Meetings involving town councils analyzed the poor as those “unwilling to work” as well as being “harmful to the public good” and not to mention their actions to “expel the poor from the city” (Doc.5). France’s Cardinal Richelieu added to that by stating that they have turned to begging and stealing from the sick (Doc. 8). Due to their crimes, this lead society to alienate them. Netherland’s Emperor Charles V stated, “If begging for alms is permitted to everyone indiscriminately, many errors and abuse will result for they will fall into idleness, which is the beginning of all evil” (Doc.4).
This story section of the book was an overview of the lynching in America. For those who don’t know what lynching is, lynching is when a mob of people kill a human being, mainly hanging them by their necks with a noose hanging from a tree. The section starts off with a poem. The poem is describing the way the whites would hang African Americans from trees just because of the color of their skin. The poet describes the scene and scent as “…the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth the scent of magnolia sweet fresh then the sudden smell of burning flesh here is a fruit for the crows to pluck…” The poet describes the sight as a very gruesome one but in a tolerant and very non explicit manner.
The second line refers to the horrible aftermath of lynching by mentioning blood on leaves and at the base of the tree. The third line also makes reference to the visual of after a lynching has occurred. By visual, I mean the bodies of African American individuals swinging lifelessly in the breeze; more specifically, the southern breeze. At the end of this stanza a reference to the peacefulness of a tree and the fruit hanging from it is made. Ironically, the fruit that is being referred to is actually referring the corpses of lynched blacks hanging from trees in the racially divided
Emo conversely glorifies his murders of the Japanese and looks down upon and insults Tayo for holding any empathy for them. Emo links Tayo’s struggle with the slaying of the Japanese to his mixed blood. Earlier on in the novel, Tayo has a major realization during his reliving of the war. “The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men until they dripped sweat the way rubbery jungle leaves dripped the monsoon rain. It was there that Tayo began to understand what Josiah had said.
The black man is a symbol of Satan in this book, he is brought up by Hester. Hester thinks that the scarlet "A" is the black mans mark. She notices this on Dimmesdale's chest, he symbolically is always touching his hand to his chest right where the letter is branded onto his skin. By bringing satan into the story he brings up a point if humans are born evil. The black man likes to hang out in the woods leaving him to be even more judged as satan because the forest is unknown and evil.
The Broken Wine Cask was one that symbolized the desperate quality of peoples hunger. Madame Dafarges Knitting was symbolizing the stealthy, cold, revengefulness of the revolutionaries. The Loadstone Rock was one of the more complicated examples of symbolism. It had the force to lure someone or thing in and ruin them, much like Dr. Mannett sending him back to France. Charles Dickens also wrote ironies very well.
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.
The theme of violence is depicted by the menacing introduction to the poem as we open at the funeral of a murderous gangster. This is shown by “the clouds piled up, dragged their rain through the cemetery”. This creates a bleak and sinister atmosphere which echoes the events taking place. By using personification, it’s as if the clouds are alive and manifesting this sombre mood. Immediately this sets the tone for the violence later in the poem.
Body Paragraph 2 Topic – Throughout the novel, Grendel, John Gardner retells the classic tale of Beowulf through the antagonist’s eyes. A. Much like in Rawicz’s story, Grendel finds himself trapped in a tree 1. Grendel wants to be freed from the tree to which he is captive, the oppression of an angry bull, and the deep inner feeling of loneliness experience prior to being trapped. 2.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills We trekked and picked until the cans were full Until the tinkling bottom had been covered With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's. We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre. But when the bath was filled we found a fur, A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache. The juice was stinking too.