Veto, Graham Greene's The Basement Room and alan Sillitoe's Uncle Ernest In each of the three stories, 'The Son's Veto' by Thomas Hardy, 'The Basement Room' by Graham Green and 'Uncle Ernest' by Alan Silitoe, the respective writer conveys a sense of isolation regarding the central character. There are numerous similarities between the characters based on their common plight, but each story differs in the portrayal of these characters. The writer's effectively present the characters using
Loss of Self in Hemingway's Soldiers Home, Cather's Paul's Case, and Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener Hemingway's "Soldiers Home," Cather's "Paul's Case," and Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" all present a loss of self. These stories prove that there is a fine line between finding one's self and losing one's self. I believe this loss can occur at any age or station of life. This idea is seen in each story's main character. Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" depicts a young man in his early
Massachusetts. He was a proud son and grandson of New England seafarers. His father pass away leaving his mother widowed. Hawthorne and his family consist of his mother, and his two sisters. After finishing college, he returned to Salem determined to be a writer. He fought twelve years to perfect his literary skills. Then in 1851, he wrote The House of Seven Gables. On May 19, 1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne met his death. Hawthorne describe his work, The House of Seven Gables to be a romance: “the point of view
Raymond's Run In the short story “Raymond’s Run,” by Toni Cade Bambara, the main character spot lighted is Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, also known as Squeaky; for those lucky enough to call her that. Squeaky is a skinny armed tom boy that takes on the role of a protective sister over her mentally challenged older brother, Raymond, against other kids that attempt to bully him. Squeaky demonstrates different identities throughout the story and new achievements are born for Raymond despite his disabilities
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark”, Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, and Randall Kenan’s “The Foundations of the Earth” illustrate how arrogance undermines knowledge and individual power and humility enhances those qualities. In each story, characters with parochial worldviews encounter people who challenge them to change. Other perspectives are available if they are able to let go of their superior attitudes. For example, Hawthorne’s protagonist, Aylmer, believes he has the ability and right to
social conflicts. In the early 1900’s both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Maud Eaton or pen name Sui Sin Far comment about some of these struggles in their time. Fitzgerald highlights the difference between northern culture and southern cultures in his story “The Ice Palace”, while Far shows the clash between of the Chinese American and the white man in “It’s Wavering Image”. To illustrate these differences both Far and Fitzgerald use a women who is stretched between two different cultures,
the masters of minimalism. In the short stories of Hemingway Hills like White Elephants and Carvers short story What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, both use minimalist techniques such as open endings, symbolism, omission, and characteristics of main characters. When a person reads a book or a short story there is an ending in which the main character and the reader normally find on answer for what is happening. But In Carvers and Hemingway’s short stories they both use open endings. For example
In the stories of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven there is an external conflict of man vs. man. A conflict is the struggle between opposing forces in a story or a play, according to Prof. Clay. The conflict can either be internal or external, but in this case it is external because both characters struggle with a man vs. man conflict. Both stories also share a motif of a love/hate relationship. A motif is an idea or symbol that
The structure of a story is the main key which provides a better understanding and insight analysis to the reader. The elements of structure are time, setting, and character. Each individual element shapes the world of a story, and outlines the values or information which the writer is trying to the readers. In the articles¡¨Boys¡¨and ¡§Orientation¡¨ we can see totally different structures. By comparing these two stories, the two writers present their stories in totally different ways. The ¡§Boys¡¨
develop different themes and perspectives. These two stories are similar in some ways and different in others because, one is in the Northwest of Arizona vs. the Deep South. Depending on where you are can determine the mood, tone, and sometimes it can even symbolize something. In “This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” the settings change throughout the story. As for “A Rose for Emily” the setting stays the same through the whole story. The setting helps to set the mood, it can have a symbolic
pragmatism. Artistic or literary representation intended as an accurate and idealized portrayal of real life or of the objective world. (page 944, Webster’s New College Dictionary) Throughout Kate Chopin’s writing in “The Story of an Hour” she shows to be a naturalistic writer. Kate uses nature to explain life to her audience with the addition of faith towards God. One of her paragraphs states “she breathed a quick prayer that life might be long.” (page 475, Chopin) On this line Kate is saying that
When people tell stories they tend to be about what they know. One thing that most people know is the environment around them. They pick up habits from their family, friends, and neighbors. They begin to talk like them using dialect and slang inherent to their region. Also, it is not uncommon for people to write about a fictional community that is based from their own community. As community affects how we write, writing can also affect the community. In other words, communities influence authors
However they both look at it a different way. Sherman Alexie was surprised that he became a writer. “Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems (Alexie 498).” When he was younger, Indian children were expected to be school stupid. He overcame that and today he visits schools and teaches creative writing to
that is defined by the culture aspect, gives details about such fascinating and affluent information or context. Certain works, and words used in literature can help the reader understand and describe the sense of the community being read in the story. In addition, it is not uncommon for people to write about an imaginary community that is based from their own community. Community affects how we write; writing can also affect the community. It is clear, communities influence authors of literature
century struggles for securing women's suffrage or voting rights in the western countries, and the later well-organized socio-political movement for women's emancipation from patriarchal oppression. The feminist ideologies began to influence the English literature in India. In the 20th century, women’s writing was considered as a powerful medium of modernism and feminist statements. The majority of the novels depicts the psychological suffering of the frustrated housewife and oppressed lives of women
amount of writers and genres. Poems, novels, and short stories are the main forms of expression, and these were produced by writers from around the world. “Many of the books in the 1970’s revolve around a general theme of man’s alienation from his spiritual roots”(Gillis). One author of the seventies is John Updike. He portrayed his characters “trying to find the meaning in a society spiritually empty and in a state of moral decay”(Gillis). Interest in the 1970’s focused on writers as disparate
Literature reflects life‟ - this was true in the sense that a poet or writer, in composing a literary work, was very often inspired and influenced by some of his/ her own experiences and social surroundings. Literature was a term used to describe written or spoken material. The term was most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Literature was one of the fine arts like music and painting. It was, fundamentals, an
the most acclaimed and idolized writers’ to date. Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18th, 1939 in the Ottawa General Hospital. Two and a half months after the beginning of the Second World War (Atwood). She is a renowned novelist and poet; furthermore writer of short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts and books for children (Gale). Margaret Atwood is a living inspiration to many writers today. Atwood is a fiction, and non-fiction writer. She was born with an inspiration
CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION Literature is a creative art by the literary artist. Literature is the expression of the things in the innovative way. According to C.S. Lewis, “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become”. Literature is the reflection of the human experience; it defines the life experience of several ages. Literature
follow the rhythm and pace of spoken English language. He also has a language requirement: an opera cannot become genuinely English if it is composed to foreign language. He emphasises that Purcell’s work needs to be studied; his works are in connection with the proper musical adaptation, since in Dent’s view Purcell was a master in following the rhythm of the language with the music. He even adds that the original story does not need to be written by an English author. In this chapter I am examining