The Horizontal World details her experiences living and growing in the Midwest. In her memoir The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart utilizes eloquent diction, compelling pathos, and vivacious imagery to demonstrate the hidden wealth of the Midwest. Debra Marquart first employs ardent and articulate diction to enhance her depiction of the Midwest. One of the ways she applies diction is to describe the character of the Midwest. Marquart illustrates a road as “so lonely, treeless, and devoid of rises and curves in places that it will feel like one long-held pedal steel guitar note” (Marquart).
In the excerpt from “Cherry Bomb” by Maxine Clair, the narrator makes use of diction, imagery and structure to characterize her naivety and innocent memories of her fifth-grade summer world. The diction employed throughout the passage signifies the narrator’s background and setting. The narrator’s choice of words illustrates how significant those memories were to her. Specific words help build the narrator’s Midwestern background with items like the locust, cattails and the Bible.
In Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia, the author reveals the narrator’s nostalgic tone towards his hometown landscape through detail and imagery. Jim’s nostalgic tone towards the land is shown with details when waiting for his friends to meet for a picnic. When he decides to swim in the nearby river, Jim reflects, “For the first time it occurred to me that I should be homesick for that river after I left it… Charley Harling and I had hunted through these woods, fished from the fallen logs, until I knew every inch of the river shores and had a friendly feeling for every bar and shallow” (184-185).
In describing the land as extensively beautiful and “out there”, Truman Capote is setting an environment of an isolated small town, where not much ever happens. This sets a contradictory theme for the rest of the book, as a small community of neighbors and friends turn on each other after a series of murders take place. In describing the town of Holcomb, Kansas, Capote uses strong imagery to set the tone for the small town as “calm before the storm.” Furthermore, Capote compares the unique grain fields to that of ancient Greek temples, indicating that the story contained in this novel has a larger significance as an inside look of timeless human themes such as murder and hatred and how these have existed for all of humanity.
For example, when discussing men, like Long, who had visited the region, she states that they declared it unimpressive and “a dreary plan, wholly unfit for cultivation.” Here, she sets up the views of harsh critics of the region for comparison with her own feelings for the region itself. Marquet goes on to introduce a story about her grandparents, who felt “anticipation” when waiting to receive their land. By comparing the uncomplimentary aspects of the land judged by surveyors with her grandparents feeling of anticipation, she shows the reader how the land represented a new beginning for many Americans who disregarded the criticism of earlier assessors. She once again portrays her respect for the people of the upper Midwest by clowning their ability to cultivate a previously labeled “unimpressive”
When the story opens, the narrator rediscovers her familiarity with her hometown. Driving around, she passes “farms with pastures full of Holsteins and green trees”, reminiscent of how she "used to see
The writer causes his older audience to glance back at their past, remembering how they grew up. He does this by using imagery and positive diction. He provides imagery when he talks about us as children growing up, "we used our fingers to draw pictures on fogged glass... we considered the past and dreamed of the future, and watched it all go by in a blink of an eye," (lines 62-73). In this quote, the author gives the audience a glance into what might have been their past by providing detailed imagery.
The person in this poem expressed his sadness coming north by using folk art with black speech and compared the south with the north. These poems expressed racial pride and folk
He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.
Ford is one of the critical allusions in A Brave New World. “All crosses had their tops cut and became T's.” (Chapter 3). The people practically worshipped the letter T because of the Model T Ford designed. “Here the Director made a sign of the T on his stomach and all the students reverently followed suit” (Chapter 2).
“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea... And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.” book one chapter two. Even after Jim grows up, he still retains the childlike wonder of the land around him. The amount of admiration that Jim holds for the land reflects on his innocence as a child.
He is describing the geography of different states one by one, as he passes by each one of them. The exposition in this story is in the being where he is talking about moon. The complication or the development of a major conflict and crisis where the conflict meet its greatest tension. The narrator says Wisconsin as a world white, beautiful, and clean. I think the
In Growing Up by Russell Baker, the author repeatedly uses the ideas of traveling back in time to connect to a message where a parent’s exciting future is deemed a boring past to children until it is often too late to learn about it. From Baker’s perspective, his mother’s mental deterioration makes him realize how much he doesn’t know about his own heritage and family, and it pushes him to learn more. “I soon stopped trying to wrest her back to what I considered the real world and tried to travel along with her on those fantastic swoops into the past” (59). When Baker decides to follow his mother’s train of thoughts to learn about his heritage, he can only guess at the truth because “of my mother’s childhood and her people, of their time and place, I knew very little” (59). He realizes that as his mother is in her current condition, he is isolated from his own family past even though his source of information is right in front of him.
Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” without a doubt has an ambiguous ending. Many critics support Joyce Weg’s argument that "Arnold is… a symbolic Satan", some compare his physical traits to Satan claiming his “feet resemble the devil's cloven hoofs” (Weg and Urbanski, n.p.) Oates has confirmed the many allusions in the story. Some critics like Bruno Bettelheim correctly point out the allusions to other famous fairy tales like “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs”, comparing Arnold’s Satan-like hoofs to wolf paws and the description of Connie’s home as a “cardboard box [Arnold] can knock down at any time” (Oates, 11).
When one is watching the film, The Matrix, the initial thought is not to seek Christian references. Instead, people are more inclined to see the movie for what it is at the surface; which is an action-packed film with an intriguing plot. For someone who has some background in Christian Theology, when thinking deeper about the film, it is not hard to pick up on the references. Right away in the beginning of the film there are already connections made through the main character’s name, Neo. Not only is the name Neo a rearranged form of the word one, but it also is defined as new.
