An extremely ironic cartoon was featured by Mick Stevens in the issue of February 26th, 2018. Stevens has started his works in Oregon with little success; however, his works are now known by many people, and recently, he features a cartoon portraying three grim reapers with one of the three lying death on the ground with the caption “You never think it’s going to happen to you” (50). Not only that he is appealing to logos and pathos, but he is prevailing that one does not get the exception to the works that he/she does in life. The cartoon contains three grim reapers with a what look like a magical portal under the heads of the two alive as if they are using it to come and pick up the death one just like how they would collect the death souls.
Appealing to pathos, it has made this cartoon to stand out and bring the horrify image of the grim reapers yet with a small hilariation to the people minds. Furthermore, when it is evaluated and analyzed in a logical way, this is actually keying the consequences towards the abusion of powers. A grim reaper, with the power to kill and collect the death souls, turn out to be not immortal and can be death just like the mortal humans, who do not have this specific power. Aside from its ironic, one can also acknowledge that, just like any powers or laws in life, for example, laws makers cannot be exceptions or outsiders to the laws. In conclusion, Stevens has successfully in his way of using this cartoon to show that no one can get an exception to anything, even the work that he/she has done or is doing. I would give this cartoon a 5 out of 5 stars due to it haunting image yet meaningful.
The Revolution of 1800 was a turning point for American politics as power peacefully transitioned from the federalist party to the democratic-republican party when Thomas Jefferson, a democratic republican, won the election against John Adams. Adams lost the election because his support decreased after he went against his party’s advice to go to war with France. The French revolution created another divide between federalists and democratic-republicans as the federalists sided with the British and the democratic republicans sided with the French. Along with differences about the French Revolution, the Federalist party had opposing ideas of a strong central government, loose construction of the Constitution, and support of a market economy compared to the democratic republicans who supported strong state
The comic I’ve chosen is simply stated, it depicts two young girls and an imposing scale the text reads “Don’t step on it…it makes you cry.” this piece of rhetoric is simple is has however a few implied claims. The first implied claim being the most basic everyone who weights themselves is disappointed in the result. Secondly this piece features two girls, making the implication that young girl’s specifically should pay attention to body image at a prepubescent age. A third claim is that if you ever have to weigh yourself that you should be disappointed in the result. The last implied claim if you do not become emotional or disappointed while weighing yourself you are not normal.
Life is a form of progress- from one stage to another, from one responsibility to another. Studying, getting good grades, and starting the family are common expectations of human life. In the novel Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer introduced the tragic story of Christopher Johnson McCandless. After graduating from Emory University, McCandless sold of his possessions and ultimately became a wanderer. He hitchhiked to Alaska and walked into the wilderness for nearly 4 months. This journey to the 49th state proved fatal for him, and he lost his life while fulfilling his dream. After reading this novel, some readers admired the boy for his courage and noble ideas, while others fulminated that he was an idiot who perished out of arrogance and
Everyone is afraid of something. Not necessarily to the point of phobia, but every individual can be driven to madness through the worries of the question, “What if”. In The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury writes a series of sci-fi short stories that tell generally gruesome and horrible futures or dark takes on the present. However, while the overall theme of The Illustrated Man may be a theme of fear, Bradbury demonstrates his theme in completely different ways between the stories, especially “The Veldt” and “The Concrete Mixer”.
...ld such dangers have any significance to life? Jim Carroll tells the real story of his fear of the end and the mixed feelings of what matters, what doesn't. His fear is accompanied by confusion of how to live, today, with the possibility of being killed tomorrow.
The Stephen King’s short story, “The Reaper’s Image,” is considered by many to be one of the best pieces of American Gothic Literature. The story is centered around a mysterious, rare mirror called The Delver Glass. Sometimes, when people look into it, they see a haunting reaper. All who see it run away and mysteriously disappear. Its dark, bleak setting, supernatural events, and psychological torment makes the story a classic in the genre.
Through “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “I am Vertical”, the works of Mark Twain and Sylvia Plath reveal that the concept of death is something that will overcome people with grief but, you will find light at the end of tunnel by using their diction and syntax to convey their message.
