In Saints at the River, by Ron Rash, three deaths occur in the small town of Tamassee, South Carolina. Maggie Glenn is brought back to Tamassee, her hometown, to photograph pictures for the newspaper based on this case. The characters are brought together with each individual death, but the most major one is Ruth Kowalsky’s, a twelve year old girl who drowned in the Tamassee River because of a hydraulic. The town of Tamassee is brought together with the death and with the decision of whether or not to follow the law and preserve the river, or tear up it’s natural pulchritude to get Ruth’s body out. The environmentalists obviously want to protect the Wild and Scenic Act, which was established to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural,
Missoula Discussion One Missoula by Jon Krakauer is a compelling yet unnerving story of Allison Huguet, and the sexual assault epidemic at The University of Montana. Allison is a student, at Eastern Oregon University, who is assaulted while visiting her hometown of Missoula Montana. I like how this book not only tells Allison’s story, but told the story of many other girls in the same town. After introducing Allison the book later tells the stories of Kelsey Belnap, and Kerry Barrett. They were both raped in Missoula and both of their cases were brushed aside by the police department.
Jasmine Elliott Due Date: Friday 25th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherall. This story is about a teenage boy that has to decide between his biggest crush and his most favorite thing to do. In this journal, I will questioning and ______. G pick bass or Sheila?
The speaker in the poem “Prelude to Jumping in the River” by Katia Grubisic, uses his observations of a man preparing to jump into a river as a metaphor for making important decisions. The speaker presents instances of metaphor in the moments before the jump, the unpredictable outcome of the jump, and in the possibility of missing the jump. When the speaker witnesses a man standing at the edge of a river preparing to jump he reflects on how “the mental preparation takes some time” (4-5). Comparably, careful thought and anticipation are also involved when approaching significant decisions. Certainly, the speaker’s observation addresses how responsibly handling a major decision is a lengthy process that requires careful consideration.
The author Daniel Henry Usner Jr brings the lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 into focus and delivers a coherent story of the complex social and economic history that is entangled into the Lower Mississippi Valley region. Usner reveals in this monograph the daily interactions between Europeans, Africans, and Indians in early colonial America. The study concentrates on the region along the Gulf Coast and depicts the frequent changes of political power beginning with the occupation of the French from 1699 to the early 1760s, and then the divided occupation of the Gulf Coast between the Spanish and the British from the early 1760s until the early 1780s. Usner does a notable job of exploiting the active participation in the local and regional
Cynthia Ann Parker was born in Illinois between June 2, 1824 and May 31, 1825 and moved to central Texas by the age of nine with her family. Cynthia Ann Parker makes her mark on history on May 19, 1936; this would be the day she and four others including her brother would be kidnapped by Caddo, Comanche, and Kiowa. Parker was approximately ten years old when she was snatched from the only home she knew “Fort Parker” with her parents and siblings and force into Comanche life (Lone Star). “Fort Parker was built for protection against an attack, built walls around the settlement and established a base for Texas Rangers” (Cynthia). Fort Parker was meant as a safe haven for the whole family, but little did it protect against what it was built for.
There are many themes in the novel My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt. Through the events of Tiger’s life, the reader sees why differences make us who we are, why death is a part of life, and also that true friends will ask for nothing more than an individual’s companionship. As she grows, Tiger learns about life and all the difficulties it will bring, but she also learns that she will have friends who will be with her every step of the way. First of all, the author seems to make a point that people can sometimes find it hard to think that different is okay. In the novel, Tiger is often made fun of by Abby Lynn and her group of friends because her mother acts so out of place due to her condition.
In the passage from Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, writer John M. Barry details the many complexities of the Mississippi river and juxtaposes its characteristics with many other well known rivers in order to communicate and share his fascination with the river to the audience. One of the most stand out ways in which writer John Barry conveys his fascination with the river to others is through intense description of the many complexities of the Mississippi river. Rather than simply stating the flow of the river, Barry opts to incorporate words such as “extraordinarily dynamic combination” and “tremendous turbulence” to paint a vivid picture in the reader’s minds. Barry’s word choice in describing
This paints a clear picture of the metaphor of a boat coming back to and fro. The image leaves the reader having a sense of hoplessness and lonlieness. Whereas, Wordsworth describes the ocean in more of a list-like format. Wordsworth is able to get straight to the point and point out the issues: war, the church, home. The sense of activity is ironic seeing as that this is how Wordsworth sees straight waters", while Dunbar;s more
Heroes are everywhere, and no one ever knows when they will show up in life. In the story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien, the story describes a certain time in someone’s life that they didn’t know what to do. TIm O’Brien is the character and is very confused with what he wants to do. He was called to the war, something called the draft wanted to bring him into the war, basically volunteer him. O’Brien then decides to leave his job and head north to Canada.
“The cry of a tormented man had come to the peaceful green mystery of my river, and the great presence of the river watched from the shadows and deep recesses.”
Native texts and Romantic poems both use literary devices to express their themes of the cycles of nature and life. In the Native text, “The Iroquois Constitution” by Dekanawida. There is a quote about the currents of water symbolizing that “Into the depths of the earth, down into the deep underearth currents of water flowing to unknown regions we cast all the weapons of strife” (Dekanawida 155). Dekanawida uses symbolism to show how the weapons of conflict are thrown into the water which the current guides away, to not be used again. The people no longer want to fight and want to have peace to unite the people of the Five Nations.
We have seen examples of talented poets who overview the world in a more sensitive way than normal people. My favorite poem by an author that we have encountered this semester is Lucille Clifton’s “The Mississippi River Empties Into The Gulf.” I think this poem is a great example on how poets recognizes features that normal people cannot interpret out. First, Clifton personified a river to have the characteristics of humans. Clifton noted rivers to carry, to empty, and to drag the memories from the past.
While drinking from the pond he would see the sandy bottom. He explains, “I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” (Paragraph 13). He is basically saying that he views time like the pond.
The Congo river was a river the speaker lived by while in Africa. The way the speaker talks about the Congo gives it the image of a bedtime remedy. Its waters flowing over rocks, waves crashing smoothly with each other, and short crescendoing waves washing up onto the beach soothe the speaker and lull him to sleep. The way Hughes uses imagery in these poems to describe his the surroundings enhances his literature to a whole new
