Recommended: Innocence and experience in literature
This excerpt gives impeccable evidence as to why people who try too hard to reduce the complexities in their lives to simplistic terms by telling us a nostalgic memory from when Quindlen was very young and what people used to do and say back then regarding lightning bugs. On the end of the excerpt, Quindlen uses syntax through sentence fragments to imbed her final thoughts on the lightning
It is wholly recurrent to blindly skim through a detailed piece of literature and be unconscious to the likeness it shares with other pieces of literature. I am surely guilty of this ignorant practice, however. As I was reading “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde and “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins, I didn’t truly perceive the connection right away. The obvious was already divulged in my mind; they’re both in the points of views of children. They, however, both have a mutual theme; growing up brings uncertainty and disappointment.
Just a few more meters and it will be over. I’ll fall. A small red flame…A shot…Death enveloped me, it suffocated me” (Wiesel 86). This showed the complexity of both themes: fire and ice.
Starting out with the first two lines “You got the gas, I got the matches. We gonna turn this town to ashes” symbolizes the burning down of a town to teenagers throwing crazy parties, normally destroying their own self or the property that the party was on. In line 7, “Cause your motor runs just as fast as mine” is a metaphor comparing a truck engine to the drive or passion of the two lovers together. The faster the motor of a truck runs, the faster and more uncontrollable the truck will go. Just as when the passion of a person increases, their actions are dealt with much more haste and less with control and a thought process.
Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, follows a father and son on their journey through a post apocalyptic world. Throughout this journey, the man and his child are faced with many challenges and obstacles that they must overcome in order to survive. These obstacles consist of cannibals, food scarcity, and even harsh outdoor environments. One theme that is heavily presented throughout the duration of this novel is that death is inevitable. McCarthy often uses imagery to show death, whether that be through the horrific and detailed descriptions of the corpses or through the destroyed and ash-filled climates.
However, one also used this same strategy as a way to deviate from reality, while the other used it as a way to face reality. Imagery was used to illustrate that An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’s Peyton
The author uses rhetorical devices such as imagery and onomatopoeia to show this. One of the most prominent dangers Bryson faces on the Appalachian Trail is the threat of physical harm. Bryson uses imagery to show people’s thoughts and stories on the Appalachian Trail. Bryson imagined how his experience might go; Bill believed he would be “bowled backward by a
Another symbol is the road, which is a desolate, transient thing full of danger, the man refers to them as "blood cults". The director really emphasises the importance of the fire by the way it contrasts against the gloomy dark post apocalyptic
the star in the catacombs Ah how vividly i recall it was early december of 1942* my whole family had been taken except me and my little brother no doubt that mama and papa were already dead. My family had always been persecuted but this was insanity thots of what they would do to me if they found me or little Sammy oh Sammy this must be terrible for him but even so he was just skipping along humming as he held my hand.
Edgar Allan Poe was an ingenious author, poet, playwright, and artisan in the morbid literature and arts. He had a momentous impact on the “gothic lore” genre, and many followed in his footsteps. One French poet named Charles Baudelaire, author of “Fleurs du Mal” (Flowers of Evil), spent a great deal of his time translating and commentating on Poe’s works. Poe’s most significant and notable impacts were on American author H.P. Lovecraft, and American artist and modern director Tim Burton. Lovecraft was popular in the early 1900s, most famous for his novel The Call of Cthulu (1926).
In The Road, Cormac McCarthy uses figurative language, to demonstrate the difference in the people’s decisions and values when compared to the real world. The survivors of the apocalypse, including the father all had to undergo a series of radical changes in order to adapt and survive in the new world. When the father enters the house, where the people are kept for food, not only does he see naked people both male and female but also a man with his leg cut off. McCarthy writes, “On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and stumps of them blackened and burnt” (McCarthy 110).
Irony: The notion of child safety experts restricting the imaginations of children is ironic. Limiting a child’s imagination is just as unsafe and dangerous, if not more so. Preventing a kid from wandering their mind is detrimental to their wellbeing and could ruin their overall childhood experience. Imagination is a powerful tool that is vital for a child’s development and
But like the sign, this characteristic has weathered away. Petry writes that the sign has a “dark red stain like blood” (55). The metaphor, comparing the stain to blood, is used to give further insight to the occupants and the state of the residence. The metaphor suggests a violent mentality, and a dangerous living space. The sign as a symbol thematically ties into skewed perception.
The authors want their audiences to use these tales and examples as life lessons and hope for them to utilize these sources in their future lives. These two ideas are presented through the use of figurative language, mainly metaphors. In addition, the similar tone of these pieces allows the author to connect more deeply with the readers. Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture, folktales, and several poems illustrate how metaphors and tone are used to describe experience and caution the readers.
The appearances of the color yellow symbolized hope. The first memory is remembering the “yellow leaves” (McCarthy, pg 13) as the man recalls the day he and his uncle rowed across a lake to pull a stump for firewood. The yellow leaves in the first scene were encountered through a childhood memory of hope, which was an introduction to the fire that represented hope and the will to survive. The second memory is in the man’s childhood home where “they walked through the dining room where the firebrick in the hearth was as yellow as the day it was laid because his mother could not bear to see it blackened” (McCarthy, pg. 26). The yellow bricks in the second quote shows the location where the fire has been.
