An adult’s understanding of the seriousness of war can be seen through the imagery used where Martin ‘edges out the firing pin’ of the grenade, ‘fingers the serrations’ with ‘his father’s bleak skill’. This shows that the skill was not something to be proud of, and that Marin was treating the grenade with respect. However, Foulcher cleverly presents the conflicting view of children as the ‘dead weapon hurls across mind fields’. The word ‘mind’ in this phrase is a pun which means mine fields that are in the children’s minds. The metaphor of ‘desk trenches’ clearly expresses the children’s imagination.
Tradition has manipulated the mind of the eager children to “stuffed [their] pockets full of stones,” (43) before the lottery has even begun. Tradition has controlled the mind of the children to just follow along with the tradition without really allowing them to critically think if what they are doing is correct or not. Furthermore, tradition of the lottery is more of an obligation for the village to fulfill rather than a ritual they embrace. The black box that is part of the lottery “was put away, sometimes one place, sometimes another,” (45) shows how the villagers couldn’t care more about keepsake of the box. If the villagers had truly valued the tradition of the lottery the black box would have been kept with better care, yet the careless storage of the box depicts the villagers are feeling the need to continue the regular tradition.
“Then he danced down the road, to see how his brothers were getting along”. He is quickly used to progress plot wise to the next little pig followed by the progression of character in the second little pig. The description of the second little pig is considerably longer, but interestingly combines and compares the first and second little pig. “He did not like to work any better than his brother, so he had decided to build a quick and easy house of sticks”. The relation does not stop with
He describes Rainy Mountain using his sensory imagination of how he feels and sees the landscape; colors in specific, making the audience have an idea of how it’s like when he mentions, “The grass turns brittle and brown… cracks beneath your feet.” He compares the many flashy insects as “yellow grasshoppers … everywhere… popping up like corn to sting the flesh…,” seeing the land with praise as to his culture of the Kiowas being reverent. Momaday passage portrays an earnest tone with pride and praise toward the land with words such as “old landmark,” loneliness,” and “imagination.” Brown’s contemptuous diction keeps his subject dull and liveliness for the Plains with choices such as “baked,” “drier,” and “endless” showing the opposite view from Momaday and his respective land. Brown being aloof toward the Plains makes him less engaging the fact that he showed negative aspects and careless with no emotion, just simplicity. He feels that earnest feeling considering the fact that there could have been a change if it wasn’t for what happened making him care now for the land, when he
Some of his hobbies are playing with toads and stamp collecting, but by far the weirdest hobby was collecting dead ravens. This sounds ridiculous but it actually get a little worse; he would fix them up as art work an put them on display. Even when he was mad fun of or ignored for what he does he didn’t change it because he likes doing it and it would be changing who he is. exact Ronnie knows the point in his life where decided who he is more important then how people he saw him. He was 14 and just moved to a new neighborhood and a new school.
The first four panels on page 42 builds some tension towards the revealing of his grandfather. · On page 44, the last three panels builds up tension to reveal what is shown on the first panel of page 45. This reveals a horrible picture from a forbidden book on display. Characters · Young Russell - he is very curious shown by his exploration of the garden. He is shown to be a wild boy, as seen by his little experiment with a squirrel.
The bush and forests that Harry and Keith spend their time in their tree house shows the nature that exists in a country side in the late 1900's. Harry and his friends were teenagers with a child's heart, their innocence was evident when occurring difficult obstacles. They would not have technology in 19oo's, they would be playing with 'whirly-gig' and hiding under the train platform, actually playing functional games. One day Harry and Johnny stumble upon a butterfly, although Johnny has the up-front act of being the bully and is really tough he too is mesmerised by the beauty of the butterfly, that can 'fly' wherever it wants
When Mr. Adams goes up to choose the first piece of paper, he meets Mr. Summers at the black box, ad in respect of the ritual, grins. But with the ritual being so old, it’s not taken as seriously as it once was. The grin Mr. Adams and Mr. Summers share is humorless and nervous. Smiles are most often shared when something funny has happened, so to try an picture a humorless smile shared between two people gives the situation tension, knowing that the man Mr. Summers is looking at could possibly be dead within the day, also gives them both a nervous smile
Jim, captivated by Antonia’s charm from the beginning, experiments with different lifestyles as he grows up. He flirts with Lena Lingard for a time, focuses his energy on studying, and even receives a job as a prominent New York City lawyer. Jim cannot escape his thoughts that frequently wander back to Antonia and the Nebraska terrain. Even as a boy, Jim observes his surroundings, “The little trees were insignificant against the grass. It seemed as if the grass were about to run over them…” (13).
What Seemed to be Recess In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of English school boys become stranded on an island that appears to be happy hunting grounds. The boys, acting on their first instinct, create a microcosm to model the society they have been so used to seeing. However, Golding emphasizes that savagery and evil exist in everyone and that the defects of the society on the island come from the defects in the boy’s character. Ralph, the protagonist of the novel, loses his innocence as a result of the primitive society on the island. Ralph is introduced as an optimistic boy.