Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Meridian

An idea that arises No Great Mischief[, is MacLeod’s ability to prove to the readers that it is impossible to talk about the Scottish-Canadian heritage without mentioning family history, loyalty and bonds. It is common for an individual to discuss all three factors when discussing family or one’s past in general. However, in No Great Mischief, MacLeod successfully

Septeys’ third novel begins when an injured Prussian solider, named Florian, protects a young polish girl, Emilia, from an attacker. The pair travel along the East Prussian road, eventually

In Susan Griffin’s work titled “Our Secret”, she discusses the relationship between the present-day and the earlier life of different people. She also compares the private and public lives of other people. Her piece is set during World War Two in the 1940s. Throughout the entire piece, Griffin compares the lives of people evolved in World War Two, people who were affected by the war, and her own life. She shows how even though they lived separate lives, they are still closely related.

Throughout this essay Griffin uses many different patterns through her many unusual writing techniques. By using these types of writing techniques, Griffin is conducting her argument. She compares her life to those of Himmler, Helene, and many others throughout the story. She

Upon reading Bye, Beautiful by Julia Lawrinson and Southern Cop by Sterling A. Brown, it is obvious that there are distinct similarities and differences between the texts. By exploring the themes evident in both texts, multiple characters who clearly share traits and the settings which have as many differences as they do similarities, it can be concluded that the two texts, different as they may seem, have several shared aspects.

The excerpt begins with a harsh tone about a woman she describes to be the cause of her separation with her lover. This portrays the simplicity and disorganization of the notebook entries which downright signifies the author’s unsystematic flow of thought. It triggers the readers’ attentions as the sentence presents confusion and

Although some may argue that Mary Anne Bell was a symbol for overcoming sexist stereotypes, she was in fact a symbol for what soldiers transitioned through everyday--her change parallels and exaggerates their stories. O’Brien’s changing description of Mary Anne epitomizes the hypnotic effect that war has. Mary Anne was ‘a tall big boned blonde’ (89) an ‘attractive girl’ (90), ‘coy and flirtatious’ (91), but ‘the wilderness seemed to draw her in’ (100) and soon she ‘cut her hair short’ (92) and wore ‘a necklace of human tongues, [that were] elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable’ (105-106). Mary Anne’s description of being ‘a tall

They brought her down to the station to be questioned. There were two people in this tight, dark, eerie room. The police and Miss strangeworth stared intensely at each other for what felt like hours. It was silence but you could hear Miss Strangeworth crying of fear. The officer began to ask simple questions. He started with the ‘who’ of this investigation. “I am the only one writing these letters” she confesses “But I have a letter on almost everyone in this small town.” The officer asks for how long she has been writing these letters

The words that the authors use on their novel unveil the mystery that every detective novel contains. The authors

Howells' short story sheds light on the unreasonable outlook of the literal world from a perception fueled by standards of romanticism. Personified through Editha Balcom, a shallow, impersonal, perfection-seeking young woman, the influence of the ideal is emphasized through her self-centered demeanor, lofty expectations, and naive character. Early on, It is evident that Editha lives in a world of her own, unaware of wrong from right, rather, she only acknowledges whether an act is heroic or not. She looks at her fiancé, George Gearson, a humble, rational, peaceful young man, with this exact sentiment upon his weary announcement of the beginning of war. As expected, she calls the otherwise brutal act of war "glorious!" (Howells 168) in a frenzy of emotion. Editha seeks a perfect man who should return from war having done "something worthy to have won her" in other words, somebody to "be a hero, her hero" (169). As Editha prepares herself to relinquish George to war, the reader witnesses the true debilitating forces of one who is congenial with the ideal. Through dramatic and emotional outpourings to George by letter, her writing evinces to be the quintessence of unrealistic virtues; one in particular filled with fluffy, over

D. The chosen interpretation rests on how the narrator’s character is analyzed through her hidden thoughts.

Authors often use characters within their novels to show the consequences of challenging cultural boundaries and, in turn, display their own personal concerns. It is not uncommon for characters to reflect an author’s ideology regarding social groups in their contemporary time periods. It is clear that this is certainly the case with the 1975 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, (also referred to as How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead), written by the German Author, Heinrich Boll. The Lost Honour is, on the surface, an attack on yellow journalism and the damage it causes to the lives of the people reported on. However, with a more in depth analysis of the novel we are able to

Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people are willing to kill the detective, who plays both sides of the law, to find the truth , but it is ultimately driven by a strong moral code , and shootings and beatings enough for readers to share the feeling of danger Detective . For decades , countless writers have copied the themes and motifs Hammett may rarely come anywhere near him almost perfect blend of cynicism and excitement.

This moment reflects to a entry from the Diary of Anne Frank where Anne comments on how The war is blamed on “Big Man Government” when the blame also goes to the common man because people want to create harm and destruction. (Frank P.239) The universal facts of discrimination make itself apparent from seeing an example of Frank’s commentary in Ruth McBride’s own life across the world.

As time has progressed since the first World War, a certain clarity has grown that allows for individuals to appreciate the importance of the population’s acknowledgement of the human experience in war. This progression can be perceptible in written works that incorporate some sort of personal account of the first World War – seen, for the sake of this argument, specifically in All Quiet on the Western Front, The Great War and the shaping of the 20th Century, and Women and the First World War – allow for one to acquire a more comprehensive insight from the escalation to the aftermath of the war. The aforementioned clarity is found as one moves away from the personal accounts from members of the aristocracy towards the accounts of a certain