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Possible Contents: The text explores the act of intruding to comment on writing that involves the personal involvement with fictional characters and directly addresses the reader. It openly questions how narrative assumptions and conventions transform and filter reality in an attempt to prove that there are no singular truths or meanings. It generally employs metrification,…

The year was 1863 in Dublin Ireland. Our country was falling apart, due to these harsh times food was scarce. There was much war happening many innocent lives lost due to those two main causes. There was word around the town that there was a faraway land that people could live free and happy lives,…

Tales of two very different men, from different times in the past. Both men intrigued with human sacrifice. Even though they are from two different centuries, they share the same interest, although they have different personalities. One, a man from the eighteenth century, lives above the family catacombs, which vowed revenge upon a poor unsuspecting…

Storytelling encompasses a variety of perspectives or points of view used to narrate a story. These viewpoints reveal the narrator’s stance and attitude towards the characters. The different points of view encompass first person, second person, third person, objective, and limited omniscient. First person point of view entails a narrator who is a character in…

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Ann Porter is a short story focusing on an elderly woman on her “death bed”. Although surrounded by some family, the majority of the narrative delves into her thoughts before she passes away. In her final moments, Granny Weatherall reveals much about her thoughts and values. Notably, she…

Edgar Allen Poe was a nineteenth century American poet and short story author. The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe are both stories concerning madness and hysteria. Both tales are written in a gothic horror genre with the intention of chilling and unsettling the reader. This was to make them…

Mark Twain’s short story “Luck” is written in the third person point of view, which makes it seem like you are there at graduation day with Scoresby and the Reverend. The story is entertaining because it describes a Reverend, a former instructor, and soldiers in the military who talk about a man that they used…

Movie Review: Pulp FictionQuentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of the most daring, puzzling, and ultimately exciting pieces of cinema to hit the screen in years. As wholly original as it is a copy of hundreds of films before it about tales of hit-men and criminals, it dares you to step out of the dull…

It was a dark, foggy night. Nothing was stirring, not even a bat. As I walked down the dark street to my friend’s house, I saw the old broken-down, tattered Nelson mansion. As I passed the spooky old house, it seemed like a silence fell over the little town of Hallowville. A bone-chilling wave of…

Guilt in Fifth business In The Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, Guilt is a theme that runs throughout both The Fifth Business and is a major force in one’s life. Davies demonstrates this by having one character feeling guilt while another who does not. Davies introduces the reader with Dunstan Ramsay and Percy Boyd Staunton….