Q: Discuss the third section as befitting conclusion to novel? "To the Lighthouse" is based on stream of conscious technique. It mainly deals with the different ways of perceiving the life. Many of the people in it are struggling to find answers to the answerable questions in the first section: `Who knows what we are? What we feel? These questions have reechoed in the third section. Similarly, there are number of issues which are left loose ended in first part have resolved and tied up in the third section. Structurally speaking the novel is divided into three parts with the unequal lengths of time covered by each of three sections. The first and the third -`The Window' and `The Lighthouse' each occupy less than a day. On the other hand, the middle section, `Time Passes' deals with a span of about ten years. But, there is coherence in the structure, first and third part are well connected. This unity is achieved by the power of an individual's mind to bring all elements of living and feeling together and make sense of them; Lily Briscoe mainly plays this part in the last section. Secondly, the apparent device of ending the `The Window' on night and starting the `The lighthouse' with morning unite the two sections. With this unity constructed, we find the unresolved issues addressed at start, are brought back to live in third part. However, number of characters is missing including protagonist of the novel Mrs. Ramsay. Her absence is felt, but we see that Mrs. Ramsay remains the driving force in solving every problem. To start with, the main concern of expedition to lighthouse is brought into action because of Mrs. Ramsay. She said at start concerning this issue that they will go, "if it's fine tomorrow." Further, on s... ... middle of paper ... ...lighthouse true and in a way accepts the fact father and mother are equally important in his life. Mr. Carmichael, who is seen idle in the beginning, played important part in third. He provides the key answers for Lily Briscoe in achieving her vision. Apart from that, Lily Briscoe achieves what Mrs.Ramsay wanted to achieve. She succeed in forming a communication with Mr. Carmichael at the end, when he says, "They have landed" Lily immediately realizes that he is with her and thinking of the same thing. The last section, stand as the befitting end for the novel. The declaration, "He has landed," and "it is finished" are the official declaration of all the matters being solved. Structurally and thematically third section fulfills all the necessary issues and concludes what ever is started in the first portion of the novel.
Typically, a novel contains four basic parts: a beginning, middle, climax, and the end. The beginning sets the tone for the book and introduces the reader to the characters and the setting. The majority of the novel comes from middle where the plot takes place. The plot is what usually captures the reader’s attention and allows the reader to become mentally involved. Next, is the climax of the story. This is the point in the book where everything comes together and the reader’s attention is at the fullest. Finally, there is the end. In the end of a book, the reader is typically left asking no questions, and satisfied with the outcome of the previous events. However, in the novel The Things They Carried the setup of the book is quite different. This book is written in a genre of literature called “metafiction.” “Metafiction” is a term given to fictional story in which the author makes the reader question what is fiction and what is reality. This is very important in the setup of the Tim’s writing because it forces the reader to draw his or her own conclusion about the story. However, this is not one story at all; instead, O’Brien writes the book as if each chapter were its own short story. Although all the chapters have relation to one another, when reading the book, the reader is compelled to keep reading. It is almost as if the reader is listening to a “soldier storyteller” over a long period of time.
The beginning of the novel begins with the main character Guy Montag burning down a house. Montag uses a kerosene pack to burn down the home with the specific objective of burning all the books that are inside to ash. After Montag successfully destroys all the books and the home, he returns to the fire station. Montag, while at the station, shines his helmet, hangs his jacket and takes a shower. After a short period of time, Montag leaves the fire station to go to the subway and go home. After Montag gets off the subway and walks down the street, he walks into a girl name Clarisse McCiellan, who he later finds out during their walk to be his new neighbor. During McCiellan and Montag’s talk, they discuss his firefighter career, how long he has been a firefighter, how she is not afraid of him and if firemen put fires out instead of starting them in the past. After walking for a few streets, they reach their homes. Before McCiellan leaves, she asks Montag if he is happy. However, he is unable to respond because she leaves. Montag then enters his house and goes to his bedroom. Montag, before being able to make it to his bed, trips on an object on the floor. He uses his lighter to light his room. Then, Montag sees his wife barely alive because she has taken a bottle of sleeping pills. Montag grabs the phone and calls for medical assistance for his wife. Two men respond to the house and use two machines to pump her stomach and clean her blood. After the two men leave, Montag goes outside to the porch of McCiellan’s house. After a while, he returns to his house and goes to sleep. The next morning, Montag wakes up with his wife Mildred cooking breakfast in the kitchen. The two o...
