While reading “The Open Window,” annotate the text. Put comments in the margins which clarify or explain. Also, write about lines or paragraphs that surprise you or contain a particular element of fiction. After reading and annotating, complete the following: Summarize the text: In summary, a simple man named Framton Nuttel was visiting a therapist for the fear of having anxiety issues or fear. While waiting, a 15 year old niece named Vera spends the waiting with the man in one way: she tells him completely fake stories about a hunting accident three years ago, consisting of the therapist’s husband and two other friends. They ended up missing and the door remains open until their fatal return to the house. Hearing this, Mr. Nuttel thinks the girl is crazy, until Mrs. Sappleton arrives to confirm the tall tale. Mr. Nuttel confronts her, saying how he is not okay with fast paced excitement. Interrupting, Vera sees the men returning, making Mr. Nuttel get worried in the haste of things, absconding the premiscise. The men returning had only been gone that day, and Vera tells them he was attacked when he was younger. In the end, Mr. Nuttel was dumbfounded by the 15 year olds lies. …show more content…
What is a theme in the text?
Support with details and evidence. One theme this story tends to use is Insanity v.s. Sanity. Frampton Nuttel is in the country for a nervous condition, he questions his sanity after he hears the story from Vera. When he finally meets Mrs. Sappleton, he thinks that she is insane. The niece tells the patient stories that are so eerie of the men and see them return, that he becomes too scared and leaves at
once.. Choose a character. What type of character are they, and what are their motivations? Support with details and evidence. I choose the self-possessed 15 year old niece, Vera. This character is a major prankster and jokester, but also able to come up with a quick, but captivative fib. The niece’s motivation the reader and choose is she favors messing with Mr. Nuttel, for he is easily vulnerable to any frightening stories. After telling him a story, the author quotes, “Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly noted stages in his headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had to run into the hedge to avoid imminent collision.” This text contains different types of irony. Identify one or both. Support with details and evidence. The irony in this story is that Nuttel has gone to the country on his sister's recommendation because she felt that he would be better off being around people. Nuttel goes to find peace and quiet for his nervous condition and finds the exact opposite. Instead of helping his condition, Vera with her tall tale, actually pushes Nuttel into a frenzy of fear and anxiety, making his condition far worse. Analyze how the author creates suspense in the text. Support with details and evidence. The author creates suspense in the text by Vera telling us the story of what has happened to her aunt. Mr. Nuttel then gets spooked out about how scarily surprising Vera’s story is, until someone pulls up to the house, causing him to leave the house, in belief that there are supernatural beings. An example from the text is, “In the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window, they all carried guns under their arms, and one of them was additionally burdened with a white coat hung over his shoulders. A tired brown spaniel kept close at their heels. Noiselessly they neared the house, and then a hoarse young voice chanted out of the dusk: ‘I said, Bertie, why do you bound?’ "
Dr. Goodall is a well-known British primatologist who has discovered a substantial amount about primates in her many years of research. She has written numerous books, including one that we will be going into depth about called, “Through a Window.” Her book contains personal experiences, research findings, and even pictures to help the readers visualize her scientific breaking moments from her thirty years with the chimpanzees of Gombe. She states that there is are minor differences, and several similarities between humans and the chimpanzees. We will discuss these differences and similarities through their social behavior, intellectual ability, and emotions. To conclude, examine Goodall’s research to adopt what her findings can tell us about our early ancestors, and whether or not her study coincided to the steps of scientific methodology.
Leroy Moffit is a truck driver, and over the years as his wife Norma Jean is adapting to the changing community his adaptation to things consist of pretty much the way he drives his truck. During this time Norma Jean is left at home to fend for herself and learn the workings of nearly being a single woman. Norma Jean started to play the organ again, practice weight lifting, and take night classes. When Leroy came home after years of being saturated in his work he expected things to be like they were in the beginning of their marriage. As time goes on at home, Leroy takes notice to Norma Jean’s keen, and independent understanding of what goes on around her. He observes and is afraid to admit that she has had to be her own husband. Over the years Norma Jean developed a structured routine that does not include him. As Leroy sits around and plays with a model log cabin set Norma is constantly working to advance and adapt herself with ...
Edith Wharton’s brief, yet tragic novella, Ethan Frome, presents a crippled and lonely man – Ethan Frome – who is trapped in a loveless marriage with a hypochondriacal wife, Zenobia “Zeena” Frome. Set during a harsh, “sluggish” winter in Starkfield, Massachusetts, Ethan and his sickly wife live in a dilapidated and “unusually forlorn and stunted” New-England farmhouse (Wharton 18). Due to Zeena’s numerous complications, they employ her cousin to help around the house, a vivacious young girl – Mattie Silver. With Mattie’s presence, Starkfield seems to emerge from its desolateness, and Ethan’s vacant world seems to be awoken from his discontented life and empty marriage. And so begins Ethan’s love adventure – a desperate desire to have Mattie as his own; however, his morals along with his duty to Zeena and his natural streak of honesty hinder him in his ability to realize his own dreams. Throughout this suspenseful and disastrous novella, Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton effectively employs situational irony enabling readers to experience a sudden shock and an unexpected twist of events that ultimately lead to a final tragedy in a living nightmare.
