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Post by nielsakkerman1 on Jun 11, 2013 14:37:54 GMT
After reading the authors' biographies, choose two authors and describe how you think their shaped the stories they wrote.
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Post by nielsakkerman1 on Jun 11, 2013 18:32:50 GMT
Author Edgar Allan Poe, wrote the story of "The Cask of Amontilado". the tone that was used in this story was dark and morbid. I believe this reflects on his childhood growing up losing his parents and his inspiration of writing his older brother that was a poet himself. Poe also got in involved with bad activities like gambling and drinking which got him expelled from the university he was studying at. Some of the tragic events in his life alternated his thought process, and made his stories darker and have a evil tone to the story.
Author Shirley Jackson, wrote the story "The Lottery" she was able to relate to the her life to this story because she felt that maybe the people around her did not acknowledge her work and held on to the traditional traditions and did not want to accept her work. This is related to the story of "The Lottery" the people held on to their traditions and did not want to accept new ideas. This could be closely reflected to authors life and her struggle of getting acknowledge by the people.
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Post by jeffreymonroe1 on Jun 12, 2013 0:26:00 GMT
Authors have been known to shape their writing off of the experiences they have had. This could be traumatizing time in their childhood, adolescence, or later in their adulthood. It’s not until you read their biography or when that person has passed that the truth about their writings come to life for all to see. One can see this in Edgar Allen Poe’s writing about dark, and sometimes mysterious, forces kill key characters to give his audience a sense of terror. Edgar’s delusions for horror stared in his childhood. His father deserted him before the age of two. Then his mother died shortly after his second birthday. Anyone can see how he got these morbid ideas to write about. All he could do was think about the death in life. Kate Chopin, born Kate O’Flaherty, on the other hand, had a different outlook on life when she wrote her stories. Her father died when she was the age of four, being raised by her mother,grandmother, and great grandmother. She would come to find herself ending up like the women who she was raised by after her late husband died. This is when she began to write her stores about her exploration in women self-worth, along with female sexuality. These two well known writers wrote their stories completely different, but they are both drawn to write by the bad times in their life's. Probably to express their selfs to the world or just to get the memories for taking hold.
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Post by connorkasinec on Jun 12, 2013 12:41:39 GMT
Edgar Allen Poes writing is directly influenced by his life. He was distraught by his father abandoning the family and his mother died when he was only two years old. This set the way for his horrific writing style. The hurt he felt inside was channeled into his writing. Poe was not just writing stories but was almost projecting the way he felt out into others people lives through the dark tales he wrote. He later drank himself to death, which is yet another testament to the fact that his life was full depression and melancholy just like his poems and stories.
Kate Chopin uses her life events to help her write The Story of an Hour. She not only was widowed but all the women in her family were as well. The fact that she knew the pain of losing someone she loved helped her express that feeling through the character in the story. Her husband also died in just as was suspected of the husband in the story. Chopin had lived through this story before she wrote it. Her use of detail in what feelings the suspected widowed wife had show that she had felt all these feelings before and used her everyday life experiences to write her stories.
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Post by jaymedossett on Jun 12, 2013 13:10:43 GMT
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I believe that the story “The Cask of Amontillado” fits Edgar Allen Poe’s life. In his biography it says that he married his thirteen year old cousin, when he was twenty-six years old, which means that he must have been a really strange guy already. He was also known for writing for his writing or horror and supernatural things. A lot of authors that are known for this type or writing is often very strange. His childhood may have been a big impact on how he became this way. His father abounded him and his mother died when he was two years old, he pretty much grew up without an actual family. The biography does say, however, that was adopted by a wealthy tobacco company merchant. Being this, I’m sure that money wasn’t an issue during his childhood but I bet that there was a lack of affection and communication between Poe and his foster family. As well as the fact that he was an alcoholic, all of this would explain why his stories were so dark and horrid.
I believe that Kate Chopin, in this story, uses the story to reflect an event that has happened in the past. When she was four years old her dad passed away in a train accident. In the story her husband supposedly passed away in a train accident. I think that maybe she was trying to express how her mother felt when her husband actually passed away in a train accident, also the way that it felt to lose her husband when he passed of swamp fever. She may have been combing how the two deaths of loved ones affected her in the worst ways. The fact that she was raised by all widowed women, would also explain her strong self-worth of women that she wrote so highly of in her stories.
