In the second half of the novella, How I became a Nun, César Aira the character as well as the narrator of the story provides the reader with an extraordinary ending that was not anticipated. However, before the ending unfolds, César Aira is able to demonstrate a theme of repetition that serves to foreshadow her own demise. This can be depicted as Aira states, “I don’t know if this is something that my readers have noticed, but time is always double: one kind of time always conveys another, as its supplement (79). In the beginning of the novella, Aira is given a strawberry ice cream cone that had been poisoned with cyanide. As a result, her father, blinded by rage, murders the ice cream vendor while Aira is hospitalized with little chance of survival, yet she miraculously survives. …show more content…
This is because the ice-cream vendor’s wife is able murder her by using ice cream to asphyxiate her. Thus, the frozen dessert that was once responsible for her hospitalization and was the driving force behind her father’s imprisonment as well as the death of the ice cream vendor has reappeared to claim her life. In addition, history can be seen as repeating itself as the father took revenge for not apologizing for selling a poisonous ice cream cone, while the ice cream vendor’s wife murdered Aira as a form of revenge for being the son of the man that killed her husband. Nevertheless, the theme of repetition appears again as Aira describes her friend Arturito, “He looked like a dwarf” (91). The character of the dwarf first appeared in the first half of the novella while Aira was receiving treatment in the hospital. Thus, this reference, combined with Aira’s description of “the pink of the sky at sunset” can be interpreted as time repeating itself
Maechi Wabi’s journey illustrates the relationship of vipassana meditation because of the suffering that she goes through to become a nun. Through her journey to become a nun, she learns that to become a nun in Bangkok you need to have money. Without much of money, she goes through difficulties to difficulties to find a place where she can stay, practices meditation and learn Buddhism. Vipassana meditation means “to see clearly” (43 Brown). While Maechi Wabi practices vipassana meditation, she learns a lot about the nun and her inner self. Wabi starts to understand the idea of rebirth and suffering (the Buddhist truth) as she continues practicing meditation. The more she meditates, the more she gained an understanding of suffering, karmic and notices that everyone, including herself, is suffering because of the karmic that they have had builds in their past
The timeline carries on chronologically, the intense imagery exaggerated to allow the poem to mimic childlike mannerisms. This, subjectively, lets the reader experience the adventure through the young speaker’s eyes. The personification of “sunset”, (5) “shutters”, (8) “shadows”, (19) and “lamplights” (10) makes the world appear alive and allows nothing to be a passing detail, very akin to a child’s imagination. The sunset, alive as it may seem, ordinarily depicts a euphemism for death, similar to the image of the “shutters closing like the eyelids”
... in the sky, described as a bright color change to a “sad universal tint of dingy purple” (216).
In literature, a dynamic character changes significantly as a result of events, conflicts, or other forces. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Mary Warren, the young servant of the Proctor’s is a dynamic character. Throughout the play, Mary’s personality takes a turn for the better. At the beginning of the play, Mary is shy, timid girl who hides in the shadows of Abigail Williams and lets people walk all over her. As the play develops, Mary realizes that what Abigail is doing isn’t right and rebels against Abby. Instead of following Abby, she follows in the footsteps of John Proctor to bring justice to the girl’s accusing innocent people of witchcraft.
A keen perception of reality is an integral component in one’s life as it dictates the reaction of an individual in the most distressing times. In Patricia McCormick’s Never Fall Down, an accurate perception of reality stems from the loss of innocence. The author uses text, setting, character and conflict to vividly illustrate that loss of innocence breeds emotional strength.
Using Erikson’s theory of Identity vs Role Confusion with Mary Ann’s situation, one can see how when she was a teenager she went through the stage of role confusion. According to Erikson (1993) confusion comes from an adolescent 's inability to settle on a future role for themselves; “to keep themselves together mentally the teenager will emerge themselves within a specific group or crowd that is popular amongst their peers” (p. 262). When Mary Ann began to date Kurt during her sophomore year of high school, she went from being part of this mixed group of individuals who were not all white, not all brown, not all male or female, not a bunch of brainiacs, they were an enigma amongst the students at Flatwater High. Kurt was the handsome, buff,
“It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” p.40-41
“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night-sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.” This elaborate simile creates a mental image of the natural beauty of the young princess, Irene, by comparing her eyes to the night sky. The simile also parallels the depth of Irene’s soul to the dark, endless night sky.
