Imagery, language, and details are some of the literary elements that Jack Finney, the author of “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, uses to prolong the plot. The author uses imagery to show that Tom was scared because his body started going limp, he wasn’t able to focus, and he was starting to think that he was going to die. Finney uses advanced vocabulary to show his level of intelligence and to describe many subjects. He uses details to describe Tom’s dangling shoelace, also the street he was hanging over, and his apartment. Jack Finney introduces Imagery, language, and details to sustain the plot. In “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, imagery is used when the protagonist, Tom, has climbed out of his window and over the balcony in order to reach an important sheet of paper. The author, Jack Finney, describes what Tom feels since he has been unsustained, over his …show more content…
Finney describes Tom’s dangling shoelace, the street, and describes his apartment. He describes how Tom saw his dangling shoelace and how he was so nervous it seemed to be moving in slow motion. The street is described as a slow road but there are some people walking under him. Tom’s apartment is described as small and has multiple complications. The tone of mysteriousness is shown with detail by the author Jack Finney. The author of “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, Jack Finney uses imagery, language, and details to portray different tones. Imagery was used to show that Tom, the main character, was scared because his body goes limp, and he wasn’t able to focus, and he began to think about death. Finney uses advanced language to show his level of intelligence. He uses detail to describe Tom’s shoelace, the street which Tom is hanging above, and Tom’s apartment. Imagery, language, and details are some of the literary elements that Jack Finney, the author of “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, uses to prolong the
In the story, “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket,” the main character is Tom Benecke. As the story progresses, he is faced with many decisions. He is forced to act quickly and because of this, many things about him change. In the story, Tom is ambitious, self-centered, and impatient. These three traits change significantly throughout the story.
Ken Kesey, the author, offers many examples of imagery through the Chief’s detailed narrative of the story. Appealing to the sense of sight, Bromden, describing the reactions of some invalid patients, says: “the Chronics woke up to look around with heads blue from lack of blood” (214). A touch imagery is present when the Chief describes McMurphy’s hands: “I remember the palm was smooth and hard as bone from hefting the wooden handles…”(23). After killing McMurphy, Bromden’s narrative appeals to the sense of sound when he expresses he “heard the wires and connections tearing out of the floor” (310). Guessing that fall is coming and using the sense of smell, Bromden states: “I ca...
As a teenager, Sheff’s son is described as “muscular, a weightlifter” with “stringy hair and a world-weary visage and languor”, giving readers the ability to imagine a good portion of Nic’s physique. Sheff describes his son, during his drug use, as being “frail, ill, and rambling -- a barely recognizable phantom.” The choice of words make it easy to be able to picture the state of Nic’s physical appearance compared to that of his younger, pre-drug abuse, self. There is another instance in which illustrative vocabulary is used to describe the clothing Sheff remembers Nic wearing in everyday life, such as “I imagine him wearing a worn-out T-shirt, his pants sagging and dirty, a black belt with metal studs [and] Converse sneakers, and his long curling hair pushed back out of his eyes.” The imagery used in this sentence allows readers to vividly picture all the aspects of what Sheff himself was picturing. This aspect of writing, imagery, helps convey the experiences that have been lived by the
Death is one of life's most challenging obstacles. Tim O'Brien was exposed to more than his fair share of death. To manage the emotional stress, he developed methods of coping with the death in his life. O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried, demonstrates his attempts to make death less real through psychotherapeutic tactics like telling stories about the dead as if they were living and conceiving the dead as items instead of people.
Imagery is an integral part of any narrative. The multiple narratives and cross observations made in As I Lay Dying are complex and they consist of many spectrums. Imagery alone can be sufficient to give the reader a rich sense of emotion, but when it symbolizes the themes of the story and reflects on the characteristics of the narrator it is truly a master piece. Imagery has been used by William Faulkner to create parallels that strengthen the themes of the story. The imagery is used a tool to appeal to the reader to convey the authors purpose.
