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A Plot Review of Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (1112 words, 2 pages)

Stephen Crane The Open Boat There are many good short stories in this world, but how many of them can captivate the reader in such a short amount of time like that of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." As a reader of this story one may feel as if they ... Read More

A Description of the Plot of Common Daytime Soap Operas (425 words, 1 pages)

Lisa Soukup Mrs. Kenn AP Language and Composition 6 September 2000 Take everyday life and exploit it by creating pompous over blown melodramas. Drag out exaggerated plots over a series of months. Have only the most beautiful actors and actresses. Do all this and you are guaranteed to be a ... Read More

A Plot Review of To the Memory of My Beloved (691 words, 1 pages)

Ben Jonsons To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us and John Miltons On Shakespeare are both tributes to Shakespeare that try to bring to light how he has affected the world. Although the topics of both poems are the same ... Read More

A Plot Summary of I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen (1066 words, 2 pages)

Seeing Eye's I stand here ironing, and what you have asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron" (McQuade 73). Emily's mother was asked by what seems to be a therapist, if she could help them understand her daughter because she needed help (73). I think the real ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Story of Thomas More (498 words, 2 pages)

At the last debating whereof he made such arguments and reasons there against, that the King's demands were thereby overthrown. So that one of the King's privy chamber, named Mr. Tyler, being present thereat, brought word to the King out of the Parliament house, that a beardless boy had disappointed ... Read More

A Plot Summary of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (820 words, 3 pages)

Romeo and Juliet- Romeo and Juliet, is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. They did not imagine that their love would lead to the tragedies that it did. These two young people did nothing wrong except fall in love. Three aspects of their destruction ... Read More

An Analysis of the Romantic Plotline in Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (501 words, 1 pages)

Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" shows distinct characteristics of romanticism throughout. Irving's unusual and original subject and the descriptions of nature, displays these romantic qualities of originality, connection with nature and an emotional sincerity. Rip van winkle is about a man who goes deep into the woods one day to go ... Read More

A Review of the Plot and Cast of the Movie “Reservoir Dogs” (1468 words, 5 pages)

Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel when they recorded a Dylanesque pop hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", in April of 1974. The single reached number five on the charts - little did they know that eighteen years later it would become a ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” (1860 words, 3 pages)

On first reading, Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness appears to summarise the attitudes of the Europeans, and in particular, the English, at the turn of the century. The central narrator and character of the text, Marlow, presents his views on the issues of race and gender in a manner which ... Read More

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Methods for Developing Plot and Characters in The Great Gatsby (758 words, 1 pages)

Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, assigns certain types of images and descriptive words to Tom, Daisy and Jordan and continues to elaborate on these illustration throughout the first chapter. Nick uses contrasting approaches to arrive at these character sketches Tom is described by his ... Read More

The Plot in the Short Story, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (961 words, 2 pages)

Following the Plot in Harrison Bergeron A plot is described as a pattern of events or the main story in a narrative or drama. The traditional way of a plot would be to use the freytag pyramid. This was coined by the 19th century thinker, Gustav Freytag. He said that ... Read More

A Plot Overview of Cyrano de Bergerac (724 words, 1 pages)

Roxane- Roxane was a beautiful women loved by several men in the story. Among them were the ugly, but witty Cyrano, the handsome, but bland Christian, and the sneaky, evil de Guiche. But Roxane thought that she only loved Christian- first for his looks and later for his writing. But ... Read More

A Plot Overview of J.B. Priestly’s “An Inspector Calls” (1585 words, 3 pages)

Task To what to extent do you agree with the view that Eva SmithDaisy Renton was entirely to blame for the situation she found herself in and for her suicide? "An Inspector Calls" by J.B Priestly is a play which I thoroughly enjoyed. The play is about a family in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Plot Devices in King Lear, a Play by William Shakespeare (919 words, 3 pages)

A device which Shakespeare often utilized to convey the confusion and chaos within the plot of his plays, is the reflection of that confusion and chaos in the natural environment of the setting, along with supernatural anomalies and animal imageries. In King Lear, these devices are used to communicate the ... Read More

A Plot Review of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” (1100 words, 2 pages)

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930s. He made many future predictions and many or most of them have already come true but not to the extent that he writes about. The society in Brave New World is significantly different to the present one, and to the society ... Read More

A Plot Review of “The Catcher in the Rye” (1808 words, 2 pages)

