Pretentious In the passage of Tobias Wolff’s “Old School” The character Dean Makepeace, can only be described as pretentious. He is pretentious in how he behaves, how he dresses, and in his choices. One of the ways that Dean Makepeace is pretentious is his behaviour, he calls the protagonist into his office and immediately starts playing mind games with him. “I had the impression that he wasn't actually reading the file, just occupying himself with it while he decided how to carve me up...” (Tobias 18) This gives the impression that Dean Makepeace is an arrogant, judgmental kind of person. Another way that the dean is pretentious is how he dresses, a simple, yet regal appearance. He wears a formal jacket, and sports a long black cane,
In this story A little help from my friends by firoozeh Dumas, takes place in The United States from the viewpoint of an Iranian child, they moved there for her father's work. Dumas (the story teller) talks about her interesting and different adventures of moving to America. One of them being constantly interviewed by American children and adults (p.89-A little help from a friend) Dumas was frequently asked about her life back home in Iran, many of the questions were about camels and where Iran even was.
“The Hook” is written by K. M. Weiland. She is the IPPY and NIEA Award-winning and an author read all over the world. Her Amazon bestsellers are Structuring Your Novel and Outlining Your Novel, as well as the western A Man Called Outlaw, and Jane Eyre: The Writer’s Digest Annotated Classic, the medieval story Behold the Dawn, and the fantasy novel Dreamlander. She has won Writer’s Digest’s “101 Best Websites for Writers” for two years, and has appeared on npr’s podcast, “All Things Considered”. Her story, “The Hook” is a helpful essay on catching a reader within your first paragraph using a “Hook”.
In the comparison of the college student's two expressions of his first impression of his dorm, Hall disregards the first passage as 'sloppy – slangy and fragmentary.'; He praises the second passage as suspenseful and detailed and suggests that the author has 'made great strides'; and has 'put some thought into creating a scene.'; I, however, find the second passage to be dull and watered-down, over-edited, and false sounding. Although the first passage could be improved by explaining where he was, what the disaster entailed, and who the funny-looking guy was, its honesty far outweighs the literary correctness of the second passage.
During my analysis of the article “The Vexation of Class”, it quickly became evident that the author, Nick Tingle, investigates his vexation by making numerous comparisons to David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University”. Tingle analyzes Bartholomae’s article in terms of its assumptions made in reference to class, such as how the student writer must become someone whom they are not. Within the clear conversation of his vexation experienced growing up in a working-class household, as well as the effects and struggles that students endure when being a member of a working-class school, Tingle’s use of pathos holds effective throughout the article.
By way of example, This Boy’s Life reads like the work of a writer who understands that he’s in fact “surrounded by stories” (Wolff 271). Additionally, its novelistic style and details have been altered in order to give Wolff’s memoir a fiction shape. Furthermore, much of the book was written in scenes, and dialogue which Jack felt it was due to his “good memory” (15). Not to mention that, “most of the people” Jack “lived with repeated themselves a lot” which allowed him to remember how certain characters spoke, and behaved while writing the memoir (26). Wolff’s book is entirely different from his brother’s Geoffrey’s book, which takes on a completely different view.
Oscar Wildes ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’’ is believed by many to be his most genius work and certainly has withstood the test of time. The play is set in London during the 1890’s in which time frame aristocracy and upper class held the majority of the countries wealth. Many of the comical aspects question the morals of the upper class in which he satirises throughout the play. One method of this, for instance is through one of the main protagonist, Algernon Moncrieff. Algernon is an upper class individual who is oblivious to the world around him in such an exaggerated manner that it makes his character comically adjusted for Wildes own views. Many aspects of the time period are made a mockery through puns and witty remarks from the main protagonists, most if not all are portrayed in a sense that makes them undoubtedly a laughing stock. Wildes methods are not discrete; nor are they obvious, many of the comical comments made are by none other than the protagonists themselves. This furthermore enforces the corrupted morals of the time periods prestigious upper class by showing their sheer inability to acknowledge hypocrisy. For example, in act one; Algernon states “ Lane's views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.” This is especially amusing as Algernon believes that the lower class have a duty to set an example when in reality the matter of fact was quite the contrary. Algernon states that he believes the lower class are lacking in morals, he being arguably one of the most morally distorted characters Wilde created makes the double standards more prominent.
