Rhetorical Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, illustrates the unexplained aging process that begins the day of Benjamin’s birth. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to reveal the challenges individuals face as society tries to mold them to its own ideals. He exposes the hardships forced upon Benjamin, and adopts a sentimental tone allowing readers to relate to his writing. Fitzgerald also uses concrete language, pathos and dialogue. Fitzgerald uses concrete language in his writing to evoke an emotional response, and provide readers with a connection to his writing.
Stewart Sullivan once said, “The lasting imprint of a man’s life is the marks he leaves on others.” When faced with hardships during your existence in society, the way you cope with the challenges often lead to how you’re remembered. Many people nowadays are brought up with knowledge of wanting to be remembered in a positive way, whereas the others are not usually remembered once they are gone from society. Have you ever thought about when you’re deceased if you would be remembered for your actions and the imprint you made on others? A Lesson Before Dying, written by Earnest Gaines, agrees with the idea of changing your position in society for the better of your peers, such as how both Grant and Jefferson did in this novel. A Lesson Before Dying is a story based on race and the stance of civilization.
In fact, reality leaves a lot to the imagination and mind to process what is concrete into something more dimensional. People’s surroundings contribute to the balance that exists between their imagination and their sense of reality. In MacLeod’s “The Boat”, he depicts the relationship between the harsh, unforgiving landscape, and how it changes in the characters mind. The physical landscape of Cape Breton determines the lives of those who live there. The father in this story
Our Face: In The Face Of Death Personal desire will ultimately supersede the desire to conform when faced with a life changing or life threatening situation. In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s short story “Greasy Lake”, this idea is best represented by the narrator and the characters of Digby and Jeff. They prove this point by their acts of conforming to fit in with each other, denying to conform with their parents, making the same mistakes as each other, and ultimately deciding on the lifestyle they want to live. In “Greasy Lake”, the protagonist character known only as the narrator presents a detailed account of the lifestyle he lives alongside his two friends: Digby and Jeff. Initially, he describes the three of them as “bad” characters, while giving an ironically un-bad description of the activities that entice them.
I warn’t lonesome now” (pg 49) This quote is important because it is a key detail that indicates the feelings of Huck when he sees Jim at the beginning of his trip. It reveals to us that Jim fills a void in Huck’s life by providing him with companionship in their adventures. In conclusion Twain examines the theme of friendship to show us that friendship makes Huck’s decision of whether to help Jim escape slavery so difficult. And that Huck makes several comments throughout the book that let us know how seriously he takes his friendships. Furthermore, throughout the novel one discovers another theme that is presented in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it introduces the theme
It often helps to set up the backdrop for a story. Setting may serve many purposes in a novel or story such as: overview of characters surroundings, may help the reader to understand why a character does certain things, or act the way that they do, social influences may influence a characters behavior, may foreshadow events, and it may put the reader in a certain frame of mind and evoke emotional responses from the reader. The stories that we have studied in this course are famous Canadian Literature and the role that setting plays in the novel; country versus city, urban versus rural and European versus colonial. These differences can be seen the in novels As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross, The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler and The Diviners by Margaret Laurence. All of these authors lived in rural areas which strongly influenced their writing and the work that they produced; Ross lived in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan; Buckler lived in Dalhousie, Nova Scotia and Laurence lived in Neepawa, Manitoba.
Family is a strong source of belonging but experiences and actions of family can also challenge a person’s sense of belonging. These ideas are represented strongly in Tara June Winch’s novel ‘Swallow the Air’ and are also present in the picture book ‘The Sound of The Sea’ by Jacqueline Harvey & Warren Crossett and the song ‘Dust Bowl Dance’ By Mumford and Sons. These texts explore how an individual’s experiences can both challenge and enrich a sense of belonging in the larger world. A large part of belonging is memory; it helps us to maintain or bring back some sense of belonging when it is all but gone, either through remembering something or someone that gave you a sense of belonging or a time when you belonged. In ‘Swallow the Air’ May experiences memories of her mother; “Mum’s stories would always come back to this place, to the lake”.
Characters from the book that emerged together through the six different but interlinked stories, were described as being ‘aware’ of their moral values. Therefore, this enables equality between morality with the arrangement of rewards and punishments, or with a system of right and wrong actions across time. Each character are representatives of different themes (such as the theme ‘injustice’) that due to the context of each story, act as catalysts to the rising towards the climax of each passage, and as a whole, they create a moral message that is transmitted to the reader. The moral message in this novel is clearly stated. The author has described it in a narrative but realistic manner rather than presenting his personal point of view.
Discuss 3 characters who affect the life of Changez throughout The Reluctant Fundamentalist. In which ways do they affect him? Throughout Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, protagonist Changez encounters a variety of characters who significantly alter his life experience. When meeting Erica for the first time, Changez knows in his gut that she’s going to play an important role, and he was right- riding a rollercoaster of emotions and changes. Secondly, Changez’s managing director at Underwood Samson, Jim, is described as similar to Changez in several ways and these similarities are the building blocks for their relationship as the story progresses.
The purpose of chapter one, Fitzgerald introduces the reader the key theme of the novel, which will become prevalent throughout: the division between gender and social class. Furthermore, Fitzgerald introduces us to the major characters through Nick’s narration and perception. The first character we are introduced to is Nick Carraway, the narrator. The reader immediately knows that they are reading from his observation and perspective and so the novel is written through Nick’s memory. Fitzgerald aims to build a sense of trust and so portrays characters as well educated and enlightened, as such that Nick is ‘inclined to reserve all judgments’ and being ‘privy to the secret grief of wild, unknown men’.