In “Nightwatch”, a chapter of the novel Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard guides the reader through an experience with migrating eels, creates vibrant mental images, and involves the readers with her own thoughts. This is all accomplished through the use of rhetorical strategies, namely diction, figurative language, syntax, and imagery; these elements culminate in Dillard’s intense, guiding tone that involves the readers with the eel experience. Diction is vital to creating Dillard’s fervent and guiding tone throughout “Nightwatch.” The use of gruesome and detailed words like “milling… mingling” and “seething… squirming, jostling,” causes the reader to erupt in silent shivers.
In the book Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher uses many different examples of imagery and
The chapter illustrates how the artist incorporates ideas within her art that reveal aspects about dreaming. The image I have selected is Hammerhead Shark on Padre Island, 1987. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas, it is 36x48 inches in size. Within this painting, the view is of a beach, where most of the community is enjoying a day at the beach but they have encountered a bleeding almost dead shark on the sands of the beach. They imagery shows how that the most familiar areas aren’t free of endangerment.
The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey contains a multitude of settings. Some of the settings are important to the plot and some are unimportant and added into the book exclusively for visualization purposes. A few major settings of the book would be: the unofficially titled ‘Walker Hotel,’ the forest with the Silencer and Grace’s house. To begin, the hotel that the crippled survivors reside in after Camp Haven’s implosion is important to the plot because it is where they recuperate and hide from the Others for a substantial portion of the book. The hotel is abandoned, looted, dark and unbearably cold.
What started as a thrilling new adventure for American trapper and hunter Sanger Rainsford quickly became a nightmare. On Friday April 15th, 2016, Rainsford traveled to Ship-Trap Island, a small spit of land off the coast of the Caribbean, along with family friend Whitney Johnson with the intention of mounting a hunting expedition in the Amazon. After going up onto the afterdeck and hearing a gunshot, he ran to the railing to see what was all the commotion. He had climbed onto the railing to get a better view and quickly lost his balance, subsequently being thrown into the bitterly cold waters.
Throughout the book the author took us on an intriguing adventure through the expedition Lewis and Clark took many years ago. In the beginning the author makes it clear that he has always been fascinated by the two mens expedition and they write this book to inform the readers of the real adventure that Lewis and Clark proceeded on. They use landmarks, maps, and photographs to take readers on the same trip as the famous explorers. The authors made this book very easy to understand and it was always kept at a steady flow making it easy for readers to stay on track rather than being veered from the main subject of the book. From start to finish, descriptive words were always used to help illustrate and make the scenes they were seeing more
That is when I realized what an idiotic hypocrite I was. How could I in my right mind, laugh at Louis Dudek for holding seaweed, when I was excited about showing my friend my used Subway Metro Card? Immediately I felt embarrassed and somewhat foolish, almost ashamed. I realized how silly I and the family must look to the natives of New York, gawking and gasping ever the buildings and monuments they see every day. On coming to this thought I felt a close connection with Dudek’s poem “Coming Suddenly To The Sea” I pictured myself as Dudek and New York as the sea, my own “infant eyes” and “my emblem of the day”.
Hello, are you doing, fine without me? I am doing fine with my new job. Currently we are stopping nearby the island of Hawaii. We came here whaling to restock the supplies and to rebuild our food supplies, because recently we’ve only eaten 2 pieces of crackers. Sorry for not following your warnings, but I really wanted to start my dream job.
In Niki Caro’s acclaimed film, Whale Rider is an inspiring story of a young Maori girl’s pursuit to prove herself to her grandfather and to undertake her destiny as the tribal leader. Body Paragraph 1: In the poem ‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, Stewart has given precise images to the enjoyment the lady through the use of language techniques which highlights her poverty-stricken lifestyle. Stewart has used the onomatopoeia of ‘hiss’ and ‘howl’ to emphasise the feral nature of these cats. Through this technique, it has been shown that
Through her time on the ship she learns greatly about herself along with how the world truly is, in the end she figures out where her true self must be and who she truly is. Although the “coming of age” narrative has been used countless times throughout literature the way Avi uses the sea as a tell to explain Charlotte’s inner thought and outlook upon her situation is quite interesting and refreshing. Near the beginning of the novel Charlotte describes the sea as “Intoxicating” (Avi 8) and the “the sky itself, as blue as the baby’s bluest eyes” (Avi 28). These quotes show how the author reflected the protagonist’s emotions off the scene around her, while also demonstrating how the sea affects its viewer with feelings of excitement and new experiences.
“A long time ago, my ancestor Paikea came to this place on the back of a whale. Since then, in every generation of my family, the first born son has carried his name and become the leader of our tribe... until now” (Caro & Sanders, 2003). Whale Rider is the story of a girl, Pai, whose twin brother and mother die in child birth. Koro, Pai’s grandfather and leader of the Maori tribe, is devastated that their future leader has died. Years later Koro is determined to find a leader and begins to teach and train the boys, in which Pai is not allowed to join because she is a girl.
Within the two texts, The Sun also Rises, and The People of the Whale, war and relationships are two of the main focuses and are present various times throughout each text. Moreover, the present themes make both of the texts parallel while staying simultaneously different adding depth and a multifaceted approach to something you would normally overlook The devastation of war occurred in both books yet it affected each protagonist in different ways. For Mike, in The sun Also rises, it was for the best for it gave him a sense of belonging and comfort yet for Thomas and Jake it was for the worse while being not only mentally and emotionally but as well as physically scarring. As you can imagine, war is a place of destruction and death that leaves a marks, both physical and mental on those affected by it whether fighting for
Whale Rider Based on the novel written by Witi Ihimaera, Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro, tells the story of the 1000-year-old Maori legend of Paikea, their first ancestor who rode on the back of a whale to New Zealand. Throughout the film, the relationship between Koro and Paikea undergoes dramatic change as he struggles to maintain traditional practices and she is driven to challenge his beliefs. They are both passionately committed to ensuring the survival of the tribe, but are unable to accept each other’s understanding of how this should be achieved. Caro skilfully uses many film techniques, such as camera angles and shot sizes, to position the audience to understand the strain the demand for change places on the relationship between
Introduction The killer whale has one of the few names in the animal kingdom that sounds distinctly like a super villain. While scientifically known as an orca, the term killer whale builds much more intrigue and excitement for corporations that are advertising their orca performances. For example, the orca Tilikum drew in crowds with his performances under the title “killer whale” for many years. Tilikum awed the audience as he propelled himself from the water and into the air in astonishing acts of flight that seemed to defy the proportions of his own body. The audience screamed with glee when Tilikum would land on his side and produce a splash that enveloped the front rows. The visitors leaned forwards to capture the perfect
The rambunctious sea is an important element in the novel, it forebodes for evil and help to establish the sense anxiety . 31 “ I could see the sea from the terrace, and the lawns. It looked grey and uninviting, great rollers sweeping into the bay past the beacon on the headland” (R.,P.130). The sea carries a great secret; the secret of Rebecca’s boat is in the bottom of it . So, as people’s mood is reflected on their behavior , the sea is treated as a person whose mood is reflected on [his] behavior, the sea behaves wildly and hits the waves to reflect the horror that [he] witnesses and the big burden [he] carries and signaling a warning to the strangers .
