4. Both rain and snow are paradoxical symbols because of the setting and mood of the reading it can represent different meanings that can result contradictory. For instance, rain can symbolize the ideal of cleanse and restoration when it falls, however, it can also signify “mud or dirt that cause to the land when it reaches down.” Similarly, “snow while it falls it is serene, but once some time has elapsed it can become filthy or suffocating.” Some examples of different atmospherics moods that both rain and snow creates are that of total justice. As in “The Dead” by Joyce and in “The Three Strangers” by Thomas Hardy, they symbolized how partial weather is with everyone that it falls “upon everyone between good and evil or living and dead.” On the contrary, they can also symbolize destruction due to the massive natural disasters they are associated with at a large rate as floods or blizzards. 5. Lateral thinking is more susceptible to being determined by conscious will. It is a definite way of applying the mind to a given theme or …show more content…
Both geography and season are significant in this short story because they made the development of the theme possible. In “Ripe Figs” there are only two characters Maman-Nainaine and Babette. Babette asked her godmother permission to visit her cousins, however, Maman-Nainaine knew that she was not prepared and conditioned her to leave until the figs ripen. A disconsolate Babette visited every day the fig-trees awaiting for this event to occur as soon as possible. Thus, Chopin utilized the passing of the seasons in her story, spring “for the leaves upon the trees were tender yet, and the figs were like little hard, green marbles”, then summer, “the first thing they both knew it was hot summer-time,” to illustrate a process that her character faced in order to teach her a lesson of patience and maturity. Finally, autumn arrived and her lesson encouraged by the seasons was learned, hence now Babette was ready to visit her
“Winter Evening” by Archibald Lampman, and “Stories of Snow” by P.K Page are two poems describing the human experience of winter. Winter is seen, by some, to be blissful, magical and serene. Winter could also be described as pure and heavenly, with the white snow resembling clouds. However, others have a contrasting viewpoint; they paint winter in harsher light, giving the impression that winter is bitter and ruthless. Others still, have a mixed viewpoint and may recognize both the positives and negatives to the season.
Joyce’s intentions of the snow will forever be open to interpretation, however it is reasonably evident that his intentions of the snow provide the reader with a symbol used to depict the unification and vulnerability of humanity. It is the snow that first showcases Gabriel’s dominant and superficial personality, and reciprocates itself as it serves as reasoning for the epiphany that illuminated his flawed humility.
Of course I do not consider myself to be a racist, or a bigot, but I am aware of socially conditioned stereotypes and prejudices that reside within. That awareness, and the ability to think for myself, has allowed me to approach issues with clarity of mind and curiousness at the social interactions of various movements. Buried in the Bitter Waters, by Elliot Jaspin, has easily awakened my sensibilities and knowledge of modern era race relations in the United States. I read each chapter feeling as if I had just read it in the pages before. The theme of racial cleansing - of not only the colonizing of a people, but the destruction of their lives and livelihood – was awesome. The “awesome” of the 17th century, from the Oxford English Dictionary, as in “inspiring awe; appalling, dreadful.” Each story itself was a meditation on dread and horror, the likes of which my generation cannot even fathom. It is with that “awe” that I reflect in this response paper.
Symbolism can also be represented by weather and colors such how it is done in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter. Throughout the story, Porter uses weather such as fog to represent hell and uses bright colors such as blue to represent what is good such as Heaven. The bad weather that Granny fearfully visions throughout the story symbolizes not only her death to come, but her fear of going to
Hastur, less an important character than one who is overlooked, joins the ranks of “Olympic-grade lurkers” (15) along with his coworker Ligur, though the other was admittedly the more accomplished of the two. Also a Duke of Hell, Hastur has a better understanding of human technology than most demons, but is still very traditional in his ways. Unlike Crowley, who believes that the growing population of the world requires a wider approach to tempting souls, he along with the rest of Hell surmise that the best way to secure souls is to whittle away at one at a time, slowly committing them to their future presence in the infernal regions. Though demons did not typically possess a deep-rooted evil, Crowley states that Hastur and Ligur “took such a dark delight in unpleasantness you might have even mistaken them for human” (253). He dislikes Crowley in many regards, stating that he has gone native after residing on earth since the first days, and calls him a ‘flash bastard’ because of his disapproval regarding his shift adapt to humanity. Despite this, Hastur is also aware that Crowley is highly favoured among the ranks of Hell, and is therefore uncertain that he is in reality not quite the useless field agent he appeared. He becomes paranoid when he is sent to collect Crowley, after his inability to inform his superiors about the mix-up of the Antichrist, that perhaps he is telling the truth when he says that Hell is testing him before he lead the Legions of the Damned in the upcoming war. This paranoia is in fact a very reasonable thing since he's grown up in Hell, where everyone really is out to get you. It actually turns out that yes, Crowley had been lying, and he was now stuck in his ansaphone machine. He spends a half hour trapp...
