As I read “ The Time I Ever Told a Lie to my Mother” and “Two Lies”, two versions of a story both by Nancie Atwell, I noticed the details portrayed more in the second version. Such as the narrative element, and the setting. According to the first version, “It was 1956. I was five years old and it was the fall of my kindergarten year in Mrs. Brown’s class..”(Atwell 1, pg.1). In this version, I discovered that the writer was five years old during that certain year, how far into kindergarten she was, and the name of her teacher. During the second version, I read that, “ I jumped down the steps, skipped up to our porch burst through our back door and yelled.”... “ I was standing in our fenced-in backyard”(Atwell 2, pg.2). From this version, I …show more content…
As stated in the first version, “ a really good piece of clay was lying on the floor. I don’t know why, but I picked it up and started rolling it around on my skirt. It made a big mess on my skirt.”(Atwell 1, pg.1). After I read this, I could assume that all the little girl did was take a piece of clay, and roll it on her skirt, which caused a stain. In the second version, it says, “ That morning at nap time, curled up on my kindergarten mat I had spied a prize on the classroom floor: an exquisite lump of pink clay.”... “ Now I considered how much fun it would be to flatten out that lump. But on what? I looked around. There my my mat- too sticky. There was the floor- too dirty. And ooooo-there was my dress. I spread the skirt of the dress on the mat, smoothed the material and started kneading the clay. By the time the boy who was the nap fairy came along to tap me with the nap wand on and tell me I could get up, the skirt of my yellow dress had turned pink.” (Atwell 2,pg.1). This version gave so much detail that it was very interesting and enjoyable to read. It revealed to me, the color of the clay, the decision of where to put it, how she played with the clay, and the color of her dress. It also made it easier to understand the
There are two stories this semester that have been particularly interesting. ‘Paul’s Case’ by Willa Cather is a turbulent story about Paul, a young man who eventually spirals downwards into his eventual suicide. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story about a woman forced into the resting cure by means of her husband until being alone with her thoughts drives her to insanity. At face value, these stories have vastly different plots and outcomes. How are you able to compare stories with different plots? When the ideas behind the stories are similar, it becomes possible. These two stories have many parallels which will be discussed in detail throughout this essay.
Out of the three wonderful narratives given, the best one is “Stepping Into the Light” by Tanya Savory. While “Shame” by Dick Gregory is an interesting read, it is the weakest out of the bunch. The story had no clear setting, to many extra details, and a lengthy exposition. “I Became Her Target” by Roger Wilkins was a better executed story, even though it still had some flaws. This piece lacks any figurative language, but it was to the point and had clear organization. Thus, Tanya Savory’s piece was the best. It was easy to follow, used a constant symbol, and used some stories from others to make her point. So using narrative styles and elements in the best way, Tanya Savory wrote the better story.
When looking into works of literature, some stories seem to be similar to others. They can have a similar setting, point of view, theme, or sense of language and style. However, all of these points could be very different as well and could cover different theme or style. Flannery O’Conner’s “Good Country People” and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” have some contrasting elements, such as their points of view and use of symbolism, but their similarities in the underlying theme, language, and the setting of these stories reveal how these two stories are impacted by education on both the individual and their family.
In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The Story of an Hour," the authors use similar techniques to create different tones, which in turn illicit very distinct reactions from the reader. Both use a third person narrator with a limited omniscient point of view to tell of a brief, yet significant period of time. In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Bierce uses this method to create an analytical tone to tell the story of Farquhar's experience just before death. In "The Story of an Hour," Chopin uses this method to create an involved, sympathetic tone to relay the story of Mrs. Mallard's experience just before death. These stories can be compared on the basis of their similar points of view and conclusions as well as their different tones.
both stories shared similar ending and moral which is receiving enlightenment in first hand. "The
Both stories deal with a young girl who, with the help of a little magic, is able to find her prince and live happily ever after. Needless to say on of these versions is much darker than the other, but the story sends an overall good message.
The books Stuart: A Life Backwards and Once in a House on Fire have many similarities both of the books are non-fiction and they share similar themes such as poverty and abuse which I have choose to look at closely with a focus on how these themes are narrated. The narration in the two books are completely different, Stuart: A Life Backwards has a third person narration which is done by Alexander Masters and all the memories are recalled by Stuart Shorter, while Once in a House on Fire is first person narration where Andrea Ashworth recalls her own memories of her life. However, there are differences between the two books for example the language used to tell the stories.
At the outset, Atwood gives the reader an exceedingly basic outline of a story with characters John and Mary in plotline A. As we move along to the subsequent plots she adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories, although she refers back with “If you want a happy ending, try A” (p.327), while alluding that other endings may not be as happy, although possibly not as dull and foreseeable as they were in plot A. Each successive plot is a new telling of the same basic story line; labeled alphabetically A-F; the different plots describe how the character’s lives are lived with all stories ending as they did in A. The stories tell of love gained or of love lost; love given but not reciprocated. The characters experience heartache, suicide, sadness, humiliation, crimes of passion, even happiness; ultimately all ending in death regardless of “the stretch in between”. (p.329)
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
Both stories show change in people after a dramatic event. The boys on the island start out as innocent young kids and quickly evolve into violent savages. The events that took place on the island can never be taken back, and will never be forgotten. Maria came into the institution as a sane person but her corrupt, chaotic surroundings turned her insane just like all the other women in the building.
“I Go Back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds, is a poem about the bad relationship between the speaker's parents while, “Fifth Grade Autobiography” by Rita Dove, is a poem describing a fond memory encapsulated in a photograph. “Fifth Grade Autobiography” is about the speakers trip to a lake, in Michigan, with her grandparents and her brother. These two poems have very different plots but, both poems are told in the present tense, although the events in each story have already happened in the past. In “I Go Back to May 1937” the speaker goes back to a time before her parents were married, and in “Fifth Grade Autobiography” the speaker is traveling back to a moment saved in a picture. The speakers in both poems learn to understand themselves and what they wanted in life. In “Fifth Grade Autobiography”, as the speaker describes the image we can sense that she had a strong
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.
This story relates to real life when Rah baby mom is trying to sabotage Her and Rah relationship. The difference is well there really isn't a difference. I wouldn't change a thing besides Trish ugly bald headed self being in the picture after her and Rah broke up. My favorite quote was “ i practice Traditional west African spirituality also known as voodoo in the Americas and across the rest of the African diaspora. I’d rate this book a
As I stated earlier, 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. It is clear that the narrative essay is superior to the descriptive because of all of the details that are utilized to prepare the narrative and the impact that the narrative essay has on the reader. No one can deny that both are a good choice, but this narrative actually is structured better than the descriptive essay and it just has a completion feeling that you can kind of anticipate because of the way the narrative began. Once again the narrative essay indisputably suffices all of the reader’s needs while reading.
Asymmetry also plays a role in the differentiation of real and fake emotional expressions of the face. Ekman (1980) found that when an emotion was being falsified, that one side of the face, particularly the left, would detail a stronger intensity than on the right.