The author chose to use this title because it correlates with his novel based on realism as does the poem “To a Mouse” that contains the “Of Mice and Men” meaning mice and men had same struggles during the Great Depression. There are many characters facing problems of realism in the novel. One character depicting realism is Crooks. Another character dealing with real life struggles is George. The final character also dealing with real life struggles is Lennie.
The main character a ginger tom cat is the most comic character within this tale. He brags at how he is able to “woo” the female cats with his acrobatic tricks and his singing; however the reader will see that his perception of himself is very wrong. She writes how “fans” at his concerts deluge [him] with pails of the freshest water, vegetables hardly spoiled and, occasionally, slippers, shoes and boots” Carter has shown how all these “gifts” that Puss thinks he is getting are actually refuse to shut him up creating a comic effect for the reader. Carter also uses course language against elevated language to create a comic affect as well, for the reader “tonguing my arsehole with the impeccable hygienic integrity of cats” this creates shock for the reader but also humour as he is very blunt with his language. As Carters other tales within her collection are darker, this can be seen as light relief.
For example the first stanza “Daylong this tom-cat lies stretched” has the cat in a house or in someplace lying flat on a mat whereas in the last stanza “Among ash cans. He leaps and lightly” he is among bins and over rooftops free to do as it pleases; these verses from the poem also show that the cat is manipulative and sly, during the day a sleepy domestic cat and during the knight a sly cruel and active cat. Also the writer uses powerful verbs, metaphors and simile’s to describe the movement and appearance of the Tom-Cat. For example “A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight” shows the use of a powerful verb ‘Sprang’ and also shows that the cat is vicious and somewhat brave, attacking a large mounted knight and show that the cat is ruthless as well mercilessly killing the knight by surprise. Verses like “His eyes green as ringstones: he yawns wide red” and “Fangs fine as a lady’s needle and bright” help describe the cats appearance and some distinguishing features such as his bright green, glaring eyes, cruel and icy; and his sharp fangs ready to tear into the tom-cats helpless
This is the opposite of dramatic irony, where the character knows something the audience doesn’t. (As a narrative tool, this is often used in literature and is usually the result of an unreliable narrator and is used in novels such as ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’.) After laughing at the doorman’s secret, the main protagonist, Alice White walks down the street with her boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber who is also unaware of the secret, playfully shunning him. This tactic came around again in his 1955, The Trouble With Harry, in which a whisper into the ear is used as a running gag, leaving the viewer curious what
Tom is married to Daisy but Gatsby wants to steel her back. Through the book Gatsby try’s to impress daisy . One way that Gatsby and Tom are different is that Gatsby is weird and mysterious and Tom is more normal and snobby. In the book during Gatsby’s party’s he would just stay by himself and watch the party’s. Another
Cannery Row, like Of Mice and Men is a good example of slice of life literature, defined as “literature [that] is realistic writing that offers a realistic portrayal of life” (Flanagan 1). Even more so than the characters found in The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, the characters found in Cannery Row strike readers with a startling realness. Like Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row is about connections. Both books are “evocative, beautifully rendered portraits of ‘outsiders’ struggling to understand their own unique places in the world” (Stephan 1). But unlike Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row shows a community dynamic verses the dynamic of select individuals or a small group.
(25 marks) May03 How important are minor characters in Of mice and Men? (25 marks) What is the importance of George and Lennie’s dream of living “off the fatta the lan” in Of Mice and Men? (25 marks) Jun04 What do you learn about Crooks in this extract and elsewhere in the novel? (25 marks) How important are dreams to this novel? (25 marks) You may wish to consider:
But you can bring the wonk back by exaggerating the bumps and it gets all optical illusiony. Anyway, you're not sure what the 2nd type of spiral's good for but it's a good way to draw snuggled up Slug Cats which are a species you've invented just to keep this spiral from feeling useless. This 3rd spiral, however, is good for all sorts of things. You could draw a snail or a Nautilus shell, an elephant with a curled up trunk, the horns of a sheep, a fern frond, a cochlea in an inner ear diagram, an ear itself. Those other spirals can’t help but be jealous of this clear superior kind of spiral.
the narrator from “The Black Cat” expresses, “Pluto -- this was the cat's name -- was my favorite pet and playmate.” and after the event of the narrator’s first wrongdoing towards the cat the narrator recounts “When reason returned with the morning -- when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch -- I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed.” Through this we see the effects of mental deterioration partnered with alcohol and the destructive pattern it
The window green.The toilet table orange, the basin blue.The doors lilac" (From Vincent's letters to his brother regarding his painting). This makes it seem that the color choice was purposeful. Jane Flanders' poem about the painting is interesting, although I do not agree with it. She seems to concentrate more on describing the person living in the room than the room itself --"is clumsy, still friendly". The line "an old wife beat the mattress till it rose like a meringue" tells us that the room is very old fashioned but fails to actually point to the fact that instead of looking like a regular room (rectangle), it is almost skewed downward toward the onlooker.Vincent van Gogh's shows an extreme perceptive of his room which was almost unrealistic while Jane Flanders gave the room an almost boring portrayal.