Anyone who has ever worked hard has heard the saying, “It builds character.” For example, say someone went to college. They worked hard to graduate with a degree, and finally got their dream job. Two months in they get laid off. Their first job is gone, but still must move on.
Comparison Contrast Essay Okefenokee swamp is described differently by two authors. One suggest a calm favorable tone and the other a frightened, dark tone. The authors’ message is to inform people of the harsh reality behind the life of the swamp and the true beauty it contains. Both authors each exhibit a distinctive style through their deep contrast of the Okefenokee Swamp using imagery, diction, and figurative language.
The utmost display of personification of the house in the poem is “The house came to miss the shouting voices”, insinuating that the house has feelings (9). In Roethke’s “Root Cellar”, the poem gives the plants a primitive human quality for personification, through the use of words like “hunting”. In line 1, the poem begins “Nothing would sleep in that cellar”, and because it’s known that plants do not sleep, this is an example of personifying the plant life (1). The personifying of both the house and the plant life is very different, as the house’s personification is to illuminate upon the house’s physical and mental state to show how much what happens within affects the house as a whole. With the plant life, personification is used to show that no matter how crass or disgusting one is, one is always striving towards life, as death is the least tasteful and one would (normally) always choose life over death.
Both Perillo and Gregg see death as a cruel and gruesome subject. In the end, they gradually start to shift to an accepting attitude toward death. In “Shrike Tree”, the use of simile, paradox, and imagery can be seen used throughout the poem. The poet, Perillo states “the shrikes pinned birds on the trees in blackthorns”, this creates a gruesome image carved in the audience’s mind, it shows that Perillo is quite disgusted by the image of birds being pinned on black thorns. As “the shrike pinned smaller birds on the tree’s blackthorns…while some burned holes in the sky overhead.”
In the short fiction story “The Monkey Garden” by Sandra Cisneros, the author uses deep, rich figurative language to effect the exotic setting. “There were sunflowers, big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtain” (Cisneros 1). A simile is used to create a scene of being on another planet, a place where the monkeys once lived. The usage of descriptive words such as, “ bleeding the deep fringe” (1), and “ thick cockscomb” (1), to give the reader a sense of being in a jungle filled with tropical life and pleasure. The author uses words that are exotic in nature to emanate the jungle scenery.
Eden Robinson’s Monkey beach is set in the small, coastal village of Kitamaat in western B.C., home to the province’s Haisla community. Robinson’s characterization of a Haisla family living in present day Kitamaat exposes the challenges that are faced by the Aboriginal people conserving their traditions, values and social mores under the dominating influence of Canada’s West Cost society. She frames these concerns by following the struggles of Lisamarie (Lisa) Hill as she reconciles the ideologies of her modern Canadian upbringing with the often-discordant beliefs of her First Nation heritage, which becomes more complicated by the experience of the supernatural appearances that only Lisa can see. Lisa’s relationship with the spirit world allows her to transgress the history of abuse and reconnect with her heritage, however, she must struggle with North American ideologies which consider the supernatural as flawed. With the help of Ma-ma-oo (Lisa’s grandmother) she begins to gain control within the spirt world, thus re-connecting with her heritage.
Vonnegut uses a mural of a garden to represent how perfect things seem until the “weeds” or death appear. The story describes this mural as, “The mural he was working on depicted a very neat garden… Men and women in purple uniforms pulled up weeds, cut down plants that were old and sickly, raked leaves, carried refuse trash to burners.” The weeds, plants, and trash represent the people in the world who volunteer to die. The mural beautifies the ugliness of the things they do every day, making it appear helpful or necessary.
Charlotte Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, (1899) is a text that describes how suppression of women and their confinement in domestic sphere leads to descend into insanity for escape. The story is written as diary entries of the protagonist, who is living with her husband in an old mansion for the summer. The protagonist, who remains unnamed, is suffering from post-partum depression after the birth of her child and is on ‘rest’ cure by her physician husband. In this paper, I will try to prove that ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ acts as a subversive text by portraying the protagonist’s “descent into madness” as a result of the suppression that women faced in Victorian period.
In the short story “The Flowers”, Alice Walker sufficiently prepares the reader for the texts surprise ending while also displaying the gradual loss of Myop’s innocence. The author uses literary devices like imagery, setting, and diction to convey her overall theme of coming of age because of the awareness of society's behavior. At the beguining of the story the author makes use of proper and necessary diction to create a euphoric and blissful aura. The character Myop “skipped lightly” while walker describes the harvests and how is causes “excited little tremors to run up her jaws.”. This is an introduction of the childlike innocence present in the main character.
Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.
Literature is frequently comprehended by most people as a mass of writings. In particular, it refers to those reckoned to have the aptitude of being inventive and rational, or which deploy languages which departed from the common usage. Global literature, on the other hand, has two different definitions where the first one explains it as the summation of all literatures of the world, including personal and nationalized work. The second definition is, global literature consists of the world’s classics, or the most sought after works that are read across time, ethnic and language borders in which they were produced and become the intercontinental patrimony of civilization. (Gafrik, 2009, p. 28)
Have you ever watched a suspenseful movie about magic? Have you ever wished you had your own genie that would grant you three wishes? However, the three wishes aren 't exactly what you wished for? Well in the story the Monkey’s Paw that pattern seems to be happening a lot.