The symbolic imagery in this passage contributes to helping the reader understand Louise’s character while encompassing two major thematic concerns. The imagery begins with a “mule deer” darting its way into a large arena filled with dancers. The description of the deer being a mule makes the animal appear strong because mule deer are often larger in size and more heavily built than other species of deer. There are many instances from the beginning to the end of the novel that involve deer. Their significant involvement in the story, and the fact that Louise is absent from this scene, can leave one to believe that they are a symbolic representation of her character. After entering the arena, “the great deer” began to display signs of aggression towards the dancers. Describing the deer as a “great” animal …show more content…
This represents the vast array of individuals from the society during this time that took pleasure in telling stories about others. These individuals found amusement in writing, reading, and telling stories that were centered around the lives of other human beings. It didn’t matter if the stories were true or not. What mattered to these individuals was being entertained. This touches on the thematic concern of control because the stories eventually became so powerful that they started to strip people of their humanity. Louise, among others, became nothing more than a single narrative. The lack of concern displayed by the dancers represents the danger of a single story because the dancers are reacting to the world around them in the same manner exemplified by those who tell stories. Both groups are too caught up in their own lives to stop and take a look at what’s right in front of them. Those who tell stories are unable to see Louise as anything other than Perma Red because they are blinded by the ignorance of
The play, These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich can be summed up just as the main character, Catherine entails. It is “not a fairy tale, though it starts like one, and it is not a tragedy, though it ends like one” (Scene 1, p. 9). Truly, this is an accurate depiction of what the author intended to convey to her audience. It is remarkable how the author was able to twist and spins the words to form the messages she desired. Be that as it may, not everything is splayed across the ink bound pages as precisely as the stars littering the night sky.
...ors to describe her life and situation. This comes primarily from the fact that in her therapy sessions that is how she is taught to deal with everything. For example, one metaphor she talks about is “… she comes up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future…I’ve noticed my past melting… my present candle has stayed pretty much the same,” (D 266). She explains them as her past is become less controlling, her present is her and concrete ideas and her future is bright and untouched. These metaphors show how much she has grown and allow the things she is learning to have more meaning. All of these combine to make the piece very effective and insightful. They help to get her point across and call people to action to help against these crimes.
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.
I think the playwright hopes to teach people that money isn?t everything and that people who are arrogant and selfish will get their comeuppances eventually. The moral of the play still, applies to today?s society because it makes us think about the things we do that involve ignoring people less fortunate than us when we realise that there are Eva Smiths all around us just waiting for a chance to make it through the cruel world we live in.
This picture to me is saying that even when a mule deer has died and the only thing left is bones and its horns, there is still life with that deer. The deer has lived a life that none of us could have imagined, no one but that deer could tell the story of its life. The mule deer is a symbol of living and how nature can be so hard on animals. The picture makes you feel like the deer is staring at you and that maybe it is trying to tell you something. I know the excitement that comes with hunting and when you shoot that deer and come up to it, there is nothing in this world that feels better. It is really hard to explain the feeling that comes with hunting, but this picture is a deer that has died and it could have been by a hunter or it could have been just old age or disease. It is hard to tell with this picture what has happened to the mule deer.
Alice Walker’s story “Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self” is a personal narrative telling about her life from the time she was two and half until she was a mother at the age of twenty-seven. She tells about being the favorite, most loved, pretty little girl at the age of two and then changing into a tomboy at the age of eight. When she was eight years old she was out playing with her older brothers, and then something happened that changed her entire perspective in life. One of her brothers shot her right in the eye with one of their BB guns. Walker goes from being a confident child to a self-conscious and little girl. Throughout the next twenty or so years she tells about why she feels she has changed until one day, at the age of twenty seven, she realizes that she loves her eye and it is nothing to be ashamed of; it is a part of her and that is never going to change. Throughout this story Walker does an amazing job of using imagery to create the story in the reader’s mind, repetition to put emphasis on important points, using narration to hook the reader into the story and make them feel as if they are a part
Within the first eight lines, the poet asserts his desire, yet inability, to capture a deer. Wyatt highlights the deer’s femininity by making the word “hind” an unstressed syllable. This poem is written in iambic pentameter. It is simply too exhausting and futile for the speaker to continue chasing after her, but his passions nearly override his mental state. He is “wearied,” “sore,” and “fainting,” but she is intrinsically
This story is in the point of view of Harrison Bergeron’s parents, Hazel and George Bergeron. The author does his best to give the story a very monotone and blank feel to the story. However, he also distinguishes the different people to show who they are under the mask. Here he uses a metaphor to describe one of the ballerinas, “Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody”. He also uses similes to depict Harrison’s strength. “The bar snapped like celery”. “The photograph of Harrison Bergeron on the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an earthquake.”
