The Day They Set Out Response Brandon Moreira In the short story “The Day They Set Out” by Beverly Harris, the protagonist, Jean is stuck in a life in which she does the same predictable routine. This makes her feel empty inside, and that she needs to try something new. The causes for her emptiness and difficulties are that, because of her lack of social skills, she has almost no friends. Her husband, Ross does not love her anymore, so he looks at other women to satisfy himself. Also, her lack of intelligence has left her with no job and an inability to get a job.
She is desperate and you can tell she is very upset. This implies that she is not living her life and has sacrificed her life for Azaire. She seems to always be miserable and is not happy inside. She is only turns alive when she and Stephen start having feelings for each other and feels special inside. This whole relationship towards Isabelle and Azaire seems to be a relationship where Azaire has all the power to do what he likes and Isabelle is not treated as a human being and obeys Azaire.
The Text states that Moliere wrote many different types of plays and they were well known for their timeless characters, which is still well known. The article also states that Wilbur’s approach to translation is informative and he often gives importance to “rhyming solutions”. I find it interesting that he argues that creating natural verse is a matter of patience, and creating rhymes that sound new. The article stated that at one point Wilbur had a fear of unintentionally overlapping verses, this shows the possibility of verses may have been more limited than it is
Similes are the most common figures of speech used in the novel; ‘…a hat which curved around her face like a materialising halo’. This light imagery is often associated with an almost religious experience as people are seen with halos like Arthur’s mother in chapters 12 and 13 and specifically in this quote, Lucy’s imagining of her mother in chapter 7. Although the language of the novel can come across as quite compelling to the audience, the overwrought lyrical prose can be quite tiring. The plot of the novel is obviously fictional with Lucy seeing her life as a series of photographs tortured into forced images by Jones, which can be hard for the HSC students to relate
A main example from the book is that Melinda kept this huge secret held inside. She was too fearful to share it with anyone so instead she decided to keep it her secret. This turned out to be extremely detremental to her well being. It caused her grades to drop, she became an intravert, not wanting to speak to anyone or function properly as a teenager, she isolated herself from others and had no motivation to do anything. Melinda turned from being a loving young lady who had a close relationship with her parents to a recluse who became distant to her parents, friends and everyone.
This just shows how women then were little to any powerful. Curley’s wife, Lennie, and Crooks all exhibit major powerlessness in the novel. They all have this powerlessness because of who they are, not what they do. Curley’s wife’s gender, Lennie’s mental retardation, and Crooks’ skin color all result in their own helplessness. Even though they each have powerlessness they are all different in the way they are
Bailey Towles Shannon Ball 10/20/13 Facing Isolation Isolation is an internal struggle. To feel isolated is like standing in a crowded room, constantly seeing familiar faces, yet feeling loneliness. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, three of the main characters face isolation in their everyday life. Hester Prynne, the wife of Roger Chillingworth, faces isolation internally and externally. Because Hester is isolated, she has no one to talk to, so she thinks about things a little differently than everyone else.
A Byronic hero is someone that exhibits emotions and excessive moodiness which Gatsby often does when Daisy does not claim to have never loved Tom. A Byronic hero is also someone that is a loner. Even though he was rarely ever alone so to speak, Mr. Gatsby did not have any friends or family near and dear to him throughout the story except for Daisy. The fact that Mr. Gatsby also struggles with his own sense of integrity just clarifies that he is a Byronic hero. His strong disdain for the traditional moral and social class standards of this time along with the other examples listed above clearly show you that Mr. Jay Gatsby can only be one thing and that one this is a Byronic
In the story Lives of the Saints and the movie "Chocolat," we were able to find many examples of the archetype outcast. Each family in these two stories were somewhat isolated from the rest of the town in many different ways. Cristina was judged from the rest of the town because of her actions, causing her family to be seen as an outcast from the other townspeople. In Chocolat, Vianne and her daughter were seen as outcasts due to the fact that she was not religious and didn't go to church like everybody else. Cristina and Vittorio are rejected from other townspeople in many different ways.
His constant ambition made him become involved with only himself and he didn’t take other people into consideration so he eventually lost everyone close to him and his friends. These bad attributes that he developed throughout the text are due to the fact that he couldn’t control his growing ambition which lead to his