...Interpret the sighting in several ways (is it real? Is it imagined?), supplying support for your suppositions. How does the sighting reflect upon the characters involved (supply evidence) Use actual quotes from the text and cite them in your analysis. “He did stand there!- but high up , beyond the lawn and at the very top of the tower to which, on that first morning, little flora had conducted me.”(p.27) This shows evidence that it possibly is a ghost by the absurdity that he could be standing on one of the tallest points on the property. This also brings the first supernatural element to the story that can be supported. However she has no concrete evidence that it is a ghost because she is relying on her vision as evidence. “An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman…”(p.28) This possibly means her mind could be playing tricks on her. She says its normal for woman under her circumstances to fear certain situations such as a “unknown man” and she could be seeing things. 2. Describe everything about the ghost sighting on page 34. Interpret the sighting in several ways (is it real? Is it imagined?), supplying support for your suppositions. How does the sighting reflect upon the characters involved (supply evidence) Use actual quotes from the text and cite them in your analysis. “He remained but a few seconds-long enough to convince me he also saw and recgnised; but it was as if I had been looking at him for years and had known...
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...FICTION ESSAY WRITING STYLE USED: APA OUTLINE I. THESIS: A thorough analysis of Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” reveals that different literary elements, such as tone and setting, are used to convey the characters’ arrival at dark, sinister places. II. INTRODUCTION III. SHIRLEY JACKSON’S “THE LOTTERY” A. Setting the tone: Peaceful and relaxing B. Irony: Even though the mood is relaxing, there is a premonition of something bad to come C. Ending: The ending is implied IV. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S “YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN” D. Setting the tone: feeling of something evil to come E. Symbolism i. Faith – the wife and commitment to Jesus ii. Venture in to the forest – Journey of life iii. Traveler’s staff – Satan in the Garden of Eden F. Ending: Was it real or was it a dream? V. CONCLUSION A thorough analysis of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” reveals that different literary elements, such as tone and setting, are used to convey the characters’ arrival at dark, sinister places. Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” are two short stories that use completely opposite ways to get to the same destination: a dark, sinister place. Both stories are very dark, and almost morbid, but one story keeps the reader oblivious to the tragic event that is being set up, while the other story lays it...
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...thirteen year old son who died from cancer. The main plot of the story actually happened, but some of the events and characters were changed to make a better story. My analysis of this story will include a summary, my opinion on the story, and why I think the editors included this short story in Best American Short Stories of 2012. The short story begins with the main character Dylan trying to get his brother Nate to play with him. When Nate turns him down, Dylan goes to his mother to try to find something to do. She comes up with the idea to go skiing. The reader gets the first hint that something is wrong with Nate when the mother says they will go skiing if “Nate’s feeling well enough” (269). This also shows that Nate gets most of the attention from his mom because of his condition. As they are on their way to the mountains, the reader sees the daredevil inside of Dylan when he tries to get his mother to drift their car in the snow. Next, Nate’s problem is foreshadowed when Dylan says, “I wish I had cancer” (271). After Dylan says this, his mother slams on the brakes and begins to scold him. When they arrive at the slopes, Nate immediately spots a beautiful girl with a group of teenagers. Of course, when his family goes down the slope, Dylan is in a race and is the first one to make it to the bottom. When the family finally makes it back to the top of the next slope, Nate collapses in the snow. Dylan sees the beautiful girl going to the advanced slope and decides to follow her...
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...Chapter 14 Mendel and the Gene Idea Lecture Outline Overview • Every day we observe heritable variations (such as brown, green, or blue eyes) among individuals in a population. • These traits are transmitted from parents to offspring. • One possible explanation for heredity is a “blending” hypothesis. ° This hypothesis proposes that genetic material contributed by each parent mixes in a manner analogous to the way blue and yellow paints blend to make green. ° With blending inheritance, a freely mating population will eventually give rise to a uniform population of individuals. ° Everyday observations and the results of breeding experiments tell us that heritable traits do not blend to become uniform. • An alternative model, “particulate” inheritance, proposes that parents pass on discrete heritable units, genes, that retain their separate identities in offspring. ° Genes can be sorted and passed on, generation after generation, in undiluted form. • Modern genetics began in an abbey garden, where a monk named Gregor Mendel documented a particulate mechanism of inheritance. A. Gregor Mendel’s Discoveries 1. Mendel brought an experimental and quantitative approach to genetics. • Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity by breeding garden peas in carefully planned experiments. • Mendel grew up on a small farm in what is today the Czech Republic. • In 1843, Mendel entered an Augustinian monastery. • He...
