The Journey: Symbolism of “The Road Not Taken” and “A Worn Path” From their titles‚ we realize these short stories will take us on a literary journey but what we do not realize are the choices and obstacles the protagonists encounter that adds dimension to the story. The readers’ perceptions about the events are changed by the symbolism surrounding the characters and the conflicts that are presented. “A Worn Path” is a character story told in a third-person point of view about an elderly
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Ms. Stopka English 1H‚ per 5 1/21/14 Poem Analysis/ “The Road Not Taken” In “The Road Not Taken‚” Robert Frost gives his readers a speaker standing at a “fork” in the road- or having to make a decision. Robert Frost uses extended metaphor‚ irony‚ and an unreliable narrator to show his reader’s that‚ when choosing life courses‚ one must consider where the path is actually going verses from how it may appear. Decisions fill the lives of human beings‚ and this speaker faces the remorse he holds
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of The Road Not Taken The literary work that captured my attention was Robert Frost’s‚ The Road Not Taken. This particular poem caught my attention because of the metaphor it presents. The narrator comes to a fork in the road while walking through the yellow woods. He considers both paths and concludes that each one is equally well-traveled and appealing. After choosing one of the roads‚ the narrator tells himself that he will come back to this fork one day in order to try the other road. However
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Motherhood “I Stand Here Ironing" is composed such that has an exceptionally solid Feminist message as it portrays a solid female character. The mother surrenders everything for her youngsters‚ attempting to discover employments that gives more opportunity for her kids and their schedule. “She was a miracle to me‚ but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all‚ for I worked or looked for work and for Emily’s father‚ who "could
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is Bryan Hitchings. I am a 32 year old person passionate about food and aspiring to hone my cooking skills to become a professional chef. I have always loved cooking even as a child. When I was a child and barely able to see the eyes on a stove‚ I was given a stool by my grandmother and allowed to cook with her. I have had several influences such as my grandmother who was an excellent home cook‚ one uncle who was a chef‚ and another uncle who was a cook in the Navy. Though I don’t come from a large
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A good example of Modernism is a short story called "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen. This story not only portrays gender roles but also family roles. Here the narrator is a mother giving the reader a glimpse into her life‚ choices she made as a mother‚ and being a single parent. Through her defense of her situation‚ she exposes to the reader the underlying insecurities that riddle her mind about her mothering. The tale opens with the narrator explaining the pain she feels when she is
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May 5‚ 2012 Outline “I Stand Here Ironing” A. Plot: The story begins with a woman ironing her daughters dress. It causes her to recount the life she as provided for her daughter Emily. As she considers her actions she wishes that she had done some things differently. Unfortunately‚ the depression era had left her with very few choices if any at all. So to survive and provide for her children the mother‚ abandoned by her husband‚ had unintentionally‚ not protected nor not made the best
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Jaxon Petersen Sociology DJ Hall 10 April 2014 The House I Live In The war on drugs whether wrong‚ right‚ or indifferent‚ has yielded a plethora of life changing outcomes for many United States citizens. Both the plaintiff and the defendant have their own side of the dispute‚ and yet somehow the plaintiff in the non-stop ‘cash grab’ that’s so conveniently nicknamed the “War on Drugs” gets the benefit of zero-tolerance‚ or minimum sentencing. In most cases the defendants simply are doomed from
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The phrase "you only live once" is commonly attributed to Mae West‚[1][2] but variations of the phrase have been in use for over 100 years‚[3] including as far back as (the German equivalent of) "one lives but once in the world" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his 1774 play Clavigo[4] and as the title of a waltz‚ "Man lebt nur einmal!" ("You Only Live Once!") by Johann Strauss II in 1855. A restaurant in Fort Lauderdale‚ Florida‚ has held a trademark to the phrase "YOLO" in the context of the frozen
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The House I Live In was an amazing documentary. I was saddened to hear Nannie’s story and the stories of others that I witnessed in the film. I was blown away by how much the war on drugs is really a war on blacks more than anything else. It disgusted me to see the stereotyping of blacks by police officers under the guise of "probable cause." The police aren’t about doing real police work‚ only placing cuffs on blacks and low-income civilians and sending them to jail. It’s mind blowing to me how
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