The unveiling of a piece of artwork symbolises the gradual revelation of the girl’s feelings. At the beginning of the text she seems to have no emotions, “Live. Survive. They’re the same thing” and “she thought the thoughts of a machine.” She is portrayed as robot-like and is not in possession of feelings or vulnerability. However, over the course of the story, she progressively gives in to her overwhelming, pressing emotions. “She took off her watch and bikini and lay in the sun” and “She ran naked down to the water.” This can be perceived as the beginning of the exposing of her emotion; her nakedness introduces a sense of vulnerability, a quality not associated with machines. In addition, the leaving behind of her watch reinforces the idea of the deterioration of her ‘robotness’. The watch is a symbol of time and regulation, the girl choosing to abandon it, represents her no longer needing to rely on regulation and control. By the end of the story, her true emotions had surfaced, “No, you old bitch” and “She cut through the water and filled up cold with anger”. She is no longer machine–like and automatic. This final display of emotion is represented through the uncovering of the artwork. The man whom is uncovering the piece symbolises the mother. It essentially was the girl’s mother who filled her daughter’s head with her “stupid, recurring statements” and as a result, emotion. Furthermore, the exposure of her emotions coinciding with her death implies that, although emotions are stereotyped as something beautiful to share, her emotions were engulfing and devastating. In conclusion, the disintegrating of her ‘robot-like’ armor is represented through the uncovering of a piece of artwork.
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...on social conventions. In addition red signifies energy and passion, the girl be identified as a symbol of these values. “Harder. Go. Do. Cut. Harder.” Juxtaposed against her afraid, depressed mother, her energy is emphasised. In addition, dedication is a recurring value held by the girl throughout the text. “Every night after school, the girl trained in the swimming squad”, “Be an engine.” She is portrayed as greatly desiring and as a result exceedingly determined. Similarly, ambition is a prominent value obtained by the girl. “Be an engine…don’t think, breathe!” and “Pushing out, she knew that as soon as she was old enough she would leave her mother.” She is portrayed as immensely focused. Therefore, many values and attitudes are explored in this text, such as determination, anger, aspiration, desperation and evil, all of which are represented by the colour red.
Many poets use different types of figurative language to express themselves and convey a message, theme, or idea. In the poem The Day Brushes Its Curtains Aside, by Jimmy Santiago Baca, he describes a man in prison by using figurative language. Reading this poem has helped me grasp a deeper understanding of different ways an author can incorporate figurative language to make the reader feel as if they are in the story right next to the character.
In Drea Knufken’s essay entitled “Help, We’re Drowning!: Please Pay Attention to Our Disaster,” the horrific Colorado flood is experienced and the reactions of worldly citizens are examined (510-512). The author’s tone for this formal essay seems to be quite reflective, shifting to a tone of frustration and even disappointment. Knufken has a reflective tone especially during the first few paragraphs of the essay. According to Drea Knufken, a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor, “when many of my out-of-town friends, family and colleagues reacted to the flood with a torrent of indifference, I realized something. As a society, we’ve acquired an immunity to crisis. We scan through headlines without understanding how stories impact people,
...ther is losing her daughter to time and circumstance. The mother can no longer apply the word “my” when referring to the daughter for the daughter has become her own person. This realization is a frightening one to the mother who then quickly dives back into her surreal vision of the daughter now being a new enemy in a world already filled with evils. In this way it is easier for the mother to acknowledge the daughter as a threat rather than a loss. However, this is an issue that Olds has carefully layered beneath images of war, weapons, and haircuts.
People that behaive good and look up to there parents it dosent means it will always be like that people change in some points.The novel The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon is a novel that talks about a 13 year old whos father is a civil rights activist in the midle of the the novel he starts to gain intrest in a group called the Black Panthers.The protagonist of The Rock and the River,Sam,becomes more mature over the course of the novel his perspective of the world shifts after using a gun at the peaceful demonstration and Stick’s death by the police officer.
At first glance, independence would seem to be an underlying theme is Let the Water Hold Me Down Hank leaves his job and moves to a different country with almost no real plan, this would seem to fall in line with the characteristics of a highly independent person. Upon a more careful analysis, however, we begin to see Hanks actions were motivated not be his want to be independent, but by his fear of being alone and his dependence. Through using the defining terms of dependence in Poor People by William T. Vollmann we can begin to understand how and where Hanks dependence comes from.
