The Sea-Raiders is a very different story to The Yellow Face and
The Goblin Who Stole A Sexton but it still entertained the late 19th
century readers
A study of the author’s use of settings in a range of short stories
showing knowledge of literacy context.
Introduction
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These short stories were written over about hundred years ago these
stories were a very different approach in the Victorian era. Many
people had newfound literacy skills and the demand for popular reading
skills. Britain and a lot of other people liked reading magazines and
newspapers this entertained them. The genre that was most popular was
mystery, horror, detective and supernatural.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became famous in this era for his short stories
about a fictional detective called Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
has been a doctor for several years. His trusted partner Dr Watson who
helped him solve the many cases, the detective was called in to
investigate always accompanied him. The two partners can be seen at
work in ‘The Yellow Face’, which was published in the 1894.
‘The Yellow Face’ is set in typically Victorian suburbia was a story
about a mystery that Holmes is called into investigate. A man called
Grant Munro comes to Holmes London office in an agitated state because
he believes his wife was hiding a terrible secret. They are a typical
Victorian couple that have been married for a couple of years he goes
to working the city and she stays at home to manage the household.
This was very common in the Victorian marriages that their wife would
hand over of any financial independence to her husband. Although she
has signed over her money and Munro allows her access to it was
unusual in the Victorian times. When she asks for £100 and won’t say
what for so he becomes suspicious he thought that is might be for a
new dress or something. So he asked her ‘What an earth for?’ so she
said to him ‘You said that you were only my banker, and bankers never
ask questions, you know’.
The reader sees Holmes at his best in this story his powers of
observation are particularly noticeable following Munro’s departure,
when Holmes examines the pipe he has ‘left-behind’. Holmes pays an
amazing attention to detail and consider by the reader to be an
excellent detective even though his theory is proved wrong at the end.
The story is set in London, Baker Street where Holmes and Watson live
and Norbury, a small village outside London, which is where the
Munro’s live. Effie Munro appears to have been and independent woman
Stephen Crane and Jack London are two contrasting authors who use their own unique writing styles to create two unique genres that capture the reader’s interest. In two of Crane’s more prolific short stories “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” and “The Open Boat,” the vocabulary and use of dialogue add a sense of sophistication to his short stories while also making the stories smooth to read and eye-catching; whereas in Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire,” the protagonist in the story is used as a catalyst for character development, and as an example to the audience of the naïveté of youth. London and Crane varied immensely in their literary techniques of vocabulary, dialogue, and character development demonstrated by the use of the protagonist
The partial remains of a skeleton belonging to a tiny female hominid that lived around 95K to 17Kya, was found in the Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia in 2003. This skeleton has unique traits. It has small body approximately 3’6” in length and an estimated body weight of 66 lbs. The 426 cc brain capacity led scientists to taxa the skeleton to a new species they called Homo floresiensis. Since the initial find, teeth and bones from as many as twelve H. floresiensis remains have been discovered at the Liang Bua cave which is the only known site where H. floresiensis has been found to date. This is the most recently discovered early human species so far. They had large teeth for their small size, they had no chins, their foreheads are receded, and they had relatively large feet in proportion to the short legs. Although they are small in body and brain size, H. floresiensis did make and use of stone tools. They hunted small elephants and large rodents. They had island predators such as giant Komodo dragons, and even may have used fire. However, arguments rising in the anthropology community and scientific world are questioning if the now nick named: “Hobbit”, of Flores Island, is the same species as modern day humans. Are they Homo species, or Homo sapiens with the medical condition called Cretinism? A severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting.
Beowulf is a poem about strength and courage. This is illustrated in the eighth section of the story called “Beowulf and the Dragon.” A slave, a hero and a dragon play a big role in this section. The characters are well developed, as is the setup for the conclusion of the poem.
The Princess and the Goblin is a story about self-realisation and the expansion of limits. The princess, Irene, is able to come to certain conclusions about herself with the help of her grandmother, who lives in the attic upstairs in the palace. The grandmother guides Irene through her rite of passage into adulthood, and helps to bring the princess and Curdie together in the end. However, the reader never really knows whether the grandmother even exists, and it is this uncertainty that causes the reader to question whether she is a personification of a force within Irene that is driving her to achieve all that she does. There are many elements of fairy tales that exist within the grandmother's world and Irene's relationship with her grandmother and her nurse, Lootie. Archetypes such as the attic, birds, the moon, and fire exist within her grandmother's world and archetypes such as the underground exist within the world she guides Irene through. The grandmother embodies characteristics of the good witch with supernatural powers, who guides Irene on her journey, while Lootie embodies characteristics of a wicked witch, who hinders her right of passage into adulthood.
