...path. Author, Ann Petry, in the excerpt of The Street, illustrates a raging storm in which Lutie Johnson is attempting to weather. Petry's purpose is to show how Johnson was able to overcome the storm in order to reveal how she overcame her harsh struggles with society. She adopts a powerful tone in order to relate the feeling of determination Johnson has towards the storm. Through personification, similes, and selection of detail, Petry conveys to the audience that Lutie Johnson has a complicated relationship with the ruthless urban city. Petry begins the excerpt by illustrating the harsh effects the wind has on the town. The narrator reveals”[the wind] drove most of the people off the street…except for a few hurried pedestrians who bent double in an effort to offer the least possible exposed surface to its violent assault.” The speaker also recounts “it did everything it could to discourage the people walking along the street.” Petry uses violent personification to show how aggressive the wind is in order to indirectly characterize the city as a difficult place to live. The threatening figurative language used to describe the town allows the audience to understand how challenging the city is to live in....
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...Actions during a difficult situation is a reflection of a person's attitude when undergoing new or past experiences. Writer, Ann Petry, in her novel “ The Street,” implies that society is similar to their physical and geographical features. Petry’s purpose is to assert that the way society thinks of themselves reflect their characterization and actions towards various situations. She adopts a determined tone in order to imply that actions reflect a person's true intentions and character. In this excerpt from the passage “The Street.” Petry seeks to emphasize the self motivated connection of Lutie Johnson towards the relentless actions of the storm through the use of figurative language and selection of detail. Petry begins her novel by describing the violent actions of the wind towards society as a whole. The narrator recounts, “...except for a few hurried pedestrians who bent double in an effort to offer the least possible exposed surface to its violent assault.” The writer also reveals that the storm “...pried their scarves...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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