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).
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 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).
The use of constant complex and simple declarative sentences helps highlight the perceived monotonous nature of the Midwest. For example, one of her sentences simply reads, “now you are driving deep into the square states.” (paragraph 2) Repetitive sentence types and structures help create a plain, dull mood in the excerpt, which directly parallels the false perception of the Midwest. Marquardt uses this effect to her advantage in order to further emphasize this false perception of the Midwest as a boring and monotonous place. Furthermore, Marquart assumes a dispirited tone to convey her frustration with the false labels put on her home states.
“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.
Sandburg writes about Chicago and the negative aspects of the city. Although Chicago is being seen as a dangerous place, Sandburg declares it is still a prosperous city with people proud to be a part of it and its accomplishments. He challenges those to find a city that has a more “lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse” than Chicago does (Sandburg). He praises the Americans as they are “fierce as a dog with a tongue lapping for action…planning, building, breaking, and rebuilding” (Sandburg). Likewise, Foss writes in his poem about the type of character needed for the American society to conquer the vast array of land in the West.
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.
During the 19th century the American people did not have the technology to fully enjoy and take advantage of the landscape but the beautiful scenery was still there. “At home in the fleet of ice boats, sailing with the rest and tacking, at home in the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or in the Texan ranch, comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Western, (loving their big proportions).” In this portion of the poem Walt depicts the natural diversity that makes up the geographical landscape that makes America so unique and
