A Different Story

with himself occurs in three stages. His insomnia at night, his characters he invents, and his interactions with his granddaughter Katya show the various states of his progress. While August is struggling to sleep his thought process and the story he creates a story for entertainment reveal his personal struggles and how he copes with them. Through August’s interactions with Katya, he is able to fully acknowledge his own issues and find a healthy way to cope with them. The novel moves from…

Polyphony is used to show the point of view and voices of different characters in a single text. By using polyphony, García Márquez is not forced to use only one point of view but is able to show multiple character’s perspectives, specifically that of Eréndira and Ulises. The narrator is not a separate character in the story but tells the story of all of the characters together. “Eréndira, who was keeping in step with the donkey, bowed down by the heat…

For my final paper, I choose to read the novel “The Left Hand of Darkness” written by Ursula K. Le Guin. This story touches on many key topics including the importance of communication, trust, acceptance, gender, and love in a society. It always deals a lot with politics and what it means to be a traitor. All of these topics are combined to show the intent of the story, which is the importance of unity. The main character, Ai, goes to a foreign plant and tried to get the people of the planet to…

The fascinating thing about a war story is how it does not revolve solely around combat. They are actually more like a hurricane, in that while in the midst of what seems to be a hellacious and destructive disaster, the anxiety and fear before landfall as well as the aftermath, leaving a planet in ruins, are critical in understanding the entirety of the experience. Though the war is a key component to the story, many of the battles occur before and after and create deeper wounds than could ever…

However, “that which is changed can be changed back in the fullness of time” (Ysabel, 504). In Guy Gavriel Kay’s novel Ysabel, the effect of change is a key element to the story as the main protagonist, 15 year old Ned marriner, experiences a myriad of dangerous and mystery-packed adventures that draws him in deeper into a story world; in search for his father, Edward Marriner’s, assistant Melanie who has been possessed by the spirit of Ysabel during the eve of Beltaine(201)—along with two other…

boy” (Silverstein, 1964, p. 1-3). This is the first- line of the very controversial children’s book, The Giving Tree. This story starts with a young boy and a full grown tree. The tree loved the boy and gave everything she had for the boy until all she had left was a stump and the boy was an old man. Yet, in the end, “the tree was happy” or was she? There are many different ways this book could be interpreted and there are many arguments about what the book is trying to convey. Some examples…

In his book author Shane Burcaw tells his story in a unique way of facing the challenges of having Spinal Muscular Dystrophy. Burcaw is a witty and hilarious with no type of filter 22 year old boy who lives every day to the fullest and stays true to his motto you only live once. This is not your typical story of a how a teen overcomes all obstacles and beats the odds. Burcaw tells it how it is and doesn’t sugar coat anything about how his life has been, in fact he has a camera crew following him…

The mother tells us she is a "big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands" (876). We can see a large rough woman, who wears overalls during the day and a flannel nightgown when she goes to bed. Because she compares herself to a man many times, we can picture what she looks like. She and her daughters are black, but she describes Dee as being lighter than her other daughter, Maggie. She seems to be dreaming about how beautiful Dee probably is after all these years. She continues her daydreaming…

Even though "Hills Like White Elephants" was written in the 1920's, the topic of the story continues to be a controversial subject. The word abortion is never used throughout the story, but it is obvious early to the reader that the American is persuading a woman named Jig to undergo the procedure. It is evident she does not want the operation, but the American ignores her subtle hints. He pretends to be concerned with her thoughts and tries to moderate the difficult operation she is about to…

goal that is to essentially, change the way that clients view themselves you could help in otherwise hopeless situations. For example, let's take a single mom working three jobs, who has barely any time to see her kids.This mom could come with a story that she is a horrible mother and leave with one where she is proud to be working hard for…