How would you feel about jumping off a 50 feet cliff? Scared? Brave? Excited? Vinny and Joe-Boy are both characters from a story called “The Ravine”. They are best friends who live in Hawaii and go to a place where a boy named Butchi died 2 weeks and one day before they arrived.The main characters, VInny and Joe-Boy, are similar in many ways, but are different in other ways.…
Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris tells the story of Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, who goes to the ocean planet Solaris to study the phenomena taking place there. Upon arrival at Station Solaris, which hovers over the surface of the planet, he is warned by the scientists on board that they have been receiving mysterious visitors. Kris first encounters one of these visitors outside of Gibarian's room, but does not have one of his own until he wakes up to see his deceased wife, Rheya, sitting in the room with him. The entirety of Kris's first encounter with Rheya not only gives us some background information on Kelvin's life, but also foreshadows many of the things to come later in the book.…
This paper is a critique of a production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a play written by Alfred Uhry, which was performed and produced by the Ball State University Theatre. Gilbert L. Bloom directed the production and was very successful with producing a truly entertaining, comedic play with an important message about the personal dilemmas that we as individuals with different beliefs and values must encounter in our daily lives.…
What happens when someone can't see the sun revolve around them. Well in the book Diary of ja Wimpy kid, Greg can't see that anyone but himself matters. In the book Greg has to deal with going to camp and doing community service but he doesn't deal with it in a good way because he doesn't like doing anything but playing video games and he only worries about personal gain. The theme of this story is that it's hard to really ever enjoy anything when you only think of yourself.…
The story of “Araby” by Joyce and the story “A&P” by Updike share many characterizations that support a very similar theme. Both stories use the workers at the two stores as the back-drop for the main characters. In both stories the main characters do not want to be anything like their coworkers.…
Set in a southern town on the banks of the Mississippi River in the antebellum period, a period before the Civil war, “Pudd’nhead Wilson” shows the troubles that follow a slave girl after she swaps the identity of her own light skinned baby and her master’s white skinned baby. Mark Twain showed in “Pudd’nhead Wilson” that race determined your status in the period before the civil war, betrayal can come from anyone, and that betrayal can lead to murder.…
To begin I want to thank you for your service to our country. I admire your benevolence. Phyllis Wheatly was very impressive. Having to face all the discrimination and obstacles people put in her way could not have been easy. Then to still have had such love and pride for this country showed big character on her part after the horrors she she witnessed during her time in slavery. In "To His Excellency General Washington" Phyllis wrote "enough thou know'st them in the fields of fight . Thee first in peace and honor - we demand " in her famous peom that she actually sent to him during this war. This quote acknowledges that America knew how hard it was for our service men on the front lines but we were not going down without a fight. George…
Kiowa is the emotional compass of Alpha Company, the one who gets everyone else to talk. He's thoughtful, respects the Vietnamese, isn't a coward, and he even has a sense of humor. We quickly learn that he's Tim's best friend in the war. Kiowa tries to comfort O'Brien after he kills the North Vietnamese soldier, and it is to Kiowa that Dobbins opens up about his respect for the ministry. The night before Kiowa is killed, he is in a tent speaking to him about his girlfriend left behind. He drowns under the muck of a sewage field about which his lieutenant, Jimmy Cross, has a bad feeling, and becomes another victim in a war that strips men of their character and turns them into a statistic.…
Considering the fact that Roberta is another race, Twyla is stereotypical at first, based on her mother, Marys opinion about other races. She thought, ... one of the things she said was that they never washed their hair and they smelled funny (201), so before really knowing Roberta, she assumes she smells funny. I would say Twyla is more focused on race rather than friendship in the beginning of the story, because of what her mother has told her. Not long after meeting, Roberta and Twyla became the best of friends. Twyla began to look pass race for a moment and say, So for that moment it didnt matter that we looked like salt and pepper standing there...…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said that “the battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” East of Eden is a novel written by twentieth century author John Steinbeck. The Viking Press published it in 1952. The narration takes place from 1862 to 1918, mostly in the Salinas Valley, although some episodes happen in Massachusetts and Connecticut. John Steinbeck's East of Eden depicts humanity's struggle between virtue and in as a perpetual narrative of human history. Cathy Ames, the most controversial character in the novel, seems to be the only person of the book incapable of good: she has the characteristics of a born moral monster. She is not. The events that took place in her childhood affected Cathy. We will then see…
The narrator in, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” suffers from depression, although her husband, who is a doctor, does not consider it an illness. Therefore, he keeps her on a strict rest cure. She is not allowed to do work of any form, not even care for her baby. All she allowed to do is rest in her room and breath in the air as prescribed by her husband. Because she spends most of her time in her room, she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in the room and it drives her to insanity. The lack of creative stimulation and relationships with others causes the narrator’s obsession with the yellow wallpaper which leads her to believe she is trapped behind bars in this yellow wallpaper.…
“We might go in your umbrella… I shall call this boat The Brain of Pooh, said Pooh and Christopher Robin” (Shepard 133-134). The story of Pooh is centered on imaginative thoughts, action, and problem solving which you can find in almost every chapter. In the story of Winnie-the-Pooh, the main characters, Pooh, Christopher Robin, and others, use imaginative action to enhance a child’s imagination providing a sense of hope to accomplish the children’s goals. Reading this engaging action story, of all the fun adventures Pooh and friends go on, expands a child’s imagination, by identifying the characters imagination, thoughts, and ideas; particularly in this paper we will focus on chapter one.…
“Writers provide glimpses of other worlds giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world”. To what extended do you agree.…
Characters are the people who inhabit a story. They must be motivated, consistent, and plausible to be classified as true characters. In "Everyday Use" and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," the authors explore of characterization. Both of the short stories have stock characters such as Grandma Dee from "Everyday Use and John from "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," but the characters that spark the most interest are the round characters such as Dee and Mrs. Weatherall.…
Write about the person without stating any of your own opinions in the story. Use third person (he said, she did), with accurate quotes in the person’s own words. Try to capture a sense of the individual’s personality and mood.…