1-The back part of Walworth is a poor and miserable place , which is located far away from town, as in former times, it was a waste ground. In addition, thirty-five years ago, it was inhabited by citizens who did not have a sensational economic situation. Also, people whose way of life was similar to the one of a waste ground, lived there. However, living in a place with that kind of characteristics, which were not exceptional, was not a piece of cake. The latter houses were constructed with the houses which were built thirty-five years ago. These houses, were irregular, rude and they were not mesmerizing. In the novel, the narrator quotes “The back part of walworth , as its greatest distance from town, is a straggling miserable place enough”, …show more content…
In addition, the gloomy, ruinous and dismantled appearance of that slum, did not calm him down. He was astonished by some of the dreary and not dazzling details of that place, such as the patch of garden-ground, a stunted tree or a pool of stagnant water. Furthermore, he gathered that some neighbors stole each other, as for example, the old palings mended with stakes. Also, he was shocked by the woman who shouted to a little slip-shod …show more content…
As a consequence, in some occasions, they lose their scruples to steal their neighbors, such in the case of the stakes (page 10, line 23 to 25). We can deduce that they are violent, aggressive and truculent. We could know it, taking into account the quotation “Or to scream after a little slip-shod girl.” In addition, they are not hygienic and it is related with their economic situation as we can appreciate in line 26. They do not seem to be on cloud nine, but in my opinion, they have accustomed to this way of life, and for them, this facts are normal. As a result, they do not know other way of live and being
The author illustrates the “dim, rundown apartment complex,” she walks in, hand and hand with her girlfriend. Using the terms “dim,” and “rundown” portrays the apartment complex as an unsafe, unclean environment; such an environment augments the violence the author anticipates. Continuing to develop a perilous backdrop for the narrative, the author describes the night sky “as the perfect glow that surrounded [them] moments before faded into dark blues and blacks, silently watching.” Descriptions of the dark, watching sky expand upon the eerie setting of the apartment complex by using personification to give the sky a looming, ominous quality. Such a foreboding sky, as well as the dingy apartment complex portrayed by the author, amplify the narrator’s fear of violence due to her sexuality and drive her terror throughout the climax of the
Filban said the home had a yard that was overgrown. “The trees and bushes were overgrown, and the house was dark,” Filban said. “And the windows were covered.” She and her sister slept in the front bedroom of the house. She remembers the bedroom having a large, floor-to-ceiling window. She said you could look out and see the wra...
A main factor in the storyline is the way the writer portrays society's attitude to poverty in the 18th century. The poor people were treated tremendously different to higher classed people. A lot of people were even living on the streets. For example, "He picked his way through the hordes of homeless children who congregated at evening, like the starlings, to look for the most sheltered niche into which they could huddle for the night." The writer uses immense detail to help the reader visualise the scene. She also uses a simile to help the reader compare the circumstances in which the children are in. This shows that the poor children had to live on the streets and fend for themselves during the 18th century. Another example involves a brief description of the city in which the poor people lived in. This is "nor when he smelt the stench of open sewers and foraging pigs, and the manure of horses and mules" This gives a clear example of the state of the city. It is unclean and rancid and the writer includes this whilst keeping to her fictional storyline.
...ome the dream of attainment slowly became a nightmare. His house has been abandoned, it is empty and dark, the entryway or doors are locked. The sign of age, rust comes off in his hands. His body is cold, and he has deteriorated physically & emotionally. He is weathered just like his house and life. He is damaged poor, homeless, and the abandoned one.
* "North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.
The people who will not obey the strict rules of San Angeles live underground in tunnels and sewers. They are called Scraps or Hooligans. The tunnels and sewers are very dirty, smelly and crowded. The Scraps are against the rules of San Angeles because they feel they take their freedom of choice. The Scraps drink alcohol, eat meat, and curse freely. Because of their behaviors and beliefs the Scraps are seen as outcasts from the rest of society and they are left to fend for themselves.
The next paragraph serves as a contrast to the mood set by the previous one. The author describes the neighbor pouring, “sheep manure” over his garden; manure is typically used as a fertilizer to enhance and nurture. These actions are the opposite of what the protagonist is doing with her life, a sign of this being the fa...
Upon reading the first paragraph, Shirley Jackson describes the town in general. The town is first mentioned in the opening paragraph where she sets the location in the town square. She puts in perspective the location of the square "between the post office and the bank" (196). This visualizes for the reader what a small town this is, since everything seems to be centralized at or near the town square. This is also key in that the town square is the location for the remaining part of the story. The town square is an important location for the setting since the ending of the story will be set in this location. Also, Shirley Jackson creates a comfortable atmosphere while describing the residents of the town. First, she describes the children gathering together and breaking into "boisterous play"(196). Also, the children are described as gathering rocks, which is an action of many normal children. She described the men as gathering together and talking about "planting and rain, tractors and taxes"(196). Finally, she describes the women of this community as "exchanging bits of gossip"(196) which is a common stereotype of women. She creates a mood for the reader of the town and residents of this town on a normal summer morning.
