Scout’s teacher-Mrs. Caroline is not supportive of the idea that Scout is reading in grade one and this is ironic.

Being able to read in grade one is usually applauded by many instead of discouraged, “…Mrs Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading” (Lee 17). This quotation shows that Mrs. Caroline disagrees with Scout’s reading; therefore she is using something that is supposed to be seen as positive and turning it into negative. She is turning it into negative because it is like she does not want Scout to learn at the accelerated level she is learning at. She is trying to draw Scout back to the level of learning of your average grade one student. “…You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage” (17). This quotation proves what I am explaining which is that Mrs. Caroline is trying to withdraw Scout, trying to make Scout unlearn what she already knows.

The main thing that is learned from this is that Mrs. Caroline is not being reasonable and she is trying to put pressure on Scout. However this could also be viewed within Mrs. Caroline’s perspective which is that, maybe she wants her students to learn from her only and does not want interference by having her student’s parent teach them otherwise.

List of characters mentioned in this essay

Jean Louise “Scout” Finch: The narrator and protagonist of the story. Scout lives with her father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia, in Maycomb. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy. Scout has a combative streak and a basic faith in the goodness of the people in her community.

Mrs. Caroline: Scout’s grade one teacher

Atticus Finch: Scout’ dad

Sadly, we've also read some books that were not even close to their true potential. Clusters of ill-conceived ideas, mangled sentence structure and the lack of a plot can all make you shut such a book at a moment's notice.

Would you like to know what makes me cringe? I was recently asked to read someone's work that they had been promoting for months. The anticipation of beholding the first chapter and tearing into it like a medium-well steak made my blood boil with excitement. Soon, it would be upon me like a theif in the night, on top of me like the roof over my head.

I could stand it no more. The hype had driven me mad. The day came when the first chapter was ready for hungry eyes and I greedily snapped it up like a fish on a hook, eager to taste what could very well be the "Next Big Thing".

My jaw dropped. Months of waiting on this first piece of narrative made me want to cry inside. I was at a loss for words. Run-on sentences, boring plot, horrendous grammar errors displayed for the world to see-- I wanted to vomit.

Truth of the matter is, I love what I do. While I do it in my spare time, I consider it more of a career than a stupid little hobby I occasionally find time for. When someone writes garbage like this, it's like they just don't care. Words on a page, that's all they are.

The problem with this line of thinking is this. If you're just spewing dirt across the page, people aren't going to waste their time with your work. In fact, they're more likely to never read or purchase (That means BUY!!) any of your future work!!

I'll try to be short and sweet on this. You need to show me the reason why I'm bothering to read your content. Is this an original piece? Does it make sense? Several things on the example I spoke of earlier stood out, which I'd like to expand on. It was about an alien race taking over the earth. If I'm being honest, I yawned.

The concept is nothing new, but if written correctly, it can be regarded as an "incredible book." I always argue that people are capable of taking an overdone scenario and make it their own. Let's explore just how.

Plot

Your plot is what propels your storyline. In my book Carnal Instinct, Becky has just broken up with Arnold because he's moving 4 hours away. Somewhere in her heart, she realizes she is wrong, but it's too late. He's found someone else. And thus, begins her quest to reclaim 'what is rightfully hers.'

Character Development

Nobody likes cardboard characters. "Hello, Joey. How are you feeling?" This might be appropriate for a teacher to ask a student, but feels awkward if a third grader is speaking with a friend. Remove such awkwardness and if a character is constantly being challenged emotionally, socially and physically, (though not neccessarily all in each book per se) you should be on the road to greatness.

Spelling/ Grammar

I promise you; when I see things like this, I close a blog and shut a book. "i thought it was cool when i went over too the rivver it was cold and weyt and i took a swim my best friend came over after school and had a snakk with me it was cool." Disgusting and unprofessional.

Memorable?

Ten years from now, will I remember any of the content? What exactly was it that stuck with me? In my brand new book, GROUND, I've been told by various people how 'messed up' it is. They've given me examples of how their favorite scenes were acted out. The nice thing is, they have trouble choosing exactly the same scene. One might be the warden getting what's coming to him, or finding out what's going on in the prison. Whatever the case, make your readers nod in enjoyment.

