WHAT DO YOU PERCEIVE TO BE THE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS AND PRE-OCCUPATIONS OF SHEERS' WRITING? I have chosen to write about Sheers' poem Border Country which is a poem which explores the concept of childhood and the responsibility that comes with adulthood. The poem is about someone returning to a scrap yard reminiscing about the days when he used to play amongst the scrapped cars as a child. The 'border' in the title is a border between innocence and experience, implying how the persona in the poem who played in the scrap yard as a child knew nothing about responsibility and the harsh realities of life and death. At that point death is just a childish game 'playing a war in the barn/ dying again and again'.
Bradbury’s dystopic representation of the urban environment can be seen as a result of his mid twentieth century American context. Bradbury suggests that cities are antithetical to community and socialisation, and compares the lack of social activity to death. He writes, “The tombs, ill-lit by the television light, where the people sat like the dead, the grey of multi-coloured lights touching their faces, but never really touching them”. Bradbury’s use of the words with undesirable connotations such as ‘tombs, dead, grey’ position readers to view the city and also technology negatively. He explores the impact that technology has made on the zeitgeist of society, specifically the lack of connection
The cruel society of Gattaca causes Vincent to realise that what you do determines your success in life. A close up shot is used when Vincent eventually leaves on the shuttle for Titan, he describes himself as “someone who was never meant for this world”. The entrenched nature of society’s discrimination makes his existence untenable. Even his own parents ignore him in favour of his genetically superior brother, Anton. However, Vincent doesn’t commit an act of hypocrisy in becoming a “valid”, instead he focusses on what can be done in order to succeed.
Instead, the book shows man inability to give up. Throughout the novel Billy just wants to give up and die, and through no fault of his own, he is unable to achieve this. Billy feels no pride in fighting for individual liberty in World War II, although I understand that his experiences in Dresden are perhaps a great cause of this, I think he would have felt the same way had he not been in Dresden. Billy shows none of the pride and enthusiasm of fighting against Communism that we commonly associate with World War II. Perhaps this is another reason that this book has been censored.
o The Simple Gift-summary of individual chapters. Chapter One -Billy feels very negative about the place lives in “My street,My suburb.”he should feel a sense of belonging here because he lives here but the adjectives used to describe the place are very negative as he doesn't feel a sense of belonging to this place “dead -beat” “shithole” “downtrodden” “lonely” “damn place”. All of this indicates the resentment he feels towards to the place he grew up in and the negative experiences of growing up here has been to him. -Its so bad that even the rocks “protest” at having to remain here (pg4)Herrick personifies the rocks to emphasise how negative Billy feels about this “damn place” .The whole street is run-down and unkempt-Herrick shows this through the “broken down truck”, “grass unmown around all the doors”, windows in spencers house broken.The negativity of the place is further emphasises through the description of the weather “The wind howls and the rain sheets in”as he goes to the school.On the train Billy is freezing -the wind and rain hits him “with the force of a fathers punch.”,this provides the reader with insight on the life Billy is leaving behind.
Asef Rahman English 10H 10/15/2012 Ethan Frome: a lonely man indeed The novel, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, is a story about Ethan, a man torn between the moral obligations to his wife, Zeena, and his need for a person to love. The author’s use of foreshadowing, metaphors, imagery and motifs vividly convey the overall message that man cannot simply live alone and needs somebody in his life. He has Zeena but he does not converse with her at all. The fact that Starkfield was a depressing place to live did not help his life either. Although Ethan’s overall nature was damaged by the smash up, his time spent in Starkfield had caused his overall melancholy demeanor and left him feeling isolated.
Lindsey Speights Dr. Obradovic World Literature ii 29 September 2015 Philosophy of Pangloss vs. Martin What readers should take from Voltaire’s work is to refrain from determining whether Pangloss is right or not. Whether good or bad triumphs, it doesn't do any good to constantly ponder over the matter. “Man was placed in the garden to work, not to be idle.” I believe that Candide no longer would argue, he just realized the purport less futility of doing it and that true ecstasy will be by living life without cerebrating. Pangloss was a philosopher who additionally transpired to be Candide’s mentor. He was the man responsible for a majority of quotes that made this text popular.
He believes that he is cursed when he falls into deep thought, and questions the ways of the collective society (Rand, 21). An example of Equality 7-2521 desiring to know, was when he longed to see a reflection of himself, he thought to himself “Men never see their own faces and never ask their brothers about it, for it is evil to have concern
In addition, the use of implied metaphor highlights the dehumanised society, “lone car wandering and wandering.” This shows the power of technology and shows that it has taken over humanity. The verb “wandering” conveys a predator looking for someone to pick on, showing that the humans are the “prey.” This emphasises the idiotic humanity as we are the creators of technology and now we are being ruled by it by relying on it too much. Bradbury has intended to show how the world could end up if technology takes over and how dehumanised and powerless humans could be. Therefore it is through characterisation that Bradbury speculates a world saturated with technology. Overall, Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian” successfully
In the short story There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury, the author ultimately wants to warn humanity that it is in danger of destroying itself. He creates a humanlike house which stands as a symbol for man’s technological achievement, but destroys it with the one force that will never be conquered – nature. In order to convey this warning to his readers, Bradbury uses hyperbolic diction to create a tone shift from one of placid efficiency to a tone of doomed desperation. Bradbury creates a tone of routine efficiency by personifying the house to illustrate that - like any faithful human servant – it lives to serve. The house wakes up its occupants much like a cheerful but insistent human nanny by singing, “Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock” (Bradbury 1).