Discovery is the action or process of finding or being found. “Eve’s Diary,” a short story by Mark Twain, is a 20th Century story about a woman named Eve, who writes in her diary about her discoveries and feelings each day. She is the first woman to live on Earth. Eve’s most significant discoveries are her emotions, which make her stronger as she becomes more aware of them and her surroundings. Grief is a troubling emotion for Eve. She states in her diary, “The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme- a very great loss; it breaks my heart to think of it,” (Twain). Eve’s heart aches when the moon leaves or disappears from the night for day to come, because she loves the sight of the moon. The moon is one of her only comforts. As Eve begins to meet a boy, Adam, she starts to develop feelings toward him. Her feelings for him become so strong, and she constantly thinks about him. As Eve writes, “My first sorrow. Yesterday he avoided me …show more content…
and seemed to wish I would not talk to him,” (Twain). All Eve wants to do is talk to the man she loves. She is limited in her ability to talk to him, because of his shyness. She feels like she lost him, and the feeling of grief emerges. Grief is an emotion nobody wants to feel. When Eve experiences this emotion she becomes stronger, since she learns to be alone and fends for herself. Grief is not the most troubling emotion for her. Next, fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous.
A troubling moment Eve describes, “A thin, transparent bluish film rose out of the hole, and I dropped everything and ran! I thought it was a spirit, and I WAS so frightened,” (Twain). A rush of fear surges through her as she notices an unknown substance, which makes her fear the unknown. Not only was the curious substance a fear of hers, but something even greater, fear itself. Eve explains in her diary, “That was because the fire had revealed to me a new passion--quite new, and distinctly different from love, grief, and those others which I had already discovered--FEAR. And it is horrible,” (Twain). She reveals that discovering fear was horrible for her and she does not like the feeling. Therefore, she has fear of discovering fear. Eve ended up finding out that the unknown substance was fire and became unfrightened. To me, her losing her fear of fire shows she can overcome fears and become more
strong-willed. On the other hand, happiness is the state or being happy or having joy. A satisfying moment Eve exclaims, “They returned the moon last night, and I was SO happy,” (Twain). Her desire for the moon brings her happiness when she can catch a glimpse of it, because it is no other beauty she has seen before. Not only does the moon bring her happiness, but talking too. While Eve sits by the water she writes, “It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own,” (Twain). The only person Eve can talk to is Adam. For Eve to hear an animal speak in a different language, gives her a sense of excitement knowing there are more ways to communicate out in the world. Being happy is more important than anything. Eve creates happiness for herself to mend her sorrows, which is the best kind of therapy. Lastly, love is an intense feeling of deep affection. In a gratifying instant Eve says, “If I ask myself why I love him, I find I do not know, and do not really much care to know; so I suppose that this kind of love is not a product of reasoning and statistics, like one's love for other reptiles and animals” (Twain). Her love for Adam is like none other. The comfort he brings to her makes her feel welcome to the lonely world. Another special moment that Eve mentions, “For I do love moons, they are so pretty and so romantic. I wish we had five or six; I would never go to bed; I should never get tired lying on the moss-bank and looking up at them,” (Twain). When Eve becomes lonely at night and Adam is not around, the moon is her only companion. The sight of the moon is the most beautiful thing to her, so her love for it is unconditional. Love can make people stronger when they are able to be in contact with the people and things they love. Ultimately, all throughout Eve’s diary of her discovering emotions, Mark Twain emphasizes four emotions: grief, fear, happiness, and love. These emotions bring her together with Adam and the world around her. Society and human nature are always evolving. Both society and human nature have things in common. They both feel the same emotions, which eventually makes everyone stronger. Eve is one of the strongest people ever to live on Earth. The sorrows of being lonesome that she has, fears of the unknown, happiness from the world around her, and the love she gains toward Adam and human nature, make her powerful.
In Susan Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It, life for Miranda and her family comes to a screeching halt after a meteor collides with the moon, triggering calamitous natural disasters. After the initial tragedy, humanity is left with unanswered questions, to which no one seems to have answers for. As a result, Miranda must forget about her normal, mundane life and focus on the hardship ahead of her and her family. With her world collapsing around her, she is left with choices and responsibilities that affect her loved ones as much as herself. Through literary devices, Pfeffer emphasizes the emotional struggles and physical battles Miranda must surmount before and after the misfortunate collision.
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In the excerpt of Night, it states, “Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs.” (Wiesel 105) This describes fear because to imagine that food is more important than one's’ life is scary to think about. People wanting to kill each other just to eat something is hard to think about. In the poem, “I Never Saw ANother Butterfly” it states “Butterflies don’t live in here, In the ghetto”(Friedman 16-17) This is an example of fear because this quote gives a sense of eeriness to the setting and it describes when he realizes that things will never be the same again. It also symbolizes he won’t just never see another butterfly but his home, family, and life will never be the same ever again. With death being inevitable not only would you be scared you would also be
It is the first time that Lizabeth hears a man cry. She could not believe herself because her father is “a strong man who could whisk a child upon his shoulders and go singing through the house.” As the centre of the family and a hero in her heart, Lizabeth’s dad is “sobbing like the tiniest child”She discovers that her parents are not as powerful or stable as she thought they were. The feeling of powerlessness and fear surges within her as she loses the perfect relying on her dad. She says, “the world had lost its boundary lines.” the “smoldering emotions” and “fear unleashed by my father’s tears” had “combined in one great impulse toward
The paper compares two short stories (Poe’s “the fall of The House of Usher” and Perkins-Gillman’s “the Yellow Wallpaper”), in order to develop arguments about the relationship between characters’ fears and the main theme of each story. In the two short stories, the characters are suffering from various forms of fear under different circumstances. Such fears include fear of fear, fear of death, fear of other people, fear of isolation, fear of punishment, and fear of loss of reputation. Such different forms of fears can assist readers in understanding the motives of the characters.
