Gina Bruno English Comparison of Refuge and “The Rediscovery of North America” The hip-hop artist Mos Def once said, “What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have tomboy read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that’s magical.” Imagery is an amazing form of writing where the writer creates a picture in your mind. Refuge, a book by Terry Tempest Williams, shows the relationship between the natural and the unnatural. Nature imagery is used throughout in comparison to human lives and events. Like Refuge, “The Rediscovery of North America” by Barry Lopez also uses ample amount of imagery
By using these comparisons, he gives readers a clear image of characters, situations, and scenery. As an author, Bradbury shows extraordinary talent when describing characters and their actions, as he does in Fahrenheit 451, when Montag observes his worldly wife, Mildred: “her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw...the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.”
The Tale of Two Men The story The Wife of His Youth written by Charles Chesnutt and the story The Gilded Six-Bits written by Zora Neale Hurston can easily be compared to one another. Chesnutt and Bonner both use “local color” in their writing styles which lets you know the dialect of the characters. The two writers also choose to use the characters’ wardrobe as a central point of the stories to compare the rich and educated from the poor and unschooled. In The Wife of His Youth, Mr. Ryder dressed almost like a white man and he liked women who were well-educated and dressed in their absolute best, like Ms. Dixon. Liza Jane was dressed like an old plantation woman and showed her African heritage in her clothing.
Anderson Anderson is demonstrated as a noble and compassionate character as he attempts to keep the moral high ground and has hatred towards the other soldiers who disrespect women. Anderson is also a middle-aged, balding preacher from the woods of northern Ontario, who sees himself at the beginning, as the appointed moral guardian for the men. He was a Methodist lay preacher that liked to quote the Bible and criticises anyone for sinful behaviour. “Men, do you know you’re sinning in the eyes of the Lord?” (Page 14). Anderson was disturbed and antagonised by the other soldiers who were bursting through the door singing as well as being drunk and talking about prostitutes.
A.O.W #13 Soapstone ~ Sophie Perez Period 5 ~ 455 words While reading an excerpt from, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” Ray Bradbury can be easily identified as a skilled author who uses a perfected use of imagery to show the setting of the story. The author may believe that the Cold War was a time to unite friends and achieve a sense of relief only after society’s problems are resolved. He may have lived through the beginning to the very end of the Cold War since all the details seem precise. To capture the tension that he showed in his descriptive writing. I think that the author wrote this story because he wanted to share an experience or certain thoughts.
Hunter Benson Essay Benjamin Franklin is considered a uniquely American writer in terms of both style and content by using satirical phrases addressing the social issues of his time. His concepts and lessons were written with both humor and plain language, so that even the most “common man” could understand. Franklin had the ability to provide the reader with an important lesson while using ridicule to expose truth. These forms of writing can be seen in three of his most known literary works; The Way to Wealth, A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, and The Speech of Polly Baker. In 1758, Ben Franklin summarized his own work, Poor Richard’s Almanac, in The Way to Wealth.
This is important as it shows Nick’s confidence in his individual cardinal value and throughout the novel we, as the reader, depend on him for unbiased facts. * Symbols “On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas.”-Shows Gatsby’s attempt to make himself seem like a highly educated man, but this is all pretence as he could not have read all these books without cutting out the pages. “Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.”-Shows that although there is a difference in status between East and West Egg, this is all neglected when they come to this
General Zaroff lives on his very own island in the Caribbean. He is very distinguished by a "cultivated voice", fine clothes, the "singularly handsome"? features of an aristocrat, and the obsession of hunting (Wilson 157). Zaroff allows himself anything and everything form the fine china he uses at his 2 score men table to the silk pajamas he wears to sleep in. When Rainsford first sets foot on Zaroff's private island he sees the island as his only hope to get back to New York, but he was wrong.
“Churning Day” Commentary The majestic poem “Churning Day” was written by the imaginative author Seamus Heaney who photographed the evolution of butter to the readers. Heaney creatively proposed this historical event through multiple features such as: a wide range of vocabulary, detailed pictures, and shifts in atmosphere, all coming together to interpret a wonderful meaning to a simple yet elegant poem about churning butter. The main thing that stands out in this writing is the way Heaney takes control of the poem and every single word. Although it may seem wordy, each phrase has been depicted carefully and adds so much more to the effect of the poem. From involving alliteration such as, “crust”, “course”, and “cast” all in the first line of the poem, to a dreadful exaggeration using words such as, “slugged”, “thumped”, “ached”, and “blistered” placed on lines 15 and 16, Heaney remarkably takes advantage of each word to display a particular event or piece in the poem.
The full English breakfast is truly a national icon and was historically a tradition enjoyed by the working, middle and upper classes, it can be a beautifully presented breakfast feast fit for a King, or a staple for those with a long day’s work ahead and served in a greasy-spoon. It was the affluent Victorian middle and upper classes during the days of the Empire who first perfected the art of taking breakfast. In the early 1800′s they were accustomed to sitting down to the first meal of the day and eating from a wide selection of different breakfast dishes while drinking tea or coffee taken with sugar, historically ingredients brought from around the British Empire. Magnificent breakfasts consisted of smoked and honey cured back bacon, pink ham, fried tomato, fried mushrooms, little crisp