...Examine some of the ways Poe presents horror in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’. Poe presents horror extremely vividly in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’, in variety of ways. One of the ways he does this is through using words such as ‘...revenge...’ This sets a very spooky and unsettling atmosphere right at the beginning of the story, telling readers it will be full of horror. Another way Poe presents horror is through describing how Montresor wants to ‘…punish with impurity.’ This creates an intense feeling of fear and doom, telling us that he has an evil plot in his mind and the worst is yet to happen. The setting also presents horror in ‘The Cask of Amontillado. The fact that it is ‘...dusk...’ adds to the darkness of his intentions and thoughts. It also creates a feeling of fear and suspense as anything could happen in the darkness. Poe presents horror in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ by describing how Montresor’s smile ‘…now was at the thought of his immolation…’ which again lets us into his evil plans and shows us how insincere and conniving his thoughts are. When Montresor refers to Fortunato as ‘My dear fortunato..’ it indeed presents horror as we know he isn’t sincere at all and it is false kindness, which creates an intense feeling of suspense, of what he is going to do to him for his revenge. There is a sense of irony used here which also presents horror when Montresor states ‘…I was fearful of losing a bargain.’ This is ironic as it is Fortunato that should be fearful and...
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...There is a difference between dying an honorable and noble death and simply dying. It is the gap between trying and giving up and it is the sense of the unbearable pleasure that comes along with success. In Norman Mailer’s “The Death of Benny Paret”, the author witnesses a first-hand account of the tragic death of the boxer, Paret. Through many rhetorical devices, Mailer is able to have an effect on his audience, allowing them to feel the same horror. Mailer uses diction to mold the events in a biased and respectful way. Using words like “inspired” to describe the kind of shame that Paret was creating by loosing makes his failure seem less crucial. Again, the author makes euphemisms through his word choice by saying that Paret “[fought] as if he were seeking to demonstrate that he could take more punishment than any man alive”, as if losing was an admirable quality. Instead of claiming that Paret was indeed being ruthlessly beaten by Griffith, his “excuse” that Paret was purposely demonstrating a skill had a smaller impact on Paret’s publicity. Through detail, the reader is able to sympathize the gruesome fight and eventual death of Paret. Mailer mentions that Griffith hit Paret “eighteen right hands in a row” in about “three or four seconds”. These details create imagery and allow the audience to imagine Paret’s situation. When Paret died, it seemed to last forever. The details of how Paret slowly died while Griffith was still punching him greatly affects the audience in...
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...approximately over a year since I arrived to the U.S. looking for the “American dream”; with no family, no money and trying to learn a language that I had no interest of learning while in high school in my native Peru. All I wanted is to have an opportunity to succeed in life, to make a difference in anything. That opportunity came when I found a job as nurse assistance in a small Convalescent Center in South Central Los Angeles. Vividly I still remember the first time I step into that facility. I have never seen so many elderly people in one place in my whole life. It was frightening for me, but it was the beginning of a long and satisfying journey. I learned the meaning of human dignity which for me encompasses respect. Interacting with the residents (patients), providing privacy while assisting with ADL’s and also realizing the difficulties and lack of autonomy an Acute Care Facility can have. This time of my life made a deep impact on me as a person. I decided to enhance my education in order to make a difference in people’s life. The next obvious step for me was to become an LVN and I accomplished that task in 1992 and for a period of nine years all of which I worked in home health I learned the basic level of nursing and many task oriented procedures. In 2001 I finally became a Registered Nurse and I have been practicing emergency nursing ever since. Working in an environment of fast pacing and making fast decisions where the adrenaline rush is so addicting is just the...
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...show a possible outco me of a parents protective measures. One of the best aspects of the poem is the brutal reality that it conveys in its words. The deep, intricate descriptions allow the reader to acknowledge exactly what is occurring in the poem at the right time. It is obvious that the poem is implying a story of the pain that a father feels for his son felt after falling into a bed of nettles, but you have to read on throughout the poem's duration to understand the father's anguish at the fact that no matter what he does to try and eliminate the nettles from his garden, they will always return to hurt his son.From this simple event Scannell makes us think about human suffering. He does this through a careful selection of words. The word “bed” in the first line makes the poet think about what the nettles represent. He thinks of them as an army. They are “spears” which form a “regiment”, a “fierce parade”. When they grow back they are “tall recruits”. Also “fallen dead” is a way of referring to soldiers killed in battle. These military/army metaphors are effective because they show how vicious the nettles appear to the man. By using these metaphors, he has managed to convey the nettles spite more vividly, together with his own feelings of anger and aggression. The nettles are a symbol, as can be seen from the last line where the poet states that his son is bound to suffer frequently from “sharp wounds”. Nettles are a symbol for the various hurts and injuries that life will...
