The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows the main character Jurgis Rudkus who is an immigrant from Lithuania. Jurgis immigrated to the United States and made his way to Chicago in order to follow the path of a legendary hometown name, Jokubas, who supposedly made a lot of money in the states. Upon reaching the United States and arriving in Chicago they realized it would be much harder to establish an income in a city they weren’t familiar with. Their luck changed when they happened upon the infamous Jokubas and found out he ran a local delicatessen in the stockyards in Chicago. Jokubas helped them find a place to sleep for the night in a boarding house while they used those first days to look for work in order to move to a nicer place of living.
"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves. " Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape of the poem itself.
The First Decision Reef, the main character in the novel, The First Stone, by Don Aker, makes a bad decision and ultimately has to deal with the consequences. To begin, Reef latches his anger onto a stone and deliberately throws it over an overpass into oncoming traffic. The stone causes a major accident between not one, but several cars and severely injures a teenage girl. Fortunately for Reef, the Judge sentences him to live at North Hills Group Home, and to volunteer at a rehabilitation centre. This punishment changes Reef’s life for the better.
River Runs Through It Keelan Bartlett In the book River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean It is about a guy named Norman who has a lot of different people around him, especially his brother who needs help. Norman finds it very hard throughout the book to give help to others because either the person doesn’t want help, or he doesn’t like the person enough to put energy into helping that person. Throughout the book, Paul, the younger brother, needs help. He has a bad drinking problem, he gambles, he fights, he is broke, and just needs help, but the problem is that he doesn’t want help from anyone but his brother because he respects his brother Norman.
A fire sparks and the grand bird burns, leaving nothing but ashes. From these ashes, a new bird is born, restarting the cycle. Thus is the story of a phoenix, the immortal and legendary fire bird. Fire and water commonly appear in literature and can represent positive or negative symbols. Water is usually associated with baptism, rebirth, cleansing, but as an element it can also represent negative signs of death and destruction.
This story has a point of view about Brian who is trying to survive until they rescue him. Brian is a very talented,smart kid that has been trying to survive since the plane crash accident. Another story is Eleven by Sandra Cisneros about a girl named Rachel that had a birthday and she went to school but she had
James Edmund Allen's work The Builder, 1932. 10 x 12 uses light and shadow, proportion and scale, and color. This artwork displays how light is used to create emphasis on certain aspects of the artwork. Through this artwork, the artist presents a strong sense of symmetry and balance, a muted color palette, a strong sense of light and shadow, a detailed and realistic texture, and a theme of hard work and labor.
In the poem “The Swamp” by Mary Oliver the speaker talks about their relationship with the swamp. We can compare her struggles with something in our own life, wither it is school, work, or just your personal life. We can sew a struggle between the swamp and speaker through her word choice but also the imagery that the poem gives off. Imagery is used in the poem to get the reader involved in what a swamp might look and smell like. “here is struggle, closure pathless, seamless, peerless mud”, from this quote one gets a strong image of what the struggle of getting through a swamp might be like.
The best short-story we read was Blues Ain't No Mockingbird by Toni Cade Bambara. The story starts out with a small group of children playing outside. Then, as the kids are playing and minding their own business, Granny notices men around the bushes with cameras and tells the children “Go tell that man we ain't a bunch of trees.” Before the kids get a chance to do so the cameraman, Camera and Smilin, come and attempt to talk to Granny. She doesn't buy what they're selling and instead chooses to tell the kids the story of the man on the bridge.
When you think of work, what do you think of? Toni Morrison and Danial Adkinson think of supporting their family and using work as an escape from family. Morrison believes that your job does not define you, but how you act and respond to it does. Adkison believes that your job is not all about work, you can also find family and friends. While Morrison uses compare and contrast to demonstrate that your job does not define you; Adkison sets out to prove, through imagery, that your job is not all about work and that you can find family and friends in a workplace.
From a post-colonial perspective, the effects and impacts of colonialism on cultures, society, and the human mind can be examined. The short story “On The Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien narrates the autographic thoughts and actions of the author after he is drafted into the war. O’Brien runs from his duties out of fear before stepping up and returning to fight for his country. After reading this short story, a post-colonial perspective can be taken through a more profound analysis when it becomes evident that during the time this piece was set in 1968, there was a patriarchal stigma around men going to war that supported the idea that men must put emotions aside and choose their country over anything else. This post-colonial perspective can be
What We Talk About when We Talk About Love The short story “What We Talk When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends, Mel, Terri, Laura, and Nick, having a conversation around a table. As they start to drink, the subject comes to “love.” The main topic of their conversation is defining the word love, in other words they are trying to define the actual meaning of love.
The short story I choose was “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. I choose this story because the way you described it as a woman that shows affection towards another person but there is a dark twist at the end. The plot appealed to me because it sounded interesting but not too romantic. This story is very long and if read quickly you will not understand what is happening. As I read the story I highlighted things in three different categories, Emily and her character, the setting and the townspeople, and anything that seemed important (motifs, symbols).
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own A Modern Look at Privilege In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf explores how society’s treatment of men and women allow for different opportunity levels, and indeed, even today, we often find different groups separated by one classification or another. Often times, the group that is receiving the most benefits are not aware that they have an advantage over their counterparts, whether it be the opposite gender or socio-economic class. Today, we may not still have the gender difference as we did in Woolf’s time, but there is still much that can be learned from her essay.
The story I selected is 'The Bath' by Raymond Carver. The story began with a woman ordering a cake from a baker for her son's birthday party. On the day of the party, the boy got hit by a car on his way to school and ended up in the hospital in a coma-like state. The boy's parents were worried sick as they sat by him for two straight days when the boy didn't wake up. The father and mother each took a break once throughout the ordeal.
