Photographs capture the essence of a moment because the truth shown in an image cannot be questioned. In her novel, The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold uses the language of rhetoric to liberate Abigail from the façade of being a mother and spouse in a picture taken by her daughter, Susie. On the morning of her eleventh birthday, Susie, awake before the rest of the family, discovers her unwrapped birthday present, an instamatic camera, and finds her mother alone in the backyard. The significance of this scene is that it starts the author’s challenge of the false utopia of suburbia in the novel, particularly, the role of women in it. Susie, eager to use her new camera, hurries to the back of the house and comes upon her mother, unaware of her daughter's …show more content…
Makeup is used by woman to enhance their appearance to others. Susie as the omnipresent narrator, questions the meaning behind this. “That morning there were no lipstick marks because there was no lipstick until she put it on for...who? My father? Us?” (43). When Susie brings up the idea of lipstick and makeup, the audience is forced the question its role. The notion of an illusive mask that hides an individuals true identity is metaphorically similar to that of which was previously discussed, Abigail’s mystery. Now that the makeup is off her face, it compliments the idea that her mother is a stranger; however, it also reviews the reason women use makeup. By posing the question, for “who?”, the audience is left to wonder whether it is for her family, or just culture fixing the women of suburbia to the role of being pretty wives, instead of having individual personalities. Sebold then makes Susie, when narrating about her father’s description of Abigail’s eyes, a product of the same society that confines women to a lifestyle. “‘Ocean Eyes’ my father called her...now I understood the name. I had thought it was because they were blue, but now I saw it was because they were bottomless in a way that I found frightening” (43). Again, the author, by utilizing the metaphor of “ocean eyes” brings forward the idea that Abigail is more than just a mother and wife. The endless depth of
In 102 Minutes, Chapter 7, authors Dwyer and Flynn use ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the readers’ consciences, minds and hearts regarding what happened to the people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Of particular interest are the following uses of the three appeals.
Mothers always want the best for their daughters, it’s a given feeling for a mother. Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom is written in her perspective as the mother. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy tan writes the novel through her eyes as the daughter of the relationship. Both passages portray the harsh emotions between the mother and her daughter. These emotions are caused by the mother pressuring her daughter to achieve expectations. The two excerpts have similar stressful tones but Amy Tan’s novel is much more intense and displays a uglier relationship.
In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, he utilizes various literary devices to emphasize his many thematic topics. He demonstrates sin through the unholy nature of Abigail’s history with John Proctor with Abigail’s words, "I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!" (Miller 21). He reveals the wrongness of the situation, and shows the desperation Abigail has for John to return her feelings. due to his marital status and her age through his simile describing John’s actions and reactions near Abigail as animalistic and dirty. Miller’s similes also demonstrates the idea of good vs. evil through his description of the Devil’s effect on several girls. “...
/The beautiful wife. / For sometimes she fancied he looked at her as though, / Measuring her. As if he considered, had she been worth it? […] Whatever she might feel or half-feel, the lipstick necessity was something apart.” (Brooks, 48-53). It wasn’t as though she was afraid of her husband distinctly killing a young boy or even her being partially the cause of it; it was a feeling of guilt she was trying to cover up. Her entire fantasy is distributed and destroyed, she retreat inwards and uses her makeup to create a wall to maintain the foundation of her life based upon the fairy tale imagery. For many women, makeup is an extension to certain parts of themselves. Carolyn worked so hard to maintain this ideal image of having the perfect family, being an obedient housewife, looking after her children and basically being beautiful, than watching it all fall to ruins because of individual actions. One can only put on so much make up, like a placebo, it is harmless but it really only hides and masks the reality behind it. Eventually the truth will show, whether it is someone’s natural appearance, the qualities of a family or an individual’s true
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
Prevailing Purposes in “The Crucible” Playwright and essayist, Arthur Miller, in his play, “The Crucible”, utilizes pathos, symbolism, and irony to convey his purpose of how the events of the Salem Witch Trials had detrimental effects on the society and how far the elites went to protect their reputation . Miller’s reasoning is to expand Parris’ and Danforth purpose for their side of the argument during the witch trials. He adapts a contrasting tone in order to appeal to similar feelings with reasoning in his american readers.
