First, he and the sailors are denied the satisfaction of drinking; now the Ancient Mariner will be denied the satisfaction of being able to die. His spirit is trapped in his own body, in an excruciating state of limbo - the realm of Life-in-Death. His "glittering eye" suggests more than madness; it is also a synecdoche representing his soul, which longs to be released from living death. It yearns to
Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person.
In the world of socially blind fireman Guy Montag, people’s state of mind was to employ firemen to burn books rather than to put out fires. The logic behind this act was never really told directly from the text, so the answer is left to the reader. Starting from when Montag is being told by Fire Chief Beatty the reason why firemen started burning books, Montag begins to open his mind and realize what he has missed. Guy is told that it started with the minorities, but Bradbury does not directly use the names of real minorities to prove his exact point of what follows (Bradbury 54). As time went on and books were still being read by the public, there seemed to be a dilemma; given the freedom of writing books, the writer could put his beliefs on paper and tell the world.
For an example, when Gilgamesh’s friend Enkidu dies he is left broken hearted and thinks, “If my grief is violent enough perhaps he will come back to life” (Mitchell, 445). Furthermore, He begins to think the fear of death sends him on his quest for everlasting life, “This fear of death that restlessly drives me onward” (Mitchell, 451”). Gilgamesh has this great fear of death and begins to believe it can be overcome. This quote begins to develop the idea through Gilgamesh’s journey that maybe death can be overcome that there
However in the end, Myrtle is killed, and her heart is left open for all to see, only to finally blend into the dust she had rebelled against for so long. Gatsby, on-the-other-hand, though he lives in West Egg, also has his dreams robbed by the valley of ashes. Because of his connection to Myrtle through the Buchanans, Gatsby dies at the hands of George; whose hopelessness epitomizes the very personality of the valley of ashes. With Gatsby’s death, Fitzgerald reveals that even though one may not have ever come into contact with the waste that materialistic society expels, the waste created by commercialism can and will at times strike when the blow is least
However, the way they presented the book and the styles of writing are very different. One should be focus on the purpose of writing these books in order to compare them. Bernier wrote this book as if it was the diary for his stay in Mogul Empire. I assumed that he did not have any plan to see or to do in Mogul Empire. Professor Liu once mentioned that “the doctor travelled without purpose.” It is the main reason why we can read a lot of random materials in this book.
Yes O’Brian exaggerated on things and yes he left out some big points, but it was all to get his point across and through everything he wrote, the main truthful point remained there. He concluded his book by saying “in stories the dead live.” This shows that in books who’s to say what you can’t put down and who’s to say what didn’t happen. It is a story, not a trial, and sometimes a little exaggeration provides the feeling and present moment the reader or listener needs to understand the actual
A writer would think of a language passing when it can no longer fill displeasing silences engraved in hearts of the despaired. But the death of a culture is discernible when it cannot impart what is beyond the barrier of self-worship. Just as the 1st civilizations of the world have long gone and have become a mere affair of research. Their conservative thinking was the cause of their culture’s parvitude. Toni Morrison believes that the demise of a language makes everyone accountable for it.
The narrator does not give us the feedback as he is being guided to draw. The blind man asks him his opinion “Take a look. What do you think?”(Carver 12). The ending of the story keeps the readers in suspense because we do not know whether his attitude towards blind people has changed through the drawing of the cathedral. The author also develops two main characters in the story, although we see three people in the story with a different way of seeing and looking.
Earlier in the novel, Cash expresses himself through his actions rather than his words. When Cash is building Addie’s coffin, Darl describes Cash and his tools as one whole entity by personifying his building of the coffin in the way his tools glimmered in the dark as if they maneuvered themselves. It is difficult to understand Cash’s motives early on in the novel due to his lack of insights and the constant judgments that are directed towards him by various characters. In a way, however, readers can interpret Cash’s behavior to stand for something more important, such as demonstrating his love for his mother and in a way and trying to understand his role in the family as the eldest child. Both Cash and Darl share many similar traits that seem to be obfuscated due to the way Faulkner develops the plot of the Bundren family’s journey.