Sherlock Holmes Accomplishments

Brian refused to say that he had copied the story, he was called a liar. It was only after writing that paper he realized that he had a talent for writing. Now going on to the next main point of why Brian Jacques actually became an author, well to be honest he actually had wrote his first book when he was a truck driver for children attending the royal school for the blind in Liverpool, England. But he had no more intention than that, but a friend of his sent his book to publishers without telling Brian, which led to a contract for the first five books Brian wrote. Now the final main point is why he wrote his books the why he did.

He then worked for his father creating candles but firmly disliked it and craved for more of his life. Franklin’s love for writing grew and desired to join a printing company and soon left for London to follow his dream. There, he worked harder than anyone else, “They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer” (Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 34)! When he returns to Philadelphia, he is met by a friend Meredith when they decide to manage Keimer’s press printing company. Franklin succeeds in the business and makes great money and soon is the official printer for the Pennsylvania Assembly.

Moreover, he started to get noticed for his work, like his poems “London,” and, “The Vanity of Human Wishes.” His poems were written in 1738 and 1749, but in the 1750’s he became a master at writing. He written 4 stories in one decade. In 1752, his wife died, which postponed him on some of his work, but he still managed to get them finished. Later on, Johnson met James Boswell in 1763 in Thomas Davies bookstore and they quickly became friends. While they were talking, Boswell took notes and made a landmark biography of Johnson called, “The Life of Samuel Johnson.” Samuel Johnson died in 1762, 32 years after his wife had died.

Due to a lack of formal writing instruction he was a self-taught writer (Gerber 115). This made his writing genius even more awe-inspiring. Outside of college he worked as a surveyor of the Salem Custom House (“Nathaniel Hawthorne Author (1804-1864)”). He enjoyed this job which was an escape from his other duties. Because of his youthful love for reading and dislike for business Hawthorne wanted to become a writer long before he later decided to study it at Bowdoin (Marks 1611-1612).

The Raven: Sound Devices Edgar Allan Poe has been called literature's “most brilliant star,” but he is also very known for an unstable life. Poe was abandoned by his father at birth, loss his mother at 3, and was kicked out of college at age 18. As a result, his upbringing would allow him to struggle much of his adult life; but Poe did land jobs at some literary magazine companies, opening the opportunity for him to write short stories. Poe most famous story “The Raven” was also famous because of his use of sound devices that allowed him to create tone allowing the reader to better understand the story. One sound device he uses is internal rhyme.

Stephen Crane has produced well written naturalistic books that really explain the motive of his stories to the reader. The most famous of his writings was The Red Badge of Courage which was the idea of the realistic American Civil War. With the inspiration of writing from his religious parents, especially his father and his brother’s journalist job; he was able to publish this novel to later become an American classic literature. Stephen Crane created fifteen short stories and created many poems. His poems would not be as religious as his parents, but instead would make his poems haunting and spiritual causing his poems to become noticeable to the public.His first major success was the short story of Maggie.His works would make his legacy

Fantastical Realization Fantasy and fiction flood most of our childhood but, the older a child gets, the quicker fiction turns to fact as slowly but surely, the rug of fantastical imagination is pulled out beneath them. This is exactly the case in Li-Young Lee’s short poem A Story. A Story is about a father who struggles to tell stories to his son, but as the boy grows older, his coming of age begins to make their relationship complex. Even though the complexity of the relationship is never directly stated, Lee shows this idea through point of view and literary devices. found in the poem.

One of the most important men in medicine is often forgotten due to the lack of recognition he received because of his skin color. It all started in 1930, when Vivien applied for a job in a surgical research lab in Vanderbilt University, because he had lost his life savings during the stock market crash of 1929. When applying, he was told that the only drawback was a tough to please employer named Alfred Blalock. He eventually was given a job, but was only paid like a janitor and only earned $12 a week, instead of his old $20 a week salary. However, he kept the job because he thought of it as temporary.

In Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein, her view of human nature is dependent Upon the society in which we as a whole view the world as normal, therefore the monster is portrayed as someone who cares about being loved, but didn’t get what he wanted so he turns into someone seeking for revenge. Victor Frankenstein was a young boy, he grew up in his home town Geneva with his loving family, he liked to read books that were in the library, he read about the ancient and outdated alchemists, a background that serves him well when he attended the university that he wanted. There he learns about modern science and, within a couple of months, Victor becomes very involved with his work, he even impressed his teachers and fellow classmates he mastered

The Adventures of the Speckled Band Comparison Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a well-known British author, he is famous for his works on the popular stories of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." In this essay, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The Adventures of the Speckled Band" is going to be compared to the movie, "The Adventures of the Speckled Band" produced by MPI Home Video. In "The Adventures of the Speckled Band," Helen Stoner is the stepdaughter of Dr.Roylott and the twin of Julia. She is a woman in her thirty's, however, she has gray hair. She has gray hair because she is living in fear of her violent stepfather's temper and his creatures.

Ray Douglas Bradbury was the third son born to Spaulding and Esther Bradbury on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. As a child he was a fan of magicians, and was an insatiable reader of action and fantasy―especially those written by L. Frank Baum, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice. He never lived up to his family 's reputation of high sea adventure. Instead, his adventures took place behind a typewriter, and around the age of twelve, he decided he would become an author. He later made the comment that he made that decision hoping to emulate his heroes and to "live forever" through his fictional works.