Leaving is a very difficult and emotional thing to do. There are people who leave for the best and then there are also people who leave because it’s their time to pass on through the cycle of life. Whatever one's reasonings are for removing themselves, whether positive or not, this person is affected emotionally. This emotional aspect can derive from hopes and memories of a hometown like in “Departure” by Sherwood Anderson or the heartbreaking last words of star-crossed lovers in “Song- Farewell to Eliza” by Robert Burns.
In Anderson’s “Departure,” the main character is a man named Mr. George Willard, and as the storyline unfolds the readers are walked through his final moments in his hometown of Winesburg before his life is changed in new, big city. After his final goodbyes to his friends, Mr. Willard climbed aboard, took a seat, and began reminiscing this town “Things like his mother's death”(Anderson, 11). George, upon his departure, began thinking of his upcoming adventure “The young man’s mind was carried away...With the recollection of little things occupying his mind... car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.”(12). Willard leaned back into his seat throughout his train ride to the new city emotionally thinking
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This passage is the last words written to Eliza from a deathbed “But from the latest throb that leaves my heart, While Death stands victor by,” (Burns, 13-14). The lover who has written to Eliza is very emotional about the final goodbyes expressed to Eliza “Farewell, farewell, Eliza dear… We must part to meet no more!”(9-12). Eliza’s partner wholeheartedly loved her, but was forced by nature to leave her; this not being a self-willing choice of the narrator, he/she is conflicted with love and the heart-rendering dismissal of his/her star-crossed partner in the final moment of their
This gives the author opportunity to use his writing to give personal insight to the situation. Moody gives a first person narrative of a person’s mind when going through a highly unexpected change in their life through the narrator. The story starts sporadically going from present day Halloween to past memories of the narrator with his sister. Moody adds sentences fragments such as “Jokes with the fillip of sentimentality. Anyway, in this picture her blond hair...” (294). The fragments that constantly appears gives the narrator a complex mindset, and the narrator gets off topic throughout the story. After a recent death or just any major change in life, the thoughts of the mind are running trying to make sense of the situation. His mind creates confusion in the story, but this is what the author wants to portray through the
Ted Kooser’s “Abandoned Farmhouse” is a tragic piece about a woman fleeing with her child, the husband ditched in isolation. The mood of the poem is dark and lonesome, by imagining the painting the writer was describing I felt grim because of what the family went through. As reported in the text, ”Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.” This demonstrates the understanding of why they deserted the farmhouse. The author also composes, “And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.” This proves that the residence was unaccompanied. When placing the final touches, the reader begins feeling dark and lonesome, asking about the families disappearance.
In the passage from the novel LUCY, author Jamaica Kincaid dramatizes the forces of self and environment, through her character whose identity is challenged with a move. The new home provided all she needed, but it was all so many changes, she “didn’t want to take in anything else” (15-16). Her old “familiar and predictable past”(40) stayed behind her, and she now had to find who she was in her new life. Kincaid uses detail, metaphor, and tone in the passage to show her character’s internal struggle.
Galloway keeps up a melancholy yet optimistic mood for the readers throughout the scene. The mix of emotions makes this writing distinct from other writings because the mood is more favorable for readers. He states “Kenan watches as his city reheals itself,” which suggests a positive and a more hopeful tone. In addition, he also states “like he used to when they were much younger.” This quotations carries a more melancholy mood with it. This combination of emotion, from being sad to hopeful, creates a subtle mood within a reader which keeps readers interested in the scene. Thus making the story more likely for readers to never forget about.
“I didn’t see—anybody. There wasn’t nothing, but a bunch of steers—and the barbed wire fence.” (94) His desperation and loneliness overpowering all, Adams takes up his initial idea of running down the hitchhiker, but his momentary traveling companion does not see the victim, claiming he was never there. Now in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the hitchhiker doesn’t wait for Adams to make a stop before appearing; his form and face flit by every other mile. (96) Learning of his mother’s prostration and the death of Ronald Adams, the protagonist leaves the audience with his last thought: Somewhere among them, he is waiting for me. Somewhere I shall know who he is, and who . . . I . . . am . . .” (97) Alone, without the willpower to fight for survival, the main character fades into a mist of doubt and helplessness.