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...Albert Einstein recognized, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Richard Louv, writer of Last Child in the Woods conveys a sarcastic tone and imagery to address the idea of “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” He also ponders, “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing...
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...beatings and the differences between generations that were physically disciplined and those that were not. His strategy of development is a mixture of narration and description. Fry makes strong arguments against physical punishment against students and does little to show his true argument until half way through the excerpt. Fry continues on the same line of thinking and claims that the physical punishment is the one most forgotten, and the mental anguish of children is what stays for years. Fry’s use of pathos within the argument is the most significantly obvious section. “I don’t recall the pains of toothache, a thrashed backside, broken bones, stubbed toes, gashed knees or twisted ankles--I recall the pains of loneliness, boredom, abandonment, humiliation, rejection and fear” (Fry) He attempts to make a connection with the reader through some of his own experiences form his childhood and what he remembers more vividly. He uses his experience to set the tone of the excerpt and lets the language convey his feelings in the matter. The excerpt, however, significantly lacks ethos. Fry does not show any data and does little to make himself more credible. His personal experiences do not necessarily reflect those of others. This alone creates a big opportunity for his views and findings to be picked apart. The lack of evidence presented makes the excerpt seem less credible due to it only being the views of one man and not a larger study. The logic within Fry’s statements is...
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...John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. In the Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, he uses many rhetorical devices, like antithesis, parallelism, repetition, alliteration, metaphor, and so on to illustrate his idea. JKF also made good choices of the use of the words. His speech faces not only the entire American citizens, but also the people all over the world. JFK performed this speech in January 20, 1961. At that time, the cold war was lasting. The world is mainly divided into two hostile camps,...
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...It is the suspenseful, sudden, and unusual elements of a blood-curdling film or work of literature that captivate and cause us to be enveloped in an alternate reality built solely upon our imaginations. The thrill and adrenaline is what brings us to crave for more and more horror. In the launch text, “My Introduction to Gothic Literature”, the author indicates several reasons as to why she fancies gothic literature, one being that “[The stories] made all I felt and feared seem less of a burden” (My Introduction to Gothic Literature 4). The author is explaining how the vividly detailed gothic stories assisted with her escape from reality. The element of reason is eliminated when the...
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...society, and how those common activities can affect the home, business industry, and government. Purchasing of groceries Grocery prices are on the rise. Not long ago diesel fuel was $4.00 a gallon. This is the method in which all groceries are harvested and/ or transported. An increase in the cost of fuel caused an inflation in grocery prices to reflect a “fuel surcharge” grocers were incurring from transportation companies. Farmers are on the decline as well (Parker2011). Farmers are getting older and selling the farm land instead of passing it on to their sons. If the demand is the same or growing and the supply lessens, the price will rise. When a person purchases groceries, the effects to businesses and households may be fairly obvious. The money that person spends on those groceries decrease their cash flow and increase their inventory of the home. This trade of cash for goods benefits many businesses. The goods purchased will benefit the grocer who is making a profit on the mark up of the goods. The manufacturer of the goods will receive another order from the grocer to replace the inventory, and that will in turn cause the manufacturer to seek out the needed resources to make those goods. This keeps people employed who will use that money to go to the grocery to buy food and goods. The government is affected also, but not in such a direct way. Groceries are non-taxable items, so it does not directly make...
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...In this light opening and vividly detailed book, it tells a story about a young man who has been credited with asking and criticizing policies of the company he works for. He is called into a meeting with the CEO of the company to speak about the young man’s concerns. The young man, ambitious, driven and with an unsalable need to achieve, realizes that the world is not what he thinks it is. He realizes while speaking to a CEO, the prominence of what society would consider successful, what he considers success are much different. The young man realizes that success is up to the person and not a result of a collective success and that there are different types. The realization of how we as a culture believe what success is, infuses a sense of entitlement as we judge the success of others by simply the position they hold and not the work they do. This journey of a young man progresses as he slowly begins to realize that the world is a place, not of black and white but of certain realities that formulate individuals. Metaphorically the young man has a ‘toolbox of success’, a book that he writes in that reminds him of all the lessons he has learned. In his journey he realizes that motivation, goal setting and the belief in what you are doing is the path to self-realization. Heath L. Buckmaster said, “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” As the book progresses, the basic understanding...
