The actual turning point in The Sparrow was when the Utra-Light crashed. However, it was of little interest. The importance of the novel lied within the gardens that were built. The garden the Jesuit mission planted served as the catalyst to the future demise of the group, and especially Emilio. Emilio not only had his body destroyed, but also his soul. The gardens caused a slaughter, an imprisonment, an eventual destruction of the survivor's hands, another death, a rape, and a long period of despair for the only survivor of the overall mission.
The crashing of the Utra-Light by Sofia and Marc (290) was simply the turning point because it was the beginning of the many unfortunate events that happened to the group. However, it was not the cause of the destruction of the group. After the crash, Sofia and Marc flew the lander back to camp; it then did not have enough gas to get the crew back to the asteroid. The group then decided they might have to stay on Rakhat for the rest of their lives. Soon thereafter they built the garden. However, they already wanted to grow some sort of constant food source before the Utra-Light ever crashed (194-5). Also, the group was hardly saddened when they realized the effect of the lander being out of gas (298). Moreover, Emilio was one of the happiest to learn he would be staying on Rakhat. The news had no long-term or short-term effect on Emilio's happiness, soul, or body.
There was only so much food the group could bring with them on the lander. It was inevitable that they would eventually run out, especially when they found out they would probably be stuck on Rakhat. They tried eating the food on Rakhat, but they wanted to grow their own too. They wanted to grow the garden ...
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...reshadowing had to do with an object in a garden, the author wanted the reader to realize that the garden was in fact the original cause of despair.
The importance of this novel lied in the fact that the gardens equaled the ruining of the Jesuit group, especially Emilio's body and soul. The author's point was that a man who left earth as a whole man, envied and looked up to by many, came back with his life in an egregious state. The worst part about it was that next to no one gave him a real chance to explain himself. Instead, he felt as if everyone was after him, not feeling as if he had any support at all. It took one main decision, a reasonable, and almost necessary decision, to led to Emilio's demise. The point was that anyone, anyone at all, no matter how important, smart, good-looking, or popular, could have his or her body and soul destroyed at anytime.
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
“A Song in the Front Yard”, by Gwendolyn Brooks, illustrates the desire people develop to experience new things and live life according to their own rules. In the first stanza, Brooks uses diction of propriety and unfamiliarity to emphasize the author’s desire to change her life. In the first line, the author establishes that she is only familiar with one way of life since she has “stayed in the front yard all [her] life.” The author “stayed” in the front yard suggesting that she was able to leave the yard and experience new things, but she just was not ready. She was raised in the “front yard,” highlighting the idea that the “front” is the proper way for her to live her life. In the second line, the author realizes there is much more to experience in life and she “[wants] a peek at the back.” At this point in her life, she is not ready to abandon the only life she knows, but she wants to look at the other side of things and all of the different experiences she can have. In the third line, the back yard is described as being, “rough and untended and hungry weed grows,” again representing how Brooks is only used to one place. In the front yard, everything is neat, properly tended, and no weeds grow. After seeing this, she realizes that life is not always as perfect as she was raised to believe, so she wants a taste of something new. In the fourth line, the author says, “a girl gets sick of a rose,” showing how Brooks has had enough of the front yard life and needs to experience new things. The “rose” is used to represent life in the front yard. A “rose” is usually associated with perfection and beauty, reflecting the author’s life in the “front yard.”
stuck through it. At the very beginning they could have gave up but they didn?t. They had a plan
At other times, nature can be a source of solace for those who have suffered. Following the death of Gladys and Kate, Grainier looks to the horizon to seek comfort from his crushing loss. “All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dream-like business he’d ever witnessed waking – the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds...
