Paula Browns New Snow Suit

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The theme of Power of imagination is developed in the short text “Superman and Paula Browns New Snowsuit” by Sylvia Plath through the use of figurative language features such as similes, metaphors and personification. The theme is first developed at the beginning of the short text, we get to see this through the use of alliteration for example in the quote “lights of Boston that blazed and blinked” This quote draws attention to the reader as we are able to see that the narrator has a strong imagination as she is describing simple things like the lights of Boston in vivid way. As readers we get to see the theme being developed in her dreams of Superman. We are able to see that she compares Superman to her Uncle Frank. “ He used to come roaring by in his shining blue suit with his cape whistling in the wind looking remarkably like my Uncle Frank” This is a strong powerful quote but we can see the narrator blurs the line between reality and fantasy. During the short story the theme continues to be developed when the narrator explains how going to bed as being the best time of day. “I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of the day” The quote shows that the narrator finds reality dull or meaningless and would rather live in her imaginations. The power of imagination sets the narrator far from reality, she unable to see the world for what it really is, because of this she starts to impose her views of reality on what people think. “David couldn’t see his likeness as clearly as I did”. In this quote we are able to see that she wants David too see Uncle Frank as Superman but he doesn’t and as a result she impose her views on reality. Towards the end of the play the narrator experiences for her a traumatic experience in which everyone she knows and is friends with turns on her. “Sheldon and Paula and Jimmy and the rest of them faced me with a
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