Essays on The Shipping News

Quoyle Passage Analysis The author describes a man's life throughout the progression of the passage. A man's life, beginning with a difficult childhood and ending with loneliness, is told using various similes and metaphors, a highly-descriptive diction, and antithesis. Quoyle's entire life is almost entirely chronicled by the author, who uses imagery-filled diction related to struggling to accurately depict Quoyle's upbringing. The author opens by describing Quoyle's gut, “roaring with gas and cramp," euphemisms for the pain and the hunger he undoubtedly…...

By close examination of George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and E. Annie Proulx's 'The Shipping News' compare how Orwell and Proulx, develop their main characters iston Seat evening sells clos'1984', as a science fictional dystopia, depicts a totalitarian regime that outlaws truth, love, thought, and the concept of the individual, controlling its populace with fear, brute force, and propaganda. Orwell presents Winston Smith as the protagonist of the story; his desperate attempt to preserve his identity initially leads to great development…...