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Post by johnharrison on Jun 12, 2013 17:15:15 GMT
People lives and how they grew up has about to do with the way they write. Writing is a form of self-expression. After reading Sherwood Anderson’s biography and the story “the story of an Hour” it seems like Mr. Andersons life was not a happy one, after leaving his business his wife and 3 kids high and dry to become a writer, and it reflects in his writing. This story was a story of sadness and just when it makes a turn for the better the whole story is ended with the main lady in the story dyeing. Like it couldn’t have a happy ending much like his own life of swallowing a tooth pick and dyeing. It seems sadness fuels his writing and was his driving force in this story. Another writer William Faulkner, wrote the story “Spunk” . Spunk is about a monster of a man who is black. From the way its written and the dialect he used it seems that the story was set in the old south in a village or camp. Faulkner spent most of his life in Mississippi so im sure he was no stranger to the south an the accent old southern black folk have. Maybe he was the man in the story seeing that he was no stranger to hardship being rejected from the army for being to short it seems Faulkner wrote this story in a setting that he knew allot about given that palmetto’s don’t grow up north or any other place but the south.
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Post by Adam Jones on Jun 12, 2013 17:43:29 GMT
Edgar Allen Poe's life was greatly influenced by his life and the choices he made during it. His father abandoned his family and his mother died when he was two years old. He married his thirteen year old cousin at twenty-six years old, which i find to be really strange. Poe was also expelled from the university he attended because of activities like gambling and drinking. I feel that the events in his life directly influenced his writing subjects and style. In "The Cask Of Amontilado" the setting is very dark and grey. I feel that alot of his publications are along the same line which is a direct reflection of how he lived his life.
"The Story Of An Hour" written by Kate Chopin could be seen as an interpritation of her own life. Not only was Chopin a widow but also the family members that raised her were also widowed. In the story she was able to express the feelings that she felt from the tragadies she had been through. This story could be a calaboration of events that happened to her in her life like, the death of her father at a young age, the death of her husband, and the deaths of her relatives husbands.
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Post by Eddie Austn on Jun 13, 2013 14:01:20 GMT
The author William Faulkner wrote the story ‘a rose for Emily’. This is the first of his stories that I have read. This story is somehow weird I would say. The setting and plot of the story is abnormal. If William wrote this story to shape his life then have a strange lifestyle. If any of his life reflects on the way or how he wrote his story I do not see it. Nowhere I see it could have anything to do with Williams lifestyle.
The author Zora Neale Hurston wrote the story Spunk. Zora is a black author and I can see her shaping this story. She could have experienced this moment in life herself. Zora being stuck between a love triangle and leaving her first man for another. This ending up in an altercation between the two men.
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Post by snowman on Jun 13, 2013 18:16:37 GMT
Edgar Allan Poe wrote many stories, including "The Cask of Amontillado". the tone that was used in this story, like most of his works, was dark and morbid. This reflects on his childhood growing up losing his parents and his inspiration of writing his older brother who was also a poet. Poe also got in involved with bad activities like gambling and drinking which got him expelled from the university he was attending. Some of the tragic events in his life altered his thought process, and made his writing morbid and have a dark tone.
Author Shirley Jackson composed the story "The Lottery". she was able to portray her life in this story because she felt that maybe the people around her did not acknowledge her work. Instead, they held on to traditions and did not want to accept her work. This is related to the story of "The Lottery" because the people held on to their traditions and did not want to accept new ideas. This could be closely reflected to authors life and her struggle of being accepted by the people.
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Post by coreyrowland51 on Jun 13, 2013 18:36:31 GMT
Poe had a very difficult childhood. As a child he watched his mother die on stage. His mother was an actor and he thouhgt that she was just acting or playing dead. So he thought nothing of it at first. I believe the reason why all his writing is dark is due to the fact that his life was dark and that was all he knew was dark and eerie.
Jackson enjoyed writting so she writes stories that are more uplifting and not so dark and gloomy. She prefered to write syfy types of stories but caught a lot of attention for her story the lottery.
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Post by jburrow on Jun 25, 2013 19:39:38 GMT
Two authors that let literature shape their lives were Edgar Allen Poe and william Faulkner. Poe was a drunk that was depressed by all the death that occurred in his times. All his closest family members died from TB and he was in the middle. His delusional style of writing bleed through in most of his stories like the raven and tale tale heart. William Faulkner's style of writing was influenced by Romanticism. Romanticism was a respectful time period. people that wrote in the romantic time period were all respect for nature. Their life style revolved solemnly of respect.
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