Instead of pouting in her room all day, Buddy’s friend decides that she knows a perfect place to get a tree and some holly for Christmas time. The next day, Buddy and his friend were off with their tools to chop down a perfect Christmas tree for that holiday. When given a free bottle of fine whiskey from Mr. Haha in trade for a fruitcake, Buddy’s friend is filled with joy and says, “What a lovely man. We’ll put an extra cup of raisins in his cake.” After they bake the cakes, Buddy’s friend gives the cakes to Mr. Haha and many complete strangers just because she is a genuinely kind person. In another episode, Buddy’s friend shows her respect, and compassion towards Buddy.
During the Simon’s (Matt and Marie’s son) birthday party, there were some conversations between Kate, Daniel and Kate, Marie; Marie told Kate to face the truth that Matt’s life was not a failure, and he love his son, his family and the farm. The most important thing that bothered Matt, however, was that Kate cannot forgive Matt and cannot understand him. Daniel also has made some progress (Page 281-282); he tells Kate to look at real world too; also, Daniel point out that Kate had put the story in a place that was too heavy. Actually, Matt did not change after being a famer. He can be a scholar; however, he just found out he like farming, too.
“The Lanyard” Analysis “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins, is a poem about a grown man who flashbacks to the day he braided a lanyard for his mother at a camp thinking that making something for his mother will make her happy. Collins uses imagery and tone to illustrate that nothing in this world is enough to repay one’s mother for all that she’s done, but showing one’s love for her will bring joy and laughter into her life. A poetic device Collins utilizes in this poem is imagery. One very good example is when he was thinking about the day at camp. “The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from type write to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor” (lines 1-4).
In his essay “Working at Wendy's”, Joey Franklin conveys that he works at Wendy's because he feels that, even though the job may seem demeaning, it is something he has to do for the benefit of his family. Franklin uses short stories or anecdotes from earlier in his life or from those whom he works with to prove this point. Franklin in the end shows that he is willing to do anything to provide for his wife and son. Franklin's feeling of embarrassment begins when he recognizes a member of his Boy Scout troop who also works at Wendy's. This disgrace carries on throughout the story as Franklin is embarrassed and uncomfortable working at a fast food restaurant because of his high qualifications.
Danny's Plant Sequel “Mom, please, make like a tree and leave!” Everyone burst out laughing at my pun. After school, later that day, Mother brought me to the horticulture shop to look at plants. They looked so pretty! I pleaded my mom to buy me a packet of flower seeds. She agreed and bought it for me.
Thematic Quote: Mami wasn’t a hitter, she preferred having me kneel on pebbles with my face against a wall. On the afternoon that the letter arrived, she caught me trying to stab our mango tree with Abuelo’s machete. Back to the corner. Junot Diaz theme is different from any of the writers we have read. I enjoyed reading about his families culture, their food, and the relationships he has with his family.
How do Heaney and Sheers use language and imagery to communicate their ideas about relationships? Heaney and Sheers demonstrate similar and alternative recurring themes within the relationships in their poems. Heaney often discusses the distance from his father within their relationship, due to their differences with careers, ability and age. Alternatively Sheers often represents his parents with a positive outlook, referring back to the strength of their relationships within the family. Heaney looks up to his father with pride at his ability within his work and the skill in what he does, this is a recurring theme and can be seen within ‘Digging’, “By God, the old man could handle a spade”.
When he speaks in Spanish language with his friends in class his teacher used to yell at him by saying only English! Victor used to love trees and he said to his mother that he talks with trees. When he was in playground an old wrinkled eucalyptus tree told him “be brave”. “Generosity is a good investment when you know who to be generous with, and who not to be generous with.”
Respecting others is an attitude. It is always very important to show respect to one another like the Modoc and Onondaga tribes showed on their book. People always have different opinions and everyone has to respect that. Sometimes when people don’t value their family they end up learning how to value them the hard way that means having to pass through a hard time first to then realize how important it is to respect others. The reason why people study mythology varies a lot, they usually find logic, inspiration or a moral lesson in these myths or simply because it is part of the historical culture of their
The affair is ambiguous because of the reader’s moral and emotional confusion caused by the duty felt towards love and responsibility. Through the novel, it is proven that Dimmsdale and Hester do love each other, and the passion they felt during the affair lives on through Pearl. On the morality side, both had responsibilities to something other than each other that created guilt in what they were doing. Hester had a husband, even though he had been gone for a long time and she didn’t love him. While Dimmsdale had his congregation and duty to God to follow His word.