She created a new life for herself after learning from her mistakes. • It would be pertinent to mention the Great Burning, and how this final destruction of all things related to the plague, brings about the end of the plague itself and the opportunity to LIVE and begin anew. • The end of the novel mentions nature reasserting itself and regrowing in the village – this is a visual symbol for readers that Brooks believes in a rebirth for the town. Anna also mentions how people are rebuilding and forging new friendships – such as the friendship between Jane Martin and Merry Wickford. • The babies at the end – we move from Aphra telling Anna it is “folly” to love an infant, to Anna finding new life with her daughters at the end – “This is my miracle”.
“Oh beautiful” (690). She is now filled with hope. It’s like she is getting out. Apart of her is spreading and growing. She starts shedding her gardening “costume”, gloves, men’s hat, that was covering her up and we begin to see her as pretty.
This shows that the girl’s depressed and miserable state of mind has finally been lifted and she is finally able to see the bright side of life as she completes her inner and imaginative journey. Shaun Tan’s text “The Red Tree” clearly shows that journeys can be bring about hope, renewal and inspiration. The girl has experienced a journey that allowed her to achieve self-discovery in her life becoming renewed with passion and inspiration which is shown through the use of visual images and short narrating text. Hence, the underlying message is that although the journey of gaining a new sense of self may seem overwhelming, we should not abandon ourselves as there is always a glimmer of hope that will lead to
Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”. This shows that the little girl could be angry or has maybe been crying. I think Jenkins has used ‘dissenter’ to identify Margaret as different from everyone else suggesting her loneliness and isolation from the others. Loneliness is a theme throughout ‘Flowers’ which shows that life can be very unpleasant especially if you are alone. The theme of loneliness continues when, after Miss Laing tells the children to go pick flowers they all “scamper off” but the little girl doesn’t.
As she looks around the room, she recalls that “it was in this chamber he,” her uncle, “breathed his last” (19). As she stands there recalling this fact, she finds “the room is chill…it was silent” (19). The low temperature of the room symbolizes discomfort and fear, maybe even the presence of a ghost; however, the temperature is not the only quality that gives the room its haunting feature, it is also the color scheme. The room is a mix of the defiant color of red and the solemn shade of white. They contrast with each other well because they both represent different elements.
16 April 2012 Janie’s Journey: Life Lessons Through Relationships In Zora Neale Hurston’s literary work, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” the main character of the story Janie Crawford states people have to “find out about living ’fuh themselves” (Hurston, 192). This statement describes her life perfectly. Janie lived her life with a fervor and a fullness that many of us could only wish for. In Chapter Two, Hurston describes how Janie perceived her life. “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone.
He also says ‘wait’ll you see Curley’s wife’. The word ‘wait’ suggests that Curley’s wife is worse than Curley himself. When she first appears in the story, her ‘full rouged lips’ makes us associate her with the colour red which reminds us of the girl in Weed that caused them trouble. This creates foreboding as to what might happen as we know that she will be a big part of the novella. At the end of Curley’s Wife’s life, Steinbeck presents her in a way that makes us feel sympathy for her.
Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem. Their description as “frail” and “melancholy”
Isolation isn’t the Key to Success Loneliness and feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty (Mother Teresa). This quote states that being unseen makes someone terrible inside. By that person feeling terrible it puts a burden for whatever they do. In the novel “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck, there were many themes and motifs. The theme that exemplified the most in the novel was the theme of loneliness, which took apart Curley’s wife.
“The Yellow Wallpaper”: Unknown Insanity The 19th century was filled with a lot of unknown illness and disorders. Charlotte Perkins-Gilman chooses to write about the unknown illness in which some women faced at the time. The 19th century was also a time where women had fewer rights than men. This may have contributed to one of the ways the story is set for the narrator’s insanity. The narrator’s insanity is caused by her husband, the treatment prescribed for her, and her obsession with the yellow wallpaper.