In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor This moment represents is, paul finley seeing dad actually doing something with him and for him instead of mom. The way I found that is when mom said “paul we’ve been talking about it and we’ve decided that your father will take you to St. Anthony’s today. ”. The deeper meaning behind the “It looked healthy enough, strong enough. But it was bound in a criss cross of metal stakes.
In the book A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith uses many literary devices like imagery and characterisation. Betty also uses social stratification, ethos, pathos, and logos in the book to help create a well rounded book. She writes about a poor family that lives in brooklyn and their struggles to survive and climb the social ladder. Johnny and Katie go through hard times, losses and success to try to survive and to have a better life for their children Francie and Neeley. They give everything they have and sometimes sacrificing food so Francie and Neeley will graduate high school and have a better life.
In Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns the historical context unravels before the eyes of the reader as time grows more modern. When reading the story one sees that many things have changed over time. One may witness that the use of automobiles are just coming about, along with the use of indoor plumbing. As the story goes along, the author explains the historical context of a small southern town in 1906.
Some people mature faster than others, and some take their time doing so. In the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, a young woman named Taylor happens to end up with a little girl, Turtle. Throughout the story, Kingsolver mentions birds often. Birds represent maturity to Turtle. She use birds to compare to Turtle's life and her situations while she is maturing and growing up.
With the exception of Angel and Lou Ann’s relationship, it seems like every personal interaction in The Bean Trees is equal parts of give and take. For example, Virgie Mae helps Edna Poppy who is blind, while Edna Poppy runs interference on Virgie’s inappropriate remarks. Lou Ann teaches Taylor how to hone her abilities, and Taylor calms and reassures Lou Ann. Even Estevez and Esperanza are symbiotic; they have been through so much, with their illegal immigration that they cannot function outside of one another. In what ways do these relationships, and the other, less prominent relationships in The Bean Trees promote a network of reliance?
The song “Live Oak” by Jason Isbell has many different symbols and puns littered all around the lyrics. One of the symbols in the song is when Isbell sings the line, “There’s a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be”. This symbolizes that the narrator’s past is still haunting him, as if it is a man that walks beside him. In the song, Isbell sings, “Could it be the man who did the things I’m living down”. This is talking about how the narrator’s lover doesn’t see who he is now, but his past self.
Thought out a persons ever changing life, the one thing that is always consistent is their name. However, sometimes a persons identity will change so much that their own name seems foreign when speaking it out loud. This creates the need for a new name to match a new identity. Kingsolvers The Bean Trees and Lena Coakley’s Mirror Image both apply characterization, conflict, and symbolism to show how identity changes with names and labels.
Being lost psychologically is one of the most overwhelming challenges to overcome in one’s life. In both “Blue Against White” by Jeannette C. Armstrong and “The Shivering Tree” by John Mcleod, the trickster are shown as two extremely different characters, but both demonstrating a despairing side of human nature. In “Blue Against White,” the protagonist Lena prescribed the trickster as a coyote that is lost within a building after entering an elevator, a symbolism for indigenous people that are lost within the colonised dominant society. Whilst John Mcleod describes the trickster as one that is lost within one’s arrogance, overwhelmed by a sense of pride and confidence that it was unable to see the obvious lie from the protagonist, Nanabush.
When one is lost, God is the founder, but what happens when his presence is nowhere found. The novel of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith talks about a second generation Irish family who lives in a poor neighborhood that has a tree called The Tree of Heaven due to its growth in cement no matter if it watered or not. Throughout the novel the the topic of God’s nature being his holiness is addressed through the serious events that Francie and her family experience. God is known to be just, but in the novel he allowed Francie and her good family to suffer a lot. For example, Gods arms is whom everyone relies on to be safe, but where was God when this happened to Francie, “He slipped and the exposed part of his body touched her bare leg...
“Never lose sight of the promises we deserve and the things that are rightfully ours,” (Richardson 367). The land is now owned by the Mainlanders, but before the mainlanders had taken the ground, the Sossi people are rightful owners of the land, and mainlanders roam today. Gutter Child is a novel about black people who need to pay off their debt to acquire Redemption and Freedom. In the novel Gutter Child, Jael Richardson uses symbolism such as Academies, Pregnancy, and Redemption Freedom to explore identities, since these symbols can create trauma of past events. Symbolism in the academies explores identity since it can create trauma from past events like bullying, leashes, and relationships.
Tenement districts in Brooklyn throughout the early 1900s provided challenges that entire families were forced to handle. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, depicts the Nolan family facing difficulties that even children had to overcome while they lived in one of these districts. Francie Nolan, the main character of the novel, is faced with the greatest difficulty of them all: growing up. Poverty was one aspect of Francie’s life that caused her to lack certain fundamental features of a regular child’s life. This is shown through Francie consistently being without food due to poverty, and having to discover for herself in a very difficult way that hunger was a painfully real issue.
Middlebury and Bowdoin College Comparison Although very similar in their liberal arts distinction and academic rigor, Bowdoin College and Middlebury College have many nuances that set them apart from each other. Family has always been incredibly important to me. With this said, I have never wanted to move far away from my family to go to college.
Metaphors are an influential piece to the literary world due to, “the process of using symbols to know reality occurs”, stated by rhetoric Sonja Foss in Metaphoric Criticism. The significance of this, implies metaphors are “central to thought and to our knowledge and expectation of reality” (Foss 188). Although others may see metaphors as a difficult expression. Metaphors provide the ability to view a specific content and relate to connect with involvement, a physical connection to view the context with clarity. As so used in Alice Walker’s literary piece, In Search Of Our Mothers’ Gardens.
The journey to the tree is the journey to rebirth and hope. In the Holy Bible, a tree symbolizes hope and rebirth. In the second chapter of the Holy Bible, Adam and Eve eat from the the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Taylor-Weiss). As a result, God punishes Adam and Eve for disobeying by kicking them out from the Garden of Eden. Human life changed after God cursed creation.
The cool, upland air, flooding through the everlasting branches of the lively tree, as it casts a vague shadow onto the grasses ' fine green. Fresh sunlight penetrates through the branches of the tree, illuminating perfect spheres of water upon its green wands. My numb and almost transparent feet are blanketed by the sweetness of the scene, as the sunlight paints my lips red, my hair ebony, and my eyes honey-like. The noon sunlight acts as a HD camera, telling no lies, in the world in which shadows of truth are the harshest, revealing every flaw in the sight, like a toddler carrying his very first camera, taking pictures of whatever he sees. My head looks down at the sight of my cold and lifeless feet, before making its way up to the reaching arms of an infatuating tree, glowing brightly virescent at the edges of the trunk, inviting a soothing, tingling sensation to my soul.
