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Part I: Write a fictional short story about an anti-hero of your choosing.
Part II: Write a literary analysis of the story you just wrote. How did 'the author' use plot, setting, characters, literary devices, etc. to create meaning? What lessons or themes do we learn from the story?
Report writing requirements:
Refer to yourself in third person for the literary analysis.
Format your text consistently throughout the document, taking care to cite correctly the works used.
Direct citations cannot be more than 25% of the number of words in the literary essay.
Wikipedia, SparkNotes, ENotes, LitNotes, etc. cannot be a cited source.
Include a Bibliography at the end of the document that cites the sources used in the document.
One page of double-spaced text = approximately 250 words.
A title page and the Bibliography do not count in the word count for the document.
The total word count for your report is: 500 words minimum
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Answer
Shattered
It was at this particular time that it dawned on him, Klein had declared war. If it is war, Calvin was quite familiar with it; he would fight for money and wealth but not once had it felt personal like this time. His beloved son – Mike – was lying down with a gun-shot wound right into his temple, his brains were probably in the pool of blood that bathed his body. Calvin remembered the rest of his family of two (Claire, his wife and Kevin, his first-born son) and how much in danger they could be in. With grief, he dug a hole right there, far from his country-side billion-dollar mansion.
For a long time, Calvin helped Klein abduct children from schools in order to conduct scientific experiments with them. Calvin did not care much what Klein and his cohorts did to the kids, as long as he got tipped, he would stay in line. However, Calvin later noticed that the government was secretly involved in the business; he figured out that this translated to a whole lot of money, money he was desperate to have to give a better life to his wife and kids. Calvin did his own digging and found out the company was a multi-billion project funded by the government to conduct deadly experiments on kids. He decided to draw his fortune from the same firm. He stole over 3 billion dollars from the firm and fled to the country-side to live his dream. However, Klein dug him from his hideout and decided to kill his family one by one.
Calvin knew that without the firm, Klein was nothing; so, he aimed to cut out the firm from its roots, as revenge. Knowing their secret hideouts, Calvin planted explosives on the firm’s laboratories as he rescued the children that had been abducted and kept ready for experiments. He bombed the firm down to its ashes with his anger still directed at Klein. When he got back home later that night, he was devastated and scared to the point of death. Klein had the whole of Calvin’s family tied on the back of a chair with a ticking bomb, with a pistol on the back of his wife’s head. He felt betrayed, with his back on the wall and no idea of what to do next.
Literary Analysis
Literary analysis basically examines and evaluates the plot, setting, characters, as well as literary devices thus delving deeper into the literature and gaining better insight into the message of the author (Kusch, 2016). The author used the plot of the story to direct the reader’s thoughts towards the situation that the protagonist is in. The few characters that the author chooses makes it easy to connect the whole story and understand it from the perspective illustrated. Despite both parties having have done morally wrong deeds, the author uses the plot to drive the morally gray protagonist, with selfish aims that allows him to do general good. At last, the firm is destroyed and the kidnapped kids are rescued. The author shows how realistic the protagonist is, taking advantage of every opportunity to benefit himself – a typical human behavior. However, the author drives the idea that every action always has its consequence, which can be shattering and utterly destructive.
References
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Kusch, C. (2016). Literary analysis: The basics. Routledge.
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