In the article, Blood Red Night, author Lauren Tarshis' point of view is focused mostly on the destruction that the fire caused. I know this because most of the ideas that she conveys in the text use words that have to do with destruction. For example, in the section "A Choking Fog", the author states, "The blazes burned hundreds of acres of forestland and incinerated hundreds of homes and shops in nearby communities." This sentence uses several words such as blazes and incinerated which illustrate for the reader the destruction that happened during the peshtigo fire. Another example of when the author mentions the destruction that the Peshtigo fire caused was in the section "Sheets of Flame" when she states, "By morning, more than a billion
In the Heat of the Night takes place during the civil rights movement. Chief Gillespie in conjunction with the racist residents of Sparta, do not welcome outsiders, especially not a black man, which is obvious upon Virgil Tibbs unjust arrest at the train station. Gillespie appears as a corrupt, prejudiced, and narrow-minded police chief, yet he and Virgil continue working collectively to solve Colbert’s murder. Chief Gillespie appears to experience self-isolation and loneliness which he expresses in the scene in his house with Virgil. For example, Gillespie asks Tibbs if he has a family or if he is or has been married. Chief Gillespie reacts to Tibbs’ responses as a consolation of pity, yet they similarly share a common bond of employment
In the text “Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about their Religious and Cultural Perspectives” by Inés Talamantez, the author discusses the role of ceremonies and ancestral spirituality in various Native American cultures, and elaborates on the injustices native women face because of their oppressors.
The four elements of nature - fire, water, earth and air - are frequently mentioned in association with Robert. Just like his family life, these destructive forces of nature are responsible for impacting the thoughts and mindsets of not just Robert but many characters throughout this novel. The four elements are portrayed in a positive way or negative way depending on the atmosphere. Fire would be a good example of this because it is a common element which has both positive and negative effects on the characters. This is shown by the quote, “The next thing he knew, he was naked and wrapped in a blanket and seated by a fire” (Findley, 89). Here, fire brings warmth and much-needed respite to all the characters that are seated around it. Even in the chaos of the war, the characters are able to feel comfortable and amuse each other. This way, the author creates a positive image of fire. Conversely, fire is illustrated in a negative way through this quote, “She told him the man (Captain Villiers) had been trapped in a fire and his vocal cords destroyed when he’d swallowed the flames” (Findley, 107). Here, the author emphasizes on the destruction that fire can cause especially during war. The invention of the flamethrower is very reminiscent of this. The mayhem caused by the element “Earth” is noteworthy. The dugouts that Robert resides in have become a “second home” for him. Meeting Poole, Rodwell, Devlin and Bonnycastle here makes Robert feel accepted and secure. When the landmines start to blow up near the dugouts, the author uses strong words to emphasize the demolition as revealed here, “His mouth and nostrils were clogged with Earth” (Findley, 121). Here, Findley’s signifies that Robert’s life is in peril caused by the collapsing dugouts. Robert is deeply disturbed as he has again lost a safe
...rown puts it “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and a candle to help” (Esquivel 115), in Tita’s case the candle was an actual candle and the fire took the form of real fire, in order to bring the extended metaphor or fire and matches as a symbolic representation of the soul to a magical and passionate climax. Esquivel uses fire to symbolically represent passion and love, which in just like fire, is not without negative effects. Passion and love can be used as a tool of spite, as it was by the ghost of Mama Elena or it can be pure bliss. Either way, the exaggeration of the attributes and pivotal role of fire as the driving force of life illustrate a deeper truth about the dualistic nature of passion.
Bradbury first depicted fire as a hurtful force through Montag, a fireman, who burn books. With the converted mentality of his culture, “it was [Montag’s] pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (3). Montag’s culture sees burning as an enjoyment; however, the fire portrayed here demonstrates the destruction of knowledge and personality. While Montag’s profession brings him joy he does not understand that burning is the most permanent form of destruction. He is oblivious to his governments’ strong desire to eliminate the ideas and knowledge that books hold. In this society, where ignorance is bliss and their phobia of unhappiness controls all aspects of life, people believe that their destructive fire “is bright and…clean”, as it is used as a means to keep themselves oblivious and happy (60). In addition, Bradbury establishes the difference in the symbolisms of fire by naming part one of his novel “The Hearth and the Salamander”. The hearth is the fireplace of the home and is the most positive image of fire. This fire contributes warmth and restores relationships between people. The salamander, the symbol of the firemen, and who personify fire’s destruction is contrasted with the hearth, which represents restoration.
