Ross relies on alliteration to resonate the “wild lipless wailing” of the wind which creates the “creak of walls” and echoes through the loft. The use of concrete words, such as ‘walls’ and ‘loft’ also provide a sensual connection to the imagery portrayed in the first line. Ross later enters into great detail to characterize the wind to create vivid images to its reader. Ross personifies the wind by describing it as a cry from the “parched and frantic lips” of a woman who was “staring into the livid face before him.” Ross utilizes adjectives such as “frantic “and “parched” to emphasize the desperate plea of the woman. This cry continues to haunt Paul’s thoughts and is personified as having lips that cried and pleaded and “eyes that were mad.” By characterizing the woman’s cry, it offers the reader Paul’s view of Ellen’s pleading.
These ideas are also explored through Gary Ross’ film, Pleasantville as the protagonists fight against oppression of society’s expectations and the power of art as a way of escaping this and finding a purpose and a sense of hope. The distinctive experiences of the female prisoners of war within the oppressive confinement of a Japanese war camp are explored through Misto’s use of mixed media to visually stimulate the audience. He recreates historically accurate images of the women confined in the camps to startle the audience and make the horrific experiences these women endured realistic for the audience. The projected images of the emaciated, impoverished women POW’s on dirty beds highlight the women’s oppressive confinement at the hands of the Japanese, “They are in a shocking state... now skin and bone”. Thus forcing the audience to acknowledge the horrific conditions the women faced.
Oklahoma, Kansas, the Northern Texas, and the New Mexico) which experienced severe soil erosion caused by the effect of windstorms in the 1930s. Lassieur (2009) noted that the term has its origin from WW I, during which the initially known grasslands of the area were converted into agricultural fields. The area had experience dry climates leading to severe drought. Together with the effect of over-cultivation, which occurred in the early parts of 1930’s, the land in the Great Plains ware left bare? This condition made the soil to be more prone to the heavy winds, which blew the loose topsoil in what was described as the black blizzards.
This physical setting gives the reader a good understanding of how and where the story will follow, in what kind of surroundings. As Ann’s husband leaves to meet his father in this brutal weather, she can’t help but wonder how the day will pass in such lonely atmosphere and complete isolation, while praying and hoping her husband will return soon, “eager and hopeful first; then clenched, rebellious, lonely”. The entire story is based on the consequences of the combination of this kind of setting: extreme fierce weather, lonesome wife, husband away, and the ‘third’ person. Therefore, without this setting the purpose of the story wouldn’t have existed. In “The Painted Door” this feeling is excessively repeated from the beginning to the end, stressing vividly on the frosty weather and complete seclusion, “for so fierce now, so insane and dominant did the blizzard seem”.
Use of Imagery in Araby and Games at Twilight In Games at Twilight, the author makes large use of imagery. Right at the start of the story, there is this quote ‘Their faces were red and bloated with the effort, but their mother would not open the door … their lungs were stuffed with cotton wool.’ The author also makes use of other senses, like when Ravi enters the abandoned shed ‘It had a muffled smell, as of graves.' While Ravi is in the shed the author uses contrast between light and dark ‘Except for the white-hot cracks along the floor, there was no light.’ In Araby the author makes large use of light and shadow. The narrator uses shadows to hide from his uncle, "If my uncle was seen turning the corner, we hid in the shadow until we had seen him safely housed." He also uses shadows to hide and observe Mangan's sister, since he has feelings for her and does not yet want to talk to her.
By using sound color, devices of sound, and that of sense, the poet is able to successfully show the inseparability of the inner nature of man and the immense outer natural world in this narrative lyric through a dreamlike tone. The suggestion of natural sounds produced by the weather, house, and birds, combine to show the distinction between internal and external forces in the first half of the poem. The house would shake because of a “rising wind” (line 1) which “rattled window and door” (line 2), the strong wind would make the screen “bang” (line 3), the door “slam” (line 3), and support beams to “groan” (line 3), the timber with sap went against the “baulk” (line 8) and “spike” (line 8) that secured the house, and “crows” (line 10) that “walk along” (line 11) and “scratched” (line 13) the roof all contributed, whether as onomatopoeias or as harsh sounds, to the color of the poem that moreover functioned as an exterior sphere. The consonance in “Bent to his book” (line 9) while the persona was being stoical to the current ruckus caused by the outside, and the exclusion of
Dorothea Lange took photographs during the Depression-era mostly for the Farm Security Administration. She took photographs to humanize the effect of the Great Depression. One photo from Dorothea Lange is that of a young 10-year-old boy fixing his family’s car. The boy said that he doesn’t go to school because he has to help his father with the cotton field. The second photo of Lange’s is one of a group of people on the back of a pick up truck going to pick cotton for the day.
* Characters: List of main and minor: Main characters | Minor characters | George | Crooks | Lennie | Curley’s wife | Slim | Carlson | Candy | Curley | * Characterization: (protagonist – antagonist) * George: George is the story's main protagonist, a small, quick man with well-defined features. A migrant ranch worker, George dreams of one day saving enough money to buy his own place and be his own boss, living off of the land. * Curley: Curley’s the antagonist, because he’s the bad guy and the villain. Curley sets problems in the way of George and
In the book, Gary talks about how his television images motivates him to have a way out of Fresno and it kept him fighting to find away out of poverty. He fought for a place where he can plan his roots and be accepted for who is. Gary also had many family conflicts but the biggest one was with his step dad. Gary’s lack of education and being mistreated in school made him think that his future was going to be living in Fresno the rest of his life like his parents did. Gary wants to break away from poverty and keep the next generation out of working in the fields or factories.
The two kids find shelter in the barn until morning being woken up by cowbells and the sound of animals running amongst them. They wake up to see a man “thin and tall, his neck bowed forward as if from years of ducking. The man's son has died from the war and he has lost his farm hand, and we can imply at the end of the story that the man is going to keep the youth as a slave and send Viticus far away. In this story, Ron Rash Does a great job of giving us a lot of information on what slaves went through by conveying this through the two boys. From being once a slave to escaping there workhouse and traveling day and night with little to no food, finding a new place to stay and trusting a family to take you in and allow you to live a normal life, and lastly leaving your family.