The couple’s conflict is first shown in the stifling atmosphere at home when they are talking after John comes back from Parris’ house. Even at the beginning of their conversation we can feel the uneasy feeling and discomfort of the couples, as shown by the stage directions, Procter “gets up, goes to her, kisses her”, an action showing his love and effort to please Elizabeth. But instead, “with a certain disappointment, he returns to the table.” This feeling of frustration is carried on as Elizabeth only gives a short and callous answer, “Aye, it is,” to Procter’s very enthusiastic request “we’ll walk the farm together…Massachusetts is a beauty in spring!” Not only does Elizabeth’s lack of enthusiasm show her unforgiving attitude towards Procter, her actions are discouraging as well. As is shown by the stage direction again, “her back is turned to him. He turns
Short story: Signs and Symbols Author: Vladimir Nabokov The short story ‘Signs and Symbols’ is a tragic story of an elderly Russian couple having a deranged son in a sanatorium. The entire story revolves around the theme of tragedy. Despite the simple story plot, much of the little family’s background is revealed to the reader. The story begins with the couple, “they”, thinking of what they should get for their son on his birthday. This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son.
The theme of Anne’s diary is “you never know what you have until you lose it.” I believe that this is an appropriate theme for the story because at the beginning of the story Anne talks of her great house, great family, great friends, her boyfriend, how good she is at school, how much she enjoys the outside world, but when they have to go into hiding, she loses it all. They have to move out of their house, to go to and live in an attic for two years. Her family starts to argue all the time, judge each other, not have each others backs, and always looking for a way to get at each other. She has to move away from her boyfriend. Can’t go to school, has to leave all her friends, can’t enjoy the outside world, and can’t be herself.
A child, left without his parents, is being brought up “by hand” by his unpleasant and harsh elder sister Mrs. Joe. A much more favourable and completely opposite to Mrs. Joe is her husband, Joe Gargery, a caring, loving and kind-hearted man, who treats Pip in a friendly way in order to compensate for his wife’s rough behaviour. As Pip moves from the marshes of his native country to London society, he encounters a diversity of exceptional and amazing Charles Dickens’s characters who affect his development as a person: Magwitch, the escaped convict who terrifies and frightens Pip, but in future plays a major role in boy’s life; an
He brings stocking to a lady and we learn he is cheating on Linda. Willy begins to have many flashbacks to his brother Ben who has passed now. Willy wakes Linda and Biff one night when they find him outside in his slippers. The boys seem confused; they ask Linda how long it has been going on for. She explains that it is from his salary and working on commission.
Link is boy, whom his mother started seeing a man, Vince, after his father left them. Vince happens to be very abusing, and holds a grudge against Link and his sister, Carol. Due to his behavior, and after an argument, Carol decides to leave the house and live with her boyfriend. Tension started growing in the house, and so the consequences were large on Link. He started to perform badly at school and so, he decides to follow his sister’s steps and leave the house.
In James Joyce's "Araby," the unnamed narrator is a young boy who lives with his aunt and uncle in a dark and untidy home. The boy is obsessed with his friend's sister and often follows her “brown-clad figure”, but he never has the courage to talk to her. He plans to bring her something from “Araby” the bazaar and hopes that by doing so he will impress her, however the unsuccessful way to the bazaar makes him disappointed with reality. Araby employs many themes; the two most apparent themes to the readers is firstly, to escape from darkness and secondly, a boy’s first love. The story both begins and ends with darkness.
A caring family, a loving environment and clear direction, as military school provides, and the ways different people deal with poverty, can easily be the factors that made Wes Moore the author pursue a positive lifestyle while his counterpart ended up in prison for life. The author moved to the Bronx with his family to live with his grandparents. He attended a private school there which he was failing. He started to act up missing school, doing petty crimes like graffiti, and started up with his sister. His mom decided that she had to send him to military school to get his act together, so with the help of his grandparents his mother was able to send him away.
The modern reader may be struck by the neighbours' driving the young Seamus home - his parents may not have a car (quite usual then - Heaney was born in 1939, and is here at boarding school, so this is the 1950s) or, more likely, were too busy at home, and relied on their neighbours to help. The father, apparently always strong at other funerals, is distraught (very upset) by his child's death, while the mother is too angry to cry. “Big Jim” (apparently a family friend) makes an unfortunate pun - he means to speak of a metaphorical “blow”, of course. The young Seamus is made uneasy by the baby's happiness on seeing him, by hand shaking and euphemisms (evasions, like “Sorry for my trouble”), and by whispers about him. When late at night the child's body is returned Heaney sees this as “the corpse” (not a person).
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence A classic short story, which I have recently read in class, is “The rocking horse winner” by D.H.Lawrence. In this respnse I will discuss the contribution made by imagery in developing my understanding of the character and theme. The story is about a young boy named Paul who tries to win his mothers love by trying to acquire for money. The house is haunted by the call for money and Paul asks his mother to explain why this is the case. She tells him that she has no luck and so the house is cursed by a shortage of money.