In the short story “Searching for Summer” by Joan Aiken, readers are given many times in which they are able to understand the character’s attitudes and motives through their actions. Aiken uses a lot of indirect characterization when trying to tell her audience who Tom, Lily and Mr. Noakes are. In other words, Aiken’s does not say “Mr. Noakes is a bad person”, but through his actions readers can understand that he is. Furthermore, Tom and Lily live in a world where a blue sky and sunlight is just as unusual as “ the grass [being] pink” ( ). Due to this dilemma, Tom and Lily both wanted to find the sun for good luck. Through their journey, they meet Mr. Noakes, the antagonist, who deliberately tries to tell them that he would turn a land
of sunshine into a “ trailer site, country club, holiday camp” ( ). One a further note, Mr. Noakes makes it clear that he is not in it for the happiness of people, but of the money. This characterization of Mr. Noakes shows that he is vile and greedy. To add, the true conflict is making sure that Tom and Lily do not give into greed, because if they do, they will turn into Mr. Noakes.
In "First Day of Winter," by Breece D’J Pancake stories, “First Day of Winter” is the twelfth and the last selection of them. The story is about the edgy circumstances of a West Virginia farmer called Hollis. A single man as yet still living on the farm of his family, Hollis battles to make ends meet as he watches over his weak parents. His decrepit mother declines to bathe, "her mind half gone from blood too thick in her veins;" on the other hand, his dad, "now coughing and blind," is "bent with age, with crying" (163, 168). The only sibling of Hollis, Jake, has left the homestead, wedded, fathered two youngsters and turn into a minister. Due to this Hollis’s parents hover over him and persistently remind him that his sibling "has done fine
Nature has a powerful way of portraying good vs. bad, which parallels to the same concept intertwined with human nature. In the story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author portrays this through the use of a lake by demonstrating its significance and relationship to the characters. At one time, the Greasy Lake was something of beauty and cleanliness, but then came to be the exact opposite. Through his writing, Boyle demonstrates how the setting can be a direct reflection of the characters and the experiences they encounter.
...iyama appeals to the readers’ emotions and convinces them that the garden’s beauty was able to distract Stephen from the initial loneliness of his situation.
Foster’s book, How to read literature like a Professor. The twentieth chapter of Forster’s novel explains, “Summer [represents] adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion,” while, “ winter [symbolizes] old age and resentment and death.” Knowles uses the winter season to kill off Finny and show the mutual resentment between Gene and Leper. Additionally, he uses Autumn to show Finny’s physical decline. Knowles also shows the transformation into adulthood, romance for the war, and the passion of fighting and being an adult. Knowles perfectly uses the symbolism associated with many of the
...ile forms an image of her character. By comparing her eyes with marbles the reader can construct that Mrs. Merkle was expressionless and had cold, glazed hard eyes. For every instance that Mrs. Merkle is mentioned the phrase is repeated, in the last occurrence to excuse her from not crying for the loss of Mrs. Bylow. Wilson’s adaptation of a motif in her writing shapes the character’s conscience based on their emotional reactions to a situation.
Appealing to the reader’s emotions through stories is a commonly used technique, and Scelfo uses it beautifully. She starts the article out by introducing the reader to a young girl named Kathryn Dewitt. Whether they mean to or not, the reader develops some kind of emotional connection to this young girl. They feel as if they are a part of the story, for when
The setting takes place mostly in the woods around Andy’s house in Pennsylvania. The season is winter and snow has covered every inch of the woods and Andy’s favorite place to be in, “They had been in her dreams, and she had never lost' sight of them…woods always stayed the same.” (327). While the woods manage to continually stay the same, Andy wants to stay the same too because she is scared of growing up. The woods are where she can do manly activities such as hunting, fishing and camping with her father. According to Andy, she thinks of the woods as peaceful and relaxing, even when the snow hits the grounds making the woods sparkle and shimmer. When they got to the campsite, they immediately started heading out to hunt for a doe. Andy describes the woods as always being the same, but she claims that “If they weren't there, everything would be quieter, and the woods would be the same as before. But they are here and so it's all different.” (329) By them being in the woods, everything is different, and Andy hates different. The authors use of literary elements contributes to the effect of the theme by explaining what the setting means to Andy. The woods make Andy happy and she wants to be there all the time, but meanwhile the woods give Andy a realization that she must grow up. Even though the woods change she must change as
Every Sunday, Miss Brill looked forward to a wonderful day in the park. There, she would secretly dive into the lives of the surrounding human beings, taking in each of their words and actions and creating a fantasy world all of her own that she was sure she belonged in, but she was mistaken. Her fantasy world does crumble, and Miss Brill, the protagonist in the short story, “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, soon finds herself in reality. Miss Brill can be clearly seen as a flat, yet dynamic character, as can be portrayed through her thought transformation.
