Aquarium Trace Finkbeiner
In the text “My Trip to the City Aquarium” the author talks about how he didn’t really care for the aquarium because he didn’t have any experience, but he liked to learn new things so he’d act positive about it. My first example is that he became positive when they got the postcard with a picture of a queen angelfish.They were being put in groups and his group saw the reef first. He said, “I was amazed!” Once he walked in.
My second example is the fact that he went into the aquarium thinking it would be the worst time of his life just because he had no experience. He described the aquarium like a prison for monsters in the first paragraph he said, “But something about the idea of spending the day looking at giant
The symbolism example is the litmus lozenge candies from one of the supporting characters; the librarian names Miss Franny Block. She used the sweet as symbol for sad experience with life. The terminology melancholy was used to improve the reader’s vocabulary. Winn-Dixie’s fear of storms is used as symbol for his trauma experience and struggles in life. The text length is appropriate for third grade but the plot and vocabulary are challenging for them. The students will understand approximately seventy-five percent of the text but will work to make sense of the remaining of it. The figurative language/idiomatic language/dialects are used frequently throughout the fiction novel by the supporting characters. The simile example is when the father explains his wife’s absence in their lives as he says: “…like a bug under a microscope” (DiCamillo, 2000; p.28). The metaphor example used by Opal describing her busy father as she say: “…he reminded me of a turtle hiding in its shell (DiCamillo, 2000; p.16). The idiom example is used by Opal as she saw a rare moment of her father paying attention to her as she say: “…head out of his shell” (DiCamillo, 2000;
For instance, the narrator realizes that whenever he and his wife are alone, she becomes sheltered in her own sphere. This comes to mind, though with uncertainty, where he questions “whether the person I saw tinkering at the window was opening the latches or sealing the cracks” (32). What he doesn’t realize, and is oblivious to, is that the person she’s shutting herself away from was not just any person but himself. What’s more, the narrator is unaware of the changes happening to the world around him as the “ceiling” becomes visible upon his town. Even though he goes out day by day, as several months passed by, he was not conscious of the fact that the birds and insects had disappeared. He even claims that, “I did not notice they were gone though…until I read Joshua’s essay” (34). He’s blind to the world changing beneath his eyes, so how would he be aware of the status of his relationship if he can’t see what’s right in front of him? Even while getting his hair trimmed, and Wesson the barber asks him, “How’s the pretty lady?” the narrator replies, “‘She hasn’t been feeling to well,’ I said. ‘But I think she’s coming out of it” (34). He assumes that her abnormal behaviour lately is only a sort of phase that will simply pass by on its own, as time goes by. As a result, his incapability to recognize not only his wife’s change of demeanour but also
His perceptions change from seeking for opportunities to unrealistically believing that he can acquire wealth by becoming a traveling salesman, and later in the book, he is defeated by the Great Depression and goes back to home; his perception of the reality becomes increasingly difficult to dealt with since he tries to escape from the reality and never really solves the problems, and although he later tries again to become successful during the war, he becomes insane and loses all of his perceptions.
To accurately discern what does and does not happen in fictional stories, one must develop a kind of “story competence,” which Livingston describes in “What’s the Story?” Story competence relies on making judgements based on reasoning about characters’ motives and authors’ intentions. Only the latter is of concern here, which Livingston refers to as the “intentional heuristic:” a moderate form of intentionalism.
Effectively using these elements in a piece of literature enhances the reader’s curiosity. One prime example of such usage of these elements is seen in Kate Chopin's writing. Her use of foreshadowing and use of emotional conflicts put into few words in the short piece "The Storm" adds an element that is alluring, holding the reader's interest. In this short piece of literature, a father and son, Bobinot and Bibi, are forced to remain in a store where they were shopping before the storm, waiting for the storm to pass over them. In the meantime, the wife and mother, Calixta, whom is still at home, receives an unexpected visit from a former lover named Alicee. The two have an affair and the story starts to come together. The story shows us how we tend to want what we beli...
It was a story that gripped an entire nation. Five-year-old Levan Merritt was knocked unconscious when he fell into a gorilla enclosure and was protected by a giant male silverback gorilla named Jambo.
In the opening line of the novel, the narrator provides a vivid description of the his decaying surroundings:
Trying to structure a situation in terms of such a consistent set of metaphors is in part like trying to structure that situation in terms of an objectivist model. What is left out are the experiential bases of the metaphors and what the metaphors hide. (p.220)
He creates a suffocating atmosphere mirroring the characters feeling: “crowding in on her thick and fast”, “The passage of an old woman with ophthalmia and a disease of the skin distracted her from her
perceive the novel in the rational of an eleven-year-old girl. One short, simple sentence is followed by another , relating each in an easy flow of thoughts. Gibbons allows this stream of thoughts to again emphasize the childish perception of life’s greatest tragedies. For example, Gibbons uses the simple diction and stream of consciousness as Ellen searches herself for the true person she is. Gibbons uses this to show the reader how Ellen is an average girl who enjoys all of the things normal children relish and to contrast the naive lucidity of the sentences to the depth of the conceptions which Ellen has such a simplistic way of explaining.
As a teenager, Sheff’s son is described as “muscular, a weightlifter” with “stringy hair and a world-weary visage and languor”, giving readers the ability to imagine a good portion of Nic’s physique. Sheff describes his son, during his drug use, as being “frail, ill, and rambling -- a barely recognizable phantom.” The choice of words make it easy to be able to picture the state of Nic’s physical appearance compared to that of his younger, pre-drug abuse, self. There is another instance in which illustrative vocabulary is used to describe the clothing Sheff remembers Nic wearing in everyday life, such as “I imagine him wearing a worn-out T-shirt, his pants sagging and dirty, a black belt with metal studs [and] Converse sneakers, and his long curling hair pushed back out of his eyes.” The imagery used in this sentence allows readers to vividly picture all the aspects of what Sheff himself was picturing. This aspect of writing, imagery, helps convey the experiences that have been lived by the
Through metaphors, the speaker proclaims of her longing to be one with the sea. As she notices The mermaids in the basement,(3) and frigates- in the upper floor,(5) it seems as though she is associating these particular daydreams with her house. She becomes entranced with these spectacles and starts to contemplate suicide.
The nature of human communication requires that only a certain number of details may be expressed. A photograph leaves out what is beyond its frame, statistical data generalizes answers into categories to make results meaningful, and words distinguish between specific concepts to present ideas. The author of a written work chooses the details to express not only what they want, but how they want the audience to feel about it. I will analyze what the author chooses to include and to ignore in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway.
As discussion between the two men continues, the television captures a cathedral, an unfamiliar building to Robert. The narrator describes the scene to Robert, but fails to enlighten him and becomes stumped as to how he should explain the appearance of a cathedral. Robert’s suggestion to the narrator being unable to explain a cathedral with words is to have the narrator draw while he follows his hand. When Robert instructs the narrator to draw, he later tells him to close his eyes. By closing his eyes, the narrator is able to experience what drawing and thinking is like using his imagination, rather than logic and sight. The narrator had never experienced something like this and felt as though he was not inside anything (Carver 46). His new experience set his mind free for the first time. His prejudice was limiting himself from becoming a better person in learning to accept others and learn from them. The narrator learns he was blinded by his misconceptions and harsh judgment that never allowed for his mind to be set
People who are open to experience are intellectually curious, open to emotion, sensitive to beauty and willing to try new things. They tend to be, when compared to closed people, more creative and more aware of their feelings. They are also more likely to hold unconventional beliefs.