I wrote down that one ship leaves from New York and one ship leaves from San Francisco on the first of every month at 12:00 P.M. I also wrote down that each ship takes exactly six months to reach its final destination. I decided to assume that there are no problems with the weather, and that each ship travels the same distance per month. I also assumed that time zones don’t affect the problem and that my ship is the first one to go out in a very long time. I started out this POW by drawing a diagram that looked like a curve.
Wharton gives the feeling of bitterness and depression by using winter as the setting. One way she gave this feeling is when she referred to the sky as a “sky of iron.” Winter also symbolizes the cold, snow, darkness, isolation and loneliness. We learned early in the book that Ethan wanted to leave and go to a larger town, but that dream of his was never fulfilled. Because of this unfulfilled dream, Ethan gives of a depressed feeling up until he meets Mattie anyways. Death is everywhere in Starkfield.
The short story Polar Breath by Diane Glancy depicts the protagonist as a woman suffering from depression, showing the hopelessness, fatigue, and the feeling of being trapped that comes with this depression. This story doesn’t only illustrate what goes through our protagonist’s mind during the winter but, along with that feeling of detachment from everything surrounding her, it also makes us as the audience feel detached from the character and the story itself. In the opening paragraph the author doesn’t introduce the woman in a special or welcoming manner, but in fact, we are bombarded with the omniscient third-person point of view of the sidetracking thoughts that go through her mind, such as how the small, fragile birds in her yard kept themselves warm during the winter or why they didn’t just freeze like little ice-cubes. The
What stopped him from achieving this E. How the setting shaped the town people and their minds 1. The harsh winter 2. The small town F. Why the author wrote the novel 1. To show the landscape of the area G. The themes of the story and how they relate 1. How isolation and loneliness relate to the setting H. The reason the author uses the characters she chose 1.
This description symbolizes her strengths when working on her plants. Because gardening is what makes Elisa strong, the Chrysanthemums represent her inner-self. Elisa knows her own strengths, “‘Yes. They’ll be strong this coming year.’ In her tone and on her face there was a little smugness” when she replies to her husband’s remark, “You’ve got a strong new crop coming” (Steinbeck 255); and prides herself with it. The fence that surrounds and protects her garden “from cattle and dogs and chickens” (Steinbeck 55) also describes her strength because it symbolizes a guard which Elisa puts up to protect her from a man bringing her down.
A Northern Light ISU Theme Essay Alicia Leonard Ms. Owens June 2, 2013 In A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly, a girl named Mattie shows us through her story how difficult rural life was in the 1900s and how no matter how you feel about your neighbor in times of emergency everyone pitches in to help. The author shows that a real neighbor will help you even if he or she has nothing to gain from doing so, other than knowing if the need arises you will return the favor as long as you are able. Once Mattie has gone to work at the Glenmore and left her family alone, they all get very sick and the young neighbor Tommy runs all the way to the hotel to tell her to come home. As she leaves the hotel she finds another neighbor Mr. Denio arriving and he quickly turns around to drive her home as soon as he hears that her family is sick. Just as she is arriving home she finds another neighbor arriving Royal Loomis who has heard what happened and says “Saw
The chrysanthemums菊花 Elisa is a young married lady working on an isolated farm and proud of her skills in growing flowers. One day, she suddenly feels a desire to communicate with the outside world. What happens to her? Please read the following story. 年轻媳妇伊利莎住在一家偏僻的农场，一手高超的种花技能令她自豪。一天，她突然有了与外界交流的愿望。有什么故事发生呢？请您往下看。 The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world.
Steinbeck is addressing the struggle for female existence during this period by leaving Curly's wife as the solitary female of the book, unneeded, and unwanted by the other characters. During this essay I will explore the significance of how Steinbeck presents Curly's wife through the connotations of her name, how she is first shown, her parallels with other characters and finally how she is presented when she has died . 'Curly's wife', just a name yet a symbol of how women were then regarded by their husbands, as a possession, a belonging owned only by men. When Curley's wife married him she became 'his', everything she owned became his, Steinbeck could be emphasising this authority and power by having Curly even take her name, so she no longer has her own name but now everyone associates Curley with her, she is no longer her own person. The use of a possessive apostrophe emphasises the point even further that she belongs to him and he controls her, although she can try to push the boundaries of society's rules and expectations, he will always be there to stop her as she is dominated by him.
“Elisa Allen, working in her flower garden.”; “I’m going to take Scotty and bring down those steers from the hill” (The Chrysanthemums) The rising action presents when the events change as soon as Henry sets out to bring the steers. Elisa continues working in her garden, but suddenly along the country road appeared a wagon. “A square of wheels and plod of hoofs came from the road. Elisa looked up. The country road ran along the dense bank of willow and cotton-woods that bordered the river.” (The Chrysanthemums) From the wagon a man came out, which attracted Elisa’s attention.
"(Intro) This quote takes place in the introduction and helps to identify the season of winter being trouble. The going beyond the community theme is also developed by winter. Ethan and Zeena do not communicate much in their relationship, especially when they are cold and miserable. The situation with his wife is not able to be mended, so he forced to cheat with Mattie Silver. The sport of sledding also takes place during winter, and it is used as a means of suicide by Ethan and Mattie.