The Great Gatsby Chapter 2 Unlike the other settings in the book, the valley of ashes is a picture of absolute desolation and poverty. It lacks any sort glamour and lies halfway between West Egg and New York. The valley of ashes symbolizes the moral decay and reality disguised by the ‘fairytale palaces’ of the Eggs. The valley is created by industrial dumping and home to the poor and just basically is everything the ‘American dream’ isn’t. Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s ‘gigantic’ eyes gazing down from their billboard makes the reader wonder what significance they hold in the story.
By looking more in depth at this opening to the novella we should see how Steinbeck succeeds in engaging the reader. In the first line of the novella, the author writes that the place is set ‘A few miles south of Soledad’. This is an interesting and clever choice of location since ‘Soledad’ is Spanish for the word loneliness and this is one of the major themes running throughout the whole novella. However if the reader does not understand this translation in the first line of the book, a key point may be missed. It was written during the ‘Great American
Also her use of intense human emotions and themes (love, contentment, mortality, and youth) captivate readers. Such themes can be explored in greater depth through the application of various readings. Two poems that are representative of such themes and techniques are ‘The Glass Jar’ and ‘Prize-giving.’ In Prize Giving, Professor Eisenbart, after initial reluctance, has agreed to be the guest of honor at a girls school speech night. He is proud and arrogant and the submissive attention of the headmistress only serve to magnify Eisenbart's self importance. Prize-Giving is a poem that contains a rhyming pattern.
1. Read from p.26 “About halfway between…” to p.27 “… I first met tom’s Buchanan’s mistress” How does Fitzgerald vividly describe the scene? The scene took place in a place called “the valley of ashes”; this scene was described as a very poor area in this story. “Where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men”. The author specifically wrote this quote in order to emphasize the grey and dullness of the place with a little bit of exaggeration and so that the reader would have a better understanding of the place.
In Joe Wilson’s Courtship, Lawson conveys Joe’s strong emotions by giving his heart a human characteristic. “And, my heart gave a jump.” The way that Lawson portrays his characters emotion is very visually helpful through the use of personification, allowing the audience to further understand and reinforce the image from the emotion that the composer creates. In the Drover’s Wife, Lawson uses personification to reflect the landscape; to reinforce the tone and dry typical Australian outback. “She-oaks ‘sighing’ on the creek bed”. This visual image also provides a little bit of relief to the ear from the dry tone in the eye in the view.
Sang Hee Gina Park Writing 30 Prof. Lena Firestone Midterm Root Cellar The poem, “Root Cellar,” written by the poet Theodore Roethke describes the unfavorable condition of root cellar, and how the living organisms are affected from it. Throughout the poem, the author portrays the negative outlook and perspective of the ‘stinking’ cellar. He writes strongly and pessimistically that not a single organism would be able to sleep, or even live due to the molded surroundings. The description of the cellar setting is vividly and thoroughly written as it symbolizes the reality of human life. Regardless of the filthy tone that introduces the unfortunate and evil atmosphere, Roethke manages to convey that the organisms in the extenuating circumstances have become successful as they overcome the difficulties, challenge themselves to
I learned that these songs represented courtship, loss, and World War I. My favorite part of the event was having the opportunity to hear the songs and see the actual album covers. The singers were extremely talented and it was easier to understand the meaning of the songs by hearing the emotion in the singers'
In one review the author states, “In an important scene in Ray Bradbury's novella Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty (the leader of the firemen tasked with burning books in a futuristic, dystopian society) articulates for Montag (the protagonist) the fundamental idea underpinning the laws and norms of this oppressive and ignorant society” (Brown). Literature or words in general are forbidden and against the law. This loss of literacy and knowledge hurts society, yet they believe that this is for the
The prop of the Shoe-Horn is used as a unifying symbol throughout the play, symbolising the reconciliation of the women in the final scene. The stage direction depicts that it is offered symbolically to Bride as a token of the importance of their relationship. Equivalently, the poem South of My Days employs imagery enabling the readers visualisation of a metaphysical relationship between the persona and his surroundings, which is evident in the visualisation of the drover. The personification of the tablelands as ‘’bony slopes wincing under winter’’ utilises internal rhyme to draw the attention of reader’s as well as strengthening and signifying the relationship between the persona and country. The landscape is personified as ‘’lean and hungry’’ attaining a positive connotation, through the epithet, ‘’clean’’ and creates an atmosphere of vitality and freedom.
The dark and gloomy mean streets emphasise the film noir aspects present in the film, and the slow eerie Vangelis music and constant acid rain is used by Scott to create a melancholy ambience. In contrast, the Tyrell Corporation is depicted as a majestic Mayan inspired pyramid. This dreary and depressing landscape shows audiences the impact of technology and mass consumerism on the environment. Both Brave New World and Blade Runner depict chilling dystopic futures where the materialistic scientific and economic ways of thinking have been allowed to quash the humanistic morals and values, in the name of progress. Through language features and film techniques, stark pitiful visions of a future devoid of nature and humanity are presented to question