"But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam
Before Mrs. Ames and the mother realize the restrictions of their old lives, their worlds have been full of disillusionment and ignorance. Mrs. Ames, for example, is oppressed by her husband’s silence and the search for love and tenderness from anyone, because she lives each day alone, ignored by her scornful husband. And, as a result of being left companionless, she does not mature, rather she longs for tenderness. In other words, Boyle explains her dysfunctional relationship with her husband, “The mystery and silence of her husband’s mind lay like a chiding finger of her lips. Her eyes were gray for the light had been extinguished in them” (57). That is, Mrs. Ames’ spirit remains oppressed by her husband who treats her as a child, and, in doing so, isolates her from his world.
While fear plays an essential role in the poem, Olds never mentions the emotion itself, except in the title. Instead, she elicits the sense of fear with the words she uses, such as “suddenly,” and vivid imagery of death, darkness and water: “…like ...
Fear brings forth a certain atmosphere which compels us to act upon it. The era in which the book was published allows us to see how common these fears were. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is an excellent portrayal of how fear controls the human mind by using the characters as examples. In the book Eleanor, Theodora, Luke, and Dr. Montague have all been influenced by fear in the story, whether it be the fear of love, the unknown, family, rejection, expression, or loneliness. These different types of fear plagued their minds causing their actions to reflect upon them. Jackson explores the theme of fear in The Haunting of Hill House by creating a cast of characters that in turn are manipulated by the inner workings of their minds and the
A clear and important theme developed in the story by Ray Bradbury through the use of personification is fear. In the sentence, ?The fear was never gone? it lay with Mr and Mrs Bittering, a third unbidden partner at every midnight talk?. The author creates fear among the humans by using personification to show the unbidden partner as a person, but we recognise what it really is. Ray Bradbury is trying to show that the unbidden partner is fear becoming real.. There was once a time were fear was overwhelming and real to me when on the year 8 camp I participated in, we went to make rafts at the beach. When we went to test them in the water, we went out to the rocks, and then a man came to pick us up from the ocean because our rafts had fallen apart. He told us all to grab onto a piece of rope of a part of the raf...
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” said Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist. Fear can make things impossible by closing the window of opportunity and making what a person was trying to achieve impossible. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein, both authors portray the theme of that by living your life in fear, you close your window of opportunity. The Book Thief is about a girl named Liesel Meminger who lives in Nazi Germany in the midst of WWII. A Light in the Attic is a collection of poems. Some are childish and some have a darker side. Both authors show that where there is fear, there is no opportunity through the climax, with irony, and through the characters’ actions.
The last two lines of this speech are very dramatic. Eve has such a great love for Adam that she could endure anything as long as he would be by her side, but she would be nothing without him. However, this creates a paradox. One may ask, if Eve loves Adam as much as she professes to, then why put his life in jeopardy just to make her own suffering more bearable? The answer, of course, goes back to the selfishness that has pervaded her entire speech. These lines stand out because of the spondees at the end of both of them.
In our present era, there is no doubt that the evolution of women's rights has come a long way. It is in the Western Culture that these values for which women have fought for generations, are in conflict with Genesis 1-3. The events that occur in this "creation story" are crucial in that it begins when God creates man in his own likeness and man is given domination over all living things. The significance is the prominence given to men; God is male and his most important creation is male. The biblical account underlines the supremacy of man while making it clear that women play an inferior role. Furthermore, the biblical account also describes how woman are disobedient and yield to temptation, the result of which is the expulsion of both Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. In the poem "How Cruel is the Story of Eve", Stevie Smith's castigation towards the biblical story of Eve demonstrates how women have been victims of despair and suffering since the beginning of time. She holds it responsible for cruelty towards women in history, she implies that the values derived from the story of Eve were forced upon women without choice, and finally, she challenges the authenticity of the religious tale on a whole. Without a doubt, women have fallen victim to an untrue, religious tale from the beginning of time, and the poem is an outcry representing the suffering of women throughout history.
To begin, the poem, “Eve’s Apology,” uses many different poetic devices such as alliteration, assonance, rhyme scheme, and simile. The author uses a great number of alliteration, which is the repetition of constant sounds generally at the beginnings of words. Alliteration can be seen in the words “what” and “weakness” in line 3. Some more examples of alliteration throughout the poem are “subtle serpent’s” (23), “he had him” (24), and “with words which” (30). Assonance, the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds, is another poetic device that the author uses greatly. Some examples of assonance are found in lines 10 “ The ‘p...
...e poem, without getting caught up in the wording and structure. "Adam's Curse" is a poem that increases in sadness as the verses build up to the end. It is an end where the narrator realizes that he is not able to love "in that old high way of love,"(37) and that he is as vacant as the moon that illuminates his thoughts and his heart as he comes to the dreary conclusion. It is also an end that reveals the true curse of Adam in the darkness of night, a realization with such doom that it could not have been uncovered during a sunny unassuming afternoon. It is the close of a session that leaves the participants with nothing to say, feeling empty from the revelations that they could not quite muster up. This inadequacy leaves the three characters with an empty husk for a heart, forcing them to be alone searching for new ideas to validate themselves-a true curse indeed.