He uses descriptive word to describe the physical surroundings “grassy and wanted ware” and talks about knowing how “way leads onto way” “I doubted I would ever come back” makes the poem important because it indicates that whatever decision he makes would symbolise his life journey. As he has never come to the path before, he knows he can’t change his decision it once he has chosen which path to travel. Life points in one direction. The ‘sigh’ intimates that looking inward, when he reflects upon his life, he will remember the choice he made and although he states he would ‘say’ he took the road less travelled, it is apparent after reading “Though as for that, the passing there, Had worn them really about the same” that both paths had been travelled equally, not one less than the other. The poem tells us that we are free to choose our path, but we do not know beforehand which path we are taking until we have travelled it.
In contrast, Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle in 2008 is a film which displays the Journey of two brothers and their separate paths. Even though the texts are in different formats, they all uphold the universal concept that determination is necessary to conquer complications in a journey. A powerful human spirit is required to reconcile and accept decisions made in journeys. In The Road Not Taken, one of the key ideas explored is simply the journey of an individual walking through the woods contemplating which path to take. The symbolism displayed though the path motif reflects the difficult choice in the journey.
The importance of the metaphor suggests there may be more to the memory throughout the novel as the novel progresses. 3. Toms approach is that he doesn’t want to see or run into his brother “Daniel and the others, I’d been wondering when they would come past. Dreading it”. 4.
Its representations of both immigration and the idea of change, as scary and unsettling experiences could not be more realistic. However changes in our lives our inevitable, it’s how we react and deal with the changes that shape our character. This is why you get that good-feeling at the very end of the book when the main character is re-united with his family, after all he’s been through readers are reminded that no matter how strange or confusing something like a foreign city might be; it’s just a matter of time before you’ll learn to adjust and be
In the poem, “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker has to create a big verdict in his life. This poem talks about a person who comes across a fork in the road and he has to choose which way to trail. At the end of the poem, the speaker says, “That has made all the difference”. Creating conflict by selecting the tougher path, the speaker announces his rebellion against the popular opinion as represented by the other road. He decides not to adapt to society and takes up a less popular choice.
The significance of this quote is that it displays us the feelings Gatsby has for his memories. This proves my main claim mainly because we can see that Gatsby want to revive the past, rather than to try and deal with what’s going on in his present. This also proves my thesis because we see Gatsby trying to achieve a concept of a dream but he’s struggling in the process because he’s trying to live in a past memory and bring it to the present. Also, we can see that Gatsby is even determined to do so. As we can see F. Scott Fitzgerald states, “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before” (117) It’s easy to see in this quote that Gatsby is really serious about going back in the past, and try to bring a piece of happiness that made him happy back to the present.
In the story “Young Goodman Brown”, Hawthorn uses the setting of the forest and the characters as an analogy to convey the main characters physiological state of mind toward his views on religion. The setting in the short story mainly takes place in the forest. The main character Young Goodman Brown finds himself compelled to take a journey, while relying on his faith to return him back home in the state in which he leaves. The forest can be an analogy as Goodman Browns own mind, and the cluttered thoughts that plague his mind. The “innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead” help describe the setting.
Chris Raynor ENG 123 Professor Thomas 3/26/2015 Synthesis Essay #2 Flanner O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown both use life as well as right and wrong choices for the way we as Christians and non-Christians live in our daily lives and the steps we go through in order to reach salvation or eternal torment. “Young Goodman Brown” shows the journey of a young man and his journey through the woods to reach a place that we do not know about but soon will. After meeting a few people, he finds himself in what looks like a convert to witchery and evil. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” shows the vacation of a family to Florida and hardship of the family in what they go through during their ride
In the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth lines he tells that he will save the first road for another day and take the second road even though he doesn’t know where they lead he may not ever come back. In the thirteenth line there is alliteration in the words “first” and “for”. In line sixteen through twenty of the poem the speaker is disappointed with his self. He talks about how he shouldn’t have took the road less traveled by like most others. In line nineteen there
The setting of the poem is a “yellow wood”(1) and there is mention of leaves on the ground in third stanza, so it is the season of autumn and metaphorically speaking, close to the end of the man's life. In the first stanza, three of the five lines begin with the word “and”, and words such as “doubt” “sigh”, and “sorry” are commonplace throughout, so it is assumed that the narrator is nervous and indecisive by nature. Throughout the poem, Frost uses the fork in the road as a metaphor for decision making. For example, the narrator says, “long I stood, and