In Junot Diaz’s “Drown”, there is a recurring theme of drowning in Yunior’s life. Yunior is drowning from the bad decisions he makes. Although, Beto had some influence on Yunior’s life, it was mostly Yunior that is making him drown. In a way, Beto is the one who pushes Yunior underwater, but it is Yunior that chooses to stay under the water—both literally and figuratively. When Yunior knew something that Beto didn’t, Beto would physically drown Yunior to get that information out of him, “He put his
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The Rhinoceros Beetle is a passage that Susan Hawthorne wrote about a guy who's from town and fearless of anything that might be scary for other. He had several insects that he played with and used to threaten his classmates. Besides, he was the intelligent kid who knew about the insects most specifically and details. The tone of the story or passage seems to be scary. The word and language level of the author in this passage suggests the tone to be scary. For example, in the sixth paragraph
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The Narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a quite rare style for most readers. In this story, we find the narrator to be first person and a bit unreliable. This man kills his housemate at midnight because of his vulture-like eye. Some might ask if he is responsible for it even though he is a bit... coo-coo in the head. In this case, I’ll be answering with: some people are more mentally-ill than others, some are still realizing what they’re thinking and some don’t. In this case, we are unsure about
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Literary works like Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker," and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" show characteristics of the American Romantic Age. All of these stories have an emphasis on emotions rather than intellect and tend to reject realism and accept idealism. In Hawthorne's tale, he writes of an eccentric Dr. Heidegger who invites four of his elderly friends to his study to partake in one of his new experiments. This story exemplifies
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The focus of this report is a book by American author Maggie Stiefvater called The Raven Boys. This is the first book out of four books in a series titled The Raven Cycle. The Raven Boys was published September 18, 2013 by Scholastic Press. This book is an young adult fantasy novel, and it has won many Literary Awards. It is about a girl who’s somewhat simple everyday life, is into something completely different. The Raven Boys focuses on a teenage girl named Blue Sargent. Ever since she was a kid
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The short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe,” both are suspenseful. Both authors used suspense to slow time and create a sense of danger. Suspense can be felt in the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” when General Zaroff is hunting Rainsford. Rainsford is in a tree hiding when the narrator says, “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree”(Connell 32). The reader can feel the sense of
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Evening Hawk In his poem, “Evening Hawk”, Robert Warren admires the grace, elegance and strength with which the hawk flies through the night and in order to do so he uses many language techniques, but primarily diction and syntax. The speaker in the poem is watching the flight of a hawk in awe of its steadfast strength, set against the similar strength of its background. Warren best shows the strength of the scene, as well as his admiration for the hawk through complex diction and flowing syntax
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Edgar Allen Poe is a writer that wrote The Masque of the Red Death in 1845 one quote that he Had that related to the story was “The boundaries which divide life from death are the best and Shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins,” Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe has a lot of allegory in most stories he writes like in the House of Usher he had some allegory but in the masque of The Red Death he had quite a bit more Allegory then he did in the House of Usher
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mentally ill because he had an obsession to save an old man from his own eye. The narrator had an obsession with the old man’s eye because he felt that the eye was evil and he needed to save the old man that he loved from the “vulture-eye” (evil eye) (Poe, 89). But by doing so, the narrator fails to see that by “saving” him he would actually kill him. Also, the narrator sees that the “vulture-eye” is completely separate from the old man’s physical
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Setting’s Influence on Mood and Tone The setting of “The Masque of the Red Death” gives an eerie feeling to the story. In the book, it mentions that the seven rooms all have “…windows…of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations in the chamber,” except for the last room, which is black with red windows. This builds suspense, as the reader can infer that there is something special about the room, especially because its windows are red, and that is the
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