Literary Fiction And Commercial Fiction

1970. Choose a character from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds to those standards. In your essay do not merely summarize the plot.

Many compelling authors and writers use literary devices to draw readers into their stories. The use of literary devices is to express the meaning of a story in a deeper way than just stating the theme. Stories with descriptive writing that includes literary components keeps readers engrossed and keep them wanting to read more. A few examples of literary elements are symbolism, irony, imagery, and foreshadowing. One such story that includes many uses of elements such as these is “The Destructors”, by Graham Greene. Strong Imagery is used in many instances throughout the text of “The Destructors” to draw the readers into the story, imply deeper meanings, and provide a description of different parts of the text.

Vampire stories have universal themes that provide the backbone for every dark tale. The unholy essence that any vampire story provides sets the stage for the message that the Church is the way of life and will save you from creatures of evil. From in class readings, we can see all the major religious themes of the classic vampire story. The common religious theme is the abscess of light is the absence of holiness and is the path to eternal damnation. Darkness is the prime universal fear of humanity mostly because we, as a species, are not nocturnal creatures; therefore, we have developed a fear of the predator filled darkness of night. Using figurative descriptions of darkness as the enemy, the Church preaches the way of the light. The

Novels are produced for a cause or purpose for the readers. The author either talks about their own experience or stories that they have learnt in life, and then they transform it into a text that we can all understand. In the text ‘Dougy’ by James Moloney, he states real life problems, inviting the readers to learn from the themes and problems that occur. James Moloney tells us that children are not born racist. There will always be critics in life and rules are there for a reason.

In literature, there are genres. Two main genres are fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is a work of art that is not real or based on the facts. “‘Fiction’ refers to literature created from the imagination” (“What is the difference…?”). It can explain a story in a different point of view, maybe in a way that is out of the norm. Fiction is basically just nonfiction in an exaggerated way. Though fiction may not be based on the facts, it can still resemblance a sense of real life events. “Fiction may base on stories on actual historical events. Although fictitious characters are presented in a fictitious setting in stories and novels, yet they may have some resemblance with real life events and characters” (“Fiction”). Literature is meant to

The short stories of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Destructors by Graham Greene” both had very interesting plots and unexpected endings. The plots of both stories are different but the meaning are the same. The climax of the two stories are built to keep you in suspense and as you get to the end and its reveals the irony of the stories. The characters in the stories set the presence, pace and tone, the characters environments reveal the difficulty within the plots of the stories and why they choose to do the things they do.

The two short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Story of an Hour”, are two very similar stories. They share similarities of feminism, freedom, and marriage.

In today’s America it is becoming harder and harder to know what is truth and what is fiction. The best way to have a complete understanding is to look at the facts and the statistics about whatever you want to know more about. For example when people look at Islam there are numerous misconceptions that people hold with or without knowing it.

The two literary works that I will be featuring are a short story and novel; both set centuries apart yet, connect with one another in linguistic principles. Both horror writers and with this genre, semantics can be quite fascinating. Both King and Poe, focus on the various levels of semantics horror and psychological. The semantic perspective of Christine are that of modern day slang, teenage symbolism. With semantic idioms and jokes, you would see the humor behind the man with the scary mask. Christine 's characters are teenagers, besides the a little "parental irresponsibility," with these hormonal teens, plus Christine. Arnie and Dennis, were full of idioms, such as, "I just had this call to nature, or I gotta take a whiz!" (King) Some commonly used idioms were most directly, ones of love and anger.

"Take her away she's worthless if you want her have her." my "father" says drunkenly. They take me away as I am kicking and screaming and crying. My heart jumps as I wake up realizing it was a memory. I look around noticing the the hard concrete walls and floors, the smell of mildew and the medal bars, made me realize I am in a cell now. At least I am away from the monster who took me. I heard people coming down so I layed down and closed my eyes listening to there conversation. " Alpha says she's special and she'll help us with the humans and vampires." Man 1 said. " How can she be that special she looks like all of his other fuck toys." Man 2 said.

Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” delves into a post-war world where societal hierarchies have been disrupted. A gang of boys take it upon themselves to destroy “Old Misery’s” (or Mr. Thomas’) house while the man is away for three days, in order to reestablish the gang’s reputation in London (Greene 5). The leader of the gang, Trevor, comes up with an on-the-fly diversion when Old Misery returns earlier than expected (12). Old Misery was tricked into a lavatory by Trevor, and he ends up spending the night in the loo (15). When he was let out by a lorry driver the next morning, Old Misery was devastated to find that his grand house had been completely demolished, and the lorry driver has no reaction other than laughter (16). The psychological

Chapter 10 & 12 of Everyone’s An Author explains to the readers that it’s extremely important for us to choose genres and write a narrative effectively. Genres are kinds of writing. It includes arguments, reports, narratives, reviews, and annotated bibliography that often assigned to students in school. Also, genres are ways of writing and speaking that help people interact, communicate, and work together. In other words, genres reflect the things people do, act, react, and interact in the particular situations. Genres help us write by defining features for conveying certain kinds of information because they provide readers clues about what type of information they may like to find from the writing process in order to help them figure out how to read centrally.

In the short story, “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, Faulkner introduces us to a family who takes on life as lower class while also battling poor decision making within the family. Just like every family, the Snopes family contains drama which creates issues among the Snopes. Father, Abner Snopes believes that family should be placed first, even before the court of law which creates a bit of tension. The setting of the story was never stated but we can gather that the story takes place in the south during the time of the Great Depression because of the tone and social class of this American family.  Faulkner reveals to the audience what is like to battle being a lower-class family and also how to deal with poor decision making through rhetorical strategies to help us better understand this short story.

There are many ways to supplement a story in order to add lucidity. It is done through literary devices and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" is no different. "The Things They Carried" is a narrative about a soldier at war in Vietnam. However, this story provides multiple layers of meaning through O'Brien's tone and style that help the reader further understand it. Both of these literary devices are embedded in the story and gradually help define it.

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