" Forgiveness undoes your own hatred and fees us from a trouble pass" ( Chirstophere Peterson) Forgiveness is not an easy thing give. Especially, when we are betrayed or insulted, abandoned or exploited, forgiveness seems to be impossible. However, unless we learn how to forgive, we remove a big burden of your shoulder. We will free ourselves from the yoke of hatred and begin to love. In the story " The Bully", thee act that the protagonist ( James ) kisses on the Bully 's forehead proves his forgiveness to a person who always annoys and looks down him. The story shows that, forgive to others not because they deserve our forgiveness but you deserve peace and freedom. The writer uses metaphor and simile in this story. Metaphor is a technique device that shows the comparison between two different objects. Metaphor is used in the story in order to give the readers a picture in their mind that what is being discussed and easier to follow the concept of the story. Morever, metaphor can bring an atractiveness to make the readers are get involved in the story. In " The Bully" when the main character- James moves to a new high school, he is catched the eye of the Bully. When James was eating in the boy cafeteria, the Bully told him: " Does baby like his bottle?". This is a metaphor question because the Bully seems James like a baby. He tres to annoy and look down the protagonist. Using metaphor in this …show more content…
Simile is a figure of speech involving of the comparison of one thing to another thing, used to make the description more vivid and emphatic. These teachers in this story are described through the feeling of the protagonist that: " The teacher were watchful as heathen deites and it was painful to displease them". The purpose to use simile in this quote in order to carve an clearly imagine of the strict and cruel teachers in this story. They are similar as babarians who are always carp in students problems and punish
John McPhee used similes throughout his essay “Under the Snow”. One of his similes was him describing how a researcher put the bear in a doughnut shape. It was to explain to the audience that the bear was wrapped around with room between her legs for the bear cubs to lay when they are in hibernation. He describes the movement of the bears and the bear cubs like clowns coming out of a compact car. The similes help the audience see how the moved and how they were placed after the researcher moved them.
He used literary devices such as metaphors, such as the one seen in paragraph 8, where he likened robbery to a religion, where people regardless of their culture and ethnicity, were capable of committing. In paragraph 10, he used a simile where he likened poetry to an unwanted pregnancy in the marriage between publishers and readers. He utilized personification as he and his coworkers conversed as if all the brand names were actual people in paragraphs 18-21. Simic used all of the above writing techniques to great effect, which helped his piece to make a deeper impression in readers’ minds, and made his piece very
In the story canyons it’s showing the two characters point of views, also the author of the book uses simile and descriptive language to help reader understand these two techniques. The book canyons show what a simile is by comparing two things to each other and descriptive language is describing something. The author of the book is showing these two techniques to help the readers understand what is happening during the story and the events that are
—Forgiveness is a suite of prosocial motivational changes that happened after a person has incurred a transgression (McCullogh). McCullogh also asserts the forgiveness process includes empathy for the transgressor, generous attributions and appraisals regarding the transgression and transgressor, and rumination abalout the transgression where agreeableness takes a serious place in the person who needs to forgive someone. Andre was impressed by his father’s work, the emotion developed in Andre’s mind have given up revenge and resentment thought to his father. When Andre’s father had an accident that made his legs crushed and had to sit on a wheelchair for the rest of his life; Andre immediately felt how vulnerable people are. He cherished the relationship with his father, in fact after the accident Andre started to cherish everyone besides him. The accident was a trigger to a prosocial motivational change to Andre and his father’s relationship. “But deliver us from evil. Amen” (Dubus, 387). Andre prayed on his father’s funeral. Forgiveness needs something to trigger; Andre understand pop’s condition and forgave him. Andre knew that his father has done the best he could, and he was happy and grateful that he had a father. Moreover, Andre’s life was full of sports, the healing process was impacted by
Similes use direct words e.g. like in comparison. Simile is seen in the description of phoenix Jacksons face: "Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead. “Her cane is described by the narrator as "limber as a buggy whip." Phoenix also while walking across the log looks "like a festival figure in some parade." The threes she encounters also look "like black men with one arm." Another simile touches on the sense: "she gave off perfume like the red roses in the summer. “A Worn Path" is told from a third−person limited point of view. This allows the reader to empathize with Phoenix, because her thoughts and actions are shown. Yet, in third−person, the reader is allowed to view Phoenix from a distance, and thereby see her as others to see her. This is individual versus Nature and Individual versus self-conflict because of the obstacles she faced with the bridge for example. She also faced conflict with her age and with her health to be traveling alone so far
LeGuin, Ursula K. “Forgiveness Day.” Four Ways to Forgiveness. New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1995. Pp. 47-124.
