This book is narrated by “Scout” the main character, where the story is told from her eyes, telling what she saw and heard at the time and augmenting this narration with thoughts and assessments of her experiences. Lee was creative with first person by having Scout act like she was telling a story about her childhood
Literary Analysis Rough Draft Among the many peculiar short stories of Poe, "The Tell Tale Heart" has come to be known as one of the most mysterious and psychologically captivating. The short story commences as the narrator describes that he is extremely nervous. He wants to kill an old man simply because the sight of his pale blue eye disgusts him to a severe extent. As he approaches the old man, he hears a noise such as a watch when enveloped in cotton; that noise was the old man’s heart beating
Is Molly a strong female character beyond the fact that she can throw a punch with the greatest of ease? Why or why not? Molly is a street samurai, mercenary, bionic bodyguard hired by Armitage to protect Case and to infiltrate the facilities for missions. The technologically modified make Molly physically strong to be a killing machine. She has cool features that built-in razors in her nails like claws and the “mirrored glasses” surgically inserted in her eyes with night vision. She wears “black
The ISU Novel Analysis: Page one: Plot Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is written in a very unorthodox type of way. The story is mostly about the bombings of Dresden, Germany, and about how people are affected by war. The story revolves around protagonist Billy Pilgrim, a man that has been "unstuck in time." This means that the adventures of Billy are constantly being revisited and the reader is being brought along and jumped around from memory to memory. Since Vonnegut experienced and survived
Mercury isn’t really good for anything, is it? It’s a poison and very, very deadly. And not to mention it’s quick and smooth, kinda like our fiery character, Mercutio. Hm. Mercutio is a deadly sword fighter, and most good swordsmen are fluid in their work, one quick strike and the opponent is dead. The opponent in Romeo and Juliet is a well matched fighter, but a tying a belt (get it? Tie belt… Tybalt? Aw, nevermind), though quick and easy; the movements don’t really match up to those of a liquid
perceiving the character. It is obvious that she committed a obsessive murder. The most prominent feature of this story is the scenario of lover’s poisoning and later treating the dead body as he was still living and it continued for several years. The author develops the climax in steps. This story begins with the demise and swings to the near past. A Rose for Emily is a multilayered outstanding story. The writer utilizes the dialect, portrayal, order, a sober mentality and a calm analysis. The major
Marriage at first sight? Maybe waiting is better…. (An analysis of hasty decisions in Romeo and Juliet) Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number, so marry me maybe. Romeo and Juliet has often been referred to as a play of hasty decisions, and indeed it is. In this Shakespearean play, two young lovers meet, marry, consummate that marriage, and kill themselves, in a matter of a few days. Romeo and Juliet meet, dance, kiss, then get married; all in a matter of hours. If that’s
means that the killer can only be one of them” (Bookrags 1). This all leads up to a shocking ending, which makes this book one of the best mystery books written. Agatha Christie emphasizes the use of different examples of figurative language, analysis of characters, symbolism, and other aspects of writing that add to the tone and mood of the story. Symbolism plays a great part in the story. Examples of symbolisms are everywhere in the story and help the story develop. Probably the most important symbolic
In his seminal novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the lives of his characters to illustrate the monumental impact America’s brief engagement in WW1 had on the nation’s economy, participants and supporters back home. He makes particular notice of the impact on women and veterans. However, it is his delineation of the extent to which values considered sacrosanct in the American ideology in the pre-war era, and particularly in his own native Midwest have been torn asunder by the stark
A journalist from Stratford City Gazette interprets, “Lear is as much a play about adults acting like children as it is about growing old. The offspring talk to their parent in the same tones they may use to address their own small children” (“Character is key in stripped-down Lear”). King Lear is like a child when he throws a tantrum when his favorite daughter won’t say she loves him or when his to eldest daughters kick him out the homes Lear provided and taking away his men. Lear feels that the