Kumokums story starts with him sitting down beside Tule Lake and he was interested in Tule Lake because that's all there was, Tule Lake. Kumokums wondered how it would look if there was something around the water since that was all that was there. So he reached down deep into Tule Lake and drew up a handful of mud. He piled it into a hill in front of him and patted it down. As he patted it began to spread beneath his hand, and out around him, until Tule Lake was completely surrounded by earth and he was left there standing on an island.
Though, what transpired there was a dose of harsh reality and also a learning experience. He describes the lake to us, “The Indians had called it Wakan, a reference to the clarity of its waters. Now it was fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires. There was a single ravaged island a hundred yards from shore, so stripped of vegetation it looked as if the air force had staffed it. We went up to the lake because everyone went there, because we wanted to snuff the rich scent of possibility on the breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and crickets.
“ Ralph you can’t talk to people like that” David whispered through clenched water droplet teeth. The Fat water droplet responded, “ I don’t mind, your friend just wants to know where i’m from. I came from inside a lovely flower’s leaf, but the sun pulled me out through little holes in it also known as transpiration and well here I am.” Responded the water droplet. The fat water droplet then turned to Ralph and said in an annoyed tone “ And for your information i’m not fat, i’m muscular, see all this water, its pure muscle.” Ralph and David looked at each other, ralph began to speak, “We’re water droplets, we don’t have muscle! How does…” David cut him off, “Let it go man, if he thought his sentence made sense he’s not gonna get your explanation.” Soon, he began to get cold.
The implied feeling of the speaker as they travel through the swamp is a gloomy feeling. Mary Oliver uses very descriptive words and other devices to paint the picture of a swamp. She says, “I feel not wet so much as painted and glittered with fat grassy mires, the rich and succulent narrows of earth.” The vocabulary she uses in this poem can
I feel the push of myriad tiny, stream-drained valleys bestowing good energy upon my wet highway. So away-ho from Benjamin’s big bridge, bound for the first of James River’s grand plantations. I raise sail, encounter friendly tailwinds, and become a navigator. Pissing across a gunwale in a flood-driven canoe under full sail is a delicate art, a crucial and blissful release of inner into outer hydrostatic
The meadow grass could be cemented down From growing under pavements of a town; The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame. Is water wood to serve a brook the same? How else dispose of an immortal force No longer needed? Staunch it at its source With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone In fetid darkness still to live and run -- And all for nothing it had ever done Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
"So, in two seconds, away we went, a sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us" (154) these words, spoken by Huck in the classic yet controversial novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn illustrate Huck’s feelings of floating up the Mississippi, and help support one of the main themes of the book and why the river is so important to its characters. There are many symbolic meanings to the Mississippi in the story. The Mississippi represents freedom, refuge, and the characters’ inner feelings. Floating down the river represents many things, but none more the freedom. Freedom, in Huck’s case is not being told how to live.
There are some jokes such as explaining "Sandy" is a unisex name that is used too much as if it will become funny at one point but never really breaks through. The story line sticks through the movie and contains some twists that were suprising and entertaining. The settings were very good and had variety because try were trying to get from Florida to Colorado. Overall it was a pretty entertaining movie and I enjoyed it. Out of 4 stars this movie would get a 3 for me, giving a funny, enjoyable
(Oates 4) There is a common colloquial phrase that reads “Just smile, it confuses everyone.” None could be truer for Arnold Friend. While a smile is often a gesture used to express happiness, Friend uses it to trick a young girl, Connie, out of her home and thus destroys any chance of her happiness. In this sense, Arnold Friend’s sly grin epitomizes the Old English “smygel ‘cuniculus’ (only in glosses), related to smúgan to creep” (OED). Arnold Friend is nothing more than a creep. He is an older man, attempting to fit in with a much younger crowd, and “marking” girls he wants with his signature “X,” all of which are signs that something is amiss, and possibly dangerous.
He uses the words “paralyzed by wonder” to explain his situation (23). These chosen words are not normally used to describe one's marvel, but in Abbey's case it works. The word paralyzed tends to have a negative connotation since it is typically used to describe bad situations, such as someone afraid and helplessly unable to act. With the word wonder having a positive connotation, it starkly contrasts from its neighboring word. By using “paralyzed by wonder” Abbey must mean that the dance was so fantastic that it captivated him and kept him unable to move (23).