...living. Elisa is frustrated with her husband not admiring her romantically and not having a child. The way Elisa would let her frustration out is working in her flower garden where she grows chrysanthemums. John Steinbeck used chrysanthemums to symbolize the inner self of Elisa and of every woman. The chrysanthemums was Elisa`s way out of her world. The chrysanthemums are like children to Elisa. Elisa works her garden and handles the chrysanthemums with the love and care that a parent shows there child. Elisa is very protective of her flowers and places a wire fence around them. She makes sure that "no aphids, no sow bugs or snails or cutworms"(page 351) get in there. The bugs represent harm to the flowers, and just like a good mother she gets rid of them before they can harm her children (plants). The chrysanthemums are a symbol of like children, and she is very proud of them. When Elisa's husband gives her attention and compliments her flowers that she had grown she gets happy and proud. Elisa is happy and pleased that she can grow these beautiful flowers. Elisa's pride in her ability to grow the flowers gives her the reinforcement that the flowers are a replacement for her children. The second part of the story the chrysanthemums symbolize Elisa's femininity and sexuality. The picture of Elisa taking care of the flowers as if they were her children is a feminine image. Elisa`s masculine image is also seen in her "hard-swept and hard-polished" home (page 354). The image is carried...
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...and heavy in her gardening costume, a man's black hat pulled low down over her eyes, clod-hopper shoes, a figured print dress almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron." (45) Elisa possesses a great energy for working on the ranch with her husband Henry, but in a way she feels unappreciated by her husband and frustrated with her current life. The married couple seems to get along relatively well, however, their way of talking together is very formal. Elisa's frustration stems from not having a child, and her husband's failure to admire her romantically as a woman. Elisa's outlet for her frustration is her flower garden, which she is exceptional at growing. It is shown by her fine chrysanthemums, "Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across" (46). Her husband however, doesn't really appreciate her gift for growing the flowers but would prefer that she used her gift to grow another crop. "I wish you'd work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big." (46) Henry sees Elisa as a laborer, instead of the effeminate woman which she yearns to be appreciated as, and this fuels her frustrations. The chrysanthemums in this story symbolizes Elisa's confidence and her feminine side. While Henry was busy working, Elisa is approached by a wanderer, the tinker, who travels up and down the coast repairing pots and sharpening scissors. Elisa seems to be very...
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...brightens, just as if he had descried her rather than the chrysanthemums. She offers the chrysanthemums to him at the same time she offers herself, both of which he disregards and tosses aside. His repudiation of the flowers additionally mimics the way society has abnegated women as nothing more than mothers and housekeepers. Just like her, the flowers are unobjectionable and additionally nonessential: both are merely decorative and integrate little worth to the world. First, the chrysanthemums denote Elisa’s young children. She is always in her garden and manages the chrysanthemums with love and care, just as she would handle her own children. Elisa is very protective of her blossoms and puts a cable barrier around them; she ascertains "no aphids, no sowbugs or snails or cutworms" are there. "Her terrier fingers destroy such pests afore they can get commenced" ().These pests represent natural harm to the blossoms, and, just as any good mother she abstracts them before they can damage her children. The chrysanthemums are symbolic of her children and she is very proud of them. When Elisa's husband compliments her on her flowers, she is proud, and "on her face there is a little smugness"(). She is jubilant and excited by her ability to nurture these comely flowers. Elisa’s dignity in her proficiency to grow such beautiful and divine...
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...their inadequate world to overcome the feeling of Loneliness and Alienation. “The Chrysanthemums” is a story of a Woman’s proud and emotion. Elisa is a strong woman who feels frustrated with her present life. Her frustration stems from not having a child and from her husband’s failure to admire her romantically as a woman. The garden of chrysanthemums is the only outlet to relive her frustration. Steinbeck symbolizes the chrysanthemums as Elisa’s children. She handles her garden and tends the chrysanthemums with love and care, as she would nurture her own kids as a protective mother. She places a wired fence around her flowers; She assures “no aphids, no snow bugs, or snails or cutworms” are there. Her terrier finger destroys such pests before they can get started” (228). Elisa‘s ability to grow such flowers reinforces the fact that the flowers are the replacement of her children. Feminism in Nelson’s point of view, “A strange beautiful woman” at a first glance, seems innocent which does not let her accept her identity. Nelson introduces a woman in the mirror, who alienated and unfamiliar herself from reality. Throughout the time, women are recognized with their endurance and experiences. As a result, feminism has become more challenging to accept their own reality. However, series of experience increases the nature of one’s beauty. Nelson symbolizes the mirror as a series of experience to reveal her strange identity along with...