Powerful?

Regardless of whether or not you're writing a romance novel or a chunky gore horror story, keep in mind that you need to keep your reader entertained. With a movie, you generally have the first 5 or ten minutes to catch your viewer's attention. With a book, it's much harder to guage. Grab them from the first pages of Chapter One, and never let go.

Know your audience!

This is very important! Who is going to be reading your work? If it's riddled with profanity and blood, I do hope you're not shopping it to Scholastic. Seriously.

Proper conclusions

While it's true the bad guy doesn't always win, there are many different options to explore. Does the bad guy get the girl? Does the hero get killed at the end? Make it interesting and make us drop our jaws when our hero does something you would have never imagined.

Thank you for reading my tips on what (to me) makes a great book.

The book, for those of you who may have had your head stuck in a sand-pit since 1997, focuses on the adventures of Harry Potter, a mistreated orphan who is whisked away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Not only is the book about magic spells, eccentric wizards and witches and flying broomsticks, but we also follow Harry as he experiences starting at a new school and making new friends - something that many children are themselves able to identify with.

One of the beauties of J.K. Rowling's writing is that she uses a language that is straightforward but not overly simplistic to the point of being patronising to the younger reader. As I'm sure most of you have read at least some of the Harry Potter series you will probably agree that the author has a strong narrative style to her writing and a strong plot that keeps you reading to the last page.

While many biographers conclude that Poe's wife was the real Annabel Lee, it is also possible that she was a fictional character. Annabel Lee was the main figure being spoken of in the poem, but she could also be considered as a symbol of a rare, pure and tender love. There was something about her description that evokes innocence, purity and childlikeness (characteristics that Virginia Clemm possibly had). It is indeed strange that Poe, an orphan and drunkard who had experienced so much cruelty from life, should marry a thirteen year old sickly girl. Perhaps, in his mind, there was an undying ideal, a longing to find tenderness and innocence in a woman and become united with her. This ideal notion was symbolized by Annabel Lee, and if she was indeed Virginia Clemm, we can say that Clemm was the only true love that Poe ever had.

In the first line of the poem, we can read, “it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea”. The sea here was used to represent the speaker's memory. The entire phrase suggests that Annabel Lee's death occurred a very long time ago, but the sea speaks of reminiscence and an undying memory of love. This particular pattern was repeated in the succeeding stanzas, where each time the “kingdom by the sea” was mentioned, there was also a mention of things which belonged to a distant past. Poe wrote in the second stanza, “I was a child and she was a child, in this kingdom by the sea”. At the time this poem was written, Poe cannot be considered a child, as he was way past his early twenties. Clearly, he was simply using the word "sea" as a vehicle to illustrate unfading memory of a loved one which cannot be erased by time. He seems to be implying that the memory of love he had for his woman cannot be erased even after the pain of loss and death. Thus at the end of the poem, we can find him staying beside the dead girl's sepulchre by the sea.

The poem suggests that the speaker's love for Annabel Lee was of such divine and everlasting nature that it disturbed divine creatures themselves. The jealousy of the “winged seraphs of heaven” speaks strongly about the magnitude of the couple's love for each other. Obviously, the love was too much (it was a love that was more than love) that the heavenly beings chose to inflict death on poor Annabel. It is possible that the “winged seraphs” personify ill fate, and the “highborn kinsman” represents God Himself. The reason for the jealousy was not explained in the poem. Either Poe merely used it as a plausible excuse to justify an untimely death, or he simply wanted to blame ill fate, or possibly God, for the loss of his love. Or perhaps, poet as he was, he was just trying to sound a little bit more poetic. We can only surmise, because only Poe, dead in his grave and his love long been buried, has all the answers to the questions that belie "Annabel Lee".

