While writing my creative essay I was inspired by many of the pieces that we read in class. The one that was most helpful to me in the preparation process of this essay was Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place. After reading this story, I really understood from that point on the main concepts that are a part of a composite novel. This novel made it clear to me what exactly I needed to incorporate into my essay. Once I understood this. It was easy to go about making my essay contained all of the necessary components that would allow it to be categorized as a composite novel. My process for writing this project was very trial and error. I began to write stories, would read them, and out of the stories that I liked the most, I tried to adjust them to make them …show more content…
Throughout these books, both authors took a lot of risks with their writing. I really liked how they did not use quotes in the dialogue between the characters so I tried to make that work in my essay. Unlike Díaz though I did not start a new line everytime a person was speaking. Instead I decided to write like Merritt Tearce and only has breaks in the stories when the topic was switched. My second stories have dialogue that are blended in with the rest of the paragraphs as does my third story. I even took the risk of not including any dialogue at all in my first story. I was also largely influenced by Junot Díaz and how he was able to manipulate the time of the story and make it flow. Between his paragraphs he would change to completely different dates and times. In my third story I use this technique. This story starts off with the protagonist as a young boy and then the story progresses through his life with a different paragraph being a different time period. This sequence is also like Merritt Tearce’s book and how she slowly goes through Marie’s
The next element that is important to literary fiction is tone. With tone, you want to ask yourself, are you writing the story and want the reader to feel a certain way. Remember to use intentional tone, don’t worry about being ambitious. Remember to rely on dialogue, not dialogue tags. Be sure to indent so you can control the reader’s focus. Dialogue gets around the narrator; it is a more direct way of showing other characters. The scene will capture the tone you are going for.
In the text “The Meaning of a Word” by Gloria Naylor, the author discloses on how her personal experiences altered her life and presented another perspective on how words can have different effects depending on its context or the situation. She emphasizes and outlines how a racial term can adopt a positive connotation by those whom it is being used against. The second text “Being a Chink” is about a woman who _____. The anecdote also provides experiences where the narrator focused on the existence of a racial term that remained effective throughout her childhood. The meaning of the word varies from ____. Naylor’s story shares similarities with “Being a Chink” by Christine Leong in regards to discussing the essence of a racial term. Both individuals demonstrate how racial acts can ________. Yes, racist language can be
The first, and most important, way in which these essays differ is that each one gives a different motivation for writing. George Orwell states that every author has 4 motives for writing: sheer egoism, aesthetic
To convey this moral, Marquez employs distinct writing techniques. He paints a vivid picture of the setting through his descriptive language. However, not all of his stories are the same, which makes them a delight to read.
As every well-read person knows, the background in which you grow up plays a huge role in how you write and your opinions. Fuller grew up with a very strict education, learning multiple classic languages before she was eight years old. Fern grew up with writers all throughout her family and had a traditional education and saw first hand the iniquities of what hard-working had to contend with. Through close analysis of their work, a reader can quickly find the connections between their tone, style, content, and purpose and their history of their lives and their educational upbringing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, though both evolved from the same literary time and place, created their works in two very dissimilar writing styles which are representative of their subject matter. The two writers were both products of the post-WWI lost generation and first gained notoriety as members of the American expatriate literary community living in Paris during the 1920's. Despite this underlying fact which influenced much of their material, the works examined in class dramatically differ in style as well as subject matter. As far as style, Fitzgerald definitely takes the award for eloquence with his flowery descriptive language whereas Hemingway's genius comes from his short, simple sentences. As for subject, Hemingway writes gritty, earthy material while on the other hand Fitzgerald's writing is centered around social hierarchy and longing to be with another person. Although the works that these two literary masters are so uniquely different, one thing that they have in common are their melancholy and often tragic conclusions.
... presentation and added pictures to go with them. This was probably the longest part of the entire project. Then, I put animations in; I tried not to over exaggerate it. I got creative when it was time to put the music in. Society has a tune that is about society, as plain as it gets. With Advancements, came music that sounds futuristic. Which really goes with it. Spiritual was a tough decision. I could not determine between two songs. Comfort definitely had to be George Michael; he comforts everyone. Education is kind of based on a stereotype with the intelligent human beings being able to play piano. I absolutely had to use elevator music for simplicity. It does not get more simple than that! I enjoyed doing this project. I got to be creative but still be logical. Most fun project I have ever done honestly and I hope that future assigned projects are like this.
