Fiction Essays

Eudora Welty’s writing style and us of theme and setting aided her in becoming one of the greatest writers of all time. Welty credits her family for her success. ‘Without the love and belief my family gave me, I could not have become a writer to begin with’ (Welty, IX). …

Anne Bradstreet’s The Author to Her Book describes the complex attitude of the author – specifically the attitude of an author towards her work. Through use of a controlling metaphor, that of a child, Bradstreet manages to convey all of her feelings towards one of her works. In order to …

When examining a text and its effect, it is important to realise that an audience is composed of multiple individuals, each with their own values and interpretations. In The Skin of a Lion, the novel by Michael Ondaatje is created from a complex range of interwoven storylines, and as a …

Movie productions that are based on novels are usually different and that goes for the movie, Lord of the Flies, as well, which is based on the novel of the same title by William Golding. In the novel, the author captures the readers’ attention by the descriptive and provocative plot, …

Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” has received much attention, especially from the Vietnam-era baby boomers. Like many of his pieces, the story is much more complex then it seems on the surface. Mr. Hemingway is renowned for his description, though he is sometimes criticized for the seeming simplicity of “Soldier’s Home.” …

Genre: Satire, ‘Conte Philosophique’ (Philosophical Fiction) Biographical information about the author: Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was born in 1694 in Paris, France. Though his father wanted him to become a lawyer, Voltaire long held a great passion for writing, and rather than going to law school, spent his …

– The title “The Leap” could mean a leap of faith or can be taken literally as a jump. But in context of the story, “The Leap” means bridging gaps and making connections between things. When Anna lost her husband she was able to meet her new love while recuperating …

The short story I have chosen is lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl. I have chosen this short story because I like crime and mystery stories. There are many themes in lamb to the slaughter but the two that have caught my attention are “what goes around comes around” …

Chapter One- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except when It’s Not) In literature, a quest has 5 aspects. They are: our quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. In Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, our …

Reading is such a strange concept. People are willingly staring at a piece of deconstructed wood that has been pressed thin, and they continually try to decipher scribbles that are written on it by graphite from a writing device. By themselves, the scribbles slowly begin to form into words, and …