With this comparison he creates an extended metaphor, throughout the story, comparing the different shapes and forms in the book. The line and square represent a child, who thinks that he everything they can. However, the square is the taught by a teacher the things that he doesn’t understand. However, he also represents the human trait of curiosity, through the square’s questioning of more dimensions, “Is this not a Geometrical Progression?”(Flatland). However, metaphor was not the only way he conveyed an idea.
Forgiveness and justice are very similar than we believe them to be. We believe that justice is
Simile is the comparison of one thing with another using “like” or “as” and is used to let readers get a better description of things. The poet uses simile to emphasize how strongly and committed the boy is to hold on tight to his father and not let go, the speaker states “But I hung on like death” (3) No matter how miserable and disgusted the son is by his father’s actions, he does not let go, which plays a major part in the theme in the poem, showing respect and admiration towards his father, regardless of the horrible time he is
Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feeling and attitude regarding an offense; let’s go of negative emotions such as vengefulness, with an increased ability to wish the offender. Walter (1984) stated that forgiveness is a voluntary process that usually requires courage and multiple acts of the will to complete. In Walters' view, the person who has been hurt has two alternatives: to be destroyed by resentment which leads to death, or to forgive which leads to healing and life. Sonja Lyubomirsky calls forgiveness is a natural resolution of the grief process, which is the necessary acknowledgment of pain and loss. It is a powerful choice that can lead to greater well being and better relationships.
I believe author Rosemary Nixon summarized this passage best when she said, “ In theory we can say God can forgive, but in practice we sometimes
T.C Boyle’s character Kyra was at rough spot in her life in The Tortilla Curtain, the author uses a simile to better interpret the situation she is in and by doing so he creates a picture rather than just having black and white text. To further understand this idea the figurative language has to be understood as to what and how it relates to the text. For this specific example he uses a simile, which is comparing two unlike things using like or as. “It was a shock, she looked awful, haggard, Frowsy, desperate, like some stressed-out Tupperware hostess or something” (74). Boyle is making it clear that Kyra is under a lot of stress up to the point that it is affecting her personal appearance. He describes her nose as being bright red which seems to “ Pull her whole face in on itself like some freaky vortex, The Amazing Lady with the Shrinking Face”(74).
Forgivenessis a way of smoothing social relationships and maintaining one’s welfare. Personality types have a strong relationship with the degree of forgiveness. It is expected that a person who has this particular personality type will also have his own level of forgiveness depending on how a person thinks and how to deal
This paper deals with the question, of whether the cognitive content of metaphors can be put to use in philosophy, and, if so, what cognitive or methodological place metaphors have within philosophical discourse. Three philosophical attitudes toward metaphors can be distinguished: First, the various arguments for rejection of metaphors in philosophy. Second, the unrestricted affirmation of metaphors, taking "absolute metaphor" as the replacement of metaphysics. The third position can be described as the restricted affirmation of metaphors.
“Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering, remembering and not using your right to hit back. It’s a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you don’t want to repeat what happened” The ideas that lie behind Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s quote are his faith in God and the goodness of humanity. In No Future without Forgiveness the reader delves deeper into the spiritual mind of his thoughts on the forgiveness process in a personal and communal manner.