Daniel Faulkner

"The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich, is a short story that depicts the relationship between two Native American brothers Lyman and Henry Junior. The story revolves around a red Oldsmobile convertible that they both purchased after Lyman received a large insurance check. It then continues to focus on the events of their lives up until the point where Lyman loses his brother. Erdrich uses first person narration for Lyman in the passage. I think it is very important to the reader because he is…

People are often left to wonder how much control they have over the events and circumstances in their own lives. The extent to which they can control their lives is massively varied from situation to situation. The short story, ”Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, the book, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, and the short story,”The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, all demonstrate different instances in which the lives of their characters have varying amounts of control over their lives. The…

Hemingway’s Carefully Chosen Settings: How Hemingway Creates an Argument and Masters the Short Story Hemingway was the master of the short story, an otherwise impossible form of writing, because he was able to use all the literary devices as his disposal to make every single word work for the story, which stopped his short stories from running on into novellas. Indeed, the way Hemingway uses devices like setting is startling in his short stories because he does more than set the scene – he uses…

Warren uses a mixture of tone and tension to emphasize the content and to help develop the theme. The author creates a tone of sadness throughout the poem. One example can be seen when Warren writes, “she sat In front of the drugstore, sipping something Through a straw. There is nothing like Beauty. It stops your heart. It Thickens your blood. It stops your breath.” Here the ‘boy’ seems to be truly in love with the girl and also has the desire to speak to her but can’t seem to go to her. The…

Emily” is an interesting story. “A Rose For Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. The story documents Emily’s life and how the town has reacted to Emily’s life. The story takes place in the South and documents how Emily has resisted change. Faulkner is often compared to Hemingway due to the fact that they were rivals. Faulkner is a shy but egotistical while Hemingway is extroverted but humble. Faulkner likes to have a complex style while Hemingway likes to have a simple style in…

Two passages are provided by two anonymous authors, each of the author give a different outlook on the Okefenokee Swamp. To elaborate, in passage one the author only uses facts and evidence about the Okefenokee Swamp in order to get infor his/her readers about the swamp avoiding and sense of a personal opinion. In contrast however, passage two the author uses his/her own personal opinion about the swamp doing so it can cause many of the readers to become persuaded by the authors opinion thus…

Huck Finn Maturity In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck, the protagonist, grows in knowledge and maturity. Huck Finn lives in a home on the edge of Missouri and the Mississippi River. He lives with Miss Watson, the widow Douglas, and their slave Jim. These women that he lives with are trying to “sivilize” him and he does not want them to do that. Throughout the novel there are parts that Huck shows his maturity. Huck learns to make many of decisions, like to hide money from…

Mark Twain, O. Henry, and John Steinbeck all have very unique writing styles. Mark Twain uses regional dialect which is a language that represents the character and where they are from, like how they use grammar and pronunciation. O. Henry uses plot twist. Plot twists are when something just pops up out of nowhere. John Steinbeck uses social commentary. Social commentary is problems in society. All of these elements of style helped them write all of their amazing stories. Whitewashing the…

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the story follows the struggle of a father and his son to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where inhumanity, despair, and violence in a loveless world do not seem to save much room for peace and triumph. However, despite the absence of empathy and basic humanity, McCarthy does somehow achieve to highlight some pleasant themes all over the story: the themes of morality, hope, and love that are embodied through the father and son's journey on the road. One of…

Discrimination making People to separate from their families, suffer, migrate and die which most people in Waknuk don’t give attention to it unless they see it in their life because they are close-minded and want no change in their life. Discrimination is common in Waknuk, especially people who are normal, highly discriminate others who are different or deviations because they wants to stay as they are in the novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. Sophie the little girl with only one pair of…