English: • Explain what ‘gaps’ and ‘silences’ are. Good morning ladies and gentleman, I am here today to talk about one of the gaps and silences in the novel ‘A Bridge to Wise Man’s Cove’, now you may be wondering what a gap or a silence is. Well, a gap is a part of a novel where there is no explicit answer and the reader must make assumptions using their prior knowledge of texts and of the culture in order to make sense of it and thereby the reader is expected to complete the gaps in the text. A silence is much harder to detect and understand as the text is constructed by choices made about what to include or exclude. Silences may be conscious or unconscious oversights on the part of the author. They may be deliberate, as when an author chooses not to include some information in a text because it may be too personal, painful or embarrassing, or because it conflicts with the values, attitudes and beliefs they are wanting to …show more content…
Aunt Beryl doesn 't want them to stay with her and after numerous incidents with the police regarding Harley, she says Carl has to get a job if he wants to stay. He gets a one off job with Joy Duncan who lives on an island called Wiseman 's Cove. On the way home Carl meets Skip Duncan, Joy 's husband, the owner and captain of a barge that ferries cars to and from the island. Carl asks for a job there but, after revealing his last name, he is rejected. He learns this is because his grandfather had a car accident that crippled Skip leg for life, and accidentally killed his son. After some consideration, Skip reluctantly lets Carl work on the barge. After Carl starts working on the barge he stars to wash the salt of the cars which boost the popularity of Skip 's barge but it is eventually revealed that a bridge will be built and therefore put all barges out of
Another example would be when Sula’s character is questioned when her mother is burned to death. Eva is the one that sees her watch her mother die, but when she told her friends, they say, “Sula was probably struck dumb, but Eva remained convinced that Sula had watched Hannah burn not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested” (78). This is seen as a very odd thing, but the novel just ignores it and doesn’t evaluate her as a negative character until she dies. Sula’s death was “the best news folks up in the Bottom had had since the promise of work at the tunnel and few were not afraid to witness the burial of a witch” (150). This means that the whole town blamed everything on her to make themselves feel better, and because it
Skip is Very attached to his barge, he was skeptical of letting Carl work on his barge because Carl was a ‘Matt’ related to the man who killed their only son. “he was standing there, fishing with skip that afternoon, when the Ute hit, Your grandfather killed him” It was too much of a reminder of the pain for skip but with some convincing from Joy Skip finally agrees to let Carl work on the barge “you’ve got a job starting tomorrow morning.” This gives Carl a responsibility to have a job and give him a sense of belonging. This also helps Skip in a way to helping him move on from the past and give the Matt’s a second chance. Skip also taught Carl a sense of confidence and to show him he has a voice, working on the barge raised his confidence immensely and helped him feel live again; “he couldn’t explain to the boy how he loved working on the barge, how live he felt between its rusting sides.”
In The First Betrayal Josan, a man who works in a lighthouse finds himself in the midst of a violent storm. Consequently the disheartening storm threatens to destroy the light in the tower, causing the ships to crash into the rocks. In the passage- The First Betrayal, Patricia Bray’s use of harsh diction and vivid imagery creates a mood of suspense. For instance, the author’s use of word choice illustrates a tone of fear.
A Love That Destroys As I began reading Junot Diaz’s Drown, I noticed the repetitive nature of violence in the first few chapters itself. Yunior, who seems to be the narrator and the main character, has a innocent outlook towards life around him in the first chapter. His older brother, Rafa is way too violent and sexually driven for a twelve year old boy, and it makes me wonder, how Yunior would grow up to be.
Seuss uses a narrative technique in which he leaves the reader with questions after each page. When Horton the elephant heard a small noise this for example is how he leaves the reader wanting to know more. The reader will be questioning “What is the noise he heard?” and “What happens next”. Seuss’ use of this technique helps the story to build tension and keep the reader attentive.
The poem “Sea of Faith” is about “freshmen” students and professor. Furthermore, it alludes to the professor’s deep thoughts on a “dumb” question about “Sea of Faith.” ‘A young woman” asks about the realism of the “Sea of Faith,” and this makes John Brehm question the intelligence of the “freshmen” students (line 8). He is shocked and confused how little that “freshman” knows. In the real world, professors encourage students to ask questions since there is no such thing like “a stupid” question, although, for the fact, only professors know how ridiculous student’s queries can be.
