1750-2100-word analytical essay comparing and contrasting A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway and House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. This is the outline I have I am having trouble completing the work!!
Intro:
There are several ways an author can create a plot, and use style and tone to bring their story to life. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway and House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros are similar. In both stories the authors use many fictional literary devices to write their story. Both authors use characters that are unhappy for one reason or another; the plots are also similar because each story the characters are anticipating, waiting for something to happen or trying to get somewhere in a hurry. An analysis of both stories shows the similarities' in the authors writing.
Title:
Comparative Literature or Hemingway Verses Hawthorne
A. Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, Well Lighted Place".
1. The plot shifts several times throughout the story
a. Two co employees want to close the café
b. An drunken, depressed, deaf, elderly man
c. To stay or to leave the café
d. How he always disliked bars.
2. The story is set in a café in the city.
a. This story is told at night.
b. The when it is calmer outside and the old man enjoys his Brandy.
c. It shifts to a bar that he does not like.
i. The bar is dark smoke filled, and gloomy
3. The story took on a different Style than I was expecting.
a. The main characters in the story are talking to each other throughout the story.
b. The Characters are disagreeing on whether to close the café or keep it open with only one customer in the café.
c. I believe Ernest Hemingway was quit cleaver when writing this story.
i. The story is testing the two characters values
ii. Would it be immoral or selfish to close the café early so he can go home to his family?
iii. This story was told in third person.
B. "House on Mango Street", by Sandra Cisneros
1. This plot tends to say focused on one thing
a. Moving from home to home
b. The different places being in disrepair
2. This story is set in the house on Mango Street, and the other flats they lived in before making it to Mango Street.
a. The story starts off in the present time at the house on Mango Street
b. It quickly leaves the present and moves to the past and what the family went through to come to their current home.
3. This story touches home with a lot of readers as it is written in first person.
a. The family is struggling to find a home to fit their growing family.
i. The family of six
b. Having to move from home to home due to the disrepair, or the high crime rate of the neighborhood.
4. The dream of the girl, and her mother refers to the homes seen on the television
a. It must have:
i. Running water and pipes
ii. A real staircase not hallway stairs
iii. A basement
iv. At least three washrooms
v. White with trees around it
vi. A great big yard with grass growing without a fence.