In the story Road Trip by Gary paulsen and Jim paulsen the authors starts foreshadowing what's going to happen next. An example of foreshadowing is on page (30)and (31) it starts off with “If you’da took care of your vehicle,you wouldn't a wound up with your bottoms in a sling like this,but you can't tell anyone anything these days”.…
The poem ¨The Highwayman¨ is about a bandit called the Highwayman. He falls in love with a girl named Bess. The Highwayman tells her that he has a job to do and will bring her back gold. He promises that he will be back by moonlight. A man named Tim who loves Bess overhears their conversation. Tim decides to tell the authorities, who were British soldiers where the Highwayman was going to be. Tim does this because he is jealous of the highwayman and Bess’s affections for him. When the Redcoats come they capture Bess for bait. Bess shoots and kills herself to warn the highwayman that the redcoats are there to capture him. When the highwayman hears what has happened to Bess he tries to avenge her death. While riding to the redcoats he gets shot…
“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance”-Orison Swett Marden. This quote speaks true, that to have courage, we need confidence and assurance. In the book The Road, a symbol often referred to is the father of the son. He represents the idea of an older figurehead helping you along your way, and reassuring you. This symbol also helps a theme function and come up.…
Life was quite different in the deep south during the 1930’s. It was during that volatile…
It is obvious that everyone is so anticipated that even the nature itself is waiting breathlessly – “the fireflies waited in the shadows”. Human interference with nature is the main idea of this piece of writing. It is obvious that “the pencil line across the sun” is an unnatural event and it shouldn’t be there. It is an example of a simile comparing two important sources of light – the sun and electricity. The repetition of the verb “closing” in the end of the second stanza shows, that although exiting, new things are always frightening, especially in the Third…
MacLeod frames the story by opening and concluding in the present time, by emphasizing the narrator’s feelings in the present. The protagonist finds himself very lonely after leaving his traditional life behind. He longs for his father and their boat, assert that “No one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters by the pier” (1). There I a repetition of the word “No” symbolize the absence of awareness in his life is in a disorderly fashion. Macleod uses the words: “Bitter”, “Grey”, and “Darkened” (1-2) to enforce images of darkness and dullness used to depict the gloomy state and a melancholic tone. The protagonist is uneasy with his present life and…
From the very first paragraph, the imagery in the story really gives you the melancholy feeling of death and sadness. The “rotting brown magnolia petals” and the “graveyard flowers” that spoke “softly the names of our dead” paint a vivid picture in your head of death. In this story a lot of things are connected with the color red. This red image always seems to symbolize death or sadness. The bird that died- the scarlet Ibis- was a red bird and Doodle, who was thought to die soon after birth, was connected with the color red at his birth and his death. At times the tone seems to be more fresh and happy, like the images of Doodle walking, but even this happy moment is brought to gloom when Aunt Nicey steps on Brother’s toe. He thinks he is going to be “crippled for life.” The image at the end of the story helps you get the feeling of regret. Brother was crying and sheltering Doodle from the rain.…
First of all, this poem is written in a first person’s point of view. She begins by telling the reader the cause of her pain and suffering – her “beloved sweetheart bastard” which gravitates into a sense of bitterness and vengeance/retribution. In addition to that, the use of oxymoron in the above-said phrase indicates a contradiction of words. The words “beloved” and “sweetheart” indicates a very admirable personality, but the word “bastard” gives us a completely conflicting quality. Besides, she tells us that she not only wished him to be dead, but instead she prayed for his death, evidently by “Not a day since then I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it…” She prayed so hard that she had “dark green pebbles for eyes and ropes on the back of my hands she could strangle with.” She uses metaphors here to explain to us that while she prayed, she had her eyes shrunk hard and felt that her hands were strong enough to strangle someone, which fits her murderous personality. It makes us feel piteous for her as seeing that she has suffered a great amount until it has reached insanity, but at the same time it makes us feel really disturbed by her mad identity.…
A poem was written to side with the prospective of the sirens. A poem that spoke of death, and the boredom…
On any ordinary day, the driver would have noticed these people, with all their burning and drowning and freezing; but he doesn’t because he’s worried about someone else. The imagery provides an excellent picture, “…he is tortured/ by visions and is wondering/if the man who got off at the last stop/was really being mauled to death/by wild dogs.” This part is a bit more open to interpretation; it almost gives off the sense that the bus driver has some sort of mental disorder, or “sixth sense” and is seeing all these dead people, as the connotation to “visions” tends to deal either with the insane or the paranormal. But, of course, it could be simply keeping with the message of the rest of the poem and showing the reader how people can sometimes get so caught up in the problems of one person that they don’t see the problems of other people, even if the other people’s problems are just as, if not more,…
Nabokov use symbols to create the suspense of death which ruminates in the readers throughout the reading.. For example, the day that the family was supposed to meet their son, it began raining. In most movies and literature, critics have seen the rain as a symbol of both death and renewal. Those critics wait for that suspense through the whole text but end up with no death or renewal. Also, after the couple gets to the bus stop, Nabokov adds the sentence, "...under a swaying and dripping tree, a tiny half-dead…
The Highwayman man is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes and the theme is Jealousy can resolve to bad things.”Where Tim the ostler listened. His face was white and peaked. his eyes were hollowed of madness. His hair like a moldy hay but he loved the landlord's daughter [line 20-22]”.This is important because it shows Tim listening to Bess and the highwayman's conversations.This is also important because it says in the text that Tim loves Bess as well as the highwayman and Tim told the guards where the highwayman would be.”They gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed ...They had a bound musket beside her [line 44-50].This is important because the theme jealousy can resolve to bad things is shown in the text.The…
“When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. When you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.” (Unknown). To be in a relationship requires not only physical attraction but also an understanding of mutual respect for one another, a balance that ensures healthy companionship.…
The way the author uses the countdown technique makes the work more suspenseful. This, in-turn, causes the pace of the poem to quicken as a relatively larger amount of time is covered in these number of lines. Furthermore, the way the narrator describes the scene so matter-of-factly makes the work seem heartless. However, the description of each customer contradicts this, because the narrator seems genuinely concerned about each one. This creates a nice contrasting effect which almost forces the reader to decide how he or she feels about it. The phrase: "and what a view just like in the movies:", makes the reader able to picture the…
Above all we may look at the dexterous use of words to convey the “twilight” atmosphere in the poem : evening train, yellow light, unseeing eyes , his eyes dimmed by age fade homeward ,gray…