World Literature essays:
Specified quotes from "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. Categories are mood, silence, and father/son conflict.
... Okonkwo and the other detainees return from the prison, the narrator describes the scene: "they walked silently...the village was astir in a silent, suppressed way" (199). Achebe delineates the discontent of the Africans through their silent, and to a point, negative emotions. Although the ...
What is Love in "On Meeting My 100 Percent Woman One Fine April Morning" by Haruki Murakami
... story. In the story "On Meeting My 100 Percent Woman One Fine April Morning" by Haruki Murakami, the author creates a story which attacks the reader's emotions and experiences in love. Notice that the first description of the "100 percent woman" the narrator ...
Analysis of Koroviev's (Fagot's) Character in Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita"
... no one but a demon and a knight, right hand of the devil himself. Fagot's main purpose, function is to help Woland , or what's more interesting the author himself, to expose the substance of negative phenomena in human society, to show it to everyone. In the beginning of the novel we first ...
"Quiet Odyssey" by Mary Paik Lee.
... of the already-present financial responsibilities. As for the emotional discontent they faced, they could do nothing else but to "carry on" (p. 61). The mental discomfort Lee and her family lives with caused by their knowledge of the status quo is uncomfortable, but at the same time, portrays the ...
Consider the power of the Inner Journey to challenge your thinking in Morgans 'My Place', Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Attwood's poem 'Journey to the interior.'
... of immediacy and closeness; the reader experiences Sally's journey and realisations as they occur. Conrad's choice for "Heart of Darkness" to be written as a frame-tale, distancing the responder from the actual story as the narrator interrupts it on occasion, is reflective of the ...
"Tommorow when the war began" by John Marsden Evil is a human invention
... the cruelty (and evil) of war by describing the dogs seen dead in the start of the story Overall, all of this is one of the key aspects which make the whole idea (war) sound and look "evil" to the group. From what they've been through, the group also has been psychologically and emotionally ...
"Ports of Call" by Amin Maalouf
... the final scene where the composer has become personally involved and is observing the reunion. This is a climactic narrative device that dramatically heightens our emotional engagement in the closing pages of the text as the anonymous narrator guides our final perceptions of the novel ...
"Okefenokee Swamp" - An AP essay about a common article about the natural beauty of Okefenokee Swamp.
... of objectivity and solid truth for entertainment value and vividness. All of this implies that the primary purpose of the author is not to inform, but rather, to instill a distinct mood and emotional essence of the swamp in the reader. The rich imagery in this passage reflects this purpose ...
The Quest for Racial Identity in Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea"
... and end, Rhys starts her own narrative. The narrator is the madwoman but her tale is the young Antoinette's. The theme is the fear and the possibility of losing one's whiteness. The very first sentences of the novel set the tone: "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the ...
The Manifestation of Imagery
... narration, Hagedorn, is able to us the character of Rio Gonzaga who demonstrates how the transverse nature of the spectacle is used in this text. The reader is exposed to how the spectacle is a varied part of kind of environment Rio lives in. The play is indicative of this and ...