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Suffering from the death of a close friend, the boy tries to ignore his feelings and jokes on his sister. His friend was a mental patient who threw himself off a building. Being really young and unable to cope with this tragedy, the boy jokes to his sister about the bridge collapsing. "The mention of the suicide and of the bridge collapsing set a depressing tone for the rest of the story" (Baker 170). Arguments about Raisinettes force the father to settle it by saying, "you will both spoil your lunch." As their day continues, their arguments become more serious and present concern for the father who is trying to understand his children better. In complete agreement with Justin Oeltzes’ paper, "A Sad Story," I also feel that this dark foreshadowing of time to come is an indication of the author’s direct intention to write a sad story.
Professor Paul Cobb’s The Race for Paradise is a very unique portrayal of history—it appeals to academic specialists and casual readers with detail and original sources with numerous endnotes that contain references with comments that are fit for anyone wanting to broaden their knowledge on some of the aspects that this book touches upon. All the while constructing an engaging and a rather interesting narrative story that informs the reader how Muslim societies saw, reacted to, and adapted to the European crusades. His story is very broad and covers many key points in Islamic history, beginning with Muslim-Christian conflicts well before the, what is known to be, first crusade around 1095-1101. On page six of The Race for Paradise, Cobb states
Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.
Sal longed to visit her mother’s grave for quite some time, but her father refuses to take her. She believes that if she makes it to the grave by her mother’s birthday, her mother would miraculously be there for her. Sal takes a road trip with her grandparents across the United States of America. To pass the time she tells a mysterious tale about Phoebe Winterbottom. The main purpose of the trip was to go to her mother’s grave in Lewiston, Idaho. They stop at some of the major tourist destinations along the way, including The Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Lake Michigan, and even Yellowstone National Park. While on the trip, Sal’s grandmother, Grams, suffers from a stroke and they make an emergency trip to the hospital. Sal’s Grandfather, Gramps, tells Sal to drive to Lewiston by herself to finish the trip. On the way, traffic police stop her and explain to her that underage driving is dangerous. Sal explains to the police man that she is taking a trip to see her mom’s grave. The helpful police officer offers to take Sal to see her mom’s grave. On the trip to her mom’s grave, she realizes why her grandparents took her on this trip. They wa...
In the short story, "An Hour With Abuelo", the tale tells us of boy reluctantly visiting his grandfather, Abuelo. The story's theme is that things that you expect may not turn out the way you think. She conveys the theme at the end of the story when the main character learns the theme of the story.
...f the bad that is going on in her real life, so she would have a happy place to live. With the collapse of her happy place her defense was gone and she had no protection from her insanity anymore. This caused all of her blocked out thoughts to swarm her mind and turn her completely insane. When the doctor found her, he tried to go in and help her. When the doctor finally got in he fainted because he had made so many positive changes with her and was utterly distressed when he found out that it was all for naught. This woman had made a safety net within her mind so that she would not have to deal with the reality of being in an insane asylum, but in the end everything failed and it seems that what she had been protecting herself from finally conquered her. She was then forced to succumb to her breakdown and realize that she was in the insane asylum for the long run.
Plot: Woman gets call at work from her father, telling her that her mother is dead. Father never got used to living alone and went into retirement home. Mother is described as very religious, Anglican, who had been saved at the age of 14. Father was also religious and had waited for the mother since he first met her. They did not have sex until marriage and the father was mildly dissapointed that the mother did not have money. Description of the house follows, very high ceilings, old mansion it seems, with chimney stains, it has been let go. Jumps in time to narrators ex-husband making fun of narrator fantasizing about stains. Next paragraph is the father in a retirement home, always referring to things: ‘The lord never intended.’, shows how old people have disdain for new things, the next generation appears to be more and more sacreligious. Shows streak of meanness when ‘spits’ out a reference to constant praying, narrator claims he does not know who he is talking to, but appears to be the very pious mother. Following paragraph jumps back in time to when narrator was a child, she asks her mother constant questions about her white hair and what color it was, mother says she was glad when it wasn’t brown like her fathers anymore, shows high distaste towards her father, the narrators grandfather.
The theme is presented all through the story by the setting. Whenever Walter went somewhere or passed a certain place, a daydream would be triggered. In his daydreams he was in many different places, doing different things. After dropping his wife off at the hairdresser, Walter passes a hospital. At the sight of the hospital, Walter begins to daydream that he is a well-known doctor. He is clearly regarded as great doctor for many achievements. He is also the one of higher importance because as soon as the anesthetizer begins to malfunction Walter is the one that everyone looks to. Near the end of the story while he waits for his wife in a hotel, he sees a magazine about World War I, which then catapults him into another daydream of him being a valiant soldier. Also while Walter is walking on the sidewalk, he hears the newsboy shouting about the Waterbury trial which leads him into a daydream about being a defendant. Walter is not satisfied with where he is and
1) “The Hours”, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, is more than a biographical movie about Virginia Woolf. How can you discribe the importance and co- relation between the three female main characters: Virginia, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan?
The characters in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are more than whimsical ideas brought to life by Lewis Carroll. These characters, ranging from silly to rude, portray the adults in Alice Liddell’s life. The parental figures in Alice’s reality portrayed in Alice in Wonderland are viewed as unintellectual figures through their behaviors and their interactions with one another.
Nymphomaniac, split into two parts due to its unpalatable running time is a story framed within a story. Wounded and left in an alley, presumably to die, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), is taken in by an older gentleman Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard). Coaxed by the sympathetic Samaritan and perhaps simply by her need for any semblance of a cathartic release, Joe shares her history: her sexual evolution leading up to present. Her candid even nonchalant recount begins from the age of two, the beginning of a bold exploration of the equivocal and teetering link between self and sex.