“Mama, Mama,” cried the baby while pointing at the woman. He sat down playing with his dead mother’s hair. They looked like they were murdered. A couple hours later the baby fell asleep on his mother. That night Jonathan could not go anywhere because his foot was tied to one of the Hessian’s foot. He quietly untied the rope from his foot, went outside, grabbed the baby and headed towards the tavern. While the baby was sleeping on Jonathan’s shoulder, Jonathan walked through the woods in cold harsh weather. Finally he had reached the tavern.…
Chudley utilizes diction very carefully to create suspense throughout this novel. The first example of diction is the connotation of the title Stolen. The denotation of stolen is an act of stealing a possession or theft. Chudley does not use the literal meaning of stolen, but uses an overtone of the word. When Chudley named the book Stolen, he meant that Nate, the child, was “stolen.” Nate was a mere possession of John’s, but was kidnapped by the Wetherall’s. The author cunningly utilized the word stolen to make the reader anticipate what object was being stolen; however, that object was John’s son Nate.…
He tells the story of a young girl and boy in trying situations and persuades his audience to feel sorry for them. The boy lives in a bad area. His father is “jobless” and his mother is a “sleep-in domestic.” The girl must take on the “role of [a] mother” because her “mother died.” What reader can help but feeling sorry for a young child who has no hope? They still live in fear and desolation and have no hope, for their race is sinking. Once, their people worked with “George Washington” and “shed blood in the revolution.” But, they fell from higher hopes and were put on “slave ships... in chains.” The reader can’t help but feel sorry for a race that has been so abused and taken advantage of.…
All actions have consequences. Sometimes one does not have to participate in the action, but only be related, and the crime committed can have serious consequences for everyone. The consequence, or lack of consequence, is determined by one’s upbringing. This is clearly the case present in Robertston Davies’ Fifth Business. Although Boy committed the crime, Dunstan feels a profound sense of guilt about the snowball incident. On the other hand, Boy obliterates his guilt. Guilt and lack of guilt can clearly be seen through character’s lives, relationships and philosophies.…
In the heart of New York, Tom Walker decided to take a shortcut through a park. Tom stumbled upon trees with many different names carved onto them. On read “Crownshield” and another read out “Deacon Peabody”. On particular tree stuck out the most “Captain Kidd”. As a kid Tom heard many stories about Captain Kidd and how he buried all his treasures under a tree. Tom thought about all the things he could do with that kind of money. Maybe he would even leave his wife. After all him and his wife didn’t have such a healthy relationship anyways. They constantly stole things from each other.…
The novel Pudd’nhead Wilson takes place on the banks of the Mississippi River and in the first half of the 19th century. David Wilson has moved into town and a misunderstood comment gives him the nickname “pudd’nhead”. Pudd’nhead Wilson doesn’t become a significant figure until the end of the story while the focus switches to the slave Roxy, her son, and Percy Driscoll. Roxy is only 1/16 black and her son Valet de Chamber is only 1/32 black. Slaves had got caught stealing and are almost sold “down the river” to another master, and Roxy is scared for her and her sons life. She almost decides to kill herself and her son Chambers but then decides to switch her son Chambers and her masters 2nd child Tom, in their cribs so her son can live the life of a white person. Chamber then believes he is white and is raised as a spoiled child, who has grown up to be a selfish person. Throughout the novel Twains tone is racist which is evident in Roxy’s treatments, Percy’s harsh discipline towards the slaves and Tom being black and the antagonist of the novel.…
“I am around seventeen now and had come to realize that my old dreams of returning home would never happen, and that my family were either dead or working on those horrible plantations, that I had so narrowly escaped being sold to. My master was truly kind and I came to love him, like all the other servants.” He was getting old now and ill quite often, so his only son returned home to care for him. The servants were all relieved to find that he was just as kind as his father. When Rain’s master finally passed, his son took over the estate and offered to release them from his service, but Rain along with the rest of the servants, knew that they would only end up being resold to plantations or other homes, so they all agreed to stay and serve him as they had his…
Wilson’s overall thesis in “Terrible Beauty” is that: it is in recognizing and accepting death's inevitability that one can appreciate episodes of melancholy and the abnormalities of life as beautiful and necessary to genuinely experience what is profound. The author develops this thesis through Keats’ posthumous outlook of life, stating that he is taking a “double stance” and “suffering death while transcending death.” Keats ultimately accepted life’s fleeting nature and discovered beauty through suffering. Through this awareness, he realized that pain promotes true joy as everything is temporary, and complacent or ignorant tendencies limits us from our real…
Part of the absurdity of civilized society that Twain depicts is that society's accepted rules and laws are logic defying. One example of this is when the new judge in town allows Pap to keep custody of Huck, but Jim will never be able to gain custody of his own children. Huck would be better off without his father and is only mistreated by him, and Jim's children would be better off with him instead of being separated and enslaved. However, society is not concerned with the personal welfare of the individual and places them in situations that prove to be harmful. Another example of this is the Grangerford and Shepardson feud. These two families are perceived to be highly civilized and educated, yet they kill people over a meaningless feud that they don't even know how it started. This shows how ludicrous society can be. Twain also shows that terrible acts, such the Duke and King scamming an entire community, go unpunished but feebleminded crimes, such as yelling drunken insults, led to executions. Sherburn's speech to the mob about cowardice, lack of logic, and selfishness of the mob mentality captivates Twain's view on society.…
In both of Wilson’s passages he illustrates the unproductiveness actions made by the Environmentalist and the “critics of the environmental movement” by emphasizing their similar strategies on bashing one another’s view on the environment. Wilson writes both passages with parallelism to emphasis his point on how similar both arguments made by each side are and because they are similar they have no effect towards one another’s extreme claims. Through his satirical works Wilson makes the assertion that both groups are pointless through the use of syntax, the appeal of pathos, and applying strong diction. Wilson does this in order to prove that both groups are too radical to get anything done productively for their cause.…
“I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever. But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine. I thought also of my father and surviving brother: should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them?” (78)…
In the grade 11 university English course different topics were covered like gothic themes, the doppelganger theme, short stories, etc. using stories like Frankenstein and Macbeth. Although one story was not used that fits in perfectly with a few of these topics. That Story being William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe. Proof that this story should have been used lies in the themes used, the gothic elements, and the literary devices used in the story.…
“What makes the story moving is the idea of the father's redemption by his own child.” (Michael Billington) Discuss!…
marks a significant moment in the story and write a critical analysis of that passage.…
because of what I did. Having to get that phone call and be shocked hearing that your child committed…