Midwinterblood By Marcus Sedwick: Literary Analysis

In the book Midwintersblood by Marcus Sedgwick Eric explores Blessed Island, at one point he goes swimming and his clothes are laid neatly when he comes back to get dressed suggesting the island is magical. "He undresses quickly and eases into the water from a warm rock" narrated the narrator (Page 21). "He knows he dropped [his clothes] in a pile where he undressed. Now they are laid out neatly, spread flat, to warm on the sunny rocks. He looks around, but can see no one" (Page 22). Eric begins to wonder why the clothes are folded and

In the novel, “The Scarlet Letter”, a woman named Hester Prynne commits a sin. She commits the sin of adultery which results in the birth of her daughter Pearl. Hester now has to wear a scarlet letter on her chest for the rest of her life. Unbeknownst to everyone else except Hester, Dimmesdale, is the father of Pearl. Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, now seeks revenge for what Hester has done to him. He learns that Dimmesdale is the father but tells no one because he wants to have something over Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale reveals his sin to the public of Boston and dies. Pearl and Hester leave to make a life for themselves.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is one of the better known, yet lesser understood theater installments by William Shakespeare in the Sixteenth Century. The play was first performed September 21, 1599 in the Globe Theatre in London, England. In the play there are many different and unique characters, some complex, some simple. Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, better known as Brutus, is one of the characters in the play and the protagonist of the play. Brutus is introduced fairly early in the play, Act I, Scene II to be specific. Brutus is one of the characters on the more complex side. Shakespeare developed the character of

The interlocking or weaving thread that pulls the short stories together in the novel, Midwinterblood, by Marcus Sedgwick is the two main characters that keep reappearing in every short story. The two characters are Merle and Erik. Even though Blessed Island has the flowers that seem to be cursed in some way to make Eric either die or feel very sleepy which is oddly peculiar. My reasoning for this is because Eric feels like he has been here before and other characters also believe that also. "I, thinks Eric Seven, have lived this before." This quote is intriguing because he says this in his head and it makes the reader think why would he say that. Well as you read the story you figure out that the stories yet to come all feature the name Eric

Stephen King’s “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” is a marvelous and unusual text. Within the first part of his book, also called C.V., he explains his life experience up to the day he finishes the book. King expresses his life with multiple literary elements that assist the readers on imagining his life of adventures, catastrophes, fears, and loves. Following are three of my favorite passages that caught my attention.

If people do not know how to think, there will be no difference between dogs and human because dogs only know how to obey. The friction novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury describes a dystopian society where the government burn all the books because they think people can only be happy if they never question and think about their society. Ray Bradbury’s primary message in Fahrenheit 451 is that people need to know how to think instead of learning what to think, this message is shown based on the situation involving Mildred and Montag.

In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, a retired English teacher named Faber convinced us all of the three missing components of the set society and possibly in our own, “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number 3: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.” (81). His first argument was the quality of information, in this case, he was referring to how books hold documentation of independent ideas and newly webbed thoughts, the two things that the government appears to look down on. Creativity seems to be spun into this label of abnormality, where all are expected to be equal resulting in those of high intelligence not being able to live up to their full potential, and

Love, one of the best parts of life, provokes positive thoughts from most people. Every story involves some aspect of love, no matter the genre. From a young age, life teaches that love acts as something so special and precious. After all, love can break any curse. On the contrary, love can actually be seen as destructive and extremely negative.