The one author whose style I could appreciate most and who I could connect with best in “Doubletakes” was David Foster Wallace. His ability to capture one moment that most people would normally take for granted and to freeze this moment like it is occurring in slow motion, taking into account all five human senses (touch, sight, smell, taste and hearing), color imagery, similes, metaphors and all of his unique description of the scenes surrounding the actions of the main character really make him stand out in my mind. By taking an event so seemingly trivial (for example the act of climbing up and jumping off of a diving board in Forever Overhead), Wallace forces his readers to appreciate all aspects of life, especially the minor details. This is what appeals most to me about Wallace because I too like to point out small, seemingly insignificant events in my writing and put them under a microscope so to force the reader to think more seriously about mundane actions.
In the literary, Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros we are able to analyze the short story through a feminist perspective, due to the feminist critical critical theory. A literary criticism has at least three primary purposes in developing critical thinking skills, enabling us to understand, analyze, and judgement works of literature, of any type of literature. It resolves any questions or problem within a literary work that we do not understand from merely reading the literature. Look into multiple alternative outcomes to the literature and decide which the better outcome in the end is. Form our own judgements, our thoughts about what we feel from the literature. By analyzing in depth Sandra Cisneros as an author, we can see her as
In this paper I intend to research the death of a character in the short story "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. This story was written in an error when many women was not thought to be equal or was thought to behave a certain way. Earlier in the semester our class had an discussion about feminist criticism. Joyce Karpay felt that men historically had a upper hand on women in society. In “Feminist Criticism” she goes on giving examples how men controlled cultural, social, and economic institution. Joyce felt that dominance and submission were a part of all structures of life. The critics look at the languages and how there are advantages for men
Women, in the past decades, have undergone a revolution. They have earned the right to vote and the right to be a man’s equal under the law. They have confronted the obsolete values of male superiority. They have even manage to destabilize the firm belief that only men could be in power. Despite these accomplishments, women have also made a point that we are not equal, simply, men aren’t superior to any women.
The author Henry James called Nathaniel Hawthorne “the most valuable example of American genius”, expressing the widely held belief that he was the most significant fiction writer of the antebellum period. (The Norton Anthology of American Literature) Will we recognize an example, a certain expository shape, to Hawthorne 's representation of the puritan woman, and to his depiction of relationships to a great extent? I think the answer is, decidedly, yes it is clearly distinguished, a few years prior, by Nina Baym in her hash-settling paper "Impeded Nature: Nathaniel Hawthorne as Feminist." Baym contends that a considerable lot of the stories we most esteem and regularly instruct make a managed examination out of and an effective assault upon-male
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the eighteenth century feminist philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft. Specifically, it explores her vision and critique of the relationship between the genders by explaining her position and her prescription to remedy the deficiencies she identifies with regards to gender inequality. Additionally, this evaluation asserts that at present, we have partially achieved the realization of Wollstonecraft’s vision of women in society, which dates back two centuries. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of the continued of study of Wollstonecraft’s philosophical ideas in society today.
To truly compare or justify anything to be superior to something else, you must have more than one thing to compare. When I start to review narrative and descriptive essays, I have to try to understand what separates the two. I chose to compare “Caged Bird”, by Maya Angelou as my Descriptive essay and “How to say nothing in 500 words”, by Paul McHenry Roberts as my narrative essay. To me these two essays set themselves apart from each other, not just because of the different styles of writers, but the meaningful message that was delivered in both essays. While both of these essays have a strong message that it delivers, but only one truly keeps my attention, answers all of my questions, and helps me to imagine every word that is in the text. In the text of, “Essentials of College Writing”, it is stated, “Consider what would be interesting to you as a reader and what kinds of details and information you look for when you read a piece of personal writing”, (Connell, C. M., & Sole, K., (2013), Chapter 6. Section 6.2, paragraph 5). As a writer I believe it you have to grab the reader’s attention, answer whatever questions they have, and really help them imagine what they are reading. Initially, I was leaning to favor the descriptive essay, “The Caged Bird”, written by Maya Angelou, but after further consideration and critiques, I discovered that, “How to say nothing in 500 words”, written by Paul McHenry Roberts won me over. This change of mind came to me as I read each essay over again and then it was a clear choice of which essay was arguably the better style.
picture of this story, or any story for that matter. The imagination is one of the most powerful tools you