In the commencement of the story, the narrator is shocked and in disbelief about the news of his brother’s incarceration, “It was not to be believed” (83). It had been over a year since he had seen his brother, but all he had was memories of him, “This would always be at a moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said or done” (83). The narrator’s thoughts about Sonny triggered his anxiety that very day. It was difficult to bear the news of what his brother had become, yet at some point he could relate to Sonny on a personal level, “I hear my brother. And myself” (84). After the news had spurred, the narrator experienced extreme anxiety to the point of sweating. Jus...
Quite often in life we wish for things bigger than ourselves. Seeming to get wrapped up in our own minds we do not pay attention to reality. As reality comes full force we are not sure how to take it, so we let it take us. In the writing “Where are you going, where have you been?” we see Oates craft archetypes and allegories into the work through detail and word choice in order to help the reader understand the shocking outdistancing of day dreams and the overshadowing sockdolager called reality. These archetypes and allegories provide a way for the reader to join Connie in the story, but also to see the danger of what Connie doesn’t see.
Discoveries can be confronting when individuals leave their familiar worlds. However, venturing into the unknown can result in growth and transformation. The consequences of a discovery can lead an individual into discovering themselves and have a change of perspective of the world and society. Through Michael Gow’s play, Away, and Shaun Tan’s picture book, The Red Tree, both composers shape the meaning of discovery through characters’ isolation, as the manifestation of self-discovery is powerfully communicated through the utilisation of dramatic and visual techniques.
"It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom's cabin. Her husband's suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a confused and stunning sense of the risk she was running, in leaving the only home she had ever known, and cutting loose from the protection of a friend whom she loved and revered. "
Eliza’s blatant disregard for the concern of those around her contributed heavily to her demise. Had she listened to her friends and family when they told her to marry Mr...
Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed. Packing up and leaving one's home is one of the hardest things a person can experience. Unfortunately, there are many instances when people are forced to do so.
This soliloquy is important to the play because it shows how words that were not intended, could be intended in this play. There is a lot of that in this play. This soliloquy triggers the turning point in the play when the two lovers begin to get to know each other and make plans for the future about where to meet and such. In their previous encounter, they did not talk about the future, or even exchange names. Here, they begin the love trek that is fated to end.
Also, the author’s intention of mentioning that the bus and the passengers were departing could be to reemphasize Charley’s isolation. The author tends to list out Charley’s struggles and the events from the war to increase the effect it left on the reader, emphasizing the grief in Charley’s life. As the passage progresses, the reader learns about the child who Charley initially ignores. However, the spatial description of Charley and the boy is very metaphoric. A key scene in the passage is that of the boy on the bicycle near the gates of the graveyard....
Anderson is an extremely honest and detailed writer. Her attention to the most minute detail and her grand explanations of spaces impacts her writing style and her reader’s reactions. This particularity is seen in this example: “I woke to a room of sunshine. A wispy-thin curtain veiled a multi-paned sliding door of glass. The windows needed washing but slid easily apart and I stepped out onto a tilted balcony, a string mop on a hook to the left of me, and a half-missing board where I had planned to put my right foot.
Mrs. Mallard’s repressed married life is a secret that she keeps to herself. She is not open and honest with her sister Josephine who has shown nothing but concern. This is clearly evident in the great care that her sister and husband’s friend Richard show to break the news of her husband’s tragic death as gently as they can. They think that she is so much in love with him that hearing the news of his death would aggravate her poor heart condition and lead to death. Little do they know that she did not love him dearly at all and in fact took the news in a very positive way, opening her arms to welcome a new life without her husband. This can be seen in the fact that when she storms into her room and her focus shifts drastically from that of her husband’s death to nature that is symbolic of new life and possibilities awaiting her. Her senses came to life; they come alive to the beauty in the nature. Her eyes could reach the vastness of the sky; she could smell the delicious breath of rain in the air; and ears became attentive to a song f...