In the three short works, "Ripe Figs," "The Story of an Hour," and "The Storm," Kate Chopin has woven into each an element of nature over which no one has control. She uses short time spans to heighten impact and bring her stories to quick conclusions. She displays attitudes in her characters in two of her stories which may have been very controversial at the time they were written. "Ripe Figs" is the shorter of the three, covering a summer in a young girl's life. The figs need to ripen before she can visit her cousins. At first the leaves of the fig tree were tender and the figs were "little hard, green marbles" (4). Each time she would slowly walk beneath the leaves, she would go away disappointed. Then one day she saw something that made her "sing and dance the whole day long" (4). The figs were ripe. However when she sat some down before her godmother, the godmother said, "Ah, how early the figs have ripened this year!", but for the girl, they "ripened very late" (4). Kate Chopin's second short story, "The Story of an Hour," takes place in the space of an hour, during which a wife comes to terms with the death of her husband. Upon the news of her husband's death, she wept with "wild abandonment" (12). After "the storm of grief had spent itself" (12), she went to her room alone. There she sat in a "roomy armchair" (12), facing the window. She could see new life in the leaves on the trees and smell a "breath of rain in the air" (12). Also she could hear the sounds of life still going on; "a peddler was crying his wares, and the music of someone singing in the distance reached her, along with the sound of countless sparrows twittering in the eave...
The four stanza poem Desert Places is about Frosts’ sad emotions of looking at an empty field covered in snow, which is a metaphor of his own
Weather is like an author in itself, telling a story. In the book Holes. There was a vast, vibrant lake that made the town living by it survive. The lake produced every kind of nourishment for the town. It was the center of life. When Sam, the simple black man making a living from the lake crops, is murdered, the town suddenly stops getting rain. The lake ends up drying up and the town lays to waste. The lack of rain symbolizes the harsh payback the murderers had coming. It was a punishment to the town. Also Sam's girlfriend Kate is telling the story at that point, so the dried up lake means a sense of hopelessness for her. She wants to dry up and die just as the lake that Sam had lived on had done. Hopefully everyone knows the story of Stanley
For my book I chose to read The Body by Stephen King. This novel is about four young boys taking a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods that is at the county line. This story is about more than just four boys going on an adventure its about them becoming closer to each other and learning real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all going into their first year of middle school so this is a time in their life when they learn things that will help them in life.
“Lady Lazarus” provides unfiltered insight into the emotions and desires of a deeply tormented woman. Having been denied a relationship with her father, abased by a dissatisfied mother, betrayed by her husband, and deprived of the ability to take her own life, Sylvia Plath was desperately seeking control. Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” contains her evolution from a tortured and paranoid soul to a powerful feministic icon that seems to be more than human. Despite the openness of the poem, in nature and in form, the disturbing imagery works to place tremendous distance between the poet and the reader. While this places Plath at the center of a spectacle—a situation for which she clearly expresses her discontent—she secures a commanding position in which spectators could only view with detached fascination. Written in the tempestuous period surrounding Plath’s 30th birthday, the work contains vivid descriptions of her pain, but at its core it is a woman’s struggle for control. As the poem develops, Plath moves from a vulnerable state of suffering and weakness to a position in which she seizes control of life and death, warning God and Lucifer of her newfound power. Plath rises in steps throughout the poem, as if it were an outline of her strategy. The poet demonstrates the method in which she must first control her oppressors as well as her own experiences of suicide, later being rendered capable of completing this transformation as a result of her election to return to wreak havoc rather than embrace a mundane lifestyle.
In “Ripe Figs”, the imagery of nature is present, but at the same time, it is not heavy-handed. Here, Chopin introduces Babette and her god-mother Mamane-Nanaine as they wait for the ripening of the figs before a summer trip to visit family. As the figs were described as “tender yet” and “little hard, green marbles,” so too is Babette, a young child who has not yet grown into a young adult (11). Mamane-Nanaine sees this and is pressing her to slow down, but does not stop her from going out to check on the figs. It is in this way that Mamane-Nanaine is described as “patient as the statue of la Madone,” never trying to rush things, while Babette is “as restless as a hummingbird,” unable to sit still for any real period of time (11). This is a very good contrast between the two, the older one capable of staying still and savoring time as it passes while the younger one must constantly be moving, trying to hurry things and make the time pass quickly. While these images of nature are light, they are still present and are very pleasing metaphors, contributing greatly to this wonderful short story.
“The Withered Arm” is a tragedy of fate and is a story of two women
The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy What can we learn about Victorian society from the story The Withered? Arm by Thomas Hardy -? Do you think that the story is relevant for today. What is the best way to get started?
In the art world, everything is considered art, no matter how hard an artist did or din’t work on the piece of art. Art comes in many different forms and meanings. Artist can use art as a way to express themselves, get a message across to the viewers or readers, and leaving the artwork open for the viewer to decide what the art piece is. Charles Baudelaire wrote the art piece, The Joyous Dead in 1857, Henry Ossawa Tanner painted the artwork, The Thankful Poor in 1894, and Jackson Pollock painted the art work, Autumn Rhythm in 1950. These three artworks are reflections of self expression, yet they all represent a different expression.
Thomas Hardy was a famous author and poet he lived from 1840 to 1928. During his long life of 88 years he wrote fifteen novels and one thousand poems. He lived for the majority of his life near Dorchester. Hardy got many ideas for his stories while he was growing up. An example of this was that he knew of a lady who had had her blood turned by a convict’s corpse and he used this in the story ‘The Withered Arm’. The existence of witches and witchcraft was accepted in his lifetime and it was not unusual for several people to be killed for crimes of witchcraft every year.