-Robert Browning

Defining poetry is not as easy as it seems to be. It's like a great mystery that requires an in-depth perception and analysis of its nature, power and function. Carlyle defines it as "nothing but musical thought". Shelley calls it the "expression of imagination". According to Coleridge, it is a composition of "best words in best orders" ; its immediate object is to yield pleasure and not truth. Matthew Arnold explains it as a "criticism of life" and "the perfect form of utterance that human words can reach". Some poets like Milton wrote poetry to earn honor, fame and immortality and to produce something which “posterity will not let die' ; while others like Bridges wrote for the sheer joy of it and for artistic pleasure ,wishing their poems to be short lived and to die before their fame was spread. Bridges sang :

My song is like a flower ;
I have loved airs that die
Before their charm is writ .

It is obvious ,therefore , that poetry may have different inspirations or motives but it is difficult to contain it within a certain formula . All poetry expresses someone's feelings and , thereby, it attempts to awaken the corresponding emotions in the hearts of others .All of us are poets in a measure because all of us have feelings and the power to express. There are certain moments in our life when our breath is held or lost under the stress of a deep emotion caused by love or when we stand enthralled before an object of beauty. So what's so special about a poet ? Well, those we call poets are more sensitive , with a wider range of feelings ; and better able to express what they feel , and move others to share their feelings .

Poetry requires a manner of viewing things which is not that of the average man ; it requires ,what we call , "poetic genius". We may feel about a thing , but we may not be able to express our feelings well, whereas a poet can express it in his uniquely appealing way. Thus, the feeling , when intensely inspired by imagination and suitably aided by the power of expression , gives rise to poetry . Poets are moved deeply by feeling and imagination and they feel restless without utterance .They sing because they must .And herein lies the true merit of a poet and ,thereby, the mysterious beauty of poetry .

A true poet is one who makes the reader feel what he felt himself about a thing when he wrote. We appreciate a great poet because while reading him we begin to feel something of the very inspiration and emotions which had stirred the mind of the poet . We feel, as it were, elevated to the heights of poet's imagination. For example, when Shelley laments: "I fall upon the thorns of life , I bleed !" ,we begin to search our own wounds. It's as if we become Shelley for the moment when we are reading his poetry.

The poet opens new gateways in our souls. We find poets who were moved to passion by objects that we hardly notice , or from those aspects of familiar happenings that we have come to ignore. Their strong emotions arise from their fresh vision. The world never ceases to be an interesting place for them . Blake expresses this truth in his inspired lines:

What to others a trifle appears
Fills me full of smiles and tears.

In many places ,where there is a shy and a subtle beauty that most of us would never see , a poet's eye discovers it and his voice makes us realize it. A hundred men may pass a hayfield and see only the sweaty toil and rows of dried grass; but here is one who pauses by a meadow , where girls are making hay and singing as they work .He is moved by the sight ,sees the truth and beauty where we see only dead grass , and he reflects what he sees in a little poem in which the hay tells its story :

A flower of the past ,
I have drunk my last sweet drop of dew
Girls singing me to death;
And the moon will still shine,
To look for the dew.

One who reads these lines can never again see hay without recalling the emotion expressed by the poet. This way of viewing things, which by its novelty , expresses and appeals to us, is what we call as "poetic imagination". Without imagination , feeling and passion there can be no poetry. To create poetry, emotions are transformed into a music of words , clear and beautiful .They may be terrible or saddening ,but still beautiful ; for it has been said that the greatest mystery of poetry is its power to render the saddest things with beauty.

Real poetry is the inner voice of entire mankind. It is, says Carlyle, “not only a criticism of life ,it is the very truth of life- the very essence of man's noble quest for reaching the kingdom of Eternal bliss.”The world of poetry is ever blissful. The matter of poetic creation is supplied by the many experiences of day-to-day life. The poet aims at reproducing life as he finds it around him, but he also does more : he tries to recreate that life with the help of his unique vision.The two aspects of reality and ideals are poised on the wings of the poet's imagination. He may dream us away into the magic world of a fairyland or move us with the sweet sad music of humanity.

Thus, we can say that poetry occupies a unique place in the enrichment of humanity. It fuels the soul on its journey towards the Eternal bliss. It helps us in a better realization of life. It is this mystery called poetry that a poet brings to us and which may be summed up in these beautiful lines from Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" :

He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,
Nor heed nor see,what things they be ;
But from these create he can
Forms more real than living man,
Nurslings of immortality !