Nature is very powerful and a strong theme in “to Build a Fire”. London talks throughout the story about the freezing temperatures, fire, and water. The conflict that is significant between the men is that the new comer was very foolish in his decision to travel in the weather that day. The old-timer at Sulphur Creek warns him about traveling in fifty below zero weather. He also tells him that if he is going to travel in the Klondike in weather like this that he needs a travelling partner.
Throughout the poem the atmosphere Owen has portrayed between the men at war seems to be very extreme. The weather seems to be obliterating, “rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy” which seems to make everything worse for the soldiers, the use of harsh weather not only shows the extreme conditions but could also be linked to Owen’s emotion as the weather is grotty and mysterious which could be seen as pathetic fallacy in the sense that he does not know what is coming next and feels distressed due to it. The sibilance of the repeated ‘s’ sound created the effect of whispering, which could be seen as an attempt to not draw the attention of the enemy, who are futilely using flares to see what is going on. The war continues in the distance but the silence and inactivity in the bitter cold makes it all sound unreal and as dawn brings more snow laden clouds into view, “sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”. The
People are afraid of graveyards because of the depressing thought that people who have died are buried there, and that the you will die one day. This particular graveyard makes us feel uncomfortable and tense because Pip's family will be here and of course the way the author wrote it. The surrounding countryside/landscape makes us feel tense because of the way the author (Charles Dickens) wrote the setting paragraph. This includes the part where he described the horizon as a 'low leaden line', that sentence implied that everything was very grey and dreary. The narrator himself creates tension.
The story begins with a striking example of personification as the narrator comes upon the “Usher” house. He describes how chilling the windows look, as if they were expressionless eyes peering out over the dreariness of the day. He uses this description to show that the house has seen everything that has led to the fall of itself and its master, Roderick Usher. The narrator describes that “the eye, however, struggled in vain to reach the innermost angles of the chamber within Roderick’s mind, or the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling.” The narrator refers to his own eve inside the house, attempting to make a comparison between his eyes, and the windows of the house itself. He goes on to reason within himself how such an ordinary objects could depress a soul in such a way as the “Usher” mansion had done with him.
Arriving When Father Vincent says “Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving,” he means that uncertainty can sometimes be worse than knowing bad news because at least there is solidity with knowledge. This quote not only applies to Cry, the Beloved Country but the world in general, for it's the universal theme of the book. In Cry, the Beloved Country, the main character, Umfundisi Stephen Kumalo, is on a journey for the whole of the book. He's on a quest to not only find his son and sister but find out why the world works the way it does. It is a horrible journey, and one that seems to have no end.
Concerned for his mother he humorously tries to set up a date with a man named Will, in desperate hope to find her happiness, ignoring his own. Therefore this proves that the enclosure of sadness and despair that surrounds him and his beloved mother ironically did not drag him down but has rather exhilarated his determination to find happiness for not only himself but more importantly for his mother. This is also the case in Jeannette's childhood memoir. In the process of how frequently her family moved around from “...the motel room with dark red walls and two narrow beds”(Walls 32) or “...parking on an empty downtown street, (waking up) to
The Flyte family is of no exception to this prospect. Sebastian’s family is constantly finding themselves in battle on many matters, resulting in a very conflicting and unstable environment. Ultimately, Sebastian wishes to escape from his family and does so by excessive drinking. From the very beginning of the novel, there is an evident sense of distance that Sebastian feels from his family. As he and Charles first approached Brideshead, Charles deliberated when Sebastian stated, “‘It’s where my family live.’ And even then, rapt in the vision, I felt, momentarily, like a wind stirring the tapestry, an ominous chill at the words he used – not ‘that is my home,’ but ‘It's where my family live.’" (Waugh 29).
His last line emphasises this regret but also acceptance that his son has to go through life feeling sharp wounds.He wants to protect his son, it shows the connection and bound between father and son and the closeness of their relationship. Scannell lost 2 sons and this may be inspiration for this poem. He couldn’t protect his own children from the harshness of the world. The poem uses time phrases a lot; ‘last, ‘and then’, ‘in two weeks’, ‘would often feel’; this adds a narrative feel to the poem. Another feature that adds to the narrative feel is the way the poem is written in the first person.
COLD. The north wind brisked up, just as the morning slowly turned into a more depressing gray afternoon, bringing rain so cold it turned to ice that stuck to everything and anything it touched. The bare branches of the trees along O'Halla Street were sheathed in a radiant armor which drug them down and froze them into place. A single tear gently caressed my cheek as I stood in the now vacant bedroom-a place, which used to be my own-for what seemed like hours, knowing I'd never see the familiar surroundings of my Chesapeake home again. Home.
The storm is an important key behind the story and the affair. As the storm begins and ends, so the climax of sexual tension between two of the characters. We see clearly a man against nature conflict as the background. The story starts with Bobinot and his son at a store probably doing groceries, follow by a really bad storm approaching. They both want to go back home, but it is impossible, so the best solution is to wait until the storm stops, so they can continue their journey.