PASSAGE: “I have been afraid of putting an air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine’s father over the top of the Standard Oil Sign.” (pg. 1.Barabara Kingsolver)…
In the novel a tree grows in Brooklyn, the protagonist, |Francie Nolan displays three virtues, courage, honesty and acceptance. Courage comes in many shapes, sizes and forms; it can be saving an old lady from a burning building or small encounters of courage, like asking out a secret admirer. Francies display’s courage when the doctor makes several comments about poor people being filthy, Francie feels hurt immediately. When the needle went into her, “… Francie never felt it. The wave of hurt started by the doctor's words… drove out all other feelings” unlike at the school yard when a girl with the blackboard erasers spit in Francie faces, she spoke up, Francie got the courage to stand up for herself…
The poem follows the narrator’s internal monologue as he revisits a place of nostalgia that ignited his love of nature. His fears that the picturesque scene of his childhood has been idealized are quieted as he sees the place for the first time in five years, falling in love with the environment all over again. He even credits nature as “The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,/The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul/Of all my moral being” (Wordsworth LL. 109-111). His ecological thinking recharges his soul and makes him feel joyful about life once again. Nature also connects the narrator to his sister, who he sees himself in because of their love of the countryside. He acknowledges his sister the first time in the poem as his “dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch/The language of my former heart, and read/My former pleasures in the shooting lights/Of thy wild eyes” (Wordsworth LL.…
a. Hook: In the Irish American community of Brooklyn in the 1900’s, immigrants faced discrimination and crushing poverty…
Throughout the novel Stand Tall by Joan Bauer, the protagonist, Tree, demonstrates he is perseverant through all of the hardships he faces. For instance, when Tree is left home alone with his disabled grandpa during the flood grandpa says, “‘Call your dad’… No answer ‘Call the neighbors we’ll find somebody’… ‘I’m gonna call the police, Grandpa. Tell them we need a ride’ He punched 911. Circuits busy” (141). Clearly this indicates, that Tree is incredibly tenacious during this hardship. Tree is left home alone with his grandpa, who only has one leg, during a flood not knowing what to do. His grandpa helps guide him but Tree courageously takes over. Therefore, Tree does not easily surrender. He continuously perserveres through the hardship. Even…
Not only do these trees symbolize the people in the story, they symbolize how the trees and the Great Men of the Colony are rotting from the inside out. When one of these trees is getting cut down, the person is slowly dying, and then when the tree falls they automatically fall dead as well. These trees act as a gravestone because of the names carved on them, and how they are scattered throughout like a graveyard. The fact that these trees are dark and gloomy also helps you think of a gravestone in a graveyard.…
In many novels such as Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, different themes come into play. There are many themes in this novel. Themes such as growing up, love, and death. The theme that recurs the most in this story is the theme of understanding death. Understanding death is difficult for most of the characters in the novel. This theme plays a big role in the novel and occurs many different times and ways.…
“I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey Cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can’t wake up” (Anderson 45). Meet Melinda Sordino- a freshman at Merryweather High that everyone hates. She has a secret, a big one, that makes her feel alone and depressed, but she hasn’t told anyone. In her art class, the students are each assigned a topic for a year-long project and Melinda gets the topic tree. She struggles throughout the school year to create the perfect one. By the time June rolls around, she figures out how to speak up about being raped by Andy Evans and put feelings into her art. Melinda’s journey parallels the development of her tree project by depicting trees that are almost dead represent how she feels…
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep," This line from the poem Stopping by woods, is saying that the woods are an opinionated place. The woods may be lovely to some, and scary to others. People may consider the woods to be lovely as they may have an interest for nature and it’s beauty. They may also like to see interesting animals, and escape from the reality of life. Some people might want to sit on a tree branch and enjoy the peace and quiet. To some people forests are a dark place, where they can escape to when they want to be alone. People may want to go to the woods to captivate their curious souls, and do something adventurous in the woodlands. Teenagers might want to play around and maybe even invite some friends to hang out with. The…
David Scharf, a university student, takes a creative approach on explaining the difficulty of dealing with the real world and the depression brought about by it, in a short animated film called "The Forest". The video starts out with a 12 year old girl narrating her life. She doesn't like school; she feels alone among people; her father pushes her very hard. To escape the pressures and sadness of the real world, the girl spends much of her time daydreaming about a beautiful forest, her happy place. She gets in trouble at school and her father then becomes fed up with her “distantness” and seeks the help of a professional. The specialist straps the girl to a machine and sucks out all of her creativity. She began…
The forest setting helps support the theme because it adds to the theme of isolation, especially when words associated with evil are used to describe it…
(AGG) Different views on issues from people lead to different actions, which create arguments, and potentially cause direct confrontations. (BS-1) In the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, Suzanne Staples depicts how Islam as a religion is perceived by the general public of non-muslim population. (BS-2) She also describes how Islam is viewed and interpreted by its moderate and extremist followers. (BS-3) Finally, she describes how the terrorist action by the Islamic extremists provoked a war between Taliban and the United States. (TS) Clearly, the authors uses different views from the non-muslims as well as the moderate and extremist muslims on Islam to create a literary conflict in Under the Persimmon Tree.…
*Throughout my childhood my yard possessed a tree, a wonderful oak tree filled with life and virtue. This tree capturing the eye with its beautiful and destructive properties. This symbol of life and nature constantly…
“So I guess I did it for all the dumb people like me.” In Flowers for Algernon, the main character Charlie wanted to get smarter so he then had an operation done on him and slowly became smarter! He beat the mouse Algernon in a race and eventually was very intelligent. But later on he lost all of his intelligence. Why do the operation if it’s not going to last. In awakenings it is a lot worse than flowers for Algernon. In this story the ends did not justify the means.…
Morrison uses the elements of symbolism and metaphor to create a powerful depiction of emotions. The imagery of beautiful trees in Beloved attempts to mask the horrors that took place among them. Ironically ,beautiful Trees are perverted into a symbol of horrible acts. The characters of Beloved were faced in a time period where they have been oppressed to the point of dehumanization and subjected to the idea of companionism of inanimate objects (trees, in this case). Morrison crafts the novel around the idea of trees, how we see them today, and what they meant to people who witnessed the evil in other aspects of their life. It seems as if the characters' interpretation of what trees are gives the reader insight to fully analyzing a character. The characters' responses to trees give the reader insight to how, through horrific experiences , one can still find serenity within nature and trees, usually the only beautiful things when living life as a slave. Toni Morrison does an excellent job of piecing slavery hardened characters together that are ultimately formed by one element. The trees are there as a symbol of not only life, but death, and all the bad in between. The perception of this novel is totally up to the reader and interpretation is key to analyzing the element of trees…