days, when I can just stop and smell the ocean. Where I can just sit there all day, seemingly without a care in the world.

The novel Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer is a nonfiction story about two child during World War II. In chapter one Helen Waterford is introduced, she is a young jewish girl who has moved to Amsterdam to hide from the Nazis that are transporting all jewish people to concentration camps. In chapter two, a young boy by the name of Alfons Heck is introduced, he has just in rolled in Hitlers youth program. The story changes back to each of the characters and their families telling the story of how the jews lived and how Germans lived during World War II. When I picked this book out I knew very little about the people the book is about and the author.