...Child Neglect and Color Imagery Child abuse and neglect is a detrimental issue in our world that can negatively impact on our future. “The Farmer’s Children,” by Elizabeth Bishop is a short story that portrays cruelty and negligence toward children. In, “The Farmer’s Children,” Elizabeth Bishop uses dark colors such as black and red to foreshadow the death of the children and blue to represent the cold and the winter. Additionally, she also uses yellow to show irony in the story by showing an illusion that the children are in a cozy, warm home but in reality they are facing abuse and neglect everyday. In “The Farmer’s Children,” Elizabeth Bishop portrays the theme that child neglect and abuse can lead to severe consequences by using color...
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...Many enjoy ghost stories with haunted houses because of the thrill. Some stories however, include themes of guilt in which a character is haunted by his past. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst employs flashback and mood to create the emotion of guilt that haunts the narrator. Hurst utilizes flashback by giving a sense of guilt emitting from the narrator. Throughout the story, the author gives examples of the narrator’s selfish actions, which is how he treats his crippled brother, Doodle. Then, Hurst portrays mood by writing the narrator’s thoughts of what horrible actions the narrator did to Doodle. The narrator feels ashamed of having a disabled brother, and feels the need to push Doodle to become “normal”, and this pressure makes the narrator look back and feel guilt. One way the narrator represents guilt is through flashback. Throughout the...
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...for fixing them and a chrysanthemum to give to the lady he had mentioned. When Henry drives Elisa to dinner, Elisa sees that the man had thrown the plant on the road and she began to cry. Significance of Point of View The story Chrysanthemums is told from a third-person point of view. In the story, the narrator refers to the characters as “he” or “she” rather than “I” and “you”. As well, the story is third-person because we read what the characters think and feel, like a camera recording. For example, this sentence from the story Chrysanthemums, “she heard her husband calling Scotty down by the barn. And a little later she saw the two men ride up the pale yellow hillside in search of the steers.” this sentence is referring to the characters and “she” and “her husband”. When reading the story, you see it through Elisa’s eyes. The affects how she really feels and what she desires. You begin to see that she doesn’t have what she wants. When I look at the world through the eyes of the writer, I see the feelings of Elisa and Henry. As well, when the man talks about the chrysanthemums, the narrator does not tell us that he is deceiving Elisa. As well, when Henry tries to please Elisa, by saying that she looked nice, but Elisa doesn’t understand. This short story is told in third-person in the point of view of Elisa. Significance of Symbolism The Chrysanthemums by...
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...Ibis” by James Hurst is about William Armstrong, also known as Doodle, who had a physical and mental condition. When he was born William’s brother was six years old, and when William died his brother was thirteen. The story is called “The Scarlet Ibis” because the family saw a bird dying in their backyard which was far away from its native land, and William died away from his home. Mr. Hurst was born in North Carolina at a farm by the sea. He studied singing and in Italy and he became a banker. During his thirty four years as a banker he also published a few short stories including “The Scarlet Ibis”. I personally did not like how the story went but I do like how Mr. Hurst wrote it. I also like how he referred the scarlet ibis...
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...“The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck – Critical Analysis John Steinbeck an American writer was born in the year 1902 and died in the year 1968.During his time, Steinbeck was one of the most accomplished writers and his literary works received massive popularity. Most of his novels and short stories were performed as plays on stage and that is one reason why he was among the best sellers during his era. One of his great accomplishments for his involvement in literature was the Literature Nobel Prize he won in 1962. Steinbeck wrote a total of twenty seven books and some of his most common books include; “The grapes of Wrath” written in 1939, the 1952 “East of Eden, The 1937 short novel “Mice and men” (John, pg 23). John Steinbeck spent much of his early life in a rural part of America and worked on various ranches with migrants ‘on spreckler ranch and other nearby ranches during his summers. He attended Salinas high school and later joined Stanford University, although he never graduated. He did various odd jobs before beginning his career as a writer. Steinbeck wrote his first novel Cup of Gold which was published in 1929.Other books he wrote were; the pastures of heaven (1932), The Red Pony (1933), Tortilla Flat (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and many others. During his career, Stein beck was involved in various issues and correspondence. Most of his literary works revolved around his life as well as the issues that affected people then (John, pg 56). One of the issues he wrote...
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...------------------------------------------------- William Faulkner William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. Most of Faulkner's works are set in his native state of Mississippi. He is considered one of the most important Southern writers along withMark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. While his work was published regularly starting in the mid 1920s, Faulkner was relatively unknown before receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since then, he has often been cited as one of the most important writers in the history of American literature. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Biography Born William Cuthbert Falkner in New Albany, Mississippi, he was the eldest son of Murry Cuthbert Falkner (August 17, 1870 – August 7, 1932) and Maud Butler (November 27, 1871 – October 16, 1960). He later changed the spelling of his name to Faulkner. His brothers were Murry Charles "Jack" Falkner (June 26, 1899 – December 24, 1975), author John Falkner (later Faulkner) (September 24, 1901 – March 28, 1963) and Dean Swift Falkner (August 15, 1907 – November 10, 1935). Faulkner was raised in and heavily influenced by the state...
