Ghosts Through Windows : Analysis Of Saki's The Open Window By Alyssa Linehan

The writer introduces the first chapter in ‘The Essential Conversations by Lawrence-Lightfoot’ as Ghosts in the Classroom (Lawrence-Lightfoot, 2003). She uses a phenomenon of the doorknob, where a father to one of the pupils is unable to control his emotions and fiercely faces the teacher. On a day to day’s activities, a teacher is confronted with a challenge of handling emotional parent. Some parents seemed to have personal differences with teachers, and they tend to use parent-teachers’ conference to settle their scores.

¨You can't hide from crime.¨ This book is called Ghost by Jason Reynolds. This book is a very well thought out and not that long 180 pages. This book is written in first person, and is realistic fiction.

The exposition in a story lays the foundation of the story; it gives us the background information about the characters, settings and a bit of a hint of the plot. In the exposition of this story, we are introduced to two characters, the protagonist Victor and his best friend Michael. We are given information about them, such as what classes they’re taking and where the story is located. We also learn that Victor has a crush on Teresa and wants to be noticed by her. So that is why he tries to take the same classes as her. There’s our hint about the plot.

Typically, the exposition provides background information and introduces the reader to what the story will be about. An example of this would be in the beginning of the story, “Two Kinds”, when Jing-Mei Woo says, “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America…my mother told me when I was nine” (Tan 132). In this quote Jing- Mei Woo informs the reader on how her mother would always tell her that America is the land of opportunity, and also gives the reader a key idea that follows her throughout much of her life. This idea helps to explain many of Jing- Mei’s actions. On the other hand, this story is placed towards the middle of the novel, meaning this story should begin to set up for the climax of the over all novel. For example, this story is about her Jing- Mei Woo’s

In the horror/mystery book Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn, Daniel, his little sister Erica, and their parents had just moved to Pennsylvania from Connecticut. The rumors about their new house are that every seventy years a girl disappears and another girl appears from what Brody Mason has told Daniel and Erica . Before they moved, their parents gave Erica a doll which she instantly admires. One afternoon Daniel and Erica go on a hike in the woods. Erica failed to keep her doll in her arms and loses it. The next day Erica is missing and another girl appears. What readers would find interesting is that Daniel never stopped believing that he will find his sister. If you are interested in a horror/mystery book that will keep you on the

Dr. Gabor Mate, a Hungarian born Canadian physician, who is also a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychologist, but who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction, reveals revolutionary evidence pertaining to addiction. In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Dr. Mate worked with patients suffering chronic drug addiction for 12 years. With 20 years of experience as a family practitioner, Dr. Mate is a renowned speaker and teacher throughout North America; sharing his extensive knowledge with diverse audiences including health care professionals and educators (Mate, About Dr. Mate, 2016). The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Dr. Mate’s most recent best-selling book, illuminates the origins and causes of addiction. As Co-founder of Compassion for Addiction (a non-profit organization), Dr. Gabor Mate encourages a greater understanding; “addiction is the attempt of affected human beings to escape a profound discomfort with themselves and their world” (Mate, Compassion4Addiction, 2015). Drawing on cutting-edge science, Dr. Mate presents the world with a shocking discovery: “The source of addiction is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment.” Therefore, Dr. Mate simply “calls for a more compassionate approach toward the addict.” (Mate, 2016) As cutting-edge science concludes addiction to be a mental health issue, rather than criminal behavior, the American legal system demonstrates a devastating disservice to its own society.

Stated by the Dictionary of Literary Terms, an exposition is, “Applied to the beginning of the portion of a *plot in which back ground information is set forth” (Shaw 150). The exposition is basically the first few paragraphs of a story. To me a healthy exposition is very detailed. Personally, when reading knowing the main characters and setting are the two main things I tend to look for; not knowing this information can be risky and cause readers to be unentertained and stop reading the story. In the short story “Grand Stand-In,” the character goes right into telling her background story. Within the first few paragraphs she states, “I never had a family of my own. I didn’t get married, couldn’t see the use of it. […] I

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”-Karl Augustus Menninger.

