Steve Pedersen “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ’: A Burkean/Ecocritical Reading” Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making‚ symbol-misusing) animal ........................................... separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making ...................................................... and rotten with perfection. (Burke 1‚ 2‚ 4‚ 5‚ 7) Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” elucidates Burke’s theory of “Man” as being “rotten with perfection” and shows
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"A Clean‚ Well Lighted Place" Although tone is an extremely complicated issue to analyze‚ it is one of the most elementary literary elements. Like a tone of voice‚ the tone of a story may communicate joy‚ anger‚ love‚ sorrow‚ and contempt. It shows the feelings of the author‚ so greatly that we can sense them. The tone adds to the overall feeling‚ and effectiveness portrayed in any literary work. Those feelings may be similar to the feelings expressed by the narrator of the story‚ but sometimes
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The Road Cormac McCarthy 287 Pages 1) The Road falls under the category of Science Fiction or Fantasy. Set in a post-apocalyptic America‚ the novel is stylistically very fragmented and vague from the beginning. While this is a peculiar writing style with short‚ choppy sentences‚ and lacking in quotation marks and‚ often times‚ apostrophes‚ using this style adds to the bleakness and mood of the novel. “He lay listening. The boy sat by the fire wrapped in a blanket watching him. Drip of water
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Film Analysis: Taken The movie Taken is about a Father’s quest to rescue his daughter from her abduction and nearly immanent disappearance into the dark world of the international sex trade. Brian’s worst fears are realized when Kim and her friend are immediately abducted from the Paris apartment at which they’ve just arrived. While Kim is being dragged away by the as yet unknown abductors‚ she manages to phone Bryan‚ who begins to piece together clues that will take him to the darkness of Paris’s
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have admirable characteristics as well. Many characters may seem to have an irresponsible nature‚ but there is usually a reason for these things‚ as well as motives and backstories that play a role in influencing the characters’ decisions. In On The Road by Jack Kerouac‚ Dean Moriarty is an example of one of these morally ambiguous characters. He has many traits that seem dispicable to the reader‚ but there is also proof that he has exceptional characteristics as well-such as his friendship with Sal
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Taken The movie Taken written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and directed by Pierre Morel‚ hit theaters across the country in January of 2009. This movie was a mix between an action‚ adventure and thrilling film. The story started with a man named Liam‚ his ex wife named Lenore and their seventeen year old daughter‚ Kim. The trouble started when Kim convinced her father to let her go to France with her friend Amanda. The girls traveled to Paris‚ and when they first arrived in the unknown
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“Literature is the plane‚ and train‚ and the road. It is the destination and the journey.” Discuss this statement‚ focusing on how composers of texts represent the concept of the inner or physical or imaginative journey. Prescribed text: ‘Two Weeks with the Queen’ A plane‚ a train and the road: a poem‚ a play and a short story. The above quotation is telling us that literature is the vehicle which takes us on the journey in a similar way to a plane‚ train or road‚ but it can also be the end point of
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of what is passing right before her eyes. She doesn’t seem to be concerned with where she is going‚ in fact‚ she’s enjoying the scenery. It may be possible that she knows she’s maybe seeing these things for the very last time. These things were taken for granted in life‚ yet they become more meaningful as her journey comes to an end. Death has no concept of time or any concerns that someone would. It is the Sun that is moving "He passed Us"‚ indicating the passage of time by its daily course across
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A Father’s Unconditional Love and Absent Limits of Protection Throughout The Road the story boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains‚ but in which the father and his son‚ “each the other’s world entire‚” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision‚ it is an firm meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness‚ desperate tenacity‚ and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. The father’s
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Frost created a scenery where the speaker is looking at a long fork in the woods. Either the speaker can go down one road or go down the other‚ but the speaker does not know which one is the best route. He describes one side of the road to be “grassy and wanted wear; though as for that‚ the passing there‚ had worn them really about the same time” (line 8). In other words‚ the road was well used and known to the community. Then he describes the other side of the fork “in leaves no steps had trodden
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