Every author write for a reason: to entertain, to inform, to satire. Every book has a reason: to entertain, to inform, to satire. Jenna Blum, the author of The Stormchasers, pieced together a masterpiece about family and love, but required research and acquaintances to write her book. She incorporates her style and ideology within the book and develops dynamic characters through her writing. When reading the pages, the characters evolve and changes as the story progress, especially in ideology. However, Blum venture further than evolutionary characters and intertwine nature and human to together to prove the power of nature within society. With all these elements, Jenna Blum's The Stormchasers appears to be worthy of literature merit, but through …show more content…
From the resemblances in human's action to human's mentally, Blum "communicate in an artistic manner" (Gilmore 7) that mesmerizes the readers throughout. Critics claim that "the unpredictable and dangerous storms provides a framework" ("The Stormchasers" PW), that Blum uses "twisters as cunning metaphor for storms of a more human kind" (Tipping). Overall, most literary critics agree that Blum artistic combination of storms and human together "beautifully render" (Kirkus Reviews) the story captive. Following storms "is how [Karena will] find her brother" as brother has an unnatural addiction to storms. Blum states early on that the location of Charles is wherever there are tornadoes as his condition causes him to feel the storms. This representation only sparks the beginning of Blum metaphor; it is later in the story that the reader finds the connection between the characters' actions and what they are chasing. From the beginning, Blum starts the story with a festive, vibe, the cold breeze start to a storm. The phone call from the doctor and the discovery of the Whirlwind contract clouds. The adventure with the storm chasers thunders the novel with excitement of "punch[ing] the core and [arriving] in the bear's cage" (Blum 48). The discovery and flashbacks signify the calm before the storm, the sudden relaxing moment before the finale: the …show more content…
From the Publisher Weekly to a private review group, Blum's book received many positive feedbacks; however, none of the critics actually stated about the complexity of the book's structure, they mostly talked about the relationship between humans and nature. This gap questions the merit of The Stormchasers. Blum uses italics to represent Karena's thoughts and repeat phrase to portray the intensity of the sibling's bond, but most of the other sentences are simply there to there the story; there are not traces of complex structure within those sentences. About half of the book is in dialog and most of the dialogs are indirect characterization, which provides some foreshadowing; the other half of the book is description and a simple portrayal of what Karena sees. The only structure visible is that of explaining how a storm looks. With basic description such as "ragged purple-brown ceiling" (Blum 217), Blum provides short simple pictures of the storm. Most of the sentences resemble "she fans... Karena came up... she should... Karena went" (241); the story is about Karena's search, but Blum focus too much on Karena and little of the surrounding. Through what Karena sees, comes the characterization and the depiction of
In Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm” it talks about love and lust. It speaks of two kind of storm that occurs. These two storms I find to be the central part of the story, and is being represented as a symbol within the story. The first storm is the most obvious one that Bibi and Bobinot are faced with. The second storm isn’t that visible for it involves Calixta and Alcee. Just as like most storms they come and pass.
During the story the author often uses foreshadowing to give hints to the reader of things that will happen in the future. When the story starts, a storm is coming on a late October night. The storm symbolizes the evil approaching the town. Usually it seems a storm would resemble something dark and evil, because a stormy night is always a classic setting for something evil. At the climax of the story, Charles Halloway reads a passage ...
In literature, symbolism is used to give meaning to certain things throughout a story that are different than their literal sense. Symbolism also gives the writer freedom to add a deeper meaning to their work. The storm that took place in Kate Chopin’s story, The Storm, is used to symbolize getting Alcee and Calixta back together, the passion between the two of them, and to keep Bobinot and Bibi from returning to the gallery to find Alcee and Calixta.
'The Storm' and 'The Story of an Hour' expresses the attitudes of two women's rebirth and liberation. These two stories are alike in several ways. Natures plays a major role in both of these women's lives. Calixta and Mrs. Louise Mallard struggle to find their independence and in doing so the endings are triumphant and tragic.
For as long as language in its most rudimentary form was created, people have never stopped writing stories. Before people wrote things down, stories and legends were passed down by the elders of a family or tribe. Over time, things can be forgotten, and that is why it is important to write these things down. Stories were created to teach children good from bad, to inspire people to do great things, and for general enjoyment. These stories have taken many forms ever since the original spoken tale. Movies, comics, television shows, and much more have been introduced in order to tell more intricate stories. One of the best, and original mediums for story keeping is a book. A good book can elicit any emotion from you, just as a film or television show could. A good writer knows how to take hold of an audience, and allow them to explore a whole new world as they are sitting on a couch. Both Shakespeare's Hamlet and George R. R. Martin's A Storm of Swords are considered to be amazingly written stories. It is interesting to see how two highly pleasing books relate to each other, a...