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...Even a short story taking place during the Great Depression and a novel about a young man's journey across a vast desert can have similarities. In the short story, “Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope and all positive aspects. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, there are profuse amounts of symbolism, yet the most noteworthy being that of alchemy which represents Santiago's, or the protagonists, need to rid himself of impurities. These symbols are similar seeing as the marigolds are too perfect amongst the destruction surrounding them, making them an impurity which Lizabeth, the primary character in “Marigolds,” destroys as her right of passage; equivalent to Santiago having to rid himself of impurities to...
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...Smile: D One of the best things in this life is smile; a smile that can cross a large road's of tears; a smile that can give a frustrated person hope even if it was a fake hope; Because smiling is the key of hearts, it's the only language that doesn't need to be translated; he's a great person who smiles while his tears are about to fall on his cheeks. They taught me how to cry, but I wish that they taught me how to smile, in my life I started to believe in both smile and tears, some of the tear's means that you love because the love is a tear, not all the tears mean sad or sorrow, some time the flower use to cry, she cries with a nice view that can let us smile at it's sorrow, but if we saw a spin in the flowers we will feel sad, but if the flowers grew up in the middle of a farm of spin we will feel in such a great optimistic heart because the injustice is a piece of spin that will never exist in-front of the tears of love. Yeah; sometimes it will be hard to enters the smile to a home that is full of tears, when the sunset symphony played always at the moments of farewell on the pules of melody of sorrow, but sometimes the sorrow will never continue if er found a real person who is full of joys because the joys are the only things that we can give it without owning it because joys is the largest account that we never lose it, the problem that not everyone has this gift, some people got the money, but until now I didn't see any one in this Earth who succeed in buying...
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...Language. By examining some of the authors in the book, Linda Flowers and Anne Lamott are the authors that connected best with improving my writing skills. Anne Lamott a graduate from Drew School, tells all her new students on the first day of a workshop that good writing is about telling the truth. Telling the truth in an interesting way is not as easy as it seems. Most lose faith. Their sense of self and story shatters in crumbles to the ground. Commonly her students will show up for the first day of the workshop looking like bright ducklings who will follow her anywhere, but by the time the second class rolls around, they look at her as if the relationship is definitely off (Lamott 95). Lamott tips on writing what is real will help me stay focused on writing about my own true stories, because the work won’t have be made up. You don’t have to keep digging and digging trying to make your fake story real, real stories sometimes may sound fake but they real and more interesting then your fake stories. My senior year of high school my English Teacher gave the class a writing assignment to write about a true story in your life. I wanted my story to sound the best, so I made my story up. The story was about a ghost encounter in Colorado, it...
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...Even a short story taking place during the Great Depression and a novel about a young man's journey across a vast desert can have similarities. In the short story, “Marigolds”, by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope and all positive aspects. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, there are profuse amounts of symbolism, yet the most noteworthy being that of alchemy which represents Santiago's, or the protagonists, need to rid himself of impurities. These symbols are similar seeing as the marigolds are too perfect amongst the destruction surrounding them, making them an impurity which Lizabeth, the primary character in “Marigolds,” destroys as her right of passage; equivalent to Santiago having to rid himself of impurities to...
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... The poem which the protagonist writes and which is used as a medium to show his feelings is called "The Purpose". It was originally written by Ojoswi Sur and finally drafted by Akasdeep Bhadra. The whole poem is given below: The Purpose wave after wave they come they go repeating over and over the same old show lost in the dune a grain of sand squeezed in the crowd no way to expand all with the same aim waiting for their turn to pour water on a fire that was meant to burn the water crawls slowly through a world insane just to add another drop in the ocean... do you think i am just like that? see them these towers of humanity cure of a diseased race hope of a fallen grace you know them,dont you? everybody does till kingdom come can i be? tell me, can i? i see myself looking at me looking you looking at me drops running i see through my forehead where? to the ocean?just to add...
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...the country in an old region named Appalachia, a small piece of the Appalachian Mountains, in a town named Pikeville. Pikeville is a polluted town because of the coal industry. People live in apartment or condominium buildings because of its little space available. I grew up in one of the many buildings in Pikeville admiring from my bedroom window the beauty of the mountains, always exploring with my eyes the forest or the meadows, looking for a clean and quiet place. And, I found one on a hill in the back of the town. It is about 100 feet square, it has seven old trees, wild flowers and a lot of bugs and ants during summer time. I used to go there to sit down on a rock and watch the town and my trees. There was a very old tree, a maple tree, with a huge trunk. The others were smaller, three in the back, three on my left side and the old maple tree on my right. There were flowers, many kinds, white, yellow, purple and blue. It was nobody's place. Nobody owned that hill, but it was beautiful and peaceful and I dreamed many times about a white house over there. I think that, these kinds of places are meaningful to people because they are natural and people can be there alone, away from their everyday life. I used to go there to be alone or to dream with my eyes open admiring the blue sky or the...
