In the passage from the novel, We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates uses selection of detail and repetition to characterize the speaker, Judd Mulvaney as childish and afraid. Repetition is often used by characters to emphasize a point they are trying to make. However, when used in excess it makes the character look immature. Judd Mulvaney uses repetition in nearly every other sentence so this is a clear attempt by Oates to characterize Judd as immature or childish. In most cases, the repetition adds nothing to the sentence, for example, when he said, “The book was flowing below left to right (east to west)”.
The novel, The Glass Castle, shows a detached parenting style from both Rosemary and Rex. Between Rex’s constant struggle with alcohol and Rosemary’s spurs of bipolar depression, the children were often left to fend for themselves, without any help or supervision of adults. The memoir describes that some nights they wouldn’t see their mother, and Rex would disappear for days at a time. Even when Rex and Rosemary were there for their children, they still preferred to rule the household with little interference or guidance. They can’t maintain order the household, nor did they offer any discipline to their growing children.
Amy introduces the reader to her love for reading early on in the story. “…Isn’t that excellent? I read it again. Sometimes
Bob Ross: The Modern Painting Phenomenon If you 've ever watched PBS, you likely at some point have heard of Bob Ross. A painter born in Florida, Bob hosted The Joy of Painting, a half-hour show that run from 1983 to 1994, in which he painted a picture and encouraged the audience to paint along with him. It was a simple, but effective idea to get people excited about painting, and it was a very successful show. Sadly, Bob passed away due to a diagnosis of lymphoma in the early 1990s, which forced him to retire.
Throughout Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, we see a plethora of themes corresponding with the main character’s journey and growth along with many of the background characters and the backgrounds themselves. One that is constantly present throughout the film is repetition. Repetition presents itself in many different ways, a certain word, the reappearance of certain items over and over, or even the narrators own action. Repetition serves as a catalyst to the character’s revelations throughout the novel. The theme of repetition is by far the most important aspect of the book.
Also, McCourt’s voice reflects the narrator, Frank, very well. The sentences are short and not complex, just like a child’s. For example, he mentions, “Patricia says she has two books by her bed. One is a poetry book and that's the one she's loves” (195 McCourt). The
In order to portray this shift to the reader, she relied on details she experienced through touch or thought, and in doing so, kept the reader engaged throughout her
In a time when people are often exposed to deceptive practices facilitated by the anonymity and impulsiveness of the internet, Jenny Holzer presents her work featuring an extensive list of truisms which addresses an equally extensive range of topics. While at face value, the work could be dismissed as a simple series of rhetoric, the sophistication in Jenny Holzer’s truisms as art manifests from its presentation and methodology. Holzer maintains a delicate balance between chaos and continuity and another between truth and untruth throughout the piece via her use of repetition, punctuation, and logic. Repetition as one of Holzer’s main devices develops the sense of an endless stream of truisms, even though her work is finite. A key aspect of the use of repetition is that each of the 253 truisms is unique, albeit the occasional overlap in subject matter.
I related the song “Paint In Black” written and sung by The Rolling Stones to Tim O’Brien because Tim was part of the Vietnam war and after the war, he visioned many things black and the color black symbolizes death. Tim witnessed a lot of deaths including his friends during the war and those deaths haunted Tim. What keeps Tim’s friends alive is by telling people about his story of his experience in the war and about his friends. “I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story. ”(246) tells us that Tim found a way to keep his friends alive and to do that, he would tell stories about him and his friends and how they were together in the war.
Another hardship that we face is racial injustice. 12. The phrase "let freedom ring" or a variation of it appears eleven times in the final two paragraphs. What is the effect of the use of repetition.
Again and again, she uses biblical allusion to add clarity and meticulous detail to her novel without
Tennesse Williams wrote the play The Glass Menagerie and Lorrain Hansberry wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun, which both similarly talks about families that are very much alike and different consecutively. Two characters really caught the attention of being different and similar in many aspects. These two characters are Laura Wingfield, from The Glass Menagerie, and Beneatha Younger, from A Raisin in the Sun. Laura and Beneatha both live in a fatherless household where their mother’s reign above the household and where their brothers are a primary source of income along with their mother’s income. Though I concede that both Laura and Beneatha are capable of working hard and achieving goals, I still insist that Beneatha has a brighter future
Rita Pierson employs her argument by utilizing the rhetorical devices of repetition where she states, “ Ispent life in the
The human heart is something labyrinthine and will be always studied of. It is very arduous to be able to correctly judge someone’s thoughts. In the story of ‘The Lady or The Tiger’, the readers are left with a question; “Which came out of the opened door - the lady, or the tiger?”. It may seem simple and straightforward at first, but the more one thinks about it, the more sophisticated it becomes.
Tenessee Williams is one of the most outstanding playwrights in American Theatre. His play The Glass Menagerie premiered in Chicago in 1944 and was an instant hit. It is set in the days of the Great Depression of 1930s when unemployment, inflation and shortage of necessary things had made the lives of people all over the world miserable. The playwright has sought to evaluate this era that caused financial as well as emotional trauma through depiction of the plight of a middle class family living in St. Louis, Missouri. The play deals with the memories of Tom Wingfield, an officer in the Merchant Navy, who had deserted his poor mother, Amanda, and disabled sister, Laura, in order to pursue a life of adventure but suffers from acute remorse due to his realisation of what his helpless family must have gone through in his absence.
