...the world. Coming of age is always an interesting topic for fiction. Among stories about this topic, Araby, a short story was written by James Joyce, portrayed psycho-physiological changes of young boy accurately and successful. This story is about coming of age of the narrator in which awareness about adult world, loneliness and consequences of idealization of love grow strongly. The young boy in this story was standing in front of the gate of life. He started being aware about adult world. Adult world began with him by love and sexual sensation. He paid attention the Mangan’s sister. He noticed small...
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...families traveling long and far distances to begin a new life, in a new place. Appropriate Age/Grade Level: Elementary Age (7-10 years) Evaluation Criteria: 1. Content The content of this book teaches as it tells a story of a family’s journey from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California in 1869. This book is great for elementary age children who are learning the history of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. As we read this book, we are able to experience the passengers point of view as they passed the time and we are able to experience the sights and the sounds made by the train. We learn how the locomotive operates – with the help of engineers, but also get to experience the trip as it travels across the country....
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...the Dog The Lady with the Dog encompasses a story of star crossed lovers, Dmitri Dimtritch and Anna Sergeyevna, who yearned to be with each other, fighting against all odds. Dmitri is an older gentleman who is married but gets bored quite easily with the married lifestyle and seeks out casual relations with many different women viewing them as just an object. Anna on the other hand is an innocent woman who feels as though she is in a rut with her husband and has lost feelings for him but feels far too guilty to leave him. She does in fact feel as though she needs to be alone or rather enjoying the company of other people by vacationing away from her husband, but why bring a dog into this story? Even though the dog may not seem as it plays a big role in the story it certainly plays a key part where Dmitri uses the dog to create a way to interact with Anna for the first time. However the dog will show up again towards the middle with a different approach but still being a key factor in a deciding moment. There are many cases in this story where you will be led to believe a typical outcome that many love stories have but you will be thrown a curve ball where this might look like more of a tragedy, such as what was seen in Romeo and Juliet. Anton Chekhov, the author, made this story very intriguing by leaving gaps in some parts of the story for the reader to interpret what the outcome would be. I was fascinated with how he left the story hanging in the end leaving my mind to race in...
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...In the short stories, “The Bass, The River, And Sheila Mant” and “Lessons of Love” the narrators have much in common, but multiple differences. The Narrators in both stories are very similar. They are both around the same age. Their love interests are also around the same age. Both narrators go out of their way to impress and see their crushes. The narrator in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” shows off by stating the scientific name of largemouth bass before he starts fishing. The narrator in “Lessons of Love” bribed her brother with treats to drink milk so she could go to the supermarket where her crush worked. Both narrators didn’t end up with their crushes, in “The Bass, The River, And Sheila Mant” the crush leaves with another person and in “Lessons of Love”, it is revealed that the crush had no interest in the narrator after he had kissed her. In both stories the narrators take every chance they can to see their crush. The crushes in the stories are very popular and the narrators aren’t as popular. The narrators are also very different from their crushes. In “The Bass, The River, and Sheila...
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...Romeo And Juliet : Not Acceptable for Ninth Grade Curriculum. Romance could be tragic but it's how lovers cooperate with it. Romeo and Juliet showed that love is tragic especially when situations are being rushed. In the novel of Romeo And Juliet it clearly had showed based on the situations that was being occurred that those couples were a bad example of romance. Since they showed a bad example of being a role model it shouldn't be teacher in a ninth grade curriculum. In this essay i will be covering three different reasons to why Romeo And Juliet shouldn't be taught in a ninth grade curriculum, due to the fact of immatureness students are still which connects to them idolizing actions and taking it as a lesson. First of all, income students in high school are still not matured enough to understand serious situations that's happening in the story. Based and according to my experience in watching the movie i clearly saw the situation that was being occurred that those situations of action are just a silly part of those student’s part of life . As in reality i have actually seen how my other classmates could be so immature when we were watching the movie about Romeo And Juliet. Further on yet there are still students who doesnt consider maturity yet in their age....
