‘My Father’s hands’ by Calvin R. Worthington and ‘Genesis and catastrophe’ by Roald Dahl are two eloquent short stories that make use of imagery to develop ideas and explore key themes. In ‘My Father’s hands’, Worthington creates thought provoked themes regarding fear and strength whilst providing an understanding for ideas such as how grief builds us as people who have experienced the loss of loved ones. Similarly to Worthington’s short story, Dahl in ‘Genesis and catastrophe’ also explores death and survival as key themes throughout. Furthermore, each story uses imagery to display different emotions and characters that are faced with death and family hardships.
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In ‘My Fathers hands’ the author constructs the visual of his Father using emotive language to allow the reader to gather a heartfelt perspective on the pain in any sons heart due to the loss of the main man in their life. Worthington explores what death looks like to a grieving family member and inevitably leaves the reader feeling a sense of empathy for the fears of illiteracy his father experienced in the last few moments of life. “As I held the bottle of nitro-glycerine pills, the scene of Dad struggling to remove the cap and in desperation trying to break the bottle with the brick flashing painfully before my eyes. With deep anguish I knew why those big, warm hands had lost in their struggle with death.” The way the author re tells a memory helps the reader to visually understand all aspects to the story which is similarly practiced in ‘Genesis and a catastrophe’. Dahl uses imagery to portray how the babies were seen in the eyes of their mother and father. Because of the brutal nature of the Father, Herr Hitler, the words used to describe the new born baby create a picture of a perfect little baby but strategically twisted to present a human that has no chance of survival according to his immediate family due to the fear of the death of three other babies. As Worthington used poetic wording to bring moments in
Within ‘My Father’s hands’ and ‘Genesis and catastrophe’, imagery is used by …show more content…
In ‘My Fathers hands’ the author constructs the visual of his Father using emotive language to allow the reader to gather a heartfelt perspective on the pain in any sons heart due to the loss of the main man in their life. Worthington explores what death looks like to a grieving family member and inevitably leaves the reader feeling a sense of empathy for the fears of illiteracy his father experienced in the last few moments of life. “As I held the bottle of nitro-glycerine pills, the scene of Dad struggling to remove the cap and in desperation trying to break the bottle with the brick flashing painfully before my eyes. With deep anguish I knew why those big, warm hands had lost in their struggle with death.” The way the author re tells a memory helps the reader to visually understand all aspects to the story which is similarly practiced in ‘Genesis and a catastrophe’. Dahl uses imagery to portray how the babies were seen in the eyes of their mother and father. Because of the brutal nature of the Father, Herr Hitler, the words used to describe the new born baby create a picture of a perfect little baby but strategically twisted to present a human that has no chance of survival according to his immediate family due to the fear of the death of three other babies. As Worthington used poetic wording to bring moments in