The American Experience of an Indentured Servant Richard Frethorne’s letters to his parents in 1623 presents us with an abrupt image of what life as an indentured servant was like in the New World near the Virginia colonization. Frethorne’s letters are filled with vivid descriptions of his discomfort and hardships. Malnutrition, disease, threats of violence, brutal labor, isolation, and death are all common elements of Richard Frethorne’s letters and his life as an indentured servant. Most owners of indentured servants made their servants work as much as possible while spending as little as possible on the servants’ upkeep and contentment. Frethorne’s time as a servant was so brutal that he believed he would have been better off living life as a crippled beggar in his hometown of England rather than being a servant in the New World (Lauter 289).
In this line he is speaking not only literally but metaphorically. He is unclear about the reason and necessity of his attendance and is questioning why he must attend a school outside his local area. This emphasises his absence of connection, a sense of alienation and also a feeling of displacement. On the other hand, a strong and positive connection made with places and an enriched experience of belonging is demonstrated in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem, 10 Mary Street. The order of the daily ritual of their lives is shown in the simile he uses to describe the family’s departure each morning where for ‘nineteen years’ they ‘Shut the house/Like a well-oiled lock.” This establishes a sense of security and connection to place and emphasises that the house and their routine was a significant part of their
The poem uses poetic devices such as imagery to describe the hurry of the city, for example, “cars wobble and skid on William Street”, the image shown here is a busy street filled with people trying to avoid the rain and traffic and readers can see the fast pace of the city and the pandemonium derived from the storm. Tranter has interspersed ordinary activities into his description of such a hectic and unordinary storm to remind the audience of the contrast between the chaos of the storm and the simplicity of the people rushing through it, “I fossick and dawdle under the supermarket aisles safely underground, among the paper plates and jars of honey”. This quote is describing his lazy and delayed movements which contrast with the uncontrolled movements of the storm. The purpose of putting “honey” in those lines was to again contrast the vigorous storm with the slow and relaxed movement of honey. Tranter has used many poetic techniques to describe Sydney as a city full of unpredictable scenes of activity mixed with the regularity of the people experiencing
Representations of the city are shaped by composers’ personal, social, and historical contexts. This is demonstrated through an investigation of Ray Bradbury’s speculative short story, “The Pedestrian’ (1951), which presents a dystopic perspective of the future of the city, reflecting the composer’s concerns about technology and individual freedom. An alternate perspective of the city is shown through Jennifer Senior’s feature article ‘Alone Together: Is Urban Loneliness a Myth?’ (New Yorker, 2008) which similarly reflects the concerns of its context. Thus the concept of ‘the city’ can be seen as a subjective construct, shaped through composer’s unique and contextual concerns. Bradbury’s dystopic representation of the urban environment can be seen as a result of his mid twentieth century American context.
Tyler Vandeventer Mr. Nantz English 3 April 10th, 2013 The Great Gatsby Essay In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses a lot of symbolism. Symbolism helps make literature firm and complete. Anything in the novel can be taken as a symbol. It could be the color of clothes they wear to the weather throughout the novel. There are some symbols that are more important to the novel than others.
Remaining silent against her heart’s desire to apologize, causes frustration and inner conflict. All this in the story “Marie” is lined with Gods messages forgiveness, quotes from the bible and a spirit of knowing you did wrong. (Holy Spirit). “Marie” in the story “lost in the city.” 86-years-old, she lives and survives in a town that is dangerous. Brave and strong, she defends herself from a street thug, and she strikes back when she is treated as a non-human by the clerks at the Social Security office.
These new prisoners to Shawshank Prison are now about to start their journey as prisoners and have to cast away their old life. This is very much like these immigrants; who have no choice but to move into a new land whether or not their life before was good or not. Another small link is when in the poem it says,’ Watching pigeons that watched them’. This may be likened to the scene in The Shawshank Redemption where the new prisoners are off the vehicles and walking towards the prison building, with all the already-present prison inmates watching on in an intimidating way. The new prisoners looked lost and intimidated by this scene and they did not know what to think.
Erin Pesta September 21, 2012 Paper #2 Draft America today vs. yesterday America today writhes with poverty and despair, looking at the fact that America once was one of the most promising Countries, now there is poor health care and little job opportunity. Children are walking to school, trying to get breakfast so they can start their day, only to find the program is no longer available due to lack of government funding. People without a job, or funds for gas money to look for employment; have become overwhelmed with a sense of hopelessness, desolation is running rampant among anyone at or below the middleclass in the United States. Despair, is when someone calls his or her mortgage company to see if there is some sort of lifeline
Race and Diversity 31 October 2011 Sidewalk While reading Mitchell Duneier’s novel, “Sidewalk,” I was struck with a whirlwind of different emotions from not only the words, but from the photographs as well. Although they were just simple pictures of every day life for these people, they spoke a thousand words. The photograph that truly struck me the most however, was the one on page 53. It’s simple to look at, but given some thought it genuinely details the everyday struggle these street vendors face. A black man, more than likely homeless, is covering his table of goods with a plastic sheet while the rain comes poring down.
Kaitlin Villaverde Mrs. Bradford English 11 30 September 2014 Poetry Explication Mending Wall This poem is about a soaring wall which parts one thing from another leaving the on of the neighbors inside wondering about the possibilities of freedom if the wall was to be absent yet, and the benefits there of. “And on that day we meet to walk the line”(13).The wall is ironic because, even though it separates the speaker from his neighbor, it also brings them together every year. “And set the wall between us once again” (14). This quote reflects the feeling of how are protagonists is sighing in frustration from having this division between him and his neighbor. As stated,there is an ironic twist at hand.