The passage is a representation of the protagonist’s loss of innocence; it represents a transformation from a young and apprehensive girl to a confident woman through a rite of passage. From the beginning to the end of the passage, the tone shifts from being anxious to self-assured. Angela Carter substantiates this through the use of her diction.“He dragged himself closer and closer to me” has a connotation of trepidation. Carter uses words such as dragged, harsh, and abrasive. The words harsh and abrasive, especially when paired with the word sandpaper, have negative connotations of unpleasant feelings. Carter also uses an exclamation point to authenticate the timorous voice of the protagonist. Towards the end, the tone shifts to acceptance and confidence. Carter demonstrates this by the use of words such as nascent and beautiful. “I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.” The protagonist is accepting the transformation into a tiger and loves the fur, unlike earlier where the protagonist was apprehensive. …show more content…
The transformation that occurs at the end of the story is significant since it has multiple meanings; leaving one life behind and embracing the next.
“My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders.” This represents how things of value in her old life become as common as water. The earrings have this connection to her old self and the human social constructs that come with it. “I shrugged the drops off,” in a way this act demonstrates that the protagonist no longer cares about valuables that humans care about and is “shrugging” it
off. The transformation can be viewed both as a sexual act and birth. “Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world.” The protagonist needed help from the best himself in order to be able to change. Originally, the beast requested to view the protagonist naked to see her for who she truly is. The beast was not interested in her body, but her true self; knowing there was a “beast” underneath. The pain and metamorphosis is symbolic to her losing her virginity. Earlier in the story there was some foreshadowing that this would happen. “I pricked my finger and so he gets his rose all smeared with blood.” The protagonist was giving her father to say goodbye, but tainted the beautiful white rose with blood. White itself represents innocence; when the blood gets smeared, it represents her loss of innocence, or virginity. The protagonist is maturing and become a women through this transformation.
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.
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the author utilizes repetition to showcase the growing frustration of the main character towards her husband’s ineffective treatment. Gilman repetitively asks herself “But what is one to do?” Her repetitive questioning conveys to the reader that the treatment that her husband is giving her for her illness is obviously not working. In reality, her husband is unable to figure out what she has and he only puts her in isolation to hope she gets better. This puts an emphasis on the growing frustration the main character is feeling; she knowns that the treatment is not working and she knows her situation is only getting worse. She is frustrated at this, which is evident through her questioning.
Upon the dancer’s departure, “the dancer, who though older was still languid and full of grace, reached out and tapped me with two fingers on the cheek, turned, and walked away” (185). Krauss uses this odd gesture by the dancer helps reinforce the strange quirks of the dancer and the author’s thought of the gesture containing “something condescending in it, even meant to humiliate” (185). The use of the words, “languid and full of grace” continues to strengthen the narrator’s fascination in the dancers beauty but also how the narrator feels uncomfortable with her interactions with the dancer. After the narrator’s encounter with the dancer, she walks by a crowded park “until a cry rang out, pained and terrified, an agonizing child’s cry that tore into[her] as if it were an appeal to [her] alone” (186). The author’s use of the painful and terrifying cry reintroduces the theme of a screaming child from the first passage which reinforces the author’s incapability to manager her guilt. The use of the word “agonizing” in this context suggests the overwhelming amount of guilt the author contains but in form as a youthful shrilling scream. Towards the end of the short story, the agonizing
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
The final passage possesses symbols which represent freedom and terror. The tone of this passage is one of personal closure for the protagonist. The is an emphasis upon voices throughout this passage, especially with the presence of the voices of her father and sister. It is hard to tell if the protagonist felt any true regret as she sank. It seems more like she is relieved. It is also possible that she felt as though no one could possibly understand her. There is an emphasis upon with masculinity and femininity in this passage. The “spurs of the calvary officer” clanging across the porch symbolize the strong masculine presence in the novel. It is possible that this strong masculine presence was what oppressed the protagonist, driving her to suicide. Directly after the strong masculine line is a very feminine one, “There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air”.
...ltimately makes the young girl feel that she will break underneath all the pressure she is placed upon by her peers. Inevitably it seems that Judith Ortiz Cofer used similes in order to connect both the act of maturing to a much more somber factor which have reinforced the tenor of the poem.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
Anticipation is prevalent throughout The Road, which is set by the narrative pace, creating a tense and suspenseful feeling and tone.
In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a pamphlet called “A Modest Proposal”. It is a satirical piece that described a radical and humorous proposal to a very serious problem. The problem Swift was attacking was the poverty and state of destitution that Ireland was in at the time. Swift wanted to bring attention to the seriousness of the problem and does so by satirically proposing to eat the babies of poor families in order to rid Ireland of poverty. Clearly, this proposal is not to be taken seriously, but merely to prompt others to work to better the state of the nation. Swift hoped to reach not only the people of Ireland who he was calling to action, but the British, who were oppressing the poor. He writes with contempt for those who are oppressing the Irish and also dissatisfaction with the people in Ireland themselves to be oppressed.
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
In the end, the journey the speaker embarked on throughout the poem was one of learning, especially as the reader was taken through the evolution of the speakers thoughts, demonstrated by the tone, and experienced the images that were seen in the speaker’s nightmare of the personified fear. As the journey commenced, the reader learned how the speaker dealt with the terrors and fears that were accompanied by some experience in the speaker’s life, and optimistically the reader learned just how they themselves deal with the consequences and troubles that are a result of the various situations they face in their
At this point of the story it is reflective of a teenager. A teenager is at a time in life where boundaries and knowledge is merely a challenging thing to test and in some instances hurdled. Where even though you may realize the responsibilities and resources you have, there is still a longing for the more sunny feelings of youth.
These lines demonstrate the stage of adulthood and the daily challenges that a person is faced with. The allusions in the poem enrich the meaning of the poem and force the reader to become more familiar with all of the meaning hidden behind the words. For example, she uses words such as innocence, imprisonment and captive to capture the feelings experienced in each of the stages. The form of the poem is open because there are no specific instances where the lines are similar. The words in each stanza are divided into each of the three growth stages or personal experiences.
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
Mary and Anton Rosicky are witnessing their neighbours continuously buying more land and feed more stock without hesitation. When a creamery agent comes to the Rosicky’s persuading them to sell him their cream, they deny his request saying they’d rather have the creams for themselves to feed their family than have money. Mary responds to the agent saying that she’d, “Rather put some colour in my children’s faces than put money into the bank”(7). She speaks using a metaphor in this quotation to describe what it is that she wants for her family. She compares health to having color in the cheeks and being wealthy to putting money into the bank. The presence of the metaphor impacts the message that Cather is trying to display by comparing the two things to help the reader understand what is important to the Rosicky’s family. The metaphor itself is another way of showing the reader that health is more important to farmers than anything else. In the same passage Cather depicts how being healthy is more important than having money. When talking about the neighbor’s children she says that they look like, “Pale pinched little things”(7). She mentions that because they sell more from their farm and don’t keep enough for them they look unhealthy. Cather shows through these words that even though the Rosicky’s neighbors may have had more wealth, they didn’t look healthy or happy. The use of the word “pale” depicts the lack of food that the children have had in a ghostly way. Similarly, the word “pinched” shows how their faces were pale from worry or