What elements of "Hunters in the Snow" suggest that it is a serious literary work rather than merely an story of commercial fiction? 9. In the short story "Hunters in the Snow," who is the protagonist? 10. What are some examples of power struggles among the three principal characters in "Hunters in the Snow"?
In “Shoveling Snow with Buddha,” Billy Collins uses a seemingly ordinary, simple, yet risky task in order to demonstrate how one can find spirituality, purpose, and enjoyment in everyday moments. Although this poem involves the speaker connecting with a spiritual being, it does not take place in a church or a temple, but rather in a snowy driveway. Buddha is usually depicted as a peaceful figure with a “serene expression” (Collins 11), sitting cross-legged because “sitting is more his style” (Collins 7). However, in the poem “Shoveling Snow with Buddha”, Buddha is standing, bent, and is
Iona starts, and through his snow-plastered eyelashes sees an officer in a military overcoat with a hood over his head. "To Vyborgskaya," repeats the officer. "Are you asleep? To Vyborgskaya!" In token of assent Iona gives a tug at the reins which sends cakes of snow flying from the horse's back and shoulders.
Jack London's To Build a Fire Karen Rhodes analyzed to build a fire in a cultural context. He believed "London's works were written so that he could survive in a world he increasingly came to see as "red in tooth and claw""(1). It is obviously the story of a man fighting the stresses of Nature. According to Rhodes, to build a fire was drawn from the year London spent in Canada's Yukon Territory. London depicted arctic and very cold conditions throughout the story.
Lighting in the film "Snow White and the Huntsman" as a whole is used to contrast life and purity with death and evil. During this scene Sanders has Snow White traipsing through the Sanctuary after sunrise. The way the light seeps through the trees bringing a bright light through behind Snow White, is a lighting technique called backlighting. This is where the main light source is behind the subject, silhouetting it and directing it towards the camera. The backlighting technique has a refraction effect creating an airy feeling of hope and wonder.
However the use of such random structure can connect to the context and the actions being described; the characters foot falls through the ice “ the hard snow held me, save where now and then One foot went through. …” the full stop in the middle of the verse creates the feeling of the suddenness of the ice breaking. Moreover the fact that the protagonist fell through the ice implies he doesn’t belong in the forest. Furthermore the woods appears to be a strange midway place between two places, and the character doesn’t know where he is or where he’s going, therefore he is wasting his time in a forest corrupted by the waste of humanity. The only other time Frost uses a full stop mid verse is further on in the poem “still growing, and on one a stake and prop, These latter about to fall.
If you are going to be making your own trail all day long, you need a mountain snowmobile. Choosing you snowmobile is like reaching deep inside yourself and asking who you are. Many people say they would like to ride a certain way, but when it comes down to it and they see what it is like they do not enjoy it. If they go into a dealer and buy the biggest baddest snowmobile they are more than likely not going to be happy. What kind of ride are you looking for in a snowmobile?
Watson 1 Anita Watson English 1302-503 Essay 1 February 12, 2012 Character Development, Setting, and Irony in Hunters in the Snow In the story “Hunters in the Snow”, by Tobias Wolff, the writer tells of three men: Kenny, Frank, and Tub who go on a hunting trip. In the beginning of the story, Wolff does not give much background information on the men, we have to rely on their actions to develop and reveal their true character. As the story unfolds, we learn more about each character and the secrets each one holds. The author develops characterization through direct quotation and their interactions. The writer also uses the cold, unforgiving setting to reveal the true animal characteristics of the men.
The speaker standing by the road observes the rotten landscape with the ‘dried’ and ‘dead leaves and trees’ after the cold winter. Albeit all this deterioration of the nature, through the winter, after comes the rebirth of life, the spring. The word choice the poet makes consists of the minimum amount of words needed to achieve the visualization of the poem. In the first stanza most of the words and with a consonant (mottled, cloud, wind, weed, dried) giving a sense that the poem is in a static mode, and every word functions as a single unit with its own meaning. Independent words supporting the imagist Williams, creating a cinematic effect, as if the eye moves from one thing to another; from the ‘contagious hospital’ to the trees, the fields, the bushes.
This statement leaves me with the image of a lonely man. Personification is also a figurative speech identified in Frosts poem. Personification is defined as a figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics. (Merriam) Stanza two line nine states, "Because it was grassy and wanted wear." The road in this stanza is given human characteristics, because a road does not have the ability to want anything.