“You can avoid reality, but you can not avoid the consequences of avoiding the reality” (Ayn Rand, 1905-1982). In Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid, the air-conditioning is one of the most significant details in the novel that represents some of the themes that Hamid wants to emphasize. Besides jewelry, enormous house, and high-priced car air-conditioner is one of the elements that distinguish wealth from poverty. More than that, one of the reasons why Mumtaz falls in love with Daru relates to the air-conditioner. That air conditioner not only produces cool air but also generates the hot air is compelling because it represents some dualities that exist in the novel. Also, despite making people feel more comfortable during hot weather, air conditioner is artificial, which is similar to some relationships as well as some perspectives in Moth Smoke.
Air-conditioner is the barrier that separates impecunious people from prosperous people.” According to professor Julius Superb, one of the characters in Moth Smoke, concludes in one of his economic classes. He refers to lower-class people as “large and sweaty” and “masses”. In Pakistan, the heat from weather along with the hotness of the coming atomic bomb testings dry up energy from people. It is hot, too hot to survive without the air- conditioner. As a result, “sweaty” immediately becomes the adjective to describe about the penniless one. The air-conditioner plays an important role in Pakistan. It adds up the intense between the poor and the wealthy. Daru’s mother would not die if she had air-conditioner. Ozi has air-conditioner and over uses it: “his bedroom was so cold that he needed a heavy blanket to avoid shivering in the middle of summer” and “ in winter he could comfortably sleep nak...
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... doubt: What if our bomb doesn’t work?” Murad Badshah criticizes rich people using air-conditioner as killing themselves and reasons that “ACs, on the other hand, he considered unnatural and dangerous.” He thinks that people get more and more dependent on the air-conditioner that they might be miserable when there is no more air-conditioner. The air from the this superficial device is unreal. It allures opulent people from the society which is drying up all of its energy because of the extreme heat from weather and nuclear tests.
In conclusion, Moth Smoke would not be Moth Smoke anymore without air-conditioner. This incredible device has separated the prosperous from the poor, has fired up the relationship between Mumtaz and Ozi, has proved that everything has its own reason to happen, and has created an allusion for rich people making them forget about reality.
The author illustrates the “dim, rundown apartment complex,” she walks in, hand and hand with her girlfriend. Using the terms “dim,” and “rundown” portrays the apartment complex as an unsafe, unclean environment; such an environment augments the violence the author anticipates. Continuing to develop a perilous backdrop for the narrative, the author describes the night sky “as the perfect glow that surrounded [them] moments before faded into dark blues and blacks, silently watching.” Descriptions of the dark, watching sky expand upon the eerie setting of the apartment complex by using personification to give the sky a looming, ominous quality. Such a foreboding sky, as well as the dingy apartment complex portrayed by the author, amplify the narrator’s fear of violence due to her sexuality and drive her terror throughout the climax of the
In “Barn Burning”, Abner enters the house at dusk and “could smell the coffee from the room where they would presently eat the cold food remaining from the afternoon meal.” (14) A warm meal would indicate fulfillment and cohesiveness within the family. The inclusion of the detail that the food was cold represents an inversion of these associations. The cold meal symbolizes the family’s distaste with Abner’s actions. The memory of the dinner lingers with the family as they get ready for bed and appears linked with negative images of “Where they had been were no long, water-cloudy scoriations resembling the sporadic course of a lilliputian moving machine.” (15) In addition, the emphasis that this dinner was in fact a left-over meal symbolizes that the pattern of Abner’s destructive behavior and its effects on his family will not change.
In the book Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, by Eric Klinenberg expose how a number of social, political, and economical factors created one of the largest and most traumatic events in recent history. The Chicago heat wave in 1995 was a disaster, which led to over 700 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a five days period creating. Most of the victims of the heat wave were poor elderly residents of the city, who didn’t have any relative or were neglected by the public officials and was unable to purchase air-conditioning units for their home. Most of the elderly isolated themselves and refused to open windows or sleep outside in fear of crime. Alot of lives were loss or in destress because of isolation, poverty and media who played a major role by portraying the countless deaths on the natural disaster and highlighting of negative activities especially in the urban area
“He uses similes such as the breeze that ‘blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale frogs’ and that also made a shadow on the ‘wine-colored rug’ as ‘wind does on the sea’.”
heat is used to represent the overwhelming circumstances that the schoolboys face. “The boy with
Besides the argument, Libby Montana inhabitants had their health highly affected in three, if not all four, of the components that measures health, by means that were beyond their control. An international company started a mining operation in the small city. At first, the inhabitants were happy with all the new jobs a major company moving to town would bring. Throughout the documentary a man said, “The good jobs were there.” Unfortunately, they did not know that in the long-term that mining was about to bring major consequences upon all Libby’s inhabitants. The mining operation generated an overwhelming amount of dust that was easily spread throughout the whole city. During the documentary, a man said, “You could not see it in the air, but you could see it in your coffee.” And his daughter said, “When he would get home I would get the car and drive to town and on the way the car would get all covered in dust. I would think, ‘It’s just dust, don’t worry about it.’” For those who worked inside the mining field, the consequences of working in a dusty environment started very soon with numerous employees being diagnosed with lung disorders leading to death. The exposure to asbestos started affecting not only the workers health, but also the city inhabitants, because asbestos is highly toxic even at very low exposure. Physically their lungs were affected, which leads to mental stress to the ill person and the whole family. The overwhelming amount of inhabitants being affected caused a major social problem within the city inhabitants, and a mistrust that was being built and conserved for generations. The health of Libby’s inhabitants was, and is, compromised and their enjoyment of life is reduced because of irresponsible decisions made by third party.
