Up the Slide, while written by a well-known author, does not meet my expectations of a well-written short story because of the repetitiveness, the lack of clear plot, and the failure to expand on necessary parts.
Repetition, while may enforce a concept, also makes a short story quite boring if the same information is given to the reader several times. This type of repetition is found in Jack London's Up the Slide. For example, the author keeps reinforcing the fact that the mountain and snow is slippery and therefore Clay keeps slipping.
A plot is the series of conflicts that keeps the story moving and the reader interested. Without one, a short story would just be a pattern of words. In Up the Slide, the plot is very confusing and hard
Kelley use repetition many times throughout the piece. She uses it to have ideas and phrases stick with her
In the story, “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto and the story, “Charles” by Shirley Jackson the plots play a important role in the way the characters speak and act. The setting in “Seventh Grade” is in school, hallway, homeroom, math,english, french. And the setting in “Charles” is at home for the most of the story, but also takes place at the PTA meeting. The two stories plots are important to the actions of the characters because in every thing the characters say or do it will either positively or negatively affect the plot.
Plot is very important to a story, novel, or even movies. It helps to make object of the story plain to the reader, and make it as enjoyable to the reader as the author wanted it to be. Plot starts out with an introduction of sorts then runs into the rising action, followed by the main point of the story, then the exposition. When that is over the falling action occurs and finally, the resolution of the story. Willa Cather expresses this very intently in his story “The Sentimentality of William Tavener.” He draws the reader in with a man that is strict with his son and wife who are worthy to participate in the circus in town. Willa tells of the wife trying to convince her husband to allow them to go. Then he surprises the
Repetition; He repeats this phrase to illustrate how permanent the memories of the experience are.
Plot is a crucial element because it includes the structure of the story from the beginning to the end, how the characters develop throughout the
The repetition in the writing is when the prisoners of the concentration camps have to go through roll call every day. This is terrifying because if you make one wrong move, you get shot. Then, they restart the roll call, which makes you need to stand there even longer risking your life. Sometimes, they even shot you for no reason at all. Another use of repetition in the book was what they ate everyday. They ate bread and/or soup. You didn’t even get that much. This terrified the prisoners because it wasn’t very tasty to start with, but it didn’t help eating it everyday. They were too scared not to eat it, though, because you could starve to death if you didn’t. The author uses repetition to show the theme of
Repetition is restating an idea by using the same words. For example, “The wrath of God” and by that it expressed God’s hatred towards sinners. Another example of repetition is “Mere pleasure of God”. “Mere pleasure of God” means God will be made aware and will take action to what is happening or to what has happen. They are multiple examples of repetition used by Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
The repetition is a stylistic device O'Brien adds to stretch the truth of a story by adding and subtracting detail. The effect of this for a reader is a feeling that shows O'Brien's obsession with the stories he tells, because they always
This is incredibly prominent in the chapters “The Man I Killed” and “Speaking of Courage”. As the narrator stares at the man he believes he killed, certain lines keep reappearing. The star shaped hole in the dead man’s eye, how his jaw was in his throat, his feminine physique. The incessant details of the man’s features forces the reader to imagine the dead man over and over again, constantly being reminding he too was a human with a life. The narrator intentionally does this in order to evoke the same emotion in the reader as he himself felt in the moment. “Speaking of Courage” does something similar, although not with the restating of the same words, rather by having Norman Bowker go through the same thing over and over again with little result. The reader feels a sense of boredom and sadness as they find Bowker forcing himself to drive around the same lake over and over again and wanting to tell the same story over and over again. Perhaps this monotony is what lead Norman Bowker to
As for the plot it is what happens in the story, it is a series of events caused by what the characters do or not do. A character is who determines what the events of a story will be. Setting won’t matter without the
Repetition connect to the theme fear can make people do things that they might regret later because for example when they are chanting “kill the
Almost all stories have plots, and authors employ plots in many different ways. If you can show the particular way in which an author makes use of plot to further his or her story, you have said something substantial. We are interested in learning about the particular way that Hawthorne uses colors and names as character symbols in “Young Goodman Brown,” or the specific way that Updike in “A & P ” shows the world of the grocery store society as a way to enable Sammy 's character to hopefully mature. Try to develop your discussion by focusing on a particular strategy the author uses and what effect that strategy has on the reader. Why did the author choose this particular strategy over other options that might have presented themselves? Does the strategy enable the author to do anything? Are there any constraints in using the strategy?
Plot – these are the events or incidents that take place on the stage. The plot is clearly defined problems that the characters must solve. The plot is very different from the story line and is chronological detailing events that have happened on and off stage. Events that happen off stage are often introduced through a narrative dialogue. The playwrights often create a plot that is sincere and astounding.
The plot or sequence of a story is the order in which events in a story take place and how these events are related to one another. The integral components of a plot include: the exposition, the climax, the conflict and the resolution.
Plot can also be used as a direct representation of the theme in a short story. Plot is the combination of setting, characters, and the series of events that allow the story to progress. The idea of a unifying event that forces a child into the adult world is identified, by analysis of the plot, as the theme of Alice Munro’s “Royal Beatings”. The story progresses by a series of flashbacks through Rose, the protagonist’s, life developing the