Rylan Geissler I read the realistic fiction story, What Light by Jay Asher for this book talk. In a realistic fiction story the characters, setting and conflict has to be realistic. In the story What Light, the main character Sierra travels from her hometown of Oregon to her family’s Christmas tree farm in California every year during Christmas break. While in California, she meets a significant love interest named Caleb. However, he is not your typical guy, as he is faced with paying the consequences of what he did to his sister years ago. But, Sierra sees past these issues and accepts him for the person he has become, the person she fell in love with. Their relationship was going great until Sierra forgot to mention the situation that she is in. There is a possibility that Sierra may not be able to come back to California next year. This created several issues within their relationship. They contemplated many ideas such as breaking up or seeing each other during spring break. Through Sierra’s journey, she learned that second chances should always be given, no matter the …show more content…
This is evident when he writes, “We climb back through the brush, and I turn around to admire my trees one last time before I leave. I hold Caleb’s hand, not knowing how many more chances I’ll get to do this in my life. He points away, towards my family’s tree lot. From up here it looks like a small, softly lit rectangle. The lampposts and snowflakes that link between the trees brighten their deep green. There’s the Bigtop and silver trailer. I can see bodies move between the trees, a mix of customers, workers and maybe Mom and Dad. Caleb slides behind me again and wraps me in his arms. This is home, I think. Down there… and right here” (Asher 213). As you can see, Jay Asher used sensory details in this very significant passage. The sensory details really helped me visualize and understand what was going
War was one of the most difficult and brutal things a society could ever go through. World War II was especially terrible because it affected so many people.World War II was centered in Europe and the people of the European countries felt the effects much more than many of the other countries that were also participating in the world war. In the book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr, the story took place during World War II in Europe, the center stage for the war. This war was one of the most difficult wars because it destroyed homes, displaced thousands, tore families apart, killed off loved ones, and forced people to make tough decisions they had to live with for the rest of their lives. In All The Light We Cannot See,
Analysis: This setting shows in detail a location which is directly tied to the author. He remembers the tree in such detail because this was the place were the main conflict in his life took place.
In Christianity, trees were viewed as a primary source of life and knowledge, exhibited in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:9). Denver used trees as a safe haven for her; a safe place where she can hide from her mother after the trauma that transpired the night that crawling already? was killed. “Veiled and protected by the live green walls, she felt ripe and clear, and salvation was as easy as a wish,”(Morrison, 29). Contrasting with the safety of the trees for Denver, Sethe’s idea of trees has much darker connotations. As a child, she saw “Boys hangin’ from the most beautiful sycamores in the world. It shamed her-remembering the wonderful soughing trees rather than the boys,” (Morrison 6). For Sethe, the symbolism of trees has been twisted into viewing trees not as hope, but as death, and the pain from her past. As Amy had observed, the scars on Sethe only served as reminders of her painful time at Sweet Home, where she had very little hope for the future. A lesson that should be derived from this book is that the perspective from which you look at the past could help it become less painful. Sethe is too focused on the pain of her past, so therefore she is unable to see trees as they were meant to be seen, while Paul D views them as a pathway to second chances. He views trees as “inviting; things you could trust and be ear; talk to if you wanted to as he frequently did since way back when he took the midday meal in the fields of Sweet Home,” (Morrison,
“Art can use the power of visual image to challenge and even change popular opinions about important and universal issues. Art can be a very influential way to give a strong, direct comments and criticisms on things that have happened in society and culture.” (Rehab-Mol J, 1998, p6) Indigenous art is mostly about connecting to their land and their religious belief; however, art has different forms, especially the Indigenous contemporary art as it uses ‘modern materials in a mixed cultural context’. (Aboriginal Art Online, 2000)
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr, a famous war soldier once said, "The truth of the matter is you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." Although society has the potential to help others in need they restrict themselves from doing the right thing. But when society is challenged with a problem only some step up against to the odds to make a difference. Throughout history, during times of devastation and separation there are people that show a ray of light that gives people hope during the darkest times.
Finding Enlightenment in the Dark: An analysis of light in Camus’s The Stranger. In The Stranger, the protagonist Mersault becomes ostracized from his society due to his emotional separation and unwillingness to play by societal rules. His continual apathy and expression that everything “didn’t matter” eventually led to his death sentence (8). Mersault focuses on his physical surroundings, commenting on the light and the heat around him. He perceives the world through his senses, not through his emotions.
Jim’s feeling of loneliness has a big impact on his view of Alena. If Jim met another girl that day on the beach, and who was not as attractive he would have acted very different. Jim was very vulnerable at that moment and needed som...
For example, the passage takes place in Giovanni’s room, which is a small, crowded room. When David describes the room, he describes it as messy and with trash everywhere. Sensory image is used to amplify how messy Giovanni’s room is. David says, “The table was loaded with yellowing newspapers and empty bottles and it held a single brown and wrinkled potato in which even the sprouting eyes were rotten” (Baldwin 87). David later admits, “I examined the contents of the innumerable boxes and suitcases and disposed of them” (Baldwin 88). Sight imagery is described with the yellowing newspapers, empty bottles, boxes and suitcases which emphasize how disorganized Giovanni’s room was. The description of Giovanni’s room foreshadows how messy David’s and Giovanni’s relationship is. David admits, “Each day he invited me to witness how he changed, how love had changed him, how he worked and sang and cherished me. I was in terrible confusion.” David does not know how to feel about Giovanni, his thoughts and emotions about him are all over the place like the newspapers, suitcases and empty bottles in the room, but at the same time he likes being in Giovanni’s room because it allows him to feel safe and makes him feel appreciated. Giovanni’s appreciation for David is shown when David reveals how Giovanni is grateful when David is in his company, he says, “…Giovanni smiled his humble,
Nathaniel Hawthorne's bold novel, The Scarlet Letter, effectively employs three major symbols: light, dark, and the scarlet letter. The novel relies heavily on light and dark symbolism to represent the eternal struggle of good versus evil.
Epiphany in Astronomer’s Wife, When I consider how my light is spent and Everything That Rises Must Converge
Core Question 1: Why does the author use a metaphor on page 128, paragraph 35?
Some of the major characters in All the Light We Cannot See are Marie-Laure LeBlanc, Werner Pfennig, and Etienne LeBlanc. Marie-Laure is the daughter of a Paris museum locksmith; she had gone blind by the age of 6. Marie-Laure coped with her blindness by touching a wooden replica of their neighborhood so she could learn how to navigate it even though she is blind. Marie-Laure’s father had received a diamond called The Sea of Flames which was rumored that the owner of this stone would live forever. But not long after he had received this stone, Marie-Laure and her father evacuate Paris so that her father could deliver the stone to a friend of the museum.
With both hands resting lightly on the table to each side of his white foam cup, Otis stared into its deep abyss of emptiness with his head bowed as if willing it to fill again, giving him a reason to enjoy the shelter that the indoors provided. I could almost touch the conflict going on inside of him, a battle of wills as if he was negotiating with an imaginary devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. I sensed a cramp of discomfort seizing his insides, compelling him to flee, then a silent resolve, as if a moment of clarity had graced his consciousness.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that” (Martin Luther King Jr.). Martin Luther may not have been writing this about The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but it clearly connects. Throughout this book sin and purity are depicted by light and darkness. There are many examples of this in The Scarlet Letter.
He takes a piece of the tree with him as a “curious token” and places it openly in his room. “I plucked a twig” “and brought it away—And I have placed it in sight in my room.” (p. 1096) I think he does this to remind him, although he longs to share his life with another and cannot phantom the possibility of living any other way, it can and does