Addy was still weak from the efforts of her labour, and still sore and bleeding, but she knew she had to leave and she had to leave today" (Lansens 271). Then, when Addy loses Chick, she handles the situation in a better way: "She would not pass through the big oak doors though. Instead she climbed the fire escape stairs, stepping around Mr. Baldwin's winter wood and kindling, intent on keeping her memories at bay" (Lansens 472). Addy is able to overcome the feeling of hurt fast after the death of her second child because she already faces a similar dilemma with her first child. She leaves a whole country to conquer the feeling of loss of her first child whereas she simply decides to ignore the passage her family used to take together in her building after her second child dies.
The dialogue in the story “The storm” introduces the reader to what the couple is destined for, better known as fate.. . For example, “Bonte! , she cried releasing herself from his encircling arms and retreating from the window, The dialogue “Bonte! She cried” shows the reader the fate lying within the story. Calixta, who is the mother of Bibi, is supposed to be worried about her son and husband in the storm.
In the story, we see the friends that are important to the speaker, from his grandmother down to his homeless friends, are taken from him regularly. Rose of Sharon leaves to live with family on the reservation, and Junior leaves only to later freeze to death (Alexie, 2003). In the poem "Burial", those things and people that are important to the speakers grandmother are taken from her one at a time, as we see in the lines, "the stroke which claimed your right side,/the land you gave up when you remarried, /your grief over my grandfather’s passing," (Che, 2014). They each show how friends are lost to time. Time would rob of us our dignity, if we allow it.
In this stanza “school” is a symbol, in which she relates that it was the beginning of his life. They are also passing out of time into eternity. In the fourth stanza “or rather –he passed us” she is death, she has stopped her run of life, she is death and is a part of a landscape. It’s explaining the new place in their world, as in a cemetery. In the fifth stanza “we paused before a house that seemed” she describes a house, but this house is the same place in the landscape or cemetery, and she describes this house because, she has obsession with of her house, but really it is the resting place and a travel to eternity.
Ashley Broadway ENG125 Instructor Cook January 28, 2013 I Used To Live Here Once The theme that is being symbolized in the short story "I used to live here once," is of life after death and memories of life before death. The title of the short story uses the word "once" and that gives meaning of being gone from this place. Also when the narrator states "She knew" in the last sentence there is emphasis of the woman being dead and looking back on her life that she had once lived. The cold that occurred all of a sudden is something that is significant to her life journey coming to an end. Her reaching out to the unresponsive children signifies that she is already gone therefore the children are unresponsive to her.
Do you happen to know, by any chance?’ [Holden] realized it was only one chance in a million (78). Salinger uses the winter causing the lake to freeze over as a metaphor for growing up. In the winter, New York lakes develop a brittle layer of ice, which is treacherous because it is easy to fall through into the freezing water. Holden feels the same about adulthood: he is reluctant to enter adulthood, or “walk on thin
Shakespeare's reference to "yellow leaves" shows that the person is in the fall of their life, approaching winter, considering leaves don't change until the end of fall and the boughs "shake against the cold." He then references an absence when he speaks of the "late" birds. His choice to use the word "late" and the past tense "sang," show that something isn't there anymore, or missing creating a feeling of emptiness. This feeling of emptiness combined with the metaphors implying a fast approaching winter, seem to relay a harshness and maybe that the person has missed something in life. The person's death is constantly coming near, as is alluded to by his metaphors with twilight and a sunset.
The extract is about a girl named Sophia Baines, who realises her 14 years invalid father has finally come to his tragic end after she left him alone for a brief period of time and the chaos that ensues. The major theme of this extract is helplessness and underlying tones of dark humour exist throughout the development of the prose. This extract is narrated in third person omniscient examining the actions, reactions and emotions brought out by the three main characters ; Sophia Baines, Maggie and Mr. Critchlow following the death of Mr. Baines. This is clearly justified with the use of ‘she’, ‘her’, “she was startled because her father’s head and beard were not in their accustomed place on the pillow.” This extract is highly descriptive in nature with several instances of visual imagery described below. The extract has humour throughout; “ After having been unceasingly watched for fourteen years, he had, with an invalid’s natural perverseness, taken advantage of sophia’s brief dereliction to expire” Death here is portrayed as a choice one has, rather than ill fate befallen upon him.
At the same way she confirms her anguish “Please let me know beforehand/And I will come out to meet you/ As far as Cho-Fu-Sa” (Pound, lines 27-29). The Merchant’s Wife depicts herself as a sad person due to her husband’s work. Nature plays an important row in her sorrowful letter. Despite of her strong appearance, she feels weak because her image of nature demonstrates her sadness of the husband’s journey. Work Cited Pound, Ezra.
JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, essayist Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune says a reluctant goodbye to winter. TV REPORTER: It is really coming down, very convective in nature. We've had... JULIA KELLER, NewsHour essayist: Here in the Midwest, the winter of 2009 has been a wicked one. The snow, like those legendary Chicago voters, came early and often. It's been diabolically cold, as well, which means that, when the snow came, it stayed.