In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, what blood pact do Huck and Tom make and why? Why did Mark Twain name the ship the Walter Scott in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Why does Fitzgerald use an unreliable narrator in The Great Gatsby?
Why are unreliable narrators used in Gothic stories? Why do we study literary theory? Why does John Steinbeck use imagery in Cannery Row? Why would a writer use ellipses in a quotation? Why is gothic literature so often parodied? Why does Dostoevsky use examples of small children in his wr...
Why do authors use figures of speech? What Is a Figure of Speech?: A figure of speech is a use of non-literal language, in other words, a word or phrase that means something other than the exact literal meaning of the words. Some types of figures of speech are similes (She was pret...
Often, the protagonist of a story is the character who changes the most from beginning to end. Choosing this person as narrator can allow authors to more closely show how the story's events altered the protagonist's life or helped him overcome a significant internal conflict. These narrations ...
There are many reasons our writing might be stalling, stumbling, fumbling or failing. Yet, in my 20 years editing? It’s almost always, always a problem with story structure. Story Structure and FLOW The first obstacle we authors face—when writing anything—is subtly embedding a strong enough...
I haven’t read some of those authors and didn’t recognize the homage, but it’s a cool Easter egg for other readers. I did see the Wizard of Oz reference at the end, though.So while some parts of this novel flew right over my head, the work itself was an interesting commentary ...
So while this isn't ideal, the property is still being exposed by the API. However AT would need to look for this specific property in order to implement it - and when I checked Narrator it doesn't appear to do so. I really think we should specify in core-aam places where attributes...
at Burundi, she doesn’tseethem, any more than she sees her own family. In that way she’s an unreliable narrator – not that she lies to the reader, except insofar as she’s lying to herself. Still, I was asking the reader to see around her, to see what she doesn’t. And thou...
The Prescott Bush story has been condemned by both conservatives and some liberals as having nothing to do with the current president. It has also been suggested that Prescott Bush had little to do with Averill Harriman and that the two men opposed each other politically. ...
What makes The Minister's Black Veil a Gothic tale? Why is it important for contemporary society to have knowledge on Victorian literature (such as?Jane Eyre)?& women in the Victoria era? Why do authors use literary devices? Why did Lovecraft write The Outsider?