Ray Bradbury, and Li-Young Lee’s stories, “The Gift”, are both similar and different from each other. Both stories involve a gift, the gift being given by the father, a reason for why the father gives a gift, and how the boy reacts to getting the gift.…
Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita, was born in Saint Petersburg, RussianFederation on April 22, 1899 and died on July 2, 1977. Vladimir was a Russian-Americannovelist, he wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then later transferred to English writings.When Vladimir wasn't writing he would catch butterflies, he didn't drive either so his wife, Vera,would chuffer him aroundLolita is a book written by Vladimir Nabokov's. It showcases a story about Humbert, aEuropean, who had a rough life due to the death of his mother. When he was 9, he met a girlnamed Annabel Leigh who he falls deeply in love with. But later dies of a disease called typhus.Her death was the cause for Humbert’s new mentality. Humbert is now obsessed with young girlbetween…
“Our Christmas tree was never even an inch under eight feet, and it took the whole family hours to decorate it. Each year one of us was honored by being allowed to place the angel at the top of the tree, while Father help us up in his strong arms.” (Pelzer 22). This passage is a simile because this is how we are in Christmas, our tree would be long and it takes us a whole hour to decorate it. We are allowed to place the star on top of the tree, and that is what’s amazing about it. This brought my attention and interested me because it showed how good the mother was to her children and hoe kind she treated them, because the name of the chapter called Good Times. It also shows that the kid remember how good she was and then how she turned…
Amy Denver, the whitewomen who had helped Sethe through labor only appears once in the book during Denver’s story. Although she only appears once her tree reference to Sethe’s scarred back help soothe physical and mental pain. “its a tree Lu, See here’s the trunk its red and split open, full of sap, and this here the parting for the branches. You got a might lot of branches. Tiny little cherry tree blossoms , just as white. Your back got a whole tree on it. In bloom” (79). Amy Denver uses a euphemism for Sethes scar, calling it a chokecherry tree to try to ease the pain and sadness that the scar brings. The image of a chokecherry tree brings spring, bloom, and peaceful nature instead of the shame, pain and sadness that the scar truley represents. In attempts to try to ease Sethes pain even more Amy Denver searches for spiderwebs, another product of nature to drape over Sethes tree. Paul D says “Follow the tree flowers” he said “ only the tree flowers, as they go you go. You will be where you want to be when they are gone” (112). Nature brings a certain calmness and the characters references to trees support this…
“ Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ” In the short story, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”, by Walter Dean Myers explores the values of Greg Ridley, a fourteen-year-old boy who wants to play basketball but can’t because of his low grade in math. John Steinbeck’s novel, The Pearl, is about Kino and his family, who are poor, but when he finds the pearl he thinks that it will help him and his family ,but that soon changes when he goes to sell the pearl and as he becomes corrupt with greed. In both the “Treasure of Lemon Brown” and The Pearl, the main characters experience conflicts that change their views of what is important in life.…
Li-Young Lee’s, “The Gift” unquestionably communicates several ideas, some rather direct, and others buried within the rhetoric and composition of the poem. Although the meaning (of the poem) may be left to interpretation, one of the most prominent concepts of the story, in my belief, is the gift of love and consequent tradition of offering it to loved ones. In the beginning of the poem, the narrator describes his father comforting him in the painful situation of removing a metal splinter from his hand: “My father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade.” The father’s calm and affectionate demeanor can be further attested to in the second stanza, “...I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness, he laid…
In The Giver, The Elders who are the leaders and the members of the government decide on an answer; they choose to let go of the individual right such as freedom of speech and freedom to choose that people had fought for in the past in exchange for the development as a nation which leaves the people without any rights as citizens nor a human being and makes their world a dystopia. The search for what is more important between individual or community good still remains as a mystery for people today and will never have a definite answer. However, this lesson would at least benefit everyone from choosing the wrong…
In conclusion, the way Oliver uses, “The Black Walnut Tree,” to convey the relationship between a tree and a family is impelling. The figurative language used to describe the journey a mother and daughter go through to make ends meet relates to society now. Many families travel through months at a time, not knowing if they would have to sell something valuable, when they would run out of money, or when money would become hard to get, however they still remain strong and make wise…
The pear tree is a motif of sexuality and the possibility of connection between self, the world, and other persons within Janie. In ancient Chinese mythology, the pear tree symbolized immortal life because of the longevity of the tree, the same thought can be applied in Their Eyes Were Watching God. If Janie had not continued to have hope that love was an attainable idea than she would not have been so open to connecting with Tea Cake on a deeper emotional level, she let her ideas of love be immortal and long lasting, just like a pear tree, because she didn’t allow her feelings to die, she is able to learn that marriage is about love, happiness, and business. Janie has her first experience of sexual awakening under the pear tree with Johnny Taylor very early into the story, Nanny sees this and tries to warn her that love is not what she thinks it is and begins to express her traditional ideals of love and marriage to Janie, explaining that love has very little to do with marriage and Janie…
Just imagine a world where everything was the same all the time. Every day, the weather as plain and ordinary as the clothes you wear. This is the world perceived in The Giver. The Giver is a story of a boy named Jonas living in a dystopian society where everything is the same; the people, the homes, the weather. Though they have eliminated all fear, pain, war, and hatred, they have also eliminated choice. But when Jonas is chosen as Receiver, he must fight to bring choice, passion, joy, and love back to the hearts of his community. This type of society differs from modern society. The culture of current-day varies from the novel’s as well as its structure and values.…
The long search that Janie undergoes begins in her grandmother's backyard underneath the pear tree. While Janie was lying underneath its blossoming canopy, the pear tree " called her to come and gaze upon a mystery." (10) It is in this moment that the tree sparks Janie's curiosity about love and showed her what it looked like. The blooms "emerged and questioned about her consciousness." (11) Having seen what love was; the "singing bees," Janie immediately wants to find it for herself. The narrator states…
She becomes entranced by the blooming pear tree as she watched its interaction with nature; the way the visiting bees came to kiss the blooms, the “breath of the breeze” and the “ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight” brought Janie the realization that she too sought this ideal kind of marriage and love that nature espoused.…
I performed in a play “The Lorax”, which was based on Dr. Seuss’s book “The Lorax”. I played the role of “The Lorax”. The Lorax was the main character and protagonist of the play. The antagonist of the play was “The Onceler”.…
First, Nature has effects to human’s living. In this story chief’s wife dreams that the big tree was uprooted. They need to do it true follow dream because it is belief in supernatural and power dream. These things reflect to see the relationship to environment because trees are part of nature and nature is part of human’s life. Readers can see that trees…
Have you ever (on the weekends) watched a good movie and relaxed. What is your favorite movie? Why is it because of the qualities that the movies has or the actors? If I had to pick my favorite kid movie is The Lorax because of the qualities the movie has. I think a perfect movie qualities are meaning, a funny movie, and a twisty ending.…