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When Tobias Hardy Evening
‘When they woke it was evening.’ evening has symbolic meaning of end, ending or finish.
Which is represent as John Grady and Alejandra’s situation. Also ‘she sat on the bed and took his hand and looked down at him.’ The word ‘looked down’ sound like negative tone and has symbolic meaning that pitiful, pathetic which are probably Alejandra’s feeling to john Grady.

There are repetition of ‘tearstained face’ or ‘ her face all wet’. These words created vivid imagery thus reader can more understand character’s feeling, how much sorrowful matter to them moreover easily draw empathy. Also ‘A dry wind came up from the south and in the eucalyptus trees the grackles teetered and screamed.’ is a imagery sentence. Reader can imagine a desolate landscape
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In the last paragraph when finally Alejandra left him , he just stood there. ’He saw a man with a little girl in girl arms and he whirled her around and she was laughing and when she saw his face she stopped laughing.’ Moreover there are opposition from Alejandra. For example “I love you. But I cannot.” her response.

The last paragraph there is longest sentence, that ‘The train came huffing in from the south and stood great dominoes smoldering in the dark and ge could not but compare this arrival to that one twenty-four hours ago and she touched the silver chain at her throat and turned away and bent to pick up the suitcase and then leaned and kissed him one last time her face all wet and then she was gone.’ This sentence is longest in the the final goodbye passage because John Grady doesn’t want to be separate, he doesn’t want to end this relationship that his mind affected sentence length.

John Grady and Alejandra eventually part with goodbye kiss. To John Grady, she was everything, his world and one of the his romanticism. However she left him, dump John Grady, she chose her family, her elit life than her lover. Alejandra did not chose John Grady this is reality, however John Grady can not believe.Therefore he is mix-up realism and romanticism. In final Goodbye passage there are many realisms and romanticisms, which show John Grady cannot believe and he holding last hope to the

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