Under the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a house far from society in the country, where she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health, but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her: “the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” The narrator is affected not only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the room’s yellow wallpaper which is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
...mple of imagery is when Richard’s friends run up to him with his article in their hands and a baffled look on their faces. This shows that Richard is a very talented writer for his age and that Richard is a very ambitious person because his school never taught him to write the way he does. This also shows that Richard took it upon himself to become a talented author and wants to be a writer when he grows up.
Due to King’s strange and frightening style of writing, the reader is left on the edge since they don't know what to expect when reading the literature of this unusual character. For example, in the text of, “Strawberry Spring”, the story begins in a normal and mellow tone until suddenly a fog hits. The next day the newspapers were drowned with the news that a woman, “had been murdered by her boyfriend”(King, “Strawberry Spring” 2). Accordingly, these actions are very frightening not only because they were unsuspected, but because they were performed by one lover to another. Also, the result of this horrifying incident is what we all dread, and that is death. As a result, this traumatising incident is “daring our nightmares”(King, “Why We Crave Horror, 1). Moreover, this story by King abides by his claim that we all view horror as a way to face our fears, and to show that we are not
and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these large buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation” (3). “Human desperation” represents the problems that people face daily. These obstacles are like a “fire”, they keep getting larger. As the fire gets larger, Tom’s eagerness to leave gets stronger. The fire is a symbol of reality. Reality is full of difficulties which Tom chooses not to accept. He believes leaving will allow him to get rid of obstacles. One of his struggles is his mom’s criticisms. She always tells him what to do and gets in fights with Tom because she cannot forget about the past issues. He also feels trapped by his job. Tom works in a warehouse just for his family but does not want to live like this forever. He wants to do what his father did and be released from his restraints, but he is unable to. Each ...
Bishop’s use of imagism in “One Art” helps the reader to comprehend the ability of the speaker to move on from lost items such as a mother’s watch or loved houses.
Piper’s use of imagery in this way gives the opportunity for the reader to experience “first hand” the power of words, and inspires the reader to be free from the fear of writing.
These are not the only objects of importance the narrator stores in his beloved briefcase, but they are the most encompassing of his story. In the novel’s final chapter, when the narrator is trapped in the dark sewer and must burn the papers from his briefcase to see his way, everything goes. First his high school diploma, then the Sambo doll, followed by a threatening anonymous note. Everything he burns from the briefcase—the “important papers” the superintendent spoke of in Chapter one—is a symbol of the narrator’s plight as the forces pulling his strings run him around.
...ttachment or emotion. Again, Heaney repeats the use of a discourse marker, to highlight how vividly he remembers the terrible time “Next morning, I went up into the room”. In contrast to the rest of the poem, Heaney finally writes more personally, beginning with the personal pronoun “I”. He describes his memory with an atmosphere that is soft and peaceful “Snowdrops and Candles soothed the bedside” as opposed to the harsh and angry adjectives previously used such as “stanched” and “crying”. With this, Heaney is becoming more and more intimate with his time alone with his brother’s body, and can finally get peace of mind about the death, but still finding the inevitable sadness one feels with the loss of a loved one “A four foot box, a foot for every year”, indirectly telling the reader how young his brother was, and describing that how unfortunate the death was.
Effectively using these elements in a piece of literature enhances the reader’s curiosity. One prime example of such usage of these elements is seen in Kate Chopin's writing. Her use of foreshadowing and use of emotional conflicts put into few words in the short piece "The Storm" adds an element that is alluring, holding the reader's interest. In this short piece of literature, a father and son, Bobinot and Bibi, are forced to remain in a store where they were shopping before the storm, waiting for the storm to pass over them. In the meantime, the wife and mother, Calixta, whom is still at home, receives an unexpected visit from a former lover named Alicee. The two have an affair and the story starts to come together. The story shows us how we tend to want what we beli...
One of the characteristically situation in the book is when he began to pain the big fence, this for a punishment Tom was fighting with a new boy, but also in this occasion Tom know how obtain his desire, so first he hoax Jim, a boy who work for the family, he offers to Jim a free water for pain the fence and Tom get what he want, the next person who hoax is Ben Rogers, Tom make him seem that painting is a funny thing and something that not is easy for a common person, we can say that the man will desire something ...