In Immortal by Gillian Shields, Evie is thrust into an unusual world when her grandmother gets sick, her dad gets employed in the army. She is sent to a remote, all girls boarding school called Wyldcliffe. On her way, she bumps into a mysterious boy named Sebastian. Everyone at Wyldcliffe seems to despise her, so to escape from her life at the school, Evie has regular meetings with Sebastian, but he seems to be hiding something from his past. Evie has a necklace that has power stored inside of it that her grandmother gave her, which leads Evie to discover her own power. Gillian Shields presents characterization and figurative language in Evie’s relationship with the other girls, how Evie sees her untried environment, and how she has an impact …show more content…
on Sebastian. Shields uses figurative language to display how Evie sees Wyldcliffe; Evie sees her school as dim and boring.
The reader can tell how Evie feels because she describes the moors with something dull. She is on her way to physical education and is describing the day and is telling the reader what her surroundings look like. She reveals that she is not fond of her environment when she describes the moors, “In the distance, the moors lay like a drab blanket on the horizon” (p. 75-76). This shows not only what the moors look like, but also how Evie feels about them. In this case, the author used figurative language to show how Evie feels about Wyldcliffe, and this is important because her perception to her school will affect her actions.
Figurative language is also used to show how Evie makes an impact on Sebastian. Evie is having a secret meeting with Sebastian, who is hoping for Evie to visit him once more. He is lonely and when Evie agrees, he is happy. The author uses figurative language to show this, “His pale face flooded with a smile as joyful as sunshine” (p. 105). Figurative language is important to the plot because Sebastian falls in love with Evie because of her actions. Evie meets him every day so that Sebastian won’t be lonely, and they fall in
love. The author uses characterization in order to describe Evie and her feelings toward the other girls. Evie is stubborn and wants the others to think that she is strong, so she resolves to make sure that no one sees her cry. She is tired of people giving her pity because her mom had died. She tells the reader this when she makes a decision to never cry at Wyldcliffe. The author writes, “I was strong, as strong as the deep green ocean. No one at Wyldcliffe would ever see me cry” (p. 4). Later in the book, she almost cries, then she remembers her choice and stays strong. Using elements such as characterization and figurative language, Shields displays how nothing can truly be immortal. Showing Evie’s relationship with the other girls, how Evie sees her unusual environment, and how she has an impact on Sebastian, Shields demonstrates how a first love never dies in this fantasy romance. The novel Immortal earns two out of three amulets. The amulets represent the power and influence Evie has over the other characters and how she helps them discover who they are.
The author of Red Umbrella and the author of A Band-Aid For 800 Children both use figurative language, such as in Red Umbrella the use a hyperbole ‘’My head spun. Leave Cuba? Tomorrow?’’ this shows that Lucy is confused or overwhelmed about having to leave her parents. As well in A Band-Aid For 800 Children the author used a metaphor ‘’Every child is also a job” to show that Sandigo has a task that that she
In “Queens, 1963”, the speaker narrates to her audience her observations that she has collected from living in her neighborhood located in Queens, New York in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The narrator is a thirteen-year-old female immigrant who moved from the Dominican Republic to America with her family. As she reflects on her past year of living in America, she reveals a superb understanding of the reasons why the people in her neighborhood act the way they do towards other neighbors. In “Queens, 1963” by Julia Alvarez, the poet utilizes diction, figurative language, and irony to effectively display to the readers that segregation is a strong part of the American melting pot.
its place. Without the figurative language, the story would be much more simplistic, as it
Everyone has once been someone that they aren’t necessarily ashamed of, but something they aren’t anymore. When you’re in school, everyone is different; between the popular kids, the jocks, the cheerleader, the dorks, the Goths, and all the other “types” of people. In “Her Kind,” Anne Sexton shows that she has been a lot of different women, and she is not them now. In this paper we will be diving into the meanings behind the displaced “I,” the tone and reparation, and who Anne Sexton really is and how that affects what she is trying to let people see through this poem.