Marie De France’s Lanval is a remarkable short narrative that engages the reader into a world filled with unrealistic elements, but enhances on the true meaning of romance, chivalry and nature during the years that King Arthur reigned. “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” unfortunately does not have an author that can be recognized but this epic poem demonstrates the ghastly adventure of a knight who decides to defend the honor of young King Arthur against a supernatural being in this malicious game of cat and mouse. Both of these pieces of literature have enchanting characteristics that define them as a masterpiece of their era and that’s why they both are easily compared and contrasted. In addition, both Lanval and “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” can be classified as similar through their themes, style and plots, although they are different through their language and diction. Even though both of these literatures can be viewed as similar as well as contrasting, in the end, each of these tales have illuminated the realm of fantasy throughout the court of King Arthur.
The story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight provides an excellent example of Hyde’s trickster figure in the character of Bernlak, also known as Bertilak, Bercilak, or simply as the Green Knight. The tale of Sir Gawain pits him against the daunting and formidable Green Knight; a mystical and intriguing character, who rode into Arthur’s court, brandishing a great axe and clad all in green. He challenges the knights to a game, and only after Arthur concedes to play the Green Knight’s game, does Gawain instead offer to take his place, thus setting in motion the story. In Sir Gawain, the Green Knight displays several key characteristics of Hyde’s trickster such as: crossing boundaries, being contradictory, and questioning
It starts out with Percy Jackson who is almost done with his seventh grade year. He is excited about going to Camp Half Blood for the summer but is troubled by a dream he had about Grover. He decides to put it in the back of his mind and focus on the school day. When he gets to school, him and his friend Tyson, get bullied by some new boys. Tyson tells Percy that the boys smell weird to him and at that moment the boys transform into monsters and attack them. Tyson and Percy fend them off, and with the help of their friend Annabeth who arrives, they destroy the monsters and the school. They leave and go to Camp Half Blood where they find the magical tree created from Zeus’s daughter Thalia, has been poisoned
master at his art and he keeps practicing it in order to better himself. The
A wizard of Earth Sea is a fiction novel written by an author named Ursula K. Le Guin born in 1929 managed to publish her first fiction novel in 1968 whereby she takes a young boy who seems to be named Dunny by his mother whom he lost at a very young age then to be called Ged known as Sparrow hawk as for always seen with birds around him, that will one day become one of the greatest and most powerful wizards people will know of. This book mainly talks about the experiences this young boy will face in his teens including all the troubles he will have to solve and how he reacts and behaves along with those experiences, then starts to talk about how he becomes and how much he starts to learn when growing up. Le guins aim from this book is not
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Once upon a time, in Manitowoc, WI, there was a ship that had been in WWII, and needless to say, it was more than something to be freaked out about. This ship was over 50 years old, it had algae all over the exterior of the ship. The metal on it was all rusted out, to put kindly, it was a mess. Rob Lawrence, a professional ship tourist was in the area to check this boat out, not only for the history of it, but for the supernatural disturbances he has been informed about. Rob and his partner, George Clooney, took this mission with great intention to find the supernatural being and to explore the ship of it’s amazing nature. Rob was your average joe, if your average joe was into WWII ships. He had an athletic look to him, professional. Mid 30’s, he was full of curiosity and was ready to explore this “haunted” vessel. As for his friend, George, he was the looker. He was the handsome, smart, mid aged man that always hoped to become famous and get his own TV show. Like Rob, he was adventurous, not afraid of anything, although, you have to be when they accepted this case.
In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway there are two characters who have a great friendship, the old man and the young boy. The old man has been fishing for many years and for the last eighty-four days has not caught a fish. Now the boy who looks up to him is not allowed to fish with him anymore. This boy looks up to the old man as a hero because the old man shows courage, perseverance, and respect. The old man shows courage just by going out all alone everyday and still fishing at his age. Although he showed the most courage when he had to fight the big fish. He could have let the fish go, by cutting the line, but instead the old man was willing to die trying to catch it.
“Grimm’s Fairytales,” although never intended to be in text form, are some of the most influential methods in teaching young children morals and to be productive citizens of society. While children enjoy the mere esthetics of fairytales and interpret them at their face value, s are aware of the didacticism hidden beneath the appealing plots and characters of the stories. Unlike s, children would not be able to extract any metaphorical meaning out of fairytales even if fairytales were intended to have distinct messages. For this very reason, fairytales have been studied along with a branch of child psychology to determine whether or not a message that is ual is actually retained in the subconscious of the child.