Losing a loved one is difficult, but questioning if they are really alive takes a toll on one’s daily life. In Heaven’s Keep, Jo’s plane disappears without a trace and no one can seem to find it until people start digging deeper into the story. ?Could Jo still be alive, but nowhere near where the plane disappeared? Her husband Cork, son Stephen, and family friend Palmer set out to find what really happened on that plane and where Jo really went. Visualizing Aurora, Minnesota, evaluating where the airplane went, and questioning how Jo died is simple because the author used great detail in the book Heaven’s Keep.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun play focuses on the aftermath of world war two when black Americans faced segregation and racism from the whites. The characters try to thrive in the poverty-stricken and segregated family and try to achieve their dreams amid the whites. Everyone in the family has a hope of escaping hardship including Ruth, who besides living in such conditions is expectant which only complicates the situation further and she thinks of aborting the pregnancy. Luckily hopes begin to beam, and Lena (Mama) receives ten thousand dollars, she buys a house and gives the rest of the amount to Walter to venture into his business idea. Unfortunately, he ends up being scammed and losses the money without saving some penny for Beneatha's school. Walter is then left in a dilemma on whether to sell their new

The story Midwinterblood so far has had many intriguing components. The main one that stood out to me was the part of the plot that was not answered, why there were no children. The reason it stood out to me so much is that it was never answered. The question is first posed on page 18 right before Eric goes to bed. "He has been on Blessed for several hours. He has met a few people, and seen many more. But he has not seen a single child" (Sedgwick 18). I have a feeling that this might be a clue, because it goes unanswered. I will definitely be looking for clues like this further on in the book. To wrap it all up, the most intriguing component to me was the fact that there were no

“Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book and ran toward the kitchen incinerator. He caught her, shrieking. He held her and she tried to fight away from him scratching,” (63). In the novel Fahrenheit 451 follows the protagonist, Guy Montag, and his interactions with society discouraging and encouraging his discovery of the illegal books. Along the way he understands who are the poisonous people in his dystopian world and who are not; changing his perspective to lose trust in his wife Mildred, from previous quote, and finding safety with Faber, a retired professor he came by one day in a park. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 the author demonstrates the idea that when there is censorship in the world, ignorance will follow because when a subject is hidden from one anything they do regarding it is under the impression of their lack of knowledge surrounding the topic, this becomes more relevant when Ray Bradbury acknowledges the emotions of people who have read books and whom haven't and their general opinions of them.

In the story Midwinterblood the author portrays that Merle is beautiful. The author describes her as beautiful, by having Eric fall in love with her during the first section. Eric always thought about her and how beautiful she was. She tried helping him, but ended up dying next to him in the end of the section. The author also makes her sound beautiful in the second section having Edward the archeologist falling in love with her at first site. He walks up to the door trying to find Eric to thank him and after he knocks Merle answers the door and he instantly thinks about how gorgeous she is. Edward and Merle end up getting a little romantic towards the end of the section. The author makes Merle sound beautiful by having Eric and Edward

All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about how a little jealousy can turn into rage and reveals that children, along with adults, can be blinded by something so simple.The author of All Summer in A Day believes jealousy and bullying are the key emotions played in this short story. Bradbury claims that the main characters, Margot, is being bullied because she was Earth longer. Whereas, the other students don’t even remember Earth because of how early they all moved to Venus. When Margot arrives, she was four. The other children had arrived two years before. The author describes her as “a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the

To begin with, one of the biggest dilemmas today is about abortion and whether or not women should have one, rates have been getting lower throughout the years due to the help of birth control. Since the year of 1975 to now “the number of abortions in the United States dropped under one million (958,700 in 2013 and 926,200 in 2014” (Jones, Jerman). It is still continuing to decrease now, from the age between 15-44 the Guttmacher Institute recorded “the lowest rate ever” (Guttmacher Institute) which is a “14% decline from 2011” (Guttmacher Institute). People think birth control has to do with these drops since it is one of the biggest factors to prevent it from happening in the first place. There are laws that are trying to prohibit abortion yet abortion is not even a problem since it just keeps getting lower and lower throughout the years “the US has reached a lower level in 2014 than in any other since the procedure first became legal” (Redden). Most of the women to get these abortions however are around their 20s “aged 20-24 obtained 34% of all abortions” (Guttmacher Institute). As a lot of people may know the republican party is not a fan of birth control so if they were to find out that it had been one of the main factors they would go on a rampage but there is no way of telling what they are due too, it is possible for it to be due to the drives or birth control depending on the person of course. I would want these young women at the age of 16 to be allowed access to