Mrs. Mitty is characterized as a flat character in my opinion. You read the story and quickly discover that she is a woman that likes things done her way and tends to nag quite a lot. Whereas Walter Mitty is not only a daydreamer, but he tends to just go through the motions which are reflected in the dialogue between he and Mrs. Mitty. Walter Mitty seemed to get distracted quite easy when performing a task and always in his daydreaming, he tends to tie in whatever task he was supposed to be doing or he was doing with whatever he is daydreaming about. For example, when he was daydreaming about being an accused witness, he was in the area of the courtroom.
They were the ones who brought the truth and beauty to the party.” (20) This metaphor is important in both describing Lucy as a character as well as describing the bond between Lucy and Ann. Lucy, like the hare, has an attitude of invincibility. She lives her life carefree, not worrying about things like paying her bills for her breast implant surgery. Her teaching syllabus is of books she has not yet read, and she is frequently procrastinating, reading on the way to her class. On the other hand Ann is more like the tortoise.
The essay starts off with Kassow telling how she would from time to time cry out how bored she would be and like every mom, she would be told to go find something to do or play outside. That was funny because when I myself was a kid. I would get told the same thing. She further starts to explain the different aspects of boredom in kids resulting in different meanings of there life. To give parents and its readers more understanding to when to notice and how to fix it when those saying how at a very young age when kids say they are bored, it often means they are no longer interested or do not enjoy the activity they are currently involved in.
Akeelah is coached by a English professor Dr. Joshua Larabee. Not only is Dr. Larabee her main support for the spelling bee, but he also becomes a friend towards Akeelah. At first there bond wasn’t quite well Akeelah wouldn’t speak proper English 100% which also upset her coach and after every day she coached with him she improved a lot better than before. Not only does Dr Larabee help out Akeelah ,but Akeelah also helps her coach break out of his shell from his past. Even though Akeelah feels protected and accepted around her coach and other former spelling bee friends she still gets mocked by her classmates and even her own mother is against her goal for the spelling bee.
This also feeds into the whole situation with Sunny the...courtesan. This whole scenario is quite ironic-- Her name is Sunny, yet she's gloomy and (as you surely must know) her branch of the private sector usually gets more, for lack of a better word, work in the evening hours. She also doesn't curse, which is rather odd for people of her profession. Unquestionably, Holden's word choice (diction) further plays into the personification of the character we love to hate. As said on page two, “...and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side,” his choice of words further portrays his maturity and age.
The Bluest Eyes Shirley Temple, the little princess. Everything a young girl hoped and dreamed to be. The perfectly blond coifed hair, porcelain skin and bright ocean blue eyes. Thinking of her was enough for every young girl hope and aspire to be just like Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple in the Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison represents the American ideal girl and a representation of the stigma related to not being white in a society.
This knowledge allows the author to effectively create dramatic irony. When Dee finds the quilts in the trunk and rubs her hands over the fabric we as readers can connect with Dee in the sense that she is educated and her perceived value of the quilt is different than that of her mother and sister, yet we can still honor Mama’s emotions those of protecting Maggie from her sisters’ callousness. Mama is naïve to the world outside of the rural south; Dee on the other hand is in living it. Mama does not understand where Dee's perceived values are coming from so the educated insight into Dee's
As your friend describes her adventures, she tells you that she was treated as a queen with her every whim waiting to be fulfilled by the staff and that during her visit to the beach, she swam in a sea of diamonds. The second description of your friend’s adventure not only gives better detail and paints a mental picture, it may also seem to put you in the moment and allow you to mentally experience some of what she has experienced. Lakoff and Johnson stated “Most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just language, but in thought and action.”
In the black community having a big butt and a tiny waist along with a good weave makes a girl, the kind of girl that boys dream about and want their girlfriends to look like. In other ethnic communities girls that look like Adrianna Lima are considered the perfect body type. Petite frame, big bust, long hair, and flawless skin is another image that teens see as
Through the various techniques incorporated throughout the short story, the image and identity of Rachel’s character begin to come alive in between the lines of the text itself. Cisneros uses the use of countless similes to show that Rachel is a shy character compared to the others. When Rachel first starts getting accused by her teacher that the red sweater is hers, she feels, “Sick inside, like the part of [her] that’s three wants to come out of [her] eyes, except [she] squeezes them shut tight and bites down on [her] teeth real hard and tries to remember that [that day] [she] was eleven”. The first time Rachel stops herself from crying but the second time her teacher accuses her, she can’t help but let all of her tears fall and she starts “crying like [she’s] three in front of everybody” in her class. For most people, it takes a lot to start crying in front of a huge crowd especially if it has to do with classmates.