Anyone who reads Clare’s writing would find it impossible to deny how her compelling characters are brought to life with their individual humor and backstories. One example of this is her first book in the Mortal Instruments Series, City of Bones. Clare wrote “‘Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.”
“Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.” These few lines shows readers Jace’s character and personality. From just a few sentences Clare wrote, one can tell Jace Wayland is a quick witted and egoistic person. Not a single character in Clare’s
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Take a look at a sentence Clare wrote in City of Bone: “‘The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed.’” Although this quote is only one sentence, it has the ability to make someone think about what the little boy learned and how that lesson would later impact his life. “To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed” is probably one of the most unforgettable phrases Clare wrote in her books. One of my favorite lines from Clare is in City of Glass when it reads, “‘People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.’” The way Clare worded the theme of good and bad is really unique. It’s easy to understand what the quote is saying but it may be contradictory to what some people think. However, if someone were to think about its meaning in silence, they’ll realize how true the quote actually is. In City of Glass, Clare wrote this: “‘You can only push the truth down for so long, then it’ll bubble back up.’” This sentence was at first confusing. It can make one wonder how people can know the truth of something if you never tell them what the truth is. As for me, I’m still trying to decipher what Clare meant when she wrote that sentence. The simplest sentences in Clare’s
In 1983, author Margaret Atwood published the short story Happy Ending. It is written in third person swapping from limited to omniscient, though ultimately being told directly toward the reader finishing off with second person and sentences talking directly to the reader mixed in along the way. The story consists of letters going from A to F, with every letter telling of some scenario that takes place involving the only five characters: John, Mary, Madge, James and Fred. Story A holds the typical boy meets girl, falls in love, marry and live happily ever after until death. With this familiar story, it is granted the title Happy Ending and becomes the symbol that the rest of the story will build off of.
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, irony is often used to convey information and contribute to the overall theme of the novel. Many parts of the book contain this irony because it works well for fueling either the main antagonist or protagonist actions. Fahrenheit 451 is a book based on the ideals of a “utopian society” where books are illegal and burned if they’re found. Firemen are ordered to burn books and all houses that contain them, versus putting out fires and protecting people. In communities people don’t think, they cannot be ‘intellectuals’, and they are forced become drones of the government’s ideals. In the novel Farenheit 451 irony is used to express the complex ideas of the society, but also gives the book more understanding and meaning by making us think differently, how characters are ironically told not to.
The fact that they’re 24 carrot gold indicates that she wants the best for herself and her new life. It also symbolizes her purity and strength as a person.
Clare longs to be part of the black community again and throughout the book tries to integrate herself back into it while remaining part of white society. Although her mother is black, Clare has managed to pass as a white woman and gain the privileges that being a person of white skin color attains in her society. However whenever Clare is amongst black people, she has a sense of freedom she does not feel when within the white community. She feels a sense of community with them and feels integrated rather than isolated. When Clare visits Irene she mentions, “For I am lonely, so lonely… cannot help to be with you again, as I have never longed for anything before; you can’t know how in this pale life of mine I am all the time seeing the bright pictures of that other that I o...
The central theme of Flannery O’Connor’s three short stories is irony. Her stories are parables, that is, short stories with a lesson to be learned.
In the poem "Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters, it describes a poetic woman who is from a small village. It highlights that some of the people in that small village made bad remarks about her person that brought her down. In verse number 2 it says,"Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk,". This indicates that her life in a small community was not at all great. This poem consists of other people who have some sort of relationship with Jones. For example, "Butch" Weldy, is the person who captures Jones and brutally hurts her. Another person who has a relationship with Jones is Doctor Meyers. This person is who she seeks after getting brutally attacked. Her life depended on this man's care but in the end, he cannot save her. The things this lets us know about the poet's view on small-town American culture and values is that there are things that are simply overlooked. People don't sit down and think how dangerous a small town can really be.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is a satire on the state of world affairs in the 1960's. Vonnegut made a commentary in this book on the tendency of humans to be warlike, belligerent, and shortsighted. The main character of the book, the narrator, is certainly not a protagonist, although the modern reader craves a hero in every story and the narrator in this one is the most likely candidate. Through the narrator's eyes, Vonnegut created a story of black humor ending in the destruction of the earth.
Clare Kendry's life is a perfect example of the plight of the "tragic mulatto." This is a conventional "character who 'passes' [as a white person] and then reveals pangs of anguish resulting from forsaking his or her black identity" (Tate 142). In Passing, Clare "seems to have one overriding urge: to return to the [African American] world she left" (Davis 98). However, once she does return back to the African American community, her story leads to a tragic ending.
As I read Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, I find myself being completely consumed by the rich tale that the author weaves; a tragic and ironic tale that concisely and precisely utilizes irony and foreshadowing with expert skill. As the story progresses, it is readily apparent that the story will end in a tragic and predictable state due to the devices which O’Connor expertly employs and thusly, I find that I cannot stop reading it; the plot grows thicker with every sentence and by doing so, the characters within the story are infinitely real in my mind’s eye. As I consider these factors, the story focuses on two main characters; that of the grandmother, who comes across as self-centered and self-serving and The Misfit, a man, who quite ingeniously, also appears to be self-centered and self-serving. It is the story behind the grandmother, however, that evidence appears to demonstrate the extreme differences between her superficial self and the true character of her persona; as the story unfolds, and proof of my thought process becomes apparently clear.
In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls goes through more than enough traumatizing events in her childhood. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is an accurate cliché describing her childhood. Many times, in each of our lives, this cliché has been said to us or we have thought it when something hard is happening. In April, I moved out of my childhood home and into my cabin which was forty-five minutes away from school. For Jeannette, simply moving houses wasn’t a big deal and more of an excitement; for me it was a big step in my life. Many times, throughout this experience of moving out of my house, then into my cabin, and then into a new house a couple months later, I thought of the cliché “what doesn’t kill you
William Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men is novel that explores the political society and its influences. Like several politicians in modern society, several characters have qualities that seem unsuitable to the impression that have made. These ironies in All the King’s Men reveal how the characters have flaws, which can result in critical consequences. Jack Burden, Adam Stanton, Judge Irwin and Willie Stark are characters that with ironic traits.
“You know we are made up of love and hate but both of them are balanced on a razor blade.”-Ed Sheeran “What Do I Know?”. In the poem “Little”Sister, Vina Berger uses the rhythm of iambic pentameter and many metaphors to describe the fine line between love and hate. “Little”Sister paints a picture of Berger’s strong emotions at her younger sister in an articulate yet figurative manner. It shows that the line between love and hate is so fine that sometimes the people that we destest the most are also the people we adore the most. This point is particularly illustrated in line(s) 9 and 10 when Berger describes how she loves and hates her sister's sense of humor at the same time “It enrages me that your sense of humor; Smacks a reluctant smile
The Foreshadowing-He said that he wished to be a pirate & dead for a while. “ Ah, If he could only die temporarily! ”
In the poem “The Broken Heart”, the narrator’s disgust of his own emotional response to having lost his first love is strongly illustrated as violent and malignant. Using terminology to define love such as “plague” and then referring to his chest as “shattered glass” is what creates the emotion that the narrator is looking for. The narrator even goes far enough to call love a “tyrant” who steals hearts and destroys them. By using words with heavy and negative connotations, love loses the idealistic softness that is it typically known as and takes on a meaning akin to something a fearful as death. By creating the illusion that love has broken him and all he has remaining are the fragments of his “love”, he completely ignores the blame of the
In his dramatic monologue, Robert Browning uses irony, diction, and imagery to achieve a haunting effect.