In both of these stories the authors use imagery to help drive home their main points, although in a somewhat different manner. In “Desiree’s Baby" Chopin uses imagery to hint at the “truth” and lead up to the ironic ending. While in Carver’s “Cathedral” imagery is used to reinforce his main theme of don’t judge a book by its cover. Now we will take a closer look at imagery, and examine the intricacies of how these great authors use it in their works. So what is imagery?
If whatever happens in a form of literature is the opposite of what takes place, then the reader just experienced situational irony. "I've quit my job at Donnegan's Plastic Box Company." "....I knew of it when Mr. Donnegan showed me the petition." This would have been least expected from the reader for many reasons. He would believe that Charlie would have gotten a promotion or even a raise because Charlie had saved his manager, Mr. Donnegan, money, and he was also at work every day, unless he had surgery.
He states how “All that day he traveled, laying his course by the rounding sun.” (7). Thus making it seem like he has been traveling for such a long time but the ending contradicts this by stating, “Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge” (8). This is the ultimate shocker as it was portrayed the Peyton has been traveling but to the reader’s despair he hasn’t even escaped his fate of being hung. Thus making it seem like since Peyton couldn’t handle all the distress around him that he fabricates a long story but is cut short by his untimely
Plus people on the East and West Coast probably didn’t hear about it for a while because it happened in Kansas it would have taken forever to get the word to Oklahoma. Another way this novel could be a fiction book is how the murderers got away with something like this for so long before the police finally caught them. Seriously who has heard of somebody who just walks away without leaving anything that the police can trace, and they drove to their home town, stayed there for a day or two and then went to go live down in Mexico far far from Kansas.
Snodgrass who examined Poe’s body feels certain that alcoholism was the reason why Poe had perished and then started to spread rumors at his temperance lectures in the early 1850’s that this is why he died. Another report of Poe’s death came from the hospital from J.P. Kennedy’s diary and read: “On Tuesday last Edgar Allan Poe died here in the hospital from the effects of debauch.” Debauch meaning an indulgence of drinking. But the problem with this rumor is that “The doctors checked his liver and found that even though he was a binge drinker that his liver was fine.” On the night that he was brought into the hospital he was examined very thoroughly and this adds even more of a question to how and why he died. There is an instance where people fight over what happened. “Dr.
The first event in the climax is when Paul, eventually after understanding that Ellen was right, found that Ellen and the baby has disappeared from the house. The fact that Ellen and the baby disappearing from the hosue reflects isolation, since women and their babies in that period were meant to stay at home only. The isolation represented in the climax is caused from misunderstanding that occurs before in the story, i.e. when Ellen and Paul quarrel. The second event in the climax is when Paul found Ellen outside with their dead baby.
Through any and every writing, an author has a point hidden within literary elements. With literary elements authors develop a style to their writing to prove the point they intended from the beginning. There are many various literary elements to make up a rhetorical situation, to develop a side of ideas, some very commonly used in especially rhetorical situations. Like allusion, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, hypophora, and commonly simile. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau speak of and develop similar government opinions and points, through their interpretations of Civil Disobedience through literary elements; they prove similar points of civil disobedience but with their own style of writing and use of rhetorical devices.
Roger Tschida 9-12-2012 Professor Honey Response Paper #1 Literature is greatly varied in style, taste, and purpose, but a major component of the detail and often the symbolism in any story is the choice of colors for the characters and scenery. While the other four authors use some color for simple descriptions and detail, Bierce and Gilman each take a single color and focus on it to symbolize their view of the topic about which they wrote. Bierce chooses the color gray to signify the cross between fantasy and reality, and Gliman uses yellow to dig into the mind and investigate the psychological trauma she endured earlier in life. Of all the authors read so far, Willa Cather has by far written the most boring, over-detailed stories.
As a struggle to find his acceptance, he tries to get Daisy. Not only because he loves her, but if he had her, he would be the most acceptable person in both East and West Egg. It was said in the book that Daisy and Tom had attended one of Gatsby’s parties in Chapter 6. Nick tells Tom that Gatsby isn’t a bootlegger, but Tom had previously stated shortly before saying, “I didn’t hear it. I imagined it.
However, they have some different ways to access to the main character and they have their own differences and similarities on how those point of views effect readers through the style, character development and content of “It Wasn’t Me”. There are also some advantages and disadvantages of the two point of views. In “It Wasn’t Me”, the author tends to write the story with the third person point of view rather than first person point of view. The author mostly wrote the story from Ronda’s point view. The use of the third person point of view shows us how the writer tries to get into the heads of some characters in the story, like; (third person plural: they), Mum, Dad, and Ronda.