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...It was a story of a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one. He was dodong, and he love teang so much that he could not wait for the right age to settle down in a relationship that is hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her regret of she had done and think, what would be my life if i marry my other suitors instead of dodong? Can I have the same life as of now? She regrets so much of!! Until one day, when their son grow. He follows the footsteps of his parents. He wants to marry also at the age of 17. He told his parents what his plans. Dodong have nothing to do but explain how hard and how risky to be in "marriage "at the young age.. But like dodong before, his son also wants to pursue what he wants. The lesson we can learn is that marriage can wait the right time, if we want to be in this stage of life, we must prepare ourselves against the risk of it. I know we can all be in to it if we like too but not at the young age. This would be a lesson for youth like me. Jose Garcia villa is a great write coz aside from having nice story; he also had the point of view where we can have the knowledge of something related to what will happen to us. Analysis Footnote To Youth Footnote to Youth By Jose...
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...Both narrators in “Lessons of Love” by W. D. Wetherell and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” are similar because they both are wanting a hopeless love. One reason that the narrators have no chance with their love is because the “chased” are much older than their pursuers. In the first story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell, the narrator is about 14 years old. Sheila is about 17. So, Sheila is about a senior in high school and the narrator is a freshman. In the second story, “Lessons of Love” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the narrator is “chasing” a handsome senior. However, the narrator is a freshman that is barely noticed. That is quite an age gap and the older “crushes” are more likely to go after people their own...
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...who sacrifices himself must be a hero, for this reason these two terms (hero and sacrificer) cannot be separated. Thus, both of them go hand in hand in so many works of literature. Heroism and sacrifice are not confined to human beings only. Some writers present their heroes as gods as in mythology, and some of them present animals as in fables. 809 0202 / مجلة ديالى العدد الرابع و االربعون The idea of having an animal as a sacrificial hero is shown in many of Oscar Wilde’s short stories. He developed this theme as a reaction towards his age which lacked, in his view, moral as well as human values. For this reason, he chooses a bird to be his tragic hero. He epitomizes this idea in such short stories like “The Nightingale and the Rose” and “The Happy Prince”. The heroes in these two short stories are birds: a swallow in “The Happy prince” and a nightingale in “The Nightingale and the Rose”. These creatures are usually known of their delicacy and frailty. But in these stories they function as sacrificial heroes for the sake of others and tolerate horrible conditions of death just to please people. “The Nightingale and the Rose” is one of Wilde’s best...
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...SUMMARY OF FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH: It was a story of a boy who was only 17 when he decides to marry his love one. He was dodong, and he love teang so much that he could not wait for the right age to settle down in a relationship that is hard to escape. It's the "marriage". At the age of 17 dodong and teang got married without thinking of the risk being in an uneasy part of life. They just follow what they feel. They don't think what would happen in their future. They got a child. Teang realized how hard being a young parent. Her regret of she had done and think, what would be my life if i marry my other suitors instead of dodong? Can I have the same life as of now? She regrets so much of!! Until one day, when their son grow. He follows the footsteps of his parents. He wants to marry also at the age of 17. He told his parents what his plans. Dodong have nothing to do but explain how hard and how risky to be in "marriage "at the young age.. But like dodong before, his son also wants to pursue what he wants. The lesson we can learn is that marriage can wait the right time, if we want to be in this stage of life, we must prepare ourselves against the risk of it. I know we can all be in to it if we like too but not at the young age. This would be a lesson for youth like me. Jose Garcia villa is a great write coz aside from having nice story; he also had the point of view where we can have the knowledge of something related to what will happen to us. Major characters: ...
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...Devoted Love “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a story of an elderly woman’s rough journey. The stories themes are elicited from the symbolism of the journey as well as the encounters that this elderly women Phoenix Jackson faces. The central idea/theme of this story is that love can empower someone to over come many life-threatening obstacles. Phoenix conquers all odds to show her devoted love for her grandson; issues of race, age, and education often are shown throughout the story as well which highly influences the difficulties that Phoenix faces. An African-American woman named Phoenix Jackson lived in the 1930s during the depression. Jackson has to go through discrimination and humiliation all for the love of her grandson. All of the encounters that Phoenix Jackson faces on her journey known as the “worn path” are all examples of the how the white people treated the blacks in this era. A white hunter helps Phoenix out of a ditch after she tripped and fell in it. He says, “I know you old colored people! Wouldn’t miss going to town to see Santa Clause!” (273). He is referring to Phoenix as a colored person. Then he also taunts her and points a loaded gun at her. “Doesn’t the gun scare you?” (273). She explains that she is not scared of the gun and then he says that she must be 100 years old because nothing scares her. “Whites would often call older blacks “aunt,” “granny,” and “uncle” to as a way of denying them their dignity” (Herman). He calls her “Granny” with almost...
