Virtually everyone has started a fight but has ended up being the victim or have whatever was fought for ruined. The story “Why?” by Nikolai Popov is a wordless picture book that allows the reader to understand the story in several different ways. Different readers would read this book differently based on the diverse experiences they have had. Better connections to a book or story allow better comprehension. Making these connections however, require acknowledging themes of a story so better connections are made to help comprehend them. The book “Why?” along with all other books has themes that almost any reader can interpret easily. For example, war and jealousy. At first, the rat seems to be jealous of the frog with its flower and the rat …show more content…
An example of a possible text to text connection to “Why?” is a part of “The Land of Stories” series. In a section of the series, the main characters who are twins are able to travel to a magical world named “The Land of Stories” through a book thanks to their father from the magical world and their mother from the “regular” world. One twin claims to have seen their dead father while protecting The Land of Stories from being destroyed. The twins follow their “dead dad’s” path and find out that he is actually their uncle. The uncle’s older brother (the twins dad) had always been the “better” child and ha had always been jealous. So one day, he decided that everyday he lived for was for the day that he destroyed the Land of Stories including his mother, the fairy godmother who had taken away his magic once she found out his plan. Instead of him getting what he wanted, he was left without any real friends or family and started regretting his decision when it was too late. This can connect to “Why?” because just like the twin’s uncle, the rat was jealous of the frog for it’s flower and after a fight for the flower, the rat soon was left with virtually …show more content…
Many people may take their connections and what they assume the themes of “Why?” are and agree that the main idea of the story is that fighting does not solve anything. In fact, fighting usually ends with what was fought for, being broken, ruined, or just not worth the fighting anymore. The rat seems to have wanted the frogs flower, but because of knowing the feeling of wanting what someone else has, even when there are many of the same around, many people understood that the rat just didn’t want the other flowers, even if it was silly of the rat to think so. The rat however, didn’t think to use any other options such as politely communicating to possibly share the flower, and decided to attack the frog, eventually starting what seems to be a war. The war did not solve anything and ended off with the rat and the frog alone in a state worse than how they started off
from sympathy to fear within the readers. However, out of all the notions and events that
Last but not least, O’Connor confirms that even a short story is a multi-layer compound that on the surface may deter even the most enthusiastic reader, but when handled with more care, it conveys universal truths by means of straightforward or violent situations. She herself wished her message to appeal to the readers who, if careful enough, “(…)will come to see it as something more than an account of a family murdered on the way to Florida.”
Civilization vs. savagery, reason vs. impulse, order vs. chaos, law vs. anarchy, or the broader heading of good vs. evil. This is a dilemma every single human being goes through on a daily basis. Weather we do what we know is right, live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands and proceed with the values we were grown up to respect or give in to our savage/ animal side, the instinct to gratify one’s immediate desires, enforce one’s will, and act violently to obtain supremacy over others. Throughout the book there are three main symbols: the conch, the signal fire, and the Lord of the Flies. These symbols help the reader to understand and capture the boys struggles to maintain civility and how they slowly graduate into what they finally become by the end of the novel: savages.
This leads to the fact that a beast really does exist within all human beings, but is only expressed when human instinct for survival becomes the main objective. At first the boys aren?t able to kill, but as survival instinct starts taking over, the reader?s are able to se the true character?s play out, and lives are compromised. ?You feel as if you?re not hunting, but- being hunted, as if something?s behind you all the time in the jungle,? (pg.53) proves that it?s every man for himself and people will do anything to survive. An example of this in the novel was when Robert became the ?pig,? and was wounded even though it wasn?t intentional, but the situation became worse when Piggy?s death happened as a result of all civilization lost and evil taken over.
John Steinbeck wanted his novella be an allegory. He has fully accomplished that by making every character, place, animal in the book represent something. Since Steinbeck added a lot of symbolism it gave the reader a deeper understanding and connection to the book. The other characters, animals, and places in the novella symbolized something.