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...The Gay Agenda: LGBT Leading Characters on Primetime TV I. Introduction In 1997 Ellen DeGeneres came out on national television. I was 14 years old, watching that historical moment in complete rapture. I remember thinking that the world had just changed forever; that my world had just changed forever. Unfortunately Ellen’s moment didn't last too long as her show was soon canceled, her career seemingly over. Fast forward 17 years and Ellen’s courageous moment seems so long ago, as we have progressed so much since then, that it can easily slip the mind. Ellen is back on top with a smash hit talk show, and a bevy of LGBT identified folks and television characters are right along with her at the top. Gay rights are the hot button “issue” of the current time. You could argue that it’s a the new civil rights movement, an abomination of “traditional family values”, or simply an elaborate horse and pony show to distract us from the real issues. Regardless of how you view it, the point is, you are still talking about it. As an LGBT identified person myself, and one who lives in a politically liberal bubble, I know that my perception of this movement is somewhat skewed. I have the privilege of living my life in the open and along the way exposing all kinds of folks to a new or unfamiliar way of life. However I often wonder what it is like to live in Middle America. What is it like to go to the grocery store, pick your kids up from school, or on a date and never see an LGBT identified...
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... Sullivan finishes Dale's project and discovers that current volatility in the firm's portfolio of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) will soon exceed the historical volatility levels of the positions. Because of excessive leverage, if the firm's assets decrease by 25% in value, the firm will suffer a loss greater than its market capitalization. He also discovers that, given the normal length of time that the firm holds such securities, this loss must occur. Sullivan alerts Emerson, who calls floor head Sam Rogers. The employees remain at the firm for a series of meetings with progressively more senior executives, including division head, Jared Cohen, the chief risk management officer, and finally CEO John Tuld. Cohen's plan is for the firm to quickly sell all of the toxic assets before the market learns of their worthlessness, thereby limiting the firm's exposure, a course favored by Tuld over Rogers's strong objection… Les personnages There are several key charaters in the movie Margin Call. First of all, we have Eric Dale, the financial Analyst, who is dismissed. This is an important character because it’s thanks to him indirectly,...
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...Analysis of “Walking the dog” by Bernard Mac Laverty Often society can be a weird entity. It can abuse its power, and make its citizens scapegoats. Often people tend to be naïve and believe in what society tells them, but what happens when society is no longer governed by people with justice and sympathy? In Bernard Mac Laverty’s “Walking the dog” (1994), Mac Laverty is capable of lighten this problem. In the story, Mac Laverty is trying to show that when citizens do not respond to society’s challenges, they become dogs on a leash for a minor group of people who abuse their power to stand their ground. The story lightens the way people should stand their ground and become independent of society’s leash. The short story starts in medias res, as the main character, John Shields, leaves his house to walk his dog, on a normal evening just at the beginning of the nine O’clock news. To add is the environment described very naturally with no subjective opinions or inputs. The language is very informal, and there is used slang, such as “C’mere” and “Aye, mebby” which indicates that they are living in Northern Ireland. In addition, the language is neutral and does not have any indirect opinion to the story, consequently no positive or negative loaded words, which makes the language simple. The story is told by a third person narrator, which has a limited point of view. The narrator is neutral in the way that it has no opinion towards the...
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...Jack Holt Ad Analysis 10/6/11 Ethos When someone wants to persuade another person to believe something they use different types of rhetoric to try and convey their message. One of the types of rhetorical appeals is ethos, which uses character conveys to their message. An ad for a Pantene hair product uses this appeal. In the ad the actress Eva Mendes is the main focus; she covers around three quarters of the page and the picture is mostly of her head. Her hair is down and very prominent. Right next to her face is the Pantene logo in big letters. Underneath the picture is a quote long from Eva Mendes with certain words highlighted, a small picture of the products, and subtitle which says “Zero Fear of Breakage 100% More Strength”. This ad is in People magazine which targets women ages 20 to 50, most of whom are buying hair products. By using Eva Mendes as a spokes person creates an ethological appeal. The composition of the image forces the audience to focus on her long flowing hair. The message is that since Eva Mendes, successful and beautiful actress, who clearly has great hair uses this product, you are too. People are more likely to trust an ad with Eva Mendes in it then just a normal model because people are more familiar with her and know her character. Logos Another rhetorical appeal that companies use in advertising is logos; this targets the consumer’s logic to persuade him/her into buying their product. Aprica uses this appeal in their “MOTO” stroller...
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...An Introduction to R Notes on R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics Version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith and the R Core Team This manual Copyright c Copyright c Copyright c Copyright c Copyright c is for R, version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16). 1990 W. N. Venables 1992 W. N. Venables & D. M. Smith 1997 R. Gentleman & R. Ihaka 1997, 1998 M. Maechler 1999–2015 R Core Team Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the R Core Team. i Table of Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Introduction and preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 2 Intrinsic attributes: mode and length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Comprehensive Literary Analysis “The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.”-Dalai Lama Literary works present culture, philosophy, and deep truths about the nature of humanity, but the interpretation of these texts is left solely to the reader. Analysis is the ability to understand the fundamental concepts of information received in any form by breaking down the complexities into essential features and their relations. One’s interpretation may change one’s view of the world or entertain them but, in seeking the purpose of the information one is presented one is able to question fundamental concepts and create his or her own ideologies. Kaiji the ultimate survivor is a literary text that tackles many these ideologies that one may...
