In “ The Scarlet Ibis” and “Marigolds” the themes within them show choices and the consequences of their actions affects other people's lives. For example, in “Marigolds” ,Lizabeth “ leaped furiously into the mounds of marigolds and pulled madly, trampling and pulling and destroying the perfect yellow blooms”. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, “Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!...…
Florence Kelley Rewrite Florence Kelley was a reformer who fought diligently to change the rights of women specifically in the 1905 conference in Philadelphia. Kelley gave a speech advocating for women to gain the right to vote. Given that her audience was women, Kelley appeals to her audience by combining pathos and logos as well as repetition to speak about ending child labor laws through voting. Florence Kelley uses logos to induce pathos in her audience. Kelly relates to the audience that “several little girls will be working in textile mills, all night through” (19).…
To believe and have faith is what is needed to overcome issues. Though sometimes having the will and determination to do this is a challenge in and of itself. ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ captures how strong the faith of the women in World War 2 were. The shoehorn is a symbol of hope throughout the play, Misto uses it as a motif to symbolise hope and faith. From the first time it is mentioned the audience understand that it’s very important as it was a gift to Bridie from her father.…
In society, individual’s tend to change their perspective based on others. Having personal desires can influence others but shouldn’t affect their behaviour to change for society’s expectations. In the film, Pleasantville, the director, Gary Ross, develops the idea that having a personal desire can lead to changing one’s perspective. Jennifer was a leader in and outside of Pleasantville, but known for different things.…
Distinctively images shape individual’s experiences in society through the use of dramatic techniques and language to achieve a new perspective. The shoe horn sonata written by John Misto is a play about Australian nurses and civilians during the brutality of World War 2 and fictional characters Bridie and Sheila. The red tree written by Shaun Tan is a picture book about a lonely red-headed girl; a red leaf from a red tree follows the girl through her day. It illustrates how she feels and shows her depression.…
Amelia Gray’s Gutshot Amelia Gray in her two short stories The Moment of Conception and Fifty Ways to Eat Your Lover preserves and capitalizes her consistency to deliver grotesque, surreal parables that mask the simple attributes of the human condition to love, understand love, and the surreal journey as well as the destination that love can take one person. In The Moment of Conception Gray manages to capsulate the desire and emotional drive for her characters in the first sentence of the story, "We wanted a child so badly!" (Gray 138). And the dissection of this sentence can not only lay out a schematic for Gray’s writing style, but also acts as a way of immediately implementing characterization into the couple by making…
Mary Oliver reveals conjectures people make about other people and other cultures in her poem, “Singapore.” Oliver shares a woman’s experience in an airport bathroom. The speaker in the poem is inwardly conflicted, and her internal thoughts displayed throughout the poem alter. At first, the poem reveals the speaker’s thoughts towards a woman working as a custodian at the airport as degrading and poignant. The speaker judgmentally feels sorry for the woman and takes pity on her.…
The state of being alone is how we enter and leave this world. Barbara Lazear Ascher, a columnist for the New York Times, explains the independent life of the Box Man to show a correlation between women, loneliness, and independence. The homeless lifestyle of the Box Man may seem miserable to society, but to him living in isolation breeds contentment. This contentment sets a precedent for the rest of society to mimic. By using rhetorical strategies, Ascher contrasts descriptions of three characters to express her view on solitude.…
Similarly, Mitchell’s own perspective echoes Plath’s concerns and sufferings. In conjunction with the poet, Mitchell critiques “old friends” who “are acting strange,” and she regrets that much of life has become “just another show” in her song Both Sides Now. Throughout the balled, Mitchell describes once beloved aspects of life, clouds or love and the fairytale images they evoke. However, as she has grown older, Mitchell explains how these once beloved treasures have become sullied by newfound wisdom and experiences. Once feathery clouds now only contribute to rain or snow.…
The Red Tree (Shaun Tan, 2001) is a children’s picture book that is both written and illustrated by Shaun Tan. The Red Tree is a book about depression, despair and ultimately, hope. The book follows a girl struggling with depression who, at the end of the book, finds hope in the form of a red tree. For a picture book to be successful, both the illustrations and written text generally can exist independently, but complement each other. There is a strong marriage between the written and visual language in Tan’s book that creates a harmonious connection to powerfully and effectively represent depression.…
In the story Marigolds, by Eugenia Collier, the reader discovers the theme is to be innocent is to be a child and in order for one to mature, they must become compassionate. Out of the five clues to theme, the most relevant ones to this text are the conflict and solution, what the main character learns, and the stories symbolism. In the story Marigolds, there is an extremely important overarching theme that is still very relevant today. Conflict and solution are a huge clue as to what the theme of the story is. Lizabeth, the main character, doesn't know whether or not she should listen to the child or women in her and becomes confused in who she really is.…
Catcher in the Rye and Pleasantville Comparison Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, once said, “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Rohn believes that if people fail to take risks in their life then it will be lacking fulfillment. Some people may resent taking risks because they let the fear of bad things that can from it overwhelm them. However, when people don’t take chances they are incapable of making changes in their life for the better. Risk taking is an important element in life, literature, and film.…
Yearwork one The influence of Zanele Muholi’s techniques, concepts and subject matter in her “La Rochelle” series and “Miss D'vine” series on my work: “Flowers in (my) hair” Conceptualization: Like in Muholi’s La Rochelle series (figs.2, 3, 4), my artwork Flowers in (my) hair (fig.1) tackles gender norms- mainly toxic masculinity . The camel in the image is my representation of man and focuses on changing the idea that to be a man you must be tough.…
It seemed like I could actually see the leaves and flowers growing and changing.” I used Marcela as an example because she was first angry and disgraceful before she got into the garden but when she did she was graceful and she didn’t have bad vibes she had good…
Relationships, changes and appearances can be caused by multiple events and situations dealing with human beings. They can then alter from time to time off what another person has said or what they have done to affect them in their lives. The novel “6” written by Karen Tayleur and the picture book “Piggy Book” by Anthony Browne both go to show the relationships, appearances and how individuals change in their own perception. The novel and picture book not only shows us the issues and problems that people go through but goes on to identify what a person can become and how their relationship has changed once some of these issues and problems arise. Throughout the novel and picture book composers used a variety of language and narrative techniques…