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.
Grandpa asked. “Two years,” Billy replied. “Page 85.” “Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy” Novel, Doubleday, 1961, p. “When Mama said this, it dawned on me.
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” The professional athlete Pele said this about soccer. The theme of this book Where The Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls is Determination. This quote really shows how hard Billy works and how determined he is to catch a raccoon.
[Little Ann] too had gone along. ”(42-43). This shows that Little Ann is so loyal to Old Dan, she slept with him for a night to keep him company. Little Ann also helps protect Billy from the mountain lion. She fights the feline predator with Old Dan just to save Billy.
Little Ann is very courageous. She is a very small dog; she was most likely even the runt, but she can fight. She helped Old Dan Fight the coons multiple times. For example, when the mountain lion was trying to hurt Billy, and Old Dan was taking the hits, Litlle Ann was biting and scratching the mountain lion as hard as she could. Even when there was a blizzard she did everything she could to the coon in the tree.
When Ann awakens and realizes the gravity of her acts, she starts to feel guilty since she knows that her adultery was immoral and unfair to her hardworking husband. This feeling of guilt is evidence that she has committed an act of betrayal against her husband. John’s body was found far away from the house, near his pasture fence. Everyone theorized that John must have just missed their house since he was disoriented from the storm, but in truth John was found far from home because he didn’t want his wife to find him. Even in death John cared so much for his
Maggie Nelson condemns the media’s erotic interest in violence done to women. Her novel, The Red Parts, is as much of an explanation of what happened at the trial for her aunt, Jane, as it is commentary of the perverse enjoyment people have for learning of these cases on TV. When going over her aunt’s case, Nelson tries to describe what occurred truthfully and objectively, avoiding erotic descriptors as they are disrespectful to Jane and all the women who shared a similar fate. One of the things Nelson shared about the trial was the media’s high interest in it. News stations and crime shows sent cameramen to film the proceedings and tried to secure interviews with members of the Nelson family.
Where the Red Fern Grows On account of numerous sacrifices and sufferings, a young boy, named Billy, matured and thrived. Billy first begins to mature through the sacrifice of the hard work it took to earn the dogs he yearned for. Secondly, on account of the strenuous sacrifice of chopping down the gargantuan sycamore tree, Billy continually matured. Finally, Billy persistently matured and thrived, due to the suffering he underwent whilst mourning the death of his dogs.
In addition to staying overnight to watch the coon, Little Ann is also determined during conflict when she opened up a hole for a muskrat den when Old Dan was trapped to make sure Billy could hear the trapped Old Dan. As Billy explains, “It was the voice of Old Dan. Little Ann had opened the hole up enough with her digging so his voice could be heard faintly. In some way he had gotten into that old muskrat den.” (107).
Ann is isolated with no one to talk to, and has to resort to speaking to herself, slowly convincing herself in doubt, with no one to set her straight
One of the main protagonists, Mama, is telling her son the reasons for what she did to help her family’s struggle. She says, “When it gets like that in life-you just got to do something different, push on out and do something bigger....” (588). The character Mama gets a check from the insurance company for $10,000 dollars due to her husband’s death and she doesn't know what to do with it. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama is motivated to/by the chance to get her family a house.
“Just had a big burst-up with mummy for the umpteenth time; we simply don’t get along these days…” (p.30). Anne shows good when she shows compassion and sorrow for her old friend Lies. “I just saw Lies, no one else, and how I understand. I misjudged her and was too young to understand her difficulties.”
Interpretations of the Bible by minorities is a way of better relating the holy book to a larger audience. This is especially true when reading “She Stood in Tears Amid the Alien Corn”: Ruth the Perpetual Foreigner and Model Minority by Gale A. Yee and Silenced Struggles for Survival: Finding Life in Death in the Book of Ruth by Yolanda Norton. By exercising their right of interpreting the Bible in regard to their own personal experiences, both Norton and Yee successfully portray their own racial struggles in modern America and the injustices thrust upon them because of the color of their skin. “She Stood in Tears Amid the Alien Corn”:
Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, embodies the classic teenager in the process of discovering himself, and how the world works. But, regardless of Holden 's rich, prep school lifestyle, the series of events that have mapped out his life up to this point have utterly affected his emotional well being and perception of the world. Many traumatic events such as the death of holds brother Allie, the death of a class mate, and countless numbers of awkward incidents with adults have all added up to affects Holden 's well-being and detach him from reality. The death of Holden 's younger brother Allie has caused him to confuse his perception of reality and to alienate himself.
The wolf in The Little Red Riding Hood symbolizes a number of things as it does in several other fairy tales. First, it portrays the image of cunning characters in the society. At first, the animal looks harmless upon meeting the girl in the forest. It's questions to the girl appear as genuine and straightforward as they would to anyone else. The girl could not be skeptical in the way the wolf asks, “Where are you going”.
