Young adult readers often overlook poetry and view it as dated and monotonous. Ellen Hopkins is a contemporary novelist who has found a way to intrigue the minds of young adults using poetry in her numerous verse novels. Hopkins often uses intense themes such as drug addiction, mental illness, abuse, and prostitution to hold the attention of her readers. She is notorious for drawing inspiration from her own life and has perfected the ability to express the intense emotions felt by struggling adolescents. In her novels Crank and Identical, Hopkins explores the lives of teens dealing with addict...

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Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, has been critically acclaimed by many newspapers and literary critics, Philip Pullman writing for The Guardian believed it was "Unmistakably ... of the text. For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, has been critically acclaimed by many newspapers and literary critics, Philip Pullman writing for The Guardian believed it was "Unmistakably ... of the text. For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... her scrunching up her eyebrows with her arms crossed looking very evil in nature (Sigmon 37). In the tales, only so much of a mental picture can be built up with literary detail which gives room for the pictures to give artistic detail that brings the tale to life. Basically, the illustrations are there not only for people to look at but ... . "The Jack Tales" collected by Richard Chase included a preface that directly said "The illustrator wasn't chosen, the illustrator (Berkeley Williams Jr.) was basically meant to be (Chase 10). From illustration analysis, this meant that the author f...

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When somebody tells us an interesting story we usually like to talk about it. Some of us let our imagination create our own special details to make the story a little more catchy, others may have heard the story several times by different people and consequently combine the two or three different versions to make the story more accurate while others just say the story the way they heard it. In Gary Gildner's short story "Sleepy Time Gal" the narrator had heard the story from his mother and his father so he combines the two perspectives to make his story more complete and interesting by at the...

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... it is she is gazing upon, and at the moment of the story, it is Chandler. Ironic that chandler perceives more from his wife through the distance of a photograph, a dim analysis of a living creature and its entire existence by the pixel fabrications of a picture. This is symbolic of Chandlers detachment from an outside, inspirational world, that holds lines of poetry by ... point, is quite stale itself. Joyce cuts to Chandler already having arrived at his home after his disappointing meeting with Gallaher, cradling his child in his arms. Joyce makes a painful literary juxtaposition, by l...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate