The first rhetorical device O’Brien employs is imagery. He vividly explains how he believes his courage could be built up in a “reservoir” of courage. Although, when he receives his draft, instead of feeling courageous he feels “the blood go thick” behind his eyes because he cannot believe he is being drafted for war. O’Brien describes the “silent howl” in his head, which allows one to imagine the dread of being drafted to war. O’Brien believes that he is “too good, too smart, too compassionate, too everything” and should not be drafted to the war, especially the “wrong war.” The rage in his stomach “burned down to a smoldering self-pity.” O’Brien’s imagery allows the reader to enter the mind of someone who has just received a draft notice and imagine the thoughts that would be going through their head.
2008 AP LIT FREE RESPONSE: Section II, Question One In both poems “When I Have Fears” by John Keats, and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both narrators expose their unfulfilled aspirations with the underlying fear that death will soon approach. Keats explains how his career as a famous, credited author has not yet been fulfilled, and fears that he will not live long enough to do so. Conversely, Longfellow looks back on his past slightly disappointed, but assured that he has the latter half of his life to accomplish his objectives and goals. Longfellow is dismal and terrified of death, while Keats comes to realize that his dreams are infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, and any life lived is a gift that will eventually succumb to death. Keats’ poem is one extensive run-on sentence that truly “runs” across the page.
Night: Passage Analysis Troubling thoughts consumed young Elie because he saw the ways in which father-son relationships are torn asunder by the camps. He watches as sons deny—or at least consider denying—care to their fathers, putting their own interests before their loved ones. Elie struggles with the same conflict when his father becomes ill, and when his father finally dies, Elie is profoundly sad though also proud that he never wholly compromised his own beliefs about family. The reason that Elie finds the deterioration of father-son relationships so painful is that the maintenance of this relationship seems to be the last barrier between a world that is semi-normal and one that has completely been turned upside down. Elie must continue
But a father. He is worried yes but also he may feel as though Achilles would be a man of understanding as he is in the same position when he lost his Son, Neoptolemus. Achilles feels that if Hector can kill Patroclus' then Hector does not deserve to live. When Somax reminisces about the death of his second son he remembers that he "was beside [him] self. [He] felt like punching her where she stood" He then continues without question to berate Achilles based on the way he dealt with Patroclus' death.
The death of Hamlet’s father creates an immense obligation that demands revenge, causing distress, deception, and corruption in which the hero must stay true to himself and to Denmark. When Hamlet learns of his father’s death, he is depressed and mourning the loss. Hamlet wears black clothes to symbolize his depression and prefers solitude over speaking to other people. Although when he does speak with anyone, he only converses about depressing subject matters. Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius, and many other characters all discover that Hamlet is having a very hard time with the death of his father.
Suzelle Napoleon Prof. Robinson English 102 College Composition August 1, 2011 Write an essay describing Sarty’s attitude toward his father as they develop and change throughout the story. (Barn Burning) Sartoris Snopes is a young boy with a major conflict in his life; “be true to his blood”? or come forward with the truth. His father, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, a reckless character with very cruel intentions has had to relocate his family because he is accused of burning down a barn. Sarty is called to testify during the hearing against his father for witnessing his actions.
One way the narrator exemplifies his prideful actions is by forcing his brother to touch his coffin. When Doodle is born the narrator is told that “he might not… be ‘all there’” (2). The terrible thing about making Doodle touch his coffin is that he is scared and does not want to do it, but Doodle has to toughen up. The narrator would not let Doodle come down from the ladder until he touches the coffin, even threatening to leave his brother alone at the top of the ladder. The wonderful aspect of it is that Doodle has overcome his death.
Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for death and Dylan Thomas’s do not go gentle into that good night both demonstrate the nature of death, however Dickinson explores the appreciation for life and abruptness of death, while Thomas contends death by showing remorse for death. Lit elements. Dylan Thomas poetry was written when his father fell ill and was on the verge of death. Two phrases that are mentioned throughout the tercets are “rage rage against the dying of the light.” and “ do not go gentle into that good night”. They are both similar in meaning to fight against death.
Anika Engbersen Mr. Judah Honors Junior English 15 June 2012 Laertes and Hamlet: A Son’s Revenge Laertes, Ophelia’s older brother and Polonius’s son in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is a passionate young man who cares deeply about his family. When both his younger sister and father die, readers can recognize his feelings of grief and anger, and can understand his behavior. Hamlet too loses a father, but his reactions to the demise of his father and the way he peruses his revenge is so irrational, it makes it harder for the readers to connect to Hamlet’s loss than Laertes’s. Hamlet and Laertes share as many similarities as they do differences. Hamlet even goes to say “But I am very sorry…that to Laertes I forgot myself; for by the image of my cause I seethe portraiture of his” (5.2.75).
He understands the transience of his life and knows that its outcome is not up to him to be determined. The author demonstrates that Beowulf is doomed to die by use of pass tense language that proposes Beowulf’s life is coming to an end: “Beowulf spoke, made a formal boast/for the last time” (2510-11). This sentence implies that the warrior is approaching his demise and must speak his last words. However, although Beowulf submits the Gandy, 2 outcome of his final battle to fate, the poet explains that “For the son of Ecgtheow, it was no easy thing/to have to give ground . .