She utilizes words such as “lonely, treeless and devoid of rises and curves,” and “farmable plains.” Such words and phrases paint an image for the reader an image of the lonely landscape of the upper Midwest. Her description characterizes the landscape as plain and dull, yet at the same time her diction depicts a landscape which is serene and small. The upper Midwest has “easy inclines” and “farmable plains.” It’s a place of interest to those who are farming, like her grandparents. She combines those different descriptions to characterize the upper Midwest as a land which many find uninteresting and unremarkable due to the dull, plain environment. She notes how the Midwest assessors declared the region a “dreary plain.” This conjures images of an uninviting and dull region whose landscape is almost depressing.
Chapter 2 begins the same way as the first-without people. Steinbeck contrasts the world of nature and the world of men by shifting the natural setting of chapter 1 to the bunkhouse in chapter 2. The bunkhouse is sparsely furnished with just the essentials of a bunk and a place to put gear. Tension is quickly built without exposition as the atmosphere is immediately hostile and uncomfortable. The beds are small and worn, "the walls [are] white washed and the floor unpainted.."(19).
The shelves lay empty and do nothing but collect dust. The file cabinets also stand bare and locked up away from daylight. The plain white walls, for the most part, have no décor what so ever (minus his college degrees). Its clear that Bobby’s love for comic books, popular culture, past success, and his family are the driving force that make him the man he is today. Superman seems to be a recurring theme for
Her reviews would take shape only after she gave herself permission to write a terrible first draft. Lamott’s intended audience is anyone who wants to write, either for class or simply for leisure. Hence, her audience is quite wide and I applaud her for using simple language, without resorting to complex jargons, in making her point. The purpose of her essay is to change the dynamics of writing. Often to amateur writers, the process of writing seems like a chore; a mountain of words to sieve through before they can create a comprehensible wall of text.
I believe that he felt that the native women did not play a significant role in the signing of the treaty. This is opposite of Howling Wolf’s rendering. I believe that John Taylor’s decision was based on cultural bias because he did include one woman, Mrs. Margaret Adams the
“She would never feel at home with the hakujin”. As Hatsue and Ishmael part Gutterson uses the woods once again “a March stillness had seized everything - the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground.” The use of the bleak setting reveals the decaying relationship. As Hatsue was influenced by her family and culture, she accepts that her love for Ishmael can no longer exist. She goes on to declare this to Ishmael, “everything appears to be different from what it was when I was with you on San Piedro” “I don’t love you
Capote’s Characterization in In Cold Blood “The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’” Truman Capote views Holcomb in In Cold Blood, as these other Kansans do; referred to as ‘out there’ for its unsubstantial presence and anonymousness to the rest of the world. Through the use of figurative language, syntax, and choices in diction, Capote’s view of Holcomb is characterized as a barren town with an anonymous community. Capote furthers his characterization of Holcomb through the use of figurative language. One example of figurative language that’s used can be seen in the first paragraph when he describes the environment of Holcomb’s locale as having ‘hard blue skies and desert-clean air.’ Through this imagery, Capote sets the area of Holcomb as being portrayed as hard. The desert-clean air introduces the idea that there is nothing in Holcomb to taint the desert environment.
3. “Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!” whispered her mother. “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.” This quote, also from chapter 22 is important because it shows that what happens in the woods is sort of a dream or a thought fo fantasy and could not be accepted by the Puritan people of the market place. This quote is important to me because since Pearl is very little and has much to learn, hester puts her in her place by saying what was right and what was wrong. 4.
The vision that Vaughn was given to his readers it’s not like that anymore. According to John Higham he says in his book, New Directions in American Intellectual History that Vaughn may have written this book before the events in the sixties. Because it after a study it offered a different picture of the European-Indians encounters and their social issues. So Tompkins is now seeing that the sources that she thought would be helpful turned out to be very bias and not truth telling about the Puritans and
English 12’ HW#1 Assignment: 1) Select One Journal Question and respond to it (One Paragraph) 2) Select one of the essay questions and respond to it in a two paged typed essay (Make at least two references to the reading in your response) 1) Explain how Gooi’s impressions of Iowa make you want to visit or avoid it. In what ways do they differ from where you live? Gooi’s impressions of Iowa make me want to avoid visiting because in the fifth paragraph Gooi states “No buildings, no billboards, no signs of human habilitation any-where on either side of the freeway- Just darkness.” This impression makes me want to avoid visiting iowa because I am accustom to being in the city all my life Whether its LA California where I was born or NYC where I live now, I Would feel very home sick and bored in a place that is not the city. This is the main reason I would avoid it, every time I visit a place that looks like the “Country side” of the city I tend to get home sick and bored, so my decision on whether or not I