...How does Arthur Miller convey the tone of characters Kate and Joe on pages 162-163 through secondary text, language, punctuation and sentence structure? On pages 162 and 163, Arthur Miller conveys a variety of emotions through characters Kate and Joe. Through dialogue, secondary text, language, punctuation and sentence structure. Joes is depicted as guilty but doesn’t actually want to admit it and Kate is depicted as scared of telling the truth to Joe. Arthur Miller conveys Joe’s emotion of not accepting his guilt on page 162 through primary text when he says “Then what do I do? Tell me, talk to me, what do I do?”. In this quote we see a repetition of word “I” and “me”, which shows that he is confused, he knows that he is guilty but doesn’t want to accept it. This was Joe’s reaction when Kate blames Joe because Chris suddenly leaves. She blames Joe because he tried to escape trouble all his life. The reason Joe reacted this way was because he knew that he is guilty, a normal person wouldn’t have reacted this way. Also, Joe is shown as confused on page 163 through language and repetition. This is shown when Joe says: “Goddam, if Larry was alive he wouldn’t act like this. He understood the way the world is made. He listened to me. To him the world had a forty-foot front, it ended at the building line. This one, everything bothers him. You make a deal, overcharge two cents, and his hair falls out. He don’t understand money. Too easy, it came too easy.” In this quote the word...
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...Zora’s work reflected the use of African American legends in her short stories. Zora Hurston is a vital figure who composed stories and plays during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. She was committed to telling the stories of many cultures to allocate their social legacy with deference and love with an end goal to beat the unrefined stereotyping of the period. In 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora wrote a story called “Spunk”. In the story “Spunk”, Zora used the literary terms like character, setting, and conflict that catches the reader’s attention and makes the story “Spunk” a page turner. Zora used the literacy term character in her story “Spunk”, to give the readers an idea about the character personalities. The term character was also used to help the readers to connect with the characters in the story, making the story very interesting. “Spunk”, started out by describing “a giant of a brown skinned man ...” (Hurston, 1925, 502). The character described in the previous sentence, we later found out his name is Spunk Banks. Spunk Banks is described as a giant muscular man who is fearless and confident, which makes everyone scared of him. “But that’s one thing Ah likes about Spunk Banks – he ain’t skeered of nothin’ on God’s green footstool—nothing’!He rides that log down at saw mill jus’ like he struts ‘round wid another man’s wife –jus’ don’t’t give a Kitty….The rest of us was skeered to go ear it.” (Joyce, 1925, 502). In the story, Spunk is...
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...story which includes a man Joe and his secretive relationship with a young women called Miss Squires. The setting is descibed at home where the only character that is known is Mr Priddy himself. There are other characters in the story who are mentioned such as Joe’s wife Mary and Hank, Marys brother. These are flat characters as they are mentioned but do not actually take part in the story. The flat character David Michaelson from the surveillance company is also a prime character in the story although the reader is not given any information about him or the company. The story is told through letters from a surveillance company, this is told in a third person narrative and tells the story of Joe, a rounded character and the company ‘Snoop’ which is projected as a flat character. All in all the setting seems secretive and full of deceit. We are then introduced to the main character of the story Mr Priddy. A letter is sent to him from a surveillance company called snoop as a course to discover the protagonist misconducts and the consequence that he must pay off. Joe is clearly irritated with this subscription letter and is not aware at this stage what is going on around him. “ Who do they think they were fooling? Pridy”. The letter states “ We are sure that in your own town of Sidewheel, NY, you have seen the consequences for yourself”. The omniscient narrator is implying that Joe should know what this is all about. Joe replies to the letter and...
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...Characterization is the process in which the author reveals the characters to the readers of a story. Authors present their characters to the readers in a direct presentation or in an indirect presentation. In a direct presentation the author tells the readers straight up what the characters are like, or the author will have a different character in the story describe them. In an indirect presentation the author shows the readers the characters through their actions; the readers are supposed to determine what they are like by what the characters say or do. In The Gilded Six-Bits the author, Zora Neal Hurston, reveals the characters to the readers in an indirect presentation. She shows the readers the characters through their actions. The readers...
