This artwork represents the interrelationship between life and death. The cabinet is organised with vibrant colours of extravagantly alive objects with beauty and fragility on top of the objects that are camouflage colours, which symbolise war and unrest. The objects within the cabinet are similar and yet, contrast one another. This artwork shows the juxtaposition of nature and the threats that arose as conflict did. Hall has used great amounts of symbolism to create effect and evoke emotion. The purpose of the cabinet is to represent the morgue, a sense of captivity and helplessness. The cabinet holds many flowers, vibrant and beautiful, also holds a camouflage poppy flower. The poppy is a symbol of war. After a battle of WW1 red poppy’s sprouted in the battlefield. It is said they were red from the soldiers’ blood, representing death and remembrance. This artwork refers to the use of the earth, the natural world and the world mankind has created. It is a very political artwork, with representations of civil unrest, and aftermath of…
One day in Hardin, Missouri, Dead people decided that this was the day to give people a fright. In 1993 was one of the worst natural disaster that caused 15 billion in damage. 500 counties had been hit hard in 9 western states. Flood water covered 20 million acres of land. While the flood was happening, the flood water hit Hardin, Missouri’s cemetery that was buit in 1828 in a low laying area. When the flood hit Hardin cementary it rushed into the graves and unearthed the coffins. Hundreds of headstones, burial vaults, and coffins were swept away, and about half of the 1,576 graves in the cementary were destroyed. 50 people had died and 55,000 homes were damaged or…
The picture on the left is of the current flooding in Peru. We Nashvillians have a kinship with the people of Peru in that we understand how welcome a clean, dry set of clothes is when we have none. We remember what it feels like to have our most precious possessions float away.…
As an example of the duality of places he gives of Mount Rushmore and how it is viewed starkly different by different groups of people. By the Native Americans as deeply religious place and by others as the location of a monument dedicated to important white American leaders. He also writes about this same duality between Utah Lake and Mount Timpanogos. Mount Timpanogos would become an emblem for the Mormons elevated by a false history, but I reminder of home. While the Mormons would dismiss Utah Lake in favor of Timpanogos, its meaning for tribes who live by the lake and understand it’s vital life giving essence is sacred and important. Duality is a common theme within the…
Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson is “A gripping story about living morally under the shadow of rampant death.” The story shows a part of the world that many of us don’t know what feels like. It draws you into the plot, and makes you contemplate how you would act in the life threatening situation. In the story, a young adult, Mattie, is living through the fever in Philadelphia. With lots of loss, and sorrow Mattie always finds something to look forward too. The book Fever 1793 suggests that there will always be conflict, pain, suffering, and disease in life. If you focus in on the bright side, and put the things that matter, that remind you that there are things in life better than this, you can get through it.…
The book starts off by explaining about how a fence, New York City that was built to protect the Colonial settlement against the French and Indian raiders. Dutch Village of New Amsterdam was an expanding town in Manhattan Island that guarded homes, gardens, and churchyards. A graveyard, north from this town, stood, that was assigned to African Americans that’s labeled, “Negros Burial Ground.” In 1990 the city of New York sold the burial ground for African American to the government to use as an office building, not knowing what was underneath. Scientist, from Howard University, formed a team to examine the graveyard in 1992, finding 420 remains of men, women, and children. A black musician, Noel Pointer, teamed with local groups to collect more than 100,000 signatures on a petition seeking landmarks status for the burial ground. Suffering from pain and not seeing thoughtful promises, the black heritage, in Colonial America, searched for a safe arrival and seeks help for survival in the strange new land.…
After sometime from war, the place became a graveyard; the amount of corpse on the ground was uncountable. Smoke and bullets flying in the air created somewhat of a barrier that hindered our sight. The intense feeling of sadness and death captured the area like a big net. The mad sky started crying making the place damp and a worse battlefield. A while passed before the air and smoke got…
