I chose to read and analyze the poem titled “Wallflowers” by Donna Vorreyer and it conveys a theme of social isolation. The speaker is referencing the “uncommon words” to the abandonment that the subject endures. They don’t fit a particular mold that people will recognize, people don’t tend to use these “words” as often as they may use other words. They feel as if their lack of recognition will decrease their value. The subject begin to realize that if they find community within each other then they can create their own little community to escape the loneliness that constantly haunts them.
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
In Clint Smith’s poetry collection, Counting Descent, he uses childhood toys to represent and explain the indefinable feelings surrounding experiencing racism. An example of this is a “little girl jumping rope” in “No More Elegies Today” (line 3). Smith illustrates her playing with the rope by describing the “back & forth bob of her head” and the “beads in her hair [bouncing]” on her back (lines 9, 20). With these descriptions, Smith creates an innocent and playful feeling that juxtaposes the melancholy of the previous poems, such as the detail of the child whose “body [was] strewn across / the street” in “Playground Elegy” (lines 9-10). Through the shocking simpleness of the jump rope, Smith conveys how tired he is of hearing yet another story
In Chapter 9-14 Holden Caulfield leaves Penecy Prep and heads to New York City. Where he will stay for a couple days before winter vacation starts and he will head home. Delaying breaking the news to his family he got kicked out of school for as long as possible. These chapters are where Holden’s loneliness becomes abundantly clear. The reader is subjected to many long rants by Holden about the company he wants, though he attempts to settle several times.
Play Review In the dramatic play, Subterranean Homesick Blues Again by Dennis Reardon, he makes the setting clear that they were visiting a cavern. In the beginning of the story you can infer, almost immediately, that the characters do not get along so easily. As the characters go deeper into the caverns the constant arguing gets worse. Once they arrived to the third floor of the cavern, the tour guide tells the two couples visiting that they were at at home now.
I think a hero is someone who saves someones life without thinking about themselves. Also, I think it means being a role model. Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally do fit the definition. For example, in the story it states "I'll get them, don't worry! " I started at a dead run for the church.
The play “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis Reardon the genre is drama. The description of the introduction of the play is humorous. At the beginning it was funny because the characters were joking around, but as the play goes on and the family takes a trip then the play turned to horror because they found once they went they can never go back so they were stuck forever. Overall i enjoyed this play because this play consises of many many characters which makes it more fun to read because it can understand where are they coming from. Another thing i enjoyed the most is the way the author developed it to make it more entertaining.
Play Review The play “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis Reardon; is a comedic play that turns very tragic. The play focuses on a young and very eccentric tour guide; that leads two bickering couples on a journey to Hell as the play progresses. The tour guide leads the couples through different levels of a cavern.
In the drama “Subterranean Homesick Blues again” by Dennis Reardon is about a group of people going into the caverns, but it has a deeper meaning thanks to the tour guide who isn’t your average tour guide. This tour guide gives such a different and deeper meaning in the play. It’s about life and death and you’ll see that around the end how the “tour” concludes. My initial reaction to this play was shocked on how the play went from 0-100 since you think that there just in a cavern, but then they end up in hell.
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again The play Subterranean Homesick Blues Again by Ed Reardon is a suspenseful. The play is about this tourist led by a tour guide into a cave full of fossils of dead animals and people. The purpose of the play is suppose to be full of suspense, and mystery.
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again is a comedic play that soon turns tragic written by Dennis Reardon. The fantasy truly grasps of the horror between life and death as a young tour guide leads two bickering couples on a ghoulish path to hell, all the while to tousling with their minds. As the couples slowly deteriorate level by level, they realize much too late the danger around them; weeping as their souls and minds are consumed by the darkness of the treacherous cavern. Reardon portrays this elevator to hell as a series of floors that only seem to descend.
The play were called Subterranean Homesick Blues again written by Dennis Reardon with a mysterious air surrounding the play. Charon act as a tour guide to the tourist couples in the cave. At the beginning of the play was only show how the couple tour the cave; and was latter reveal the couple were actually being guide to hell. I believe the purpose for writing this play was to show how thing are never what they seem and death will alway be near.
Returning to No Country for Old Men and Stagecoach, the differences continue to display themselves, mainly with the problem of fatalism. Fatalism is the idea that a person’s life is already determined by fate. This meaning that all natural freedoms and government allowed freedoms are essentially not existence because all the decisions or events that come through out a person’s life have already been decided. Making any idea of freedom moot. This was displayed in No Country for Old Men when Chigurh flips his coin to decide whether a person will live or die.
In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Mr. Antolini gives Holden Caulfield advice when he is at one of his lowest points. Already aware of Holden’s mental state and position on school, he quotes Wilhelm Stekel, a psychoanalyst, “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” (Salinger 188). Although Holden fails to grasp Mr. Antolini’s message, the quote applies directly to his life because of his relationship with death as a result of his younger brother, Allie’s, death. Mr. Antolini uses this quote specifically because he wants Holden take a step back and try to live for a noble cause instead of resorting to death.
"Our Town," the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play written by Thornton Wilder has been given a modern twist by the Wallace State Theater Department. The play takes place in an idyllic little town called Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. The cast of characters is angelic and wholesome in spite of the deviant choir director, Simon Stimson. Although the Wallace State version stayed true to the original verbiage, and sparse scenery; the modern costumes that were worn by the cast and music choice made an otherwise lovely play lose a touch of its luster. The original play incorporated a minimalist theme so the audience could envision any small town, perhaps even the one in which they grew up.
