The majority of Swedes live in the southern region of the country nearest to the coastline and the valley of lakes. Personal growth and independence are highly valued in Swedish culture; individualist values over collectivist values are urged. A metaphor that represents Swedish culture is the Swedish stuga. The stuga is a summer vacation home found throughout the country. The Swedes consider the stuga their vacation getaway destination. Statistics say that fifty percent of Swedes have access to a
The Swede. He is the utterly ordinary, somewhat disappointing protagonist of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. Like discovering that Santa Claus was really your uncle in a costume from Walmart or that the tooth fairy was simply mom sneaking a dollar under your pillow after you fell asleep, the magic of “the Swede” is an illusion created by the Jews of Weequahic, Newark to restore hope in the future of the Jewish people at the conclusion of World War II. The narrator, Skip Zuckerman, uncovers that
Investigate the Rate of Osmosis in Different Vegetables (Carrot, Potato, Swede, Parsnip and Sweet Potato) In this coursework experiment I plan to find the rate of osmosis in different vegetables (Carrot, Potato, Swede, Parsnip and Sweet Potato). I will measure the mass before and after the experiment to use the results to calculate the rate of osmosis, and to find trends in the vegetables. To ensure the experiment is fair, I will control all the other variables (Temperature, size of chip at 5cm
three men meet Johnnie, son of Scully, and agree to play a game of cards with him. During the game, the Swede declares Johnnie as a cheater; this gives rise to a fistfight between Johnnie and the Swede. The Swede wins the fight but leaves the hotel with a false sense of confidence. He goes to a nearby bar and boasts about his victory and eventually gets himself in a fight with a gambler; and Swede eventually is killed. The central idea behind the action in the story is that a person might play a minor
the Blue Hotel. At this time the Swede feels weak and nervous in the unfamiliar territory and scared of "The West." Scully shows his power over the paranoid Swede by saying, "If anybody has troubled you I will take care of him. This is my house. You are under my roof, and I will not allow any peaceable man to be troubled here."
stereotypical 1890's American West as his setting. The Swede comes to the Blues Hotel with the assumption that he will witness, if not be involved in, robberies and murders. The Swede was already experiencing inner fears about the West and when he was invited to join a friendly card game with Johnnie and the other customers of the Blue Hotel, his fears were heightened. When Scully calmed the Swede's nerves by giving him something to drink, the Swede undergoes a complete transformation and becomes what
He writes, ?The Palace Hotel, then, was always screaming and howling in a way that made the dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska seem only a grey swampish hush.? When Scully, the proprietor of the hotel, greets the Cowboy, the Easterner, and the Swede, the latter is seen as ?shaky and quick-eyed.? He is a suspicious character that acts quite out of place. The first people that the entourage encounters are playing cards. It is Johnnie, who is the son of Scully, and an old farmer with grey and
Even though Reuben and Swede get along prosperously, you can see that they are still siblings. They still fight with each other when they are mad and still fantasize dreams for their family together. Reuben and Swede, no matter what they do to each other, will always remain, not only, brother and sister; but also great friends. There are many times in Peace Like a River that the pair argues, whether it’s about going out in the snow with out the other or how they should break their brother out
travellers come from very different backgrounds -- there is a cowboy, an Easterner, and a Swede -- but they all come to stay together in the same hotel. The Swede immediately thinks everyone is out to get him, he fears he will be killed. Because of this, the hotel owner Scully tries to make him feel at home, and brings him upstairs to have a drink. This does not have the intended effect and instead makes the Swede overconfident. His new attitude does not sit well with any of the others, and during a
Potato Swede Table 6 Table to show the results of the iodine test, Benedict's test and test for non-reducing sugars for potato and swede tissues. Tissue Iodine test for starch Benedict's test for reducing sugars Test for non-reducing sugars Potato Turned black/blue Turned green Turned yellow/pale orange Swede Grey/black Turned orange Turned dark orange Analysis: The aim of the experiment was to find out the water potential of swede and potato
