the people who work hard consistently.
the people who work hard consistently.
In Frank Romero's mural, "Going to the Olympics 1984," the artist captivates the audience's attention by creating a mural at a freeway with powerful symbols such as cars, horses, two men wrestling, hearts, palm trees, post stamp, blimp and an iron. In addition his choice of colors wraps the image up making an inspiration and something that is cherishable. Each object has it's own meaning and that is for the audience to think of. When I see the cars I visualize what California in particular, Los Angeles is like since it is busy and we are dependent on cars for transportation. Not only that, but it reminds me of all the fun adventures I go in when I'm with my family. The hearts placed on top of the cars may demonstrate the love we have for cars or the love we must demonstrate to everyone and the love for mother nature. The palm trees are California's symbol as we are known as having great weather. Since it is supposed to be made as a homage, the iron demonstrates one of the Olympians before becoming one as he used to be an actor and made a film using…
Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home uses visual repetition to produce a Text which plays with its reader and invites its reader to play. Bechdel’s father committed suicide by stepping in front of a Sunbeam Ranch bread truck, and throughout the novel Bechdel repeats the Sunbeam Bread logo in moments she wants the reader to interact with, to explore more deeply. She invites us, with this logo, to make connections, to move backwards and forwards through the text and pay attention to the use of repetition. This repetition produces complexity and imitates the layered, playful process of memory, which adds meaning to arbitrary experiences retroactively. The Sunbeam Ranch logo appears in scenes Bechdel now associates with loss: loss of her innocence,…
teenagers is their passion and their lust just like the old cars. Once someone had a passion for the old cars, and once upon a time someone was in a lust by the old car as well. The speaker himself or should we say as readers James Dickey that he reads the lives of past generations into their wrecked vehicles. One example of the speaker putting lives into their wrecked and old vehicles is when he was in the front of the car imaging people in the car through the back window, and when he imagines the old lady taking toys to the orphanage. The type of symbolism that the author uses for putting people’s lives work in two different types of ways. The symbolism shows how the authors mind can make a setting or playgrounds anywhere it must a prime example of the author making a setting is when he turned the junkyard into a paradise. The symbolism of the author putting new lives or the owner’s old life’s into dead cars also shows how anything can become subject to age and deterioration.…
Composers employ various techniques to create distinctively visual texts which enable responders to clearly imagine, form meaning and understand a composer’s unique perspective. Henry Lawson’s short stories ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In A Dry Season’ realistically brings to life images of isolation and hardship in the Australian bush, Armin Geder’s picture book ‘The Island’ illustrates the alienation of a foreigner on a xenophobic island; and Nick Baker and Tristian Klein’s film ‘Punctured’ use similar distinctively visual qualities to exhibit images of loneliness. The aforementioned composers enable readers to envisage realistic themes of life and and understand their purpose through distinctively visual techniques.…
The objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor family once lived. In “Abandoned Farmhouse,” Kooser selects seemingly insignificant relics left behind by each family member to illustrate who these people were and how they lived. The picture he paints is a bleak one and reflects the impoverished life which the residents lived within this now lonely and desolate building. The poet leaves it up to the reader to deduce what exactly has transpired in the farmhouse, inviting many interpretations based upon the evidence left behind by the previous residents.…
Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia published in 2008 is a piece that shows the true meaning of life experiences through a seamless flow of writing and illustration. The short stories convey real life situations such as family, love and everyday struggles by welcoming the readers to enjoy the beautiful tone of the art and words put into every piece and to truly find the underlying message of each story. In the short story “Stick Figures”, Tan digs into the reality of struggles within not belonging and other sorts of harassment through the use of metaphorical words. Tan’s use of words and sentences is an allegory…
Shmoop Editorial Team. “The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis.” Shmoop, Shmoop University, 11 Nov. 2008, www.shmoop.com/yellow-wallpaper/literary-devices.html. Accessed 24 Apr. 2017.…
The story “I used to live here once” is a short story based on a woman’s journey returning to a place she once called home. The author uses symbols throughout the story to demonstrate to the reader that the woman is no longer alive. The ultimate theme is not discovered until the end of the story. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss my interpretation of the theme and symbol of this story.…
In “ The Treasures Of Lemon Brown”, Walter Dean Myers uses dialogue and figurative language to develop the mood, setting, and characters of his story. In the story, the author demonstrates usage of figurative language to create setting when he writes “Bits of papers danced between the parked cars”. By using a metaphor to create an image…
A short story I have read and thoroughly enjoyed is “Home” by “Iain Crichton Smith” I chose this short story because I found the authors’ style of writing interesting and the way he showed the characters’ experiences and emotions. The short story is based around the main characters’ understanding of home and the experience he has which, I believe, changes his idea of the definition of home. In this essay I will analyse the techniques used by the author to show the true definition of the word “Home” to the main character.…
Since the story focuses on the main character’s struggles in the assisted living center, I titled the story “The Home”. Maintaining Gilman's diary format, I used asterisks to divide entries and wrote in the first person with minimal dialogue. Along with short declarative phrases, I used drawn out sentences to mimic long winded diary prose. The dashes and exclamations help reflect changes in the narrator's attitude. This short story reflects the Realist movement by depicting a typical lady’s struggle with isolation in a nursing home. The story illustrates the loneliness many parents experience after their matured children distance themselves. Like “The Yellow Wallpaper”, I added psychological horror by making the narrator mentally unstable and oblivious to her insanity I also kept the reason for the narrator’s stay in the institution ambiguous for further mystery. Thus, through similar syntax and parallels in theme, I mirrored the style and psychological horror of “The Yellow…
According to Neil Bessner (Bessner), postmodernism is a "slippery term to define" (15). If we look at the literal meaning of the word in a regular dictionary, we may encounter something like "a style and movement in art [ ] in the late 20th century that reacts against modern styles, for example by mixing features form traditional and modern styles" . In fact, it has extended many of the fundamental techniques and assumptions of modern literature. A lot of aspects and characteristics of this relatively new current are well exposed in short stories such as "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood (Atwood) and "Videotape" by Don Delillo (Delillo). In this essay, we will first look at some basic elements of postmodernism and then we will closely examine the ways each of those two short stories exemplifies this type of fiction. Let us start with the examination of some features of postmodernism.…
Although some say that Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s choice for narrator’s tone and view point in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” only gives readers an askew view of what occurs in the story, it reality it is the perfect perspective to view the main characters downward spiral into insanity.…
In Charlotte Gillman’s tragic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gillman skillfully creates a living world to highlight the importance of self-expression. Strongly written in a first-person narration point of view, the reader is able to understand the thoughts and actions from a specific character. By writing in this point of view the readers are able to get a more realistic perspective towards the deterioration of the narrators state of mind, and are introduced to a more developed plot.…
The story begins in a leisurely manner with the sketchy background. The old Greenwich village in which painters come to set up their art studio has curious maze streets criss-crossing one another. A traveler loses the directions of the streets. This description of the streets has relevance to the story in which a strong and strange psychological morbidity is focused. The main theme is then introduced it has two characters – Sue and Johnsy. They met together suddenly at a hotel and found themselves sharing taste chicory salad, bishop sleeves and in painting. They become intimate friends and in a cheap rented house two friends Sue and Johnsy set up a common studio. The humours beginning arrest the attention of the readers and relive the tension that awaits them.…