This means he is described as fragile and precious because of his injuries, with his punctured lung described as delicate as “parachute silk”. These images show Laura’s tenderness for her husband and how she wants to protect him. Similarly, Scannel also chooses imagery of war for what is really only a minor childhood incident. He refers to the spears of the nettles, calling them a “regiment” and, when he has cut them down and they have grown back again, he refers to them as “tall recruits”. This war and battle imagery used in the poem helps the reader to understand deeper, about the metaphorical meaning of this poem; that it is not just about comforting his son from the pain of the nettles, but also about the future pain of which he knows he will experience in his life.
However, through the simple act of planting a tree a person's life is forever remembered. A father is burying his first-born son. By burying hair and the umbilical cord with the tree, the tree becomes the son. This unification of man and nature becomes the pattern and running theme through the poem. The unification is presented through personification.
In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world. The narrator was not satisfied with his brother, which resulted in the horrible things he thought about him. Brother said that “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable…” As a result, the narrator enjoyed torturing Doodle, threatening to abandon him multiple times. He even took Doodle to see the casket that was built for him, and forced him to touch it. The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother.
“Red Convertible.” “The Red Convertible” by Louise Edrich is one of the saddest stories I have ever read. It is about two Chippewa boys, brothers and the bonds of family and friendship they share. The story is told in the first person by one brother, Lyman Lamartine, and focuses on his relationship with his brother (or half brother) Henery Junior. Although they are brothers they are different in many ways. For example, they do not look alike, and the narrator states “we look so different” (236).
The man always thought his partner loved him back equally as much as he loved her, perceiving almost a perfect relationship to the reader. Not only do we come to the conclusion that she was unfaithful, we begin to wonder if what we know about the protagonist could be "deceiving". Second, Guy de Maupassant presents deception not only through the actions of the living, but also the dead. Later on in the story, the protagonist heads to the cemetery to spend the night weeping on his partners grave. Furthermore, one of the crosses at the cemetery said "Here lies Jacques Olivant, who died at the age of fifty-one.
“At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things” (Obrien 27). Another theme is fear of shame as motivation. Tim O’Brien experiences this himself when he is on the boat with Elroy. He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it.
Amir seeks redemption for his disloyalty to his best friend when he was a child, Hassan. Because of his fearfulness during Hassan’s rape, his betrayal of Hassan after the rape, and his committing of the worst sin in Afghani culture, Amir has to take himself on a long and weakening journey for his ultimate goal of total redemption that will eventually take him back to his violent and war-torn home country. When they were young, Amir and Hassan were really best friends; the two of them were inseparable. They used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of Amir’s father’s house and annoy their neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror”. Even though the two young boys were of different social classes and ethnicities, they were able to remain best friends no matter what problems would face them.
Deforestation is caused by big logging companies coming into the forest, cutting down all the trees, and stripping the land of the remaining vegetation. This also leaves the land lacking in nutrients to hold the top soil together and also opens up the land to the wind and rain which can leave the land devastated with gullies caused by runoff of rain water. It would seem to me that the real two causes of soil erosion would be the wind because it can blow the top soil into a large dust cloud that covers the land. And the rain because it carries top soil away in the runoff, this runoff can cause streams and rivers to overflow causing flooding and more
(1) Rama is portrayed as the ideal son, husband and brother. (Lecture3_hinduism; week 2) In Ramayana, Rama risks his life to save his wife Sita from the evil demon Ravana. He proves that love and compassion can overpower all the evil powers in the society. (2) In another scenario, Dasaratha a heartbroken father is forced to exile Rama because of an earlier promise made to one of his wives. (Oxtoby/Segal, pg#285) Rama goes to the forest for fourteen years without questioning or rebelling his father.
With Arthur getting killed by Absalom, Jarvis faces great difficulty in his life and shows he is the most complex throughout the story. Jarvis giving back to the people of Ndotsheni shows empathy of his son dying and learns that tragedy is a part of life, but can be overcome by focusing on what is good in life. The journey taken by Kumalo to Johannesburg was a good decision because he learns that just because he was a priest, he is human and cannot be perfect. Stephen receives a letter from a priest named Msimangu that states “…Her name is Gertrude Kumalo, and I understand she is the sister of the Rev. Stephen Kumalo, St. Mark’s Church, Ndotsheni.