The Reader Creative Writings Samples For Students

Using Formatting to Portray Mental Illness in The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes the reader through the first-hand experiences of the narrator's bed rest following the birth of a child. Gilman uses a variety of methods to convey the mental anguish the narrator is experiencing and one of these methods is the use of shorter paragraphs. By utilizing this format, the reader develops a great sense for the racing thoughts the narrator is experiencing as she is left alone in her room for an extended period of time. The fragmented thoughts provide a sense of urgency and unrest that may otherwise be more difficult for the reader to ...

A rhetorical choice is that strategy that any writer decides to use that helps to make his or her message much more effective, comprehensible and also very compelling to read. These kinds of choices function to make the writer more fascinating, memorable and convincing. Most writings have an intention of either to raise questions, to inform the reader, to criticize an occurrence, to entertain, to understand a perception, to introduce a relationship of several ideas, to create an imagination, to support an argument and also to persuade. From these excerpts there are several rhetoric strategies that have been implemented to enhance ...

Linda Hogan who is one of the prolific writers have developed different papers some of which dwells entirely on her life journey towards finding her bliss. In article titled Rendezvous with Bliss, Hogan is depicted as a strong lady who did everything she could in order to deliver herself from life problems such as lack of parental love she encountered while she was still young. Actually, at one point in life, we see Hogan getting into marriage with an older man who was twice as old as she simply because she was longing for somebody who could show her love and ...

Essay Review – Dug Your Own Hole

- The introductory paragraph of the essay manages to hold the attention of the reader with its strong direct message, enhanced by the personal experience of the writer. The writer manages to familiarize himself to the reader right at the beginning of the essay but he might need to tone down the subjective tone of the essay in future since not every reader may be able to relate to his experiences.
- A distinct thesis statement is present right at the start of the introduction which helps the reader to grasp the overall concept of the essay without putting ...

Dedication: This poetry analysis essay, which analyzes four poems exploring death, is lovingly dedicated to my grandfather who recently passed on.

This essay analyzes four different poems from four different authors. All of the poems relate to death, and each author has a distinct way of thinking and exploring the issue. “Play”, by A. R. Ammons begins by painting a gloomy picture of everyone’s eventual demise and then turns that around by using it as a justification for following one’s dreams. Dylan Thomas’s poem “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” is a powerful statement against, written in a Biblical voice of ...

The Night In Question

Tobias Wolff
‘The Night in Question’ is one of a collection of fifteen short stories by Tobias Wolff published in 1996 by the same name. The story gives us an insight into human desires and its varied exhibitions in different situations. Wolff is an American fiction writer, who hated cruelty and violent behavior. This attitude was due to the violent behavior of his alcoholic stepfather who infused extreme physical and emotional strain in Wolff’s life. This aspect may be seen in ‘The Night in Question’ in which the author attempts to stress on family ties, loyalty, love, affection ...

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The Heavy Craft by Page is written using symbolical language which carries a message with a deep message. He starts with the statement that the wax has melted but the dream of flight still persists. One might wonder how a dream of flight might be connected with wax. Wax is used to join two parts to help two parts become stronger. However, in this case, the wax has melted which seems to suggest that he feels that his flight dream is under threat. The theme of this poem is no losing hope no matter what happens. In the poem to a friend whose ...

In modern times we are bombarded with so many news stories in our everyday existence it can often be difficult to distinguish the true relevance of this information within our own lives. Rhetoric refers to the writer’s intent to persuade, motivate, and intrigue us about a topic. My understanding what motivates readers; writers can employee different techniques to make their message apparent.
With the recent attention focused on the 2012 presidential elections, one key issue that was the focus of many newspaper articles was welfare reform. This is a very complex topic that can confuse or bore the casual ...

Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach in South Carolina is my favourite place in the whole world to vacation – it is my idea of paradise. I love its beach and the sound of the waves lapping against the shore; I love the shops and the restaurants; I love its humid heat too. Unlike other places, it is incredibly easy to get to as it has its own airport which is great because I hate being in a car for a long time to get anywhere. It has a large population of young people which means that there are lots of fun things to do too.

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Revision is very important in helping the reader understand what exactly the writer wanted to say in the first place. The writer is able to tackle all the concerns that he or she forgot to highlight or deal with in the first place.

Revision in any kind of writing is important for it gives the writer a second chance to convince the reader that indeed what he or she did in the first place was not a true reflection of his or her actual knowledge of the subject.
In the first place, the writer did not ...

Creative thinking has often much to do with occasional yet productive wandering of thought, which sometimes causes difficulties to articulate one’s opinion and sometimes leads to eloquent and constructive expression of one’s mind. While for most writers resorting to strategies of metaphorical thinking is regarded a sure way to be understood by others, it is actually a matter of dispute whether metaphors and comparisons are relevant tools for meaningful self-expression. It can hardly be denied that figures of speech might mar the bigger picture of overall sense, leaving black stains on awkward and inappropriate meaning use.
On ...

