What elements of "Hunters in the Snow" suggest that it is a serious literary work rather than merely an story of commercial fiction? 9. In the short story "Hunters in the Snow," who is the protagonist? 10. What are some examples of power struggles among the three principal characters in "Hunters in the Snow"?
In this poem, and most, there are examples of figurative language. When describing the snowman, the author writes, “the pale-faced figure with bitumen eyes” as a way to give the poem life and depth, as opposed to just saying the white snowman with coal eyes. We all know what a snowman looks like, but here the snowman is taking on more of a lifelike personality. By saying, “Returns him such a God–forsaken stare, as outcast Adam gave to paradise,” the author is giving this snowman a human-like personality. In the little boys mind, the snowman is begging the young boy to come in, like a puppy.
Their common adventures and activities help unlock relatively inconspicuous issues of Maycomb society, oblivious to the two characters at that time. For example, when Jem builds the snowman initially out of mud, Scout says “I never heard of a nigger snowman before.” Jem reacts by adding an outer layer of snow to make the snowman white. This perceptively reveals that the blacks of the time weren’t acknowledged for their presence and contribution to society, but hidden behind the snow of white supremacy. As elucidated, Harper Lee has effectively made To Kill A Mockingbird a novel that is both mentally and emotionally exercising. This was achieved through the use of child narration by Scout, the Boo Radley subplot, and the developed relationship between Jem and Scout.
By contextualizing his novel into a winter ambience, the season is able to symbolize a turbulent community experiencing conflict. The metaphorical notion that ‘haphazard cedar fences lined the careless roads’ suggests that man against nature’s will has constructed the divisions within society. This representation of nature’s disapproval of the social divide established by man is a reflection of Guterson’s purpose of the text, to draw attention to racial prejudices towards the Japanese before, after and during world war two. The continuing motif of snow represents the chilling burden of hatred that distorts humanity, which is juxtaposed to the continuing motif of cedars, symbolizing nature’s resilience to shake off injustice. By using the setting of winter and the representations of nature as snow and cedars, the responder identifies Guterson’s own opinion, that the social divide amongst the white-Americans and the Japanese is socially immoral.
Comparative Paper Fifth Business vs. Wuthering Heights As seen in Robertson Davies’ novel Fifth Business and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights the variation of chronological order as it relates to the events serves several purposes in developing these two stories by emphasizing the gravity of specific events that occur. These, in turn, have long lasting effects on the characters. Davies’ novel details the life of Dunstable Ramsey, whose story begins in Part 1 Chapter 1 with a whimsical snowball fight in the town of Deptford with friend Percy Boyd Staunton that soon turns into a tragic accident that plagues Dunstable with guilt throughout his existence. Dunstable, later referred to as Dunstan, dodges a snowball thrown by Percy, later called Boy, that strikes the pregnant Mary Dempster, wife of Baptist parson Amasa Dempster. Unknown to the reader until Part 6 Chapter 7, embedded in the snowball was a small pink granite stone, which is what then causes Mary to go into premature labor and there after be referred to as “simple”.
The parallels between the Biblical accounts and Atwood’s narrative are particularly strong concerning the character of the protagonist, Jimmy, who later becomes known to Crake’s Children as Snowman. In the final chapters of Oryx and Crake, Jimmy demonstrates many similarities to Adam in the Genesis story. Like Adam, Jimmy is tempted by the woman he loves, which leads to his expulsion from an ideal environment and forces him into a life of suffering in a hostile world. After Jimmy changes his identity and becomes Snowman, he begins to more closely resemble Moses in the Exodus story. Overall, the character of Jimmy/Snowman bears more similarities to Moses than to Adam.
xIntegrating Quotations Avoid Dropped Quotations Introduce the quotation. Quote – Insert the author‟s exact words or use ellipses or brackets to alter them. Connect – Demonstrate exactly how the quotation supports your interpretation. How do I introduce quotations? Examples: Wolff writes, The father says, (using the author‟s name) (using the character‟s name) At the end of the story, the son describes the ride down the mountain: (using a summary statement) Introduction + Quotation Wolff writes, “Snow whirled around us in bitter, blinding squalls, hissing like sand, and still we skied” (460).
He knew that the snowball was aimed for him, and yet he dodged it making it hurt someone else instead. He couldn’t stop feeling guilty that everything was his fault. “I was contrite and guilty, for I knew that the snowball had been meant for me…” (5) This piece of evidence proves what I stated above, that Dunstan thought that the snowball was meant for him and only him, the hitting of someone else was all under his control. This guilt makes up decisions for Dunstan later on in the book. Right after the snowball accident, Mrs. Ramsay went over to the Dempster’s house to aid and support them.
The song “don’t want you back” by Backstreet Boys and the poem “a snowflake falls” by Ruth Adams are powerful examples of the amount of impact discoveries have on the characters . All these texts show that the discoveries that have a life changing impact on us turn out to be the most important discoveries we make. Significant discoveries are a slow realisation process that change the way we perceive ourselves and our relationships. Initially in the short story “Big World” the adolescent narrator is hoping to discover excitement, girls and escape from his boring life. But during the journey he is forced to confront uncomfortable truths about himself and his relationship with Biggie which was initiated by “a single decisive act or violence that joined me to Biggie forever” but the
Though when describing the birthmark it was described as relatively small and in the shape of a hand and crimson color in nature against her pale skin “a crimson stain upon the snow (pg.291).” By nature we as humans are imperfect and sometimes we try to be by changing things about ourselves. The birthmark represents our human flaws and our flaws are very much part of us so we can’t really change it. Like when Aylmer tries to removes the birthmark because it’s so deep in her skin because it’s a part of her that it ends up killing her. He actually has a dream earlier in the book which foreshadows this event. He fails to look past the birthmark and realize she is perfect just the way she is.