Everyone searches for this territory, builds it, lives on it, and dies for it. In the readings, Eiseley narrates four philosophic and poetic stories, using significant and vivid symbols to express homesickness, while Morris divides “territorial behavior” into three categories, using vague classifications and simple examples to convey the same sentiment. However, the imagination-based “The Brown Wasps” leaves readers a more memorable and persuasive impression than the fact-based “Territorial Behavior.” In the first essay, Eiseley narrates a series of lively and thought-provoking anecdotes and suggests deep in each human heart lives a kind of homing instinct. Special territories and the related memories are what the characters hold on to. Even though nests, hives, and stations disappear physically, they are “still part of elusive world that existed nowhere and yet everywhere” (160) in the characters’ hearts.
When first entering a spider’s web Portia has been observed to broadcast a kaleidoscope of diverse vibratory signals across its victims, the resident spider’s web (Jackson & Wilcox, 1993b). Portia produces these signals by manipulating the web using its eight legs, two palps and abdomen singly or in combination. The resident spider responds to these signals similarly to when an insect is ensnared in its web. Oblivious to Portia’s presence, once its victim gets close,
The Large Ant, written by Howard Fast, uses the act of murder and human nature to explore the ratio of good and evil. In the following paragraphs, I will show the symbolism for the unknown in this reading by providing the background, clarifications and examples as it is related to its appearance, intelligence and situations of sudden confrontation. The story begins in the first person narrative by the protagonist, Morgan, relaxing at the cottage on the St. Regis chain of lakes. While lying in his bed, reading “Life on the Mississippi, Morgan notices an unusually large ant-like creature on the foot of his bed. In a state of panic, Morgan’s first reaction was to grab the nearest object, a golf club and hit the creature.
The story begins on a gloomy day and the introduction of the angel brings an out of the world element into the story. Again the arrival of the spider-woman, a magical non-human also catches the attention of children. While she is a magical creature in looks, the reason for her condition – lack of obedience- is one that all children can relate to. Besides magical realism, the author has also used imagery to make the story vivid. He starts with the descriptions such as “March nights glimmered like powdered light”, “a stew of mud and rotten shellfish”, and continues to hold attention throughout the story by references such as “the back side of his wings was strewn with parasites” and “a whirlwind of chicken dung and lunar dust”.
Individual observations were obtained from different groups in the classroom, each observing the courtship of one spider at a time. Black widow spiders were placed in a glass container (approx. 18"L x 12"W x 12"H). The set up consisted of two spider webs in the glass container. On left side of the container was a female black widow with a single male.
With Ite (“Face”), Wind has four sons known as the Four Winds. Among them is a devious tricky spirit, Inktomi (“Spider”). Spider hatches a devious plan to improve Ite’s status. The plan is an affair between Ite and Sun. The punishment is that Moon is given her own realm away from the Sun thus creating time.
The beginning of Linda Hogan’s essay “Dwellings” the descriptions of the intricate tunnels at the face of the rock wall, like hundreds of small caves, made me think of what the human race might look like from a different perspective. We look at our homes and communities in such a way that allow us to continue through our lives seeking happiness and fretting over things that don’t really matter. But we rarely look at what the scope of our lives might be. The single sentence, “This hill is a place that could be the starry skies at night turned inward into the thousand round holes where solitary bees have lived and died,” (456-457) strikes fear into anyone’s heart who is living a life of passivity and actions based on whim, especially those solitary. To compare your life and all your efforts to those of creatures here on this earth with shorter live-spans creates an odd perspective not to be disregarded.
However, William Golding does not dwell on them strictly separately. Instead, he uses both imagery and actions to suggest hidden aspects of personalities, relationships and severe surroundings. The strongest and the most outstanding illustration of a visual imagery done by Golding in the passage is a description of a fire and a children reaction to it. The fire starts from ‘rising here and there among the creepers’ and then ‘scrambles up like a bright squirrel’, jumping from one tree to another, than it creep towards the sea ‘as a jaguar creeps on its belly’. This animalistic metaphor used by the author describes a process of fire growing from a rather small and fast squirrel to a furious and ruthless jaguar.
Explore the significance of the use of names in Auster's City of Glass in relation to intertextuality. When you look at a spiders web, you can see perfectly woven threads, all perfectly linked and also used to catch its prey. Looking at Paul Auster's, City of Glass, his use of intertextuality through out his novel, is like that web. Everything perfectly woven and linked to outside texts and by doing this, he grabs your attention from the start. In the City of Glass, Daniel Quinn writes murder mysteries but under the pseudonym of William Wilson.
Coco Kraaijeveld van Hemert Melissa Bagg English IV 13.09.2011 Journal #2 In the poem Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath many happenings are told at once. At first I needed to read the poem many times before I could get a little flow and understanding. What I have discovered is that Sylvia is putting in a lot of things of life into one poem. “We are shelves , we are tables, we are meek”, this gives me a sight of the slavery on our world. These people are used as dirt.