STRUCTURE ORGANIZATION is as important in creative nonfiction as it is in fiction. You need to have a plan before you actually sit down to write. You don’t want to ramble. This is as annoying in a writer as it is in a public speaker. You need to make sense of all the materials you have gathered. Some writers actually do outlines‚ which serve as blueprints for their essays or narratives. At the very least‚ they help the writer to focus‚ to be coherent. We generally think of structure in architectural
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Turpin’s religious views and her rude and selfish actions‚ readers can gather Ruby’s real disposition. Throughout the story‚ Mrs. Turpin says one thing but really means another. To others she might appear to be a polite and kind lady‚ but by giving the reader insight into her thoughts‚ O’Connor stresses a paradox in her personality. In the beginning of the story‚ for example‚ Ruby passes several harsh judgements
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Why does Harper Lee choose to tell the story from Scout’s point of view? - What Scout learns from her experiences and how she changes during the novel? - What effect Scout’s version of events has on the reader? Scout’s narration serves as a convenient mechanism for readers to be innocent and detached from the racial conflict. Scout’s voice "functions as the not-me which allows the rest of us—black and white‚ male and female—to find our relative position in society". To Kill A Mockingbird
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silence is not quite clear‚ but it is possible for readers to believe it may be because of her determination to suffer for her son’s death. Ilsa is an interesting character because she decides to make suffering her triumph – to make grief her victory. She is a character who instead of taking her life‚ elects to triumph over death; she may be lifeless in spirit but she will not let herself slip under death’s robe. In this case‚ the author has given the reader an insight to the after effects of dealing with
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The reader is never allowed to doubt that the old man and his strange wings are as “real” as anything else in the story; yet the reader can never be sure just what he is — a heavenly angel‚ a sad human who happens to have wings‚ or perhaps some other‚ unexplained possibility. This deliberate uncertainty can leave readers feeling a bit cheated — particularly in what seems to be a fairy tale. Stories are expected to have clear-cut meanings‚ and the author is expected to reveal them to the reader; if
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the author trying to say something else. Thus the reader has two ways to analyze this poem‚ the surface analysis and the deeper analysis. The reader is also able to learn that this poem has two main themes; choices and isolation. The first stanza of the poem says “Whose woods these are I think I know/His house is in the village though/ He will not see me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow.” On the surface of the poem the reader understands that this man is traveling in the woods
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and is overwhelmed by his senses. After stepping out of the river into the night air and safety Bradbury uses metaphor to help create imagery. The first metaphor comes in the phrase‚ “The land rushed at him‚ a tidal wave”. This metaphor helps the reader understand how overwhelmed Bradbury is to be on land again after being in a river for so long. Bradbury also uses personification in the phrase‚ “He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odors on a wind that iced his
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In the poem “Sestina‚” the author‚ Elizabeth Bishop‚ depicts a painful story of a grandmother and a child living with loss. Most readers who have some knowledge of Bishop’s biography would assume that the poem reflects the time in her childhood when she lived in Nova Scotia‚ after her mother had been committed to an asylum (Sanger 47). The story begins in a kitchen on a rainy afternoon in September‚ with both the grandmother and the child having tea and reading the almanac. While the grandmother
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gains maturity and loses his innocence. Due to the poem’s disturbing content that some would say would negatively influence its readers‚ many educators frown upon it being taught in school‚ fearing that students would follow the path that the speaker of the poem chose. True that some may get the idea that suicide is a perfect solution to their problems‚ but it is up to the reader to judge him or herself whether after reading the poem‚ he or she still thinks that death is the only rational escape. Though
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replace them. I think that is a very powerful way to persuade an idea to readers. His style is great by showing what he calls the myths in modern education first and then turning it around by stating the better side of the cons. It helps that he put some facts and resources. It makes it seem that he really knows what he is stating and helps back up his reasoning. It will persuade people more because it will connect the reader to another person other than David Orr side. For example‚ when he talks
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