'The Story of Tom Brennan' follows the lives of the Brennan family after the events of a fatal car accident, which shows how Tom the protagonist struggles to cope with his past. Similarly the song 'Father and Son' is a representation of an escape, as a man seeking to flee a life he finds suffocating, and the film 'Dead Poets Society' also explores two protagonists faced by challenges of moving into the world and dealing with issues of fear, growing up and following their dreams. All these texts reflect the experiences, ideas, knowledge and beliefs that are evident in society,and reflected throughout these texts. J.C Burke emphases many themes through out 'The Story of Tom Brennan' such as fear, relationships and growing up. These thematic concerns are echoed in the related texts therefore linking the texts and reflecting how texts may represent society.
In paragraph two, when Hanks talks about the change that he goes through and wondering if his wife will even recognize him, he uses a much more depressed state of parallelism. The big mystery that he is in almost plays as a two-faced role, separating his battle experiences from his personal life back home. In the same paragraph, there is also a small quantity of amplification. Hanks says,”But over here it’s a big, a big mystery.” This amplification amplifies the fact that what these men are going through is indeed a life-altering ordeal. When he is talking about his big mystery, he is referring to his dedication to the war.
Whether Amir is reminiscing about a missed childhood or lamenting the awful treatment of his brother, he will be constantly affected by him throughout the novel. These reflections rack his mind with guilt; as well generate enough bliss to supersede even the anguish of his ride to Pakistan. In either instance, Hassan is threaded into Amir’s being. His thoughts, recollections, and actions will always contain traces of the
The Step Not Taken In the essay The Step Not Taken, the author is a hero engaged in a personal search for answers on how to respond to others’ suffering. He experiences in his search the three stages of a monomyth; separation, struggle, and return. From the beginning of his search to the end, the author changes his views significantly, resulting in an epiphany when he finally realizes he has found the answer he had been looking for. The story begins when the author is separated from his everyday life and is placed in abnormal situation in which he must make a decision. When the man in the elevator with him starts to cry, the author is faced with the decision of either helping the man or giving him his space.
Through the use of writing in the first person and repetition in the text Perfect, the composer demonstrates their difficulty in looking back at their father’s brashness and lack of acceptance and how this played a primal role in their physical and emotional journey throughout life. The use of the first person prefix, gives the audience a direct line into the
Monica Morgan Professor Broeckel English 241 October 12, 2009 Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”: The Tale of Two Literary Styles “Ceremony” is a tale of a young man’s struggle with coming to terms with himself and the present state of his Indian people. Being of bi-racial descent and the struggle between beliefs in old and new traditions are the root problems that manifest themselves within the protagonist’s graphic mental and physical illnesses. Leslie Marmon Silko prepares us for a harmonious resolution within self and tradition by weaving poetry and prose together. Throughout the story the free verse poetry either sets up the following prose or completes or explains it, showing that two completely different styles can co-exist, or indeed depend upon each other to complete
In the book I read Blood Is Thicker by Paul Langan , there’s an on going central message and theme of trying to do what’s right in a situation that’s tough. Also throughout the book the main character is always confused and can sometimes lose himself in high pressure situations. A short summary to the book is the boy Hakeem Randall is faced with a lot of problems. It all starts when his Dad is diagnosed with cancer and that sparks the theme of sadness that constantly shows through the story. Once his Dad has gone through so many medical procedures the family has no money left and they are forced to move in with their uncle in Detroit.
ENGLISH STANDARD-INTO THE WORLD As the story begins 21 weeks after the accident Tom is in a state of shock and grief. He is constantly numb with despair. He restrains all his pain silently inside and is reluctant to continue his life shown through the statement “Bad thoughts... suffocated any hope I had of getting my life back.” The uses of flashbacks show his memories of Daniels previously erratic behaviour, “He just got away with it”. He constantly recalls the accident, “I was sucked deeper into that long black tunnel”. When Tom received an email from Matt, he deletes it, as he cannot express the overpowering emotions he kept inside.
In Leslie Marmon Silko’s postmodern and Native American novel, Ceremony, she illustrates the gradual and painful recovery of a Laguna veteran from World War II named Tayo, the main character. Tayo goes on a difficult quest to search for a metaphorical antidote for his physical, psychological, cultural, and spiritual pain, brought upon him by the war. In doing so, Silko demonstrates cultural conflicts within his quest as Tayo encounters a society segregated by race and culture. Tayo’s quest is characterized by his post traumatic stress syndrome, which puts him through an enormous amount of uncomfortable emotions. Threw Silko’s character Tayo, she demonstrates her understanding of multi-cultural differences to illustrate the controversial conflict
Baldwin organized his essay with a literary device of starting and ending with his father as the subject matter topic. Baldwin completes a long circle of personal narratives with his father as book ends. The different stories he narrates are justifications and explanations of the overwhelming rage and hatred that permeate his life. The function of the stories are to engage the reader into some detente or understanding of the incessant pressures on Baldwin. The stories are autobiographical episodes of his life such as his 3 firings with the NJ RR.