In our contemporary lives, we are constantly being exposed to visual imagery. Whether it be through television, film, or photography, visual media has become an important means of understanding the world around us. This visual bombardment of television and motion pictures has decreased the mainstream popularity of reading texts; however, the J.J. Steinfeld short story "A Room of Pure Remembrance"dispels this trend. J.J. Steinfeld utilizes descriptive writing thereby enabling the reader to imagine his work as if it were a play. Steinfeld's use of vivid description of the office setting, the characters, including their personalities, appearances, mannerisms and overall tone, entice the reader, drawing them into the visual realm the author has created within the pages of the text. Through his use of description, Steinfeld brings his story to new heights of realism, enabling the reader to envision the text as if it were taking place in reality. This experience of visualization is essential in bringing the story to life, allowing the readers to picture the text as if it were a play.
The set is a major part of the play because it communicates the mood and atmosphere of the story. Steinfeld describes the psychiatrists office in great detail, making it easy to better picture the setting. He describes the office as having seven thick-cushioned, dark fabric comfortable chairs. The chair arrangement can be taken as a stage direction in how they are to be arranged. Steinfeld describes the arrangement of the chairs when he writes:
In an eighth chair, a brown-leather reclining chair just outside the semi-circle of the seven chairs, the Old Doctor sits alone in this room where he conducts the Thursday night, three-hour group-therapy sess...
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These first couple of lines set the story up and prepare the reader for what they are about to experience in his text. Steinfeld has an exact idea of what he wants the play to feel and look like and he makes this very clear throughout the story.
Steinfeld's use of vivid description of the office setting, the movement of the characters amongst the stage and the characters themselves, including their personalities, appearances, mannerisms and overall tone, entice the reader, drawing them into the world created within the pages of the text. This makes it easy for the reader to visualize the story as a play. Through his use of description, Steinfeld brings his story to new heights of realism. J.J. Steinfeld has written a story that would be excellent for presenting on stage as a play, taking ques and directions found in the text "A Room of Pure Remembrance."
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
She continues this idea, by claiming that within this context, it is important for the writer to examine the specific milieu in which the scene takes place, and what feelings and impressions it evokes. She defines the term memory as being "the deliberate act of remembering [which] is a form of willed creation" (Morrison, p.
This paper will take a look at Salvador Dali’s painting, The Persistence of Memory, painted in 1931. As the viewer can tell, this is a story of time and life. The memories start in the background where all is well and things are straight and calm. Moving on to the cliff, the observer possibly sees a well-behaved teenager. There is nothing horrible here that leads the spectator to gasp, and the viewer knows this person made it through that time in their life. Then the picture moves on to the age of about twenty, the memories are fond but in the distant past. The memories are protected by a white blanket so that they do not just fall into the background. Then something happened where the person had some times in their life that had not been so great. They are there as a reminder, but they are part of a very dead place. The person’s being becomes full of life again as the clock on the shelf seems to be newer. The clock is placed on the shelf and the numbers are able to be read. This tells of a recent time, yet starting to decay by the fly being there. The pocket watch is there to let the observer know the story is not done; there are more wonderful memories on their way.
Also the play would not get anywhere else. No one would watch it. The use of the prologue in giving an introduction and background to the conflict is a wise one. As it was certain phrases and words, to show how. the families are in anguish and don’t like each other.
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.
Zefferelli recreates scenes from the play with outstanding visual and auditory precision, making it easier for those who have not read the play to understand the plot and
line. We know that the quote is an important theme that shows the plot of the play in a few
This play is like a story from a book, you get inside of the main actors thoughts just
The backdrop being an active background rather than the traditional painted scenery, and the seating arrangements of the audience made you feel fully experienced and immersed in the play. The use of a black box for the play was a great idea, because it gave focus to the backdrop; which to me was the center focus of the play, reminding us that this is just a daily occurrence. The play started in midafternoon at Feuf’s country home with her two friends Christina and Cindy. This scene is significant you learn that Fefu is a strong, independent woman, who doesn’t care what other people think about her. I would say the middle of the play is the most important because this is where you learn about Fefu’s friends. The characters are split up in different parts of the house, each one dealing with a different problem, from trying to understand themselves, to understanding life itself. This is where you start to figure out that each character is just a figment of Fefu’s imagination. Each character represents a different personality of hers. Which leads well to the end of the
As is common to Beckett's work, the stage setting for this play relies very little upon flashy backdrops and a multitude of characters, and more so upon the mood that the scene creates. He presents only the bare necessity, achieving a scene that is able to expose stark honesty.
In “The Diary of Anne Frank”, imagery is used to give the reader an idea of what things are like. Since “The Diary of Anne Frank” is written as a play, imagery plays a major role in establishing the personality of the characters. In the beginning, the authors describe Mr. Frank as he comes back to the secret annex. “He is gentle, cultured European in his middle years. There is a trace of German accent in his speech… He is weak, ill. His clothes are threadbare” (Goodrich and Hackett, Scene 1). From this, the reader is given an immediate description of both Mr. Frank’s appearance and nature. In Scene 2, Mr. Van Daan’s reaction to the Frank’s being late. “...in the main room, pacing up and down, nervously smoking a cigarette. His clothes and
I turn around to look for the chairs and saw the west wall covered with old cracked wallpaper plastered with flowers. I glance behind me and see the receptionist desk once again, and the bulletin board on the wall next to it with dentist jokes and advertisements all over it. The receptionist smiles at me again and I turn back around. I see that the North and South walls are covered with old wood paneling. One wall has the door in which I just entered, and the other has the dark tunnel leading to the exam rooms. I spot the chairs just across the waiting room on both walls. I quickly choose the end one with green and orange flowers covering it and sit down.
I am going to write about the ways in which my own memory and imagination influence your personal sense of place. Sense of place is defined as how a place will look in imagination. Memory and imagination can influence your personal sense of place because that place would be special in your heart. This paper will reflect my imagination.
The third observation site I visited was my professor, Dr. Saltarrelli’s private clinic Autumn Oaks. Her clinic is a relatively new clinic, but the area around the building is old. Her clients range from toddlers to adults. Some of her clients see her for either speech therapy or for audiology. The clinic is quite small; there was a small hallway with a trophy case displaying equipment used for hearing aids and some pictures. Along the hallway there was a designated therapy room, two offices, a restroom and a kitchen. The therapy room was quite small it contained one adult sized table with two chairs, a children’s table with two chairs, a set of hanging cabinets, and a huge storage cabinet filled with board games and other play equipment.
...to make opinions and observations about them. It also makes us as readers and viewers think about true love and what it means. I found this play to be incredibly interesting, insightful, and an overall wonderful text to read and analyze.