In On The Subway by Sharon Olds the narrator contrasts two worlds to develop both portraits by comparing a white wealthy woman to a African American young man. By doing that she uses imagery by describing the appearance of both characters. Also she uses tone to explain the fear the white woman had because she felt threatened by the black man. He also uses organization to reveal how the white woman changed her mind from the beginning of the poem to the end. Olds uses imagery for the readers to imagine
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“Old Before My Time” Poetry Analysis The title “Old Before My Time” is the main message of this poem. This poem is told from first person view from a speaker who has an internal conflict. The poem has a remorseful tone as the speaker reflects about his or her past. The dominant poetic devices in this poem are metaphors and similes‚ both of which compare two different ideas. A metaphor in this poem compares the many lies in life; they are referred to
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Never Going Back Things are always changing. Sometimes alteration is a good thing; sometimes it’s a bad thing. Recently‚ my life has leaped off it’s original path and took a turn for the better. That turn was when I started acting. Ever since I started performing‚ I’ve become more mature because I have to drop all physical activities‚ I have less time for after-school activity‚ and I have to make new friends. First‚ I had to abandon all athletic activities to make time for rehearsals. Rehearsals
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Scarlet Letter- Pearl Pearls have always held a great price to mankind‚ but no pearl had ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powerful heroine Hester Prynne. Her daughter Pearl‚ born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one‚ is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a vehicle for symbolism. From her introduction as an infant on her mother’s scaffold of shame to the stormy zenith of the story‚ Pearl is an empathetic and improbably intelligent
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narration to or about someone else‚ and creating this persona of what he wishes he could be‚ Kunitz ideally creates sense of bravado in his characters and elevates his themes by doing so. No poem is this more apparent than in one of his later workings‚ “An Old Cracked Tune.” We start by getting to know his alter ego of Solomon Levi‚ a man with no father and a thorny mother. He lives in the desert and is taught by the sand and the rocks. Yet‚ Kunitz ends with the most powerful line‚ “I dance for the joy of
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Existential film is shaped by the central themes and overall narrative that draw strongly from existential beliefs and questions. Directed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen‚ No Country For Old Men is an existential film as it reveals the idea of the existential concept of absurdity — anything may happen to anyone at anytime without any rational explanation. The three protagonists in the film‚ Llewellyn Moss‚ Anton Chigurh‚ and Ed Tom Bell‚ all experiences certain existential absurdity and amorality
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better life in a good world for everyone Back in my earlier years as a young man twenty something‚ I viewed the world as my oyster‚ play ground‚ eating and being merry. I associated myself with a group of guys that were categorized as “pretty boys”. We ran the streets care free‚ after work of course‚ because we needed the most important tool there was to a bunch of young guys at that time‚ money‚ paper‚ cheddar‚ as we call it. Many years passed by that were full of fun
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PearlHester’s illegitimate daughter. Pearl is a young girl with a moody‚ mischievous spirit and the ability to perceive things others do not. She quickly discerns the truth about her mother and Dimmesdale‚ though neither will confirm her suspicions. The townspeople say that she barely seems human and spread rumors that her unknown father is actually the Devil. Pearl has grown up with her mother outside of the town‚ and she often terrorizes the town’s children‚ who view her as a curiosity. She is
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Introducing an East World to a West World On June 26‚ 1982‚ Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro West Virginia‚ to two American Presbyterian missionaries who primarily served in China (“Buck‚ Pearl S.”). At the age of two‚ Buck and her family moved back to China where she spent the next 6 years of her life adapting the Chinese culture while integrating aspects of her American heritage as well. Buck’s childhood in China stimulated the bicultural traits that she infused into her writing by
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Origins of the Old South‚ Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States by… Aron‚ Coming of Age in Mississippi: A Biography… by … and the distinguished Dr. William Powell’s North Carolina through Four Centuries‚ all books that‚ from one time or another surrounded me in times of exploration and supplemented a vigorous curriculum. Now‚ they sit on the book shelves that I reserve only for books that have had an impact on my education and unique observance and analysis of American
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