How can a town be nameless? You wouldn’t be able to say I am from ___. Because you would have no idea how to say where you were from except Tennessee. How does something like that happen. In the town of Nameless, Tennessee is a clear example of what happens when you don’t name a town. It was a small town in the middle of nowhere that most people didn’t know about or new was even there. Nameless, Tennessee was a town in the middle of no where. No one new who discovered the town. When the post office was created they had to come up with a name. The town had a meeting to come up with a name for the town. “Some wanted patriotic names, some names from nature, one man recommended in all seriousness his own name.” (p. 174, Nameless, Tennessee). During the meeting and none of the townspeople could agree on a name,“Some wanted patriotic names, some names from nature, one man recommended in all seriousness his own name.” Since they couldn’t agree on a name they all agreed to not name it. So its name by default became Nameless, Tennessee. …show more content…
“You think Nameless is a funny name,” Miss Ginny said. “I see it plain in your eyes. Well, you take yourself up north a piece to Difficult or Defeated or Shake Rag. Now them are silly names.” Its is true of all the names out there for towns, nameless doesn’t seem to be that low on the list of weird
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names are prevented from being able to reassimilate within society, they are the outcasts. It also
I think it’s symbolic that Bradbury never identified the city. This makes me feel like it could have happened anywhere, even L.A. I think the purpose was to make the reader think about their town when they read the book. Also, I think it’s significant that this was pictured in the future. Since it was about this society that had basically crashed and burned, it can be seen ...
Although Lennie was unattractive and has the tendency of accidental violence, compassion was still something readers had for him. Steinbeck constantly reminded us that he has a mental disability which automatically makes someone feel pity for him. Additionally he was ignored and made fun of by other characters, “Blubberin’ like a baby! Jesus Christ! A big guy like you”(Steinbeck 10). Him getting in trouble was beyond his control because of his mental disability which is something else that makes a reader feel sympathetic for him. Also, the readers are solicitous towards Lennie because of how much he looks up to George. This is portrayed when Crooks asks Lennie what he would do if George never came back, “Well, s’pose, jus’ s’pose he don’t come back. What’ll you do then?”(Steinbeck 70). Because of his inability to comprehend information, he got extremely defensive and said, “George is careful. He won’t get hurt” (Steinbeck 70). This scene is crafted in such a way that it automatically
In an Amazon.co.uk interview titled “Magic, Mystery and Mayhem: An Interview with J.K. Rowling,” when asked about the way she came up with the names of characters in her books, she replied, “I invented some of the names in the Harry books, but I also collect strange names. I've gotten them from medieval saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memorials, and people I've met!” J.K. Rowling chose these names for a reason based on the deeper meanings behind every character's name and the way they relate to their roles and personalities. In Octavia E. Butler's short story “Speech Sounds”, Rye and Obsidian were the names she chose for her characters. Rye, the name of the main protagonist which symbolizes home and earth yearns to reconnect with her family and to rebuild a family of her own while Obsidian, the supporting character, is named after a type of lava stone, which is believed to contain magical properties that “absorbs and destroys negative energy such as anger, criticism, and fear” (Zagata). The names of the characters have two purposes: to describe the character's role and personality, and to give them an identity.
Imagination is a quality that everyone has, but only some are capable of using. Maxine Hong Kingston wrote “No Name Woman” using a great deal of her imagination. She uses this imagination to give a story to a person whose name has been forgotten. A person whose entire life was erased from the family’s history. Her story was not written to amuse or entertain, but rather to share her aunts’ story, a story that no one else would ever share. The use of imagination in Kingston’s creative nonfiction is the foundation of the story. It fills the gaps of reality while creating a perfect path to show respect to Kingston’s aunt, and simultaneously explains her disagreement with the women in her culture.
The setting of the town is described by the author as that of any normal rural
Maycomb is seen as old, tires, and a sleepy town where nothing happens. The time period is in the early 1930’s during the Great Depression. Most people were poor and farm owners were short on money. In Maycomb there was not much around. In the text it says, “People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb
It is really striking that a novel in which bodies of people and bodies of land (and, intertextually, bodies of text) are so central, creates a character that is so distinctly "unbodied": Caroline Cook. Nevertheless, it is in keeping with traditional and patriarchal interpretations of Cordelia's character in King Lear: a paragon of purity and transcendence.
Education holds power over determining one’s class. Knowledge and refinement can set one individual apart from another who lacks the qualities of successful individuals. Finances and opportunities distinguish class meaning the lower class has difficulty in obtaining the same conditions of the upper class. Education ultimately dictates success and power in society. Education is taken for granted and should be recognized for the significance it possesses.
By the close of Reconstruction, when it was incorporated into Dallas proper -- Freedman's Town contained at least 500 citizens. By the late 19th century, the area was known as the North Dallas Freedman's Town. The name of the community has been changed. Originally known as Freedman's Town, by the early twentieth century it was more commonly known to its own inhabitants as North Dallas and later still the "State-Thomas" Neighborhood incorporated into the city of Dallas at the close of Reconstruction in
Well my Messas name was Nole William, and we were named for him. But when we was freed, we were told to take freed names.
A. Title: The title of this poem suggests that it is about a small country town with one road, most likely in the middle of nowhere. Very few people and very few things around for a person to do with their free time.
To be given the proud name of a "spa town" the town would need to have
The Vils River runs down the center of the original Old Town, dividing it in half. In earli...