Intertextuality in “Jason who will be famous”
The story was written by Dorothy Allison, who was born in Greenville South Carolina to a fifteen- year-old single mother. The story is about a young man walking down the road, while he’s daydreaming. The narrator in the story “Jason who will be famous” tells the story in third person point of view, presenting the thoughts of Jason as he’s taking his journey and thinking of the ways to become famous. He has this real clear picture of himself being interviewed and how he will look, and he’s confident that he’ll be great at it. The story “Jason who will be famous” contains great examples of intertextuality when comparing to “Silent Snow Secret Snow”.
One of the examples is the use of imagination in
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In “Jason Who Will be Famous”, whenever he comes out his daydreaming, that’s when he realized he’s at the edge of the road, where dust, white-grey and alkaline, ha drifted up from his boots. “Jason wipes dust off his mouth and rocks his head from side to side. He glares up the road and resumes his pace, boots kicking dust and his hands gripping the straps of his backpack” (Allison 31). In Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Paul’s thoughts of the real world were presented by using words such as “dirty” to describe the sparrows, “broken” to describe the feathers, “leafless” to describe the trees and so on. Aiken described it by stating, “In the gutter, beside a drain, was a scrap of torn and dirty newspaper, caught in a little delta of filth” (22). Both of them sees the impurities in the real world, and want to change it by creating an internal …show more content…
Jason pictures himself in a world where he won’t be distracted, which will give him the opportunity to focus and achieve his goals. He started thinking about it, planning what he’ll do and how he’s going to make the best out his second chance. “He won’t be like his dad, he thinks, he won’t waste his chances. He’ll grab what comes and run with it” (Allison 34). It will be all about him and the basement, who he will become, who he was meant to become. “In the basement, they won’t feed him much, so he will get all dramatic skinny. He could learn to eat imaginary meal meals and taste every bite-- donuts and hot barbecue wings and stay all skinny and pure. He’s going to come out that basement Brad-Pitt handsome and ready for anything” (Allison 34-35). In his mind, these are all the opportunity that he’ll get to become who he wants to be.
In Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Paul’s imagination takes him to his new journey, a pleasant one. “Ah, how heavenly, too, the first beginnings—to hear or feel – for could he actually hear it?—the Silent Snow, the Secret Snow” (Aiken 20). He’s enjoying every moment of his new experience which brings him peace. As the snow mounted, he thought, the world would become peaceful and more silent which to him is a new
Everything looks the same. It is the unique time when the reader could focus over depths of his life. Nothing will bother him because nothing would take his attention. The narrator admires the view of it, saying “never settle less than lovely”; which means that the landscape covered with snow is something extraordinary for the human eye. This wonderful view introduces the reader into thoughtfulness about himself.
Many overlook the beauty that is expressed by nature. The images put together in nature influenced Mary Oliver’s “First Snow.” The beauty expressed in “First Snow” shows how there is hidden beauty in nature such as snow. Also how snow, not so simple, is something so stunning and breath taking. The descriptions of Oliver’s visions show that many things are overlooked in nature and shouldn’t be. She elaborates to show that nature sets forth not just snow, but something so much more. Mary Oliver uses many examples and proofs to show the beauty. In “First Snow” Mary Oliver conveys the image of snow to embody the beauty of nature.
In “Nightmare” from Out of the Dust, Billie Joe wakes up from a nightmare, trembling in fear from a nightmare about the dust storms and her inability to play the piano. The poem is filled with symbolism, used to build up anxiety and uncertainty, and for Hesse to elaborate on her thoughts. “Through a howling dust storm, my lowered face was scrubbed raw by dirt and wind” dramatically demonstrates a mood of panic and distress. As the suspense builds, Hesse uses imagery to exhibit uneasiness and describe the situation even further, “dust crept inside my ears, up my nose, down my throat.” Many instances of figures of speech are used, such as similes, personification, and metaphors. After trudging through the dust, not caring about anything but
My full name is Jason Accardi Junior. I was confirmed in the Catholic Church at the age of 14 and received the name John Bosco for my confirmation Saint. The reason I was named Jason because of my father Jason. I do not have a middle name because my father does not have a middle name; therefore for me to be a junior, I could not have a middle name either. The reason my father wanted to name me after him was because it was the only name he could picture me as being. My mother wanted other names for me but my dad was determined and had his mindset to name me after him. He wanted to start a tradition or a legacy of the name Jason through the Accardi bloodline.
I believe the phrase "The snow was whirling in curling eddies" was referring to Paul's excitement of being in New York whirling inside him recalling his dearest pleasures. "the grey winter twilight's in his sitting-room; his quiet enjoyment of his flowers, his clothes, his wide divan, his cigarette, and his sense of power". He could not remember a time when he had felt so at peace within himself.
