Question 2: Rocket Summer
Answer: This first chapter has a lot of literary elements that allow the reader recognizes a tone. There are a several Similes, Metaphors and Personification, and some people might see this as a chapter made entirely out of these devices. To name a few; “...The panes blind with frost.” This one uses personification to give the reader the clue that the weather is freezing temperatures and cold. This leaves us with either a playful tone, since we can assume that it is winter and children are playing, or a tone of solitude since with colder weather comes less people out and about. Another example of a literary element is this quote; “...Housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy …show more content…
An example in advancement in technology would be the house mentioned in ‘There will come soft rains’ and smart homes in our world. A similarity is the fact that the house does things to help the owner and make a stay there more comfortable, simplistic, and overall better. Where there is a differance is the smartness of the house. An example is at the end of the chapter house tries to put out a fire but fails to whereas ours wouldn't have the thought to. In this quote we can see the failure of the house; “...the house began to die. The widow blew, bottles shattered on the stove. “Fire!”” Screamed a voice…the house tried to save itself.” Another similarities and difference deals with punishment and cruelty. A similarity would be the burning of books from Usher I and the Nazi’s burning books durring the holocaust. They both deal with burning of books that they disagree with and using that as means of punishment. We can see this in Usher II; “All of his books were burned in the Great Fire.” This signifies that this event was a big deal since the word great is used and how we refer to it as a sorrowful event, like that of the Nazi Book Burnings. A difference would be our means of jail. In the book we see no form of jail, which we can only assume that the people that would be in a jail are dead, whereas we have a jail and a
Answer: This first chapter has a lot of literary elements that allow the reader recognizes a tone. There are a several Similes, Metaphors and Personification, and some people might see this as a chapter made entirely out of these devices. To name a few; “...The panes blind with frost.” This one uses personification to give the reader the clue that the weather is freezing temperatures and cold. This leaves us with either a playful tone, since we can assume that it is winter and children are playing, or a tone of solitude since with colder weather comes less people out and about. Another example of a literary element is this quote; “...Housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy …show more content…
An example in advancement in technology would be the house mentioned in ‘There will come soft rains’ and smart homes in our world. A similarity is the fact that the house does things to help the owner and make a stay there more comfortable, simplistic, and overall better. Where there is a differance is the smartness of the house. An example is at the end of the chapter house tries to put out a fire but fails to whereas ours wouldn't have the thought to. In this quote we can see the failure of the house; “...the house began to die. The widow blew, bottles shattered on the stove. “Fire!”” Screamed a voice…the house tried to save itself.” Another similarities and difference deals with punishment and cruelty. A similarity would be the burning of books from Usher I and the Nazi’s burning books durring the holocaust. They both deal with burning of books that they disagree with and using that as means of punishment. We can see this in Usher II; “All of his books were burned in the Great Fire.” This signifies that this event was a big deal since the word great is used and how we refer to it as a sorrowful event, like that of the Nazi Book Burnings. A difference would be our means of jail. In the book we see no form of jail, which we can only assume that the people that would be in a jail are dead, whereas we have a jail and a