... Elisa's facial features, her fingers as they dig through the dirt, and how strong her crops are. Although the author emphasizes and builds Elisa's character throughout the story that she is such a strong woman, he ends the story with Elisa breaking down and weeping. Symbols are important in the ... I raise them every year, bigger than anybody around here" (249). Notice how Steinbeck describes how Elisa's irritated face has vanished as a result from the stranger's question, which is Elisa's interest. From that moment further, Elisa began to "open up" to the man, feeling more comfortable an...

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... so then in "The Altar of the Family" by Michael Wilding and "A Blow, A Kiss" by Tim Winton. Both author's use of exposition, character development and climaxes are pivotal in the development of narrative structure in their short stories as it exists to communicate a meaning. The timing and placement of ... narratives create this meaning. In both these stories, the narrative structure is revolved around "moments of realisation" that are imposed on the main character resulting in the reader facing personal issues and opinions. Through narrative structure, both authors base their stories a...

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... Creature Joyce Carol Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" deals with Connie, a fifteen year old girl, whose confrontation with a mysterious stranger named Arnold Friend. Many experts agree that Oates" story is based on a real life mass murderer who killed teens in Arizona in the 1960's. Oates" incorporates ... this into her story so she can construct the evil of Arnold Friend in an almost believable setting. Arnold Friend, however, is not a real life character. In Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" there is a clear interpretation of evil in Arnol...

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In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. However, in the years between his next meeting with ... flees in terror, the creature recounts that, "his appearance [was] different from any I had ever seen before, and his flight somewhat surprised me." (Shelley 73) In saying the stranger's flight surp...

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