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Jose Y Penmanship And Other Stories
717 wordsThe narrator of "Penmanship" is a man madly in love in the art of writing. It is through entering the enchanting world of pen and paper that he is able to face the complexities of reality like social cancer (corruption), violence (murder) and fiery emotions (love) with strength and confidence. He could feel "a twinge of sorrow" every time he mails a letter because he had voluntarily given away a part of himself. I think for him (and may I boldly include everybody else who writes) that every word...
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Ned Devine
2,364 wordsA story can be many things. By the definition, a story is an adventure, a mix of literary terms, a conflict, an antagonist, a protagonist or hero, all within a coherent timeline, to entertain or teach the person the story is told to. For a person of deeper interest though, a story isn't just something thought up of, it is a source of ideas all so wonderfully expressed, a downpour of action and suspense to crisp the eye, a flow of emotions to enchant the heart, or a deluge of unknown to challenge...
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More Modern Form Of News
1,844 wordsBy: Joe Cerniglia News writing, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraph's occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph, much of writing news was just that: writing. News was reported much like books were written. The reporter would set the scene with a detailed account of the settin...
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Young Girl With The Irish Language O'brien
1,313 wordsDeep down in the woods Observer: What is In the Forest about Edna O'Brien: Ostensibly it's about a triple murder in a forest, but I believe that the novelist is the psychic and moral historian of his or her society. So it's about that part of Ireland I happen to know very well. It's about that part of Ireland, and the darkness that still prevails. Obs: Was there a specific moment of inspiration, like a news story O'Brien: News stories are anathema to fiction. I was researching a previous book an...
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Going From One Thing
693 wordsFor this assignment I chose to review "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The yellow wallpaper was about a lady with what is said to be a temporary nervous condition and her husband traveling to the country for the summer and for the healing powers of being away from writing which seems to worsen her condition. The people in the story rent a house for three months and the main character in the story is tormented, she stares at this wallpaper for hours on end and thinks she sees a...
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Momaday's Journey Back To Rainy Mountain
1,239 wordsA Writers Style The Pulitzer Prize winning writer N. Scott Momaday has become known as a very distinctive writer who depicts the stories of the Native American life in almost poetic ways. He does an excellent job of transporting the reader from the black and white pages of a book, to a world where every detail is pointed out and every emotion felt when reading one of Momaday's books or other writings. This style of writing that Momaday uses is very evident in his work "The Way to Rainy Mountain"...
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Ia M's First Son
6,435 wordsGabriel G'aria M'arquezGabriel Jos'e Garc " ia M' was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents in a house filled with countless aunts and the rumors of ghosts. But in order to get a better grasp on Garc " ia M's life, it helps to understand something first about both the history of Colombia and the unusual background of his family. Colombia Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1810, technically making it one of Latin...
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21 Jeanette Winterson And Maxine Hong Kingston
3,041 wordsOranges an autobiographical novel No not at all and yes of course. 1 In the mind of the modern reader the phrase 'autobiographical writing' conveys a notion of an accurate retelling, in part or in whole, of the author's life. The Concise Oxford Dictionary definition of the term reinforces this preconception, 'autobiography: a personal account of one's own life. ' 2 This idea of an 'account' implies something factual, a recounting of events as they actually took place. The so-called 'autobiograph...
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Puritan Story And Bunyan
1,330 wordsThe author of The Pilgrim's Progress is well described by Coleridge's remark: "His piety was baffled by his genius; and Bunyan the dreamer overcame the Bunyan of the conventicle". This remark points out the difficulty that Bunyan faces when he attempts to write a religious piece of work in the style of allegory. The Pilgrim's Progress is "pious" because it is a piece written in dedication to God. It contains important religious teachings - what a good Christian should do and what he should not d...
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Essential Aspect Of Short Story Writing
665 wordsGod is in the details Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri 184 pp, Picador On page 33, I came across what I reckon to be the first (only) misplaced word in Amit Chaudhuri's brilliant collection of short stories. "He shoved the trunk carefully beneath the bed... ". Can one shove carefully, and even assuming it is not an oxymoron, is the adverb required Probably not. That - I mean the shock - is, I suppose, as good a measure as any of the precision of Chaudhuri's writing: his ability to conjure up a world ...
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Husband
527 wordsBorn-San Francisco, California-December 3, 1919 Died-North Bennington, Vermont- August 8, 1965-45 Have published novels, humorous fictionalized autobiographies, and children books Many have remained uncollected 1961, Edgar Allen Poe Reward, Louisa, Please 1965, Syracuse University A rents Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Achievements Moved to NY at 16 After enrolling in Syracuse, beginning of independent life for author At Syracuse, met Stanley Edgar Hyman-would marry in 1940 Hyman Achieved notorie...
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Pratchett's Children's Book
1,246 wordsThe rat in the hat The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett 269 pp Doubleday 12.99 A talking rat is fighting for his life against a terrier, inside a circle of excited men who whoop and roar and snarl. Another rat bungee-jumps down from the rafters to rescue him. In the instant of astonishment before both rats are whisked skyward, the human onlookers just have time to notice that the rescuer is wearing a tiny boater on his head. He lifts it. "Good evening!" he squeaks. Thi...
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Xinran's Stories
1,359 wordsChinese whispers The Good Women of China by XinranChatto and Wind us 14.99, pp 244 Any Journalist who writes about suffering knows that the copy will be read partly in a spirit of prurience. The story may cry out to be told, but part of what makes it publishable is its shock value. Exploitation, cruelty and violence make compelling reading, and although the writer's - and indeed the reader's - chief motive may be to expose or understand wrongs, you can't get away from the fact that torment is ti...
