Nearby, palm trees wave at me from above welcoming me to their home. I smile back at them enjoying their friendliness. Thirsty, I reach for my lemonade inside my cooler. The drink is cool and refreshing as it chills my body inside out. Feeling reinvigorated, I rise up from my spot and head to the shoreline to walk amongst the sand and the waves.
Radio Cape is Indeed a Labor of Love Frank's film tip: Independent filmmaker Andrew Silver's ode to love and landscape is all over the place in the resonance of his scenic and sensual ecological romancer RADIO CAPE COD. Director/producer Andrew Silver's Radio Cape Cod is indeed a labor of love. Saturated with a breathtaking elegance that radiates this low-key romancer, Silver definitely serves up a quaint love story set within the cosmetic confines of New England's blissful boundaries. Silver, whose usage of his academic background in natural ecology is key to the film's major symbolic effectiveness, accentuates the conception of the ocean as a cleansing experience for his character studies of undefined love. Enriching, methodical and visually arresting, Radio Cape Cod is an unconventional narrative in that it correlates its amorous themes with the nuances of nature and scientific curiosities.
The story can be viewed as a criticism of the sciences and the rational, which Romantics denounce in favor of the emotional and irrational. An example throughout the story is the sinful portrayal of Doctor Rappaccini and Baglioni as manipulators and how Giovanni’s passions, love at first then rage, override his rational thinking. The setting of Hawthorne's tale correlates that of the original story. Hawthorne retains some of the setting from the original story by placing the magnificent purple plant in the garden as the Biblical equivalent to the Tree of Knowledge. Rappaccini’s thinking conflicts with the spirituality of Beatrice because he wanted to control the spirit of Beatrice that ultimately cannot be controlled.
In the beginning of the story Rainsford seems to present himself as a gentlemen but by the end he seems very uncivilized. As an example, “he cowered back,”(13) as a dog would, a human doesn't tend to cower. Rainsford's “impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther,”(12) humans don't usually have the urge to attack other people in such a way. Rainsford's thoughts show the arising animal inside him. “I played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable,”(11) shows Rainsford comparing himself to two different wild animals.
Far away lights are flickering. (3-5) One gets the feeling of a touch of romance when the speaker calls somebody to the window to enjoy this picturesque scene of a summer evening with him. (6) The short but striking opening line compliments the tone of the poem. An enjambment in lines 2 and 3, the commas and semicolons in lines 3-6, together with the different lengths of the lines, gives the impression of the rhythm of the waves. The following alliterations: tonight and tide (1 & 2), full and fair (2), coast and cliffs (3 & 4), Gleams and gone (4), together with the assonance in lines 1 & 2, tonight and tide, contributes to the light and peaceful flow of the first six lines.
Discuss, with quotations and close reference, how Steinbeck uses language, both spoken and descriptive, to create a variety of effects in “Of Mice and Men”. 5. Should one feel sympathy for Curley? In Curley, Steinbeck has painted a picture of a thoroughly unpleasant young man. Argue a case, using three (3 ) points, to show that it is possible for the reader to feel sorry for Curley, while still acknowledging his many faults.
Of Mice and Men Analysis The books original working title given by Steinbeck was Something That Happened, but after reading the poem “To a Mouse” by Scottish poet Robert Burns, Steinbeck changed his mind. The poem describes how the narrator accidentally plows through a mouse’s nest, and the sorrow he feels afterwards. In the poem, the narrator reflects over the relationship between man and animal, deeply apologizing on the behalf of mankind for all the damages done to nature. The narrator identifies with the mouse as a fellow mortal, saying that both the thinking men and the unthinking animals will suffer in the end. The difference lies in the fact, that only the presence touches the mouse; man on the other hand, are able to look back in regret, or look to the future and fear.
And Men Critical Analysis There are many themes in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, but I’m going to address one. The theme I will discuss is the theme that obtaining a perfect life is impossible. This is shown through George, Lennie, Candy, and Crooks’s dream of owning some land. They wanted to, “Live off the fatta the lan’.” as George put it. Of course, as you know, it didn’t come true.
The figures of speech used, for example ‘Fluttering and dancing in the breeze”... “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”... “Out-did the sparkling waves in glee”... bring pleasurable images to ones mind of our natural environment and in this case dancing daffodils. This poem is purely one of pleasure and the poet feels no discontent with the natural environment he is witnessing. The pleasure shown in the poem ‘William Street’ by Kenneth Slessor reveals to us as a reader, that what one person may see as pleasurable another might not. It also shows us that the environment doesn’t necessarily have to be natural but it can be man-made. Slessor clearly gets his point across that for him the environment of William Street is one of pleasure.
Choices of images are important in any picture book without the right choice of image the reader will get easily bored if the choices of images aren’t in sync with the text. In ‘Fox’ it has the perfect selection of images. The fox is staring hungrily and angrily at the bird and the dog as though thinking if they can have fun why can’t I?. The colours used are significant in showing the scenes in pictures dark colours are used when there is danger or lighter colours when the scene is a peaceful scene. In ‘Fox’ the scene is portrayed as a darker scene with the fox lurking around them waiting to take up his role and stop they’re relationship.