for comical effects to entertain its target audience. The situation is a surreal exchange between the customer and the shopkeeper. Where the customer wants to make a complaint about a dead parrot that he purchased which was already dead before he purchased it. That shop keeper in response argues that the parrot is not dead but is only ‘resting’. The shopkeeper also often goes off in a tangent with absurd comments‚ which make no sense such as: “Norwegian Blue‚ beautiful plumage” and “pining for the
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Writing stories with dark twist and unlucky characters is how Jackson set the mood and tone of the story‚ however she does this with a couple of literary tools such as repeating phrases over and over again. In the story “The Tooth” an example of this is when Clara keeps telling her husband “I feel so funny” [Jackson 207]. By having Clara repeat this throughout the story it is foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen to her. Along with foreshadowing her inevitable bad luck coming her way
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scene two important birds appear: "A green and yellow parrot‚ which hung in a cage outside the door‚ kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right! He could speak a little Spanish‚ and also a language which nobody understood‚ unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door‚ whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence” (page 1). This green and yellow parrot represents Edna who is caged at that moment of the novel
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sleepy. They also‚ instead of being annoyed‚ seem to enjoy the presence of fleas on their bodies while basking in the warmth of the sun. In the next cage the parrots are shrieking as if they were on fire and strutting like harlots attracting the onlookers for a throw of nuts. So the expressions‚ on fine‚ and stoat imply two vivid images‚ the parrots are suffering from untold suffering in their chained life and they make sensual gestures like the street girls to attract the passers by. And the first stanza
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Cockatoos Cockatoos belong to parrot family. Cockatoos’ live pine rain forests and eucalyptus groves. They are built well and larger than parrots. Cockatoos have showy crests and curved bills. The crests can be raised when needed. The plumage color is white/grey/black in color. They have zygodactyls foot‚ the foot with two toes facing forwards and two back. The strong beak helps in climbing the branches. The wings are long and broad. The life span of cockatoos is about 20-30 years. The larger cockatoos
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Jordan Patane Per. 2 Feb 4th Antisocial Personality Disorder The novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote‚ is a nonfiction piece that pursues the Clutter family homicide in Holcomb Kansas‚ while examining and expressing the thoughts of the two murderers. One of the killers Perry Smith is described to have Antisocial Personality Disorder. Capote clearly expresses Perry’s (APD) symptoms‚ such as self appraisal‚ as well as lack of coping mechanisms‚ and impulsivity‚ characterized by his distraught childhood
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" I don’t believe that one is born compassionate. Compassion is not character trait like a sunny disposition" - Barbara Ascher Aschen is saying that compassion is not something granted like a disposition. Indeed‚ compassion must be learned. Learned in response to the world surrounding us. It is obvious that a kid’s perception of the people and things around him will be altered if it’s parents don’t show respect to the homeless or the orphan. Education plays an important part. Such as a yorkshire
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Although people perceive the murderers in a negative way‚ Capote writes the book in hopes that the readers see the murderers of the Clutter family in a human perspective‚ emphasizing that not everyone’s actions represent them as whole. Since Capote is trying to prove the different perspectives of the murderers during the first part of the novel‚ In Cold Blood‚ he uses a unique technique of structuring his paragraphs. He starts out the book describing the Clutter family and where they lived before
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opening line ‘the apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun’ presents an oxymoron that evokes a sense of both boredom and decay for the reader. The aural imagery and onomatopoeia of ‘the parrots shriek’ is complemented by two similes ‘as if they were on fire’ and ‘strut like cheap tarts’ to add visual imagery‚ parrots that are acting desperately and unnaturally for attention and food In stanza 2‚ the empty cage ‘stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw!’ though both sibilance and olfactory imagery
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the novel demonstrates feminist ideas. To begin‚ the of birds demonstrates Demi’s ’’tis views on treatment of women. The very first sentence that the book opens with is a squawking sound‚ coming from the parrot that resides in the cage outside of the Pontellier’s beach house. The parrot
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