If there is one thing that The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy has for readers, it’s a good sense of adventure and intrigue. The characters are constantly assaulted by both spies and threats from other characters, including lies and violence. Other authors tackled these ideas as well. For example, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. And, much like Orczy and The Scarlet Pimpernel, there were more than just one story involving these characters. As it turns out, mysterious plots and deceit extend beyond just one historical moment. In this post, I am reviewing The Three Musketeers, which is a book rife in swashbuckling adventure and daring.
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‘Harvest Home’ Analysis: A Journey into Folk Horror
What was here yesterday would be here tomorrow, and if it wasn’t it was no great matter. What mattered was the earth and what it could provide. — Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
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Why do we wear Halloween costumes?
Every Halloween, the streets come alive with dragons, faeries, monsters, and princesses, each adorned in fantastical costumes. But have you ever wondered why we embrace the tradition of dressing up in Halloween costumes and parading through town in search of candy? In this post, we embark on a journey through time to explore the ancient roots and the captivating history of costume-wearing, tracing it back to animal costumes and festivals in the hills and analyzing it for what it is today.
Book Review: ‘Scary Stories 3, More Tales to Chill Your Bones’
When you read a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book, you no doubt expect grim depictions of horror and eerie drawings that could only come from beyond. Yet, you should expect the images to perfectly visualize the stories between the covers. Just like the three-book collection of Scary Stories. In this post, we delve into the abyss of terror once more. After previously dissecting Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, we now turn our gaze to the sinister Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. Join us as we analyze and summarize this literary descent into darkness.
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Book Review: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
“I think I’d been looking for it all my life
a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls
Exploring the Theme of Death in Poetry
Poems are all about beauty and presentation. What do they look like? What do they say? Poetry about a blooming flower joining the world with a figurative smile on its face is common. Yet, another commonality is the theme of death in poetry and what it means to humanity. In this post, we will analyze the metaphorical and personified versions of death and how it is conveyed through verse.
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Crafting Prose Like Ray Bradbury, Exploring His Unique Style
To write prose like Ray Bradbury, one must focus on the subject in intense detail. By doing so, they can describe it using imagery and senses to generate a clear image. Bradbury, a science-fiction author and prolific short-story writer, wrote many classics in multiple genres. These include stories from the science-fiction classic Fahrenheit 451 to the horror-driven bildungsroman in Something Wicked this Way Comes.
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The Duality of Art: Subjective vs. Objective Perspectives
Over a decade ago, I thought art was beyond critical reproach. A creation is just whatever an artist can dream up, so naysayers should stop being so critical, right? But these days I have been thinking: how can a critic analyze a work of art if it is neither subjective nor objective? After all, somebody will always come around and say, “Well, man, all art is subjective, so there’s that…” And, there’s actually a fair amount of discourse on the subject.
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“Fall, Leaves, Fall” by Emily Bronte: Analysis
Fall is certainly one of the best times of the year. Yet, it is strange how it differs from city to country, from sidewalk to path. The colors pop a little harder in some places, and a little less in others. With it, however, is that feeling that the winter is on its way, and that the season is forever shifting onward without you. Poets really have a way with saying one thing and meaning another. In this post, we are going to analyze “Fall, Leaves, Fall” by Emily Bronte.
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Ray Bradbury’s “The Lake”: Processing Trauma Through Writing
I was Up North with my family last week and we spent time down by the water (Burt Lake and Lake Michigan). Sitting in the sand one night, I watched my wife walk along the shore looking for Petoskey stones. She didn’t find any, but she did remind me of Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Lake” from his collection The October Country, which has so much to do with the water and the memories we make in life–traumatic or not. In this post, I would like to talk about Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Lake” and how it can help us with processing trauma through writing.
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