In the poem “rifle,” Rudy Fransisco utilizes a unifying metaphor and juxtaposition to shed light on how weapons can be recast from harmful to harmonious. This poem also emphasizes the theme of masculinity, and how men are afraid to be vulnerable, so they attempt to be masculine by becoming weapons themselves. Throughout this poem, juxtaposition is continuously used to compare how weapons are being converted into musical instruments (5-6). This displays to the reader that something that was once used to take many lives is changing into something that is used to bring joy to both people and communities. The conversion of the weapons exposes a hopeful tone by showing what they will become.
(Dwyer and Flynn). By showing the perspectives of the people in and around the towers with further information gathered afterwards layered in with the 1st hand accounts it provides a full circle analysis of the events. Another example of this style of writing is on page 130, “Martin Wortley of Cantor Fitzgerald told his brother over the phone he was hoping to leave by helicopter, and would head up the stairs in the north tower.” (Dwyer and Flynn). This is ironic in the most tragic way as the chapter is titled “The doors are locked”.
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, sparking the reformation and the entire church we know today. This separation from the Catholic Church wasn’t taken great by everyone, and it led to 50 million lives, both protestant and catholic, to be lost. (TheTrumpet 2016) Queen Mary 1, or “Bloody Mary” was one of these rulers that incited and encouraged this violence against the protestants. Queen Mary 1 was born in 1516, two years before the reformation started, and had a rough life.
Similarily, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the air in the the city of New York that, “ of men who more dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (Fitzerald 23). This shows the use of imagery and how Jordan Baker’s society and her
Imagine the life of a person who cannot eat or sleep when their body needs them to. Imagine him not having the small luxuries people take for granted every day. Instead, this person lives every waking moment on the famous quote “Kill, or be killed.” The identity of this person is a soldier. Liam O’Flaherty, a World War 1 veteran, takes his experiences of war and incorporates them into his short story “The Sniper.”
Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” Jack London’s story “To Build a Fire” is a story about determination while facing beating big odds and adversity. The main character, the man, travels alone on the Yukon trail. It takes place during the wintertime. The story is about his struggle to survive in the icy and harsh conditions of the Yukon trail.
War curses all humanity which leaves us with diseases or even worse. First, war causes family to kill each other. In the novel “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty It shows that war can cause family to fight against each other. “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brothers face.” (O’Flaherty 10) War can be a very painful and dangerous thing.
He paints a picture. He mixes colors and strokes to bring the art piece together. These colors appear in the form of figurative language; like in “The Strength of the Strong'', London uses personification along with his descriptive writing style to introduce the setting, saying the cave “yawned” and “blew draughty gusts of wind”. Again, in “The Mexican '', London describes the main character using a set of metaphors: “he is the flame and the spirit of it… He is a destroying angel moving through the still watches of the night”.
Jack London uses fire to represent strength and survival. Within the story the author says “there was the fire, promising life with every dancing flame.” The heat that the fire provides saves the man from the cold and from freezing to death. Therefore, the man views the fire as his rescuer and knows he needs it to survive. Later in the story the author says, “With the protection of the fire's warmth he ate his lunch.”
Jack London’s use of third person narration in telling the story allows the reader to be privy to information surrounding the unnamed man of which he is unaware. In using third person, London builds anxiety by foreshadowing the dangerous events that are about to happen to the man. In the story, after falling into an ice-cold stream, the man builds his new fire under a tree. As he begins to pull the branches from the tree above his fire, other snow-covered branches begin to shake (12). The reader, knowing about something that the man does not, builds suspense as they
The Impact of setting in “To Build a Fire” Nature often tests man’s limits. Sometimes man can overcome these tests and win; however, there are times when man just simply fails. In Jack London’s “To build a Fire,” a man faces trials which tests his limits. Unfortunately, through arrogance and a lack of purpose, the man ends up facing nature and struggles to survive. In “To Build a Fire” the setting affects the characters , plot, and symbolism.
An omniscient point of view is told from a “god-like” viewpoint in which the narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the story. London’s story demonstrates a conflict between a man and the natural world. The main characters in this story are
Jack London 's writing is harsh poetry. He describes scenes in such detail. Reading his work makes you picture how the scenes look in your head. He shows a deeper meaning in the events of his stories(Napierkowski). The point of view of the story is third person limited omniscient.
“The roar was still in the air, the buckling rumble of the fall. This was the world now. Smoke and ash came rolling down streets and turning corners, busting around corners, seismic tides of smoke, with office paper flashing past, standard sheets with cutting edge, skimming, whipping past, otherworldly things in the morning pall.” (P.1 L.19). DeLillo makes great of words which are often associated with disasters, such as seismic, tides and rumble.
The short story, To Build A Fire by Jack London demonstrates the man’s powerlessness compared to the forces of nature. It is the man’s ego that prompts him to challenge nature by embarking on the journey while he understands well that he will encounter the full wrath of extreme weather condition. Additionally, the man 's powerlessness is seen in the setting of the action, his lack of identity and the author 's depiction of the mightiness of nature. Besides, the protagonist effort to overcome nature is faced with equal efforts from the latter to defeat him as seen in his failure to light a fire. It is for these reasons that this paper maintains that the story, To Build A Fire by Jack London, is a true manifestation of the conflict between man and nature and which although the former initiate he losses to the latter in
