...Spirted The short story “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston is about a man who steals another man’s wife from him, and shoot and kills the husband then dies from being in an accident at the mill. The town knows about the affair and what the husband Joe to do coming about. Karma happens when a person does wrong like killing, lying, and stealing. Men feel that they have to is masculinity in order to have a woman but don’t realize the dangers. Spunk as being very known around town he the type of person who goes for what he wants and achieve at it. He is wrong to take another man’s wife but when you have a lively spirt it doesn’t matter to a person. Spunk feels that he is powerful and no one can defeat him. Joe unlike Spunk is weaker and gets killed because of listing to others and feeling less of a man The reader can feel bad for poor Joe but he gains the courage to go against Spunk which of course was not the smartest thing to do but he wanted his wife back he says, “Ah’m goin’ an’ fetch her back, Spunk’s done gone too fur.” (215) He knows he has to get his wife back from Spunk so he can stop being the clown of the town and he loves and missing her even with her being a terrible wife. The dialogue in the short story was hard to understand and it that is very bad because most of...
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...“Spunk” A Literary Analysis “Spunk” A Literary Analysis Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901. She was raised in Eatonville, Florida. Zora went to Howard University and progressed on to Barnard College. Zora’s work reflected the use of African American legends in her short stories. Zora Hurston is a vital figure who composed stories and plays during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. She was committed to telling the stories of many cultures to allocate their social legacy with deference and love with an end goal to beat the unrefined stereotyping of the period. In 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora wrote a story called “Spunk”. In the story “Spunk”, Zora used the literary terms like character, setting, and conflict that catches the reader’s attention and makes the story “Spunk” a page turner. Zora used the literacy term character in her story “Spunk”, to give the readers an idea about the character personalities. The term character was also used to help the readers to connect with the characters in the story, making the story very interesting. “Spunk”, started out by describing “a giant of a brown skinned man ...” (Hurston, 1925, 502). The character described in the previous sentence, we later found out his name is Spunk Banks. Spunk Banks is described as a giant muscular man who is fearless and confident, which makes everyone scared of him. “But that’s one thing Ah likes about Spunk Banks – he ain’t skeered of nothin’ on God’s green...
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...Proceeding for the School of Visual Arts Eighteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists: Art and Story CONTENTS SECTION ONE: Marcel’s Studio Visit with Elstir……………………………………………………….. David Carrier SECTION TWO: Film and Video Narrative Brief Narrative on Film-The Case of John Updike……………………………………. Thomas P. Adler With a Pen of Light …………………………………………………………………… Michael Fink Media and the Message: Does Media Shape or Serve the Story: Visual Storytelling and New Media ……………………………………………………. June Bisantz Evans Visual Literacy: The Language of Cultural Signifiers…………………………………. Tammy Knipp SECTION THREE: Narrative and Fine Art Beyond Illustration: Visual Narrative Strategies in Picasso’s Celestina Prints………… Susan J. Baker and William Novak Narrative, Allegory, and Commentary in Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt…… William B. Sieger A Narrative of Belonging: The Art of Beauford Delaney and Glenn Ligon…………… Catherine St. John Art and Narrative Under the Third Reich ……………………………………………… Ashley Labrie 28 15 1 22 25 27 36 43 51 Hopper Stories in an Imaginary Museum……………………………………………. Joseph Stanton SECTION FOUR: Photography and Narrative Black & White: Two Worlds/Two Distinct Stories……………………………………….. Elaine A. King Relinquishing His Own Story: Abandonment and Appropriation in the Edward Weston Narrative………………………………………………………………………….. David Peeler Narrative Stretegies in the Worlds of Jean Le Gac and Sophe Calle…………………….. Stefanie Rentsch...
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