Mrs. Younghouse AP American Literature/ Composition 22 January 2014 Analysis Essay In this passage, Debra Marquart conveys her love for the upper Midwest region, even as it resembles an uninhabitable and plain location for many who first approached it. Through her thorough use of allusions and diction to characterize the early region as plain, she is able to convince her reader of unique qualities of the region that cannot be found anywhere else. Marquart characterizes the upper Midwest as a region whose landscape is bland and dull yet very ordered and structured. She employs juxtaposition and diction to relay her characterization. Marquart utilizes juxtaposition to illustrate how the upper Midwest is bland, orderly and neat.
Author Debra Marquart in her memoir The Horizontal World is about North Dakota and how she confesses her love for it in a very indirect way. There were considerable amounts of adverse situations in her home town and visitors would think the land is plain and unimpressive. Her tone is conversational in order to assert the characterization of the Midwest. Debra employs allusion, and juxtaposition to convince the reader of the uniqueness her hometown has. Initially, Marquart quotes people who dictate positive things about the Midwest to make it sound nice.
The author takes the time to describe something that is generally pleasant to his eyes, giving a sense of serenity in his tone. The reader can also feel a certain feeling of intimacy between Momaday and the land since he was a Native American: “For my people, the Kiowas, it is and old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain.” Everything Momaday sees in the land is positive. When the author uses the term “loneliness” it is only to emphasize the beauty of the land by saying it pushes your imagination
First it represents her independence and the finance of petty community standards. The towns critiques at the very beginning of the novel fully demonstrates that its considered dignified for a woman of Janie's age to wear her hair down. Her refusal to bow down to the norms clearly reflects her strong rebellious spirit. Second her hair functions as a phallic symbol; a symbol of typically masculine power and potency, which blurs gender lines and thus threatens Jody. Third, her hair because of the straightness, functions as a symbol of white ness; Mrs.Turner worships Janie because of her straight hair and other Caucasian characteristics.
She starts with a direct quote from Major Stephen Long, who uses the word “dreary” in reference to the landscape. This helps her to highlight the point she made in the first half, as she asserted the boring nature of the area. Then, she transitions to the division of land in 1785, which found the country “so well behaved that it laid itself down into neat, even squares.” These historical references to the area not only give Marquart support for her claim, they are credible sources and people whom she can place in her memoir prove her ideas are shared by many who have described the land before. To further this point, Marquart describes her ancestors’ arrival to the area as “the end of the line;” where there was land to claim. Stating it this way allows her to point out that her ancestors did not choose to settle in the area, they were forced to by the availability of land at the time.
Henrietta truly took to heart the idea Elie portrays in realizing one's self worth and not to treat oneself or others as an abstraction. She truly embodied this value by stepping out and caring for others, along with herself. Henrietta’s cousin and dear friend Sadie confided with Rebecca “Hennie made life come alive--- bein with her was like bein with fun. Hennie just loves peoples. She was a person that could really make the good things come out of you” (Skloot, 43).
The gray colors used, the dark, cloudy sky make me feel sad and the image of this woman is something I cannot take my eyes off when looking at this painting. It makes me appreciate the fact that I have my health and two working legs. I value her strength and willingness to navigate her property without the use of a wheel chair or the assistance of another human being. She is not ashamed to do this outside and inside her home and letting the rest of the world see that her disability will not stop her willingness to get stuff
One survivor that stuck out was Margaret Hastings, as she had a personality that was funny, and serious that couldn’t be disliked. Margaret is an emotional character, however it was overpowered by her strength. When Sergeant Laura Besley died, “Margaret knew that [the shoes] came from the body of her good friend and double date partner. (...) Wearing Laura’s shoes might be the difference between life and death” (Zuckoff 75). Margaret Hastings was mourning the life of her friend, however her survival instincts and her strength overpowered the sadness coming from the loss of Laura.
In an interview she told the interviewee that she chose country because “There is so much passion and everyday life in the songs (Country Legends, 2011).” When taking a closer look at her songs we will be able to see this. Even though she was a country singer at heart she was unable to stick to her country roots in the start of her career. In 1965 Dolly signed with Monument Records. They saw Dolly as a “bubblegum pop singer” versus a country singer and encouraged her to sing as the same (Wikipedia, 2012). She did
Leslie Meshulam Mrs. Chapman Eng 101 25 March 2011 In Good Country People Flannery 0’Connor introduces the reader to a number of interesting characters. Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Hopewell, Manly Pointer and Joy/Hulga are typical of Ms. O’Conners stock of characters. Like all of her characters, these people represent the depth of the human experience. Except for Joy/Hulga, all of the characters represent themselves as good people. As in life, the characters of the story represent themselves much differently than their actions illustrate.