John Gardner wrote a humorous story with serious conflicts, problems, and themes. It makes you laugh while hope while reading this suspenseful tale. If someone likes silly and old tales they will be interested and maybe in his other books too. The book is “Dragon Dragon”. John Gardner was a literary critic and a university professor . He loved old tales and monsters. He was also a poet. He was born in 1933 and died in 1982. There were many silly characters. The dragon was very mischievous and he was annoying to the kingdom. “He tipped fences, frightened maidens, robbed graves, and many more! A few things didn’t make since. This story is took place in medieval times and there were, fridges, cars, and cigars. The wizard was an odd character.
Gene Luen Yang’s latest book, Dragon Hoops is a semi-autobiographical book about Gene's time traveling and novelizing the story of the O’Dowd Dragons and their quest to win state championships. Gene is the author of the award-winning autobiography American Born Chinese, a school math teacher, and a comic book nerd. In this essay. I will tell you about this book’s theme of “everyone has a story worth telling.”
Ishmael Beah, recalls his time as an orphaned child soldier, in Sierra leone, in his memoir A long way gone. Amongst those who were moved by the memorable piece of literature, there are those who quarrel with the idea that it is a completely factual account of the events that took place in Sierra Leone and the details regarding the physical wounds he obtained. While some of the claims made against its accuracy made are valid, It does not diminish the merit of the memoir. Beah’s escapade as a child soldier, his rehabilitation and the universal themes contribute to the immense worth of the novel, and allow the reader to walk away enlightened.
Freedom and Oppression are not things that can be touched or felt, but rather reached. In his literary work, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah uses symbols to underscore his central theme of freedom and oppression. He uses the moon, the gun, and the machete as symbols to convey this theme. First and foremost, the moon is used to convey the theme of freedom and oppression. When the moon is bright and shining, it represents safety and freedom.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a traditional medieval romance story. The main character receives a quest, battles a villain, learns a virtue, and finishes the story with a happy ending. One twist in the plotline deviates from normal medieval romances. Sir Gawain admits to his failure. With the first two tests, Gawain keeps his word and trades his day’s earnings with that of the host.
The Poem “The Poet” by Tom Wayman is a poem that takes the reader through the physical characteristics of your average poet. The entirety of the “The Poet” consists of a list of 14 descriptors that could be used to describe the typical poet. Each of the descriptive phrases seems to be negative towards the unknown poet that he is talking about. Although the poem seems quite literal, a figurative message is portrayed though text, tone, structure and the literary devices used in the poem. To start off, the specific word usage that Wayman chose to use gives off the impression that poets have their drawbacks.
Throughout the novel, Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, very memorable, powerful and important sections stand out. These sections help move the plot forward, establish or continue the prevailing theme or help the reader learn more about a certain character. One example is; after bearing witness to the Iron Sister, Saul laments the lack of charity, hostility and destructivity of St. Jerome’s, when he says, “When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That’s what they inflicted on us” (81).
Sir Gawain searches in an unknown land and is welcomed into a castle. It is ironic that the Green Knight is discreetly warning Sir Gawain of the things
Two stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Revelation” by Flannery O' Conner both share a similar theme. The theme most common throughout both stories is religion. The author uses racism and religion in most of her stories and characters all seem to have similar personality traits. A few comparisons between “Revelation” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is that both these stories start off quick and to the point. These two stories contain a strong sense of superiority of their characters.
Among the Hidden Themes One theme in Among the Hidden is “survival”. This is a theme because when you're a third child you have to know how to survive. You have to hide, or you’ll get caught and killed. Luke hid for so long until one day, when he saw a face in the neighbor's window. This leads us to our second theme of the story.
He really enjoyed writing heroic and adventurous stories and used his father’s past as a motivation to his stories. The Three Musketeers is about a man called D’Artagnan who had a dream of becoming a musketeer. He was a poor man from Gascony in Southern France headed to Paris. He had a letter of introduction that he had to give Monsieur de Treville. On his was a man made fun of him, they started a fight then that man’s friends helped injure D’Artagnan.
He made the decision to fight the dragon, even though he was very old and knew he had little chance of winning. He frees his people and is able to return the treasure to the kingdom. The warrior mindset he has makes him brave, and reliable for his people. He is able to keep them from danger, and to protect them. Having a warrior mindset affected the way he ruled, but for the better, he never second guessed going into battle to save his people, and he died a
First of all, he was confident, energetic, and kind. Even though he was kind and confident, he was also brutal, strong and an excellent swordsman. He was a good and affectionate man to his daughters, but had no mercy for those who were his enemies. It has been known that
He solved a huge problem for the village of Berk. People stared trusting dragons, and learning to befriend them. He didn’t give up and tried his best to come up with a solution. In the end, it was the loser of the village that brought everyone together and made it so they don’t have to kill anymore. Friendship is of vital importance to survival, if you didn’t have anyone to talk to or to relate to then you would go insane.
The Motif “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred Lord Tennyson's about the Lady of Shalott falls into Arthurian tradition and the Victorian obsession with such. She was lonely and trapped in her tower, but safe there. However, when Lancelot passes by, she decides it is better that she be vulnerable and experience the world, and in doing so experience love and intimacy, then to remain confined foreve.it near Camelot is the the Island of shalott where a beautiful young maiden is imprisoned can only see what is reflected in a mirror as she work on weaving a magical web. I think Darwin theory is historicism and evolution . It debate that the numerous traits and adaptations that differentiate species from each other also explain how species evolved
The book I was reading is a sequel to a book I talked about in my previous letter. The sequel of How to be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell is How to speak Dragonese from the same author. The literary element I will be talking is Characterization. In How to speak Dragonese, like any book, there is good and bad characters.