RIP VAN WINKLE. A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday. Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My sepulchre—— Cartwright. [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old…
Category: Setting
Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway – Focus on Setting and Home as A Literary Theme – Week 3 Comp 2
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier’s Home” (1925) Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the…
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca DAPHNE DU MAURIER ISBN U 582 419379 First published in the Longman Simplified English Series 1957 Contents Introduction V Chapter 1 Maxim de Winter 1 Chapter 2 Manderley 7 Chapter 3 The Cottage in the Bay 11 Chapter 4 The Shadow of Rebecca 19 Chapter 5 Rebecca’s Room 23 Chapter 6 The Fancy-Dress Dance…
Powder by Tobias Wolff – Focus on Character
Powder is a short story written by Tobias Wolff, who also wrote This Boy’s Life, which is Wolff’s memoir that later became a motion picture by the same name. “Tobias Wolff writes prose that is clean and honest. He deals with the gritty realities of experience, sometimes relying on his own years as a soldier…
Songs As Literature – Focus on House As Theme
Flies On The Butter (You Can’t Go Home Again) Wynona Judd Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter A hole in the screen door big as your fist And flies on the butter Mama baking sugar cookies, we were watching cartoons I heard her holler from the kitchen “Which one of you youngen’s wants to…
The Flowers by Alice Walker – Focus on Plot
Alice Walker wrote the eye-opening, life-changing novel The Color Purple. The story is epic but it is brutal. Notice the climax in the following scene of The Color Purple: Alice Walker is a consummate storyteller. Let’s study her very short story The Flowers. The Flowers By Alice Walker It seemed to Myop as she skipped…
Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway – Focus on Setting. Character, and Themes in Literature
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier’s Home” (1925) Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the…
Setting in Literature – Focus on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
“Setting – The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs. The major elements of setting are the time, the place, and the social environment that frames the characters. Setting can be used to evoke a mood or atmosphere that will prepare the reader for what is to come….” Meyer &…