E. E. Cummings is a poet known for his strategic and unique use of punctuation, spacing, rhythm, and poem construction which combine to create a powerful piece of literature. This is particularly true of “pity this busy monster manunkind,” which uses rhetorical devices such as line breaks, asides, and punctuation choices to generate meaning within the reader. The poem is, itself, an indictment of modern civilization, but it is conducted in such an abstract way, and through such a distorted lens, and it requires a reader to be astute and focused to derive the true meaning from the work. ...

Recitatif by Tony Morrison is a story of two girls, Twyla and Roberta. The story is told in five encounters and all of them are narrated by Twyla, that’s why this story is also known as the Recitatif of Twyla. Recitatif literally means a musical narration. The language of a Recitatif is different from poems and stories. This is symbolic of the grave nature of this story.
The story begins when both the girls, who belong to different races, are put in an orphanage. The setting is particularly important because it gives the readers a hint about the background of these ...

Cycling, eternally, back and forth;

I break your heart, you break mine.

“How fucking happy is the blameless vestal’s lot” (pope)

Forgetting everything that was once thought

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (pope)

Each wish; each desire born in delight

Each wish; each desire resigned in delight

Row your boat roughly down all the streams

Magically forgetting what the word gentle means

Magically forgetting what anything means

Love is grand isn’t it?

This is a nice start to a poem, I really like the idea and the changing tones. The first two lines are strong and provide a sound introduction. ...

Discussion on Hispanic Poetry

It was a great delight to read the book “Platero and I” by Juan Ramón Jiménez as it appeared to be light, easy and gentle. I do not remember coming across a story in which the author puts so much effort into describing an animal that is not only his friend but also a soul mate. I enjoyed reading those paragraphs which are dedicated to the description of the donkey. Jiménez has chosen such tender and warm words to describe Platero that every reader will immediately fall in love with this soft and hairy donkey “made ...

1.0 Observation
Having gone through “A Doll House”, there was a personal observation to the effect that the author relies on literary methods to elaborate the broader status of human life in a society. In perspective, these elements of the story seem to either be the traits of the characters, their experiences, or the setting of the story. These experiences are brought out using literal methods to paint a picture in the mind of the reader.
2.0 Premises
For instance, the play A Doll's House, the author majorly focuses on the use of secondary characters to dramatically contrast with ...

Literature is one of the most useful sources of knowledge for human nature. The history of literature contains several seminal works that aid in the transformation of the human psyche and worldview. Readings like Machiavelli’s The Prince, George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant and Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. are very famous works that have got immortalized in the minds of the avid readers all across the world. I value the readings because it gives me a sense of how others in the world analyze things and helps me to be more open-minded to new ...

- Characterization: Characterization is defined as a literary device that the writer uses to highlight and explain step by step a character’s details in a story.
- Flat character: A flat character in a work of fiction is a character with little development. The character does not change or undergo significant change as the story progresses.
- Round Character: A round character is a term coined by E. M. Foster. It is opposite to a flat character, and is defined as a complex character that changes and is developed by the writer during the course of the story.
- Stock Character: A stock ...

In the second month of autumn in 1937 a short story by John Steinbeck ‘Chrysanthemums’ was published in Harper’s Magazine. It was not serene and stable times but on the contrary, the elections of the President were just held and Franklin D. Roosevelt gained his position of the Head of the country for the second time. The Great Depression laid its grave mark on the economy of the United States and both hardly started to recover. Significant changes touched upon a social sphere as well, meaning that now it was time for women to emerge as equal members of the ...

For long scholars have noted that there are many similarities between the Egyptian proverbs of Amenemope; chapters III to XXII and the Words of the Wise particularly chapters 22:17 to 24:22. Although various individuals have drawn different accounts of the similarity, the general unanimity seems to be that the Words of the Wise borrows from Amenemope’s instructions. These two texts depict a concrete parallelism though not a literal copying of words. This paper examines the underlying parallelism; beginning with the specifics then analyzing it.
It is evident from the two works that they both begin by asking the reader ...

- The feel of the essay
He feels sorry to those who doesn’t understand what is First Amendment, by applying it anyhow and anywhere without clearly understanding it.
- Lesson
There is every judgement in any single word used. Therefore, people should be keen with word they use or quote. A good lesson is from the article written by Santa Rosa Junior College which had hate speech where the constitution did not favour them.
- What to do after reading
The reader should judge on how to use First Amendment and make some ...

Taken from the posthumous memoir of Dr. John Watson, published on the 25th anniversary of his passing, in which the prolific chronicler of England’s most celebrated amateur detective frankly admits to the many and fanciful misrepresentations of his friend’s character - falsehoods which Watson confesses to have perpetrated upon an unsuspecting and admiring public. To wit, that Sherlock Holmes was, in fact, bored speechless and rendered irremediably irresoluteby excessive detail.
“Of the many compelling investigations carried to a happy and just resolution by the ‘observational powers’ of my friend Sherlock Holmes, few if any can be ascribed ...