Some of the key words and phrases from this passage that establish the tone are “street lights giving way”, “thin streaming”, and “black unbroken wall”. Even the time of day, late at night, is a significant contributing factor in the darkness that is to come. All of this stimulating imagery gives the reader a taste for the darkness to come, and there hasn’t been any significant action yet. Another perfect example of the dreary tone used in this story is the description of the lake. At one point, Boyle compares the algae covered surface of the lake to scabs on skin.
The door might symbolize transformation in the story and is described as “the most essential gesture in a boy’s life” (Meyer 297). Later, on page 300 the author refers to the door as ”the threshold that has welcomed them when they haven’t been able to welcome themselves”(Moody 300). We get intimate details of the boy’s life and the narrator helps us fill in the blanks using limited omnipotent narration. Jamaica Kincaid’s story, in contrast, is in second person, the mother is the narrator. Writing in second person is taboo in literature making the piece novel and avant-garde.
Both authors in ‘Manhunt’ and ‘Harmonium’, both by Simon Armitage use extended metaphors to describe their fading, or damaged relationship to another person. In Manhunt, Armitage uses the extended metaphor of landscapes to describe the physical appearance of the speaker’s partner; however this could also be interpreted as the relationship shared between the speaker and her partner. The description of the landscape makes it seem as if it is broken or damaged. ‘The frozen river which ran through his face’, this quote describes a scar running down the face of the wounded soldier. ‘Frozen’ is a harsh sounding word, which is probably why the author used it, to depict is as a harsh feature of his face.
Roethke's decision to use words such as “waltzing” (line 4) and “romped” (line 5) in his poem bring about a certain energy that Hayden's poem does not. His tone is a light one, a happy one where there seems to be joy in the home and two family members that care deeply for each other and enjoy showing that appreciation outwardly. In Hayden's poem there is a darkness to the home which surfaces with descriptions such as “blueblack cold” (line 2) and describing the house so cold its “splintering, breaking” (line 6). Hayden's dark tone is brought about through the words he uses and as it echos throughout the poem the relationship between the father and his son is described. The father has already been defined as a working class man as his hands are “cracked... from labor in the weekday” (line 3) and now on this early Sunday morning he awakes to “[drive] out the cold” (line 11).
It rained in Sarajevo, and we had expected fine weather” (172). This gives her readers the visual of a depressed and cold town, but then Weldon also writes “Sarajevo is a pretty town, Balkan style, mountain-rimmed. A broad, swift, shallow river runs through its center, carrying the mountain snow away, arched by many bridges” (172). These descriptions
Although the idea appalls Mama at first, she trusts and supports her son with his decision. The night before making the investment, Walter tells his son about the business transaction he about to make while tucking him into bed. He tells the little boy that their lives will change soon and paints an elaborate and vivid picture of the future. He tells his son that when he's seventeen years old he'll come home and park the Chrysler in the driveway. The gardener will greet him and when he's inside the house he'll kiss his wife and come up to his sons room to see him browsing through brochures of the best colleges in America.
He gives us a picture of a “desolate are of land” that is so grim even “the motor road [hurriedly] joins the rail road, so as to shrink away” from it. The Valley of Ashes is the dumpsite for the lower class. The Ashes represent their once vivid hopes and dreams which have dies away, leaving their mind, represented by the Valley, in a state of desolation. It is also very ironic for Fitzgerald to depict the Valley as “a farm where ashes grow like wheat into…grotesque gardens” because you usually associate gardens and wheat with fertility and not with gray, sterile landscapes where it is impossible for something to be grown. Again, this proves that the Valley is desolate because there is no happiness sprouting from it.
Tom Sawyer appears as the protagonist in the novel by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written eight years later, Twain brings him back. Although Tom plays only a minor role in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he is the ideal foil for the central character, Huckleberry. His obsession with romantic novels and tendency to exaggerate sharply contrasts Huck’s straight-forward and efficient ways. While Huck insists on thinking for himself, Tom does not hesitate to mimic the romantic adventure stories he reads.
This part of the story is important because it reinforces everything that the reader already suspects about the position of Eel Marsh House and provides the reader with specific detail to do with the isolation of the house. The main literary techniques used by Susan Hill in this chapter of the novel are contrast and pathetic fallacy. Hill’s use of the first person narrator is a key element of the novel. Susan Hill’s characters in this novel have limited development because the story is told by the main character, Arthur Kipps. I think his character is developed in a rather interesting way because he is looking back and describing events from the perspective of his younger self.
We are reminded again with the ending to remember that Huck is just a simple boy who just wants to go with the flow of whatever life brings. The journey of life itself is half of the fun. The end of the novel brings Huck full circle almost exactly where he started as to stay consistent with the novel. As Huck made it clear he didn't want to be civilized he says the same about Aunt Sally were he, Jim and Tom are at the end of the novel. Aunt Sally is Tom’s Sawyers family where Tom and Huck rescue