School. School was all wrong. She'd been dropped down to the slowest section in her
School. School was all wrong. She'd been dropped down to the slowest section in her
As the wind screeched ominously and the lightning crackled in the sky, the people decided to retreat to the warmth of their houses. The candles were dimmed and the shutters were closed and the streets were mostly deserted. The storm blew all night and the next morning dawned fresh and blue. Nobody would have thought that just the previous night, an ugly storm had brewed up in that place.…
Meg Murry is a very protective sister of Charles Wallace. She is a bit rude and a not very bright girl. At school, she is rude, especially whenever the teachers and principal brings up her father. Meg is very sad about her father leaving. Meg is mean because she misses her father and doesn’t like to be reminded he is gone…
To begin the passage, Petry sets a dark, desolate mood as she personifies the wind as relentless and assaulting. It is made blatantly clear that the weather “did everything it could to discourage the people along the street” and is restraining to the inhabitants of the city. Petry utilizes vivid words to enhance the strength and vigour of the wind, further adding to the life-like qualities that the wind possesses. The first encounter between Lutie Johnson and the wind is at line 34 which aids in effectively establishing the persona of the wind, and its relationship with the city. Again, Petry exercises the use of personification in making their first meeting uncomfortable and chilling. As Ms. Johnson is introduced, the wind is molesting her in a way. One can imagine that the wind is a man that completely disregards those on the receiving end of his actions. It lifts the hair away from her neck and she feels “suddenly naked”. Once more, the wind is personified as having fingers which “[touch] the back of her neck [and explore] the sides of her head”.…
In my opinion, Mary Maloney has lost control. She has killed her husband, Patrick Maloney without knowing the true facts which proves she has lost control. This is shown from the beginning when Patrick Maloney told Mary Maloney something that would change their lives forever. “Her first instinct was not to believe any of it, or reject it all. It occurred to her that perhaps he hadn’t even spoken that she herself had imagined the whole thing” (63). This quote shows how Mary Maloney pretended that nothing happened and went on with her day and started cooking. This proves that she was in denial. Later on in the story, Mary Maloney went to get supper made for her husband and herself. She stopped and looked at her…
Suspicious actions occur when the winds are present, her descriptions of darkened houses and husbands “roaming” the place in search of trespassers and snakes show how the winds truly effect people. However, an even better description Didion gives for how sinister the winds’ true nature is, was with Raymond Chandler’s quotation of how all the parties end in fights and “meek little wives” feel the edge of the carving knife and stare down their husbands neck, “anything can happen”. It was with this description Didion truly showed how malevolent and frightening these winds were. Even with the research, facts, and scientific evidence from the end of the excerpt, an uneasiness is still with the winds and the mystery surrounding them. The clear objective tone in this part of the essay shows how emotionless and possibly…
In conclusion, the rough and enormous shake caused items to get wrecked and made humans suffer and die. Since there was an earthquake, this problem made, Moon Shadow, feel sad and disturbed by what he sees and hears. In the book, Dragonwings, the author tries to make the story interesting by trying, to appeal to our emotion by stretching parts in the book.Unlike Dragonwings in “Comprehending the Calamity,” Emma Burke doesn’t want to entertain the reader but instead give them info about the 1960 S.F…
In this excerpt from Ann Petry's The Street, the wind is the central antagonist. The narrator efficiently utilizes a third-person omniscient narrator to relay to the reader the bitterness of the cold, along with the adamant determination of Lutie Johnson. Through the use of chillingly descriptive imagery, and figurative language including resplendent personification, the narrator successfully conveys the perilous nature of the cold to enhance Lutie Johnson's temporal and sensory experiences.…
she had to pretend that everything was perfectly fine in the classroom. She had to go to…
The tympanic rhythm of Emma’s ragged, dirty boots beat against the hard ground, like soldiers marching, the cadence echoing through her mind. She had nowhere else to go, nothing to do but walk. Emma didn’t even know how old she was – somewhere around 15 or 16, she presumed. Years of no love, no comfort, no house, had taken their toll on her – her face was nearly always dirty, she had next to no clothes, there was nobody she could call her friend.. all Emma had was a small backpack she wore, carrying an extra pair of shoes and another set of her current clothes – torn denim jeans and a faded, ripped, dusty black shirt. Emma never even knew her parents – they both died in an armed robbery while she was only weeks old. All she had to remember them by was the fact that they had no house, and so they were forced to live in the homeless shelter, and so when her parents were killed, the community (the homeless people of the city, that is) was left with a newborn baby to raise.…
“Love. That is what she had that IT did not have.” (p201) The SciFi novel, A Winkle in Time (AWIT) demonstrates the use of love and how underrated and important it really is. Meg Murry goes on a journey to another wold to save her brother.…
Petry’s use of figurative language also made the reader’s understanding of the urban setting more pertinent. The wind was “fingering its way along the curb” and the wind also “wrapped newspaper around their feet”, entangling the pedestrians and forcing them to bend down and remove the newspaper with their hands. This shows the reader how the wind has power over the pedestrians and Lutie Johnson.…
Swirls mix with white, yellow, blue, and black as the town sleepily yet still so helplessly moves on with its life. No one can truly understand the mystery of the night until they’ve watched it grow. The night is born so magically as the sun of the day descends over the horizon and the moon peeks in through the shadows. It’s a darker sun, and although it is not quite as bright as the first, it is still able to shine down and create a new light for those who wake. The earth is cooled to the core as the town howls with blue breezes, while the wind chills the bones of those who walk the streets.…
Its 9pm on a Sunday and I can feel the first of the rain as its droplets catch on my outstretched palms. There’s something very humbling about the rain. It’s one of nature’s great forces, and completely escapes our control. When the rain comes, it doesn’t account for petty human drama, politics and cultural divisions. I ponder this thought as I round the bend and turn down the next street. The rain is a reminder that above all else, we are at the whim of mother nature. Beyond our constructed realities and perception of modern society lies a force mar more powerful than humanity. This is a somewhat overwhelming thought, and instantly I long for togetherness and company, but I must remind myself that I am a stranger here. Through the windows of the houses lining this street, people go about their lives to the sound of the rain on their rooftops. Perhaps some of them are experiencing similar thoughts to my own? Raindrops slide down my forehead and drip from my brow onto my eyelids- the water blurs my vision. In this dreamlike state, I wander forwards, the lights around me shifting, darting and sliding in the darkness. At this bizarre moment in time I feel a sudden and uncontainable urge to peer through the windows of the houses that surround me, to catch an insight into the lives of these strangers. Through each window lies a different truth, and I am suddenly all too eager to explore these realities- lives that occur in spite of the rain.…
In this story, the literary technique of stream-of-consciousness is used. This narrative is in no way structured into a coherent, logical presentation of events. It frequently jumps back into time to the main characters' past experiences, re-creating dramatic moments. Katherine Anne Porter writes "Such a fresh breeze blowing and such a green day with no threats in it." This referred to Grandma Weatherall on the day her groom left her on her wedding day. Granny Weatherall is both losing her powers of deliberate control over events (including the events that make up her conscious experience, which she has evidently learned to master along with the various disappointments that life has dealt her) and is also subject to a number of intense anxieties.…
Alone in her room Mrs. Mallard takes in the news she has just received, she sinks into the “comfortable, roomy armchair” that faces the open window and stares out into the open square. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. (307) after hearing of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard ironically awaken full of life as she embraces the world around her. She imagines her life full of freedom from an unwanted marriage, she has grown out of. “Free, free, free!” “Free! Body and soul free” she kept whispering. She sees her life as being absolutely hers and her new independence as the core of her…