First of all, the diction in this poem is vernacular. The language that this poem is written in is Creole because the author is in fact a Jamaican. This style of writing or language affects the theme greatly. For it does not only explain how stereotyping is in this culture but it transfers on to other cultures as well. This includes the author’s image of it affecting all the educated and uneducated people of Jamaica. Stereotyping is not only present in Jamaica, or only with the low class or the high class. It is present everywhere and the fact that the words in this poem are Creole inflect this message on the reader.…
A small group of Separatists, or Pilgrims, first went to Holland and then settled the “Plymouth Plantation.” There these new settlers tried to replicate the villages and communities of England. Without assistance from the local Native Americans, the Pilgrims would not have survived in the New World.…
In A.B Yehoshua’s novel,The Lover, a chain of first person monologues are described. These monologues are set up in a mixture of flashbacks and conflicts that the characters undergo. This unique structure gives the novel a special meaning towards its description of the characters, and the story itself. For example, the character Asya is described to be a very hardworking independent woman. But, she has a odd relationship with her husband, Adam, who is a diligent man in charge of a successful mechanics garage. Throughout the story Adam and Asya never, hug never kiss, and they barley speak to one another. Meaning that this structure lets The Lover symbolize the loneliness and insufficient amount of recognition towards each of the characters.For instance, Daffi, the daughter of Asya and Adam, is a teenage girl in lack of attention. So, because of her parents barely paying any type of attention to her, she spends her time wandering the streets most of the day trying to keep herself productive by either stalking people or just walking around. After awhile,she then begins to connect with her fathers worker, Na’im, who also is alone and has no attention from anyone, and in the end they both fall in love. This basically shows how this novel details the meaning of loneliness and the importance of love.…
Her first relationship with Logan Killicks helps her realize that she should not settle for him, even though he is rich and can support her financially. She learns that she has to fall in love with someone out of her own free will, not because her grandma chooses him for her. After the first few months of leaving her alone, Logan starts to demand manual labor from Janie and stops treating her with respect: "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout choppin’ no wood nohow. She’d grab dat ax and sling chips lak uh man.…
In “Mang Minno”, a short story within ‘Where The Elephants Dance’ by Tess U Holthe , a young boy named Roman encounters a man named Mang Minno, who is believed by the island people to be Jonah from the Bible. When Roman meets him, he wishes to learn how to catch fish, so that he can show them to his father. He thinks that all he is getting himself involved in is a method with which to gain large amounts of fish, very quickly. However, he soon finds that he is getting involved in something far more sinister. As the story progresses, it becomes clear the Mang Minno is some sort of evil entity. However, without looking for clues as to who and what Mang Minno is, this story cannot be fully comprehended. In this short story, the antagonist, Mang Minno, displays similarities to vampires, and these similarities are important in clarifying different pieces of the story.…
Cited: Kincaid, Jamaica.“Girl”. In The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009. 541-542. Print.…
Janie’s grandmother, a former slave, also had a misguided impression of love. Rather, she felt respectability, not love, is the more important aspect of a husband. After catching Janie kissing Johnny, Nanny…
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For some they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That’s the life of men.” (pg. 1) Janie’s journey is seen through her grandmother and her three marriages, her solely purposes of finding her dreams of the true meaning of love. For some people they never find their horizons while others keep searching for it just like Janie did. Janie’s challenges throughout the book are conveyed by the use of imagery to conjure positive ideas to the reader’s mind. Hurston compares Janie’s love to “the pear tree” where she sees love as something so perfect. She compares love to blue skies, sunny days, bee pollinating pear blossom trees. Hurston’s use of…
Love has a variety of effects on people. When it is pure it can change people for the better and heal their pain. “Catch the Moon” was written by a Puerto Rican American woman and is set in the Caribbean Hispanic Barrio. “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” is written by a Caucasian man from New Hampshire and is set in a New England summer home waterfront community. In “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” The main character a teenage boy, believes himself to be in love with a beautiful girl he just met. However, In “Catch the Moon,” Luis feelings for Naomi redeem him by inspiring to return to acts of goodness. In “The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant,” The fourteen year old boy realizes that “loving” one for their looks is shallow and futile. These lessons to be learned in these stories are exceedingly important to know, especially as one grows into a young adult.…
In the short story’s, “The Bass, The River, and Shelia Mant” written by W.D Wetherall and “Catch the Moon” written by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the two main characters realize who they truly are by the end of the story. In “The Bass, The River, and Shelia Mant the narrator is in love with a girl he meets at his cottage in the summer. The narrator describes her in the story as “There was a summer in my life when the only creature that seemed lovelier to me than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant.”The story “Catch the Moon” includes the main character Luis who overcomes many obstacles, leading up to meeting a perfect girl for him, Naomi. In “The Bass, The River, and Shelia Mant” and “Catch the Moon” the female characters have a direct impact upon the lives of the male protagonists. The main characters both realize who they truly are by the end of the story. The change within each of these characters reveal theme. The theme in “Catch the Moon” states that love can help us move on, and confront our problems. The theme in “The Bass, The River, and Shelia Mant” concentrates on following your heart and not letting other people change you.…
In Nicole Krauss’s novel The History of Love she takes the life of a lonely man with a large appetite for attention and tells his story of lost love and an unknown family whom he watches from a far. The main character a man named Leo Gursky, in his late 80’s, lacks a family or the friends to support him. He manages to survive from the company of one man Bruno and the knowledge that his dream of being a writer is being fulfilled by his son, who doesn’t know Gursky even exists. Gursky found love early as a child in Poland his home land with a woman named Alma, the woman who would eventually also break his heart upon arriving in America. He strives to constantly be seen in theght and the same passion that someone else finds in his book is the one that will bring Leo and this mystery woman together in the end. It is a story told in a somber but creative and inspiring way that seemingly is the beginning of a twisted tale of bitter-sweet happiness as Gursky hopefully finds the fulfillment he lacks in his life.…
The story occurs at a non-specified time and in a “kingdom by the sea,” which connotes a fairytale and royal setting (2). The narrator’s love is special. The poem describes his anger and obsession to find an answer for her death, which makes him lose perspective in life. After he answers his question, he realizes that their love is not over yet because their “souls” are intertwined (32). Their love is eternal because the narrator believes that his love continues after death.…
Cited: Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” Dimensions of Culture 3: Imagination. Ed. Nancy Gilson, Cristin McVey, and Abraham Shragge. San Diego: University Readers, 2007. 485-86.…
The characters, a girl and boy who send love letters to one another, even though the letters will most likely never be read by the other, “i will keep writing like we promised to do, i hate it, but will keep writing. you keep writing too, okay?” (p. 8). The two continue writing, believing the other is as well. Over time the girl hears about a boat that had sunk off the coast of the Bahamas, where the boy had been going. She figures that her beloved has drowned, “Behind these mountains are more mountains and more black butterflies still and a sea that is endless like my love for you” (p. 29). The complex characters of the two, boy and girl and their love for each other is so heartwarming. When the boy drowns and the girl gets so sad and down, you can see the mood clearly. The mood of depression and everything is hopeless, not even love can…
"Her Sweet Jerome" is a short story about a married, black couple. Their relationship is not working and they don't really love each other.…