The Haunter Imaginatively, and most pathetically, Hardy writes this plaintive and moving poem from the point of view of Emma. It is written in the first person, with her as the imaginary narrator. It is almost as if, in putting these words in the mouth of Emma (who, in the poem, sees Hardy as oblivious of her presence) Hardy is trying to reassure himself that she forgives him and continues to love him. Detailed commentary Though Hardy does not know it, Emma's phantom follows him in his meanderings, hearing, but unable to respond to, the remarks he addresses to her in his grief. When Emma was able to answer Hardy did not address her so frankly; when she expressed a wish to accompany him Hardy would become reluctant to go anywhere - but now he does wish she were with him.
Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable. He believes in reading up on what others have to say about a difficult book, and then making up his own mind about it. He says that part of the reason he feels this way is because of his teacher, Mr. Buxton, who taught him Shakespeare in 10th grade. Ricky shares how Mr. Buxton met him one night to go over the text line by line, but he didn’t share the conclusion with Moody, he left that for him to figure out on his own. Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2.
Towards the end of the article, there are two more testimonials for the MagnaSoles shoe inserts. The first customer, Helene Kuhn of Edison, NJ says, “Just try to prove that MagnaSoles didn’t heal me!” This is obviously indirect in the fact that she doesn’t want someone to see that the MagnaSoles flat out healed her, but she wants someone to “prove that they didn’t.” Another testimonial is from Geoff DeAngelis of Tacoma, Wa: “Magna Soles really seem like they’re working.” Here the article continues to make fun of the obvious weasel word, “seem”. DeAngelis also talks about an “intelligent-looking man in a white lab coat” endorsing the product. This makes fun of the the advertising companies who use paid actors in white lab coats to make the product seem more professional. Sadly, many people are actually influenced by
Cash was born at a time when his mother had just discovered that words are meaningless and that only through acts can people achieve an awareness of life. Thus, Cash seldom speaks in the novel and usually only after some action is performed. Furthermore, he seems to be concerned with only one act at a time. Thus, he is the natural choice for the building of the coffin because he, like Addie, knows that the finished product is more important than the words
He feels that now she is old enough to know the truth on why he becomes 105 North Tower. Lucie’s main concern in this chapter was that Dr. Manette was going to relapse into making shoes again. She would do anything she could to have him be recovered from those things, she walked with him up and down the path way. Lucie would also hold him and caress him and tell him, that he is the best thing that has every happened to her. “ His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as thus tried to anatomise his old condition” (191).
He isn’t being pressured by anyone or feels like he has to marry this woman. He wants to marry her for pure love. Although in “Pride and Prejudice” Mr. Collins felt he needed to marry a woman named Lizzie because that’s what everyone around him wanted. Mr. Collins would be able to take over the Bennet household if he did so. Collins feels like he’s doing the Bennet’s a favor by proposing to Lizzie.
In native son, when Bigger was with Mary and Jan, he never showed how he really felt. He just keeps his head and answers questions by saying “Yessuh” and “Yessum”. It’s only after Mary and Jan tell him that they are “equals”, we start to see the real Bigger Thomas (without the mask). Another example that proves my statement is in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, we wear the mask. When the author says, “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile and mouth with myriad subtleties, this goes to show that we smile even as we are going through the pains of everyday life.
Demonstrative and possessive pronouns are words that create the "psychological distance" between the narrator and the characters. Polly Rose Peterson states that in the first paragraph the readers are drawn into the Cathedral by using demonstratives and possessives, and central determiners which creates psychological distance between the two characters and the narrator. The reader cannot infer that right away, it needs to be thought through well. However, after the reader has analyzed it they realized that the author uses "this" in "This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night" (Carver 131) to explain the closeness yet the distance between the blind man and the narrator. The husband usually refers to him as "this blind man" (Carver 131), and he never uses Robert’s name or assigns any human attributes to him.
As love, honor, pity, sacrifice, pride, and compassion. Giving those emotions in the story gives each character heart, instead of a book that does not have any emotions. As said in Faulkner’s speech. “He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” (Faulkner, pg
Dolphis Raymond is talking to Dill and Scout, “I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (202). Some people believe that there is only one real way to live and anyone who isn’t like that won’t be accepted. People are prejudice and that was okay with Dolphis Raymond, he just wanted to live life his way and didn’t care what others thought. Dolphis was an outcast who taught that in order to fully know someone, there’s always a way to get to know