The Painted Door Theme

The title of the story as well as the story itself are significant, they both leave the reader wondering what is going to unfold.

The narrator is unknown and tells the story from a third-person perspective. Additionally, the narrator has a limited perspective because he/she does not know the inner thoughts of all the characters.

There are many more examples of un-equality as you near the end of the book. The three main characters spend the whole book trying to get to a “Refugee Camp” for survivors and those who are scared and need the safety it promises. Once there it becomes apparent that it is no safer or nicer in the Camp as it is anywhere else. In my opinion, reading this back from cover to cover will definitely change you, the main idea and several other smaller themes of this story are… surprising. You will never know the unfairity of living like that until you have either been put through it (something I would not want to do) or read about it, it shows how horrible the world can be if you are different and how terrible it can be, even to those whose innocence is greater than most others.

2. How much does the narrator know about what is happening? How do you know?

The narrator is reliable and the point of view of the story is in third person omniscient. The narrator tells us what all the characters like Millicent are saying, doing, or thinking, causing readers to be able to grasp a deeper understanding of everything happening around them.

For this essay I will analyze the unnamed narrator whom is the protagonist in the story. The story opens up with the narrator describing

Who is telling the story? When might this story take place? Is it significant that the characters in the story tell the story? Why?

As hardworking women living of the prairie, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters can relate to Mrs. Wright’s situation. They know personally that long days of doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning can become very tiresome (Hedges 91). They realize that living on the prairie can force a woman to be confined to her own house for weeks at a time, and because Mrs. Wright never had children, the grueling loneliness that she suffered must have been excruciating. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters both experience the constant patronization and sexual discrimination that most women in the early twentieth century lived with. They empathize with the difficulties of Mrs. Wright’s life and almost immediately a bond is formed with a woman they do not even know.

Narrative point of view refers to the position of the narrator in relation to the story that one is narrating. As such, when evaluating the point of view of the narrator, one focuses on the relationship between the narrator and the characters in the story. There are three major points of view that narrators can adopt while narrating a story. These are first-person, second-person, and third-person point of views. Either of the foregoing points of views have different effect on the understanding and believability of the characters or the story being told, as is evident from O Pioneers! and As I Lay Dying novels.

The theme of any literary work is without a doubt the single handedly most important aspect of that work. As readers it benefits us greatly when we not only analyze the authors motives behind the work but also the underlying message as well. As Ernest Hemmingway implored, all works of literature are best looked at as ice bergs; where the appearance is just a mere portion to the real magnitude and message of the work. Joyce Carol Oates', "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" is one literary work that has a theme that requires the reader to look beyond just the story and to analyze all aspect of the work in order to discover the true meaning of her work.

Talk about the characters in Macbeth. Who is the protagonist? Who is the principle antagonist?

Okay. So here comes the first question. What is the setting of the stories and how essential is the setting to the story?

omniscient, limited omniscient, or first person. The purpose of the narrator is to give facts

I see how these events transpire as a character test. Who am I and what do I stand for? My friends, my relationships and my future are directly correlated to the events that will occur. Whats important to me is that I do what 's right strictly based on my values.

| The theme of this story is that there is beauty and hope in anything and everything as long as you work for it. This story