The forth stanza tells of how the outside looked after two straight days of snow; “ And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown,”
He is able to bring the situation to the attention of the principal and prove that he can stand up for himself. The most important part of Jason’s growth is when he stands up to Unborn Twin and later realizes what causes his stammer while talking to Mrs. Gretton. Although he doesn't understand the importance of it at the time, the moment when he says to Unborn Twin, “no bloody way” shows his capability to defy expectations (268). Jason actively defies one of his ‘voices’ for the first time; this marks a turning point where he acknowledges that he must be the one to make decisions for himself. Jason also shows his understanding of expectations in society because he notices when gypsies come to Black Swan Green that, “The villagers wanted the gypsies to be gross, so the grossness of what they’re not
When Paul was a child, he reminisces of how the poplar trees served as a form of love towards him. “Even as children we had a great love for them, they drew us vaguely thither, we played truant the whole day by them and listened to their rustling” (Remarque 120). The sounds of Mother Earth served as a pathway of the brotherly connection between Paul and his friends, which shows the love Paul reminisces about. When Paul gazes toward the trench, he notices two carefree butterflies which are representations of innocence and purity. “One morning two butterflies play in front of our trench. They are brimstone-butterflies, with red spots on their yellow wings. What can they be looking for here? There is not a plant nor a flower for miles. They settle on the teeth of a skull. The birds too are just as carefree, they have long since accustomed themselves to the war” (127-128). The loving nature between the two butterflies is parallel to the loving nature between Paul and Mother Earth because they rely on each other for help during hard times. Paul views Mother Earth as a guardian that will protect him no matter what obstacles his way. There are many forms of love within Mother Earth, and Paul relies on Mother Earth for a sense of
And this is where we start with our image. Then Oliver adds, “began here this morning and all day” (2-3) which immediately changes your image to this beginning of the day where the snow is only just starting to fall. Also, Oliver seems to personify the snow by saying “it’s white rhetoric everywhere”(4-5) by giving the sense of knowledge to the snow. Oliver is showing this knowledge that the snow has by playing with this word “rhetoric” meaning having the art of persuasive speaking, so it shows how this snow is grabbing our attention. And then it continues with “calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty and what the meaning;” (6-8) this changes your image of snow greatly to making you think of snow as a greater power leading you to seek questions. This is an automatic change from snow to self. Then it transitions back to the focus back on snow, “flowing past windows,” (9-10) and you are then again transferred back to this image of snow fluttering through the wind, but you also have your thoughts of the unknown and you are relating it to the snow all of this unknown is just floating
Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is about a person the speaker, who stops near the woods when it is snowing out to take a break and look around. He notices how beautiful it is to look at the snow falling in such a peaceful way out of the dark sky.
Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly relate to the events leading to the end of the world. It is an "uncertain" and sometimes controversial topic, and even if everyone was certain it was coming, we do not know exactly how it will occur and when. Therefore, how did Frost envision this event? Is he portraying it in a religious context, a naturalistic one, or both? The last line (14) speaks of God putting out the light, which brings out a religious reference, but the bulk of the poem deals with nature entirely. Physical images of water, clouds, continents, and cliffs present a much more complex setting than the simple setting in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" or the yellow wood in "The Road Not Taken."
We imagine water crashing down upon the shore line wave upon wave, getting bigger and bigger as they continue. Frost personifies the water in line 3 by giving us the idea that the water has an actual mind and can do as it wishes. That we are at the mercy of the ocean as it stands there in its threatening tone and demands respect from us. I think that line 4 is ironic because if we look at biblical history, water has covered the entire earth before (Genesis 7:17-24). Yet Frost approaches this as if it is a new idea, perhaps because we have a hard time comprehending such an unimaginable occurrence as the Great Flood.
According to John F. Lynen, “Frost sees in nature a symbol of man’s relation to the world. Though he writes about a forest or a wildflower, his real subject is humanity…his concept of nature…is a paradox and it points toward the greater paradox in man himself” (4,5).
“The Snow Man,” by Wallace Stevens, dramatizes a metaphorical “mind of winter”, and introduces the idea that one must have a certain mindset in order to correctly perceive reality. The poet, or rather the Snow Man, is an interpreter of simple and ordinary things; “A cold wind, without interpretation, has no misery” (Poetry Genius). Through the use of imageries and metaphors relating to both wintery landscapes and the Snow Man itself, Stevens illustrates different ideas of human objectivity and the abstract concept of true nothingness. Looking through the eyes of the Snow Man, the readers are given an opportunity to perceive a reality that is free from objectivity; The Snow Man makes it clear that winter can possess qualities of beauty and also emptiness: both “natural wonder, and human misery”. He implies that winter can also be nothing at all: “just a bunch of solid water, dormant plants, and moving air.” (The Wondering Minstrels). “One must
First, in the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” there is a lot of nature expressed. Frost’s very first sentence already talks about the woods. Whose woods these are we don’t know. Also, in the poem he states that the narrator likes to sit and watch the snow. He is also a nature lover. In the second stanza Frost refers back to the woods. He must also like ice, because he brings ice and cold up a lot in his poems. Once again Frost brings ice up when he mentions flake and cold wind.