Fairy Tales; they are stories woven to ensnare imagination and challenge intellect in the most innovative and creative manners known to man. However, much of the push nowadays in schools is for the reading of nonfiction, or, at least select fiction chosen to teach us a certain manner of thinking. Part of the reason that reading has such an appeal is because it allows the imagination to wander to different worlds and escape this one for a while. Lewis Carroll's poem, “Jabberwocky” agrees with just this concept. It is a fantastical description given in Through the Looking-Glass of a creature called the Jabberwock, and it uses unique language that enhances the air of fantasy surrounding this creature. “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll is …show more content…
a poem that provided support for the encouragement of fictitious and fantastical reading for all people. Each person is born with a desire to discover the new and unknown.
From the moment that we have the ability, we wish, and attempt to, explore. Young children must be watched over because they want to learn anything and everything possible about their surroundings, and this often involves a certain amount of danger. For example, a child does not understand the concept of hot until he or she has burned his or her self. Only from experience does a spoken idea fully sink in. As well as this, often people do unwise things because they have bravery and belief in themselves in an area yet unknown. In the poem Jabberwocky, the author warns that child saying, “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!” but the hero does not listen and instead runs headfirst into danger. This is how human nature works until we learn to balance curiosity and situational logic. This homeostasis only can be developed over time and with …show more content…
experience. Humans seek the new and exciting appeal of the unknown, just as the hero seeks a conquest to call his own. Whether it is recognized or not, the wish to uncover something unique or special resides in each person. For example, many people like to watch movies, but, most would rather watch a movie they have never seen before because it is a surprise, versus an old show that they have seen repeatedly. Lewis Carroll recognizes this desire and uses the fantastical realm to ensnare the minds of readers into his magical works of literature. In the poem “Jabberwocky,” he begins, “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/ Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.” This interesting opening makes the reader curious as to what the author is talking about and how it might be relevant. It turns out that this beginning is written in a language that Carroll himself invented. Now, while some might just turn away from it as gibberish, the most inquisitive of minds seek to understand and uncover the reasons behind what others dismiss as nonsense. Finally, fantasy harbors the ability to bring the reader to other worlds that are improbable if not impossible in this mundane world, much like the creature the Jabberwock.
When a reader becomes absorbed in a text, he or she is living each moment of the story as if the world, events, and characters are real; and in the reader’s mind, they are. Reading can be an escape, and a distraction, to take people away from the troubles of this Earth into an adventure of another world that is not their own. Lewis Carroll does an excellent job of this, especially in his descriptions. For example, he has an outstanding description of the Jabberwock, “with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!” This creature is a terrifying sight that strikes fear into all those that look up on it. Carroll makes the danger quite clear in order to show the bravery that went into the hero’s actions when he slays
it. Much encouragement of fictitious and fantastical reading for all people is found in the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. This poem describes the horrific beast called the Jabberwock and how a hero slaid him, even after learning of the danger. It describes one aspect of human nature where we are sometimes unable to keep our curiosity in check. It also enlightens the reader to how books can carry the mind far away, and performs this feat as well. All in all, “Jabberwocky” supports the fantastical reading in today’s society as a way to learn about oneself as well as escape reality.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
Cormac McCarthy’s detailed imagery builds imagination for the reader. For example, John Grady’s vivid dream painted a beautiful picture of what makes him feel at peace, “... colts ran with dams and trampled down the flowers in a haze of pollen that hung in the sun like powdered gold… their manes and tails blew off of them like spume… moved all of them in a resonance that was like music among them…”(161). This novel did not begin with positive imagery but yet the opposite - death, “In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where the lilies leaned so paley from their waisted cut glass vase. Along the hallway behind
The movie Flubber was about a “crazy” chemist who had many inventions, some by the way I would like to have. But the main invention was a rubber “thing” that he named Flubber. There were a few scientific terms that he noted during the movie when inventing Flubber which I will describe below. The words in bold are the scientific terms that were noted in the movie.
