Emily spent many years away from her family, which made it difficult for her to grow with her family. Every time she returned home she had to adjust to a new aspect of life as well as reconnect with the things that weren’t there when she left. Even with the narrators attempts to reconnect with her daughter things are never the same. The attempts came to late in Emily’s life and now all she can do is hope that Emily can recover for her future. This story really shows how absences in ones life during key moments can really take a toll and not only effect the present but also the…
Losing a loved one is never easy to accept. It is important to be reassured by the reality that the best way to honor him or her is to retain their memory in one's heart. Miss Emily Grierson in “A Rose for Emily” and Frances Dawson Hamilton, in “A Woman’s Wintry Death Leads to a Long-Dead Friend” both handle the situation of their loved partner quite differently than one usually would. Both stories “A Rose for Emily” and “A Woman’s Wintry Death Leads to a Long-Dead Friend” lead to nearly the same resolution, but they have many differences and similarities throughout to make them unique and interesting.…
“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.” This comes from the poem “The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. He uses imagery to explain how no one wants to be in the Vietnam War. Another poem that uses imager is “Here, Bullet” by Brian Turner. Tim O’Brien and Brian Turner both use imagery to show how upset and depressed they are.…
ohn Knowles novel, A Separate Piece, is written to show the fall of man. It has connections between Genesis and the fall of man throughout the book underlining the main story. Genesis and the fall of man are used in the novel solely to understand human nature and the good and evil living inside everyone. Throughout the book the protagonist Gene, puts himself in a competition with his best friend and biggest enemy Finny. Finny is the perfect athlete and caries along innocence and pure thoughts of life itself and others around him. Gene and Finny both show representations of Cain and Abel as well as the creation of man with Adam and Eve.…
The first literary element in Since You’ve Been Gone is irony. In this book Emily, the main character, is left behind all summer without knowing where her best friend, Sloan, went. The only thing she has is a list of 13 tasks Sloan left that are extremely out of Emily’s comfort zone. Throughout her attempt to complete the list, Emily meets a guy named Frank and they become friends. One night they show up to Emily’s house to find her parents, two playwrights, in need of two actors to play parts in a production they have to put on later that night. Frank gladly agrees to be a part to help out her parents, but they still were missing one character. Completely out of character, Emily chimes in and says, “ I’ll do it” (Matson 216). The fact that…
“All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil”-Anon. From what the reader can understand from previous knowledge (of reading literature) most conflicts are based on the fight between good and evil. For instance, in a book entitled Before we Were Free by Julia Alvarez, there is one main character name Anita, and her family, her mom, her dad, her sister- Lucinda all live in family compound with an American family called the Washburn’s (Has one daughter and on son). Anita’s family and the Washburn's live in the Dominican Republic. At the time the Dominican Republic was under a dictatorship by a ruler name Trujillo and was known as El Jefe. This dictatorship is currently over in the Dominican Republic, however in other parts of the world it is not over yet. Currently, North…
Toni Morrison and William Faulkner are two of America’s most successful writers who seem to share many similar themes and motifs, Especially between Morrison’s Beloved and Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Both of these novels use multiple narrators, present their characters with struggles of their own identity, and show the difficulties of the people born into the lowest social class.…
The novel, A Lesson before Dying, was written by Ernest J. Gaines in 1993. Gaines was born on the River Lake plantation in Louisiana, where he was raised by his aunt, Miss Augusteen Jefferson. Racism was prevalent shown by the whites-only libraries in Louisiana. After 15 years of living in Louisiana, Gaines moved to California, although he states Louisiana never left him. California had libraries available for the blacks also. In California, he lived with his mother and which inspired him to the point of writing about six novels and scores of short stories. In 1953, Gaines was drafted into the Army, and he later went on to study creative writing at Stanford University. While in the library, Gaines…
This book is a diary that goes through the last two years of a young teenage girl's life,…
Teenagers in general are often stereotyped into one general category: unruly, uncaring, and self-absorbed. In the short story “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates plays on this stereotype. She uses imagery and point of view to direct the reader’s attention to the teenage girl psyche, selfish, whimsical, and longing for attention and affection, and how this stereotypical psyche can be distorted and controlled.…
Growing up every person in the world loses the purity they were once born with and the moment when one realizes that not everything in the world is the way it was thought to be, the world crumbles into pieces, but how does it happen? Joyce Carol Oates portrays an amazing detailed moment of theft of chastity, or at least what is left of it, in "Where Are You Going, Where have You Been?" With symbolic imagery, major bibliomancy, and extreme personal conflict Oates easily manages to get her point across of the complete loss of innocence.…
When the world is at its worst, we as humans tend to lean on literature. It gives us hope and understanding of our lives. It teaches us that we are not alone. Everything we face another is facing it with us. Works of literature hold the truth of our past, present and future. If we look at the content and theme of similar works such as “A Rose for Emily” by William Faukner, and “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It outlines the ways of our own lives and has us connect to the stories. Despite their obvious differences in content and theme, “A Rose for Emily” and “Yellow Wallpaper” both ultimately show our own lives mirrored to them, and tell the story of the human experience.…
The Scarlet Letter, is also a Power of Nature, seemingly allknowing and “never subjugated by…
BASICS OF ITEM RESPONSE THEORY THE FRANK B. BAKER BASICS OF ITEM RESPONSE THEORY THE FRANK B. BAKER University of Wisconsin Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation The Basics of Item Response Theory by Frank B. Baker Second edition Published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation Copyright © 2001 ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation All rights reserved.…
Does anyone really remember the exact moment they knew they actually liked to write? Write down their thoughts, their feelings, information, ideas, any and everything their mind could think of. For me I remember the exact moment my dislike for writing turned into a new found love affair.…
