The Virgin Suicides and the Writing Self Usually our voice for telling a story is our own writing self. A person that understands the situation at hand and speaks in a manner relevant to the situation. We don't normally create a separate narrator to make our writing more interesting. We simply write our thoughts and opinions to convey our ideas. But Jeffery Eugenides writing the Virgin Suicides brought out a separate part of himself to narrate for him.
The Garden of Eden is also supposed to be perfect. Maybe she's telling her brother to forget about his troubles and look at a brighter side. She is also talking about hope and optimism to see through the darkness to walk into her garden of freedom and dreams. Being hopeful and always having an open mind about life, because your life is up to you not anyone else and you have to live in the moment and except what comes your way. Overall, the poem brings a sense of new hope and encouragement to those who are lost in the darkness.
Function: Context: In The Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale meet in the forest to talk about their relationship, their struggles, and their future together. After they decided to leave town together and start a new life, Hester took off her scarlet letter and felt the burden of shame, guilt, and sadness leave her spirit. Her appearance becomes radiant and alive as her emotions become filled with happiness. The murkiness of the dark forest disappeared along with both Hester and Dimmesdale’s misery. Hester, who is overjoyed by the thought of her future with Dimmesdale, calls Pearl to Dimmesdale.
The Great Gatsby Passage 2 Commentary F. Scott Fitzgerald gave his novel The Great Gatsby much more depth than is first observed by the reader. One can read the novel, and be completely enthralled by the story without noticing the complexity it contains. A closer look at the novel reveals so much more to the reader than could be imagined, by examining the careful word choice chosen by the author. In this passage, Fitzgerald makes particular use of his language to make evident the theme of pride. Pride can be a good thing, but it can often have negative connotations.
Wuthering Heights and Madame Bovary both gain much of their power as novels from the ways in which they use setting to frame the action, create atmosphere and convey meanings. Illustrate and compare the uses of setting in the two novels. (Note: you will need to use some carefully selected quotations from both texts to exemplify your points. Such passages are not included in the word-count.) 3.
Mrs.Johnson 8th period English 2 Pre-IB Color Analysis Great Gatsby It is arguable that Jay Gatsby values two things above all others—love (particularly his love for Daisy Buchanon) and money (the means by which he hopes to win Daisy’s heart). The two motivations converge in Fitzgerald’s use of the color green, a symbol that represents both love and money as well as Gatsby’s ultimate goal—a spring-like renewal that would put his past behind him and plant the seeds for a future with Daisy. Fitzgerald shows green in its many incarnations, from the promise of a new bud to the decay of a stagnant pond, as Gatsby’s dream progresses from a fleeting affair into a full blown physical and mental sophistication obession with theses two main things. A careful examination of the " The Great Gatsby", by F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals that his intention was to satirize the Corruption of society. Set in the core of America, Fitzgerald portrays a hedonistic society decaying in morals and consumed in materialism, he expresses this through the symbolism of color and nature.
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
Analytical Review: “The Great Gatsby” One function of literature is to bring the reader to a clear understanding of the meaning of symbols. As a reader, one would expect that they would receive a full understanding of the many colorful symbols in the novel. Throughout history, authors have used color symbolism to better the readers understanding of their work. In his novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism to bring his readers to a better understanding of his work as a whole. Although this technique gives the reader some enlightenment of the work, it ultimately falls short of full understanding due to Fitzgerald’s changing the meaning of colors.
The evasive, deceptive and revisionist characteristics of his narrative will in turn be considered, as factors that motivate yet control Stevens as a narrator throughout the book. As with Ishiguro’s first two novels[1], The Remains of the Day is told from a first-person narrative perspective, that of Stevens, the ageing butler. Traditionally, first-person narration creates a confidence between the narrator and their audience but this is never established between Stevens and his ‘real’ reader for within the first few pages of the novel it becomes clear that Stevens is addressing an ‘imagined’ reader. Phrases such as “As you might expect” (Ishiguro 1990:4), “Now, naturally, like many of us,” (1990:7), “but you will no doubt appreciate” (1990:14) and “But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say…” (1990:29) lead us, the real reader, to the understanding that Stevens has assumed certain prejudices about his narratee. His narratee almost becomes a projection of himself and his own values and the real reader very quickly sees through the fact that Stevens cannot see outside his own prejudices and social sphere.
She will remember the people who had loved her grace and her beauty with either real or fake sentiments in the past, and also that one man who had loved her soul unconditionally as she grew old and the way she looked changed. As she is reminded of him, she will regret her missed opportunity of true love. Theme & Tone & Rhyme Scheme: The poem is written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABBA CDDC EFFE which gives a steady rhythm to the poem. The themes of the poem are love, loss and regret and although based on the poet’s own personal life, the sentiment reflected in this poem is common to most, if not all, rejected lovers. Yeats’ tone helps enrich the reader’s conception of the poem’s theme.