Explore how your chosen short story uses the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. ... The main convention behind a short story is its length and as such, the author of such a genre must condense, whilst still presenting a central theme as well as provide an entertaining and engaging story. In order to do so, authors employ certain elements of narratives to further develop the reader's engagement and understanding of ...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author's purpose of entertaining readers is reached through the use of literary techniques. ... The diction that Kate Chopin uses throughout this passage and the whole book was chosen very carefully. The diction was chosen to make readers feel a certain way by the specific words she uses. ...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author of the poem is unknown, as is the exact date of its origin. ... One of the main themes of the poem is that of the cross feeling at the same time both shame and glory "shame that men could murder Christ as they were and that it was the instrument of that murder, and glory that it had been chosen to bear Christ in his journey toward bestowing absolution upon all mankind. ... The author did not even attempt to hide his regard for the Anglo-Saxon culture and mind, in fact, he does and excellent job of convincing almost anyone of the philosophical and intellectual superiority of t...

• Word Count: 1012
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In both poems, both authors use these two elements to convey the disruption civilization has put upon nature. ... Civilization has chosen technology over nature and thus nature is being cut short in life. ...

• Word Count: 676
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...

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

Beowulf represents the author's intended response to Grendel's debilitating questions about the meaning of life. ... Life itself is a long and pointless irrelevance, and so, to fill his days, he has chosen the most irrelevant task he can imagine: he steals and viciously protects huge amounts of gold. ...

• Word Count: 946
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In seeking to improve his view of the canyon, man has chosen to make canyon conform to man, not man to canyon, as it was meant to be. ... He reads with great interest, believing he has found a true treasure of an unknown but great ancient author. ...

• Word Count: 2207
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

After all, the Author and Giver of the gifts certainly should know the best way those gifts should be used and be able to order the way in which they are to be used. ... God does not hide the meaning of His word, and it's a dangerous step not to take it at face value but rather to impose theories on the text that the author never intended. ...

• Word Count: 2488
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The capos were chosen only from the prisoners whose character promised to make them suitable for such procedures, and if they didn't comply with what was expected of them they were immediately demoted. ... Frankl is a great well known author. ...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is the struggle with literature because a reader wants to figure out the author's intent as opposed to figuring it out through creativity and originality. ... Even though there could be multiple interpretations of this poem, if any punctuation mark were changed, or if a different word were chosen, it could change an entire meaning of the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School