“…it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from high clouds in long, curving gray plumes.” The hyperbole about the storm produces a wild sense of the surroundings. Kingsolver uses the onomatopoeia and simile to describe appearance and the sound of the storm. The first-person point of view also assists on expressing Taylor’s senses and emotions. In describing Taylor’s feelings for Estevan, Kingsolver combines them into a one complex sentence, which displays the exhilaration that Taylor feels. Most of all the paragraphs’ structure is similar, adding consistency to the passage. The consistency makes it easier for the readers to follow and understand the message and concepts that the author conveys in the novel. Additionally, Kingsolver uses contrast to bring out the mood among Taylor’s group. In the beginning, she makes a deadly ambience with the storm and lightning, yet the characters are very high in spirit and energy to a point in which they dance under the storm. It enhances the characters’ emotion to attract the attention of the readers, which makes it more noticeable just like light being brighter in the dark. Kingsolver also uses this passage as a chance to build up for a shocking event unexpected by
Throughout history writers have offered readers lessons through themes and often symbolized. In the story, “The Storm” by Kate Chopin is quite different from “The Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid; both have a different theme, symbol, throughout the stories. “The Storm” in Kate Chopin 's story can symbolize a number of different things: temporary, fleeting and quick action, and without consequences.
The Storm is based around a woman by the name of Calixta who is left home alone while a threatening storm blows up suddenly. Her husband and son are stranded at a local store until the weather calms down. While she is preparing for the worst, a man visitor appears at her doorstep needing a place of shelter. This man turns out to be an old sweetheart of hers, Alcee. As the story goes on, Calixta and Alcee, unleash themse...
While he is being exposed to a storm on the outside, Gregory Orr is “hunkered down… in the cave of self… praying for sparks / in that dark” (1-5). In this passage from “Trauma”, Orr is employing a well defined symbol of the storm as the external conflict that he is struggling with at the time. The storm is crushing him, and he unsuccessfully searches for an answer within himself. Orr is fragile in this poem, vulnerable to the harsh storm that is bearing upon him. Problems like these are not uncommon throughout writing pieces, and it can be identified within a countless number of works. Similarly, Julia Alvarez uses the symbol of a storm in her novel In the Time of the Butterflies. In Alvarez’s case, the storm is not as much of an external problem,
The book has lucid descriptions of the event and sometimes Egan uses too many details which tires the reader out in the first couple of pages in the book. He describes the storm with detail such as, "It was not a rain cloud. Nor was it a cloud holding ice pellets. It was not a twister. It was thick like coarse animal hair; it was alive. People close to it described a feeling of being in a blizzard — a black blizzard, they called it — with an edge like steel wool." It’s remarkable though how he can tell a tale with such detail that many aren’t alive to tell. Egan tells the personal stories of families that moved in ...
...s when Ralph points out, “There’s going to be a storm.” This slowly builds us up to Simon’s death.
Emily Bronte uses intense storms to symbolise the lack of control of characters. ‘Bleak hilltop the earth was very hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb’ (5) Mr Lockwood assumes that he will be able to travel in the storm; he is stopped as the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights are aware that forces such as storms are difficult to
Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, Stephen Gould’s Dinosaur in a Haystack, and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm all display similar characteristics, so that though they are seemingly unrelated, they can be compared. Mainly the comparisons exist through the imagery the authors use to weave the stories together, the structure of each book, the authority of each author, and the use of nature.
...way that the story is being interpreted and how the storm influences the story as a whole. Sometimes people need a wakeup call or a 'storm' to make them aware of how good they have things. In this short story Alcee and Calixta both come to realization of how good they have things with their spouses and how that they already found the ones that they love, which weren't each other. This made me aware of how we as people can take things for granted or believing we know what’s best for us. In reality we don't always know what’s best until something occurs and shows us that what we already have is the best.
The first part of the book focuses on the people and their relationships around the docks and their hometown. It gave an in-depth glimpse into the life and psychological behaviors of fishermen. Given the total length of the book my first reaction to this focus on people was that it was too much. My second reaction was "just right." Less stress would have de-personalized the characters. Towards the end the characters in the book have all learned something about themselves because of this storm. Being that some of the characters are not here anymore makes the book all the more poignant.