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History Portrayed in Literature vs. Informational Text If one has ever read the short story, “Rip van Winkle” by Washington Irving or the informational text “George vs. George” by Rosalyn Schanzer, one will notice how the short story is a piece of literature that takes place at a crucial point in history, and how the informational text takes place around that same time as well. However, that individual may not observe at first how the facts are presented and incorporated differently in each text. Literature uses a bias, is meant to entertain readers, and uses not all true information when talking about history. On the contrary, informational text is unbiased, its purpose is to inform the reader, and it always uses true information when talking about history. While both types may base their text off of actual events, they also both have many differences when presenting the information.

Mary Shelley defies this principle by writing in the perspective of the male mind (Shelley 56). Today, books are being written from all points of views. Some males write from female point of views, and some females write from male point of views, but it is not an uncommon thing for gender roles to mix (Hughes). That is the difference between the gender roles in the nineteenth century as opposed to the roles of the twenty first

Gene narrating the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, results in a story different from what it would be if it was a third person narrative, due to the fact that everything is every biased by Gene’s perspective. Gene narrating the novel makes it so that the events within it contain his biases. This is a direct result of the fact that the story is written from a framed narrative perspective. Stories being written from the point of view of someone who is looking at the past generally result in a

In our modern, American cultural context our views of degradation of women are very different than the view of degradation of women in the time The Odyssey was written, and because of these different views, we cannot judge the poem in this modern context. The defense also used the book The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell to explain that myths have four main functions. The defense explained that if we judge the poem with this limiting modern view, the meaning is lost and we gain nothing from the poem. The prosecution argued that the poem needs to be taken in modern American cultural context because that is the viewpoint that is the most relevant to us. However, the defense brought up the fourth

Ferguson stated that writing helped him to reflect on his experiences. She hoped that writing as well would help her to see what the experiences’ meant but discovers it doesn’t because there was no meaning. In summary Joan Didion’s essay “The White Album” shows a very different perspective of the late nineteen sixties. History sells the illuision of war, love, and drugs. Didion’s flashes expose the human side of history.

The outcome of a discovery does not always have a positive outcome for all parties involved, whether it is a rediscovery of past knowledge or the uncovering of new information, both may serve to affirm or challenge beliefs, resulting in different ramifications for individuals and their worlds. The author and illustrator of allegorical picture book ‘The Rabbits’ Shaun Tan and John Marsden employs ideas of historical context relating to colonialism and the loss of culture and freedom that took place throughout the process, similarly to Shakespeare’s tragicomedy play ‘The Tempest’, where the exploitation of the character Caliban is repeatedly highlighted revealing the dystopic turn of events the native people would have experienced after the

In this way the ladies demonstrated to themselves, instead of their spouses, of their capacities and worth. Due to this, it is evident that Glaspell wasn't putting forth an unmitigated and clear articulation about ladies however a fairly humble one. Glaspell's unobtrusiveness makes her a to a great degree reasonable author worried with depicting ladies in a straightforward way as opposed to a clearly prevailing one. The ladies' subservient way can be seen reliably all through "trifles". For example, toward the start of the play the ladies get to be vexed and troubled by the men's remarks with respect to Mrs. Wright's disappointments as a maid.

She argues that the book depicts society’s evolution toward the acceptance and normalization of racial hybridity, but her methods of furthering this argument are problematic at best. Moss not only ignores the author’s explicit intent in writing the book in favor of her own idea, but she tokenizes other authors of color to provide what is actually very weak support for her argument. She desperately wishes to show that Smith is depicting a post-racial reality, but in doing so, Moss ultimately diminishes the credibility of her argument by revealing her own

Overall to further develop the potential essay topic of the misunderstood history of the crusades due to inaccurate primary sources, resources and articles aside from France and Burkholder 's journals would be included to further develop the general thesis. A thorough exploration of this particular topic may investigate subtopics such as secondary misinterpretations of firsthand accounts, the impact of social prejudice and political pressures on the writing of primary sources. A comprehensive analysis of the potential essay topic will go beyond the original arguments and ideas of the authors to prove or disprove France and Burkholder 's general theory scholarly articles have reinforced inaccuracies

She argues that Frankenstein is an autobiography but in reality, she bases her critics on the fact that the novel is not a mere autobiography. I do not agree with the critics of Ginn that shows Frankenstein is not an autobiography. I base the novel as an autobiography because there are some aspects in the novel that corresponds to the life of Mary. The fact that Ginn argues that the novel cannot be autobiography because Percy Shelley did not get angry for being Frankenstein in the story it is not convincing, and it seem vague. I support Coulter who refers Frankenstein as a “cautionary story of bad parenting”.