Some examples of metaphor within the piece are when it says “your laughter’s so melodic it’s a song” and “your creativity’s a compass that leads you to what you love”. An example of evocative language in the piece is “you don’t need any miracle cream to keep your passions smooth, hair free or diet pills to slim your kindness down.” These metaphors and instances of evocative language help emphasise the message that it doesn’t matter what you look like, the most important thing you can love about yourself is ____. Metaphors, evocative language, and repetition are also used to describe the expectations laid upon women by society. One particular phrase that uses both metaphor and evocative language “because the only place we'll ever truly feel safe is curled up inside skin we've been taught to hate by a society that shuns our awful confidence and feeds us our flaws”. Other examples of evocative language include “a reminder that the mirror is meant to be a curse so I confine her in my mind, but when he or she shouts ‘let me out!’ we're allowed to listen.” and “Don't you shatter the illusion you could ever be anything beyond paper fine flesh and flashy teeth and fingernails.” One instance of repetition includes “echoic accusations of not good enough, never good enough”. Another phrase that uses both evocative language and repetition
. The reader sees an extraordinary inwardness in Emily Bronte’s book Wuthering Heights. Emily has a gloomy and isolated childhood. . Says Charlotte Bronte, “ my sister’s disposition was not naturally gregarious; circumstances favored and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church, or to take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home.”(Everit,24) That inwardness, that remarkable sense of the privacy of human experience, is clearly the essential vision of Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte saw the principal human conflict as one between the individual and the dark, questioning universe, a universe symbolized, in her novel, both by man’s threatening and hardly-to-be-controlled inner nature, and by nature in its more impersonal sense, the wild lonesome mystery of the moors. The love of Heathcliff and Catherine, in its purest form, expresses itself absolutely in its own terms. These terms may seem to a typical mind, violent, and even disgusting. But having been generated by that particular love, they are the proper expressions of it. The passionately private relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine makes no reference to any social convention or situation. Only when Cathy begins to be attracted to the well-mannered ways of Thrushcross Grange, she is led, through them, to abandon her true nature.
This essay has recognised the way in which Bronte's romantic Gothic novel Jane Eyre portrays the supernatural, paranormal happenings and imagery throughout the story. It is important to recognise that her portrayal of Jane as a passionate woman with a strength of feeling which matched that of a man would have been seen as shocking and abnormal to Victorian sensitivity. Whilst Charles Dickens was able to paint a picture of blank facades which hid unsuspecting depths within, it would have been a revelation to Victorian readers to delve into the female psyche and its supernatural representations. (Branflinger and Thesing, 309) Thus Bronte created a masterpiece which has stood the test of time being relevant to the nature and supernatural of the modern world.
ane Eyre is a story filled with many forms of abuse and bad customs. In this essay I will bring you close to these. I will point out tyrants and abusers that Jane faces throughout her life. Jane Eyre Is also filled with hypocrisy and I will expose that. The suffering that Jane endures will be discussed. The book Jane Eyre starts out very powerful. Our first meeting of Jane is at Gateshead. Jane is an orphan who is being taken care of by Mrs. Reed her aunt by marriage. There is no love for Jane here; not only that the only thing here for Jane is abuse. “Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned?”(Pg.11) Keep in mind that this girl is only 10 years old. She is all alone. She is on her own. “I was a discord in Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there”(Pg.12) Within the First ten pages we learn of the harshest abuse Jane has to face in the book. The infamous “Red Room.” Jane is sent to the “Red Room” after a dispute with John. John is Mrs. Reeds favorite, but he is a little tyrant. The foul part is that Jane was injured by him and she got punished. The reason the “Red Room” seems scary is that it is the room Mr. Reed passed away in. “ And I thought Mr. Reed’s spirt, harassed by the wrongs of his sister’s child, might quit its abode.” So Jane feels that his spirit is present and her harassment of him might keep him from showing himself.” As Jane sits in the “Red Room” a shadow of some kind begins to move about the wall like a dancer. Jane starts to worry to the point that her mind becomes overwhelmed and she passes out. When she wakes up, she begs Bessie and Miss Abbot the help to let her out. They run to Mrs. Reed to tell her of Jane’s high fever. As the sunsets a new found factor of worry is thrown at Jane. It becomes evident that she may not make it through the night. Mr. Lloyd the doctor arrives to tend to Jane, and he recommends that Jane attend a school called Lowwood. Jane makes it through the night but her abuse and torments have just begun. She will soon face a monster and a tyrant far worse than that of young John known as Mr.
