A number of literary elements can be see throughout the story High Holy Days like figurative language and speaker. One example of a literacy element present in this is story is the use of simile “like matching dolls”. The author, Jane Shore, uses first person point of view to convey the message of the poem of telling about the main characters internal conflict. She also implies different Jewish holidays such as Yom Kippur and the Jewish New Year. Throughout the poem, she refers to Jewish culture like killing lambs. The poem talks about the Torah and Synagogues. In the poem there is internal conflict of narrator, the speaker is a little girl, and there is use of figurative language. The core of High Holy Days is a little girl figuring out why is she the Chosen One. From line 53 to line 74, she has internal conflict on why the girl is chosen, evented by “I watched it fall... back into the Jew-hating world”. On line 57 she said “Why would God choose me”. While having internal conflict on why she is chosen by God, she thinks back to The Night of the Broken Glass. Night of the Broken Glass is the night where the Nazis broke the …show more content…
windows of the Jewish stores. She thinks about how she can help strangers defend themselves by broken windows and spray-painted writing on the wall. That is what the core the poem is. The speaker in the poem is a little girl that does not want to be there.
This is evident because in Jewish synagogues, people are separated by gender. Since the speaker was sitting next to her mom, the speaker must be a girl. The speaker has a wandering mind as seen in line 24-25. She said, “Each time we sat down my mother rearranged her skirt”. One can infer she was a child by the way she spoke; she said “It was hot. A size too large.” Due to the simple sentence structure and low vocabulary level, you can guess that she is in primary school. The reader is led to believe she knows a lot about Jewish culture with the many references she makes to them. One of many examples is seen on line 31, she explains “ stick-figure battalions marching to defend the Second Temple of Jerusalem. That is how you can tell the speaker of the poem is a little
girl. The use of language in High Holy Days is very strong. It has similes, alteration, and allusions. Shore uses a simile in line 14 when she is referring to the two Torahs and calling them “like matching dolls each a king and a queen”. An example of alteration can be seen in second line by calling it “my wool winter suit scratched”. Shore uses a lot of allusions in the poem, for example, in the title of the poem she calls the poem High Holy Days. That alludes to the Days of Awe. Days of the Awe is the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. She also alludes on line 73 to the Johan story in, which a whale eats Johan, and God commands the whale to spit him out. Those are some of the examples of figurative language in High Holy Days. As you can see, in High Holy Days, there are a number of literacy elements. There is the use of figurative language similes, alteration, and allusions. The author, Jane Shore uses 1st person point of view to convey the message of the poem effectively by show what a synagogues look like from inside. She also implies different Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah. In High Holy Days, there is the use of 1st person point of view, it infers to Jewish holidays, and there is use of figurative language.
The readers are apt to feel confused in the contrasting ways the woman in this poem has been depicted. The lady described in the poem leads to contrasting lives during the day and night. She is a normal girl in her Cadillac in the day while in her pink Mustang she is a prostitute driving on highways in the night. In the poem the imagery of body recurs frequently as “moving in the dust” and “every time she is touched”. The reference to woman’s body could possibly be the metaphor for the derogatory ways women’s labor, especially the physical labor is represented. The contrast between day and night possibly highlights the two contrasting ways the women are represented in society.
The author Jeannette Walls of the Glass Castle uses the literary element of characterization to further the theme of the individual chapters. Walls, divides the novel into sections which signify different parts of her life. During one of the last sections in the later half of Jeannette Walls life she comes accross the character by the name of Ginnie Sue Pastor. Ginnie Sue is a single mother who works at The Green Lantern (a local brothel) in order to support her family. When Jeannette first comes across Ginnie Sue she thinks to herself, “It was only on the way home that I realized I hadn’t gotten answers to any of my questions. While I was sitting there talking to Ginnie Sue, I’d even forgotten she was a whore,” (Walls 163). Jeannette is referring to her question she had earlier anticipated on asking which related to her
The metaphor the Glass Castle represents is a perfect life that the family cannot have. The dad is a drunk, he has this big plan to build a castle made of gold with a cooling system in the desert. The only thing that makes that metaphor true is that it is impossible, the castle would overheat. Jeanette is important because she is the reason why the dad wants to build the castle, Jeannette is his little “mountain goat”, the child that he is really want to make happy. If he builds this castle they can have a perfect life, that is why he focus so much on trying to improve his prospector.
It is commonly believed that the only way to overcome difficult situations is by taking initiative in making a positive change, although this is not always the case. The theme of the memoir the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is that the changes made in children’s lives when living under desperate circumstances do not always yield positive results. In the book, Jeannette desperately tries to improve her life and her family’s life as a child, but she is unable to do so despite her best efforts. This theme is portrayed through three significant literary devices in the book: irony, symbolism and allusion.