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...melodramatic as the silent era empress slowly descends into reality of cameras, sets and popularity once again for some kind of finality as Max, her faithful butler prepares her onslaught , reminding the scene definition once again for her (as the presence of room full of audience in her deserted mansion for twenty years has quite overwhelmed her). The 1950 Billy Wilder film, “Sunset Boulevard” starring William Holden as Joe Gillis and Gloria Swanson as the silent film actress Norma Desmond is a classic amalgam of Gothic Melodrama and Film Noir. The film starts off with jolt, initially a track shot of the sunset boulevard road as the police rush towards the crime scene followed by the fishing out of a bullet ridden body from the swimming pool. The pilot scene leads the audience as to expect a murder mystery Film Noir number but ultimately emerges as a melodramatic form. The over expressive, tragicomic Norma Desmond against a mere composed, realistic Joe Gillis fills up the mis-en-scene for one of the Hollywood Insight stories. For a recap, Joe Gillis is a small time B grade American film screenwriter with a couple of creditors and unpaid rent hanging around his neck, flees the police and discovers the gigantic deserted mansion on his way. He thinks of playing a...
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...The books “The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath” and “Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy” feature characters who are searching for something. Esther Greenwood as well as Joe Buck are two lost souls attempting to make their way into a world that is overwhelming. The stories are prime examples of the Bildungsroman and the Picaro. The two characters are at times quite similar and at others complete opposites. Esther is intelligent, comes from a semi-affluent family, and has a set of goals that she has laid down for her life. She has a mother, who, while not a doting mother, appears to be willing to do alot for her daughter; except admit that she has problems. Joe is the opposite of Esther on many fronts. While, Esther is intelligent Joe is slow at best and flat out developmentally challenged at worst. Esther has a family and friends that she could, if she chose to, fall back upon; Joe, not counting his mostly absent grandmother, has a long series of people that scamper into his life and leave just as quickly as they appeared. Growing up, Esther had her mother and father while Joe had the unrealistic world of 50s television to aid their development....
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...Great Expectations The book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a very fascinating novel. Dickens does excellent by using the elements of fiction in order to write the novel. The main focus is to cover the plot, major characters, setting, point of view, theme, and symbols used in Great Expectations. After, viewing each element the reader will have a better understanding and appreciation for the novel. The plot that Dickens selects is shaped to reveal action and give the story a particular focus that draws the reader in. Pip is a young orphan that lives with his sister and her husband in Kent. Pip at the time was around seven years old sits in a cemetery one evening looking at his parents’ tombstones. “As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them, my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones” (p.3). Suddenly, an escaped convict comes up from behind a tombstone and grabs Pip. “O! Don’t cut my throat sir,” I pleaded in terror. “Pray don’t do it, sir” (p.4). He orders Pip to bring him food and a file for his leg irons. Pip obeys, but the fearsome convict is soon captured anyway. The convict protects Pip by claiming to have stolen the items himself. Pip is then taken by his Uncle Pumblechook to play at Satis House, the home of the wealthy Miss Havisham, who is eccentric and she wears an old wedding dress everywhere she goes and keeps all the clocks in her home stopped at the matching...
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...Analysis of Joe Joe is a short story written by Peter Carey in 1994. During the story the author brings the family circumstances and their mutual relations into focus. The action is seen from a member of the family’s point of view, which portrays the family values and family relations from an inner perspective. The following will be a characterization of the main character and his relationship to his family. The main character is a sixteen-year-old boy named Joe. Joe is the youngest child in the family of six and he still seems childish. “He’s still at that stage, where he has scabs on his knees from falling over all the time” (133 l.40). Joe’s character and his emotions are delineated indirectly by how he acts and speaks seen from his brother’s point of view, who is the first person narrator of the short story. The narrator portrays Joe as being dissimilar from the rest of the family. “I would be forced to admit that he does not look too much like us”(133 l. 29). The family often emphasizes that Joe is different, by telling him that, he does not have the long nose which all members in the family have. The family has the impression of that, Joe does not seem to have any characteristics and the narrator mentions, that there are no little stories concerning him. In the short story it appears like, that Joe only devotes his time on reading and picking his scabs. “Joe is sitting on the floor with his back against the wall. It is where he usually sits. You can see the mark...
