16/2/12 Drifters Bruce Dawe Response: The author is successful in immersing and engaging the attention of the readers. We can understand the persona's thoughts through multiple language and poetic techniques. The poem depicts the restlessness of a transient, gipsy like, rouseabout family who often 'drift' due to the fathers job. We learn about the characters and how they over come family distancing. There are subtle suggestions of uncertainty in life; (“one day soon...”), aimlessness, shiftless, feckless (“unpacked bottling-set”) and unfulfilled dreams; (“make a which Tom, make a wish”).
The novel is not a tragedy that becomes an ultimate happy ending. What it does present however, is a character set that is constantly challenged and reformed because of another's suicide. The novel allows readers an opportunity to draw personal connections to the text by causing them to consider how their own family may deal with challenges and losses. Readers are prodded to look at the relationships within their own families and how they possibly could be affected if presented with the same
Nora’s Journey to Independence Carl Weston English 1002 Professor Clinton Hale Nora’s Journey to Independence Literary works usually depict the times and way of life the author is living in. In the play of “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, you are taken into the life of the married couple, Torvald and Nora Helmer. Nora and Torvald's relationship may appear to be a very loving one from the opening scene, but the more the play unfolds, we will find out a lot more secrets hidden within their marriage. As the characters are introduced throughout the play their true personas are defined by their actions, not so much by what they say, but what they do. The characters are very contradictive throughout the whole play, defining themselves by their actions rather than words.
The central issues in the novel are: how someone with a disability experiences life differently, the discovery of truth as opposed to the lies that adults often hold, the importance of family relationship in the development of young people and the role of the individual and the place he plays in society. These themes are developed in the novel as Christopher a young person interacts with the different characters and relationships in the novel. He interacts with many characters in this novel but most significant is the relationship and interaction between Christopher and his Father Ed Boone. Experiences of a person with a disability * His language simplistic approach example of simple language, stirs our emotions arousing curiosity and empathy, mathematical, dislikes metaphors, trusting * He reveals a childlike naivety and complete lack of awareness of the consequences of the of subject * Christopher’s strong desire to be alone in confinement designed to be utterly alone is confronting and poignant Truth vs lies * A trusting person believes good over evil * Shocked by fathers dishonesty * Finds mother * Relationship with the Sheres Family * Quotes Family relationships *
The majority of Carvers stories in his collection of short stories entitled “will you please be quiet, please?” are about a couple going through a financial, marital or identity crisis. Each of his stories has one major predicament in which his characters must try to overcome. Though these predicaments are all consuming to the characters and the future looks confusing and dim to them, what the reader can see that protagonist/s may not is that Carver always provides his characters with a possible chance at achieving contentment in their lives. “They started up the walk to their door. His heart moved when Hamilton saw the lighted windows.” A quote from the short story “Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes” is a perfect example of Carvers Protagonist, Hamilton, facing a predicament, a possible chance at contentment and then finally reaching that contentment.
Their mother considered them to be one person because they were so much alike and called them “HannahAnna.” Hannah and Anna start to realize they are not one person, but two separate people. With all the noises and strange occurrences you start to try and figure out is someone or something trying to separate them and why. While reading The Girl Behind the Glass by Jane Kelley, readers get involved with trying to figure out who is this ghost and why is this happening. Readers also are trying to gain an understanding about what families experience when life doesn't go the way they have planned. I would suggest this book to read as it is a book that always keeps readers wondering and interested because there are surprises in every chapter.
Amy Tan: A Pair of Tickets In Amy Tans short story A pair of Tickets, although it was a story to make you think deeply about, it tells a tale about a family who endeavors many journeys through life. From the past few short stories that we have read in class, this story really caught my attention with the way Tan presented the different techniques of writing all in her one short story. This story just happened to be the one that I was able to understand the full idea and concept of. In this story there is controversy between the issue of identity and self-awareness. At the very beginning of the story when Jing-mei, the narrator, discusses her nationality of being Chinese she articulates that she had once denied herself as being Chinese whatsoever and she was convinced that she was as Chinese as anyone else would be.
The author has made this story very effective as she engages the reader through the use of various literary devices. Not only this, she also conveys the emotions and the change over the long duration time as the young man moves on against his will towards his destination. I will mainly be discussing the idea of his attitude towards his family, his exhausting journey, which he undergoes, and the change of feelings as this extract progresses. Firstly, the author really emphasizes on the weak relationship between the child and with his family. We see a sense of the weak relationship because he doesn’t even take the moment to properly bid farewell to his fellow parents that he has been with for many number of years.
His interested for her education carried on until her adolescence and her change of profession. George’s relationship with his eldest child became conflicted by both pride and disappointment at her prospect. For Beauvoir she on the contrary, always wanted to be a writer and a teacher, rather then a mother and wife. Simone de Beauvoir had many influences; the one that stood out the most was her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, a famous French existentialist. In that relationship they had an existential role in each others life; they each owned their own things like property and domestic space, she was not only intimate with Jean-Paul Sartre, but also with both women and men.
Assessment task two ‘Into the world’. The concept of ‘into the world’ by Willy Russel’s in his play ‘educating Rita’ is established throughout the play as it displays steps to different pathways in life And new stages of experience that often brings about growth and change in one’s life. As new experiences can lead to new phases and can thus lead us ‘into the world’. This usually involves situations, which can have both positive and negative effects on the individual, the person has somewhat moved forward, and developed in a personal significant way. This occurs through the main characters Rita a young woman passionate about education, and an elderly tutor, frank, disenchanted and bored with his profession.