Essays on Writing Page 3

Cold Mountain The setting for Cold Mountain is in the state of North Carolina during the Civil War time period. Most of the key events happen in Cold Mountain. Inman tries to go back to Cold Mountain because Ada’s home is near Cold Mountain. When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada’s home….

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…

Debris was falling all over the place. The mad rush of people were coming out of the main stairway. It like a stampede. I saw two Firefighters help two other men stuck under a huge steel beam. “Hey you guys need help. ” I asked. ‘We almost have the beam off of him, but I…

“The Whitsun Weddings” is Larkin’s longest poem and describes the protagonists long, leisurely train journey from Hull to London. Larkin wanted the poem “to construct a verbal device that would preserve an experience indefinitely by reproducing it in whoever read the poem.1” He uses a certain poetic form to share the experience of his journey…

You are in the middle of writing the best story of your life. Every word is rolling out of you with ease; you feel as if nothing could stop this continuous flow of ideas, and then snap! That’s the sound of your pencil lead breaking. You get up to sharpen the utensil, but find that…

Having read Michaela Cullington’s “Texting and Writing,” I hold a different perspective from her. According to Cullington, texting does not affect students’ writing skills. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that textspeak, which involves shortening and abbreviating words in text messages, does have an impact on students’ writing style. Frequently, they incorporate these abbreviations into…

            At one point of the other throughout the course of a person’s life, he or she may have taken pleasure in his or her ability to control the events just as long as such events are within the confines of false reality.  However, when the separation between falsified world and real life becomes apparent,…

Over the years in school I have been taught a five step process for writing. It has been the topic of every English class I have ever taken since kindergarten. Most people, when they think of being taught how to write the immediately think of, English class. Even I do, As I thought about how…

Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869-1935 “One of the most prolific major American poets of the twentieth century, Edwin Arlington Robinson is, ironically, best remembered for only a handful of short poems,” stated Robert Gilbert in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography. Fellow writer Amy Lowell declared in the New York Times Book Review, “Edwin Arlington…

Edward Everett Hale’s story “The Man Without A Country” and RudyardKiplings book Captains Courageous are both fabrications in which the maincharacters, Philip Nolan and Harvey Cheyne both go through drasticchanges in both life and attitude. Each learns a different life lesson, but ina way that is slightly unpleasant. Philip Nolan, also known as the Man…