Jon Spoelestra’s Ice to the Eskimos was very interesting and informative. Throughout the entire book, Spoelestra reflected upon the experiences and knowledge that he gained from working in the sports industry. One interesting aspect of the book was Spoelestra’s principle that organizations should design “an offer that consumers cannot refuse” (Spoelestra, 1997, p. 199). This was particularly interesting to me because of my interest in finance. Initially, I thought that if you make an offer too good, that you could potentially be losing out on some profit, however, after reading this book, this principle makes perfect sense.
Imagery is one of the crafts that is very well used. I think that as a reader and our culture always view fire as a bad thing because it have the power to destroy a lot on its path such as we see here in the Desert when we have wildlife fires but ice has the opposite effect. It is supposed to bring peace and beauty. At Christmas, many around the world eagerly await snow to fully bring the season of the joy. I think the same is said in this story.
These images enhance the main plot, by building upon the fear that it evokes. Without these images, the episode does not seem as
Sharon Olds in the poem, “On the Subway,” reveals the encounter of a black boy and a white lady as they travel on a train. Olds was able to establish the contrast of the two people with different races by the use of imagery, tone, and poetic devices. Olds was able to use imagery to enhance her writing and to contrast the difference between the black boy and the white woman. “His feet are huge, in black sneakers laced with white in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars.” In this image Olds describes the boy who is separated from her by using a simile to compare the complex pattern to the intentional scars.
Luis J. Rodriguez Essay In the poem, “‘Race’ Politics,” Luis J. Rodriguez it is about the author and his brother crossing over the border from Watts to Southgate. Southgate is a all white all american community that treats the two brothers as lesser because of their different race and where they had come from. The purpose of this poem is to use syntax, connotation, and imagery to help enhance the writing for the readers. There are many different uses of imagery used in this poem.
The rain fell down in frigid sheets. Ira Whelan stood alone on the gelid deck that was once the Petersburg train station. Now all that remained of the once bustling establishment was the foundation of a prodigious building, and the sooty frozen planks that lay under him. It was winter in West Virginia, and it was the first one after the war’s end. If Ira would’ve had shoes, perhaps the cold weather wouldn’t have bothered him so considerably.
The book I read is called Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season’s Edge. This book was written by Pete Dunne. This book was published in 2011 and was published in New York, New York. Also, this book was published by the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
The short stories, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce are two completely different stories but similar at the same time, they have the same stylistic techniques and they impact the reader in a similar manner. The first story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, takes place during the American civil war where a wealthy slave owner is being hung for his sympathy towards the confederate soldiers. In the second story “Chickamauga”, a young boy wanders into the woods with a toy sword to “fight” his enemies. These two stories have several similarities, they both take place during the civil war, the stories emphasize the connection between reality and fantasy, they’re also violent and tragic stories. In both of
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, both portray many examples of imagery. As the two stories progress, both of their imagery levels become very detailed and create an entertaining plot for the reader to imagine. From going in depths to give imagery of the island, the characters, and the scenery in the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” uses many examples of imagery for the reader, making the story better and more senseful. Even though both of the stories provide imagery, “The Most Dangerous Game” provides the better of the two stories. There are many ways “The Most Dangerous Game” uses imagery to create imaginative ways for the reader to look at the story.
Frost uses imagery by witting “I have looked down the saddest city lane”(541). The speaker attaches the emotion sadness to the city lane because he is in a lowest emotion, and everything seems sad as well. The imagery enhances the emotions of the speaker by transferring his sadness to a city lane. The most significant point in this stanza is the watchman, who is the only alive thing in the whole poem. However, the appearance of the watchman in the night catches the narrator’s attention, and the narrator escapes any contact with the watchman, which seems that the speaker is in no mood to convert or connect with another human.
Together, all of these examples of imagery develop the idea of the animal behavior of the story’s characters by depicting the atrocities and strident conditions the inmates face throughout the
Stylistic and language features were devices that were used throughout the novel Seed, written by Lisa Heathfield, to develop the themes. Abuse, psychological, physical and sexual, was a theme which was shown throughout the novel, and was strengthened with the use of the stylistic and language features. Imagery was one of the techniques that was used throughout the novel, and impacted on how the reader perceived this abuse. The use of the narrator’s voice also had a significant impact on how the reader viewed the theme, and the overall development. Imagery is a common and powerful tool that writers use to strengthen and convey their ideas and messages.
one of the many times he uses imagery throughout this story is when the narrator says, “on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows” (Pg 1). By using imagery to compare walking through the neighborhood as walking through a graveyard shows that it is completely silent and there is no activity in any of the houses. Most people wouldn't describe their neighborhood as a graveyard, this also develops the mood. Another time he uses imagery is when the narrator says, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country” (1). This shows mood because the narrator describes him as a hawk in mid-country, that means that he is all alone in what he feels to be like a barren or abandoned place.
On of the greatest examples of imagery that Alice Walker uses is the one that compares light and darkness. At the beguining of the story the author mentions delicate and calm setting of a farm. In creating this imagery the reader is able to understand that all the positive and upbeat words are associated with the farm setting. Myop’s light-hearted innocence is also shown when “watching the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale”. The effective description provides credibility to the environment, and makes the later events all the more shocking,
The short story that I have chosen to do my analysis on is “THE KISS” by Kate Chopin. The short story is about a young beautiful woman name, Nathalie who wants to marry the shy but rich Brantain for all his riches and she knows that he has strong feelings for her. Thus, making her plans to marry him so much easier. Thou, her plans of pursuing him does experiences a slight bump in the road when her other lover, Harvy who is her brother’s good friend, swoops in and kisses her passionately and suddenly in front of Brantain who is taken aback and embarrass that he leaves Nathalie’s house. The plot thickens further and ends with both Nathalie and Brantain getting married.
