Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Stargirl is a very thought- provoking book. The author‚ Jerry Spinelli has an amazing voice throughout it. Like if you read it‚ you can just know that this book is by Jerry Spinelli without reading the cover. I think he is such an amazing writer. He has this talent to just know to capture the reader- he’s not particularly good at anything else‚ but his writing makes you feel you’re in the story because you understand everything. You want to know what happens next‚ and
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Stargirl by: Jerry Spinelli Spinelli uses a variety of meanings to show how a girl named Stargirl‚ struggles her way through the tenth grade as an abnormal teen. He uses imagery‚ diction‚ tone‚ and voice to narrow down how Stargirl relates to everybody else. The way Spinelli uses imagery is to make a picture with words. For instance‚ Spinelli makes Leo describe Stargirl; “ She wore an off-white dress so long it covered her shoes. It had ruffles around the neck and cuffs and looked
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Critical Analysis Paper Stargirl‚ a realistic fiction novel written by Jerry Spinelli‚ was published in New York in 2000. The novel would be a great read for children around the fourth-grade to sixth-grade reading level. The book discusses nonconformity and identity that many children face throughout their school years. Stargirl emphasizes an impactful message for young adolescents regarding personal identity and finding yourself. The book is narrated by Leo Borlock‚ a junior at Mica Area High School
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STARGIRL From the beginning‚ Stargirl is a fish out of water. She’s the new girl at school‚ and that means she has a tough crowd to please. She was home schooled until now and she started school because she wanted to make friends‚ but she had a very odd way of because she ended up making the whole school mad at her. She is a girl with sand colored hair and freckles. She looked quite ordinary but she most defiantly did not act that way. She is a girl who absolutely cannot be boxed in‚ pigeonholed
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Exploring Archetypes in Short Stories Archetypes are recurring symbols‚ characters‚ landscapes‚ or events found in myths and literature across different cultures and eras that help us organize events into categories. There are three main types of archetypes which include situational‚ character‚ and symbolic. All three are easily relatable to. Firstly‚ an example of a unhealable wound in a situational archetype can be found with Mrs. Maloney in “Lamb to the Slaughter.” An example of a scapegoat
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Characters A. The Hero – Lord Raglan in The Hero: A Study in Tradition‚ Myth‚ and Drama contends that this archetype is so well defined that the life of the protagonist can be clearly divided into a series of well-marked adventures‚ which strongly suggest a ritualistic pattern. Raglan finds that traditionally the hero’s mother is a virgin‚ the circumstances of his conception are unusual‚ and at birth some attempt is made to kill him. He is‚ however‚ spirited away and reared by foster parents
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character’s past? All of these characteristics fall into the category of the archetype‚ and in Hamlet‚ the archetypes of the hero‚ the villain‚ the outcast‚ and the father figure are all met. Simply put‚ an archetype is a stereotypical idea of a person or thing in literature or film‚ or something that is universally recognizable as a symbol. In Hamlet‚ a central archetype is the “hero‚” and Prince Hamlet is able to fit this archetype by fulfilling the criteria of having experienced a traumatic event in
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to as an archetype. An archetype is a complex literary term that can be found and understood by examining literature. The first place that archetype can be examined is in Cinderella stories. The Traditional Cinderella story that we have all heard sets our standard for archetype in different cultural stories having Jewish‚ Indian‚ Chinese‚ and modern-day settings. In the Indian Cinderella story‚ "The Rough Faced Girl‚" there are many archetypes that are seen but the Cinderella archetype stands out
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Soler Professor Sloan HUM 2310 29 January 2017 Archetypes Archetypes‚ described as “mental forms whose presence cannot be explained by anything in the individual’s own life and which seem to be aboriginal‚ innate‚ and inherited shapes of the human mind” by Carl Jung‚ are “primitive models‚” per its Greek form‚ “arkhetupon.” What this means is that archetypes are part of our unconsciousness that we inherited‚ that exists in everybody. Archetypes relate to our everyday lives as well as in mythology
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Archetype Changes Archetypes help define who a person is‚ whether they are loving and caring‚ powerful like a sovereign‚ tricky like a wizard or jester‚ or hostile like a warrior or fighter. No one’s archetype stays the same throughout their entire life. At some point in everyone’s lives‚ their archetype changes due to the unpredictable changes in life. A piece of literature that establishes how characters can change from one archetype to another is the story “Sweat”‚ by Zara Neale Hurston. In the
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