In the story of an hour we follow Mrs. Mallard after receiving the news of her husbands death. After receiving the news she closes herself off in her room and sinks into her chair overlooking a big bright window. The window has a big part in the story because it symbolizes many thought and emotions going through Mrs. Mallards Mind.
This passage defines the character of the narrators’ father as an intelligent man who wants a better life for his children, as well as establishes the narrators’ mothers’ stubbornness and strong opposition to change as key elements of the plot.
The emotions throughout the society are shared with the individuals throughout their confusing times, and by their shared experiences. The times spent together of the characters brought the individuals closer together through the dark negative times, and through the light positive situations of society. The confusing part of peoples lives are brought together and are shown throughout the status of society. The stories of the “Encounter,” “Eveline,” and “The Dead” come together with similar experiences of situations of light and dark. The society bring the individuals closer together by shared times.
In “Cathedral”, we see a trapped narrator undergo a small venture that has the possibility to make his life turn for the absolute better. Something as slight as a blind man coming over for dinner one night has the power to change the narrator’s entire perspective. This story is captivating and meaningful because it reminds us of the tiny experiences in our own lives that were monumental and moved us greatly despite how minuscule it may seem to the outside world. As we look back at our lives, we slowly come to the realization that our small experiences are in fact actually the biggest.
The story describes the protagonist who is coming of age as torn between the two worlds which he loves equally, represented by his mother and his father. He is now mature and is reflecting on his life and the difficulty of his childhood as a fisherman. Despite becoming a university professor and achieving his father’s dream, he feels lonely and regretful since, “No one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters of the pier” (MacLeod 261). Like his father, the narrator thinks about what his life could have been like if he had chosen another path. Now, with the wisdom and experience that comes from aging and the passing of time, he is trying to make sense of his own life and accept that he could not please everyone. The turmoil in his mind makes the narrator say, “I wished that the two things I loved so dearly did not exclude each other in a manner that was so blunt and too clear” (MacLeod 273). Once a decision is made, it is sometimes better to leave the past and focus on the present and future. The memories of the narrator’s family, the boat and the rural community in which he spent the beginning of his life made the narrator the person who he is today, but it is just a part of him, and should not consume his present.
She describes the September morning as “mild, benignant, yet with a keener breath than the summer months.” She then goes on to describe the field outside her window, using word choice that is quite the opposite of words that would be used to describe a depressing story. She depicts the exact opposite of death, and creates a feeling of joy, happiness, and life to the world outside her room. After this, she goes into great detail about the “festivities” of the rooks among the treetops, and how they “soared round the treetops until it looked as if a vast net with thousands of black knots in it had been cast up into the air”. There is so much going on around her that “it was difficult to keep the eyes strictly turned upon the book.” Descriptions like these are no way to describe a seemingly depressing story about a moth, but by using these, joyful descriptions, Woolf connects everything happening outside to a single strand of energy. These images set a lively tone for the world around her, and now allow her to further introduce the moth into the story.
In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard, is going through a life changing event that is brought on by the news of the death of her husband’s death, grieves for a very short time and discovers that she will now be able to live for herself. The end of her last hour comes when she sees her husband walking through the door. Kate Chopin displays symbolism starting with Mrs. Mallard’s heart trouble representing her dissatisfaction with her marriage and unhappiness, the open window represents the new life and opportunities that await her, and the patches of blue sky represents freedom and a tunnel of hope to show the emotions and changes of Mrs. Mallard after hearing of the loss of her husband.
