Gunpowder Plot

The Outsiders movie is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. It’s similar to the book, portrays the characters well, and just has this overall feel of realisticness to it. Meaning, it gives the vibe of a real life story. It’s about Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade, and how they ran away after Johnny stabbed a Soc when they got jumped. It was written by S.E Hinton and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie came out in 1983 receiving mostly positive reviews and is still loved to…

Lin. Tam Lin takes care of Matt and El patrón. One day Matt is needed for spare parts. Matt escapes to Atzland where He meets Doña Esperanza and takes over opium. The setting plays a big part in the story, so does characterization, and finally the plot of the book. Setting plays a big role in some books like The House of the Scorpion. Opium is a drug land between the US and Atzland AKA Mexico. The country of opium is a dry dusty quiet…

in distinctive ways. In this essay, you will be reading about both the similarities, and the differences between "The Monkey's Paw" and "Aunty Misery". A few important questions about the text will also be answered. There are unique ways that the plot develops throughout each story using the idea of wishes. In "The Monkey's Paw", wishing is what the entire story was about. Therefore, if Mr. White had never wished, Herbert would have never died and Mrs. White wouldn't have wanted to bring…

Freytag’s Pyramid is a geometric shape used to visualise a typical plot structure. The left side slopping upwards depicts the introduction and rising action of the story until it reaches the peak, known as the climax, which is followed by a drop called the falling action or denouement (Brown and Yarbrough, 51). In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio, a young noblemen, falls in love with a lady named Hero and they plan to be married. However the prince Don Pedro’s brother Don John,…

For years, many TV shows have been focusing on the conflict between the hero and the villain. Moreover, people have been enjoying this plot where the hero win over the villain and save the situation. TV shows creators are becoming more creative when creating their characters, that it might require more thinking from the viewers to actually realize who is who. Homeland is a TV that is trying to tell the viewers that any terrorism act might be predicted and possibly stopped. At the beginning of…

In all stories there is a conflict. Cole Mathews faces many different conflicts throughout the story. Cole has to deal with these conflicts and only he is in control of whether or not they get resolved. Cole Matthews has had a rough and troubled childhood, with an abusive father and a mother who can’t admit that his father is bad. Because of these things Cole has found violence and crime as a way to get his anger out but this is not the right way to do so because he has gotten in a lot of…

It is primarily used to drive the plot forward when an author has backed themselves into a corner, but is also used to surprise the audience, provide a happy ending, or as a comedic device. It is a highly criticized plot device, dubbed as lazy writing and seen as a sign of a badly crafted plot. Critics cite that the author having to use something so unlikely and improbable to solve the conflict of the story or move it past one scene just extenuates a bad plot even more.…

The utilization of irony in any work of literature can elevate a seemingly simple pretense of a storyline into one with depth and profundity. In “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro, the situational irony present in both the main plot and the subplots increases the suspense that is already prevalent in the superficial aspect of the main scenario of the story. Alice Walker demonstrates the effect of irony in “Everyday Use” by evoking the internal thoughts and emotions of the mother in a…

good story in her writing Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Everything that Rises Must Converge. All three stories incorporate unexpected conclusions and intense conflicts. She not only met the usual expectation of an interesting plot, but skyrocketed above it. Ms. O’Connor utilized shocking endings for her stories in order to end her stories with the reader craving more. For example, in Good Country People, a fat, disabled, nihilistic woman named Hulga is seduced by a bible…

similarities in stories of different genre. In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting two short stories of different genre. Those stories are The Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant and Recitatif by Toni Morrison. I will mostly focus on the concept of plot. Guy De Maupassant wrote The Jewelry in the 1800’s. The story is about M. Lantin and how he falls in love with a woman whom he marries. Throughout the story it talks about how his wife manages his money so well since he did not make a lot…