Ethos is used throughout page five. The second panel on page five depicts the narrators mother protesting the veil. This shows the narrator is trustworthy because she was directly influenced by the protest of the veil. For example, panels five and six depict the narrators mother disguising herself due to photos of her protesting being published. Pathos is used throughout this excerpt. The first panel on page four depicts the children playing at recess before the religious revolution. In this photo all of the young boys are wearing shorts and girls are wearing light weight dresses. These children are smiling and look to be happy. The fifth panel on page three shows recess after the religious revolution. Schools are now segregated by gender, so boys are not depicted in this drawing. The school uniform has changes from light weight dresses to what looks like trench coat, a veil, and long tights. The children seem to be unhappy and lethargic compared to the previous depiction. This could be due to heat exhaustion caused by the new uniforms. A girl is even depicted saying “it is too hot out!” in this panel. These contrasting depictions make the reader sympathize with the children. Logos is mainly used to set up historical context for the excerpt. Pages one and two are the primary source of this context. For example, the history of Iran and its many invasions. The use of ethos, pathos, and
In the story The Stolen Party, Liliana Heker shows symbolism, figurative language, and irony. Rosaura could not understand the differences between the rich and the poor. She was accepted by the rich family and was friends with their daughter, Luciana. Even though her mom told her that they only accepted her as a maid and nothing else. Nevertheless, she was eager to go to the party and decided to go with excitement. Symbolism, figurative language, and irony are expressed in the story and play an important role because it tells us the difference between the upper class and the lower class.
As a teen, Rayona is in a confusing period of life. The gradual breakdown of her family life places an addition burden on her conscience. Without others for support, Rayona must find a way to handle her hardships. At first, she attempts to avoid these obstacles in her life, by lying, and by not voicing her opinions. Though when confronting them, she learns to feel better about herself and to understand others.
At the outset, an insightful reader needs to draft the general boundaries of allegory and symbolism in the story. To put it most simple, the problem of distinguishing between good and evil undergoes a discussion. It is not difficult to notice that the Grandmother stands for good and the Misfit for evil. But such a division would be a sweeping and superficial generalisation, for both the characters epitomize good and evil traits. Moral evaluation is a very complex process and it is not the human who is to decide on that. There are rather various degrees of goodness and evil, both interwoven, also in their religiousness. Th...
The composer has aimed this text for general reading by all people over the age of ten. However as this publication is the young reader’s edition, it is targeted at young readers. People who may wish to read the book may be able to attain it through mediums such as book stores and libraries etc. Although this publication of the novel is the young reader’s edition, there is a publication aimed at adults.
She explains that her deceased father gave her the watch before she and her bother were evacuated from the country because of the war. He gave her this watch “purely as a memento” (Salinger 100), yet to her, it means much more than that. We soon come to realize that looking deeper into the meaning of the watch, the reality is that the proportion of the oversized face of the watch, compared to her wrist is actually a symbol of the proportion of emotions she is hiding, compared to what she is actually capable of dealing with. She is an extremely young and naïve girl who is carrying around the death of her parents as well as having to hid emotions for the sake of her younger brother. The watch is proportionally way to large for her tiny little wrist. In comparison, the amount of hardship and flood of emotions for a parent’s love and compassion are way to large for such a young, adolescent girl, who has the task to take care of her brother. This watch is not just a memento, yet a memory of her father and the man he was; the person who she needs to be for her
...or they will do that to me again, strap me to the death machine, emptiness machine, legs in the metal framework, secret knives. This time I won''t let them" (165). This is the practice of the phallocentric order, the women should appear as what men want them to. Her lover forced the abortion on her. By becoming pregnant with the child and going against the Law of the Father it places her outside the phallocentric order and she is whole again. That part of herself she lost through abortion can be raised again outside the phallocentric order that she has left. Her journey from her position in the Symbolic to the Real is now complete and she feels whole, the goal of becoming an adult in Lacanian physchoanalysis.
“Fallingwater is a great blessing – one of the great blessings to be experienced here on earth. I think nothing yet ever equaled the coordination, sympathetic expression of the great principle of repose where forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quietly that really you listen not to any noise whatsoever although the music of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater the way you listen to the quiet of the country.” – What Frank Lloyd Wright says about his Falling water.1
The gestural and heavy working of the paint and the contrasting colors make the painting appear active yet are arduous to follow. The defining element of Woman and Bicycle is the presence of the black lines that do most of the work in terms of identifying the figure. Through the wild nature of the brushwork, color, and composition of the painting, it can be implied that the artist is making an implication towards the wild nature of even the most proper of women.