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...Short Stories - On Her Knees analysis “On Her Knees” is a short story written by Tim Winton the year of 2004. Its key themes are family, proof and pride. The setting of “On her Knees” is supposed to be in New Zealand since Tim Winton is from New Zealand. Most of the story takes part in this wealthy woman's home where the cleaner there is the narrator's mom. The house contains a lot of 'knick-knacks' and normal modern/expensive stuff that wealthy people own in their houses. The year of the story is probably the same year as it was written, in 2004. The main characters in this story is the narrator, Victor, and his mom who is a cleaner. Another character which is not actually 'live' in the story, but since they are both in her house cleaning, we learn a lot about this 'snobby' rich woman which in fact doesn't look so mean as she seems to be in the pictures of her in the house. Victor is a young adult in University who is very skeptic about things, especially rich people who he for sure is not really fond of. His mother is a very friendly but also a hard-working mom regarding cleaning all of these rich peoples houses. She is very proud of her fame, and has a lot of pride for what she does. The plot of “On her Knees” is about the narrator and his mom who cleans for a living. In the story, the boy's mother gets a note from one of the rich women she cleans for saying that she suspects that the narrator's mom stole her $500 earrings and that she is fired but that she first...
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...Spencer Holcomb Professor Gary Enns ENGL 101 (32106) Essay 4: Analysis 29 April 2014 What is Normal? It can be so easy for us as humans to point out how different each of us are from one another. But, do we ever stop and acknowledge how much we are actually alike? Has it ever crossed your mind as to how similar you are to other human beings? Although two humans may seem so different due to their background, race, gender, culture, etc…, each desires similar wants and needs. As identified in Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, every human has similar needs and some take precedence over others. Shown in the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the character known as “The Monster,” symbolizes someone who is “different” and how others react to this character as well as what this character wants and needs are. However, if we look closely and take into account the needs that motivate all human beings, we can see that the monster may not be so different after all. To begin, lets take a deeper look into the characters of the novel Frankenstein. It seems that throughout the entire story, Shelly is showing how different the monster is from Victor and the rest of society. She is using the monster as a symbol of someone who is not normally accepted into everyday society. As stated by Stephen T. Asma in the article, “Monsters and the Moral Imagination,” “our liberal culture, we dramatize the rage of the monstrous creature and Frankenstein’s is a good example—then scold ourselves...
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...Analysis of If I Stay If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a very unforgettable novel. The story is about a seventeen- year- old girl named Mia who has a perfect life. She has a supporting family, a caring best friend, a beautiful boyfriend, and a strong interest in classical music which lead to her applying to Juilliard. One snow day, Mia’s family decides to take a drive to their grandparent’s house for the day. The roads are very slippery which causes a huge car crash killing Mia’s family instantly. When emergency help arrives, Mia is still alive. She is rushed to the hospital in a deep state of a coma. Her body is left in a sleep-like state but her mind is still aware of her surroundings causing her to walk around without anyone seeing her. Throughout the novel, Mia recalls many memories of her life before the crash which helps her to choose to leave or stay. If I Stay is a good novel because it contains well-developed characters, themes that are relatable, and several interesting incidents that influence the outcome of the novel. One of the elements that made this novel memorable is the well- developed characters. In If I Stay, Mia is a hardworking cellist in a rock-n-roll family. She had everything a normal teenage girl would have: a loving family, and adoring boyfriend, and a future full of success for the future in music. But, a tragic crash turns Mia’s normal existence upside down. She is left in a coma state that lets her spirit self walk around the hospital while her...
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...that contemporary television shows are superior to contemporary films. He supports his claim by comparing television shows and movies in terms of characters and the plot. I agree with Charpentier’s thesis.At the beginning of his article Charpentier says “Steven Spielberg and George Lucas put out doomsday-esque statements about the end of movies as we know them” (Charpentier 308). Both Spielberg and Lucas are directors of credible movies. The fact that he uses movie directors as an example makes it easier to agree with his argument. All of the examples he uses in his article provide evidence that supports his claim and make his claim stronger. A character is a person in either a novel, film, or television show. Characters in television shows and in films are very different. Charpentier says “committing to a series involves watching dozens of...
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...ANALYZING NOVELS & SHORT STORy Good feedback is kind, thorough and timely. It’s professional and focused. It leaves the writer feeling challenged to do better but great about their strengths. Even if that just means the location they chose was cool. Give your feedback relative to the skill set of the writer. Never lie or obfuscate. Just serve it up gently. An upset writer isn’t going to hear your points anyway. But an encouraged one will. Trust me on this. — Julie Gray PRINTER FRIENDLY PAGE Literary analysis looks critically at a work of fiction in order to understand how the parts contribute to the whole. When analyzing a novel or short story, you’ll need to consider elements such as the context, setting, characters, plot, literary devices, and themes. Remember that a literary analysis isn’t merely a summary or review, but rather an interpretation of the work and an argument about it based on the text. Depending on your assignment, you might argue about the work’s meaning or why it causes certain reader reactions. This handout will help you analyze a short story or novel—use it to form a thesis, or argument, for your essay. Summary Begin by summarizing the basic plot: “Matilda by Roald Dahl is about a gifted little girl in small town America who learns to make things move with her mind and saves her teacher and school from the evil principal.” This will help ground you in the story. (When you write your paper, you probably won’t include a summary because your readers...
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