Amusing description is used everywhere in the book. When Joey and Mary Alice first go to Grandma's and meet Effie Wilcox, Grandma describes her as an “old humped-over lady with buck teeth.” Then, when Mrs. L.G. Weidenbach comes to Grandma's house to ask her if she would participate at the church sale, Joey describes her as, “a big-topped lady teetering in high-heeled shoes.” Finally, at the Centennial Celebration when Mrs. L.G. Weidenbach's nephew performs, “his hair was parted in the middle and he'd painted artificial freckles all over his moon face.” These examples help the reader understand how the character looked like. In the book, A Long Way From Chicago, many types of witty, or humorous, dialogue are used.
Moths come out at night and the moon is what gives them light. When Grandma Luna dies Viramontes describes the moths coming out of her. This may mean that they are her spirit being free from her body and out into the night where she belongs as the moon. The a melting pot, Viramontes uses the main character as the main cause why her grandmother was able to live longer and that is because she was there to be her caregiver and care for her like no one would or even could. Viramontes also uses a lot of imagery to symbolize people and moths in the life that revolved around one character of the girl.
Homer's Hymn to Demeter is a prime example of the Monomythic Cycle. The hero is Demeter who, as a mother, is undertaking a journey of accepting that her daughter is growing up and in the search for her daughter she is able to re-find herself and bring back fertility and abundance to all of society. All heroes start at home, their place of comfort. Demeter's home is the plain of Nyssa, where Persephone and all the daughters of Oceanus frolic in the flowers. Demeter herself starts in Olympus but figuratively her home is with her daughter or, more specifically, when her daughter is dependent on her.
I was thinking to travel to a very cold place so I chose Alaska, a new world covered by a white sheet. When I was there I met a girl who had a gold hair, the moon smiled her and I started to think that nature is wise, because it would be impossible to have such beauty and perfection. I told her that living here was a paradise so I got her a smile. We started out as two love children, having dinner together and enjoying life. The years passed, she and I were walking to the altar, happiness and love embraced us.
Every night they would pray to their moon God to grant them the ability to see each other in the darkness. The moon told them she would grant their wish if they brought her a dozen extravagant white roses. The horses were confused due to the fact that they had never seen let alone heard of white roses. They begged their moon to tell them where they could find such flowers. Their God told them what they sought could only be found in the cave of the best.
Tart light/dark This perception is further emphasized by Curley's Wife's first appearance in the novel. Steinbeck uses light symbolically to show that she can be imposing when he writes, "The rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off". Her physical appearance of "full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made- up", as well as painted fingernails and elaborate hair, further build on our preconceptions of her as a tart. She both talks and acts playfully and flirtatiously in front of the other ranch workers. Through her physical appearance and her own actions, Candy's description of Curley's Wife seems accurate after her first appearance in the text.
In “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” there is hidden beauty in the miners coming together to raise the boy, and also in Kentuck’s giving up his life to save the boy. In “Miggles,” hidden beauty is shown through the beautiful young woman who is taking care of the crippled man simply because she wants to. “The full moon…looked into the room. It touched the lonely figure in the chair with an infinite compassion, and seemed to baptize with a shining flood the lowly head of the woman whose hair, as in the sweet old story, bathed the feet of him she loved” (Harte 41). In “Tennessee’s Partner,” hidden beauty is shown by Tennessee’s Partner in his sentimental feelings towards Tennessee.
On Golden Pond One of the requirements that relates to Ethel and Norman that we had in our group, was that the couple has to be always there for each other through good and bad times. Ethel was there for Norman every time he did something wrong or couldn’t remember something. For example, when Ethel told Norman to go get more strawberries for dessert from the old road, Norman couldn’t remember where the old road was even though they walked on it thousands of times before. Ethel told Norman that the next day she would show Norman where the road is and he will remember because she will be with him this time. Another thing Ethel does for Norman is that she swims to him when he gets hurt, even though she is risking her life.
She, similar to Mari in Japan, engage in more structured play like "baby yoga" classes and has play dates in the park. Her parents are focused on reading books and singing songs of modern day social relevance, paying tribute to our "mother earth," whereas the babies in Africa and Mongolia experience the pre-industrial fruits of "mother earth" every
“I knelt on my side of the seat and craned around to look at the butterfly of dust printed on my jeans,” said the narrator as she got up from the bottom of the truck and into her seat demonstrating that she is very young and childlike (Oates 358). The description the narrator gives as she talks about the Wyoming landscape also leads us to think about how young and naïve she is. She uses descriptions like “dazzling in the heat” and “the wheat was fawn and yellow and parted smoothly by the thin dirt road” (Oates 359). With youth, come inexperience, fantasies, childish decisions, and innocent romanticism. Her vision of life at this point in her life is a quick wedding, devotion, domestic roles, and child rearing.