norms presents a character to be brave and stimulate, not only internal, but external conflict within a story. Alice Munro produces “Boys and Girls” in which the narrator represents the main character and the tomboy archetype. With that, the narrator enjoys working alongside her father outdoors versus working indoors alongside her mother. Oppressive factors surround the narrator throughout the story. In “Boys and Girls,” a rowdy, retired horse and the tomboyish narrator share correlating, righteous
one of the kindest hearts of all the land and would never have the courage to confront Cinderella, so she just goes along accepting every person for who they are and never
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests List the parts of speech. Answer the following questions regarding the short story Flowers for Algernon. List the main characters? Algernon Alice Kinnian Professor Harold Nemur Dr. Strauss Fay Lillman Identify the static and dynamic characters. Explain why each character has been identified as static and dynamic. Dynamic: Charlie Gordon,he changes traits
June Jordan once said, “I am Black and I am female and I am a mother and I am bisexual and I am a nationalist and I am an anti-nationalist. And I mean to be fully and freely all that I am” (Benston 751.) She was an activist in what she believed in, and she did not hold back in her writing. Jordan wrote about being a black woman during the civil rights era and how after hundreds of years, the black woman is still looked at as inferior to man. In the poem, “Poem about my Rights,” she makes a reference
outer space. Often time fantasy as a genre allows the writer to imagine a place or time in the future, with a different landscape to what we would have ever have seen in present day reality. The beauty of fantasy is that, in most cases, the plot or story the author is trying to tell, is often inconceivable and would not be able to exist
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and