For example, author Julie Otsuka uses this element in her the novel, When the Emperor was Divine. This novel is set during World War II. It is about a Japanese family sent to the internment camps because of the American prejudice towards their people. The author includes a lot of vaguely written details, including the main characters’ names. So, the reader relies on indirect characterization and symbolism to comprehend the story and the characters within it.
These things are avoided action/why and true action/why. All characters do these and it is the difference between what they say and what they actually do. An example of this is when Leticia is packing to go on a trip. While she is packing she notices that the strap to her suitcase has been replaced and that it is the wrong size. She goes on to ask Orlando where the strap has gone and he says he has taken it
“The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” - A poem by Donika Kelly With a purpose and message being the goal for their work, poets are often found using many specific qualities in their writing. By making use of these devices the poem is a piece of composition that connects with its writer. Strategies like the ones used in this poem have been utilized since the beginning of writing.
A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove The novel ‘A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove’ by the author, James Maloney, is a story about the protagonist named Carl Matt, who faces many issues and tribulations as a teenager. The protagonist is left with the responsibility of his younger brother, while also managing insecurities of his own, regarding body image, love, and neglect. Maloney demonstrates the following themes, by using his protagonist as the victim of some of the modern issues facing today’s society. Throughout the novel, Maloney explores the ongoing issue of body image.
Alexie’s analogy of a paragraph to a fence creates a new importance of the paragraph distinguishes, and gives deeper insight to the author’s childhood and views. The author states how important he views a paragraph to be, which tells the reader that the distinctions between paragraphs is important. This also allows the reader to see how the narrator views the world. Fences can keep people in and protect people, but they also keep new ideas out. The author describes the reservation as paragraph, simultaneously calling it a fence.
Cotton Mather: Wonders of the Invisible World In this writing, Cotton Mather, a Puritan Theologian and a renowned reverend talks about his fears of the Christian religion being slowly obliterated from the country, which he believes is being taken over by the devil and his minions by the use of Witchcraft. In 1963 Cotton Mather was asked to create a literary piece, in defense of the persecutions, one year after the events of the Salem witch trials actually took place, where questionable events happened were depicted. This work was called the Invisible Wonders of the World. Throughout the writing, Mather is always depicting the devil as a real and tangible being (e.g. “invisible hands” and supernatural happenings).
Jonny only killed to save Ponyboy . When Ponyboy and Jonny hand ran off to the park , they stumbled across Cherry 's and Marcia 's boyfriends. They were out numbered the Socs grabbed Ponyboy and began to drown him in the park 's water fountain , with nothing left to do Jonny pulled his switchblade out and took the Soc Bob 's life . " " I had too . They were drowning you , pony .
The purpose of a ghost story is to leave the reader feeling frightened and unaware of what the truth of reality is. Nguyen's Black-Eyed Women flips all our perceptions of what a ghost is and why they visit the living. The ghost stories told in this story affect the narrator by forcing her to confront the discomfort of her reality. The narrator realizes she has been ignoring discomfort about her brother dying for her, and s the guilt and that she lived. She loses her identify, and sense of security, however her brother's ghost arrives to mend this disconnect.
Debussy broke the mold so to speak in the 20th century of music by breaking away from the typical German style laid out by composers such as Beethoven as he often explored dreamy and distant sound worlds in an effort to stand out amongst his earlier peers of the classical period. He began to be drawn to the sounds of the pentatonic scales, whole tone scale, and sounds otherwise known in Asia as his music in comparison often contained a rather circular motion which broke away from the formers heroic cadential style of resolution. This breaks his music away as his was more of an ambient and distant much like the impressionist art movement happening at the same time being led by the likes of Monet and Van Gough. The Sunken Cathedral by Debussy exhibits many traits of the new impressionistic forum of 20th century composers as he exhibits many methods to place the listener into a dream-like state using melodic variation and connectivity amongst voice leading in order to achieve a watery type effect. This effect makes the listener feel as if they are floating along with the piece itself as he adds complexities to the music with the slow harmonic variation throughout the piece.