Capote’s use of the winter season also leaves the reader with a chilled lonely bitter feeling. Rather than describing the snow in a beautiful and calming way his diction clearly portrayed the biting scene. “In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city” (39). The harsh cold description leads reiterates the feeling of solitude by removing any sense of warmth or comfort. While out to see a show Ms. Miller’s character is introduced to Miriam, a young girl, who we then learn shares the name with our main character, Ms. Miller.
Brian noticed that “there were tall pines, the kind with no limbs until very close to the top, with a gentle breeze sighing in them, but not too much low brush” and two hundred yards up there seemed to be a belt of thick, lower brush starting—about ten or twelve feet high—and that formed a wall he could not see through. It seemed to go on around the lake, thick and lushly green.” Other than studying the place they were going to travel they also had concerns, worry, and fear during their conflict with nature. In the beginning of Clay’s journey when “he sat down and looked at the treacherous snow-covered slope” he thought to himself that “It was manifestly impossible for him to make it with a whole body, and he did not wish to arrive at the bottom shattered like the pine tree.” Brian’s worries during his journey were that “He didn't want to be anywhere in the woods when it came to be dark. And he didn't want to get lost.” The differences between the stories are how the characters react with nature which depends on the character’s personality and background and the historical period in which the conflict takes place. Clay lives in the 1800s and Brian lives in the twentieth century.
The land is so frozen that the permafrost doesn’t allow water or plant roots in. In the spring the top layer of the permafrost softens and allows some plants to grow and repopulate. Nonetheless these plants become passive when winter comes. The Arctic Tundra appears to be soggy during the summer weeks because of its many bogs and shallow lakes. These bogs and lakes don’t drain because of the barrier of the permafrost underneath.
He cannot avoid the dangers presented by Curley, Curley’s wife, or the world at large. In this he is an innocent victim, causing us to feel sympathy for this doomed man. John Steinback creates sympathy for Lennie because the novel is centred on Lennie's simplicity. Throughout the entire book, Lennie's personality and life seem based on three things: his dream of one day owning a farm, devotion to his protector (George) and soft things. Within the novel, Lennie shows no significant changes, development, or growth.
stephen English 2H 30 May 2012 Into The Wild Essay It is hard to imagine living out in the wilderness all alone, completely separated from society. Chris McCandless from the film, Into the Wild, attempts to do just that, although in the end it leads to his death. Many critics debate whether the film suggests transcendentalist or naturalistic principles. McCandless’s story reflects transcendentalist ideals through his simplistic lifestyle, his self-finding mission, and his displayal of self-reliance. Chris’s pursuit of a life of simplicity displays transcendentalist ideals.
He is shy and more comfortable alone in the world exploring nature as he does when he skis to the beaver dam. It is Gene who compares the drastic changes an early snow of winter can make at the Devon school to that of war and how Leper is oblivious to it all when he thinks to himself “But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon” (Knowles 93). Leper’s withdrawal from the world around him is his way of coping with the harsh realities of the war. Although the war is raging all around Leper remains oblivious by escaping and admiring his natural surroundings. In the beginning Leper’s attitude about the war is that it doesn’t affect him.
The thick willow scrub along the river flamed with sharp and positive yellow leaves. 飘荡在半空中的冬雾呈现出灰法兰绒色，将萨利纳斯山谷严实地罩了起来；同时也把它与外界分隔开。雾气锁着山头，四面象顶盖子，而山谷则成了一口盖得严严实实的 深锅。农民在宽阔平坦的土地上深耕，犁铧过处，黑色的土地闪着金属的光泽。在横卧萨利纳斯河的丘陵地上，农场里的茬地泛着黄色，象是沐浴在冷冷的苍白日光下；不过，现在时至腊月，山谷里没什么阳光。河边上密密麻麻的柳丛上的黄叶颜色鲜浓，象着了火似的。 It was a time of quiet and of waiting. The air was cold and tender. A light wind blew up from the southwest so that the farmers were mildly hopeful of a good rain before long; but fog and rain do not go together.
The story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London takes place in Alaska on an exceedingly cold and gray day, with the anonymous main character bringing a Husky as accompany and trying to fight the low temperature in order to get to his destination. Through this story, the author tries to tell his readers that people should never be arrogant and belittle the power of nature. Using his knowledge, the main character passed through the dangerous zone of thin ice, and considered that he would be safe. However, he soon stepped into a puddle of icy water was forced to delay his journey. When the main character first started his long trip, he thought that it was cold, but didn’t think of anything particular about it except for scientific knowledge.
In ‘In Memorium (Easter 1916)’ and ‘The Cherry Trees’ the absence of lovers is a terrible loss; in ‘As the Team’s Head Brass’ their fleeting presence is a cause for optimism and hope. “I sat… and watched”: the peaceful watching of the narrator as time passes by gives this poem a thoughtful, ponderous tone. “the fallen elm / That strewed the angle of a fallow”: the narrator sits on a fallen tree that lies on unploughed (“fallow”) land. The narrator views the farmer working the field just as he views the war in this poem; from the side, at an angle to events. “Watched the plough narrowing a yellow square of charlock”: charlock, or wild mustard, is
| In The Scarlet Letter, the forest is a place of honesty while the town is a place of secrecy. The situations that occur in the forest are not to be spoken of in the market-place. ““Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!” whispered her mother. “We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”” (116). The reader will also notice how Hester lives in the outskirts of the town.