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...decided to break memory down into simple structures. The mysterious power of our mind to store images, words and sounds, was reduced into several components. All of these components were then thought to interact through simple processes. Simplifying memory in this way was a necessary step in developing our understanding of how memory functions. From this structured view of memory, two important models of memory were developed: the Multi-store Model and the Working-Memory Model. Section 1: Multi-store model of memory Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) Do you think you have a good memory? What is your earliest memory? The multi-store model is a structural model which states that memory is made up of 3 distinct, separate stores: sensory memory, short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM). Each of the stores can be analysed based on three factors: 1) Capacity: how much information can be stored 2) Duration: the amount of time the information can be stored 3) Encoding: how the information is represented by the memory system Sensory memory The first store in the multi-store model is the sensory memory store. This store provides an account of the environment as experienced by our senses. A copy of the stimulus is kept here until we determine whether it should be processed further. Capacity Sensory memory holds sensory information. Individual images and sounds are stored here in an unprocessed (raw) form. Encoding Visual images received into the sensory memory store are stored...
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...other countries all around the world. Since 1870s, spurred by the gold rush and the completion of the transcontinental line, Los Angeles has been continuously booming and thus attracted vast numbers of boosters to come to this wonderland with numerous job opportunities and desirable climate. One of William Faulkner's short stories, Golden Land, is about one man of those who left their hometowns in the middle of nowhere to this city in pursuit of fortune. The main character, Ira Ewing, fled from his home in Nebraska to Los Angeles and became successful in the real-estate industry, however, at the expense of morality and family ties. Unlike Ira Ewing who is a boomer himself, Ysela, the narrator in an episode titled Oiga of The Republic of East L.A. written by Luis J. Rodriguez, is one of the descendants of those Mexicans who arrived in this city hundreds of years ago. Although, her ancestors used to own horses and properties and were the ones who named lands in this area, Ysela has got nearly nothing to lose after the family got ripped off by Anglos during wartime and she now lives in a trailer, suffering from homelessness and poverty. It seems that, from these two stories, people moved to Los Angeles do not always end up with happy or wealthy lives that they dream of. Los Angeles, which has always been said to be the place where American Dreams come true, is actually a hell, instead of being a heaven, where people moved to there would be degraded mentally because of the lack of traditional...
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...Of Mice and Men story When George got back to the camp Slim helped him pack all of his belongings that he had brought with him. Slim said to George “It ain’t your fault. It woulda been worse for him if you didn’t do it.” George replies “I’m gunna get a ranch full of bunnies and little critters for Lennie.” George left the farm and walked the same way he had came to it. He went to see the spot where he killed his best friend, Lennie. He camped there and ate some beans with ketchup that he got from the farm. He was having a conversation with himself just as if Lennie was there with him. The next morning George made a little grave for Lennie and put some ketchup in a can of beans and buried it. He also made a tombstone that said “To the best friend I ever had.” It took a couple of more days to walk back into town. He did not go straight to the bar as he was planning on doing. He saved all of his money, plus Curley gave him Lennie’s last paycheck to help him get along in the world. He went to the market to get some food for his long journey that he was about to take. He had not decided where he was going yet. He just kept walking on the road from town to town until he stumbled on some land available for purchase. George went back into the town that he walked from and thought long and hard about buying that land. He counted all of his money that had been saving up over the last couple of months. How he had gotten so much was by taking some short jobs here and there...
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...During the cold war, the government abused their power in the name of national security, as seen with McCarthyism investigations during the Cold War (Library of Congress). This abuse of power by the government is also portrayed in The Iron Giant when Kent Mansley invades the privacy of Hogarath while renting a room in Hogarath’s house. Kent keeps asking Hogar what he is doing and where he’s going to further his investigation. This abuse of power is also shown when Kent interrogates Hogarth in the barn and Kent says, “I can do anything I want, whenever I want if I feel it's in the people's best interest.” He also says, “It's difficult to raise a boy all alone. We can make it more difficult. In fact, we can make it so difficult it would be irresponsible to leave you in her care and all that that implies.” After this interrogation, Kent keeps Hogarth in his room so he can’t leave. Kent abusing his power as part of the government in all of these scenes. Also, some of these things that Kent did or threatened to do were things that actually happened to people during the Cold War when they were falsely labeled as communist without much evidence (Library of...
