As I was watering it, I began telling it jokes, and talking to it, “What did Mrs. Plant say to Mr. Plant? 'Hey Bud, I like how you always bring me flowers! '” Mother was smiling at me, proud of seeing me interested in horticulture. Night was coming , and I was getting ready for dinner at the table, talked to Mother about Woody, and thinking of jokes to tell him. The next day, I excitedly ran to Woody to check on him, as I was watering him, I started petting him, leaf by leaf.
Kristine Paulus Return Journey “A Worn Path” October 3, 2011 Phoenix continues on her footsteps with her cane on the narrow road ahead of her. She slowly wipes the tears from her aged eyes filled with joy and satisfaction. Then she looks at the medicine and says “oh child grandma is coming home, I’ll soon be there”. She looks up to the sky and say “thank you Lord for guiding my footsteps to get this medicine for my ill grandson”. “Tap tap tap” she repeats constantly as she heads south to her destination to the toy store.
Suddenly I was in a different world. The euphoric melodies of a nightingale filled my ears. Water seeped from the soils, forming a creek along the grass filled forest; schools of vibrant fish revealed themselves from the rocky crevices, darting about with unnatural vigour. An overwhelming feeling of joy swelled within me, the sublime beauty of this new world tapped into my soul, and the happiness I had been denied for so long came back to me. Hearing the sound of crashing waves in the distance, my childhood instincts took control of me.
To preserve her own self and the peace she had with herself, she decided to swim out in the ocean as she had in "the bluegrass meadow she traversed when a little child.” (654). Finally, as she stood at the water’s edge, she completed her awakening and finally grasped completely to her own identity as she realised “How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! How delicious! She felt like some newborn creature opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known.”, (655). Her relocation to the Pigeon House helped her realise who she truly was, though she ultimately had to find a way to preserve her true self, and the only way was suicide.
The theme of loneliness continues when, after Miss Laing tells the children to go pick flowers they all “scamper off” but the little girl doesn’t. Instead she goes and stands under the “shadow of a tall pine”. The word ‘scamper’ is used to slow that the children don’t have a care in the world, whereas I think that Margaret does. The ‘shadow of the tall pine’ is used to develop the intensity of her loneliness by showing that she is overwhelmed in darkness. Here the use of imagery makes the theme of loneliness even more unpleasant.
Behind them came thirty young men who were taking nicely decorated bulls to the sacrifice. Then, many slaves who were carrying the treasure of the Jews, closed the first part of the procession. This treasure part had an expensive table, candle and lamp stand which were all made of gold.Seven Jewish prisoners, who were mearching in the middle of the procession, were loudly mocked by the spectators. Five boys, marched with clear faces, ignoring the shouts, but two women with tears in their eyes, begged the spectators to spare the children. After the prisoners had come, Domitian himself arrived by very splendid carriage.
The thought of the demon rushed to my head. I quickly made it disappear from my thought and with a yell I said, “I AM MAN!” and with my first step I tripped and fell. As I was tumbling down the hill I realized how pathetic I felt. My limbs were flinging around like a queer on sausage day. With my luck I was hitting every tree in sight.
She knew there would be circumstantial victims. She never expected them to be children. Surely, this was a test of her dedication to the operation. Elphaba debated with herself. Her mind screamed at her to run away while her thumb twitched above the button.
Retelling the incident in her journal, Mary writes, “It is hard to write this, feeling as I do, afraid to set down what happened for fear of what comes next. I want to cry out, I will not stand for this, but I’ve stood for worse, that much is certain, and I’ve no right to speak now. Nor have I ever” (162). Mary admits that she is scared to speak out against what happened between her and Hyde. She claims she has stood for worst and she had no right to speak then and has no right to speak now.
When Dimmesdale and Hester plot their plan to escape one can infer here that this is actually showing the more soft side of Dimmesdale and support his actions, although it is Pearl that proves this statement wrong. She starts to have, “this wild outbreak with piercing shrieks, which the woods reverberated on all sides; so that, alone as she was in her childish and unreasonable wrath, it seemed as if a hidden multitude were lending her their sympathy and encouragement” (219). Her actions are symbolic to show that she had seen the truth to Dimmesdale and didn’t accept their plan nor was she happy with Dimmesdale. This once again shows how the character Dimmesdale develops is much different from what the author suggests at the beginning. Another example is when Dimmesdale is returning home.