A great story also resonates because it makes readers feel. It doesn't matter if it's joy, sadness, fear, or catharsis, as long as you manage to elicit a genuine response. Emotionally compelling stories also focus on characters’ desires, fears, and vulnerabilities, making their journeys rel...
In November 2015, McBee (Man Alive) became the first transgender man to fight a boxing match in Madison Square Garden, and this powerful book chronicles his training and his attempts at understanding why violence is accepted as an aspect of American masculinity. The book unfolds as a series of...
His trials masked the career of the fated actress more famous in death than in lifeRandall, David
Night Shyamalan does a remarkable job at telling a story that begins with a sense of wonder and then slowly builds towards a much more serious feeling of existential dread. 我认为导演沙马兰非常善于讲故事,他以一个令人好奇的事件开始,然后逐渐构筑起对生存的严重恐惧。 But while most discussions have...
Do you think first responders rushing to the scene of a tragedy to help victims? Maybe you’re reading this before lunch, and the first thing you think of is ahero sandwich. While both of these are legitimate types of heroes, they aren’t today’s focus. This article focuses ontragic ...
My friends asked me why. I told them my story. When I was a small boy I was very weak. Once I was terribly iii. I had a high fever. My parents sent me to the hospital but the doctors could do nothing for me. then my parents heard there was a very good doctor in another town...
Story vs. Plot There's a difference between story and plot, something author E.M. Forster makes a distinction between in his book,Aspects of the Novel. A story is just an event, almost a recitation of facts. The mouse ate a cookie isn’t a plot—it’s just a story (albeit a cute...
Is Othello a Shakespearean tragedy? What did Ben Jonson say about Shakespeare after Shakespeare's death? What is the controversy surrounding Shakespeare? Elizabethan tragedies were modeled on plays from What is the lesson of the story The Shakespeare Stealer?
Our “structure” begins as a list of tactics commonly used to support false paradigms — a “textbook” example will endow our putative structure with depth and nuance. Usually, the “perfect textbook case” has to be made up. But this time, there does exist a case, a tragedy, in ...
Unit 2 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Additional Background Information on William Faulkner William Faulkner was born and brought up in the American South and lived there for almost all his life. On November 14, 1888, the local newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi reported a news story: “A ...