Literary Analysis : Modern Detective Fiction

Many individuals have flashbacks after experiencing trauma. Survivors of such horrible traumas sometimes can act out in violence, after something triggers them to remember the ordeal. The novel The Suspect by L.R. Wright, offers a realistic account of what goes on in the mind of an individual who has committed murder. Throughout the novel, I made connections to many real life examples of how trauma has affected the lives of criminals and their victims, through either alcohol or mental illness. Individuals affected by this sort of trauma can seek medical or social help in order to be able to learn how to cope with daily living.

“True Detective” This paper will examine “True Detective”, each of its episodes, and demonstrate my understanding of some of the basic components of literature and fiction. “True Detective” is a crime series written by Nic Pissolatto and directed by Cary Fukunaga. “True Detective” is about two detectives named Rustin Cohle and Marty Hart, they were resolving many cases about many missing women and children. They were looking for the murderer of many women and children in the state of Louisiana.

Made in 2007, “Mad Detective”, was a movie about a cop that used odd tactics to try to solve a case of a murder. This film, directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai, was very successful when in was produced, winning the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay, and Asian Film Award for Best Screenwriter. This movie became very popular in Hong Kong for its unorthodox detective, that used exotic methods in his work, to solve cases, Detective Bun. With this movie having a lot of qualities that made this a good film, like the music they used in the film, the development of the characters, and certain scenes that used camerawork, editing, or props to show meaning within the film. There were also qualities in this film that kept the movie from being a great movie, like a complex plot, that was still too easy for the audience to follow and figure out the mystery too easily, or the ending of the movie. The way they made the ending of the movie over dramatic, yes, it is understandable to have a dramatic ending like most movies to, but they dragged out the ending a little too much.

“I [Death] am haunted by humans” (Zusak 550). This example of imagery, a literary device, in The Book Thief juxtaposed how Death was haunted by the cruelty of human action, just as how humans were haunted by Death. Literary devices were implemented by authors to create gripping stories that they wanted to share with their readers. Novelist Aldous Huxley once said that “the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about everything”. While casual readers may not realize the intricacies of literary devices in writing, they could definitely remember how the stories went. Through literary devices, stories can metamorphose into something greater and memorable. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E.

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate” (109) quotes Death, right before the bonfire of banned books is lit. The novel The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is filled with pages of destruction and mortality. Although it is unclear what Death, the narrator really is, he is mostly portrayed as an immortal human who shares the same feelings as we do. During the reign of Nazi Germany, Death is occupied picking up souls of soldiers and Jews. To distract himself, Death describes the vivid colors he sees during one’s death. He is troubled by the way humans destroy one another because in the end we all die.

The basis of detective fictions is a well-developed and observant character that is able to walk the audience and outside perspectives through the case. In this case, Arthur Conan-Doyle utilizes the observant perspective of Watson to describe the actions of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle characterizes Sherlock through underscoring vocabulary and the first person understanding of Watson. A series of analytical language and descriptive literary devices such as juxtaposition to portray the effects of Irene Adler on the near-perfect character of Sherlock Holmes.

A Cleveland detective (McFadden), on a downtown beat which he had been patrolling for many years, observed two strangers (petitioner and another man, Chilton) on a street corner. He saw them proceed alternately back and forth along an identical route, pausing to stare in the same store window, which they did for a total of about 24 times. Each completion of the route was followed by a conference between the two on a corner, at one of which they were joined by a third man (Katz) who left swiftly. Suspecting the two men of "casing a job, a stick-up," the officer followed them and saw them rejoin the third man a couple of blocks away in front of a

In the film and the literary versions of The Maltese Falcon, cops are portrayed differently because of the distinct tools available to each media. The written descriptions of the novel give people on the police force a personality, so that they are humanized. On the other side, the film creates a cynical depiction of cops, where policemen are less complex humans than the criminals of the world, so this portrayal makes the film’s world appears grimmer than the literary world. In lieu of written description, the lighting of Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941) causes the policemen to lack some of the depth that they had in Hammett’s novel of The Maltese Falcon (1929) because the lighting creates fewer contrasting shadows

When an author sits down to write a novel one of the most important questions is: "Where is the story going to take place?". This is because the land can have an effect on what happens in the story through culture, geography, or placement on the map. As stated in chapter nineteen of Thomas Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor, "The places of poems and fiction really matter. It isn't just the setting... it's a place and space and shape that bring us to ideas and psychology and history and dynamism." (Foster, 182). Placement and geography take a front seat in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury through country and city.

Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people are willing to kill the detective, who plays both sides of the law, to find the truth , but it is ultimately driven by a strong moral code , and shootings and beatings enough for readers to share the feeling of danger Detective . For decades , countless writers have copied the themes and motifs Hammett may rarely come anywhere near him almost perfect blend of cynicism and excitement.

The two short stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Story of an Hour”, are two very similar stories. They share similarities of feminism, freedom, and marriage.

Tough Love In The Book Thief, a little girl named Liesel moves in with the Hubermann’s, a foster family who live in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. As soon as Liesel arrives she notices that Rosa’s face looks “like a creased- up cardboard and annoyed, as if she was merely tolerating all of it.” In the few days after she arrives Liesel says that “ it was the profanity that made an immediate impact.” The Hubermanns were always swearing at each other, and then the started to swear at her calling her a filthy pig when she would refuse to bathe.

The Immense Power of Words “The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest” (Zusak 446). Having knowledge and understanding the necessity of literature will carry a person through life. Markus Zusak’s historical fiction novel, The Book Thief, embodies this message. Zusak uses Death to narrate the life of a young girl, Liesel Meminger, and her journey to learning the importance of literature.

The movie The Maltese Falcon is about a private investigator who is striving to unravel the mystery surrounding a black enamelled bird known as the Maltese Falcon. Samuel Spade, the protagonist of the story, is what was known as a “hard-boiled” detective. Men such as that rarely show a tender side (if they have one). Likewise, they are physically tough, frequently resorting to guns or fists to get what they want. In addition, they tend to be amoral, yet with an inflexible code of honour of their own.

The Book Thief is a very intriguing book and anyone who has read it can easily say that it was a very good read, but what most people might not think about is how much planning and revision goes into making such a book. In The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak uses a variety of different literary techniques to make his book more descriptive. Two of the most prominent out of these are Zusak’s blending of different senses and switching of roles, techniques that result in a highly expressive piece of writing. These literary techniques are extremely effective in that they add lots of emotion to Zusak’s book and make it more enjoyable.