Our identity is basically an understanding of our own beliefs, values, attitudes, and feelings; it is easily affected by what goes on in our lives, whether those situations are good or bad. Every obstacle in our lives is a challenge that would teach us how to get back on our feet unscathed or at least still relatively whole. Mary Lawson conveyed how such obstacles could shape a person's identity through the characters of her novel, The Other Side of the Bridge. They were written to be as close as possible to real people hence, they also go through difficulties that change not only their future but the core of their being. Arthur, undoubtedly, is a character that has been heavily affected by different situations in life.
“Another use of psychological criticism in literature is to attempt to understand the underlying motivations of a character …” (13). Lastly, it gives the reader greater insight into the writer’s psyche. <o:p></o:p> “Does the road wind uphill all the way?” (Rossetti, line 1). This is the opening line of the poem “Uphill”. Using the psychological criticism approach one would immediately find and try to understand the symbolism in this line.
Stevenson 1 Jessica Stevenson Ms. Hays English 202 22 March 2012 An Explication of William Stafford’s “Ask Me” The poem “Ask Me” is not as it may seem the first time you read it, you have to read through it a second maybe even a third time in order to take notes about the true meaning that Stafford is trying to get across. William Stafford gives us a paraphrase of his own poem “Ask Me”, giving the reader a look into what the poem means to him. By giving us the reader a more in depth explanation of his work it allows us to understand the meaning within the poem itself. So now let’s take a look at it and see what his thoughts were. This poem is like no other of William Stafford’s.
We must accept change or perish Change is inevitable and can occur at any time. We must accept change in order to move forward with life. This is shown in the prose piece Sky High by Hannah Robert and the Seven Ages cartoon. Not accepting change has its consequences. In the novel We All Fall Down written by Robert Cormier, some of the characters do not accept change and hence pay a consequence, as seen by the study of these texts.
Go Back To Where You Came From & the Door Discovery Essay - Cameron Wright Discoveries may often be challenging and confronting, but will often lead us to reassess our attitudes and values. The main aim of “Go Back to Where You Came From” By Ivan O’Mahoney is to build empathy towards refugees using interviews, voice over, camera techniques, Dual Narrative and deliberately selected participants who will be confronted by their experiences and be “Put through the wringer”. While the poem “The Door” By Miroslav Holub is all about change and being confronted and challenged by this change and inviting us to go and see this change as a positive. Using poetic techniques, dual metaphor, repetition, tone, imagery and symbolism. Both use these
The narrator uses words like “departing”, “ restless”, “impatient”, “races” all in the last sentence of the stanza, it can be noted that all these pronouns are word describing motion, and as motion is known to bring about change it backs the idea that the narrator would bring about change in his life as the poem. In the second stanza of the poem the phrase “the night wind implores me through walls, claims me inside buildings” talks about the intrusiveness of the wind on the author’s life. This probably suggests that the author is in fact desperate to change his past life for the better
Because of the decision to read this paper, a decision that seemed so mundane and insignificant, everyone in the future will be slightly different than they would be had you chosen to do something else. The dependence of systems on initial conditions, a theory known as the “Butterfly Effect” is extremely important and has profound implications on the world. As you are sitting there probably thinking “So what?”, brace yourself because I am going to go far beyond just the concept to include predicting the future, random events, free will, and much more. Hopefully, upon reading this, you will never see reality in the same way again. Think, for a moment, how different the world would be if a traveling salesman had knocked on the door of Hitler’s parents home the moment before he was to be conceived.
“The Journey leads to greater understanding”. This thesis cleverly states the importance of a journey, it expresses that through experiences in journeys a greater understanding will be obtained. This thesis can be shown in the poems, Summer Rain by John Foulcher and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, the classic American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the children’s picture book, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. In Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken the individual in the poem is analysing two different paths that are both equally appealing, yet he can only choose one to travel. On this journey the individual develops a greater understanding of both of the roads he is choosing from which he starts to develop a clearer view of the two, instead of stereotyping them.
The two characters of Othello and Iago can be used in juxtaposition to imply how outside forces have great influences on the life of a person and how that in turn affects the individuals journey and how it can finish somewhere different that what was initially expected. Shakespeare constructs characters, such as Iago, a Machiavellian character to explain his view on the human condition, of how emotion can overrule reason to the audience. Shakespeare uses various literary techniques throughout the play to emphasis his point. Shakespeare’s play Othello explores how all humans have the power to choose what they want. That they are self willed to make decisions and think with reason.
In Zinsser’s piece, “Writing about Places”, he effectively assists writers in developing nonfiction pieces of work through his advice. Zinsser feels that typically the first 2 paragraphs of a piece should portray the setting of the place you are writing about. One of the most crucial things to take into consideration while writing about places is to “evaluate your overall mood” while you are in that certain place you are writing about. The next time I write about a place, I’m going to take extra time to actually feel what I am feeling from my surroundings. Also, I’m going to make note of specific and unordinary details.