The connotation of sugar as an indulgence means Tita's indulging herself in her own misery. The use of imagery conveys that a strong wav of despair and self pity washed upon Tita. It was so strong that se could not fitht against it, but all she could do was oblige. The use o personification demonstrates that the misery took control of her mind and body, therefore causing her to be visually blinded. Tita was saddened by the idea of Rosaura and Pedro together and did not have any interest in helping with the wedding preparation for a could've been her own if not for family traditions. Tita also describes how, the white color was "dragging along those snow white images from her childhood". The white brought back memories from Tita's childhood. Tita reminisced on the much simpler times of her life where she wasn't fighting for a man's affection with her sister. The use of personification with the white color dragging along the images convey how her former aspirations would no longer come true. Tita could no longer give any more thought to those hopeless dreams. The use of diction and imagery with "snow white images" enforces how lifeless her childhood dreams were. The dream of her getting married in a church dressed in white, to the man she loved has vanished at the hands of family
A woman has always been told to act like a lady, to be proper, and to show manners. The history of women is being told through the books, actions, and through history. The role a woman is usually portrayed as pure and very welcoming. Will Cather created this character of Marian Forrester in her book “A Lost Lady” as a very high end woman that leaves an impression on anyone that meets Mrs. Forrester. Since in the pioneer day’s women where divided into to social classes like the upper division called the aristocrats, and then there was the lower division woman that did all the labor work. A lady is meant to be a wife and stand behind her husband and not question their role that a wife plays. The gender role played a key factor throughout the development of the identity of Mrs. Forrester. The way Mrs. Forrester
654, line 1&2). The sunlight motion suggesting a “balance of upward and downward, rising and falling” (Harris, J. 2004), resplendent in nature and indirectly influences the reader spiritually and emotionally. Jane Kenyon’s Let Evening Come (1990), uses sunlight to project an image of a slow moving late afternoon sun, which will soon slip into the darkness of night. The light through the “chinks in the barn” (Kenyon, 1990, pg. 654, line 2), gives me the sense of an aging body and soul fading into the darkness.
...an it first appears, for when looking at the stories closely, the once drastic changes suddenly don’t seem so drastic anymore. This idea that changes made in our own lives may not end up being much different from the past at all is a common universal experience. While in our own lives we may seem to be experiencing things that are entirely new, we are really just going on the same path as before. The saying “history repeats itself” isn’t just an expressions, but a commonly occurring principle, even in fairy tales.
...er swell of those familiar tones, heard daily in the sunshine, at Salem village, but never, until now from a cloud of night.? (202) The use of light and dark imagery in this particular sentence helps you understand Goodman Brown?s despair. He has realized the truth that the people he sees in the daylight hours pretending to be pure and good are the total opposite in the dark.
Summary and Analysis of The Nun's Priest's Tale (The Canterbury Tales) Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale: The Knight interrupts the Monk's Tale, for as a man who has reached a certain estate, he does not like to hear tales of a man's fall from grace. He would rather hear of men who rise in esteem and status. The Host refuses to allow the Monk to continue, instead telling the Nun's Priest to tell his tale. The Nun's Priest's Tale: The Nun's Priest tells a tale of an old woman who had a small farm in which she kept animals, including a rooster named Chanticleer who was peerless in his crowing. Chanticleer had seven hens as his companions, the most honored of which was Pertelote.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss a service that I got to attend that was different from my own religious tradition. I decided to go with my chosen topic because to be honest I had never experienced or thought to experience a different type of church service other than the one I grew up in. I grew up in a Christian home and attended a non-denominational Christian church on a regular basis. I just never felt the need to experience something that was different. So I decided to attend a mass at a Catholic church. I had been to weddings in a Catholic church and even funerals with a Catholic involvement but not an actual mass.