“Hands” by Sherwood Anderson tells the story of Wing Biddlebaum, previously known as Adolph Myers, who anxiously flaps his hands like wings all the time for undisclosed reasons. Although nobody else in the town of Winesburg, Ohio knows of Wing Biddlebaum’s distressing past, they unknowingly see the way it affects him through his flapping hands. Additionally, Wing mostly avoids social interaction with other people out of fear that the ordeals he suffered through when he was Adolph Myers will recur. Because of homophobia, Adolph Myers was forced to leave Pennsylvania, so he fled to Winesburg, Ohio where he goes by the alias Wing Biddlebaum, a lonely berry picker with a hand-flapping quirk and probable PTSD. In “Hands,” Sherwood Anderson made …show more content…
Part of the loneliness is self-inflicted: Wing doesn’t let himself get too close to others in fear that they will begin to make assumptions as the men had in Pennsylvania. This mental conflict is evident when “he raised the hands to caress [George Willard] and then a look of horror swept over his face” (56). Wing had begun to grow too reassured with George Willard, and for a brief moment saw the return of the habits that got him in trouble the first time. Wing stays isolated for his own safety. The townspeople recognize Wing’s flapping hands as an oddity, and like many odd things, they like to appreciate the hands, but not get too close out of fear of the unknown. Anderson goes as far as to say that “Winesburg was proud of the hands of Wing Biddlebaum in the same spirit in which it was proud of Banker White 's new stone house and Wesley Moyer 's bay stallion, Tony Tip, that had won the two-fifteen trot at the fall races in Cleveland” (55). The townspeople think of Wing Biddlebaum as a local attraction, like a sideshow rather than a human being. On the theme of loneliness, Wing spends the entirety of the story alone aside from the girl who tells him to comb his hair. The story is told in flashbacks, to his moments with George Willard and his life in Pennsylvania. In the present, Wing sits on his front porch wishing George Willard would come by. When the sun sets, he goes inside, prepares honey on bread, and spends his evening eating alone, wishing to talk to George Willard. Due to the homophobic actions of the Pennsylvanians, Wing Biddlebaum is forced to live his life in loneliness, without being able to fully express himself out of fear of what people may
Colin G. Calloway’s The Scratch of a Pen 1763 and the Transformation of North America is a well researched, effective, and a creative story of North America during the year 1763. Calloway narrates his way through the year 1763 and talks about the effects on American History as a result of the Treaty of Paris 1763. The story illuminates the themes of racism, gender, and republicanism. Calloway has interesting techniques to approach important topics to show the topics significance. His book is very well researched and he cites a lot of different reliable sources to help make understanding the time period easier.
This essay observes the trauma of Andrew Wakefield in Rick Moody 's “The Mansion on the Hill”, a short story based on the accidental death of the narrator 's sister. The breathtaking story was the groundbreaker in Rick Moody’s novel “Demonology: Stories” published on April 10th, 2002. Moody’s point-of-view, tone of words, and character narration shines a headlight on Andrew Wakefield traumatic actuality of no longer being able to communicate with his beloved sister about the skirmish of romance and refining a new job.
The idea that high school is one of the best times of life is constantly stated. Parties, friends, and endless days of fun is the American stereotype. These dreams dissipate, though, if you start freshman year with a record of zero friends. In the young adolescent novel titled Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, the reader encounters the feeling to lack the most powerful tool ever given to you: the tool of words. Melinda’s predicament commences after an end of summer senior party, where she cruelly got raped. Rather than sharing her pain with the world, and achieving justice, she chose to keep her secret locked up, as she did not know how to reveal it. Speaking out would have dramatically changed her life for the better. The main theme
Loneliness and Companionship are one of the many themes that are conveyed in the novel Of Mice and Men, By John Steinbeck. Many of the characters admit to suffering from loneliness within the texts. George sets the tone for these confessions early in the novel when he reminds Lennie that the life of living on a ranch is among the loneliest of lives. However Lennie, who is mentally disabled holds the idea that living on a farm very high. "Tending the rabbits" is what Lennie calls it. Often when Lennie is seaking encouragement he askes George to tell him how its going to be. Men like George who migrate from farm to farm rarely have anyone to look to for companionship and protection. George obviously cares a lot for lennie, but is too stubborn to admit to it. The feeling of being shipped from place to place leaves George feeling alone and abandoned.
Within the young adult novel Twisted, author Laurie Halse Anderson practices appropriate devices like imagery and tone to construct the advancement of the voice of her adolescent characters. Tone and imagery are among the essential devices of structure to establish the voice of the protagonists. By the means of examining the imagery and tone in Anderson’s text, multiple examples of segments of the subject matter within the novel will discuss the development of the protagonist, Tyler’s voice.
