In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, soldiers show that they see the earth as a motherly figure through the use of apostrophe and personification in a compassionate tone to support them through the trauma of war. Remarque shows apostrophe in Paul's quote, "Earth!--Earth!--Earth!. " Paul is shown to be calling out compassionately to the earth as if it was his own mother. The use of apostrophe shows that the earth is being addressed although it is an inanimate object. This shows that Paul is compassionate about the earth and sees it as a living person and in his case, he sees the earth as a mother like figure.
In Chapter, 5, an intercalary chapter, the tenant farmers suffers from the payments that were unable to be paid mainly due to the decreased crop production. The quote describes the owner’s situation where they were also struggling to pay for the debt they made. Steinbeck uses personification (metaphor) such as the ‘bank monster’ avoiding eating side-meat and ‘breathing’ to describe the bank’s desperate situation where their business would not be able to survive without the reliance on the landowners. Like the monsters, who break the peace and show their wickedness from their unconsciousness, the bank became a source of suffering and pain of the tenant farmers and transformed into ‘money-demanding machine’ when they got into a desperate situation.
Guinevere Guinevere, King Arthur’s wife, is not who he thinks she is. She can be described as secretive, shy, and also acts conservative. Lancelot, King Arthur’s knight, and Guinevere fell secretly in love and share something between them that is not supposed to happen. Guinevere is what people call now-a-days, a whore.
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a historical fiction novel set in the late 1930s on a trip from Oklahoma to California. Tom Joad is released from prison and meets a man named Jim on his way home to Oklahoma. When they reach Tom’s home, they find out that many families have moved to California for open job opportunities including Tom’s. They then both travel to Tom’s uncle’s house and find the rest of the Joad family about to leave for California, not knowing the hardships they would face on their journey and their destination. The world portrayed by John Steinbeck is a world I would not like to live in because of the many losses of family members, the horrible treatment they face from the Californians, and the selfishness of the other
This corresponds to Huckleberry Finn and Jim’s journey of friendship throughout the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. As Huck undergoes his passage, a friendship develops between him and a pervious prisoner of man, a slave named Jim. Their paths to a more prosperous life intertwine encouraging them to support one another with companionship. Because Huck and Jim travel during the night to avoid conflict, this quote can be taken literal and symbolically. As they continue on, Huck endures various challenges and achievements as he transforms through the Hero’s Journey, a concept by Joseph Campbell.
Since the book came out in 1939, everyone has had a opinion on the ending to John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. It has a very controversial ending, that Steinbeck thought would name the last nail into the coffin, so to speak, on how bad the dust bowl and moving west really was. The ending starts when the Joad family is threatened with a flood, so they make their way to a old barn where they find a boy and his old father. The boy says his father is starving, and that he can’t keep anything solid down. He needs something like soup or milk.
Every novel contains a distinct feature within its pages that distinguishes it from other books. Whether it be a variation in tone, writing style, format or theme, this component impacts the audience and the novel itself in a special way. One of the stand out features in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath are the descriptive, sometimes political, interchapters where the reader is given a snapshot of life in the Great Depression. Due to the context and realism the interchapters bring to the novel, they are crucial for the reader’s understanding of the time setting and storyline of the novel. Chapter five brings the most heartbreak of all interchapters, because it illustrates the poignant moment when farmers are told to leave their land.
]Previously, Steinbeck was elucidating the condition of the boxcar camp, and stated that it is raining excessively, and it has become a threat to the migrants home. Afterwards, Pa Joad, and the men from the camp digged a trench along the bank of the river to stop the water from intruding the homes of the migrants, not to mention they had no other alternative, being that Rosharon is going to have her baby. Subsequently, Rosharon lost her child, and the rain became life-threatening that the Joad family had no alternative, but to to travel to another safe location from the rain, and
Erich Maria Remarque was born in Germany in the year 1898 into a lower-middle-class family. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended, he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating, "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
So, in the last moments of his life he disconnects himself from his physical body. In “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge,” Bierce uses the bridge and driftwood to symbolize Peyton’s thoughts and feeling about his death. Bierce uses descriptive language throughout the story to link Farquhar's feelings to what is actually happening. By linking the bridge to Farquhar's death, it helps to describe what Peyton is thinking. In the beginning the figurative language is used to show what was happening to Peyton Farquhar.
This Anselmo had been a good guide and he could travel wonderfully in the mountains. Robert Jordan could walk well enough himself and he knew from following him since before daylight that the old man could walk him to death. Robert Jordan trusted the man, Anselmo, so far, in everything except judgment. He had not yet had an opportunity to test his judgment, and, anyway, the judgment was his own responsibility. No, he did not worry about Anselmo and the problem of the bridge was no more difficult than many other problems.
“UGH,” I shriek as I shove the Joad family aside, sighing in defeat. I have tried over and over to read The Grapes of Wrath, and I just can’t. My brain cannot focus long enough to absorb the message Steinback extends to us. So, I accept the fact and try to study for the ACT instead. About ten minutes in, I realize that I am not processing the information, and a flood of anger bubbles to the surface causing me to throw my calculator off the table.
An argument can be made that this photograph does not offer a complete or accurate picture of the migrants who had lived during the time. The audience is given little background into the lives of the actual events that have created these native “refugees”. Even with the popularity of Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,” that painted the harsh reality of migrant workers, it did not completely encapsulate the, “ segregation and oppression ... nearly identical to those employed by Hitler during the Holocaust, which was happening at the same time.” Although many media portrayals had characterized these awful conditions, the metaphor to the Holocaust and invoking the ideas of refugees is mainly hyperbole to incite an emotional response. But from the
As an author writes their story, their ideas don’t just come from thin air. These things that they write about stem from their personal experiences and views. John Steinbeck wasn’t any different in this sense. In fact, The Grapes of Wrath draws many parallels to Steinbeck’s own life. While writing the book, he took these things into account, and applied them to the Joads and those around them.
Erich Maria Remarque, a German author, published All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929 as an anti-war novel. Remarque was a former soldier who actually endured the horrible effects of WWI (1914-1918). He used his experiences and writing to unveil the destructive aspect of war. Remarque was bothered by the fact that there was no anti war literature, and he became the first to publish an anti war novel. Although he bravely chose to publish his novel to shed light upon the detrimental effects of war, he was punished for doing so.
