who asks them how the water is. Neither of the younger fish question his meaning‚ until later in the story when one fish turns to the other and asks “’…What the hell is water?’”(653). I think by starting off with that story‚ Wallace is setting the tone for the rest of his speech as someone who is going to be honest and truthful about the future that awaits the graduates in the real world.
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In the novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston exposes the story of the love life of Janie. The relationship between Janie and her third husband‚ Tea Cake‚ was above and beyond the most positive of the three relationships with men she had and summoned forth her best assets. The relationships she had with these three men permitted her to be subjected to her first true love‚ expand her knowledge of working and taking care of herself‚ and discover a new culture/society. Janie’s relationship
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Tone can be defined as the attitude that a poem’s speaker takes toward the poem’s subject (Marchbank). Interpreting the tone of a poem can be very difficult‚ because one must weigh all the elements of poetry to read its tone. The tone of a poem shapes the ideas the poem is communicating‚ so misreading the tone is misreading the entire poem. In the poem‚ "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night‚" by Dylan Thomas‚ diction and form serve to create the tone of the poem. In William Wordsworth’s poem‚ "I
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was. The speakers tone is mostly angry. During the poem‚ the speaker’s tone becomes more and more angry and dark but at the end of the poem in the last two lines it also turns into a sad tone. These tones are created to confirm the bad things that happened in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Sexton’s use of sentence structure‚ imagery and detail are key to create this angry‚ dark and sad tone through the poem. The strongest tone that appears through the poem is an angry tone. One technique Sexton
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“Another thing‚ Joe Starks hadn’t been been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen. Done quit attending church‚ like she used to. Gone off to Sanford in a car with Tea Cake and her all dressed in blue! It was a shame. Done took to high heel slippers and a ten dollar hat! Looking like some young girl‚ always in blue because Tea Cake told her to wear it” (Hurston 105). Before Tea Cake‚ all the men were making moves on her and all the women were encouraging her
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The next line of the song lyrics say stuff. The song “Treat You Better” by Shawn Mendes represents what Joe said to try to persuade Janie to leave with him‚ so he can treat her better. The song’s lyrics‚ “And you’re spending all your time / In this wrong situation‚” represent how Joe felt that Janie was in a wrong situation by being married to Logan Killicks. Joe thought that she was treated wrongly because as a lady‚ she should not be plowing or working in the field. The next line of the lyrics
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grandmother. Janie Mae Crawford and Nanny share a complex relationship as her mother figure disappears and it is left to Nanny to nurture the protagonist‚ influencing many of her choices in the near future. Creator of character Nanny and Janie Mae Crawford‚ Zora Neale Hurston depicts the complexity of Nanny and Janie’s love in her novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston effectively describes the difficulty of the mother-daughter relationship between Nanny and Janie. Janie and Nanny’s bond is compassionate
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Lines 1-2 The first order of business in a poem is to establish situation and mood‚ and Roethke selects the father’s drinking as the foremost fact to be conveyed. The tone is slightly comic‚ as the speaker suggests that there was enough alcohol on the father’s breath to inebriate a child. This observation implies that the father had consumed a substantial amount of whiskey‚ since the smell of it was very potent. These lines also establish a closeness between the two figures. The poem is a direct
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George Orwell uses tone and diction in his book to mold the scene of 1984 into a gloomy‚ dark and depressing set. He begins with setting the time of day‚ thirteen. Choosing "thirteen" instead of one Orwell sets a tone of an over militarized nation. He then moves on to using "boiled cabbage and old rag mats"; an all-enveloping‚ oppressive smell one couldn’t wish on even on their worst enemy. The combination of these two along with the babbling telescreen‚ snooping police‚ and contrived posters anchor
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In “The Ill-Made Knight”‚ the third book of The Once and Future King by T.H. White‚ there are many approaches to tone. Tone is a writer’s attitude toward a subject or character and is normally produced by diction. Tone is shown in a passage that explains what it is like to wait for joy‚ referring to Guenever as the one who waits and Lancelot as the cause of her waiting. The tone shifts from intensity to anger as White displays a theme of how to treat a lover. Intensity is first shown as
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