Organizing your story is crucial, because it keeps the reader from falling into confusion. In our notes, we learn how punctuation, paragraph and section breaks can make a difference when use correctly. Our notes say punctuation resembles a stop sign. A paragraph break is more like a stoplight. It takes longer to help the reader know the next paragraph will talk about something else. A section break is a much bigger transition. It gives the reader time to process what they have read, in which they can move on to the next section. Yet, all these paragraph and section breaks should still flow together. In the story, “Wonders of the Shore” by Andrea Barrett she divides her story into five sections. They all focus on a different subject, but overall under the same topic. The story is about Henrietta and Daphne. Although Henrietta is like an assistant to Daphne, they are also friends. They go on this trip and Daphne befriends Celia who is a well-known writer. While Ceila pulls Daphne away, Henrietta becomes friends with …show more content…
The section covers a sub-topic that is significant to the overall story. For example, Section I talks about the book. The way it looks and the acknowledgements the author wrote for it. Section II is where we are introduced to the characters mentioned in section I. We know who Celia is, what Daphne does and we meet our main character Henrietta. Section III is about our main character, Henrietta we get informed more about her. We get told who is Mason, the vacation she takes with Daph, her avoiding Mason and why she feels she can never catch to Daphne work wise. Section IV is where we get into the storyline, the incident where we see how Celia is trying to drag Daphne away from Henrietta. Henrietta gets close to Sebby and lies about Mason to get compassion out of him. On Section V, we find out that Celia died and so did Sebby. We also find out Sebby and Henrietta had a fling that
“The Wreck of the Sea-Venture,” written by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker in their book Many Headed Hydra, tells the story of the shipwreck of the Sea-Venture en route to Virginia in 1669, which left the passengers of the ship stranded on Bermuda without a ship to continue the journey to Virginia. While the members of the Virginia Company made a boat to continue the journey, the remaining passengers of the Sea-Venture had to cooperate with one another in order to survive. The authors’ thesis in this document is the shipwreck of the Sea-Venture and the actions taken by the sailors portray the themes of early Atlantic settlement. For example, the sailing of the Sea-Venture was caused by expropriation. The Virginia Company advertised the New
The use of Intercalary chapters is a complex technique. Writers use this structure to break up the plot with separate excerpts inserted into the novel. Intercalary chapters help to give the reader background knowledge or important information. This can help further develop the novels impact on readers. John Steinbeck displayed this strategy throughout The Grapes of Wrath, interrupting the Joad family’s journey with chapters describing other aspects of the novel’s setting. These chapters help readers envision a time period that otherwise may seem alien to them. They can better connect to the people of that time period and their struggles.
Sandra Benitez was born in Washington D.C. on March 26, 1941. Her birth name is Sandy Ables, she had lived her childhood in Mexico and El Salvador where her father served as a diplomat. When Benitez was a teenager she was sent to live with her grandparents up north where she had become “Americanized”. In 1979 she had left her job and had began to attend a creative writing course. “Her first novel, a murder mystery set in Missouri, was never published. She brought the novel to a writer’s conference, where she was told it was terrible”. (Benitez, Sandra Benitez) This had led her to change her name to Sandra Benitez and focus on writing on her Latina heritage. In 1993 Benitez had published her first novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, receiving the Minnesota Book Award and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
“The Boat”, narrated by a Mid-western university professor, Alistar MacLeod, is a short story concerning a family and their different perspectives on freedom vs. tradition. The mother pushes the son to embrace more of a traditional lifestyle by taking over the fathers fishing business, while on the other hand the father pushes the son to live more autonomously in an unconstrained manner. “The Boat” focuses on the father and how his personality influences the son’s choice on how to live and how to make decisions that will ultimately affect his life. In Alistair MacLeod’s, “The Boat”, MacLeod suggest that although dreams and desires give people purpose, the nobility of accepting a life of discontentment out weighs the selfishness of following ones own true desires. In the story, the father is obligated to provide for his family as well as to continue the fishing tradition that was inherited from his own father. The mother emphasizes the boat and it’s significance when she consistently asked the father “ How did things go in the boat today” since tradition was paramount to the mother. H...
The main character in Gem of the Ocean, Aunt Ester, is a character of myth, symbolism, and cultural memory. She has lived for over 200 years and was a slave herself. She is full of personal knowledge and is the embodiment of the African American journey through time in the Americas. In Gem of the Ocean, Aunt Esther represents a link between the past and the present through her wisdom and spiritual guidance as well as a maternal figure to her community.
... this are what create characters in a story, characters like Abner Snopes and Sarty. They explain to you indirectly the questions that you might have, like "What the cause of Abner's cruel-heartedness is". Conflicts like Sarty's struggle within himself over the love and hatred he has for his father are created throughout the entire story, but the reader feels this conflict almost entirely through descriptive paragraphs like the one above.
4. Also be careful of run-on sentences. Let your sentences contain only one or two ideas, not three or four. Do not over-use semicolons or colons, use a period instead.
The story opens on the Grand Isle off the coast of Louisiana, completely surrounded by water with the Gulf of Mexico to the South. Here the protagonist Edna and her family often stay for summer vacations. The Grand Isle separated by other landmasses by water represents the independence and solitude the body of water provides in comparison to the other settings of the story such as, New Orleans. It is here on the Isle that Edna begins to discover her independence. The waters around the Isle have seduced Edna during her stay. “The Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty” (Chopin 32). Even from the land in the safety of her summer home, the sea has enticed and attracts her towards it.
Many readers would argue that Edna finds this niche in her seaside vacation home on Grand Isle. To Edna, the sea is a wide expanse of opportunity and liberation from the constricting socialite world of French Quarter New Orleans. Chopin's lavish descriptions of the sea give us an insight into its powerful effect on Edna:
In the book “The Great Sea”, author David Abulafia goes thru the history of the Mediterranean. Trade starts in one place and will link to other civilizations in the Mediterranean.
The strengths in my writing are my organizational skills, grammatical construct, and my work ethic. Organizing an essay is a very natural process for me. I always follow the basic guidelines for the structure of an essay, which state that one must have an introduction, thesis statement, body, conclusion, and a works cited when needed. The “Are Helicopter Parents Entering the No Fly Zone?” essay, “Animal Cloning—How Unethical Is It?” essay, and the “The Clean Water Act—Is it Successfully Reducing Water Pollution?” essay all have a proper introduction, an informative thesis statement, a body, great conclusions, and works cited pages. Formatting the essays is an integral aspect of organizational skills. Each new paragraph is indented, the font is twelve-point Times New Roman, the sentences are double spaced, and the headers are correct.
four paragraph to fully invoke the mood of the story. The biggest trap a reader falls into while
finish figuring out what each paragraph will be about, I then go in subdivisions on the details that
There are a variety of ways to structure your narrative story. The three most common structures are: chronological approach, flashback sequence, and reflective mode. Select one that best fits the story you are telling.
As a writer, my greatest strength is to layout the essay as introduction, body and conclusion and especially thesis. In EAP, I was taught carefully in this regard, the construction of introduction, a thesis is the main factor because it is the main point of the essay. However, arranging ideas and put them into sentences are not my strong. For example, in the essay, there were a lot of ideas and arguments that I collected and I put them randomly in paragraph...