The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye is set in the 1950s and is narrated by a young man named Holden Cualfield . Holden is not specific about his location while he's telling the story, but he makes it clear that he is currently undergoing treatment in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Plot, Influence and the Portrayal of Society’s Attitudes in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Novel The House of the Seven Gables (903 words, 2 pages)

Plot Summary The story springs from the actions of Colonel Pyncheon, whose mysterious death seems to have been a direct result of his prior evil conduct. He built The House of the Seven Gables on a plot of land that he had wrongly taken from Matthew Maule in Salem, Massachusetts. ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Story of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (677 words, 1 pages)

The readers are first introduced to Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel who has been in the mental hospital for fifteen years. As a "Chronic", a type of patient that cannot be cured, the half Columbia Indian pretended to be deaf and dumb with much success. In the hospital ... Read More

The Two Stories That Made the Plot of Heart in Darkness by Joseph Conrad (582 words, 1 pages)

Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is in actuality two stories. One, is the story of Charlie Marlow's trip from Europe to the uncivilized Africa and back home to Europe again. The second is the story of a conflict between the manager of an ivory company and Kurtz, an ivory ... Read More

A Plot Review of the Movie “Ben Hur” (599 words, 1 pages)

Ben Hurs Struggle with Faith a Theme The movie Ben Hur is about Judah Ben Hur, an aristocratic Jew living during the Augustan age and the time of Jesus when Jud was a Roman province. The Jews had historically always been oppressed and ruled over and during this age, were ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Story of The Conquest (1067 words, 2 pages)

With saddened feelings they reached the great gates of the palace of Axayacatl. The gates were thrown open, and Cortes and his veterans, rushing in, were cordially embraced by their companions in arms, while both parties soon forgot the present in the interesting recapitulation of the past. The first inquiries ... Read More

An Examination of the Plot in A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (409 words, 1 pages)

The twist in A Good Man Is Hard to Find In Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the plot of the story is grounded in situational irony, a conflict between ordinary folks and both chance and evil. The forces of chance are built by an almost overwhelming ... Read More

A Plot Overview of William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” (1227 words, 2 pages)

William Butler Yeats wrote his "The Second Coming" in January of 1919, three years after the Easter Rebellion of 1916 and after the First World War had ravaged Europe from 1914 until 1918. Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart, his first novel, in 1958, just two years prior to the ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story “Hills Like White Elephants” (831 words, 1 pages)

The short story "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about a man and a girl, Jig, who are going on a trip. The woman is going there to have an operation. The author does not tell us specifics about the procedure. The story looks at a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Plot in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1190 words, 2 pages)

"Treasure Island" Set in the days of sails and ships, buried treasure and pirates, Treasure Island is an epic tale of a young boy by the name of Hawkins, and his search for the buried treasure of the notorious Captain Flint. Treasure Island is written by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 ... Read More

A Plot Overview of John Olthius and Roger Townshend “The Case of Native Sovereignty” (1257 words, 2 pages)

In the following assignment, I will discuss the issue of native sovereignty in Canada, and address the question Can native sovereignty coexist with Canadian sovereignty? To answer this question I will summarize two articles that discuss the issue. The first by John A. Olthius and Roger Townshend entitled The Case ... Read More

A Plot Summary of the Story of The Islanders (576 words, 1 pages)

Hanan Elaraby English 1, period 6 41904 Ms. Pryor The islanders. "Kat! Wait up!" Jennifer yelled to her friend Katherine. Katherine turned around just in time to see Jennifer and Sara running up to her. Wow, Sara and Jennifer look really pretty today, Katherine thought, I'm so glad we are ... Read More

A Plot Reviewof Winthrop D. Jordan’s Book “The White Man’s Burden” (925 words, 2 pages)

THE WHITE MANS BURDEN The origins of slavery can be said to have come from economic need, however according to Winthrop D. Jordans The White Mans Burden, this only constituted for part of the reason. Slavery began solely as an economic necessity in British America in the 1600 and 1700s. ... Read More

Theme and Plot Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s the Sun Also Rises (3230 words, 6 pages)

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. Indeed, it might be said that for some portion of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway was the most famous person on Earth. To some extent his stature in the public imagination has only increased since his death, a ... Read More

The Important Role of Irony in the Plot of the Story (464 words, 2 pages)

Irony is an important literary device in many stories and there are many examples of it in The Stone Boy by Gina Berriault, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In all of these works, irony plays an important role in the ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013