In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, the narrator uses foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism. “Here’s a small fact, you are going to die” (3). As readers, we are engaged in the story because we are part of the story. The narrator, who is a personified death, is referring to the readers when he says “you”. Here, it is foreshadowed that many people, including the reader, will die in the near future. This is verbally ironic because death refers to this as a “small fact”, even though the subject of death is usually considered a significant and sensitive topic. This statement symbolizes the insignificance that narrator feels towards human life. In The Book Thief, death lets us know about crucial events that will happen later in the book to keep the readers interested. Literary devices such as foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism keep the reader engaged in the story and portray certain thematic ideas.
The theme of Time to Come presents the mystery of life after death and calls attention to how vulnerable it’s victims are. Whitman begins his poem with the strong metaphor “ O, Death! a black and pierceless pall” (1). This bold statement allows the reader quickly realize that the work will somehow be connected to death, but in an insightful manner. The alliteration of “pierceless pall” emphasizes death’s ruthless approach. Whitman then describes death as a “mystery of fate” that " No eye may see, no mind may grasp” (3-4). This points out that death lingers in the future, essentially waiting to seize lives and nobody can know when th...
We are born just to wait for death, as it awaits for us oh so patiently.Do you find it ironic? Life such a beautiful lie and death such a painful truth to the living. Within the story “The Mask of The Red Death” Edgar Allen Poe fills his story to the brim with symbolism explaining how escaping death is a pleasure none shall experience.A glass of wine never to be savored by the richest of men.No matter what percautions you take to avoid death he is waiting to put you in his collection.
No poet does a better job of stressing the abruptness of death as Frost in his poem, “Out, out –”. Death is the one of the more central themes among most works of art and normally befalls on the speaker’s loved one. In this case, “Out, out –” is about an innocent boy who accidentally severs his hand with a buzz saw; the entire scene and the family’s reactions described by an observer. Throughout the poem, Frost finds creative ways to intensify the boy’s death and readers may wonder why he focuses on such a heavy and distressing issue. Every verse builds up upon one another, sometimes enjambed together with a variety of figurative language, until the boy succumbs to his injury. By combining an irregular form of iambic pentameter with dark symbolism, Frost captures the inevitability of death and its cruel, unpredictable appearances.
In the cartoon, depicting wage gap, the Adam Zyglis from Buffalo News successfully illustrates the frustration women have towards the wage gap and the inequality that occurs in the workplace on a daily basis. Zyglis supports this illustration by flawlessly utilizing devices such as symbolism, labeling, logos, and traces of irony. Zyglis wants to present and call attention to this consistent circumstance in the workplace in order to urge the society as a whole to correct the inequality and irrational behavior towards women working. In addition to educating the public about this unreasonable behavior, the cartoon also exhibits the perspectives of these women who are forced to live with being paid less than fellow male co-workers. Adam Zyglis
Edgar Allan Poe claims in his tale that we should loose our innocence, and that we must be open-minded when it comes to criticism. He says that we must accept all things that might happen, no matter how ridiculous or impossible they might be. In everyday life, such a statement makes total sense; everyday life portraits realities that are hard for us to understand, from sexual behavior to euthanasia, from people who dies for throwing up a piece of gum after saving themselves of a huge car accident, to those who died in the twin towers.
In the one-act play Death Knocks, Woody Allen constructs a humorous allegory revolving around an ordinary man, Nat Ackerman, and his unanticipated encounter with death. In the story, death is personified as an actual character and resembles his victim’s overall appearance. However, Death is not simply portrayed as a typical frightening character but more as an uncoordinated klutz. With the intention of preventing Death from accomplishing his mission, Nat challenges Death to a game of gin rummy and wins one more day of life. In Woody Allen’s Death Knocks, the ironic dramatization of death enables Nat to utilize humor as a coping mechanism to alleviate the common fears associated with dying.
“The Snow Man,” by Wallace Stevens, dramatizes a metaphorical “mind of winter”, and introduces the idea that one must have a certain mindset in order to correctly perceive reality. The poet, or rather the Snow Man, is an interpreter of simple and ordinary things; “A cold wind, without interpretation, has no misery” (Poetry Genius). Through the use of imageries and metaphors relating to both wintery landscapes and the Snow Man itself, Stevens illustrates different ideas of human objectivity and the abstract concept of true nothingness. Looking through the eyes of the Snow Man, the readers are given an opportunity to perceive a reality that is free from objectivity; The Snow Man makes it clear that winter can possess qualities of beauty and also emptiness: both “natural wonder, and human misery”. He implies that winter can also be nothing at all: “just a bunch of solid water, dormant plants, and moving air.” (The Wondering Minstrels). “One must