Fire. Neglect. Sexual Molestation. No one child should have to face what Jeannette Walls had to endure as a young child. However, Walls clearly shows this chaos and the dysfunctional issues that she had to overcome while she was growing up. Within her memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls incorporates little things that were important in her life in order to help the reader understand her story even more. These little things amount to important symbolisms and metaphors that help to give the story a deeper meaning and to truly understand Jeannette and her family’s life.
As the poem begins it is seemingly unimportant and petty. A child complains of her wool winter suit that was “a size too large” (2) and sits in competent silence knowing the High Holy Days are a part of tradition that she must sit through and endure with patience though she feels she could probably perforate a hole in the “borrowed prayershawl” or the “black yarmulke” she observes with boredom. Noticing the scrolls of the Torah and the impact they seem to have on the observant girl, the writer emphasizes just how sacred the religion is to the culture of people whom participate in the High Holy Days.
Although the little girl doesn’t listen to the mother the first time she eventually listens in the end. For example, in stanzas 1-4, the little girl asks if she can go to the Freedom March not once, but twice even after her mother had already denied her the first time. These stanzas show how the daughter is a little disobedient at first, but then is able to respect her mother’s wishes. In stanzas 5 and 6, as the little girl is getting ready the mother is happy and smiling because she knows that her little girl is going to be safe, or so she thinks. By these stanzas the reader is able to tell how happy the mother was because she thought her daughter would be safe by listening to her and not going to the March. The last two stanzas, 7 and 8, show that the mother senses something is wrong, she runs to the church to find nothing, but her daughter’s shoe. At this moment she realizes that her baby is gone. These stanzas symbolize that even though her daughter listened to her she still wasn’t safe and is now dead. The Shoe symbolizes the loss the mother is going through and her loss of hope as well. This poem shows how elastic the bond between the daughter and her mother is because the daughter respected her mother’s wish by not going to the March and although the daughter is now dead her mother will always have her in her heart. By her having her
In The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, the glass menagerie is a clear and powerful metaphor for each of the four characters, Tom, Laura, Amanda, and the Gentleman Caller. It represents their lives, personality, emotions, and other important characteristics.
...sed society with religious overtones throughout the poem, as though religion and God are placing pressure on her. The is a very deep poem that can be taken in may ways depending on the readers stature yet one thing is certain; this poem speaks on Woman’s Identity.
Tennessee Williams’ play, “The Glass Menagerie”, depicts the life of an odd yet intriguing character: Laura. Because she is affected by a slight disability in her leg, she lacks the confidence as well as the desire to socialize with people outside her family. Refusing to be constrained to reality, she often escapes to her own world, which consists of her records and collection of glass animals. This glass menagerie holds a great deal of significance throughout the play (as the title implies) and is representative of several different aspects of Laura’s personality. Because the glass menagerie symbolizes more than one feature, its imagery can be considered both consistent and fluctuating.
Love Makes people do crazy things. Love can blur the thin line between right and wrong. Love can also show the worst sides of a person. Nellie, the main character in “The Looking Glass” by Anton Chekhov, let her infatuation with love obscure her morals and values. Nellies let her obsession with love turn her into a selfish and manipulative person. She exploited others for her personal use. The author uses figurative language to show Nellies transformation throughout the course of her dream that caused her to become selfish.
Symbolism is a type of literary device authors use to add special effect and meaning to their stories. According to The American Heritage Dictionary, symbolism is “The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships (“symbolism”).” Objects, people, actions, and words often are used to symbolize a deeper meaning throughout the text of a story. As one reads a story, they must realize that each sentence they are reading could have a double meaning; this means that further thought is often necessary, on the part of the reader, to better understand the whole effect the author was trying to portray. Tennessee Williams wrote The Glass Menagerie in a somewhat complex and confusing manor; if the reader does not read into the meaning of the symbols that are scattered throughout the text, the story is misunderstood.
Tennessee Williams employs the use of symbolism in The Glass Menagerie. Among the many symbols within the play is the fire escape. In the context of The Glass Menagerie, the fire escape represents an escape from the dysfunction of the Wingfield family. It is used as a door to the outside world, an escape, and it is integral to the plot of the story. Tom views the fire escape as a way out, it reminds him of the decision that he needs to make - should he stay and be miserable or leave and be happy, but abandon his sister? Laura is bound by the fire escape, it is an outlet into a world of the unknown, it is both a physical and emotional barrier for Laura. Tennessee Williams use of symbolism in The Glass Menagerie is exemplified through the fire
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“Holy Thursday” is actually two poems. The two poems have two completely different tones. “Songs of Innocence” has a happy rejoyceful tone and beautiful imagery, while the “Songs of Experience” has a mournful and somber tone. “Song of Innocence” emphasizes the beauty children bring to the church. In contrast, “Song of Experience” states that there are a number of poverty stricken children in the church and nothing is being done to improve their situation.