Drunk, stupid, lazy, these are just a few of the words that popular culture has used to describe the Native American Indians. The so called “Spaghetti Westerns” were constantly painting these “savages” as less than human. Even John Wayne, who perhaps had more respect than most for Native Americans, still portrayed them in a negative connotation. One of Wayne’s most popular movies, McClintock, has the American Indians stating a party was fun but “no whiskey, so we go home.”…
The first chapter of John Gardner 's novel, Nickel Mountain, introduces the readers to the depressed, lonely life of Henry Soames, the owner of an unsuccessful convenience store. This chapter shows readers how Soames copes with the emotional and physical conflict of living a lonely depressed life, with a heart disease. A common theme in this passage is Henry’s inability to cope with his dying heart and grotesque physical appearance in order to escape his hopeless, deteriorating state of mind. Henry 's physical and mental attributes are characterized using setting, diction and syntax, and figurative language.…
Carlos Nieto Nieto 1 Professor Starnes English 1301 June 12, 2016 Stereotypes Have you ever been offended from somebody that has called you something rude? Most likely the answering is yes. Most of the time it is because of stereotyping, color, and race. Well the Indians have been taking a stand and have been protesting over decades, possibly even longer about Indian team names and mascots in competition sports.…
Erik Larson is argued to have a difficult time creating realistic details for a book about a time period he could only research about. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson uses brilliantly constructed figurative language in order to insightfully display his interpretation of the story (entailing the events of the Chicago World Fair and the serial killer H. H. Holmes) and realistically and informatively describe the details of people, places, and events in the novel. The first figurative language tool that will be addressed is the simile. The first simile that is used to describe one of the main "characters" of Larson’s novel, Holmes, is “As he moved through the station, the glances of young women fell around him like wind-blown petals”…
In Zitkala Sa’s short story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a Native American boy goes to a mission school that teaches him that killing anything is wrong. His father is sick and unable to hunt, and he did not kill until it is too late. The young man is born and raised Native American but, is taught Christianity in school which made him a social outcast to both his people and their ways of life. Zitkala story The Soft-Hearted Sioux, portrays that the boy is torn between two faiths.…
In Metaphorical Ways of Knowing, Sharon L. Pugh, Jean Wolph Hicks, and Marcia Davis emphasize how metaphors have the ability to raise hidden or subtle commonalities seen in everyday life (18). Although I agree with what Pugh, Hicks, and Davis wrote, metaphors involving animals and humans still bring about a negative connotation once compared, and through these comparisons, another pattern appeared where an animal’s normal behavior can be seen in humans’ action. Pugh, Hicks, and Davis as authors of “Metaphorical Ways of Knowing” elaborate on the subtle commonalities. In the “Hunger Games,” there’s a scene where countless camera man flocks to the scene to observe the killing game.…
There is an abundance of figurative language in Night, written by Elie Wiesel. He uses a lot of very complicated figurative language to express certain images or feelings, often making his words like a puzzle that one needs to solve in order to understand its meaning. There are three particularly meaningful uses of figurative language throughout the novel, and that show Elie Wiesel’s creativity and amazing writing skill. The first use of figurative language that really stood out to me was when Elie Wiesel used a metaphor to compare the situation in which the Jews were to a sword hanging over their heads.…
Donaghy once explains about the function of metaphors in his book. According to him the functions of metaphors are connotative and aesthetic. From the connotative function, translation refers to the ability to translate metaphor. To describe concrete and abstract concepts to be more detail, express what inside thoughts and characterize the quality of the described object. From the aesthetic function, it refers to the ability of a metaphor to provide the aesthetic impact on the reader, to interest and surprise the reader (Donaghy 2014:…
In "The Pie," a short story by Gary Soto, the narrator uses figurative language to lead the reader down a spiraling passage into spiritual guilt, stealing, and gluttony. For example, when the narrator states he knew enough about hell to stop him from stealing and that somedays he recognized the shadows of angels flopping on the backyard grass, and other days, the narrator, "heard far away messages in the plumbing that howled underneath the house," (Soto). The quote "far away messages in the plumbing that howled underneath the house," is an example of personification, giving the reader the idea that Soto is describing the plumbing, an inanimate, object, using living traits; referencing that the plumbing is screaming out to the narrator as the…
Metaphors and similes can help people see things in a new light and how they can relate to one…
Lakoff and Johnson (1980) categorize conceptual metaphors into 3 classifications: ontological metaphors, structural metaphors and orientational metaphors. 1. Orientational metaphors Orientational metaphors, also known as spatial metaphors, are a series of metaphorical concepts which are constructed with reference to spatial orientation, which comes from people’s emotional and physical experience. The concepts are related in the following ways: up or down, in or out, front or back, on or off, deep or shallow. Cognitive linguistics holds that this kind of metaphor project the spatial concept of the source domain onto an abstract target domain and cross-domain mapping is not random, but rooted in our body structure, daily life experience and knowledge.…
that is a connection between. Fargo has a relationship between meals, food and humanity. Food is the symbolism of their connection to society and proximity to the good and bad. Marge, the police “heroine” of the film is surrounded by food and meals all the time, she’s is shown several times having dinner, lunch and even breakfast with her husband every time she is having a meal we can see that she is firmly attached to humanity and society. Another example of this food-humanity-society kind of connection on the film is Jerry (William H. Macy), the “master mind” of the kidnapping before he kidnapped his own wife his family used to appear almost in every scene surrounded by food, either eating or talking while the wife was cooking.…
In particular, this study will examine 2 main research questions: 1) What conceptual metaphor underlay the animal metaphorical expressions in the novel The White Tiger? 2) 3. Aims of the Study There are two primary aims of this study: 1) To investigate and analyze the conceptual metaphor underlying the metaphorical expressions in the novel The White Tiger.…
Uniform- The uniform his father wears for his job is a symbol of his father’s dignity, as well as Gregor’s changing feelings of pity and respect for him. Throughout the story, his father is shown primarily from Gregor’s point of view. We gain from him a picture of his father as a lazy and miserable man whom Gregor feels sorry for but not necessarily respects. But when Gregor runs out of his and sees his father for the first time in weeks, Gregor’s opinion of the father changes.…
For my base, I will use the concept of pattern recognition from the book “Riveted”. Pattern recognition refers to a cognitive process that connects information from a stimulus with information recovered from memory. Commonly, the recognized patterns can be those apparent in facial features, units of music, and components of language or characters. Pattern recognition does not occur immediately, although it does happen mechanically and instinctively. Pattern recognition is an inherent and inborn ability of animals.…