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...have the main characters having to battle internal conflicts versus themselves. Some of the literary techniques used in these two stories are conflict, exposition, first-person point of view and resolution. Both of the main characters face conflicts of the individual verses self. The decisions they make not only affects them but also everyone around them. The decision we make in life when trying to overcome an internal self-conflict could change our lives, the lives of our family and those around us. In the “A Rock Trying to Be a Stone”, the author used first-person point of view as his literary technique. The narrator takes part as the main character telling us the stories as he sees and experiences it. He does a thorough job describing the main characters and the environment where the climax happens. We have the ring leader Joe, he is older and bigger than the others boys. We have Fernandez the one who seems like the dumb immature one. Next we have Chuy, he is a mentally challenged kid who goes along with the other boys. Last we have the narrator, he does not divulge his name during this short story but he seems very leveled headed about things that are going on around him. The narrator’s conflict deals with individual versus self. He wonders at the time whether they should be doing this to Chuy but he chooses to just go along. In a way you can see that he respects but is also afraid of Joe. He always tried to deflate the situation when he noticed that Joe was getting angry...
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...during this movie. The movie gives the viewers the main key elements of the movie in the first couple scenes. For example, the main characters name repeated “where’s that Joe Buck.” Or the emphasis on the “cowboy” features in his outfit from head to toe. Finally the almost arrogant or cocky like attitude given through his singing to himself through the mirror. These main points are not only obvious but the lighting and visual distance from the camera highlight’s these key points even more. With the key point given to the viewers the plot is able to be narrowed in by the end of the opening scene. With this done there is no hidden agenda that the director is trying to have and the viewers are never left out of what this film will be about. They are able to outline the plot an follow the plot while watching this movie. One of the main features this movie uses to its advantage is a close up. This is where the shot is close up to a person or an object (Petrie, G-2). Midnight cowboy uses this most while emphasizing on the cowboy features that Joe Buck was wearing. A close up was done as he carefully placed the black hat with a gold band on his head. Another close up was done as he buttoned up his plaid shirt emphasizing on his face and chest. The director Even had a close up done as he zipped up his fly. Obviously, the director had the intensions of showing Joe Buck’s man hood and male like personality with this close up. Finally, there was a close up of the brand new cow boy boots being...
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...two marriages; With one of them currently ended from Janie running off. Joe Starks, Janie’s, current husband, criticizes Janie in many ways throughout the chapter. Examples of how he treats her are how he excludes her from wearing her hair down by forcing her to wear a head rag and forbidding her from attending the mule’s funeral. However, the way Janie reacts to all of these things Joe does to her reveals a great deal of information about her character at the time in the book. Joe has been jealous of the other men in town messing with Janie’s hair when she let it down, so he made her wear a head rag in order to prevent the other men from messing with it. This occurs after Walter was caught “brushing the back of his hand back and forth on the loose end of her braid” (Ch 6, P55), which of course infuriates Joe and Janie obeys to his command without resistance. What this reveals about her character thus far into the book is how submissive she is. She simply lets another person take control of her like...
