Morgan Zipoy Miss Chegwidden English III-2nd period 7 November 2012 The Analysis of The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain’s The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story regarding a man that inquires about a fellow from a southern, elderly, garrulous man, but ends up a victim of a highly trivial and impertinent story about an overconfident bloke. At the essence of the story there is a grand depiction of a heedless man that loses a gamble he never considered he would. Twain achieves the greater theme of The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; one must not believe they are invincible, through his utilization of two literary tools: irony and foreshadowing. A brief and concise examination of these two literary tools will reveal how The Notorious Frog of Calaveras County accomplishes its advising effect. The first literary tool Twain employs in his work is irony.
But at the start he got bullied and he was scared to join in with some of the boys. Coincidence and parallel incidents are used in the story to make it seem that the course is controlling everything. Stanley is able to break the family curse because he carry’s zero up the mountain and drank the water from the hole he dug and sang the song. Another coincidence is that Stanley drops the spade back down the mountain and has to waste time by going down to get it. In this story Stanley had behaved really well.
This is shown when Simon Wheeler corners the man. The narrator tells, “Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph (Twain, 526)”. The people’s mannerisms also aren’t as good because the guy who frog races with Jim cheats him. The author writes, “So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot__filled him pretty near up to his chin—and set him on the floor (Twain, 531)”. A third example of local color is how Jim Smiley says the name of his frog.
The Laugh really sets the tone for comedy in the film by adding a lighter mood to seemingly somber situations. The first instance where we come across The Laugh is right at the begging of Dobbs, Curtin, and Howard’s adventure. Dobbs and Curtin are very new to this gold hunting game and after a few days they become exhausted and frustrated, as well as amazed at Howard's stamina. Howard makes fun of them and Dobbs tells him to shut up or he'll smash his head in. Howard then goes on rambling about how stupid they are and how they’d never leave this wilderness alive without him.
Compare and contrast Waking Ned Devine, a comedy film written and directed by Kirk Jones, in a broad sense is about a man who wins the lottery after playing all his life only to die from the shock of it and have the villagers claim the ticket for themselves after his death. Although its rather… grim plot Jones used Irony in several different ways to move and shape the plot throughout the movie to one of more interest to viewers. As for Frank O’Conner’s The Drunkard, Irony was used mainly during the climax of the story to help catch the reader’s attention and to make the plot. The most obvious... And perhaps only forum of irony Kirk Jones used In the film Waking Ned Devine is situational Irony. In fact, Jones used situational irony to draw attention to the main parts of the story such as when Ned had died from winning the lottery after playing his whole life, only to die from shock shortly after.
Slumdog millionaire Marietha CH 2STUD Comprehension and discussion Questions 353-357 Prologue Comprehension 1) Ram opens the novel by saying he has been arrested for winning a game show. Explain in your own words the background of his arrest. The background of his arrest is that they think he has been cheated the entire game, how come does an orphan boy with no education, no knowledge, grew up in the slums and with a just simple job manages to win such a big game show, when the doctors and lawyers with a much higher education than him can’t even answer half of the questions he’s been able to answer. 2) Why do the television people find it impossible to believe that Ram has won fairly? Because of his background probably, no education, orphan boy, poor, a regular job, and that he is the first one in India to have won such a big game show.
The winner earns the right to marry the princess and own half of the kingdom. People tried to impress the judges of the contest by eating themselves to death, overdrinking, and other ridiculous stunts, but the man who did the most incredible was a young man who built a clock. This is no ordinary clock; figures would come forth every hour speaking and singing praise of God, Jesus and nature. “People said that nothing so incredible had ever before been seen.”(Andersen,) Everyone agreed it is the most stunning and inspired art they have
When someone new arrives on the scene (the bird), the first guy tries to take the attention away from her gift and imposes his actions/manners onto her. The frog represents a person who tells others that he knows the best way to behave. He rides the wave of success in the shadow of this new person, but he is a taker. He offers no words of encouragement; he perpetually demands that the other work harder and harder. Naive, the other person follows directions, but loses joy in the life he/she used to have—now trying to live up to someone else's expectations.
We waited until 9pm, when the sun sets, and went back to the pond. When we got there Rich, our frog guide experts, thought he heard a green frog chirp. Materials: - Cameras - Recorder/ external microphoneSU - Frog poster - Rich, our frog guide - expeditions - Flashlight - Cell phones Methods: - We use 2 quarters, hit them against each others to make a clicking noise - Clapping - We were also talking/communicating to each other - Listening - Shine flashlight - Rich made frog sounds Observations: We walked about 3-6 miles and we got to the secret pond about 8pm. We went to the secret pond but heard nothing and we waited until the sun set at 9pm. When the sun set, we went back to the pond but we got no results.
Inspired by Jenny, Forest could do anything he set his mind to. Forest was once a young boy that couldn’t walk properly that everyone bullied. That transformed into a star football player, war hero, Ping-Pong champion, shrimp boat captain, millionaire stockholder, and he also ran across the United States. When watching a great movie like Forest Gump there are many things you may not agree with, or that are frowned upon. For instance, when Bubba, Forests best friend, sacrificed his life in the Vietnam War and never gets a chance to follow his dream to be a shrimp boat captain.