The author establishes this tone through her actions, “...Myop as she skipped lightly..” (Walker para1). When Myop is just starting out her day adventuring around her family’s sharecropper cabin, she is light and prancy. Differing from the end, when Myop is nearing the unknown of the woods, the author starts describing her surroundings as, “...seemed gloomy in the little cove” (Walker para5). This relates to the historical background of this story, because when the girl steps into this man, it is a critical time for her when she realizes all of her race’s history that she was so blind to up until that moment in time.
Here, Cliff employs it to convey closeness and distance, even taking it to the extreme of alienation. There is a significant attempt to rid the novel of the euro-centric overtones present in other texts. Moreover, she does this in creative and interesting ways, utilizing the juxtaposition between the formal English narration of Clare, and the Patois dialect that both Clare and the reader encounter throughout the text. At first, portraying this as ‘other’, however later in the novel the shift becomes that the English narration is the other, the Patois serving as the base of connection for Clare. However, the text never allows the reader to forget constant tension between the narration and the dialogue and it serves to highlight the alienation and distance that Clare feels throughout the
Sylvia Plath uses a diverse array of stylistic devices in "Lady Lazarus," among them allusion,
When Emily Bronte strolls across the vast moor land, a long shot is used to introduce the scene. It shows the loneliness, coldness and the isolation of the moor land. Dark, ominous clouds fill the sky, emphasising the mystery and suspense. The dullness of the moor land implies not that not much lives close by and it is quite a creepy place to be. In the beginning, the music is quite deep. When the castle comes into shot, the violins are added in this creates the impression that the atmosphere is eerie and bleak. However, they also suggest that Emily Bronte and where she is, is of some importance. When she makes her way across the dreary moor land, she is wearing a black hooded cloak so her face is not visible and it is hidden away, this increases the effectiveness by building up the tension.
First, Wuthering Heights is a contribution to the theme of the novel because it sets the mood for the scenes taken place inside the house. The house is first introduced to the reader during a storm. The house stands alone and the land around it is described as dreary and foreboding, which creates a mood of isolation. “On the bleak Yorkshire moors” describes the Yorkshire moors physical appearance. The estate has little vegetation and is more weathered, which moors are, as they are jutting, bare rocks towards the ocean. Wuthering Heights is an old stone house with gothic architecture and bleak interior. The people that live in Wuthering Heights are bitter and act violent. The characters of the story act wild when they are at Wuthering Heights, compared to other places in the novel. The setting of the house enforces the actions of the Earnshaws’, and Heathcliff. The name of the estate even sets a theme of gloom in the novel. Lockwood says Wuthering is, “a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (12).
The book Every Last Word written by Tamara Ireland Stone is about a 16 year old girl, named Samantha McAllister. In the story Sam is part of the “crazy eights” a popular group of girls but sometimes they drive her well crazy. However, Sam is not like them she has purely obsessive OCD which tries to take over her thoughts. She can never stop thinking. In the story Sam is part of the “crazy eights” a popular group of girls but sometimes they drive her crazy. One day Sam meets a girl named Caroline Madsen. Caroline shows her the poets corner-a secret room with a group of friends- and it changes Sam’s life forever. Sam starts to obsess about poetry. She writes poetry in her room, while she’s swimming, in poets corner. Poetry helps her calm down
Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman" revolves around a wife and mother who becomes overwhelmed with her husband and child and withdraws from them, gradually shutting them completely out of her life. Unsatisfied with her role as dutiful mother and wife, she tries on other roles, but finds that none of them satisfy her either. She is accustomed to a specific role, and has a difficult time coping when a more extensive array of choices is presented to her. This is made clear in this section of the story.