Picture Book Visual Analysis: Goodnight Moon

Grandmother was lying there with her cap pulled down over her face and looking very strange.” This, along with the other signs of “Oh grandmother what big... ears... eyes... hands... mouth you have!” Surely this should have been enough for Red to recognize the wolf and leave before getting eaten. Yet, she still fails to identify him, making this use of pathos extremely successful in setting off a feeling of complete frustration inside me. Perrault's version of the story is almost identical in this sense.

In the “Monkey's Paw” the suspense it much quicker because there is not much wait in the “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The Suspense in a story makes it to where the audience is on the edge of their seat waiting to see what happens next. In the “Monkey’s Paw,” the text says, “A third knock sounded through the house. “What’s that? ” cried the old woman, starting up. “A rat,” said the old man in shaking tones—“a

The 2005 Randolph Caldecott Medal was awarded to Kitten’s First Full Moon by written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. Kitten’s First Full Moon is a tale about a kitten who is confused about what the moon is. Through the use of color pencils and expressionism, Kevin Henkes created simple images that are appealing to children.

Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men and Dunbar's poem "Sympathy" show characters such as George, Lennie, and the caged bird constantly making attempts to pursue their dreams. Having a dream to pursue made there their lives much better. In Of Mice and Men George, Lennie, and Candy want to own a little house where they can live off the fat of the land, and Lennie can tend the rabbits. They realize they can actually achieve this dream, with the help of Candy.

Everything told fast going on fast. We are told of Gregor’s thoughts, flashbacks, the daily happenings. The narration gives a feeling of reading the daily newspaper or watching news channels.

Mr. Little made sure that there would be no reference to ‘mice’ in their conversation for he did not want Stuart to get a lot of notions in his head. He made Mrs. Little tear from the nursery songbook the page about the “Three Blind Mice, See How they Run. I should feel badly to have my son grow fearing that a farmer’s wife was going to cut off his tail with a carving knife. It is such things that make children dream bad dreams when they go to bed at night.(E.B.White, 1945:

Ashley Barboni Short Story Essay English 102 Professor James Wyatt November 4th, 2015 Ode to The Black Cat The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe is a work of Gothic Fiction, a subgenre of Gothic Horror, which combines fiction, horror, death and Romanticism. This short story is in first person point of view, and is told from a jail cell on death row by an unnamed narrator. The narrator tells the reader all about his love for animals and his mild and kind qualities that he’s had since birth. Pluto, a large, smart, black cat, is the narrator’s favorite out of those in his home.

For instance, “Go on... George. How I get to tend the rabbits”(14). He couldn’t wait for George to tell Lennie yet again about how he gets to tend the rabbits. In chapter one when George and Lennie share their dreams with the readers, they are both so happy.

I had somewhat of an idea of what the story “The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe” was about just by reading the title. There were also some insights in the story that gave a clear understanding. “Taped to the door of my office is a cartoon that features a cat explaining to his feline teacher, “The dog ate my homework.” It is intended as a gently humorous reminder to my students

“The next train went at seven; to catch that he would have to make frantic haste and his samples weren’t even packed up yet;” (part 1, p 78). Gregor can barely get out of bed and he is worried about how he will make it to work. It is not until he interacts with members of his family that the effects of his transformation truly affect him. One day Gregor unintentionally makes his mother pass out due to his presence and his father becomes very angry. “Pitilessly his father came on, hissing like a wild man, If only his father did not keep making this intolerable hissing sound!

Standing on my nightstand is a teetering tower of stories spanning from brittle textbooks to honeyed fairy tales, gruff Greek tragedies to smoky mysteries; they tell their stories to me in laughs, in grunts, in whispers, in shouts. They can be found on my pillow as I’m curled up under the sheets, or in one hand while I’m pace the room. The books scattered on the floor, piled recklessly on the table, and thrown onto my bed are my favorites to read; instead of being placed neatly on a bookshelf in alphabetical order, they follow me like moths follow a light- I can’t ever seem to shake them loose. As a kid, I was considered a menace to my local library: I always seemed to return torn, taped, and stained books.

Hallie strolled through the kitchen with an “Hola, Mrs. James,” and breezed down the hall that led to Cat’s bedroom. Plopping her bag and herself down on the floor, she looked around the room. It was painted sky blue, with a border of cats (what else?) stickered around the top. No matter how often Hallie walked into Cat’s room, she was always amazed at the neatness of it.

The short story “The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, and the film have many similarities between the two accounts. The main plot of both stories involve Mead taking his routinely night walk. In the short story he is taking his walk by himself before he is pulled over by a robocop (Bradbury 49). This is important because it is the main conflict of both stories. In the films story’s Mead was also taken away for going on a walk, an action that was once done in the past.

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki display a strong sense composition of visual literacy in Skim. In Skim the first area in the composition noticed is the contrast between lights and darks, the black gutters on some pages, the frameless panels, and cropped images. Each opening chapter or part is a double page spread that introduces you to the next section or diary entry. Skim is about a teenage girl named Kimberly, aka Skim writing in her diary. The story line is redundant of a teenager girl looking for love, trying to fit in, with self-image and self-esteem issues.