PARRA 1- intro Journeys are not always personally instigated. They are brought about by an outside pressure, force or action. Furthermore, journeys can lead to a profound progress of not only the venturer but the people around them. This is evident in the prescribed Australian poems ‘Smugglers’ written by Maria Lewitt, ‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe as well as the two chosen texts ‘Rabbit Proof fence’ directed by Phillip Noyce and ‘Sophie’s Journey’ edited by Sally Collings. PARRA 2- homecoming In the Australian poem ‘Homecoming’ the author, Dawe uses vivid visual and aural poetic techniques to construct his ongoing attitudes of the war.
This territory is being shown in the film by an Arabian theme that reinforces and establishes the locale. We can hear a stirring statement of the “La Marseillaise” when the opening credits are shown in the beginning of the film. Steiner uses this to remind the viewers the French control of Morocco. This ends with a sour chord, coinciding with the director Michael Curtiz’s name to support the narrator’s description of dark days for Europe. A narrator also describes the journey people go through to come to Casablanca, and this was supported by repeated dissonant chords.
Wendy Perez Analysis At the beginning of the opening chapters, Cooper introduces the setting between the brutal and bloody war of the French and Indian War. There are some parts in the novel where Cooper used historical facts to narrate the actual, lived events in this colonial history of the United States. Although there are roots in his narrative to be from his own imaginary war, Cooper wanted to emphasize the tensions between mankind and the land, natives and the colonists, and nature and culture. The characters in the novel are illustrated in various ways that national cultures interact. They even materialize some of the extended stereotypes held during the colonization of America and racial tensions arise throughout the chapters.
The Battle within the Dream Within "Battle Royal", by Ralph Ellison, Ellison was able to provide enough imagery through very detailed scenes to entail deeper meanings to certain symbols. These symbols stand within the story, and are stressed by the simple concept of repetition. The narrator's mind is filled with the thought of his speech and his grandfather's "curse", while he still ponders upon the American Dream. "And yet, I had begun to worry about my speech again", the speech itself is continues to come back and engulf the narrator, yet is used to accomplish the Dream and conquer the curse. (Ellison 282) Things of this nature are emotionally tied, yet holds a physical effect.
Journeys can have a range of effects and impacts. These journeys can be both planned and unexpected and the obstacles these journeys must be overcome by all people in order for them to them to complete their journey. “Journey: The North Coast”, a poem by Robert Gray demonstrates how a journey can lead a person back to the familiar and to contentment. Les a Murrays poem “driving through sawmill towns” presents us with a number of views of life is sawmill towns. A travel article, “One Night in the Sahara” by Amanda Jones demonstrates how journeys can reveals things about ourselves we didn’t know.
When we think of death, we think of different scenes in the book. To help support the three main ideas, Wharton uses metaphors, similes, and other uses of figurative language. Winter, as the setting, sets the tone of the story throughout the entire book. In the prologue, it describes that Ethan has endured too many Starkfield winters. Wharton gives the feeling of bitterness and depression by using winter as the setting.
The action unfolding in the café helps the reader to evaluate the complex cultural tensions and fears of the post 9/11 world. By playing on the suspicion of the reader, Mohsin Hamid attempts to explore imbedded feelings toward both America and the Middle East post 9/11 through a reversal of the usual relationship, providing a muted American character, and an expressive Pakistani one. As soon as the novel begins we are presented with a product of Western prejudices “Do not be frightened of my beard, I am a lover of America” and as the character of Changez begins to introduce himself, we see the convention of the one dimensional Islamic man constructed by the American media slip away. Changez is articulate, polite, and as he reveals, exclusively educated, attending Princeton, and holding modern values “yes, the women, too- are working professionals”. Yet, the lack of information about the “purpose” and “mission” of these two characters takes grip of the narrative and through allusions “not unlike
The quote“He doesn’t need it anymore.” clearly describes this case. To conclude,the horror of war is a vital theme and is characterized through many challenges the narrator encounters in the novel.The horror of war is portrayed throughout the novel through things such as having a perpetual fear of the unknown, the psychological effects of war, and conclusively: death.In this way,Harrison successfully shows an unheroic image of soldiers to the readers and makes the readers review what they used to think about the
In addition Burton has to a great extent visibly explored the feelings and experiences of not belonging and belonging to a group or community through his use of music, fine camera shots and use of visual representations such as colors. The audience can see from the film contradictory worlds of where belonging may or may not be experienced. COLD MOUNTAIN The novel Cold Mountain explores the concept of belonging to two different communities and the negative and positive experiences that take place in Inman and Ada’s love tale. The novel alternates back and forth every chapter between the world of Inman and Ada. The two characters find definitive belonging within each other but as they are separated from the war they are faced with obstacles such as fending for themselves and surviving harsh conditions in their new communities.
In a dark tensed historical and political context, since “who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf” was published during the cold war; Albee focuses his interest on an insight of the real American way of life. Moreover, the theatre of the absurd has widely influenced his writing. Living in a deeply religious, country and historical period, Albee uses the theme of religion all along in the play. As a consequence, we will explore the theme of religion and understand how it is linked to each character. In “who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf”, Nick is linked to religion explicitly with his sayings but as well implicitly.