Randall Kenan born in Brooklyn, NY 1963 was raised by his grandparents in a rural community in North Carolina. In 1985, he graduated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in English and creative writing. One of his instructors recommended him for a job for and editor at Random House where he was an eventual assistant to senior editor’s prestigious subsidiary, Alfred A. Knopf. (Fountain) Kenan’s first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, was published in 1989, and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, followed in 1992. He has written five other works and has received numerous awards. (RandallKenan.com) Randall Kenan is a talented African-American author of the present era who writes about the human condition. He not only writes about what it is like to be a black man in the south, but he throws in homosexuality into the bible belt. Kenan repeatedly pits homosexual characters against an oppressive, closed minded community that is against new views of acceptance and equality of the times. With these themes of racial and sexual identity, forgiveness and acceptance; “Kenan, perhaps one of the first Southern authors to openly analyze the struggles of homosexuals, he subtly intertwines common concerns and ideals from the Civil Rights Era and parallels the Gay Rights Movement of today.” (Turley)

During the Communist regime in the former Soviet Union, life was very difficult. The people who lived within the countries controlled by the Soviet government experienced levels of oppression akin to slavery. They could not express themselves through any means and had to conform both body and soul to the views of the Communist Party. People could be arrested, imprisoned, shipped off to exile or executed often without trial. Some twenty million people died while Joseph Stalin led the USSR and for many years after his death it was still dangerous to dare criticize his regime, although some scholars put that number closer to forty million people who died. Now that the Soviet Union has broken up and Russia is its own country there is more freedom, but the people still live under the yoke of an oppressive leader who does not tolerate political or social challenges. The people do nothing to stand up to this government because they have all been scarred by the decades they lived under Stalin.

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Typically a story begins with an exposition, which introduces the characters, setting and plot. In the short story ?Popular Mechanics? by Raymond Carver, the exposition is excluded. The story begins with a short rise in action, moves quickly to the climax and totally omits the resolution. Carver uses third person objective narration to reveal the actions and the dialogue between a man and a woman. The narrator gives very little descriptive details, never revealing the characters? thoughts or their motivation. This allows the reader the freedom to interpret and develop their own opinions of the setting, plot, and characters of the story. This also stimulates the reader to

"Ghost." What images does this word conjure up in the average American mind? Perhaps you think of little kids draped in white sheets begging for candy on Halloween. Perhaps you imagine transparent versions of dead people wandering the earth for eternity. Perhaps you are reminded of a person who just saw something especially scary; they are "pale as a ghost".

To begin, Gaskell frequently uses conflict to demonstrate the segregation of the upper class from the working class, based on the hostile demeanor of the wealthy to expose the selfishness and vanity of the higher class. For instance, a continuous conflict between person against person is present between masters and workers, indicating a disconnection of both classes from a perspective of the upper class. At a meeting among the mill owners and the workers, “Mr Harry Carson had taken out his silver pencil, and had drawn an admirable caricature of [the employees] - lank, ragged, dispirited and famine-stricken” (Gaskell 184). As a more privileged and wealthy man, Harry Carson clearly demonstrates the dissociation of the upper class and the working class, seeing as he mocks and ridicules their lack of wealth through their skinny bones and ripped-up clothes. In other words, shaming them for their lack of money to provide food and clothes for their families. Therefore, this nonchalant act of ridicule only further emphasizes the conflict between the rich and the factory labourers as it exposes their uncaring and superior attitudes towards the lower class. In David Ellison’s, Glazed Expressions : Mary Barton, Ghosts and Glass, he describes “Carson’s caricature [to] exaggerate the bodies of the deputation, adding and subtracting flesh according to aesthetic rather than anatomical demands, by which their very emanciation becomes perversely, fuel” (Ellison). Ellison’s interpretation

The exposition, or introduction of characters and plot, begins by introducing Sister Prejean and her work to help the poor. When offered the chance to help a death row inmate in Louisiana, she sees it as an opportunity to continue her