Tim O’Brien an author and veteran thinking about Vietnam. As Tim O’Brien recollects and presents a story about animating the dead — the scene with the toast to the dead Vietnamese — another story within that story unfolds, O'Brien recollecting the death of his childhood friend, Linda. After O’Brien’s Platoon took sniper fire from a little village, Lt. Jimmy Cross got on the radio and ordered an airstrike. “When it ended, we formed into a loose line and swept through the village. It was all wreckage. I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and torn up trees and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. The place was deserted- no people, no animals- and the only confirmed kill was an old man who lay face-up near a pigpen at the center of the village” (p.225-226). O’Brien’s use of concrete diction helps the reader understand the innocence of the poor old man that had nothing to do with the war but was just carrying on his day like the usual and all of a sudden these soldiers showed up and decided his death with an air strike. As the soldiers swept through the village “They proposed toasts. They lifted their canteens and drank to the old man’s family and ancestors, his many grandchildren, his newfound life after death. It was more than mockery. There was a formality to it, like a funeral without the sadness.” (p.227). As the old man sat helplessly against the fence the soldiers continues to harass the innocent old man without any emotions due to the fact that he is dead. As dusk came closer Kiowa talked to O’Brien about what the soldiers had done was wrong. “ You did a good thing today, That shaking hands crap, it isn’t decent.” (p.227) O’Brien being the new and innocent soldier of his platoon was pressured to do something he did not want to but he chose not to because of his past experience with someone dear to him.…
Before discussing how the spatial design and use of Evergreen Cemetery was reflective of African-Americans’ current, and hoped for, place within society, the place of the cemetery within African-American communities of the South needs to be established. African-Americans focused on death to such a degree that Booker T. Washington lamented, “The trouble with us is that we are always preparing to die.” (Cited in Roediger 1981:63). The…
The depiction of the family's surroundings while driving through Georgia offers many hints to their tragic deaths. At first it seems the O'Connor is just providing vivid descriptions of the land, but continuing through the story one begins to realise a constant theme within the setting. While driving the family "passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island" (660). What makes this passage so significant is the fact that there are six people traveling in the car, insinuating that the family will also end up in graves. As if this was not a big enough of a hint, later on in their travels the grandmother recalls an old plantation that she had visited in the neighbourhood of "Toombsboro" (662). Upon hearing this location, the word tomb comes to mind, symbolising death. It is also interesting that she thinks that the old plantation is in this specific town, since her wanting to go to the house is initially what causes the family's untimely end.…
The setting of the story took place in the 1800s, at a lone log cabin with a window that is boarded up, in the middle of an endless forest. It is the symbolism for isolation and sealing because of Murlock and his tragic story in that log cabin. The wild panther broke through the window and attack Murlock?s wife and Murlock scared it off with his rifle. The burial that is placed near the log cabin represents death and decay because of the wife?s body. Character vs nature was shown when Murlock shot at the panther and scared it away. The atmosphere in the story is dark and depressing because it takes place in the middle of a big forest with a lone cabin.…
“Tricia, in a pale yellow sundress with frills, had hung her arm outside the open window and the fair downy skin was glowing red.” (pg 124)…
The title “Homecoming” is used effectively to contrast the traditional universal implications of the word with the shocking reality of dead soldiers flown home from Vietnam to grieving families. The word “homecoming” usually implies a celebration or Heroic reception for a great achievement, with a return to roots and family. It would further invoke a sense of anticipation for the return of a loved one whom has a real identity and a place in the hearts of those awaiting his arrival. However, the title operates ironically because the “homecoming” described in the poem is related to death, mourning and loss and the arrival of a nameless body is quite different from the heartfelt joy extended to a loved one. By establishing Irony through the globally understood ritual of homecoming celebration, Dawe generates universal appeal. Through the use of Repetition, Dawe establishes the inhuman, machine-like processing of human bodies, a ghastly reality common to all conflicts that use innocent soldiers as cannon fodder. These soldiers will never have an opportunity to voice their protests…
The theme is about death; however the author did not take the usual path of a sad tone or mournful words. Bill’s memory is simply about what he does, how he looks coupled with the speed and dexterity with which he accomplishes his task.…
is the resting place of America’s most famous and infamous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” still resounds throughout the country……