1.a) Our gut reaction to Winter Oak is that it had a lot of meaning‚ but was dull and tedious. Some words and phrases we used to relate our thoughts on the story are as follows: - Boring. - Monotonous. - No real conflict. - No feeling. - No real plot. - Didn’t invoke a strong reaction. - There was a definite lesson to be learned. 1.b) Yuri Nagibin used different devices to evoke various reactions in us‚ some of these were: The dialogue; it was concise yet boring but realistic for example
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Analysis of Those Winter Sundays Through metaphors and meticulous word choice Robert Hayden illustrates people taking loved ones for granted in his poem‚ Those Winter Sundays. Words with negative connotations and the use of repetition underscores the underlying mood of remorse upon the speaker’s further reflection on their childhood. The sounds of the words when spoken and the choices the author made in choosing certain words is undoubtedly intentional in developing the dejected mood and overall
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Within Good Bones by Maggie Smith we can begin to identify that the speaker in the poem is holding back a lot of what the speaker really wants to say. Looking further in the speaker begins to talk about how the world is malicious and an unforgiving place. Specifically in the section that states‚ “The world is at least fifty percent terrible‚ and that is a conservative’s estimate‚ though I keep this from my children.” Maggie Smith uses the literary device circumlocutio to give the impression that
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Bone Boy The best memories are with my little brother he might go crazy and throw sticks and punches but he loves me and I love him. One day it was raining cats and dogs and my parents said go play outside so we got ready to play and he said let’s run down the hill and I said sure so we were running down the hill and tripped and rolled down the hill and we hit the bottom and tried climbing up and we got up with teamwork and sticks but we got up and took showers and still thought it was fun.
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character’s in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones‚ are strongly characterized and bring qualities that we‚ as readers‚ can relate to and understand‚ helping us to empathize with the family and Susie. There is one character however‚ that of George Harvey‚ Susie’s rapist and muderer‚ who is purposefully characterized in a way that most members of society could not begin to understand. Cruel‚ calculating‚ cold and cunning‚ Mr Harvey is the very symbol of evil in The Lovely Bones and helps to show the audience how
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The winter imagery poem I chose that I felt captures the essence of Canadian winters is called “An Ontario Poem”. This poem provides expressive words and vivid examples to provide the reality of Canadian winters. The first couple of stanzas explains just how vigorously the wind blows also showing the reality of just how cold it really gets. It portrays this by stating “...and the gentle breezes blow at seventy-five miles an hour at thirty-five below”. The following four lines discuss how we love
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Life is worth living and it’s beautiful with the wonderful season it brings‚ winter and summer. At times driving can be enthusiastic and sometimes stressful experiencing the different weathers. Dealing with expenses‚ delays and weather conditions is quite a challenge. In the winter it’s too cold and uncomfortable and driving can be challenging at times. Due to weather conditions‚ such as sleet‚ humongous among of snow‚ and slippery roads. The poor conditions are dangerous to us as drivers;
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The title of the novel is The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold. In this story a 14 year old girl is murdered and raped by a sketchy neighbor Mr.Harvey. The entire book is explaining how susie is doing in heaven and how her friends and family cooperate with her death. This novel is told from susie point of view in Heaven. There are many similarities between the book and the movie. In the novel Lindsey found Mr. Harvey’s sketch book on his nightstand but in the movie it was underneath a piece
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I was worried that the world of the Shadowhunters would not capture my imagination the same way it did when I was sixteen reading City of Bones for the first time. While I enjoyed The Infernal Devices‚ it did not live up to the first trilogy for me. It seems as if The Dark Artifices is going to be the same way‚ thoroughly enjoyable but not as good as the original. While my opinion might change as the other novels come out‚ Lady Midnight was a great read‚ but just didn’t hold me in the way that The
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The Coldest Winter Ever Born Lisa Williamson in 1964‚ Sister Souljah is a hip-hop artist that burst to the forefront of mainstream media in 1992 when she was criticized by then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton for saying "If Black people kill black people every day‚ why not have a week and kill white people?" Clinton was trying to prove to other Democrats that he did not sympathize with the organization that Souljah was a member of. She basically said Bill Clinton and went on to sign music and
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