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... In Hurston story “The Gilded Six-Bits,” the character Missy Mae exemplified psychological struggle over her infidelity with another man. At the beginning of the story, you can read the happiness and love that Missy May and Joe felt for each other. This is shown when he came home from work and played with her. The author stated it when she wrote, “Shouting, laughing, twisting, turning, tussling, tickling each other in the ribs; Missie May clutching onto Joe and Joe trying, but not too hard, to get away.” Hurston was showing how these two characters were in love with one another. Hurston also showed the excitement in Missie May waiting for Joe to come home when she stated “Humph! Ah’m way behind time t’day! Joe gointer be heah ’fore Ah git mah clothes on if Ah don’t make haste.” She grabbed the clean meal sack at hand and dried herself hurriedly and began to dress. But before she could tie her slippers, there came the ring of singing metal on wood. Nine times. Missie May grinned with delight.” Even though these two characters are in love, their marriage takes a turn for the worse. After arriving home from work one night, Joe found that his wife had been sleeping with another man. Instead of killing them he just laughed at them. I am sure he was a laughing to conceal his anguish or disbelief of the situation. Emotionally hurt after finding his wife in bed with another man, Joe allowed the man to leave their home. Joe loved Missie May so much that you can tell that...
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...Dickens’s Demonstration of Social Class According to the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, a religious text in Sikhism, “What good is social class and status? Truthfulness is measured within. Pride in one’s status is like poison- holding it in your hand and eating it, you shall die.” Charles Dickens, a famous author from Victorian England, shares a message very similar to this with his book Great Expectations. Although some people are born better off than others, Charles Dickens demonstrates through his portrayal of Miss Havisham, Magwitch, and Pip that social class should never measure one’s character, esteem, or happiness. Dickens criticizes the idea that a person’s social class displays an accurate representation of his or her character. Many of the upper class citizens in Great Expectations seem cruel and lack compassion, while the lower class act loving and kind. Wealthy Miss Havisham portrays this. The first time Pip enters Satis House, he notices her obvious lack of morals and empathy. When he meets Miss Havisham in her dressing room, Pip immediately observes, “I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes,” (Dickens 59). The original “white” color of the dress represents innocence and happiness, both characteristics of which Pip...
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...“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller All through our lives, we are forced through hard times. Helen Keller once stated, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” She is trying to convey the point that, even though we see these problems and suffering as ubiquitous, these struggles make us better people, and allow us to become who we truly are. Both Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin support Helen Keller’s view through their use of conflict. The main character in Great Expectations is Philip Pirrip, better known to everyone as Pip. Pip is an orphan, both of his parents being dead; he lives with his sister and her husband, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Gargery. Joe is a blacksmith so the little group is not very well off, but pip and Joe are comfortable with their lot in life, Pip’s sister is not happy with their economic standing but does not hate it. Pip’s sister is very stern though, and is quite mean to her husband and young brother. Joe and Pip find a strong bond in this fact, seeing themselves as allies, Pip even hopes to one day be exactly like Joe, and wishes to become a blacksmith. One day, Pip is summoned to the house of Miss Havisham...
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...most of all, consolation. Speak- ing of the happy ending,�all complete fairy stories must have it�However fantastic or terrible the adventure, it can give to child or man that hears it,�a catch of breath, a beat and lifting of the heart near to tears. (Uses of Enchantment, pg.143) Great Expectations shares many of the conventions of fairy tales. The one dimensional characters, the use of repetition, and the evil women seem to make the similarities strikingly strong. However, are they strong enough to conclude that it is indeed a fairy tale? It can not be ignored that it also falls short on some important areas, such as the traditional fairy tale ending. Is there enough evidence to classify it either way? Fairy tales have characters of complete good or complete evil. There are no characters who posses both of these qualities. In reading Great Expectations it is plain to see that there is indeed total goodness and total evil. This can be seen in many of the characters. There is no goodness to be found in Orlick. He plays the role of the bully. His hot temper results in the near death of Mrs. Joe and in the near death of Pip. Compeyson is another who has no goodness to be found in him. He is full of evil and hate. It was said that "He had no more heart than a iron file, he was cold as death and he had the head of the devil" (348). He broke the heart of poor Miss Havisham so he could have her money. He also longed to kill his enemy, Magwitch, and ends up reporting him to...
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