In the biography, the narrator writes about his childhood life, and how he tries to live up to his dad who he never met. In theory, mothers and fathers are very essential in child development. Mothers are there to nature and provide for a child; while fathers are there to give guidance and be a role model. There are two kinds of
Ramsay 's need to read everyone, especially her husband, Woolf shows the loneliness Mrs. Ramsay feels even with her family close by. Woolf relies heavily on Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay’s relationship to represent and highlight each character’s need for connection. As previously stated, Mr. And Mrs. Ramsay are not happily married. Mrs. Ramsay tries to convince herself that she is content in her family life but her views on the life in general show that she is a deeply unhappy woman. In order to deal with this unhappiness, Mrs. Ramsay reads people as a way to feel close to them. She felt, “for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance (Woolf 60).” Those are not the life views of a happily married woman, or, in that case, a happy women in general. Mrs. Ramsay is one of the, if not the, loneliest character in To the Lighthouse. She looks towards her connections with her kids and husband as a path to take her away from that lonely feeling. When her kids and husband are happy she is happy. And she tries to insure that happiness through her readings of their needs. Mrs. Ramsay seeks Mr. Ramsay 's approval greatly. When she pleases him, Mrs. Ramsay feels more satisfied and connected to her husband. This is why she tries to read him whenever she can. By constantly knowing how her husband feels she can empathize with him and stay close to him. Staying connected to him
The two texts convey the theme of freedom over confinement by the use of symbols. In The Story of an Hour, after Mrs. Mallard rushes to her room she sits down in a comfortable chair and “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were aquiver with new spring and life.” The open window symbolizes freedom and opportunities that await her now that her husband is gone. Everything she is experiencing while looking out the window suggests feelings of joy and
Adam, a corporal officer, starts as man who works everyday to catch the ‘villains’ of society, but is not spending enough time with his family, especially his son. He favors his nine year old daughter over his fifteen year old son. Adam views his daughter as a sweet child, and his son as a stubborn teenager who is going through a rebellious stage. However, when his daughter is killed in an accident, his perspective of family changes. In his grief, he states that he wishes he had been a better father. His wife reminds him that he still is a father and he realizes that he still has a chance with his son, Dylan. After his Daughter’s death, he creates a resolution from scriptures that states how he will be a better father. Because of the resolution he creates, he opens up to and spends more time with his son. By th...
Dalloway’s character development. When Mrs. Dalloway finds out that Septimus, her foil in the book, committed suicide, she came to the realization that “She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the fun” (186). Because Mrs. Dalloway is not separated into chapters or sections, the book is mainly divided by the striking of the clock. Every time the clock strikes, it interrupts the thoughts of the characters and lends to a moment of epiphany or a shift in the book. Because the clock is a symbol for the everlasting progression of time, it waits for nobody. The clock continuously ticks, which Mrs. Dalloway was originally concerned about as the inevitable marching of time would eventually lead to her death. However, after learning about Septimus’s death, she realizes how beautiful life is. Although she has never met him, Mrs. Dalloway identifies with Septimus, and through his death, she learns to appreciate life and to accept death. The clock strikes to signify not only the progression of time, but also Mrs. Dalloway’s revelation. Woolf’s ability to relate the striking of the clock to the characters reveals her multi-faceted sophisticated
Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' is a fine example of modernist literature, like her fellow modernist writers James Joyce and D.H Lawrence. This novel in particular is of the most autobiographical. The similarities between the story and Woolf's own life are not accidental. The lighthouse, situations and deaths within the novel are all parallel to Woolf's childhood, she wrote in her diary 'I used to think of [father] & mother daily; but writing The Lighthouse, laid them in my mind ….(I believe this to be true – that I was obsessed by them both, unheathily; & writing of them was a necessary act). Woolf, Diary, 28 November 1928) Woolf like many other modernist writers uses stream of consciousness, this novel in particular features very little dialogue, preferring one thought, memory or idea to trigger another, providing an honest if not reliable account of the characters lives. There novels motifs are paired with many of the novels images. The novel features two main motifs that Woolf appears to be interested in examining, firstly we notice the relationships' between men and women and the other appears to be Woolf's use of parenthesis. The novels images only become apparent once these motifs have been explored, allowing the reader to examine the relationships between the different characters.