As the American people’s standards and principles has evolved over time, it’s easy to forget the pain we’ve caused. However, this growth doesn’t excuse the racism and violence that thrived within our young country not even a century previous. This discrimination, based solely on an ideology that one’s race is superior to another, is what put many people of color in miserable places and situations we couldn’t even imagine today. It allowed many Caucasian individuals to inflict pain, through both physical and verbal attacks, and even take away African Americans ' God given rights. In an effort to expose upcoming generations to these mass amounts of prejudice and wrongdoing, Harper Lee 's classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, tells the story of
Close-calls is the most important literary device used in creating suspense in “Three Skeleton Key.” Close-calls creates suspense by getting the reader’s on the edge of their seats. In the text it says “The chief had just enough time to leap to his feet, and cry for help the rats swarming over him”. This shows that something really bad is happening right now because the rats are now in the tower and so the readers are pulled in and want to know if they will be able get away. Also, someone might argue that all of the other arguments rely on setting. However, it has nothing to do with creating suspense, it is just a location, the story could’ve taken place anywhere else and it still would not matter.
In sandra cisneros’s novella The House on Mango Street the author uses many rhetorical strategies to capture her audience's sympathy for Esperanza. These strategies include assonance, consonance, alliteration, and syntax.
In the passage Hester is trying to get William to let his children go to the circus. And when she asked him he didn’t say anything he just continued to read. Then she starts talking about how hard they work, and that the circus never hurt anyone. And William respects Hester and was rather proud. As the story starts to take of there is a little bit of a situation.
In this passage, Hawthorn demonstrates how Pearl has an unnerving and suspicious effect on her mother, which is portrayed to Hester by and image in Pearl’s eyes. It is made clear that Pearl is a constant reminder of Hester’s sin, and whenever Hester looks at the child, she sees what she describes as a symbol of “mockery.” This means that Hester has a very “troubled heart[]” and hence succumbs to various “delusions” which are likely a product of guilt and a trick of the mind rather than something of reality. Never the less, when Hester’s looks into the child’s eyes, instead of seeing her own image she claims to see an “elfish cast” or a “fiend-like” face. The words used create a mysterious if not dark and creepy connotation, particularly when
Imagine walking into a local pet store. The store associates watch as confused faces brighten up. The sound of puppy barks and yelps coming from the back of the store. There are multiple puppies to choose from, but the decision is not easy. Thinking of all the important task and care to own a pup has the customers second guessing taking one home. Then there is that one pup that is irresistible and is a definite to take home. Walking through the aisles with selves full of eye catching toys, food, dog beds and dog health care items. The customer chooses the cheapest dog food, a tennis ball and a cozy round bed, but there is no stopping there. At the end of the aisle, on a lonesome self, there are dog treats for a low price and just cannot help
Dreams, and goals change constantly. By new ideas presented, the people around, the environment... In the novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding utilized an allegorical way to describe how humans act to achieve well-being. At the beginning of the story, Ralph is the leader of the island. He is happy when he sees democracy work on the island. His dream is to maintain the island in an orderly fashion until they get rescued. But his values has changed immensely throughout the duration of the story.
The Crucible addresses the issue of racial oppression in America mainly through the character of Tituba. She is the manifestation of the ill-treatment slaves received and a victim of the paradoxical belief system of Puritanism.
Isolation is portrayed through Susie's personal haven, that isolates her from her family and friends. This is represented through the dialogue “I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.” She wasn't able to be with the living or dead in heaven. She tried to stay connected to the living making it unable to move on. Her isolations is symbolised in her father's penguin snow globe portrayed in the dialogue “The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.” This juxtaposed to how Alice describes Susie's personal heaven as her own “perfect world.” Susie's family is also plagued with isolation, by segregating themselves from each other as a grieving process, they avoid discussing the horrid events that occur in their lives. They drift further apart unable to confront each other. This is portrayed when each member of Susie's immediate family visit Susie's bedroom, to grieve privately. Abigail Susie's mother particularly portray isolation hiding beneath the facade of a mother figure. Susie's offender George Harvey even portrayed isolation hiding himself from his community, appearing strange but not a sexual predator, allowing him to continue preying on young innocent victims. This manifested from an abusive childhood that he