For that, Welty needs exemplification. When coupled with the diction, exemplification serves as the main device implemented merging her experiences into a essay the explains the her relationship with fiction, and reading as a whole. Welty is a storyteller and she uses her skill to craft the narrative that describe her relationship with fiction. She describes the near mythological terror of the minotaur of the librarian, Ms. Jackson, who guarded the labyrinthian library of her hometown. She reminisces over the titles countless books she inhaled, two by two, as she rushed, back and forth, day after day, to the library for more. She speaks of her mother, who shared that same joy of reading, and who also enabled her to get her first library card. She illustrates about how books were ever present in her house. It’s through this exemplification and description that Welty is able to justify to the reader why books had such an intense role in her life, and why reading has held such value to her. Books were everywhere, they permeated her childhood. The effect of her vivid descriptions are that the reader and the author's perspective are merged. Rather than reading than reading the text, the reader experience’s it, and it's through the shared viewpoint that reader is able to realize the intensity and value reading brought to Welty’s
Are adults overprotective of their children? To what point do we protect children? Where should the line be drawn? Along with those questions is how easily children can be influenced by these same adults. Two poets, Richard Wilbur and Billy Collins, express the ideas of how easily children can be manipulated and how sometimes adults think they are protecting their innocent children, when in reality they are not. Wilbur and Collins express these ideas in their poems through numerous literary devices. The literary devices used by Wilbur and Collins expose different meanings and two extremely different end results. Among the various literary devices used, Wilbur uses imagery, a simple rhyme scheme and meter, juxtaposition of the rational and irrational, and a humorous tone to represent the narrator’s attempt to “domesticate” irrational fears. Conversely Collins uses symbols, historical interpretations, imagery, diction and other literary devices to depict the history teacher’s effort to shield his students from reality. In the poems, “A Barred Owl,” by Richard Wilbur, and “The History Teacher,” by Billy Collins, both poets convey how adults protect and calm children from their biggest, darkest fears and curiosities.
William Faulkner overwhelms his audience with the visual perceptions that the characters experience, making the reader feel utterly attached to nature and using imagery how a human out of despair can make accusations. "If I jump off the porch I will be where the fish was, and it all cut up into a not-fish now. I can hear the bed and her face and them and I can...
reader creates “supplementary meaning” to the text by unconsciously setting up tension, also called binary opposition. Culler describes this process in his statement “The process of thematic interpretation requires us to move from facts towards values, so we can develop each thematic complex, retaining the opposition between them” (294). Though supplementary meaning created within the text can take many forms, within V...
Carroll’s works illustrate a firm understanding of nonsense. His stories and poems thrive in fantastic worlds of imagination. Because of this, they effortlessly thrive in the worlds of children, as well. Carroll writes with the mind of a child. He understood that, “For young children, whose brains are struggling to comprehend language, words are magical in any case; the magic of adults, utterly mysterious; no child can distinguish between "real" words and nonsensical or "unreal" words, and verse like [his] brilliant "Jabberwocky" has the effect of both arousing childish anxiety (what do these terrifying words mean?) and placating it (don't worry: you can decode the meaning by the context). Lewis Carroll, in whom the child-self abided through his celibate lifetime, understood instinctively the child's propensity to laugh at the very things that arouse anxiety…” (Oates 9)
'A child's mind is a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.‘
The poem “Jabberwocky” was originally a one stanza poem. At first glance the poem makes little sense and may even have to be re-read more than once! “Jabberwocky” is designed for the unusual word choice and to have the reader to make his own sense of it.
The visual description of a text is the perfect way to wrap the reader’s senses into the story.
And the mome raths outgrabe "It seems very pretty, but it's rather hard to understand. . .Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas only I don't exactly know what they are!" was Alice's reaction (of Alice in Wonderland) after reading Lewis Carroll's poem "The Jabberwocky." Alice's response to this poem was not an uncommon one; there are very few ...
In many children’s poems, writers attempt to connect with the younger ones through language that they understand. Many people, such as Dr. Seuss, make up their own silly and inventive language that not only teaches children that they can write, too, but it also makes them laugh at the hilarious adjectives and nouns. However, Dr. Seuss isn’t the only author who uses quirky words to capture readers’ attention. Another writer, by the name of Lewis Carroll, uses imaginative language in his two novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, In one of these texts, there is a poem, where he uses this same technique in a very clever and creative way. The messages that the poem portrays due to the language is more than just comedy for children. Looking deeper into the poem, Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll, the creative language suggests that using your own words makes your work more interesting, cultural language in America is constantly changing, and that using this type of blanket shows the maturity and background, and offensive words change as well as comic ones.
It is hard to grow up as a young child without getting a few scraps and bruises. Kids are so active and have to have fun and burn off a little bit of energy. Imaginations are key to fun and to life. As a child one must come up with the most unusual games. Children do not realize at their age how important family is and just how much they give up for their child.