“In a simple allegory, characters and other elements often stand for other definite meanings, which are often abstractions” (Kennedy 234). Since everyone in the town is involved in the stoning, they do not view their sacrifice as murder, but as something needed to be done. “‘All right, folks,’ Mr. Summers said, ‘Let’s finish this quickly.’” (Jackson 259). The young boys in the town are excited about the lottery, but the girls stand off to the side because it is in a boy’s nature to be brutal, yet the women of the town seem just as excited as the boys, and the men calm down as the girls. “The boys’ eager and childish cruelty will turn into the sober reluctance of their fathers, whereas the childish apartness of the girls will become the grown women’s blood lust” (Whittier 357). Most people associate winning a lottery as coming into a large sum of money; but on the contrary, the winner of this lottery must pay with their ultimate sacrifice. “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (257). Jackson’s use of allegories is sublime, drawing her readers to the central
Not all of the characters, or circumstances are the way they first appear to Scout. In reality a person may look dangerous, and mean but can have a sweet soul deep down. The people in an individual's life can hold surprises about who they really are and sometimes situations are depicting. The author, Harper Lee of "To Kill A Mockingbird", expresses the contrast between appearance and reality through the eyes of Scout. People look different to others than how they truly are. Appearances lie, but the truth only lies within.
Have you ever love someone who you can’t be together with? The novel “Summer” by Edith Wharton states that during one summer, there was a girl name Charity Royall who fell in love with a young gentleman name Lucius Harney. Everything change when Charity knew Harney had the same feeling towards her. The significance of love that Charity felt for Harney was more than she can give to anyone, even if it’s not Mr. Royall who take her in when she was a little girl. At times, Charity didn’t know what to do or what decisions to make in her life unless she seek for advice, yet, she still do the opposite of what she don’t like. As it goes on, Mr. Royall would use informal ways of telling Charity not to date Harney and stop her from seeing him. Throughout the novel, Charity’s position was forces beyond her control.
In Conclusion one should be able to understand not only the uncertainty or disillusion of Huck but also both the atmosphere of fear and remorse, that helps portray human themes of Huck, and the ubiquitous idea that will lie and deceive themselves of truth if the truth is not what they desire. Also due to Huck’s confusion with morality, he helps develop and explain the unpredictable nature of life. Thus without understanding first the character Huck Finn one could never obtain a true grasp of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its many meanings.
The characterization of someone or something can play an important role in how the reader perceives the actions of characters or the mood of a setting. The words and images a writer uses to describe something can dramatically change a person’s perception. In Joyce Carol Oates’s excerpt from We Were the Mulvaneys, Judd Mulvaney’s reflective nature is demonstrated through imagery and repetition.
Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples” is far from the modern day fairy tale. It is a dark and twisted version of the classic tale, Snow White. His retelling is intriguing and unexpected, coming from the point of view of the stepmother rather than Snow White. By doing this, Gaiman changes the entire meaning of the story by switching perspectives and motivations of the characters. This sinister tale has more purpose than to frighten its readers, but to convey a deeper, hidden message. His message in “Snow, Glass, Apples” is that villains may not always be villains, but rather victims.
In the short story by John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums, symbolism, allegory and foreshadowing flood the story from start to finish. Steinbeck’s chosen words to describe the setting, plot and conclusion allows readers to evaluate and analyze the story in many ways. The story begins by describing the setting as enclosed, gray and repressive. Elisa Allen is introduced as the central character of the story, onto which the symbolism and allegory mainly affect. As the story develops further, Elisa’s encounter with a Tinker, leads her to “explode those repressed desires,” (Shockett) which have been suppressed by the symbolically “closed pot” (Steinbeck) in which the story takes place. The use of literary techniques