In Thomas King’s novel, The Inconvenient Indian, the story of North America’s history is discussed from his original viewpoint and perspective. In his first chapter, “Forgetting Columbus,” he voices his opinion about how he feel towards the way white people have told America’s history and portraying it as an adventurous tale of triumph, strength and freedom. King hunts down the evidence needed to reveal more facts on the controversial relationship between the whites and natives and how it has affected the culture of Americans. Mainly untangling the confusion between the idea of Native Americans being savages and whites constantly reigning in glory. He exposes the truth about how Native Americans were treated and how their actual stories were
Kenneth Anderson is professor of law at American University. He teaches and writes in the areas of business and finance, both domestic and international, law and economics, public international law, international organizations, human rights, and the laws of war. Matthew C. Waxman is a professor of law and the faculty chair of the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security. He is an expert in national security law and international law including issues related to executive power: international human rights and constitutional rights, military force and armed conflict, and terrorism. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge Joel M. Flaum of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The two asserts the premises that the
Acknowledging the difference between loneliness and solitude, Paul Tillich once said, “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, the idea of aloneness is viewed from the perspective of Crooks. The story revolves around the friendship between two ranchers, George Milton and Lennie Small, who are in search of achieving their American Dream. While attempting to pursue their dream of independence, they meet other workers with their own rendition of the American Dream. When Crooks is introduced, he is known as the only African-American worker who is crippled and forced to live in the barn with the animals. In the novel, Crooks symbolizes loneliness,
One form of loneliness is being physically separated from others and having nobody to talk to. Crooks, a stable buck on the ranch in Soledad, is a crippled black man who is not allowed to sleep in the same living quarters as the other workers. In the 1930’s , black people were still segregated from white people, and being the only black worker meant he was all alone. Crooks confessed that “A guy needs somebody ‒ to be near him” (Steinbeck 72). When not working, other men on the ranch are playing cards and horseshoes, or just talking with each other in their bunkhouse. Crooks, on the other hand, sits in his room in the barn and reads by himself. He is not invited to play with
The Other Side of Eden, by Hugh Brady’s; he speaks about Hunters, Farmers, and believes in a strong connection with the spirit world by the Inuit people. Brady started the beginning of his piece with a young girl who is growing up in the “Artic home” (Brody 11). He explains how the Inuit people believe when children are born they carry the “Atiq, the spirit and name” (12) of the ones who passed away before them. With this children are never disrespected, denied food, chastised, or controlled by others in their tribe (12). Within their tribe there are eight different languages spoken amount the people (112). Children learn the language, history, and traditions of their village’s stories told by the elders (13). Stories are not well explained and the children have to understand them (13). They have rituals that they preform to protect the world around them bountiful (113). Inuit people live their lives without a leader. They are “unconstrained by social hierarchy” (113). Therefore they are free to do as they please since they live in a “communal and individualistic system” (113). Since the Inuit people are Hunters and gathers they are not considered a society since do not have written documentation to prove they are aboriginals (271). Meaning they do not modify as “fully human” (270) and are being degraded, unfairly treated, and misunderstood by todays modern world government (271).
Journeys can be quite complex, at times being unpredictable in the catalyst, obstacles, or destination. A single decision can set off a chain reaction of events, potentially altering the outcome drastically. In a life-changing event, the way one deals with the aftermath shapes the future ahead as well as the person they will become. Choosing whether to speak up, reach out, and find support is critical when struggling with something. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a journey story because it focuses on Melinda’s emotional struggles and growth as she copes with the trauma of being raped.
Lord of the Flies is “an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature” (Themes). Many times society will trump human nature, and other times it may be engulfed by it. Freud Sigmund Psychology expresses these thoughts using the terms id, ego, and superego. Freud states that the id is the instinctive and primitive part of a personality, and ego is “that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world” (Freud). Sigmund Freud also uses superego to represent the values and morals that are taught through someone else. Golding wrote the novel Lord of the Flies during a time of war. In times of war, people become killers and savages to “protect” the country they are fighting for.
The Open Hand by Robert Caisley was performed at the University of Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Lab Theatre April, 2016. This production reminds audiences of the importance of giving to others that is often forgotten in the self-centered modern day society. Thus, a major theme throughout the production was generosity. It was through the theme of generosity that many other themes could be found, such as humility. Through various aspects of the production, the Lab Theatre masterfully emphasized the theme of humility in Caisley’s The Open Hand.
Don’t take things for granted. “The Monkey’s Paw” W.W. Jacobs. “The Monkey’s Paw” is a short story that takes place in England with a family called the Whites. They are given this paw that by a man named Mr. Morris, who does not want it anymore because of the fate it has brought him. The Whites decide to make their three wishes and not listen to the warning from Mr. Morris but regret it in the long run. In “The Monkey’s Paw”, W.W. Jacobs uses conflict and foreshadowing to to make the suspense and the attitude of the story.
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richest of self”(May Sarton). John Steinbeck presents “Of Mice and Men”, where Lennie and George are close companions that are trying to get through the difficulties of life in order to obtain their dream of owning the ranch of their dreams. Along the way, they meet many new and unique characters who although are very different, many admit to suffering from loneliness. George sets the tone for these confessions early in the novel when he tells Lennie that the life of a ranch-hand is one of the loneliest of lives. As the story develops, three characters, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife, put forth Steinbeck’s idea about loneliness.