There are some moments in life when people feel completely desperate; people want to achieve a goal so badly that they will expend all of their energy and will power to reach what they desire. This overwhelming sense of desperation is captured in Tomson Highway’s novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. In the novel’s opening, the reader is introduced to Abraham Okimasis, who is pushing both himself and his eight grey huskies to the limit in hopes of securing a victory in a dogsled race. With the use of literary devices such as natural diction, desperate diction, repetition, and similes, Highway dramatizes Okimasis’ experience as he endeavors to reach the finish line. Highway utilizes a plethora of natural diction in order to paint the unforgiving backdrop of Okimasis’ journey. He writes that the sky was “orange-rose-tinted” (Highway 3), in order to foreground Okimasis’ ardent passion to win the race. If the sky were blue, the setting may appear tranquil. However, the orange sky establishes an intensity that the scene may lack in its nonappearance. Highway also relates the “freezing temperatures and freezing winds” (Highway 12) that Okimasis must …show more content…
Rather than just “saying” or “speaking” to his huskies, Okimasis cries “Mush!” (Highway 5), which adds to the despondency and desperation of the scene. This diction is coupled with a simile, as Highway states that Okimasis was bellowing “like a man about to sob” (Highway 5). This exhibits to the reader that Okimasis is exerting himself so rigorously that he is almost at tears. His distressed motivation is also mirrored in his team of dogs, as they “look like insubstantial wisps of air” (Highway 15). This allows the reader to understand just how unfathomably quickly the huskies are running. This combination of desperate diction and similes further portrays the immense sense of exhaustion and incentive that is present in Okimasis’
Beyond that, Highway brings back Okimasis’s past promises with his wife to enrich the overall significance of the passage. The race is no longer a selfish desire to prove Okimasis’ superiority, but it becomes a quest for a buried love, for a miracle in his other half’s life. The author accentuates that meaningful past promises motivate one to rise through difficulties and empower him or her to achieve the present
The author uses diction in the passages to signify the effect of the author¡¯s meaning in story and often sway readers to interpret ideas in one way or another. The man in the story arrives to a ¡°[dry] desert¡± where he accosts an animal with ¡°long-range attack¡± and ¡°powerful fangs.¡± The author creates a perilous scene between the human and animal in order to show that satisfaction does not come from taking lives. With instincts of silence and distrust, both of them freeze in stillness like ¡°live wire.¡± In addition, the man is brought to the point where animal¡¯s ¡°tail twitched,¡± and ¡°the little tocsin sounded¡± and also he hears the ¡°little song of death.¡± With violence ready to occur, the man tries to protect himself and others with a hoe, for his and their safety from the Rattler. The author criticizes how humans should be ¡°obliged not to kill¡±, at least himself, as a human. The author portrays the story with diction and other important techniques, such as imagery, in order to influence the readers with his significant lesson.
In this country, the age of the internal combustion engine has found its niche, states Jack Burden. And where cars go, roads must follow. Warren uses the exposition to describe a road in detail. Highway 58 has two components. Jack notes that the road has a slick, black line down the center and a dazzling concrete slab on both sides of the line. Because of the heat and light reflecting off the slab, only the black line is clear. Since the contrasting colors of the road are specified, the archetypes of the colors can be examined. The white of the slab is associated with purity, peace, and wholesomeness, while black of the line is associated with darkness, ignorance, and even death. Warren develops tension in the symbol of the road through the
During her entire rule, Elizabeth I allowed for England to reach an equilibrium in its religious affairs through “The Elizabethan Settlement”, or her religious compromise. The Book of Common Prayer, issued by the Edward VI’s advisor Thomas Cranmer, was restored by Elizabeth....
Love is everywhere in the world and the majority of the people will do anything for love. People will push the limits to what they do for love and it just makes you wonder of how much crazy people are out there and are willing to take it to that crazy level. Social media blows up everywhere when they hear about a story that the guy or the girl went crazy in the relationship and just did something crazy. Well there are two poems that author Robert Browning wrote about love and they are called “My last Duchess” and “Porphyria's Lover” and there are a couple things that you can compare and contrast about it like both have very jealous people and another is how crazy people can get and one that’s different is how they handle it.
