"The Forest Man of India" is a television commercial launched by Prudential Investment Managers, a British investment management firm. The company was founded in London in 1848 to provide loans and life assurances to working people. Today Prudential has more than 5 million of customers and it focuses mainly on pensions, investments and savings. The commercial is setted in Assam, near the banks of the Brahmaputra River. It tells the inspiring story of Jadav Payeng, also named "the Forest Man of India". He grew up in an indigent family on Majuili island. When he was a child his entire village had been washed away by the river. At that very moment he decided that he wanted to do something to save his land. He began planting bamboos on one of his island's banks. For nearly four decades, Jadav kept on his work …show more content…
His lined face and his calloused hands are testament to a life of hard work on the land. The voiceover acquires a note of hope and resoluteness: "This is why he plants". This short sentence marks the beginning of a sequence of positive images, in complete opposition to the images of devastation provoqued by the river. The consequent shots are oriented to the protagonist, who travels across the river to implant tiny plants in the bleak and barren landscape. Day after day, the man sows and takes care of the seedlings he plants. "Some say 'what can a man do against the mighty river?'" continues the voice in a rethorical tone. It is clear that the undefined "some" are considered pessimist and too focused upon failure, rather than success. They qualify the river as "mighty", hence nothing can oppose it, expecially not "a man". "Well...", says the voice in an informal tone, "if he plants every day for 38 years, he can do quite a lot", concludes proudly. Here the euphemistic wording is adopted in order to remark the resounding success of "a man" who choosed to challenge the "mighty
...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.
Analysis: This setting shows in detail a location which is directly tied to the author. He remembers the tree in such detail because this was the place were the main conflict in his life took place.
...r the Pathos, Dr. Bowron employs a persuasive tone in his narration that effectively sways the audience to his side of argument. The tone and use of metaphors in the article livens the audience by ensuring they experience vivid imaginations. The” winter” and the “green” metaphors enable the audience to connect plant life to the human cycle. The subject matter appeals to the greater audience values such as human dignity. Craig Bowron effectively faults humanity for not embracing life and death with dignity as it was in the past. He advocates for a natural way of life rather than one based on a “faced of choice” between natural death and artificially prolonged life.
Ram’s commercial about why God made a farmer first aired on super bowl Sunday 2013. The commercial started off by looking over a field and the narrator starts by says “and on the eighth day god looked down on his planned paradise and said ‘I need a caretaker’ so God made a farmer”. The commercial carries on from there showing only pictures of farm land, animals, farm equipment, farmers and families. The farmers are of all colors, ages, and sexes. While the pictures are rolling the narrator is still talking in the back ground, explaining all the reasons God created a farmer. He needed someone, “willing to sit up all night with a newborn baby colt, watch it die, dry his eyes and say ‘maybe next year’… will finish a 40 hour week by noon Tuesday and then paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours… somebody who’d bale a family together… sign and reply with smiling eyes when his son say that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does”. Then at the end shows the Ram’s truck logo and also the FFA ...
The poem can be very touching to those who understand its true meaning. Dana Gioia was able to take this poem that was about a death of a young boy and turn it into something beautiful allowing him to live forever. This story is not only about the mourning of a lost soul, but about the beauty of life itself. Dana also allowed to reader to understand the compassion she had for the speaker. Without verbally saying it she used symbolic images to interpret the hurt and pain the man experienced from the loss of this unborn child. Instead of the common Sicily tradition for planting a tree for the first born child, the speaker does what he feels will honor his son. The sequoia is planted to compensate for the time he has lost and to outlive the child’s family. T
The second struggle in this short story is man vs. nature. Most of the elements of nature and environment are against Andy, primarily the rain. It both prevents passerby from lending him a hand (“She [the old woman] did not hear Andy grunt...the rain was beating a steady relentless tattoo on the cans.”), and makes his physical situation even more uncomfortable (“With the rain beginning to chill him...”). Also, t...
“ But something else less easy to conquer stands in the ways of his dreams for himself”.
A very profound statement in the document was when he stated, “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem”,
The character is proud of himself. Showing he wants to rejoin civilization. Overall this passage shows how he wants freedom and independence but is unwilling to let people too close. The wilderness is where he can be
...cultivating the garden lets the group of characters keep away from the unfair world in which pessimism is present, while cause and effect are easily measurable in the garden.
The first images of the garden are seen through the exaggerated imagination of a young child. “” are as “ as flowers on Mars,” and cockscombs “ the deep red fringe of theater curtains.” Fr...
Tone: Not ashamed of what he does, he is proud that he can survive, that he can get a lot of good things, all for free. In a paradoxical ending he pities the people who live in homes and can buy anything, but can’t truly find what they want, and be
Hughes emphasizes his message consistently throughout this poem, weaving in the most important line in the middle and end of the poem. He is representing his people. African Americans have waited and been abused by society, and this deepened and weathered their souls over time, just as a river would become deepened and weathered. Hughes’ soul, the collective soul of African Americans, has become “deep like the rivers” (5). This simile speaks that the rivers are part of the body, and contribute to this immortality that Hughes is so desperate to achieve for his people. Rivers are the earthly symbols of eternity: deep, constant, mystifying.
image the advertisers have included, there is also a humorous statement regarding the cost of the
In “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, the river stands as a symbol of endlessness, geographical awareness, and the epitome of the human soul. Hughes uses the literary elements of repetition and simile to paint the river as a symbol of timelessness. This is evident in the first two lines of the poem. Hughes introduces this timeless symbol, stating, “I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins” (Hughes 1-2). These opening lines of the poem identifies that the rivers Hughes is speaking about are older than the existence of human life. This indicates the rivers’ qualities of knowledge, permanence, and the ability to endure all. Humans associate “age” with these traits and the longevity of a river makes it a force to be reckoned with. The use of a simile in the line of the poem is to prompt the audience that this is truly a contrast between that ancient wisdom, strength, and determination of the river and the same qualities that characterize a human being. The imagery portrayed in the poem of blood flowing through human veins like a river flows ...