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...soup-bone. She never visited with any one, and as soon as she got what she wanted she lit out for home. It made quite a load for such an old body. No one gave her a lift. People drive right down a road and never notice an old woman like that. There was such an old woman who used to come into town past our house one Summer and Fall when I was a young boy and was sick with what was called inflammatory rheumatism. She went home later carrying a heavy pack on her back. Two or three large gaunt-looking dogs followed at her heels. The old woman was nothing special. She was one of the nameless ones that hardly any one knows, but she got into my thoughts. I have just suddenly now, after all these years, remembered her and what happened. It is a story. Her name was Grimes, and she lived with her husband and son in a small unpainted house on the bank of a...
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...College Comp 2 Research Paper Simply Masterful “Most of us would prefer to look at cartoons in a magazine than read a poem," says Kooser. Poetry reflects life in a way that even big movies, cannot do. Kooser’s poems invite the reader to reflect on everyday items and to notice the small details and beauties of the world. He has a talent to express emotions in a way that the readers themselves will experience. He has been referred to as the master of the short metaphorical poem (Gioia). Kooser has lived in Iowa and Nebraska all of his life. His decision to remain in the Midwest has resulted in a limited audience for his work, but Gioia concludes by observing that Kooser “has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation” (Gioia). “Kooser wants a poetry anyone can read without shame and understand without labor, because he thinks poetry has too long been in the hands of poets who go out of their way to make their poems difficult if not downright discouraging” (Logan). Although many authors poetry is extremely hard to understand, Ted Kooser’s well-constructed poetic language and simple eloquent style, conveys a heartfelt message toward subjects like loved ones, everyday items, and rural America that are effortless to comprehend throughout his poetry as a result of his tone, imagery, personification, and the uncomplicated metaphors. Kooser has always been identified primarily as a poet. “While I was at work, I did everything that was required of me and kept getting...
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...The Origin of the Vampire Vampires, are they a mythical creature that was created by superstition and folklore or did they begin from someone’s fantastic imagination based on a real live person? Or maybe it was created to explain a cluster of misunderstood medical conditions that began before the medical world had advanced science and knowledge on the body and its psyche. It’s a word that inspires awe, fear, and romanticism all at once. Vampires are known in every culture and have been kept alive through stories that have been told throughout the generations. When someone utters the word “vampire” most people’s mind jump to Dracula from the great love story written by Bram Stoker. Dracula was created because Stoker was inspired by a real live man, the infamous, Vlad Tepes from Romania. That story is where love and vampires were intertwined and a kind of admiration was born. Only till recently they have become these seductive beautiful men and women in movies like ‘Twilight’ and ‘The Lost Boys’. So we are going to embark on the journey of where vampires began and explore the different aspects and origins of vampires. How these creatures were created was recorded in European folklore, Greek Mythology, found in medical conditions, and even taken from an excluded book of the bible. What is a vampire? Where did they come from? Well to get some answers we must first start at the beginning. First we must look at the word vampire. It is also spelled “vampir” or “vampyre”...
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...I ALSO BY CHINUA ACHEBE Anthills of the Savannah Arrow of God Girls at War and Other Stories A Man of the People No Longer at Ease Nonfiction Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays The Trouble With Nigeria Poetry Beware Soul Brother THINGS FALL APART ANCHOR BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. New York First Anchor Books Edition, 1994 Copyright © 1959 by All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. This edition is published by arrangement with Reed Consumer Books. The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission from Aigboje Higo and Heinemann Educational Books, Ltd., to reproduce the Glossary on page 211. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data by .—1st Anchor Books ed. p. cm. 1. Nigeria—Race relations—Fiction, 1. Igbo (African people)— Fiction. 3. Men—Nigeria—Fiction. I. Title. PR9387.9.A3T5 1994 823—dc20 94-13429 CIP ISBN 0-385-47454-7 ' Book design by Susan Yuran www.anchorbooks.com Printed in the United States of America… Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things Fall Apart ; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. —W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" CHAPTER ONE Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing...
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...and he read so interestingly that I wished he had wished one of Jim’s favorite chapters in the Book of Kings. I was awed by his intonation of the word “Selah.” He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.” Jim had no clue what the word meant; perhaps he had not. But, as Jim grandfather uttered it, it became unclear, the most spiritual of words. Early the next morning Jim ran out of doors to discover about him. Jim was informed that theirs was the only wooden home west of Black Hawk- until people arrived to the Norwegian agreement, where there were several. There white frame house; with a tale and half- story above the basement, stood at the east end of what I might call from the farmyard, with the windmill close by the kitchen door. From the windmill the ground sloped westward, downward to the barns and granaries and pig-yards. Beyond the corncribs, at the base of the shallow draw, was a swampy little pond, with rusty willow bushes flourishing about it. The road from the post-office arrived directly...
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