Chesterfield’s application of irony is drawn from statements trying to evoke reactions of guilt and emotion from his son. Chesterfield achieves his desired result by stating that “those who want it most, like it and follow it least.” The nucleus of Chesterfield’s statement is an attempt to continue to push his son by coaxing him into heading his advice and trying to convince his son that he knows what’s best for him. Chesterfield’s utilization of irony as an attempt to get his son to contemplate his advice gives a subtle view of Chesterfield’s value of taking the advice of your elders. In conjunction with his use of irony, Chesterfield employs the rhetorical device of understatement in his letter. Chesterfield exercises understatement to disguise his true intentions concerning how he plans to advise his son.
Lastly, the tone revolves around a self-critical and enthusiastic one. The father makes the son analyze his life based on insights he gives him. Thus, its tone enables audiences to reflect on their life and adopt the author’s recommendations for a meaningful life. The straightforward poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a story of a mother who assures her son that he is bound to face uncountable adversities in life, and must outwit them to keep going. Hughes
Since the reader knows Lennie likes to pet soft things, but he has a record of killing them when he does, it is obvious her death is imminent. The use of dogs as symbols is regular in the book. In the first place, Lennie’s puppy is one of the several symbols that represent the
These strategies will help me better understand the story I am reading. During Reading During reading “The Rocking-horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence I use takes cues from the text, make connection and get involved strategies. The cues were italicized and the meaning of how the money was needed was emphasized by this. The connection was with the little boy Paul; he wanted his mom to be proud of him. I want my parents to be proud of me too.
We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us” Lennie eagerly finishes George’s description of them saying “But not us! An’ why? Because…I got you to look after me and you got me to look after me” From this conversation alone it is obvious to us that George and Lennie are on completely different wavelengths intellectually, Lennie being extremely childlike, thinking and speaking like a toddler would, and George being a father-like figure, getting frustrated when Lennie doesn’t understand him, or when he doesn’t remember something he’s been told, as Lennie pointed out, physically, they are not alone, physically, they do have each other and although Lennie isn’t intellectually able enough to understand, mentally, George is alone, travelling and holding conversations with a man who has the mental ability of a 3 year old would not be enough to take away the feeling of loneliness. Although Lennie isn’t alone, he has a
Discuss, with quotations and close reference, how Steinbeck uses language, both spoken and descriptive, to create a variety of effects in “Of Mice and Men”. 5. Should one feel sympathy for Curley? In Curley, Steinbeck has painted a picture of a thoroughly unpleasant young man. Argue a case, using three (3 ) points, to show that it is possible for the reader to feel sorry for Curley, while still acknowledging his many faults.
Of Mice and Men Analysis The books original working title given by Steinbeck was Something That Happened, but after reading the poem “To a Mouse” by Scottish poet Robert Burns, Steinbeck changed his mind. The poem describes how the narrator accidentally plows through a mouse’s nest, and the sorrow he feels afterwards. In the poem, the narrator reflects over the relationship between man and animal, deeply apologizing on the behalf of mankind for all the damages done to nature. The narrator identifies with the mouse as a fellow mortal, saying that both the thinking men and the unthinking animals will suffer in the end. The difference lies in the fact, that only the presence touches the mouse; man on the other hand, are able to look back in regret, or look to the future and fear.
After George says to Lennie,: „Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em. ” Lennie answers to that: „but i don’t wanna kill’em, George.“ This show that lennie again, doesn’t have control about what he’s doing with all his force. He doesn’t want to kill the mice, but he isn’t aware of his force, so he always breaks their necks. Another way how steinbeck relates to nature in his novel is by Georges and Lennies dream. When they speak about their future, they often say things like: “We could live offa the fatta the lan'.” This shows how
Harrison Binker Language and Literature 112 8 January 2010 Of Mice and Men: Argumentative Essay At the end of the story Of Mice and Men George makes a tough decision that can be looked at as either selfish or unselfish. George had decided that he should control Lennie’s fate since he had taken care of him for so long and he should be the one to kill Lennie, not Curley or ant of the other men. George’s act at the end of the story was not selfish because Lennie was George’s responsibility and had been for a long time and because other men were trying to kill Lennie so it was better for George to kill him than men he barely knew. As stated in the thesis statement, George had a lot to think about before making his decision
When Jack finds out there are animals on the island, he wants to hunt them. Although the boys are still civilized and want rescue, “Rescue? Yes, of course! All the same, I’d like to catch a pig first-,” (Golding 53). Jack’s inner savagery begins to show almost right away.