Love is often seen as the cause to many positive things, but when it is misunderstood, it can become a destructive force. In Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon, the love between characters is the powerful source of many of the deaths in the story. The book follows the maturation of a boy nicknamed Milkman Dead who is born from a loveless marriage into “a really strange bunch” (76). He is surrounded by many people driven by this powerful feeling: a friend who kills in the name of love, Hagar -- his cousin’s -- drive to murder him if he doesn’t love her, and the love his aunts feel for Hagar that prevents them from helping her. The characters’ misunderstanding of love causes them to blur the line of demarcation between love and destruction.…
“Everyone was hoping and praying that if the elephants could survive only one more day, the war might be over and the elephants would be saved”. In this part of the story, the author shows the emotional link that everybody has with the elephants. This affected the elephants’ lives because although they were fed, that just made them suffer more because they were given hope but in the end, their death was just…
There is a drastic difference in the concepts of male and female equality during the time Lindo was a girl in China versus Waverly in America. In China, there was an invisible yet strong rule that men and women have different duties in life, as well as different privileges. Lindo, when she was a small child was betrothed to a boy whom she didn’t know. This is because back then, girls didn’t have any choice nor could have any opinion on which man they could and wanted to marry. A good portion of Lindo’s life was given to a man whom made her cry for fun.…
My work I choose to type about was “The Love Of My Life” by T.C. Boyle. I choose this reading due to the strong imagery of how just one move can ruin your life. The two passages I have chosen are when T.C. Boyle writes that China “... willl never , never be like those breeders that bring their puffed-up squalling little red-faced babies to class … Breeders overpopulating an overpopulated world and ruining their own lives in the process.” , and the other quote from page 83 , where it states “ He would be there for her no matter what , but why did she have to be so stupid?”. I think these quotes foreshadow the eventual turning points of the story , multiple climaxes if you will , and also underline and bring forth the drastic change of Jeremy’s…
“The Locket,” was a beautiful written piece that was easy to understand and phenomenal to read. "The Locket", utilizes antithetical imagery and setting to represent different outlooks on life and to demonstrate that love transcends at any circumstance. When the story ended, one will want to read more and more because of how unpredictable and suspenseful it was. In the story of “the Locket,” one of the feelings a reader might have while reading the ending is sadness.…
Quiz: The Elements of Fiction 1. Foreshadowing in literature is hint given by a writer as to what will happen during the end of the story. In the Tell-Tale Heart Poe’s first person character gives this hint in the second paragraph: “He had the eye of a vulture……….. I have made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” Later on during the end of the story he kills the old man.…
George Gascoigne in the poem for “ For That He Looked Not Upon Her “ expresses his emotions about his experience about love thru diction, form, and imagery. Thur out the poem love has destroyed him in many ways, He was depressed, sad, and lonely. The author expresses an attitude towards sadness by using diction. In the first two lines of the poem he uses words such as “ Louring “ and “ Low “ to express that he was depressed and at his lowest point in his life.…
In one of the setsuwa tale, “THE LITTLE SPIDER” (#6), Kanetoshi, a former governor was granted special permission to audition at the palace. In the following sentence, “The coughing and choking fit that seized him then made the emperor and his officials almost split their sides laughing. Having made a terrible fool of himself, the poor man was never asked to the palace again”. In this the main character is Kanetoshi, he meant to be negative light because he does not know what’s going on in the court system. When he sucks in the little spider he started to choking, this made him becoming the laughing point of the emperor.…
In the play “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller we see many themes and lessons in the story. The main theme is focussed on deceit and lying and how lies can lead down a dark road which results in the ruin of many. The Crucible is a fictional play based on the Salem Witch Trials which occurred between February 1692 and May 1693 and resulted in over 150 people being accused of witchcraft and 20 executed. The story focusses on the story of John Proctor and Abigail Williams, his niece, and how lies, jealousy, revenge, and deep seated feuds caused a community to turn on each other in a vicious circle of accusations and misunderstandings. The characters in the play who lie significantly are Abigail, John Proctor, and Mary Warren…
A parent’s wisdom, above all else, is what is passed down to his or her child; it is the knowledge that the child carries on for the rest of his or her life. Through a plethora of struggle, and with a lifetime of mistakes, parents have two choices with their children: to teach them about their experiences or to shut them out, preferring a shell of misery to hide in. Sometimes, experience can embolden, while other times, they can strike fear deep into the heart. Ying-Ying St. Clair was struck, and for it, her daughter, Lena, learned not of the wisdom she kept inside. Nevertheless, witnessing Lena’s troubled marriage, Ying-Ying musters up her courage and her strength, ready to give the advice she neglected to give for so long.…
Energy production Jigsaw Project individual Selena Xu 1. Second law of thermodynamics: ❖ What is the second law of thermodynamics? Well, this law talks about the quality of energy, while the quantity of energy and matter stays constant. This law tells us that heat will flow from a hotter object to a colder object, due to Newton’s second law and that when energy is transferring and transforming, some of the useful energy might be lost .…
Jif is an American family household brand name that choosy mothers choose for their families has been a leader in peanut butter since 1981 (About Jif Peanut Butter - Jif Peanut Butter, 2015). Since Jif’s debut in 1958, Jif peanut butter has been recognized for creating an assortment of styles of peanut butter and for creating Jif’s famous slogan “Choosy moms choose Jif” (About Jif Peanut Butter - Jif Peanut Butter, 2015). The marketing strategies utilized through the years can be incorporated into a successful global market by educating consumers on the health benefits and great taste of Jif peanut butter (About Jif Peanut Butter - Jif Peanut Butter, 2015).…
Prompt #1 –Select a quote from Woolf or Walker, and discuss its significance. I choose a poem/book from Virginia Woolf ‘’ A Room of One’s Own’’,. She writes a lot in fiction. Woolf implied if Shakespeare had a sister, does she had the same opportunity as him. Woolf concludes at the end, that even if Shakespeare had a sister ‘’talent as he was’’ she will never be like him.…
Dream of Ding Village, by Yan Lianke Stacey Civello CHN-101, Summer 2017 The Sage Colleges The novel Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke tells the grim story of China’s blood-selling frenzy and the ensuing AIDs epidemic which wiped out entire villages in rural Henan province. Beginning in the early 1990s, the booming biotech industry in China raised demand for plasma donations, to which the provincial Henan government responded by heading a campaign for blood plasma donations in exchange for money. For more than 3 million rural and impoverished Chinese, the opportunity was too good to pass up; for millions of poor Chinese, represented in the novel by the residents of Ding Village, the campaign offered a rare shot at…
This story revolves around and old man and his unconventional relationship with his caretaker. The postmaster hailing from Calcutta, feels like a fish out of water in the remote village of Ulapur where he works. There, he led a lonely life, with little company and minimal work to do. To cope with this, he often engaged himself in writing poetry describing his peaceful and isolated surroundings. He had Ratan, an orphan girl of the village, to do odd jobs for him.…