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...fear is a person’s worst enemy and can be used as a weapon by the proponents of both good and evil to achieve their means. This belief in turn is supported by the visual culture of Batman Begins. Drawing on concepts about religious creative expression from Ken Derry’s “Indigenous Traditions,” I will analyze the ways in which masks in the film function as devices for externalizing and exploiting people’s fear, as well as the role that the Batcave plays in helping Bruce Wayne use his childhood phobia of bats to his combative advantage. Additionally, I will draw on both Foucault’s concept of the panopticon, as well as Derry’s notion that with religious objects what you see is not what you get, to show how both bats and the blue flower function as weapons of fear. The belief of Batman Begins is two pronged: on the one hand it hints at the disastrous effects fear can have on people’s lives and on the other it shows how this vulnerability to fear can be exploited. The first fifteen minutes of the movie establish the paralyzing effects fear has on the protagonist, Bruce’s, life. After falling down a well and being attacked by a hoard of bats, 10 year old Bruce acquires a fear of those creatures in spite of being assured by his father that the bats attacked him simply because they themselves were afraid. Not much later, Bruce accompanies his parents to the opera where the actors dressed as bats invoke his deep set fear prompting him to ask his parents to leave...
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...discounter or in a flower shop is very hard and long. In the last few years, the flower industry has extremely increased and it actually got bigger than the music industry. The world’s largest exporter of roses is called Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi and is from India. He owns land eight times the size of Mumbai. Four years ago he additionally bought the biggest rose farm of the world with 4500 workers, 160 ha land and 650 million roses, that leave the farm every year. He has a huge power in the flower trade and plays actually a big role in it. He makes a turnover of 25 Million euros every year and he managed to get a 9 percent market share in Europe in the last few years. Customers that are very important for him are Edeka and Aldi. Discounters want goods that are cheap, fast and durable at once. To fulfill the discounter’s requirements, the African workers ship only the rose buds and not the blooming flower abroad. That makes sure that the roses are durable for a longer time. Mr. Karuturi sells 55 % of the output through the auction in the Netherlands and the rest through wholesalers and retailers. Also 100 % of the African rose production is exported to Europe. Even though Africa and Latin America export huge amounts of cut flowers, the Netherlands is the biggest export country. Exports from the Netherlands to Germany make a significant part of the world cut flower trade respectively of the whole world trade. FloraHolland, the most known flower auction, is located...
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...Despite all of the negativity, one positive symbol that stands out in the BBC cartoon is the yellow flower symbol. The flower is first introduced in the very beginning of the Wife of Bath’s tale; the virgin is picking flowers prior to the knight’s arrival (BBC 1:29), and after he rapes her, a close-up of a flower is shown (BBC 1:44). The flower also appears when the knight is first facing the court for his actions; the Queen gives him time to find a solution, and the scene immediately turns into a close-up of a woman in the crowd holding a flower in her hands (BBC 2:28). The flower symbol is revisited once again when the knight is forced to marry the old woman (BBC 5:02)—it is the same flower in the hands of the woman in the crowd, however this time it is fully blooming. This symbol stands out in the cartoon not only because of the repetitiveness, but also due to the visuals utilized in the cartoon. Most of the cartoon consists of neutral colors, so the bright yellow from the flower—especially when it is blooming—is eye-catching. Through the flower symbol, the cartoon suggests that giving women control correlates with a sense of hope and new life; it is almost like a societal rebirth. The idea of hope stemming from giving women power is also donated once the cook comments at the end...
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...The Purity and Corruption of Women Compared to Flowers Women's rights movement was roaring with all the new rights they have obtained during the 1920s. Despite as many rights women could achieve there would never be true equilibrium throughout the 2 sexes. Men were still seen as the dominant men and women the lesser. During the '20s underneath the flashy lights and fireworks laid men beating up women. F. Scott Fitzgerald compares women to flowers to show the severity of women regardless of class being abused during the 1920s. The first comparison that Fitzgerald makes is the character Daisy Buchanan and a Daisy to show off how Tom Buchanan can just beat his wife to show that in the rich men abuse their wives. At the Buchanan's Daisy notices...
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..."The Ocean State", a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14% of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles but its total area is significantly larger. The capital of Rhode Island is Providence, which is the largest city with an estimated population as of 2012 of 1,050,292 people. The flag of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is white and consists of a gold anchor in the center (a symbol for hope) surrounded by thirteen gold stars (for the original 13 colonies and Rhode Island's status as the 13th state to ratify the Constitution). A blue ribbon below the anchor bears the state's motto in gold: "HOPE." The flag is frequently depicted with golden fringe around the edges of the flag. Rhode Island was the last state to adopt an official state flower. Although the violet was voted as the state flower by Rhode Island's school children in 1897, the flower was not officially adopted as the state flower until 1968. There are 400-500 species of violet (viola) distributed around the world, most in the temperate northern hemisphere. In similarity the red maple was voted as the state...
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