...derstand the history behind the story, and how it can interpreted in many different ways because of it's enigmatic plot, and characters.
In conclusion, it is hard to grasp the true meaning of the story unless the story is read a second time because of the author's style of writing.
Each story is made up of little moments. We are defined by the different moments and it becomes who we are. When we are young our life was made up of different experiences that happen. We learned to walk when we were one year old and now that is one of the only ways we can get around. Little children soon learn how to say different words starting with Mon and Dad, but eventually they learn the full English language. However, if they were born in another country their first words could have been Vater and Mutter. The place people live creates different experiences and when this happen we see different people form. Our experiences determine who we are. People who are beaten usually have a different personality than those who grow up in a well functioning home. Some of the children are still wonderful people, but it can influence what they do. A girl or boy might choose a different career because of their problems they have experience. There have been moments when I have heard that people want to help others because of what they experienced. When watching a little baby start its life premature a sister or cousin might watch and decide that some day they want to help other little children. In a story words are the moments, words that add up to what it known as the end. And at the end we have to figure out the meaning. In the end of Everything Stuck to Him, by Raymond Carver, you understand the relationship of the daughter and father, along with the idea of what the father had to do, but you also realize the happiness didn’t last and make it through the test of time.
Now try “How and Why” (690). This short story forces the reader to question the meaning of life. Every story has the same ending, because every life has the same ending. Life is exciting because of the experiences that can lead each individual onto their own path in life. The how and the why are the inspirations, the feelings, and the interpretations that the reader goes through as they make their own way through version A.
The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, presents controversial topics and issues among many critics, but is beloved by all for its enlightening and spiritual journey that one boy lost at sea with a tiger undertakes. An allegory is meant to reveal and represent a moral, spiritual, abstract idea, value, or theme through a simpler story. Authors use allegories to help readers understand a complicated idea. This method is effective because, it tends to sympathize with the audience’s childhood fantasies where openness and acceptance was more prevalent in our youth. Thus, the author can convey multilevel meanings through metaphors and symbolism. This book specifically unfolds an allegory through the different elements of a carnivorous island that Pi
The names of the characters are insightful for the reader to relate the events and make connections. In th...
As the snake slithers through the rough ground of the jungle, he is aware of far off cries of a lion and a tiger. It is obvious by the sounds that the two are engaged in a consequential combat. Suddenly, the sounds draw nearer to his proximity and he watches as the lion leaps out of a nearby bush with the tiger not far behind. Unfortunately for the lion, the tiger was more adept to the jungle terrain. His curiosity peaked, the snake slides his way to the scene of the final attack. Throughout the world of literature, animal imagery and metaphors are often used to develop characters. In the book Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, there is no shortage of these literary devices. With the assistance of animal imagery and metaphors, Hugo develops the characters of Javert, Jean Valjean, and Thénardier.
Yoko Ogawa’s “Revenge” was an entertaining but frustrating puzzle. These eleven stories loosely relate. However, to the extent that the stories relate, they relate only in pieces. It is hard to see coherent link. However, there are a few notable links that this paper analyzes. As Ogawa says through one of her characters, her work has the power to make the reader, “plunge” into the “icy current running under her words.” It is impossible for readers to thaw her “icy current”. However, it poses the kind of challenge that absorbs readers as they try chipping away at the icy details that connect her work.
Every story has a conflict. A conflict is a disagreement, which usually provides the plot for a story. The conflict is the basis for everything else included in the work of literature. Usually a person reads the story to see how a conflict is developed and then resolved. This essay, as already states, will be about psychological conflicts.
Several different elements are necessary to create a story. Of all the elements, the conflict is most essential. The conflict connects all pieces of the plot, defines the characters, and drives the story forward. Once a story reaches its climax, the reader should have an emotional connection to the both story and its characters. Not only should emotions be evoked, but a reader should genuinely care about what happens next and the about the end result for the characters. Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” is the perfect example of how a story’s conflict evolved the disposition of its characters.