The purpose of this is to increase the reader's interest in the story and keep his or her attention. A literary device used by many authors is symbolism or, more distinctly, personification. Personification helps the author to establish mood and to build imagery in a piece of writing. ... The author continues to paint a vivid picture of what the house is experiencing. ... Bradbury uses symbolic language like personification to give his writing life and to connect with his audience. ...

• Word Count: 813
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Harold insisted that he was going to do business his way and that the purpose of owning a business was strictly to make a profit. ... In writing the story, James McPherson takes an objective view and tells the story from two perspectives - Harold and Nelson Reed. ... When Green does offer groceries for free, the author vividly depicts the protesters fighting over goods, now that they could take them for free. ... Green's customers - and the author leaves the reader to determine who is greedier; is it the grocer who worked hard to make his business grow or the protesters who took all the f...

• Word Count: 588
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

From the way the author organizes and it seems that the author's purpose in writing the book not was not only as an informational analysis of the 1890s but also to show how trends in the past can significantly effect our lives in the future. ...

• Word Count: 504
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When writing his memoir Mandelstam mentions many heart ripping truths. ... Intimidation was the main purpose of the terror not to keep people safe and secure like police work was supposed to do. ... The author reviled painful thought provoking ideas of killing and deep fear. ...

• Word Count: 438
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The theme of a story conveys the idea of the author, but it is not usually clearly stated in the novel. ... According to Sherry Lee Linkon, Animal Dreams has a main theme of the importance of women's relationships with each other and states how several other women authors with a contemporary writing style have dealt with connections and trials between women in their own works of fiction (3). ... As noted by Paul Gray, Barbara Kingsolver's novel contains a theme of eco-feminism; a kind, gentle type of writing with women relying on themselves and one another, trying to save the...

• Word Count: 1050
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Eliot's Rhapsody on a Windy Night This poem seemed to have no purpose but to tell a story at first, but after rereading it, I found many interesting things that point to something bigger, however, I am not sure what. ... The author then speaks of the child's eyes and the things he has seen in the street. He just leads one thing into another, as if writing everything that occurs in his mind when he sees something. ...

• Word Count: 470
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The purpose of the passage is to show that love itself tis stronger than any bond. ... It uses simplified language and uses a contrast between 2 different writing styles. ... The author uses this literary device to show the Mama Elena is doing everything she can to separate Pedro and Tita. ...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He has no purpose in life; he just searches. ... Throughout the novel, Patrick becomes like the people he associates with, and he gains a temporary identity and purpose. ... They all have purpose for riding the bus, a destination they want to reach and eventually they get off and leave Patrick behind. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

I was interested to see what this meant, or at least to the dictionary authors. It stated that pornography was a noun that represented any sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. ...

• Word Count: 2686
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Ironically, although it is indeed a fire that lures a ship to the island, it is not an ordered, controlled signal fire but rather the haphazard forest fire Jack's hunters set solely for the purpose of killing Ralph. ... The novel's sales enabled Golding to retire from teaching and devote himself fully to writing. ... Although he never matched the popular and critical success he enjoyed with "Lord of the Flies," he remained a respected and distinguished author for the rest of his life and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. ... Golding employs a relatively straightfo...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School