“Bombs bursting in air. They can blind us, like fireworks at the moment of explosion. If we close our eyes and turn away, all we see is their fiery image. But if we have the courage to keep our eyes open and welcoming, even bombs finally fade against the vastness of the starry sky” (214). Life is about lessons, knocking down innocence and happiness challenging one to keep standing back up.
Rachel Farmer College Writing Professor Benson November 18, 2014 Standing Up to Life “Bombs bursting in air. They can blind us, like fireworks at the moment of explosion. If we close our eyes and turn away, all we see is their fiery image. But if we have the courage to keep our eyes open and welcoming, even bombs finally fade against the vastness of the starry sky” (214). Life is about lessons, knocking down innocence and happiness challenging one to keep standing back up.
A successful story should be something that makes you think and wonder how you can relate to it in your life. In ‘Looking for Alibrandi, I think, many people who read it can relate too some of the feelings felt by Josie. Some of the common relations to the book people have are, John Barton’s suicide and how Josie grieved or to the hilarious situation of ‘the Hot Pants magazine quiz’ at the beginning of the book and how Josie attempted to get out of being caught, as everyone would try to do in her situation. ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ I think was successful of achieving the expectations that a reader expects in a novel. One of the expectations of a successful novel is ‘Entertainment’ this is needed to keep a reader amused and not bored with the book.
She writes, “A bomb drops. All the windows rattle” (937). The use of syntax, and short sentences, Woolf tries to bring the audience into the story. These short phrases depict the destruction and sudden death to the victims, but also the sudden realization to the women at home that they truly need help. Furthermore, Woolf uses more rhetorical questions when se says, “Why not bury the head in the pillow, plug the ears, and cease the futile activity of idea-making?
Freud is well known for his theory on a mother and her son, or the Oedipus Complex. Huxley ties this theory into the relationship Linda has with her son. Aldous Huxley’s ability to grab the audience’s attention with his outrageous, yet shockingly true allegations of a fictitious world, created a vision of a futuristic lifestyle unthought-of prior to Brave New World. With the use of symbolism the audience is able to make a connection between the world they are accustomed to, and the frightful reality of the future. Huxley’s
Crystal Grooms Grooms 1 Dr. Baker AP Literature 18 September 2012 Thoughtful Laughter In order to write an essay about thoughtful laughter one must define it. Defining thoughtful laughter is as easy as reading the word its self. Thoughtful laughter causes immediate laughter from the reader; in addition to entertaining and amusing one it also makes one think about the meaning and application. A comedy achieves thoughtful laughter when the first response from the audience is laughter, because the situation is amusing, then leaves the audience thinking about the theme of the show. The amusing yet thoughtful comedy, Aristophanes Lysistrata is a great example of a comedy that carries thoughtful laughter.
I could only read a line but slowly, I felt the words slip away from my head, leaving only a blur in my head while trying to memorize the words. But even when it was blurry, the feeling of the line blazed as if it was stamped there with fiery steel. It’s such a pleasure to be able to crush the books with such wild devotion, it felt like I was going to go insane…everything was so bright and beautiful that I wasn’t even able to think about anything else. I couldn’t help myself from feeling the excitement of doing it again tomorrow. Guy Montag Today… Dear Diary, While I was walking home, I felt a sudden calm of something around the corner, moving in the starlight towards the house.
The producer uses visual metaphors to help express the damage of Franks risk taking. For example in the first bit of the movie, Frank pulls out a lighter and lights a cigarette. This represents many different things such as playing with fire, which relates back to his risk taking or to his profession as a firefighter. But it can also represent his future actions of messing with the space time continuum and its effects on his son’s life in the future. Other foreshadowing also takes place in the same scene, when Julie, Frank’s wife, says that Johnny, Frank’s son, needs to know he is behind him, the producer is referring to the end of the movie when Frank shoots the murderer, saving Johnny’s life.
O'Brien once describes his friend Rat Kiley's stories, which were not lies, per se, but he “wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt” (O'Brien 85). By creating the character of Rat Kiley and making him out to be a storyteller who enjoys lying to make his stories more dramatic, O'Brien succeeds in relaying the confusion of the war. Because of his description of Kiley's storytelling, there is a brief sense of surrealism within the passage that brings out the true nature and role of fiction of war. Later in the novel, O'Brien replays a conversation between two of his friends, in which Henry Dobbins claims that “I do like churches. The way it feels inside.
This is a fun dramatic story that lets the audience laugh and cry with Janie and her friends, but fails to deliver in the way of explaining the characters actions through the analysis of human nature. To decide what side you agree with you have to get the book and read it for yourself, I’m sure afterwards you will feel exactly as I