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...During the Romantic Age a new form of American literature began to emerge. Many writers of this time period incorporated ideas of the supernatural, great use of imagination, an emphasis on the individual person rather than God, and many other elements. Writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Washington Irving are representatives of their literary age because their works exhibit these Romantic ideals. In the short story "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, many romantic characteristics including supernatural events and enthusiasm for life are very prominent throughout the story. Prince Prospero shows his enthusiasm for life by inviting one thousand of the towns wealthiest people to his abbey in order to seal them...
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...them all. Sometimes a smell, taste or a look at another thing can make them appear again. In the short story In the National Gallery written by Doris Lessing a memory of a childhood love appears in an older man’s head again. By seeing a girl, who looks like one of his further loves, he suddenly remembers how his love was. He suddenly remembers how it was to be ignored and not to be seen. The short story is a description of the man’s passion for his childhood love, which never really came out of sight and almost was killed by more than forty-eight years, until the French girl appears in the Gallery. Whether it is good that memories reappear, you have to find that out for yourself. In this quote: “My intention was simple” (line 1), it is very clear that the narrator is a 1st person narrator. The person uses her/his voice to describe what is happening at the National Gallery. The narrator acts passively through almost everything in the story, and the only situation were the narrator does more than just observe, is when the narrator talks with an older man about his first love, at the same time that the French girl sits alone on the bench. This is the only time in the short story where the narrator actually has a role in comprehension of what there will happen later. The old man gets attracted by the narrator to take action, because the narrator comments on the old man’s story and make the old man agree on what he says. When we deal with a 1st person narrator, it is almost always...
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...of death and lost love. He loved his wife “Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe”. The author’s wife Virginia died because of “tuberculosis”. In fact, both “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” stories are about loss of his love, and the hoping of reuniting with her wife someday. Both of the stories deal with religious concepts of souls, angels and demons. These two stories illustrate Romanticism as symbolized by love, emotion, imagination. Both of these stories are haunting yet show how beautiful their love was. Both of these stories have similarity and differences. “The Raven” is narrative poem, it was written in year 1845. The poem shows the emotions of a young man whose wife Lenore died. The Raven is a bird. The bird is the representation of death, and the loss of Lenore. The bird only speaks one word "Nevermore” and that is the...
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...knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended."Ian McEwan (2010, p.287) This paper analyses the characters of Leo and Briony from the two novels “The Go-Between” and “Atonement”respectively. Both characters of the novel havesame background story and also a dream to become writers.They were also good writers since childhood but the critical situations in their lives never let them meet their dreams until they grew older and got the chance to inscribe all they want in their lives (Ingersoll, 2004). This paper reviewsthe beautiful dedications of the writers namely, L. P. Harley and Ian McEwan of the above mentioned novels respectively. Background “Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I did not want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner” by L.P. Hartley (2011, p.76) Writing skills are not taught but the true writers are the born writers and their skills are not meant to be timely instead their growing agespolishes them and at the adequate timethey do write the masterpieces no matter what subject they have like in these novels the main characters are two kids with growing age and an environment where they did a mistake for which they paid back by writing these inscriptions. Another prospective that seems to be visible in these novels is to show the readers that how the real readers are born and how theystart...
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...Moreover, in Kawabata’s novels, he explores sensuality and death. In Thousand Cranes, Kawabata presents themes that are twisted yet perverse. The story involves incest, eroticism, and unrequited love. Charged sexual energy, guilt, and dread warp the characters into caricatures of the optimistic adolescents that they were at the beginning of the novel. Throughout the novel, Kawabata capitalizes on dramatic sexuality and death (). In “The Izu Dancer,” the main character, a young man who is eerily similar to Kawabata, idealizes a fledgling dancer that he encounters, neglecting to acknowledge the grotesqueness that peeks from behind her flirtatious mask (). The story ends on a bitter note; the main character parts from the dancer, echoing...
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