Famine was not uncommon in this New Land. Being that there were no grocery stores to go to, colonists had to hunt for their own food. If there was no food, the colonists did not eat. To add on, seasons also played a major role in the disappearance of the Lost Colony. Seasons determine when to hunt, when to fish, when to plant, when to plow, and when to harvest. If there happens to be a dry season, resources are expended rapidly. A dry season means that planting and harvesting crops were not an option. This also means that whatever there is to salvage gets used very quickly because there is such a high demand for it. In addition, the foods or items that are not widely consumed become consumed at a higher rate. Because people are eating items that probably should not be consumed, the death rate expands and people become upset. Because people that are hungry tend to be angry, there is a frantic search for land that will be more
In the story of The Island of “Kora”, the island had been devastated by a violent earthquake that had been triggered by a volcano eruption four years earlier. The island which had prior to the disaster been about twenty square miles in size and been reduced to less than a fourth that size to about four square miles. The island prior to the earthquakes had previously been able to support comfortably 850 to 900 people. It was a peaceful island where the inhabitants got along well. Because of the disasters the lives of the inhabitants had been changed forever.
...ntion of memories sweeping past, making it seem that the grass is bent by the memories like it is from wind. The grass here is a metaphor for the people, this is clear in the last line, “then learns to again to stand.” No matter what happens it always gets back up.
The valley is described as a “desolate” place where “ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills into grotesque gardens”. (21) Ashes that dominate the area take the shape of natural greenery. The term “grotesque gardens” uses alliteration, with juxtaposition; to highlight the odd pairing of ashes and greenery. Ashes are associated with death while ridges and “gardens” represent the potential to flourish and grow in the promise and ideal of equality as in “the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams.” (143) The trees that once stood here were able to speak to man’s dreams, which allude to America, the land able to speak to man’s dreams and capacity for wonder. All this is replaced by grey ash that suffocates the inhabitants, restricting them to their social class. This presents a bleak image of hopelessness that surrounds the valley.
The entire story was a symbol of Needy’s life. The setting in the story was symbolic to the way Needy was feeling. Needy’s life was diminishing right before his eyes, and he did not realize it. The different changes in the story represented how much Needy’s life had gradually changed over time. By reading the story the reader can tell that Needy was in a state of denial.
The most prominent image where desolation is concerned is a wasteland: a barren, rocky landscape lacking any life or water. The absence of water is mentioned over and over to suggest no life can ever exist in this desert, as water is a life-providing substance. Without it, death prevails. The dry, rocky land is desolate. Its waterless features are incapable of supporting life. the journey through this land is a harsh one: it is filled with images of other lives which are just as desolate and infertile as the land itself. One woman aborts an illegitimate child, another ignores her husbands presence in bed. Life is disregarded as worthless in both instances, as well as in th...
Instructor’s comment: This student worked hard to forge a straightforward journalistic style that was supple enough to accommodate moments of poetic perception. This essay is a beautiful piece. Written with hard-won simplicity, it’s alive with images, and brimming with information about the possibilities of front-yard gardening.
As with many of his poems, Andrew Marvell wrote The Garden to put forward his point of view and then argue it logically. In The Definition of Love, for example, he writes about unrequited passions, insisting that Fate itself acts against true love; in The Garden he takes a similarly pessimistic viewpoint and takes it to its misanthropic limits, attempting to argue that being at one with nature and away from other people is the best way to live.
In the end the novel “The Secret Garden” is a children’s book with lots of magic and interesting ideas. The whole story is moving around the transformation of characters and garden. Burnett very intelligently use different symbols and magic to support the transformation of the story. It’s a combination of events with the help of different characters that bring this story to its conclusion. But it all starts with Mary’s arrival to the manor and her curiosity about the secret garden. Mary was used to being served and being alone, neglected by her parents she becomes bitter
...that suspends the boundaries of man and nature, the way in which she structures the last image to be one of hostility indicates the unsustainable nature of the garden.
The writer bases his work on these elements to create intense emotions of romance. William Blake uses the concept of the exotic in “The Garden of Love” through symbolism. In the poem, the writer describes a garden he used to love and play in when he was a child, but now its beauty has been destroyed by a chapel established there. "I went to the Garden of Love….and I saw it was filled with graves, And tombstones where flowers should be" (2). The writer compares life and death using flowers and graves, the garden, as well as a chapel. Whereas we expect a church and priests to represent life, in this case, they show restriction and a form of