Man and Nature in The Blue Hotel and The Open Boat Stephen Crane uses a massive, ominous stove, sprawled out in a tiny room and burning with "god-like violence," as a principal metaphor to communicate his interpretation of the world. Full of nearly restrained energy, the torrid stove is a symbol of the burning, potentially eruptive earth to which humans "cling" and of which they are a part. As a literary naturalist, Crane interpreted reality from a Darwinian perspective, and saw the earth
left me? Come and fetch me!’ , eerily paralleling the voice of nightmare-Lucy, and thus he is unable to ignore his grief any longer. In American Pastoral the reader begins to criticise the strength of the Swede, his fatal flaw being that he is too caring. An example of this is when Merry asks Swede to kiss her the way he kisses her mother and after an initial refusal, her father kisses her passionately on the mouth. This transgression is highlighted as a crucial factor debated in the Swede’s mind as
American Pastoral written by Philip Roth is a novel that revolves around the character Seymour “Swede” Levov, a prosperous Jewish American business man and a former high school star athlete from New Jersey. During the 1960s the Swede’s pastoral life is thrown into havoc when his daughter Merry, a teenage war protester is the main suspect in the bombing of a post office in which the town’s doctor, an innocent bystander, is killed. Through a variety of literary devices, Roth makes the point that in
mankind having ethical obligations. Crane used this opportunity to then toil with the human mind by instinctive human behavior when faced with life or death situations. Both of Crane’s stories revolve around a group of men, “The Blue Hotel” you see the Swede, the cowboy and a silent little man from the East. In “The Open Boat” you see a cook, a captain, an oiler, and a correspondent. These to two stories are similar in a sense that they both revolve around some type of conflict that ends in death to one
American Pastoral, published in 1997, is a book written by Philip Roth. Later in 2016, it was adapted into a film directed by Ewan McGregor. In general, the plot is centralized around the main characters Swede Levov and Merry Lovov. Both, the book and film, focus on this father-daughter relationship. The similarities are apparent within the setting and historical context. However, there are differences between the two mediums that caused detrimental effects to the overall interpretation of the book
Swedish immigrants immigrated to the United States due to great economic opportunity. Due to lack of available farmland and raising prices of arable land, Swedes immigrated to the United States to take advantage of government policies. The Homestead Act, passed in 1862, gave every adult U.S. citizen 160 acres of land if they had not previously taken up arms against the United States. Many Swedish immigrants
physically. In addition, Swede and Reuben face a quarrel with one another while at their stay with Roxanna. This argument leads to them wrestling one another, and Reuben explains how, "She wiggled away and stood over me, and I was a gasping ruin,” (186).This quote sorrowfully explains how although Reuben Is older, he physically lacks dominance compared to Swede. She ends up overpowering Reuben in their physical brawl. From this, he would sorrow over the fact that Swede had tantalized him by observing
Savagery or Misfortune--You Choose Throughout the timeline of humanity, savagery has brought about the end of many major societies. The Trojan war killed thousands, the Spartans’ savagery led to the destruction of their people. The Spanish Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam; all of these add to the countless examples of societies destroyed by violence. Although certain elements of both Lord of the Flies and Beowulf are different, they both share a common theme which is: savagery causes the
tries to enter. In “The Blue Hotel,” the Swede separates himself from the group both physically and verbally. His aloofness forces the other characters, who have already familiarized themselves with the small hotel in Nebraska, to suspect that he is dangerous. Their suspicions are indeed warranted, as demonstrated during the first card game of High-Five between Johnnie and the farmer. “The cowboy and the Easterner [watch] the game with interest, while the Swede remain[s] near the window, aloof” (39)
Ambiguity in Coover's Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl Ambiguity occurs often in writing, and readers often choose to fill in the blanks with facts, which are not from the text. By filling in spaces in the story, the reader creates a plot, which fits into their understanding. In Coover's "Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl," the plot is ambiguous. Many of these ambiguities are subtle and are easily overlooked, leading the reader to make assumptions about the text. Simple words, phrases,