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The speaker scans his surroundings, “muck, pond, ditch, residue”(5), spondee, stressed words, are used to show the typical image of a distracted dog. This is further emphasized in the enjambments and caesuras at the hyphens and colons, to express the unpredictable actions of the speaker. At the beginning the speaker includes rhetorical questions, to highlight the merry, short attention span, “Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention seconds at a time. Catch? I don’t think so” (1-2). The rhyme scheme is abba ccdd efef gh and often are slant rhymes which shows the dog is not as educated as a human. The vowel ‘o’ in “or else you’re off in some fog concerning/ --tomorrow”(9-10) is an assonance and “bow-wow…”(14), is onomatopoeia illustrates the dog howling and barking at his human.
Mays, Kelly J. ""Puppy"" The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2013. N. pag. Print.
In The Princess and the Goblin, the author uses many literary devices to bring his writing to life and to illustrate specific moments in the story.
The fairytale The Beauty and the Beast is illustrated as a love story, however when looking deeper into Belle’s nature it seems to be that she is affected by several disorders throughout the film. In Beauty and the Beast, we see Disney once again sugarcoat personal problems in order to present a young audience with a one dimensional and simple female hero. Belle has clearly shown symptoms of Schizoid Personality Disorder, Stockholm Syndrome and Schizophrenia which can be treated by a biological therapeutic approach or a psychoactive drug approach and therapy.
Wilson, M. & Clark, R. (n.d.). Analyzing the Short Story. [online] Retrieved from: https://www.limcollege.edu/Analyzing_the_Short_Story.pdf [Accessed: 12 Apr 2014].
Marie Antoinette was born on November 2 1755 in Vienna, Austria. She was the fifteenth and second last child of Maria Theresa empress of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. She lived a very carefree life and received the best education which existed at that time in the 18th century. She focused her life on religious and moral principles while her brothers concentrated on academic education. After the completion of the seven years war in 1763 the leaders were involved in strengthening their position and one common way that they used was to enter into matrimonial alliances. In 1965 the French emperor Louis Ferdinand died leaving his 11 year old grandson Louis Auguste as heir to the French throne. It was at this moment that Maria Antoinette was promised in marriage to Louis Auguste. Their marriage on May 16 1770 brought Maria Antoinette to settle down in France with her husband.
Professor Faden’s Fair(y) Use video should not be considered copyrighted or plagiarized. It instead should be considered fair use for a many number of reasons. One, in the beginning of the video it explicitly states it is “not associated with, authorized by or to be confused with any product of the Walt Disney Company, or Disney Studios.”the second reason that it should not be promoted as copyright is that by showing the Sleeping Beauty’s Castle is a form of free advertising of-sorts towards Disney Studios. By others viewing this, it shows where they got the clips from (in other words it references the original source of all the content displayed). The third reason is that it is simply a mashup of clips from the movies. The final product was
The story of Snow White is a beautiful one, I will try to summarize in my own words my all-time favorite princess. Snow white the princess turned maid who has a true loving heart, beautiful and who falls in love with a charming prince. She is pure of heart, kind to all people and to animals. A prince came to visit her at the castle, both were singing happily together falling in love with every sung word. Snow Whites evil stepmother was so jealous of her beauty and happiness, that she ordered a huntsman to kill her and cut out her heart. The stepmother wanted to be the fairest in the land and would stop at nothing to get it. The Huntsman could not commit such a heinous act, so he told Snow White to run far away from her evil stepmother. Snow
Growing up I watched many princess movies. I loved all the pretty dresses and magic throughout them. These princesses all made it look so easy to be happy. With the wave of a wand or the kiss of a prince, all of your wildest dreams could come true. As I grew older, I realized that having the perfect dress and hair, glamorous castle, and all the happiness in the world would be a lot harder to obtain than the princesses made it seem. The princess culture sets a visually unrealistic standard for life with it’s flawless princesses and princes, extravagant castle lifestyles, and easily attainable happy endings.