The first time a deer shows up is when Chris and Rose run into it on the road. It appears again when Rose’s father talks about his hatred for deer, and shows up again on the wall in the room where Chris was held captive. The Deer represents the black generation. It shows how blacks are brutalized and little attention is given. Most black brutalities happen on the road. Chris’ empathy for the deer is because of how his mother died and he felt guilty for not doing anything about that. Roses father tries to hide his hate for Blacks but his hate for deer speaks volumes. The deer on the wall depicts the black men Rose dated and how they are killed to be used as rewards for whites in the community.
First, Louise’s husband overarches the whole narrative and provides Louise with the impetus to desire freedom. Several narrative examples point to his (and indeed, society at the time’s) overbearing and controlling nature toward women. Louise cannot help but think that “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” Although broadly philosophical of civilization as a whole at the time, within the context of the story this quote paints her husband as insensitive and controlling, making him a figure of her entrapment. Louise’s musings about a future without her husband makes his death a symbol of freedom. Prior to moving downstairs for the climax of the story, Louise prays hoping “that life will be long.” She remembers only yesterday she dreaded the thought of a long life. As of this moment, she accepts a reality where she became free. Consequently, the appearance of her unharmed husband after her grandiose daydreams of autonomy render Louise stricken dead, freeing her from her daily woes and her fantasies. Thus, Mr. Mallard comes to serve as both a symbol of overbearing servitude as well as liberation, though the latter did not occur as any character within the story
Today we will be talking about the different literary references used throughout Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”. I will explain and decode different techniques used by the author throughout her story. The story is of an old southern African American woman, named Phoenix Jackson, making her way into to town to pick up her grandsons medication from the doctor’s office. But this is no normal old woman. She cannot see and is picking her way with a cane to make her way across a barrage of obstacles. Throughout her journey she comes upon different characters and situations, from these events we will draw our interpretations of the symbolism embedded within the tale.
...ic brings life and joy to many here the reader sees in simple words the dead dancing. From the narrators perspective the women in the house appear to be non human and lifeless. This is a poem of passion and control, suggesting that maybe the people who are drawn to an environment such as this show a lack of it as well as losing their “soul’s inheritance” which we see his partner do towards the end.
The author uses symbolism as well in this story to support the theme. Firstly, the author uses a closed door as a symbol of separator. The closed door separated her from her sister and her friend. She is free from the surroundings. Although she "wept at once" (69) after her husband's unfortunate, things are changing now. "The open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair" (69) reveals that Louise's true feeling. In the following paragraph, Chopin uses "blue sky" (69) as a sign of hope; twittering "sparrows" (69) as a sign of happiness. The reader can confirm that her husband's death is only a temporary hurdle and she recovers quickly from the grief. Now she looks hopefully to the future, future of independent and well deserved freedom.
One theme in this story is forbidden freedom. The freedom represents Louise’s independence that she receives from hearing about the death of her husband. Louise is only able to dream of that independence for a little time since in the end her husband turned out to be alive. Another theme is the oppression of her marriage. Even though Louise describes her husband as loving and caring she still feels joy after hearing he is dead. The motif of this story is weeping which is something Louise either does or thinks about doing throughout the story. She even imagines herself weeping over Mr. Mallard’s dead body. The only time she is not weeping is when she is thinking of her new found freedom. An important and most used symbol throughout the story would be the open window. After hearing about her husband’s death she goes upstairs where she barricades herself in her room starring out the window. Louise gazes through this open window during most of the story. While looking out the open window she dreams of her endless freedom and the opportunities it
Her comfortable chair is placed near the open window where she routinely comes to observe the world beyond her pane. The chair welcomes the shape of her body like a well-worn glove. She lets down her façade. The physical exhaustion of her mind, body, and soul is from the oppression that she has felt from her husband and their marriage. Sitting there, Louise mentally makes the transition from “our” house to “her” house (Perkins). Outside, the trees aquiver mirroring her physical response to the realization that she is no longer repressed, everything is new, bright, and beautiful. She can see and hear the world calling for her in the peddler’s cries, the distant song, and the sparrows. The bluer sky and whimsical clouds pull her farther out of her house. She is not held back anymore, there are no more restrictions. She collects herself, occasionally sobbing, the emotion working itself out, crying for the years that she has spent in her husband’s marriage and for the years that she now has regained to live for herself. Now she is seen as a single person separate from her husband. She is described as a self-possessed woman, instead of a new widow. It is acknowledged that she has a strength about her earned from overcoming hardship and that she is capable of intelligent thought. She is more than just the vulnerable widow of a dead