In John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, chapter 25 portrays the cruelty and heartlessness of the owners and how they manipulate the fruits. The narrator manipulates language to convey human’s harmful corruption of nature. The use of figurative languages such as similes, the variation in poetic and, the harsh description adds on to the destructiveness of humans. Chapter 25 is one of the shortest chapters in the novel but extremely powerful. California is the “promised land” that supposedly brings a better future to the migrant workers but because of the corrupt owners, migrant workers are paid low wages and forced into poverty.
Seeing the ugly duckling for the first, a “spiteful duck,” (Andersen) “flew out and bit him in the neck” (Anderson). This blatant act of malice was strictly because of his looks. Thought out the rest of his Life the Ugly Duckling bears numerous horrible acts, from being verbally abused by a hen to being so neglected that he feels the need to avoid all contact with other animals and humans. This however helped the swan become who he is at the end of the story. At the end of Andersen’s fairytale the beautiful swan summarizes,
The beautiful island becomes a hell at the end of the novel. Finally, when Ralph is escaping from the hunting of other boys, he is saved by a navy officer who takes all boys back to the ship. Towards the end of the last chapter, the passage "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man' heart, and the fall through the air of his true, wise friend called Piggy" demonstrates the main theme of this novel: man is evil by nature. The three things that Ralph weeps for are the lessons he has on this island: innocent boys become savage; all human beings have evil deep inside their hearts and the fall of science and rationality before the evil of human. These three issues are developed throughout the whole novel with this passage as the conclusion of the main theme - human beings are evil by nature.
Act 2 Scene 3 Friar Lawrence: The smiling morning is replacing the frowning night. Darkness is stumbling out of the sun’s path like a drunk man. Now, before the sun comes up and burns away the dew, I have to fill this basket of mine with poisonous weeds and medicinal flowers. The Earth is nature’s mother and also nature’s tomb. Plants are born out of the Earth, and they are buried in the Earth when they die.
They run out of water while the weather gets really hot. Everyone blames him for killing the albatross that they replace the cross with dead albatross around his neck to remind him of his error. Next, he indirectly get everyone on the ship dead because of the sin he commits. Feeling guilty, the Mariner wants to pray because he is still be cursed. But the Mariner escapes his curse by unconsciously blessing the water snakes, and the albatross drops off his neck into the ocean.
His tears are a reference to Psalm 137, in which the people of Israel, exiled to Babylon, cry by the river as they remember Jerusalem. Suddenly the death-life of the modern world rears its head. “A cold blast” is sounded, bones rattle, and a rat creeps “through the vegetation / Dragging its slimy belly on the bank.” Rats appear several times in "The Waste Land," and always they carry with them the specter of urban decay and death –- a death which, unlike that of Christ or Osiris or other men-deities, brings about no life. At this point, the narrator, “fishing in the dull canal,” assumes the role of the Fisher King, alluding to Jessie L. Weston’s From Ritual to Romance and its description of the Grail legend. According to this study, of critical importance to the entirety of "The Waste Land," the Fisher King -– so named probably because of the importance of fish as Christian fertility symbols -– grows ill or impotent.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is currently one of the reason marine and sea animals die. The main causes of this issue would be: littering and unshipped cargo. When people litter on the beach or near the ocean, it is impossible to run into the water and retrieve the trash. The trash that mostly kills the marines are plastic, the animals mistaken it for their meal. “Plastic products can be very harmful to marine life in the gyre.
Corruption We are so cut throat that we are willing to step over a person to get where we want. Humans are selfish, always looking for ways to better themselves. They often overlook the feelings of others when trying to make it to the top. They use the weakness of others to uplift themselves. The story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” By Garcia Marquez shows the many imperfections of society such as cruelty, greed and how easily distracted humans can be.
13 He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine, 14 Had panicked down the trench that night the mine 15 Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried 16 To get sent home, and how, at last, he died, 17 Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care 18 Except that lonely woman with white hair. Big White Lies: Analytical Essay of The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon In “The Hero”, poet Siegfried Sassoon expresses his contempt towards the hypocrisy of warfare and especially his critical view of the authorities’ attempt at glorifying a soldier’s death. In this poem he provides stark contrast between the harsh truth and reality, employing the use of irony, imagery, contrast, and even alliteration. Firstly, Sassoon effectively uses irony to illustrate the contrast between the soldier’s real and glorified death, as well as the impression of a close-knit military unit, as opposed to the truth that no one had the compassion to care for a fallen soldier.
In the beginning of chapter two of Maggie, he leaves nothing to the imagination of their surroundings: children playing in the muck and in the road for vehicles to hit, disgusting people screaming at each other, and in “postures of submission,” and the very building above them looking like it was about to fall. The children of the Johnson household curse and fight and act like animals, and idea reinforce by Crane’s simile relating Maggie to a tigress (Crane 6, 9). This home for these innocent children in Maggie is described as a moral garbage pit, where the ethics that the middle and upper classes held dear did not necessarily apply. Like a malignant cancer, the