Scout succumbs to Aunt Alexandra’s urgings to be less of a tomboy and wear a dress. She witnesses the hypocrisy and racism of some of the members of the ladies’ Missionary Circle. Her return to school prompts reflections on Hitler, democracy and dictatorship, and the last part of the novel concerns Bob Ewell’s attempts to wreak havoc: his attempted burglary of Judge Taylor’s house and his attack on Jem and Scout after a Halloween pageant. Jem breaks his arm but is carried home. Bob Ewell dies of a knife wound.
“I was the princess in the castle in the sleeping woods… we all fell asleep, but the prince kissed me awake. Only me”, this is where Gemma finally claims she is Briar Rose. Yolen uses the fairy tale genre to tell the story of Gemma, and links certain aspects of the sleeping beauty story to Gemma’s story. The whole of Gemma’s version of the fairy tale is ironic. A fairy tale is supposed to be happy but Gemma uses it as an allegory for the holocaust.
In one of Dr. Polnac’s comments on the excerpt, he says “Gardner creates verisimilitude…” throughout the narrative between Terence and Margie using physical, characteristic, and setting description. At the beginning of the narrative, Gardner introduces Terence Parks in a bedroom fiddling around with his French horn “emptying water from the tubing.” In the same room, Margie Phelps is introduced sitting on the side of the bed “with her hands on the flute in her lap.” This visual imagery of their behavior already let’s the reader hint that the two are shy even if Gardner left out the sentence “He was as shy a boy as ever lived, as shy as the girl seated now on the sagging old fashioned bed.” He includes this sentence to create the feeling of similarity between the two. Gardner then gives their facial descriptions and their attire. He uses a simile to describe Margie’s “silver-blonde hair falling straight past her shoulders, soft as flax.” The following sentence supporting her shyness describes her face as “serious, though she was prepared to smile…” Terence wore “glasses without which he was utterly helpless,” and had “a small chin.” The words “utterly helpless” and “small” lets the reader visualize someone perhaps the opposite of a big guy with an independent, confident, and outgoing
The poet quickly establishes an ‘us’ and ‘them’ narrative structure which he uses to criticise his European education and the lack of black history in his schooling. He explains how he has been taught about such iconic British historical events as the Battle of Hastings (1066) and major fictional characters like Dick Wittington, but not Toussaint L’Ouverture, leader of a revolution on the island of Haiti led by slaves who eventually overcame their French colonisers and established Haitian independence. He goes on in a similar manner explaining how he has learnt about ‘de man who discovered the balloon’ and ‘de cow who jump over de moon’ but not about Nanny of the Maroons, a Jamaican national hero who escaped from a life of slavery and formed the Jamaican Maroons, a community of runaway slaves who became a guerrilla army freeing other slaves and destroying plantations. Similarly, the speaker explains that while he has been taught about Lord Nelson, Columbus, Florence Nightingale, and Old King Cole, he has not heard a word said about Shaka or Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who saved the lives of
Close Study of Text – Briar Rose * Briar Rose By Jane Yolen * Sleeping Beauty * Fairytale story Allegory * Good vs. Evil * King and Queen had a child called Aurora * Invited fairy’s to birth * Bad fairy gives baby a curse * Prick finger on spinning wheel * 16th Birthday she falls into a deep sleep for 100 years * A prince tries to save her * Thorns grow all around the tower * Prince kisses her and she wakes up QUOTES: * “And even though to tell a story is to tell some kind of untruth, one often suspects that what seems to be untruth is really a hidden truth” – Ralph Harper * Importance of Storytelling “Stories...We are made up of stores. And even the ones that seem the
…” I gently poured a little stein of water over the mirror”.” Well that only made it worst like daddy said”…. “I’m a try to warm your face up a little. Just relax.” After that Momma got Byron’s tongue off the window but he talked like he had too many hits to the head. When Byron saved Kenny when he was drowning in the whirlpool. “Byron and the wool started juking it out.
A Dollhouse and “The Yellow Wallpaper” A Doll House play and “The Yellow Wallpaper” story have some similarities. Both the story and the play discuss how the wife is struggling with the way she lives with her husband and how at the end she ends her struggling. Also, both the story and the play describe the way the husband talks with his wife; both of the husbands do not use the wife’s name. Instead of the husband calling his wife’s name, he calls her “a blessed little goose” (“The Yellow Wallpaper” par. 53) and Torvald calls her “little lark” (A Dollhouse, act1, speech 4) and “my squirrel” (A Dollhouse, act1, speech 8).
When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.” p.9 The young characters have an initial interest in the mystery of Boo and begin to obsess about it by attempting to communicate with Boo, and make a game out of the rumours that circulate about the Radley family. This curiosity fades by the end of the texts as they actually meet Boo himself. Jem and Scout both show signs of growing up, understanding that Boo isn’t harmful at all. For example, in the novel when Scout discovers the stranger who saved her was Boo, Harper Lee uses language and points within the narrative structure to show how Scout’s previous
Mike Professor McCrary EN160 Literature and Composition 3 February 2013 Araby: Revelation of an Epiphany James Joyce’s short story “Araby” is a great illustration of epiphanies in literature. In “Araby”, it [the epiphany] is the sudden moment when the young protagonist realizes his love for Mangan’s sister is only in his mind. The meaning is revealed as the Narrator begins a journey from love to despair, and ultimately heartbreak and disappointment. The story begins with a description of North Richmond Street, a “blind” and “quiet” street where “Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free” (101). An uninhabited two-story house, detached from its neighbors, stands at the blind end.
The St. Clement’s song is a mysterious, ominous, and enigmatic relic of the past for Winston and Julia. Its ending—“Here comes the chopper to chop off your head!”—foreshadows their eventual capture and torture. Winston’s paperweight is another symbol of the past, but it also comes to represent a kind of temporal stasis in which Winston can dream without fear, imagining himself floating inside the glass walls of the paperweight with his mother. The phrase “the place where there is no darkness” works as another symbol of escapist hope throughout the novel, as Winston recalls the dream in which O’Brien tells him about this place and says that they will meet there one day. The phrase therefore orients Winston toward the end of the novel, when the phrase becomes bitterly ironic: the place where there is no darkness is the Ministry of Love, where the lights remain on in the prisons all day and all