The weather at the start of the horror story is much worse, and it begins with an exaggerated description of the fog in London. “Fog was outdoors, hanging over the river, creeping in and out of alleyways and passages, swirling thickly between the bare trees of all the parks and gardens of the city,” Hill also occasionally uses the weather to build tension like above, but not because of the main events. This is to keep the reader interested and entice the reader. For example “the train had stopped, and the only sound to be heard was the moan of the wind” sounds like it will lead to something very sinister. Another way that Hill creates tension is her choice of particular words and phrases, such as “I plunged out into the choking London fog.” This is a good example because the use of the word ‘plunged out’ makes it seem like there is more of a risk than if it was to simply say walk out.
Oklahoma, Kansas, the Northern Texas, and the New Mexico) which experienced severe soil erosion caused by the effect of windstorms in the 1930s. Lassieur (2009) noted that the term has its origin from WW I, during which the initially known grasslands of the area were converted into agricultural fields. The area had experience dry climates leading to severe drought. Together with the effect of over-cultivation, which occurred in the early parts of 1930’s, the land in the Great Plains ware left bare? This condition made the soil to be more prone to the heavy winds, which blew the loose topsoil in what was described as the black blizzards.
At the end of the novel at Gatsby’s funeral it is raining; the rain representing the sadness of the tragedy. Without doubt it is evident that throughout the novel, Fitzgerald utilizes symbolism of the weather to portray the
How Does Duffy reveal her attitude to war and soldiers? In The Falling Soldier, Duffy takes the opportunity to use the photograph of the man’s ‘last breath’ to try and rewrite history, creating several different pleasant images of what the photo could of been representing, compared to the harsh reality. Duffy in both The Falling Soldier and Last Post shows the same theme of her trying to show what she wished, could have happened to the innocent soldiers. ‘If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would’ this is Duffy basically telling us that if she could rewrite history with her poems then she would. In the poem The Falling Soldier, which is in relation to the photograph by Robert Capa, Duffy begins the poem by using colloquial language such as ‘flop’ and ‘kip’ to create a very casual everyday image about how the photo could be interoperated.
The theme of violence is depicted by the menacing introduction to the poem as we open at the funeral of a murderous gangster. This is shown by “the clouds piled up, dragged their rain through the cemetery”. This creates a bleak and sinister atmosphere which echoes the events taking place. By using personification, it’s as if the clouds are alive and manifesting this sombre mood. Immediately this sets the tone for the violence later in the poem.
AP Book Report 1: “Lolita” “Lolita” written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov in 1955. Vladimir was born in Russia. There are three key characters in this book: Major : Humbert Humbert - The main character and narrator. He’s an English literature teacher with a troubling past that causes him to be attracted to preteen girls. When he goes to the U.S. and moves in with a widowed woman and her daughter he falls in love, or becomes obsessed, with the daughter who just so happens to be a preteen.
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Katherine Ann Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” they both examine the central theme of death and denial throughout the two short stories. The two main characters, Miss Emily and Granny Weatherall, portray this theme. Both characters share not only similar themes throughout their short story, but also many different characteristics. Understanding the background on these characters is a key component in the central theme throughout this short story, which is both death and denial. Both Miss Emily and Granny Weatherall are stubborn old women, who cannot face actually reality.
The book goes through three different time phrases from modern day California to the lives of Precious Auntie and Luling, and then transitions to Ruth understanding more about her mother and the wonderful person she didn’t see her for when she was growing up. When putting these three phases together it becomes clear that the true mystery behind this book is surrounding Luling and her attempts to remember the name that will bind her past to her future (“Bonesetter’s Daughter Review”). Memory appears to be the main issue of the novel, but in fact it turns out to be one of the most inspiring aspects of the novel. Ruth always saw her mother as difficult, oppressive and odd, with her talks of death, bad luck, ghosts and curses (“Bonesetter’s Daughter Review”) – typical of the Chinese culture that Luling saw herself very connected to. Growing up Ruth hated having to explain everything to her mother.
Eric Shorts Professor Paquita Garatea History of Women in America December 3, 2012 “Money Makes Tha World Go Round” Anzia Yezierska (1881 - 1970) was the daughter of Russian-Polish Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s. Her father was a Talmudic scholar who engaged in full time study of the holy books while her mother struggled to support the family. Yerzierska worked in sweat shops to put herself through Columbia University. After achieving her goal of becoming an independent woman, her sister influenced her to begin writing. Yezierska became a popular novelist and short story writer during the 1920s before slipping into relative
after three years with Mlle Souvestre . Near this time early Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fine-looking and cheerful, an upperclassman at Harvard University, the apple of his mother's eye, moved into Eleanor's life earnestly. He appeared to Eleanor a marvelous wooer. Anyhow, Franklin's ascertained courtship and Eleanor’s crave for a domicile and family and hope to go through everything that numerous women experienced, expelled every uncertainty. She had been adverted to consider the spousal relationship as a responsibility and burgeon and may well have implied that at that time the factor of sensuality was missing on her side.