analytical essays, one on Indian horse and the other one on To kill a Mockingbird, Analysis on short stories like The Curio Shop, The interloper, A coyote Columbus story and another short story. From writing these Analyzes, I learned what literary devices are and how they are displayed in a passage. Examples of literary devices are foreshadowing, tone, mood, irony, and more. At the beginning of the semester I came into English class without knowing how to analysis anything and only having the ability to summarize
Literary Devices, 11 Mar. 2015, literarydevices.net/diction/.) Example- “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.” (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee) Function –Here, Atticus is speaking to Scout. In this choice of wording, it shows the close relationship Atticus has with Scout. He uses phrases such as “don’t let ‘em get your goat” casually in order to let Scout know that she
Harper Lee’s classic novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is set in a small town in Alabama, during the early twentieth century. The novel is written in the first person from the perspective of Scout Finch as an adult looking back at her childhood experiences. The protagonist Atticus Finch is a lawyer, who takes a case that impacts his children lives and the way they are treated by the community. A case that involves a black man accused and charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the use of both
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter Analysis Cindy Ho Introduction ~ How’d He do That? Recognizing patterns or symbols in difficult works of literature make it easier to read. The patterns and symbols in “The Fall of the House of Usher” helps one be able to fully understand the short story. For example, in “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the deterioration of the house symbolizes the deterioration of Roderick and Madeline’s health. The house is linked to Roderick and Madeline. Upon
in prison.Each state had different Jim Crow Laws,but there were different Jim crow laws for each state.In Georgia when people are being buried an officer can not bury him or her.Unfortunately, people used the Jim Crow Laws to their advantage and Jim Crow laws were already unfair,so the white people used the laws to their advantage and gave colored people a hard time in the Jim Crow era.There was something called the Great Migration where millions of African Americans left the South and went to the
by a chaotic force known as racism. Over the years, racism has morphed into a power so vicious it tears people apart and soils the unity of humanity, creating a division between the different types of people who live together. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the prime targets of racism are the members of the African-American community, and they are treated poorly by many of the people who live in Maycomb. Racism plays a large part in the way the social hierarchy of Maycomb is organized
Bueno,Marielle How to Read Literature Like a Professor Summer Reading Assignment 1. Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When it’s Not) Literary Work: Earth to Echo Every quest contains five key elements including a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, the challenges and trials through out the quest, and lastly a real reason to go there. As for the movie “Earth to Echo” the story line is an example of a quest. In the movie there are four young questers, Tuck, Munch
The parrot is largely symbolic for Edna, who is trapped inside the cage society has forced upon her as a mother and wife. The mockingbird is symbolic for Madame Reisz, who will later in the story be the only character to understand Edna’s awakening. Robert Lebrun, Edna’s self-convinced lover, teaches Edna how to swim. The first time she swims is symbolic for the beginning of her awakening, in the way that she began to “realize her position in the universe as a human