For instance, Jane used “ …the light of the unclouded summer moon, entering here and there at passage windows, [enabling her] … to find it without difficulty” (Bronte 54). As Jane reaches Thornfield Manor to become a governess, the moon disappears from her life and Jane does not turn to the moon as a mother figure. For example, “the moon is conspicuously absent from Jane’s life at Thornfield until the night that she meets Rochester” (Renfroe 5). Throughout Jane’s travels to Thornfield the moon is nonexistent, but the reappears when Jane meets Rochester. Furthermore, the moon reappears once Jane meets Rochester at Thornfield Manor.
The fact Gatsby does not turn his lights on and does not have a party shows that something is really wrong. In The Great Gatsby, light is used to set the mood, Tom thinks, “For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened- then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.” (Fitzgerald 14) “The novels elaborate use of light and dark imagery symbolizes emotional states.” Lighting plays a huge roll in The Great Gatsby, it sets the tone and mood for the
In the literary work I have studied, "A Long Way Gone: the author uses many symbols to support his main theme on oppression like the moon, the cassettes', and dreams. The author uses three ways to show his account of the events, he uses present, past and his dreams which he switches over from time to time to support his story. The moon is included in every part of the book. The author first remembers how his grandmother told him “We must strive to be like the moon.” (Beah 16) and this gives him safety. In the book when Ishmael is outside during the night he feels safe as he watches the moon.
"The Pedestrian" is a short story by Ray Bradbury, an author known for deeply philosophical and poetic prose that is often set in a time of space travel. Occurring in the year 2053, "The Pedestrian" tells the story of Leonard Mead, a man who walks alone at night, seemingly for the pure joy of it. This appears to upset the neighbors, who, when they are not criticizing the habits of others, are thoroughly engrossed in their televisions.In 2053, people do not walk outside -- even the sidewalks are succumbing to the endless growth of grass. At some point during his walk, Leonard Mead is accosted by the one remaining police car in the city of three million (there is apparently no need for a police force when no one goes outside and they are instead
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. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot. On the broad, level land floor the gang plows bit deep and left the black earth shining like metal where the shares had cut. On the foothill ranches across the Salinas River, the yellow stubble fields seemed to be bathed in pale cold sunshine, but there was no sunshine in the valley now in December. The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves.
The Names by Billy Collins Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark. Names printed on the ceiling of the night. Names slipping around a watery bend. Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream.
Commentary on Robert Hayden’s Astronaut: In Astronauts Robert Hayden explores the philosophical issues raised by moon exploration. Despite the proudly isolated and bravely independent title ‘Astronauts’ the first five lines of the poem actually reveal the lack of identity and personality of the astronauts, as they are ‘faceless in [their] visors,’ an idea accentuated in lines three to five where their ‘mirrormasks/ [reflect] the general glare and / shadow of moonscape.’ The alliteration here emphasises the absence of any defining features on the moon which echoes the absence of specific details about the men. This absence of personality and identity seems initially to be broken at the end of the first stanza when the poet uses colloquial terms to reflect the astronauts’ excitement as they exclaim ‘wow’ and ‘oh boy,’ and Hayden carries this tone over into the beginning of the next stanza where the word ‘exulting’ suggests their elation. However, the fact that Hayden employs a third person stance throughout the poem effectively distances us from the astronauts preventing us from sharing their emotion. This sense of distance is abruptly re-emphasised for the reader in stanza two by the parentheses which seem to include a direct address from the poet or persona to the reader reminding us of the training that the astronauts have undergone encouraging them to ‘be wary of emotion and philosophy’.
FEED REPORT “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” The novel ‘Feed’ depicts humanity's descent into a society that revolves around advertising and corporate control and cares little about the destruction of the wider world or the environment. Most people’s ability to read, write, and even think for themselves have been completely obliterated by their “feeds”; this is essentially a transmitter implanted into their brains that allows them to socialize, utilize information and order products in an instant. Response 1 An important theme in the novel “Feed”, written by M.T. Anderson, is over-consumerism. There are many examples in which over-consumerism is seen in the novel.
Being that they were in space there is no air in the moon’s atmosphere thus a flag waving is impossible. 2. Multiple light sources. When on the moon the sun is the only light source therefore all shadows should run parallel to one another. This was not the case, in various videos and pictures from the landing, shadows are clearly seen in many different directions.
I am alone, sitting on the round flat stone, eyeballing the downcast river with the ribbon of white moonlight shinning on my broken mind. No emotion, No fear, No memory. In the chill light of dawn, I, the soldier man, strolled slowly towards the isolated river. The moon light was beaming down to the men who had fought next to me, and, next to them, were peaceful poppies. The sight of the dead bodies had given me real shiver that climbed up my spine and into my foolish mind.