true to who you are. This story celebrates who you are as an individual and how important it is to be okay with who you are!
true to who you are. This story celebrates who you are as an individual and how important it is to be okay with who you are!
The complexity of William Carlos Williams’, The Red Wheel Barrow, can be disregarded as simple at first if read as a sentence but once it is broken down into stanzas a few words make it stand out. The specifics of color brings the reader closer to what is going on in the picture Mr. Williams is attempting to paint. It broadens the reader’s ability to relate to the scene. It leaves you wondering what depends so much upon the red wheel barrow.…
By Jane Yolen and Mark Teague is a colorful book that helps children to learn their colors through dinosaurs completing ordinary tasks. For example in the book it states, “Dinosaurs colors start with red: a red fire truck tucked under the bed.” The words of the colors are written in that specific color. The artist uses a very useful technique in the illustrations and really focuses on the particular color declared on the page. In the particular above annotation there is a green dinosaur reaching under the bed grabbing a red fire truck so, the only thing colored red on the page would be the fire truck. The style used to get teach specific colors are very effective. This approach helps children associate the word red fire truck with the color red on the fire…
In our story we see two major symbolizations that have been used, the white elephants that Jig called the hills and the rail road station. The author has used these three elements to develop a theme to this story in which the girl has identified her problems in a scenario mixed with a complex argument that is going on in between them. The white elephants develop into a different meaning and change the tone…
Not until she was thirteen when Zora moved to Jacksonville, did she begin to see herself differently as whites. “I was now a little colored girl”, she explained. But she still did not feel sorry for being colored, or hold anything against herself for it. “I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife”, Zora kept this essay very entertaining using these creative ways of seeing her day to day life.…
Often times, we endure problems within ourselves that can either be solved or left alone to embrace. Whether it is mental or physical, many of us find it natural to undergo inner-conflict. In the two passages, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “Quicksand,” the authors provide the audience with a theme that connects them both. After uncovering their internal conflict, they eventually decided to unknowingly distract themselves from the issue. This includes the way the authors utilized the setting and characters to convey their theme. When dealing with inner-conflict, the theme is developed by expressing personal past issues, discovering new people, and ultimately uncovering a sudden romance.…
Childhood is a strange and wonderful time of ignorance and imagination where the floor can be lava, a sandbox can be a construction zone, and summers are filled with playing in the sun. Among these fun times there is a fundamental formation happening in our brain creating our personalities; peers and parents contribute greatly to this. Writers often introduce a childish character who is shown to change from a hardship they face. In American works such as The Death of a Salesman, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet letter, and The Body children, or childish characters, are introduced to bring light to their ever changing personalities and the forces and events that shaped them.…
In the Realistic fiction book, “Lily and Dunkin” by Donna Gephart, Dunkin made a poor decision when choosing to sit with the popular boys on his first day of school, when his friends asked him to sit with them and have been nice to him, but I believe that was not his fault and many other people would have done the same thing when they’re are in a situation like this. This story is narrated by two characters, Lily and Dunkin, and that alternate perspectives.Lily McGrother, born as Timothy, is a boy who is transgender and is struggling to be a girl when he looks like a boy. Dunkin Dorfman, who is actually Norbert,is a boy who is coping and enduring with bipolar disorder, which makes it hard for him to be social. Both with challenges, one day when Lily meets Dunkin their lives completely change.…
The color red is a consistent symbol throughout the story, as it is a word in the title. The color red has numerous symbolic meanings. It can be interpreted differently depending on the situation and experiences of an individual. Red can create a variety of emotions ranging from love to violence and war. Many cultures associate red with purity, joy and celebration. In China red is the color of happiness, prosperity and good luck. In the Native American culture, the color of red represents faith and communication. The title of the story is the main source of communication between the brothers…
Color is a very important part in explaining this chapter. The author used colors rather than direct adjectives to explain people's personalities and some scenes. Color can make a chapter boring, sad, or…
The struggle to find one's identity is a universal theme that is especially prevalent in Chaim Potok's novel, My Name Is Asher Lev. As an Orthodox Jew, Asher's gift for art is looked upon very unfavorably. Despite the disapproval of his community and father and the pain his art causes those around him, he pursues his passion and must find a way to reconcile the conflict between his religious identity and his individual identity.…
In the sketch, Arnold juxtaposes himself with the people surrounding him; the two races mutually scrutinizing each other on every physical detail. Without the image, the reader is merely given a small excerpt that reads, “Those white guys couldn’t believe their eyes. They stared at me like I was Bigfoot or a UFO” (57). The minimal amount of information revealed in the text draws away from the struggle Arnold is feeling at that moment. However, by utilizing the simple words and interpretive images, the reader is able to fully comprehend how the main character views himself in comparison to his other classmates. While comparing, Arnold advertises the physical differences between the whites and Indians, such as their attire and accessories. In addition, brief statements are composed throughout the entire list of diversities. These range from the cost of pants to differing backpacks, which further impacts the racial gap of the main character’s endeavor, in acclimating to his surroundings. Through the combination of visuals and text, Alexie enhances the overall effectiveness of his novel.…
Examining my personality, it is immediately apparent that the color that describes me best would have to be of a blue hue. Many aspects of myself, from my quiet nature and mellow outlook on life, to my desire for knowledge and creative drive, are, in my mind, tinted with a cool blue. Out of all of the blue hued Crayola colors, however, I find that I most associate myself with the color periwinkle.…
Cited: Empowered By Color, (2014). The Color Turquoise. [online] Available at: http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-turquoise.html [Accessed 22 Oct. 2014].…
Clover’s curiosity got the best of her one day, and she walked right up to the fence. She felt brave and free that day. She got up close to the fence, when suddenly Annie asked what Clover’s name was. Soon after that, the not-so-different strangers became friends. They sat on the fence and when Clover’s friends made funny faces at them they “just made believe they didn’t care.” Both of the diverse children were rebelling their own mama’s to become friends, despite their differences.…
Similarly in The Window, the unstable nature of identity is evident through the narrator’s changing self-identity. Much like the Bird, the narrator in The Window has a strong connection to the place where she belongs. She is always looking out her ‘magic ever-changing window, rotating like a Rubik cube’. Through the comparison of her environment to a Rubik cube- a puzzle that can only be solved…