The Nightingale is a historical novel by writer Kristin Hannah. It tells the story of two French sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, during the German occupation of France in World War II. Fifty years after the end of the war, a recently widowed woman in a coastal town in Oregon is preparing to move to a nursing home because her cancer has returned. Her son, a surgeon, comes to help her and finds her in the attic going through a trunk of old things he has never seen.
“Ode to Joy (and Sadness, and Anger)” 1. Write a one-paragraph summary of Scotts review, being sure to identify his criteria for evaluation and the extent to which he claims the movie did or did not satisfy them. In his review, “Ode to Joy (and Sadness, and Anger)”, Scott describes the film Inside Out. He claims that what makes the film so popular and groundbreaking is the connection it has to the audience.
Charles Simic’s ‘Summertime’ at first glance seems like a complex, difficult to comprehend article with no distinct point or outlying message. Some would most likely claim that it is too eccentric, descriptive, and wordy, which is agreeable. Although, this article also speaks of simplicity, beauty, and wonder. This article is intimidating. Large and uncommonly descriptive words, a strange and difficult thought process, and an aspect that makes one think that Simic is working hard at sewing a complex web through his phrasing, but it is also very appealing.
In Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Saya, whose mother is being held in an immigration detention center. Saya’s mother is an undocumented immigrant originally from Haiti who was arrested by immigration police, leaving Saya alone with her father. Saya and her father visit the detention center every week, but do not know when her mother will return home. Saya finds comfort in listening to her mother’s voice and every week she receives a cassette tape which contain her mother telling bedtime stories. Saya is inspired by her mother’s storytelling and decides to write her own story.
By that, he intends to teach that patterns are certain phenomena that reoccur in different literary work which can be explicated further by acquiring a neutral perspective towards the story. For giving a comprehensive example in order to explain what a pattern is, the author proposes Oedipal Complex, which is the condition of a male child who feels sexual desire towards his mother. He argues that a professional who has observed this situation on several cases would force his or her memory to find the resemblances between these cases and realise that it is a pattern. Indeed, that is what Freud did before introducing the concept Oedipus Complex to the world. Likewise, D. H. Lawrence noted this pattern and built his story, ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’ on the same basis.
Archetypes are symbols of the basic human motives. There are many different archetypes with their own set of values, traits, and emotions. The literary criticism, mythological, looks at the analysis of the monomyth; which explains how all stories are just different variations of each other. Archetypes explain how the characters, symbols, or places in the stories we read are all really just variations of one monomyth. The characters in The Scarlet Letter can be represented through the many of the universal archetypes.
In life we can all relate to the feeling of longing for something. In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury’s characters’ lives are clouded with rain and the only see the sun once every seven years. Bradbury uses metaphors, emotions, and repetition to express the sun’s meaning of hope to the main character, Margot, and the children of rocket men and women on Venus. Metaphors and emotions are used to help the reader relate to the connection with the sun. He describes the sun and the rain using metaphors, and uses the children’s emotions to help further the idea.
The novel by Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale, was truly a remarkable and unbeatable story depicting two women who have taken extremely opposite stands in regards to Nazis occupation in France. Throughout the storyline, Hannah was able to weave the ink on a page into wondrous and thrilling narrations from these two sisters. Indeed, one almost feels as if they were completely submerged in the mind’s of these dynamic characters. In a way, Vianne and Isabelle can be compared to the actions of the natural elements of fire and water. One goes with the flow, not really pushing against the current; while the other blazes against everything in its path, not stopping for anything, or anyone.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, contrasting ideas of hot and cold clearly display the sharp separation of the life each character portrays from their reality. Heat symbolizes a forbidden passion or conflict that is believed to be unsophisticated. Tom and Daisy are made up of this heat, but shame has pushed them to create the breeze of a mature and refined appearance. The use of imagery such as “broiling” and “ singing breeze of the fans” not only visualizes the weather to the reader but also allows them to feel the burning heat that has been buried for so long and the comfort of the cool, singing breeze(114, 115). The audience can then better understand each perspective and decision.
An archetype is a typical action, character, or situation that can serve as a model or basis. Many pieces of literature contain a variety of archetypes. It is not uncommon for a novel to have characters that do not specifically fit into one archetype. While analyzing the character archetypes in the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, it was clear that many of the characters had multiple archetypes. Shelley uses different archetypes in the novel to thoroughly develop the characters.
‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is the title of this book which wrote by a great author named Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde had writing many books based on his experiences and most of his genre is quite dark and mysterious, same as this book he wrote which contain gothic genre. I found this story had gothic genre because the storyteller, which is Oscar Wilde illustrating supernatural event in this story such as the Dorian’s wish seem like coming true as the portrait was the one that kept aging instead of Dorian Gray himself. Thus, the portrait has reflected as Dorian Gray’s soul and his personality grew darker and more evil as his life continued. This book that I read has quite artfully as it is like engaging me to keep reading more to know the
The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray shocked the moral judgments of British book critics. Some of them said Oscar Wilde deserved to be pursuance for breaking the laws guarding the common morality because the uses of homosexuality were in that time banned. This book was for that time unusual because it had a pretty serious criticism on the society from that time. The novel is about a young and extraordinarily beautiful youngster, named Dorian Gray that have promised to his soul in order to live a life of eternal youth, he must try to adapt himself to the bodily decay and dissipation that are shown in his portrait.
Florence Nightingale A nurse known ‘ the lamp lady ’ 18th century mathematician May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910 Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For almost of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for a change for the better of the British military health-care system and with that Nursing began to be regarded with the respect it deserved. Little do most know, this 18th century nurse had an undeniable impact on mathematical history. Her work still being used frequently today.
“” At least you are like it in appearance. But it will never alter,” sighed Hallward. “that is something.”” (Wilde 33) The reader begins to perceive that Dorian is both intrigued and disgusted by the never changing portrait of his innocence.
There are several interpretations of John Keats’ poem, Ode to a Nightingale. Keats begins his poem with talking about a bird that seems real, but as the poem progresses the bird turns into a symbol. Keats was envisioning how life could be much simpler and he was thinking about the different ways life is troublesome. His reality was taken over by his dream of having a life like the nightingale- worryless and free. He wishes that he could join the bird because if he could escape to the nightingale’s world, he could escape from reality and live a much more uncomplicated and worry free life.