At first glance, one may not fully comprehend that Elie is utilizing the aforementioned metaphor to convey much more than just the meaning behind the word “chimney” (Wiesel 39). In fact, he is attempting
In the 1970’s Iran, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was a very centralized military state that maintained a close relationship with the USA. The Shah was notoriously out of touch with working class Iranians as he implemented many controversial economic policies against small business owners that he suspected involved profiteering. Also unrestricted economic expansions in Iran lead to huge government expenditure that became a serious problem when oil prices dropped in the mid 1970’s. This caused many huge government construction projects to halt and the economy to stall after many years of massive profit. Following this was high rates of inflation that affected Iranians buying power and living standards. (Afary, 2012) Under the Shah, political participation was not widely available for all Iranians and it was common for political opposition to be met with harassment, illegal detention, and even torture. These measures were implemented by the Iranian secret police knows as ‘SAVAK’. This totalitarian regime combined with the increasing modernisation of the country paved the way for revolution.
First, the suffocation of Kamal by gasoline fumes illustrate the unexpectedness of dying that leaves a father in pain, as described by the tone of agony and pessimism, negative connotations of words, and choppy, repetitive sentences, which without the scene, leaves the movie with little emotional effect of loss and trauma. As Amir switches vehicles to a fuel truck to migrate to Pakistan, he notes his lungs “collapse, tighten squeeze” and finds that the air “wasn’t right [and] wasn’t supposed to be a solid,” expressing his uncertainty by stating a scream would happen (121). The author uses a second person point- of- view to convey the darkness and poor conditions of the tank, and literally puts Amir in a situation where he cannot see the problems. The description of the air indicates that the memory is vivid and foresh...
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel that was written by Ray Bradbury and was published in 1953. It is considered to be one of the best pieces Bradbury wrote and it received many awards. Bradbury uses a lot of the “symbolic dystopia” method to create images and characters (Reid). The novel portrays a futuristic society where people are not allowed to own or read books, and the fireman burn any book or novel they find. It also consists of a society where the people are forbidden to think for themselves and are also forbidden to be creative or have new ideas. Commonly people read Fahrenheit 451 and develop conclusions about the symbolism he uses. Ray Bradbury uses several items of symbolism throughout the book beginning with the title. Four hundred and fifty one degrees fahrenheit is the temperature that paper begins to burn and in the novel paper is burning each time a book is burned. That is an example of the more common symbolism in the book that most readers pick up on immediately. Several readers do not go into complete depth and they mainly focus on the common symbolism of the blood, “The Heart and the Salamander”, “The Sieve and the Sand”, “Burning Bright”, the Phoenix, and the mirror. Although these are great examples of symbolism, Bradbury also buried deeper symbolic ideas into this novel. Ray Bradbury’s use of symbolism in Fahrenheit 451 is significant in calling attention to the problems of the government and economies, discovering the problems of unity and conformity, and discussing futurism along with the enhancement of the technology of Bradbury’s current world.
She describes the September morning as “mild, benignant, yet with a keener breath than the summer months.” She then goes on to describe the field outside her window, using word choice that is quite the opposite of words that would be used to describe a depressing story. She depicts the exact opposite of death, and creates a feeling of joy, happiness, and life to the world outside her room. After this, she goes into great detail about the “festivities” of the rooks among the treetops, and how they “soared round the treetops until it looked as if a vast net with thousands of black knots in it had been cast up into the air”. There is so much going on around her that “it was difficult to keep the eyes strictly turned upon the book.” Descriptions like these are no way to describe a seemingly depressing story about a moth, but by using these, joyful descriptions, Woolf connects everything happening outside to a single strand of energy. These images set a lively tone for the world around her, and now allow her to further introduce the moth into the story.
As the movie begins you become well aware of the fact that the people who live in this area are extremely vocal about their opinions and attitudes towards people who are not of their race or social background. You hear words thrown around which insinuate the projection towards each other. In the movie setting the scorching temperatures were symbolic of the heat and passion rising out the hearts of each person being portrayed in this film.
In today's world, technology is constantly changing from a new paperclip to an improvement in hospital machinery. Technology lets people improve the way they live so that they can preserve their own personal energy and focus on the really important factors in life. Some people focus their energy on making new innovations to improve transportation and the health of people that may save lives and some people focus on making new designs of packaging CDS. Technology is significant in everyone's life because it rapidly changes what is in the market. But, some new innovations of technology are ridiculous because they serve no purpose in helping mankind.
Although the pollution continually blankets Coketown with a deadly haze, Mr. Bounderby ignorantly worships the smog as a symbol of his thriving riches. In the same way that the town “lay shrouded in a haze of its own”, Bounderby’s views of the factory operations are distorted by personal interest; the smoke indicates that the factories are functioning and producing materials to be sold and traded for profit (82). As long as money is made, his selfishness blocks out the outstanding truth of the atrocity of the unfair laboring conditions, just as the smoke “appeared impervious to the sun’s rays” (82). The utter contrariety of his pretentious under...
...resence of my parents upstairs, despite the brain scrambling heat of the sauna, I suddenly felt homesick, and realized I yearned to be in my basement. The pitted feeling in my stomach grew stronger as I realized it is not the basement of my childhood that I miss, it is the basement of my fraternity house where Kegs littered the floors like toys and pledges were hazed like the violent was games my youth. I found another cycle came to a close, and I found myself separated from what I had once known. The basement used to be my sanctuary, the place I could dream in. Standing just outside a basement no longer mine while still profusely sweating from the sauna, a crisp late August breeze gently cooled my body. I deeply inhaled the last moments of summer knowing full well that fleeting changes that often accompany seasonal transition were no longer of any concern to me.