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.
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
Throughout the poem Prufrock expresses his ideas about dull, uneventful, and mediocre life. He wants to take a chance and make progress but he is too scared to make a fool of himself. His anxieties and obsession with making a fool of himself have isolated him from the world leaving him to feel disillusional. For example Prufrock says “And indeed there will be time to wonder, “Do I dare?” and ,”Do I dare?” time turn back and descend the
Asef Rahman English 10H 10/15/2012 Ethan Frome: a lonely man indeed The novel, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, is a story about Ethan, a man torn between the moral obligations to his wife, Zeena, and his need for a person to love. The author’s use of foreshadowing, metaphors, imagery and motifs vividly convey the overall message that man cannot simply live alone and needs somebody in his life. He has Zeena but he does not converse with her at all. The fact that Starkfield was a depressing place to live did not help his life either. Although Ethan’s overall nature was damaged by the smash up, his time spent in Starkfield had caused his overall melancholy demeanor and left him feeling isolated.
MIGRANT HOSTEL A tone of instability and insecurity is set within the first stanza where the accumulation of the nouns “comings and goings”, “arrivals” and “sudden departures” suggests a sense of chaos and highlights the lack of stability within the poet's life. The use of enjambment of “wondering/ who would be coming next” allows the emphasis to fall heavily on “who”, illustrating the transient nature of the hostel environment and putting emphasis on the uncertainty of who is to arrive next. This constant change becomes unsettling and prevents the poet from finding a place of belonging and further hindering his self-identity, leaving him lost and confused. The physical and emotional divisions set up by different nationalities is further
The mournful and discouraged tone of the dialogues between the two of them depicts a hidden barrier towards each other. Furthermore, their distant and polite usage of words reveals a lack of relationship and connection. Similarly, in the short prose piece, "Dark they were and Golden Eyed", the protagonist Harry is isolated from his community on the planet Mars because of his refusal to eat "food grown on Mars." He relentlessly says to his family, "we've got to get away," yet no one really pay attention to him symbolizes his sense of belonging to his people has diminished. In addition, the composer uses the repetition of the word, "earth" frequently to emphasize Harry's exaggeration for wanting to return back to
Artie feels that he will never live up to his parent’s expectations of Richieu, because he was never in the War. An example of this is shown on the last page of the graphic novel, where Vladek turns over to go to sleep and calls Artie, Richieu. “I’m tired from talking, Richieu, and it’s enough stories for now…” The way Spiegleman has represented this in the text suggests to the reader that Vladek never fully loved Artie, as much as he loved his first son Richieu. This has obviously had major impacts on Arties life, and it has all primarily been caused by the Holocaust, because Vladek and Anja never fully healed after the Holocaust. Although ‘The Complete Maus’ is based around the interviews that Spiegleman has conducted with his
The poem deals with the complexities of belonging and the daily struggles of assimilating. The opening line, “No one kept count” shows the reader that the persona and his family are in a negative situation. The emphasis on the ‘no’ highlights the personas tone which is also negative and the lack of order within the hostel. “We lived like birds of passage”, is an example of a pronoun to show that the migrants tried to unite and feel a sense of belonging within another but failed as the persona still feels a sense of not belonging. Pronouns are used throughout the poem to make the reader connect with the persona.
English Though an old poem, the poem “Do not go gentle into the good night” by Dylan Thomas conveys many different messages and could mean differently through different people depending on how they chose to decipher it. Though however we can clearly see that Dylan Thomas uses the metaphor of Day and night, being Day is our life, and night is life after death. In my interpretation the poem goes like this: We must never accept death, Though we are old and weak we must fight when we are on our verge of life, Though death is inevitable, and soon they see it come because they are weak Wise men will never accept death and take on the fight Good men that see the end in their sight, Cry because of how their deeds may have been more powerful granted if they’d have more life Men that enjoyed life, ones that celebrated in the sun light, Learn too late that they must grieve when the sunsets and on comes the moonlight Though even they will resist death And men near death that see with no obstruction that death is near, will rage against death because they know they can still live life as bright as a meteor and be happy But for you father, there standing on the divider of life, though it will be a struggle, I pray that your tears will be fierce as you fight against the night. Do not go gentle into that good night Rage Rage against the dying of the light. For me this poem this poem is a lesson that Dylan Thomas created to teach us that: Even though death is inevitable We should never learn to embrace it; instead we should learn to fight and never accept
NARRATOR: This was just the beginning of a difficult journey Johnny Rockstar would take. In his younger years, his light was never given a chance to shine because of the poor choices he would make. Curtain closes, chorus returns to “chorus