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...Romantic literature is such that an author writes in an attempt to convey his feelings on what the world should be like. It is unrealistic, unreasoning, and imaginative writing. William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allen Poe are two examples of romantic writers. Though Poe fits the mold of a romantic writer it is obvious that his writings do not mirror those of Bryant or many other known romantic authors. His works share a uniqueness that is not found amongst the other writers, it is this uniqueness that separates Poe’s works from the rest. Bryant’s poem “Thanatopsis” is a good example of romantic literature. This work compared to Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” will show that characteristics of Poe’s work that, both, make him a romantic writer and separate him from other romantic writers. “Thanatopsis”, by William Cullen Bryant, is a very romantic poem about the relationship between man and nature. Bryant’s purpose for this poem is to spread his belief that at the last hours of life man is joined with the Earth and when that last hour is over man will join all those who have passed before him. From the first two lines of the poem it is obvious that this poem is romantic in nature. “To him who in the love of Nature holds – Communion with her visible forms,” (470). Bryant personifies nature in this poem by referring to it as a “she”. He does this to establish a common thread between the reader and Earth. It is easier for someone, reading Bryant’s work, to begin believing his ideas...
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...Although Amir still remembers his country vividly, there are obvious changes that have occurred over the years. As readers, we see the authority and control of the Taliban as the most prominent change. People are not allowed to cheer loudly during sporting events, people are executed live in a horrendous manner and that the name of religion is used to show reason behind these terrible actions showed. It is later revealed that the Taliban man in charge of executing the Afghan people and who has Sohrab, is Amir’s childhood enemy, Assef. Sohrab’s head has been shaved and his face covered with makeup. On his feet he wears jingling anklets and then is required to dance to music in front of the Taliban. When Amir demands to take Sohrab, Assef asks him to settle their old matters and tells Amir that his...
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...one interprets the two analytically, they are criticizing the inequalities and power abuse in our own capitalist society. Capitalism creates wealth and power inequalities, often leading to the rich abusing the poor. In The Hunger Games, the rich entertain themselves with the blood battle of the poor. Though Ross conveys the inequalities and power abuse mentioned in the book, he also adapts some scenes to make this message easier for the audience to understand. While Collins heavily relies on detailed descriptions and Katniss’ narration to give the message that capitalism forms inequalities and power abuse, Ross uses more visual contrasts to make the film more appealing while portraying the same message. Inequalities in Panem can be vividly seen in the differences in food, clothing and housing between the rich Capitol and the desolate District 12 in both the book and the film. Collins use clear descriptions to portray these discrepancies in capitalism while Ross exposes the inequalities visually in the film. The father of the protagonist, Katniss, used to hunt in the woods and “if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion” (Collins 5). Collins also writes “even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties, more people would risk it if they had weapons” (5). Moreover,...
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...Stepping Outside My Box and Into Social Change Regina Weekley South University Online Stepping Outside My Box and Into Social Change It has been said, “There have always been people who defy gender norms”, and I am one of those people. As a child comfort wasn’t something I felt in girlie dresses or even pink and white shoes, but baggy jeans and loose fitting T-shirts with matching boy’s sneakers. Being forced into what was “socially acceptable” or the “gender norm” of dressing like a girl because I was girl made life uncomfortable on several occasions and also became a battle within. I didn’t understand what the big deal was, I just wanted to be comfortable in my own skin, but not wanting to disappoint those who matter the most I conformed. I gave into social control, and forsook my individuality. In search of a peace within, I found myself having to step outside the box of the “norm” and step into my individuality which put me in violation of a folkway-wearing the other gender’s clothing. In this essay I will recall at least one situation I violated this folkway, discuss my feelings of violating the norm and other’s reaction to my violation. Almost a week ago, I was being honored at an after five Gala for my work in community service. As we know galas have a pretty direct dress code; women normally wear a nice dress, and the men adorned with a nice suit and bow tie. When approach by my director with the specifics of the gala and my attendance being mandatory, I had to...
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...Shanika Spencer ENG 112 Short Story Analysis Grief and Relief “The Story of an Hour” authored by Kate Chopin doesn’t actually take an hour to read. From Mrs. Mallard’s diagnosis of heart trouble to her death, “The Story of an Hour” is a conversation between the narrator and the reader. The narrator tells us things about Mrs. Mallard that Mrs. Mallard herself is not aware of. The conversation that the narrator presents to us is so vividly and dramatically written, it makes the lesson of “The Story of an Hour” obvious to whomever is reading it. In the late 1800s there was not yet such a thing as women’s rights or the independence of women. At the sound of keys at the front door, Mrs. Mallard made the ultimate sacrifice for her freedom. In “The Story of an Hour” the narrator is unknown. The narrator is playing the part of the guide, so to speak. The narrator is the guide that clearly presents every detail of Mrs. Mallard’s final moments to the reader. The narrator carefully starts out by telling us about Mrs. Mallard’s heart trouble and the fragility of informing her of her husband’s untimely death. One would expect a great amount of grief after being told that your loved one has passed but it was slightly different in this case. The narrator tells us that “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance” (Chopin Page#). Mrs. Mallard did not immediately understand the importance of the news she had just heard...
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