“As I moved my chair a little near suddenly with one catlike movement both her hands clawed instinctively for my eyes…”(Williams 1) This quote comes from the short story called “The Use of Force” which shows what doctors have to put up almost every day. William Carlos Williams divided the short story “The Use of Force” into five major parts, but used more emphasis on the conflict, climax, and resolution to make the story more interesting. Most short stories are divided into five major parts. The name of each parts are Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution. Her Exposition is at the base of the mountain or the beginning of the story. This is where the author sets up the story including characters, setting, and main Conflict. (Welty 1) Rising Action occurs as you begin to move throughout the story. This is where conflict start to build up just like when you climb a mountain you are moving further along. (Welty 1) Climax is the turning point of the story. You have reached the top of the mountain and you can 't go any further,you have to turn and go down. This …show more content…
his dread of hurting here made him release her just at critical times when I had almost achieved success, till I wanted to kill him.” (Williams 2) This quote come from the story “ The Use of Force” written by William Carlos Williams. In this quote we can see how the little girl would use or do anything in order to not get checked. By this point of the story the doctor is almost at border line in losing it. every little thing that the girl does is getting to him, even the parents of Mathilda. The doctor tells the father to set the girl on his lap and to not let go no matter what. But the child wouldn’t give up without putting up a fight. As soon as the dad did what he was told the child began to to scream like if she was getting killed. “Don’t, you’re hurting me. Let me go I tell you. Then she shrieked terrifyingly, hysterically. Stop it! Stop it! You’re killing me!” (Williams
A narrative is the revealing effect of a story from the first person point of view, which describes an experience, story or a set of events. In the story, the narrator tries to engage the audience to make the story further compelling. The narrator’s job is to take a point and a stance to display the significant point of his or her’s view.
The Use of Force, written by William Carlos Williams is a story about a conflicted unnamed doctor using physical force to determine a diagnosis. The question that is brought up is whether or not the doctor’s use of force was one of ethical duty or infuriating violence. The doctor makes it his duty to save the patient, Mathilda as she does not cooperate he makes a choice to go on and use force to open her mouth to determine her diagnosis. The choice of using force isn’t necessarily the questionable part, the motive on using physical force is debatable. The ultimate question that the short story, the Use of Force asks is whether or not the doctor’s motives become one of dutiful compassion or desirable violence.
A novel utilizes the elements of narration, specifically including description and plot. Novels also incorporate a climax to the story along with denouement. Plot is unfolded by the actions, speech and thoughts of a character. It is these actions that lead to the climax and the resolution of the story.
To begin, theme emerges within the exposition of the plot structure as conflict is introduced to the text.
Plot Structure – I felt that most of the exposition took place in the beginning of the first page. For the rest of the story there was mostly rising action. Then, I felt that the climax came when Julian sees his mother crumple to the ground. The falling action and resolution are packaged together in the last couple paragraphs.
"The Use of Force--William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)." Classic Short Stories. B&L Associates, Bangor, Maine, U.S.A., 1995-2007. Web. 10 Dec. 2011. .
All stories have three things: the rising action, the climax, and the falling action. Each have their specific purpose within the story. In the text “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien uses the character Elroy Berdahl to shape the climax and falling action of the text.
Typically a story begins with an exposition, which introduces the characters, setting and plot. In the short story ?Popular Mechanics? by Raymond Carver, the exposition is excluded. The story begins with a short rise in action, moves quickly to the climax and totally omits the resolution. Carver uses third person objective narration to reveal the actions and the dialogue between a man and a woman. The narrator gives very little descriptive details, never revealing the characters? thoughts or their motivation. This allows the reader the freedom to interpret and develop their own opinions of the setting, plot, and characters of the story. This also stimulates the reader to be an active reader?to think about what is read, to ask questions, and to respond to the authors? style of writing.
Beginning: The doctor is introduced to the sick child and he is really suspicious of her. He thought she had a fever with what she looked like.
Taking place during the diphtheria pandemic, "Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams demonstrates how pride and fear can distort one's sense of rationality which is displayed in the actions of the strong-willed doctor and patient and emphasized by the use of descriptive sensory imagery, lack of punctuation, and an abrasive tone.
Mr. Carter enjoys possessing power and being in control. He is used to everyone doing what he wants, without question. As a dentist, he is able to legally exercise this power on a helpless patient. They are at his mercy when they lie sedated on his chair. Mr. Carter comes home early because two patients cancelled their appointments, though the reason for this is not given. After studying the story, it became safe to assume that they cancelled because of the pain that was about to be caused on them by Mr. Carter. As a father, he is able to exercise this power on his little son. Small Simon is under his father's mercy when he cringes underneath the weight of his father's "big, white, dentist's hand." Even Mr. Carter's wife is afraid of his anger. She is unwilling to say anything bad about him, even though she "knows what Big Simon's ideas are.'" Even though Big Simon is not in the room, his power precedes him. Also, Mrs. Carter is not, as the reader would assume, the one to object to the idea of the beating of Small Simon. Betty, not Mrs. Carter, calls out, "Don't!'" before Big Simon says that he will beat Small Simon. Betty, not Mrs. Carter, reacts and rushes up the stairs at the sound of something seeming to "tear the air apart." In addition to this, Mr. Carter shows supremacy over Small Simon by the very fact that he names himself "Big" Simon, and his young son, "Small" Simon. He even goes so far as to say, "I have been longer in the world than you have, so naturally I am older and wiser." In this way, Mr. Carter is establishing supremacy over Small Simon, in his mind.
“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence,” Robert Peel. The use of force for police officers is something I find to be justified and right, because it can possible help save the officers life and any witnesses lives.
Some of the characteristics of Modernism are: a desire to break conventions and established traditions, reject history, experiment, remove relativity, remove any literal meaning, and create an identity that is fluid. The rejection of history sought to provide a narrative that could be completely up for interpretation. Any literal meaning no longer existed nor was it easily given; essence became synonymous. Narrative was transformed. Epic stories, like “Hills Like White Elephants”, could occur in the sequence of a day. Stories became pushed by a flow of thoughts. The narrative became skeptical of linear plots, preferring to function in fragments. These fragments often led to open unresolved inconclusive endings. This echoes in the short story’s format. The short story functions in fragmented dialogue. Focusing on subjectivity rather than objectivity. Creating characters with unfixed, mixed views to challenge readers.
In the modern short story, the author leaves the empty space to the major event. For instance, in “Hills Like White Elephants,” the operation which the two characters were talking about is much more important than the drinks that these two characters would drink. However, the drinks were paid more attention. The types of drinks, such as Anis del Toro, beer and others, were introduced. Also, the size of drinks and whether the drinks were with water or not, were mentioned. Whereas, the operation that the girl would have was not described in detail, and only one word “operation” was