Because this isn’t a fairy tale, and there is no actual ‘adventure’ taking place, this can be viewed as the protagonist refusing to take on the quest he is being presented. Realizing this allows the reader to understand that the story is then moving on to the second stage – the struggle, or initiation. Usually during the struggle/initiation of a monomyth archetype structure in a story, the hero figure being presented is exploring their unconscious self, and realizing their deepest fears and concerns. In ‘The Step Not Taken’, the narrator expressed that he is haunted with a sense of regret for not doing anything to help the man in the elevator. In his own way, this is him
When Keckwick appeared one time to collect Arthur, he says “I wouldn’t have left you over the night, wouldn’t have done that to you”. This gives Arthur more questions to ask people as Keckwick doesn’t give Arthur a reason for staying there overnight being so bad. The amount of questions building up on Arthur could isolate him in a way that he can’t quite think straight. Also, Monk’s Piece is isolated as it “stands at the summit of land” far away from any kind of civilization. In the chapter entitled ‘Christmas Eve’ he is in utter darkness as it is late at night.
In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front the reader can infer that the narrator Paul Baumer as we know him in the novel is very different from Paul Baumer before he experienced war. He had plans to write a play and a love of literature that was lost after experiencing the horror of life in the trenches. It is shown in his apparent aestheticism, inability to fantasize beyond reality, and his lack of faith in the human race. The things Paul experienced truly changed his life. Throughout the novel Paul seems to leave his emotions behind in order to survive.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
It is also made clear to the reader why Grendel has no social life due to the fact that he simply wants nothing to do with those around him; however there is only one point of view throughout the poem which makes the reader wonder if there is more to Grendel than a beast. We know nothing of his background of why he acts the way he does, we have no clue as to how others have acted toward him in the past, and for how long these situations lasted. Grendel is just a misunderstood character. Throughout the poem there is valid reason as to why someone would be able to empathize toward Grendel. Turner 3 Works Cited Page Anderson, Sarah, Alan Sullivan, and Timothy Murphy.
He sparsely uses punctuation, which creates the illusion that the rules and conventions of writing do not matter in this post-apocalyptic world; it creates a sense of disorder as the importance of the ‘normal’ means nothing anymore. McCarthy doesn’t use apostrophes in his writing; ‘dont’ is the word he uses in place of ‘don’t.’ This relates to the theme of disorder as McCarthy is revealing to the reader that it is such a ‘barren, silent, godless’ world there is no hope for the previous code returning anytime soon. McCarthy’s lack of punctuation, including commas, gives his sentences a running feel: ‘He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child and the sky was aching blue but he was learning how to wake himself from just such siren worlds.’ The lack of commas reflects the ‘barren’ land as there is a desolate mood to the sentences. This also reveals that McCarthy wants the character of the man to be seen as a man who is solely focused on looking after and caring for his son and information he would previously have had a care for are not important anymore. The opening of The Road quickly
Peter also emphasizes the fact that he felt out of place and lost in his environment. In this poem there is no sense of belonging at all. There are many different ways to explain different views on the concept of Belonging, apart from Poems. One of them I have chosen today is the Movie “Hairspray”. This film represents both concepts of Not- belonging and Belonging.
Therefore the regularity and short stanza’s represents how the character cannot make decisions for himself, he cannot move around freely and above all he has lost all independence. Poetic techniques litter the two poems. Disabled uses various poetic devices to add to the poems emotional impact. We
“But I ain’t got neither bullet nor gun- and I’m too blue to look for one.” This poor man is so down in the dumps that he can’t even find the energy to get up and get a gun to take his life. With Langston having these same feelings he would have benefited from having someone to talk to, a friend, a relative, even a perfect stranger who was willing to listen and lend a helping hand. Langston wrote about his feelings in his poems but maybe if he had verbalized his feelings his poems may have been happier and more upbeat. After reading some of Langston Hughes poems you can see how his life is portrayed in his writings. He too was lonely and depressed.
In the letters, we find out that Walton really doesn’t have any friends but he longs for one. He says, "But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend Margaret.” Walton then continues to explain his need for a companion. This is why in the novel Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein and Robert Walton were isolated both physically and emotionally. Isolation can make people very lonely and depressed.