Furthermore, understanding the fact of how the villagers in that village practiced and participated in such a barbaric ritual and archaic event were not accepted by people. In addition, people who read the story commented that the modest people of the Midwest are superstitious and backward. Here, Jackson conveyed successfully with her subtle writing style that something is about to happen. She also used a third person point of view when writing this short story. The third person point of view permitted the author to keep the outcome of the story an exposure. This therefore led to the reader to consider everything is well but actually there is something wrong somewhere. Furthermore, what could be seen from the story is people were different compared to present, there is a huge difference in cultural practices. Therefore the actions of the story go in the opposite direction of people’s opinion in the present in terms of value of life, violence and the development of respect in a family.
Wuthering Heights is a house set high upon a hill where is exposed to extreme weather conditions. Storms often come “rattling over the heights in full fury.” - Storms which have “growling thunder,” and “great drop.” The name of the place itself is symbolic of it’s nature, “‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which it’s station is exposed in stormy weather.” The Heights are not very pleasing to the eye either. Bronte describes the building as a harsh, cold house where, “the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall and the corners defended with large jutting stones.” She depicts it as having a “pervading spirit of neglect,” being filled with un-cheerful things such as drab decor and cruel dogs. The description of, “a few stunted firs at the end of the house,” and, “a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.” proves that even the vegetation surrounding the struc...
When Willy and Linda purchased their home in Brooklyn, it seemed far removed from the city. Willy was young and strong and he believed he had a future full of success. He and his sons cut the tree limbs that threatened his home and put up a hammock that he would enjoy with his children. The green fields filled his home with wonderful aromas. Over the years, while Willy was struggling to pay for his home, the city grew and eventually surrounded the house.
The stone buildings and the concrete pavements looked bleak and hostile to me. The absence of green, growing things made the city seem dead” (Wright 27). The mention of the lack of plants simply implies that the typical Black family were poor, as the color of green symbolizes wealth and prosperity that only the whites have at that time. This is similar to Melton’s experience living as a white family in hometown of Wade where he point out that, “Only the “better” homes of the village had lawns, not the smooth green lawns of Better Homes and Gardens but lawns of several grasses and a variety of weeds, with the greenish-brown hue of army camouflage” (McLaurin 10). Melton observation like Richard convey the message that presence of green represent the wealth of the home owner. Here again Richard uses the word “bleak” to describe the black life, “Whenever I thought of the essential bleakness of black life in America, I knew that Negroes had never been allowed to catch the full spirit of Western civilization, that they lived somehow in it but not of it” (Wright 63). Richard questions the role of the blacks in fitting with the whites and the use of
In the beginning of the passage, the reader is introduced to the setting of the story, a small town. “The town itself is dreary; not much is there except the cotton mill, the two-room houses where the workers live, a few peach trees, a church with two colored windows, and a miserable main street only a hundred yards long.” As McCullers opens this passage, you can almost picture a dead town. As the author describes it, it is not a very happening place. He explains that there are only two room houses, where the workers in the area live. This may be depicting that many people do not live here anymore. A guess would be that maybe after the café was shut down, many people moved out of the area because of the lack of a functioning society. McCullers goes on to explain the town: “If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do. The largest building, in the very center of the town, is boarded up completely and leans so far to the right that it seems boun...
After the flood, the landlord of Carrington Village inspects the vicinity. Lamming pays special attention to the reverence all of the villagers have for the inspector and he begins to highlight the role of the village overseer within the social hierarchy. The village overseers were tasked with “patrolling the lands at all hours of the day” (Lamming 26). George notes the “tense relationship between the overseer and the ordinary villager” (Lamming 26). When the landlord accuses “the overseers of conniving, of slackening on the job” the overseers crack down on the villagers in an “authoritarian” manner (Lamming 26). The landlord and the overseer believe that their “enemy” is what Lamming describes as “my people” (Lamming 27). The higher powers demonized black villagers and this stemmed from the subconscious belief that white people were superior to blacks. George Lamming sheds light on the fact that the overseer’s hostile disposition towards the villagers further perpetuated the stereotype that black villagers were “low-down nigger people [who]…don’t like to see their people get on”. The overseer nor the inspector ever made an effort to disprove their feelings toward black people so their experiences only reaffirmed their racist beliefs. Michael Hanchard’s article, “Contours of Black Political Thought: An
The love which Hardy had, for architecture, is displayed throughout this novel with the descriptions of the surrounding countryside, the buildings, the commerce, the roads, and the amusements that make up the environment of Casterbridge. The town of Casterbridge in Wessex, an ancient name for the West Saxon kingdom of the Middle Ages, is no longer used geographically. It comprises of Doreshire and parts of other western England countries. The country and the town meet at a mathematical line. The town is shut in by a square wall of trees, like a plot of garden grounded by a box-edging. When overlooking Casterbridge, there are towers, gables, chimneys, and casements standing tall and strong to show the development of the buildings. The chief hotel in Casterbridge-namely, the Kings Arms, is a spacious bow-window projected into the street over the main portico. The homes of Casterbridge consist of timber homes with overhanging stories, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing-string. There were other houses of brick-nogging, which derived their chief support from those adjoining. The roofs consisted of slate patched with tiles, and occasionally there was a roof of thatch. Detail to buildings of Casterbridge gives readers a visual insight to the composition to the social classes of the town.