Before starting with any discussion upon the analysis of stains and the more difficult concepts, it is important to understand the blood as a living entity and a source of utmost importance for individuality, in case of forensic sciences.
Wallace Terry has collected a wide range of stories told by twenty black Vietnam veterans. The stories are varied based on each experience; from the horrific to the heart breaking and to the glorified image of Vietnam depicted by Hollywood. Wallace Terry does not insinuate his opinion into any of the stories so that the audience can feel as if they are having a conversation with the Vietnam Veteran himself. Terry introduces the purpose of the book by stating, “ Among the 20 men who portray their war and postwar experiences in this book. I sought a representative cross section of the black combat force.”(p. XV) Although the stories in this book were not told in any specific order, many themes became prominent throughout the novel such as religion, social, and health.
Hazel Motes tirelessly focuses on the idea that redemption from Jesus Christ is a poorly constructed illusion; however, O’Connor uses symbolic figures to disprove Hazel Motes’s theory of Christ’s redemption. The title Wise Blood has multiple symbolic meanings, but one of the meanings focuses on the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ. Humanity sees Christ’s sacrifice as an act that “redeemed humans from the effects of Original Sin so that all who repent of serious sins could enter paradise after physical death” (“Flannery O’Connor” 22). However, Hazel does not see Christ’s death as this way. He feels that Christ did not truly die for the sins of people, and he finds the idea of Christ dying for the sins of everyone in the world to be outrageous. He asks several people about why anyone would ever die for someone else’s shortcomings. It seems as though Hazel thinks that he knows everything and tries to prove this to numerous people. Although major
. Compare and contrast how the protagonists of RAISE THE RED LANTERN and BLIND SHAFT struggle against a hostile and oppresive social structure. What are the moral costs of this struggle? In particular, how does it affect how the protagonist or protagonists treat other people?
Lights”. Even today, decades later, these issues are still very prominent in our society. Much like
Throughout recorded history, fires have been known to cause great loss of life, property, and knowledge. The Great Fire of London was easily one of the worst fires mankind has ever seen causing large scale destruction and terror. Samuel Pepys described the fire as “A most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made.” (Britain Express 1).
In conclusion, Fire has 3 different meanings which lead you to new thinking and insight towards the world. Fire represents change which is shown through Montag’s symbolic change from using fire to burn knowledge into using fire to help him find knowledge; fire can represent knowledge as demonstrated through Faber, and fire can represent rebirth of knowledge as demonstrated through the phoenix. Overall fires representation is not one of destruction but one of knowledge, thinking, new insight, and acknowledgment.
The reader gets a vivid image of a huge industrial city built in “valleys huge of Tartarus”(4). This reference to Tartarus is saying that the city is virtually in a hell-like area. The image of hell is further exemplified by the line “A flaming terrible and bright”(12), which conjures up thoughts of fire and heat. The reference to hell and flames adds to the theme because it brings to light the idea of destruction and nature burning away. Similar to what happens when there is a forest fire. The fire is not just coming out of nowhere though, it is coming “from out a thousand furnace doors”(16), which furthers the idea of industrialization. There are no longer humans in this city which is evident because when talking about the beings in the city Lampman wrote “They are not flesh, they are not bone,/ They see not with the human eye”(33-34). This part of the poem is important because if there are no more humans left it is easy to assume that the only driving force of these “Flit figures that with clanking hands”(31) is work. They work to make the city bigger and to build more than they already
The Color of Blood This web of deceit, violence and political maneuvering all starts after a revolution threatens to destroy the regime of an Eastern European nation around 1987. After closely escaping an assassination and a kidnapping, Cardinal Bem finds himself a fugitive with enemies on every side. Terrorists, soldiers and even members of the proletariat will try and stop him at all costs. He will find his true friends and discover the ones who are simply out to get him.
She constructed her argument with the help of a fable having an initial state of harmony and productivity, then a drastic and profound fall silencing rebirth of new life with the introduction of chemical poisons. Then, she dramatically exposes the culprit behind the destruction, humans. However, it is just a story; she explains it has a thousand counterparts all over the world. The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon nature is the contamination of air, earth, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. It took eons of time to produce, to develop, to evolve and to diversify life and reach a state of adjustment and balance with its surroundings. However, the situati...