Delve-In Response In the poem “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike there is a use of many literary devices such as, personification, imagery, similes, and metaphors to help get the main message across. The central message of the poem is that success isn’t always permanent. First, when Flick was the best basketball player in high school, he played in front of audiences filled with adoring fans. Now through the personification of gas pumps, the reader sees the contrast of his life post success
Joe Kogawa Heroism Similarly, Kogawa presents heroism in the evacuation of Japanese Canadians residing in Canada, after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. In the eyes of the poet, the act of heroism occurred during “… I remember how careful my parents were/Not to bruise her with bitterness…” The display of affection and protection has been presented by the use of metaphor by their parents in the evacuation. The parents wanted to protect their children from any racial discrimination. The phrase, “Gulliver
Pearl Harbor came to be known as the bombing of the century. Before the bombing, the navy was based in Pearl Harbor. The Americans were expecting an attack from the Japanese, but not that quick. There were some around 420 aircrafts flying to bomb the base in hopes that the Americans would lose their men and supplies. The day after the attack, President Franklin Roosevelt asked the Congress to declare war on Japan. On December 11, 1941, the U.S entered World War II. What Happened? Sunday December
’ as a simile, and that women are vital in a society through the use of ‘the rock in the riverbed’ as a simile, and ‘a thousand splendid suns’ as a metaphor. Firstly, Nana tells five-year old Mariam what she sees as the hardest truth of life for a woman in their society. After telling Mariam about the way Jalil had wronged her, Nana shares this pearl of wisdom with her daughter: “…Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman…”(Hosseini 7). This quote introduced
Chapter 5: The difference was that Hester felt less torture during her emergence for the public humiliation because she was able to “man up” to the pointing fingers and overcome the negative feelings of torture, effectively converting her walk of shame into a “lurid triumph” (54). With nobody around for her last emergence, she soon realizes the horrors of reality where she must fight to survive every single day’s “heap of shame” (54). A dichotomy that is established between the townspeople and
holds it. “... while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor” (Hawthorne 79), with the theme of light popping up from the darkness this metaphor isn't all about light. In this metaphor we notice the sunlight creating a shadow and how evil can come from good, or in this case the light. In chapter 8 we see a metaphor based on a common symbol, flowers, and what this represents is the idea of beauty and goodness coming from evil and darkness. “... had been plucked by her mother
Aaron’s intension of abusing a woman for his purpose and leaving her damaged. Raping Bassianus’ lover can indirectly attack Saturninus and showed that Aaron greediness of power can easily be achieved through it. In Aaron’s following monologue creates a metaphor of forest to an evils’ land, where crimes are committed more often. In dreadful revenge, Aaron portrays a character who does not create any limits to his aim and perform a greedy behavior. He uses Lavinia as a meat to avenge his anger towards Titus
The poem “The Mockingbird” expresses the idea of embracing our true self and embracing it openly to society by not falling into the inclination to mimicking other individual’s behaviour for the sake of social and professional safety. If we develop a practice or habit of eliminating the self consciousness state of fitting in with others and following others, we will be become happier people. Oliver displays this message through the use of the mockingbird. This enables the reader to visualize the transition
THE ROLE OF WOMEN AS DEPICTED IN A SELECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD Any time I think of Modernism, the names of some of the greatest writers belonging to the literary panorama of the movement come to my mind. Names such as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce or W. B. Yeats are indispensable when talking about the movement that is often thought of in terms of experimentation with literary form and expression. Modernism was driven by its desire to go against tradition and by its
Nordic and Hiberno-Sacon traditions of jewelry making. The back cover was made up of silver guilt with enamel cloisonné, precious gems, and semi-precious gems. The front cover was created during 870 AD. It was made up of gold, precious stones, and pearls. The Lindau Gospel was thought to be placed on an altar for a daily reading of “Good News”. The back cover of the Lindau Gospel’s dominant motif