In Timmy Reeds short story, “Birds and Other Things We Placed in Our Hearts,” there is a significant amount of imagery and symbolism through the authors use of style, characterization, and theme. The profound use of symbolism in the authors style of writing greatly captures the use of imagery throughout the story. The beginning sentence of the story reads, “As our chests hollowed out, we filled them with birds” (Reed). This beginning sentence is simply stating that the hearts of humans have withered away, leaving them feeling empty, and to fill that emptiness they filled their cavity with birds.
Hope is alive and can be found in more places than one might expect. In Lisel Mueller’s poem, “Hope”, Mueller uses metaphors to describe hope and show that it can be found in many places. Let’s start with the first stanza. In the first 3 lines of the poem, Mueller describes how hope can sometime “hide” from us. She says that it “(…) hovers in dark corners until the lights are turned on,” showing that hope can seem nowhere to be found sometimes (lines 1-2).
Hope can mean many things, it can also be represented by different things. In the book Lord of the Flies hope is represented by the fire. It's a chance at getting off the island. “A fire! Make a fire!”(Golding 52).
Samuel Smiles, a scottish author and governor, said, “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” Roland Smith wrote a great short story based on the topic of hope and determination. Roland Smith wrote a short story, “The Ghost Bird”. This story is about a girl named Hannah who teams up with Mr. Tanner to find the rare ivorybills that are on Mr. Tanner’s property and never gives up on hope to find them. The author uses characters personality traits and setting to convey the theme of even in the most difficult times, never lose hope.
The captain, the one who steers the ship in what way it’ll take them. Of my soul, what is inside of them and what it truly means in life. Put these words together and this can give anyone the true meaning of hope. Within the poem, William not only talks about hope, but how he never let’s go in the face of evil and darkness. “In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Hope and despair connect in multiple ways, some of those who experience despair have hope. While this novel highlights a number of instances of despair, it is ultimately a novel that symbolizes hope because it shows how Haitans use hope for the means to stay alive. Hope comes up in different ways throughout the novel, in the chapter “A Wall of Fire Rising”, Guy uses hope as a reason to stay alive. Guy has a reason, he has a dream.
Hope is a feeling inside you that makes feel like you can do anything. When you have that feeling you set yourself up for success and it makes you want to live life like a fairytale. The war started at Valley Forge, George Washington made an army that he had hoped for. Then the British came and forced war over them. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Hope can consist of staying positive even through the most calamitous of times, remembering some of your precious memories, and even waiting patiently for good outcomes. Having hope can help you overcome obstacles that you may have thought were unfeasible to surpass. There may be times where hope seems out of your grasps. Yo may even start feeling like there is no point in having hope, but a positive attitude can help a tremendous amount when handling conflict. Having something taken from your grasps makes you want to fight for it, but waiting patiently and having hope can also get the lost item back.
Hope, that is one powerful word. Hope is the one thing we have to have to do anything to work you have to have hope to be better off, or if you are going to chemotherapy if you are ill. If you did not have any hope then there is no need for that treatment, and even going day to day requires hope. So if one person keeps the hope of others high, there is nothing that they can’t accomplish. In comparison one man with hope in his heart is the equivalent to one hundred men.
Hope is a very important thing to have. It can help you get through your day, or give you the confidence to finish what has been started. Hope is a big subject in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. It has helped Arnold get through his tough friendship with Rowdy and to get through some tough times. Having hope is one of the best things you can have, it helps you through so
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. It drives us all. It makes us believe in something even when we think everything is against us. Author Nam Le explores the theme of hope in his short story, The Boat and director John Hill coat in his film, The Road. The author and director explore the theme through character development, scenery, the use of symbols and metaphors also through character behaviours.
In this poem, the author talks about how her teacher told her to have hope and move on. In the text, it says, “I feel full of something strange and delicious: hope.” “Teacher is right. The past is a ladder that can help you keep climbing.” (lines 7-13)
The passage I chose was difficult to understand because of the type of language William Shakespeare used, and because it was taken out of context. After that I went looking for a poem. I first searched for poems involving the word hope at Bartleby.com, but I couldn 't find one worth using; so, I then went to Poemhunter.com and again found nothing. Finally, I went to Poetrysoup.com and found a deserving poem. Afterward, I went back to Bartleby.com and searched for a quotation; the quote that I chose was long, yet exceeded my standards.
As he notes, “Hope makes us tend to God, as to a good to be obtained finally.” The object of hope is conditioned by the future good of God: “for hope does not regard that which is present and already possessed.” The objects of hope’s acts are “‘future’ since they are uncertain and not yet possessed.”
Hope is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as wanting something to happen or to be true and think that it could happen or be true. With hope, people can achieve anything the wish to achieve. Many times authors use both materialist and non materialistic things to symbolize hope, as hope is intangible. According to Thomas Foster “Action can also be symbolic” (Foster 112). With hope being an indefinite concept, it is often symbolized through actions.