In the German Student , Wolfgang is described as delusional and has symptoms of a mental patient. The main cause is from Wolfgang himself moving to Paris and experiencing the acts of war that is going on which is the French Revolution. Wolfgang was stable but was medically impaired with his health. When he moved to Paris , the war caused his condition to become worse. In the book it says , “But the scenes of blood which followed shocked his sensitive nature , disgusted him with society and the world , and made him more than ever a recluse” (Irving 3). This explains his feeling about the war itself and how it affects him emotionally which will take tolls on his health conditions. In the book Wolfgang walks by a guillotine and is disgusted within
In 1991, David Wiesner wrote and illustrated Tuesday. This is an imaginative story of frogs leaving a pond by flying on lily pads late one Tuesday night. They go to the nearest town and have fun flying after birds, chasing a dog, knocking down cloths on a cloths line, and watching television in grandma’s house. In the morning they try to fly back but all the lily pads stop flying. They have to hop back to the pond and find new lily pads to sit on. At the very end, next Tuesday it shows pigs flying around. You can see the creative process for Tuesday by the following link. You will have to copy and paste the link in your browser or click on the link on the work cited slide. http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/process/process.shtml.
The artist I chose was Jacob Lawrence. He was an african american painter who was known for his paintings of the african american life style. His style of painting is known as dynamic cubism.
I believe the main purpose as to why Aaron Becker illustrated the book the way he did is to convey to his readers that the little things in life are not meant to be overlooked. Generally, picture books allow readers to establish their own meaning throughout the story. But with Aaron Becker’s book I believe that he tried to convey a few strong messages to his readers. The first message is about finding people that care about you and the things you do. The second message is to simply put down technology and appreciate the people that are around you. And lastly that these things do not come nonchalantly.
Medals hang up on the shelf as frost forms on the window seal signaling another crisp winter morning in Boulder, Colorado. Another school morning in Boulder awaits for Rafe Goldberg as he awakes. He is a typical mid-teens boy: he attends school, plays soccer, goes to skiing competitions, and is gay. Despite all his other qualities and accomplishments, the community of Boulder acknowledges and treats Rafe differently based on the fact that he is gay. In Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg, the alienation of Rafe illustrates the community of Boulder and that being gay is not only abnormal and frowned upon, but indeed justifies segregating him from his community.
Sometimes less is more. In fact, in most cases less is more because the absence of excess implies elegance, thoughtfulness, and rarity. (However, I would propose that more is better when it comes to chocolate, books, and swimwear). Natalia Ginzburg’s essay “He and I” is constructed using simple phrases and words. Ginzburg’s writing reminds me of my father’s watch…you can observe all of the parts working together: buzzing, whirring, ticking together in perfect harmony. (Thesis): Ginzburg’s elegant writing style enables her to explore the complexities of a marital relationship in a fluid and legible voice.
In the late nineteenth century many European, and especially British, authors, play writes and poets wrote about the inadequacies of the upper class. Often times the author will not blatantly express his feelings, but rather he will hide them behind the plot or characters in his story. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde mocks the values of the upper class. By fully exaggerating the flaws of the upper class, Wilde succeeds in expressing his beliefs that men and women of the upper class are shallow, foolish, and have no respectable values.
Looking at A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde through a societal lense aids the reader in developing a new understanding for the upper class, one that is very shallow, superficial, and scandalous.
The single most powerful thing on this earth originates from one primary thing: Mankind. What’s even more powerful than that? Unified people. As ancient as time itself, people have imperialized and built the world into its reality of today. It was the repercussion of the people that demonstrated how great of an impact they can make upon the world they dwell upon. Literature, particularly poetry, has been one of the key outlets in which such a discovery can be expressed. In Carl Sandburg’s poems, “The People, Yes”, “I Am The People, The Mob”, and “And They Obey” all convey one universal theme while expressed through contrasting diction, tone, and plentiful evidence of imagery.