Theme Analysis Essay

The Treasure of Lemon Brown Everyone has a treasure right. What is your treasure? The story of Lemon Brown is about a boy who wanders into an old tenement and finds a homeless man, named Lemon Brown. He was a blues singer and a good one. He said “I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at the funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.” Lemon Brown’s treasure was a harmonica and some newspaper clippings. He gave his son these items and his son died in the war. Lemon told…

as a form of self-expression. Despite having two dynamic main characters the plot moves forward with fluidity. This is mostly due to Baldwin’s use of ongoing themes such as loss of innocence, suffering and self-discovery that manifest in both of the leading characters. In “Sonny’s Blues”, the author utilizes music to highlight these themes…

rather than what it truly is which is tearing something down. Curation into beauty consists of shaping something by taking things away, and in The Lost Wax by Jericho Parms, the author shows this central theme throughout the book that a person is made and formed by the losses in their life. This theme is accentuated by stories in Parms’ life that implore love and loss, but these stories that on the surface may seem miscellaneous, at the same time they all point back to a metaphorical idea of…

connections between these elements and the overall theme of the film, and how the theme is developed, will then be discussed. All the elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene contribute to the theme that death is an inevitable, inescapable part of every person’s life, and that death itself is an almost mundane topic. Cinematography is the means by which a film is made. Within the scene, many different techniques are used for emphasis and to highlight the theme of the film. The camera…

The Yellow Wallpaper had culture as one of its themes; one could see that through the narrator. The narrator seemed to have mental instability due to the fact that she was not allowed to visit certain people, or travel. This was mainly because her husband, who was also a physician, dismissed her mental issues on nerves and hysteria. Later on in the reading the narrator starts to see and imagine things vividly, mostly from not having anything to which occupy herself with. In today’s culture…

emphasize a female in a dominant position because in this world women are treated as a minority in most cultures and religions, so i feel the intent of placing a female leader was to show how society would or could be in terms of gender equality. The theme learnt here is that women should be placed on a pedestal next to men instead of being degraded. The quality of Commander Lewis that made her standout was not only that she was a female, but she was a responsible individual who chose to work…

"Search of Self" is one of the main themes that developed throughout the novel. "The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded"(Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.). The text supports the theme by explaining how Edna is finding a sense of self. Edna's "newly awakened being" describes her new…

which Drewe successfully achieves, the uses of textual themes complimented with language techniques and dominant themes are portrayed within the text. The theme of loyalty is continuously brought up in the novel and the techniques of flashbacks, sarcasm and metaphors are seen in the core text to help enhance the importance of the relationship between character and text, and explain how the techniques are demonstrated representing textual themes. Loyalty is an immense role seen in the…

The novel’s major conflict is Edna and her conflicting beliefs against society regarding what a woman’s role should be, and it is shown quite early in the novel. An example of such would be Edna’s defiance of Leonce’s orders and her decision to remain outside in the cold back at Grand Isle (35). Edna’s growing resistance to society, especially in this scene, demonstrates the fierce soul she possesses. Her realization of the fact that her husband does not control her seems to spark within her at…

quickly realizes how difficult Dauntless is, and she must fight and work hard to prove to herself and others what she can do. These events all show how the author uses theme, characterization, and plot to help make the book, Divergent, more interesting. Tris is not just brave, or just selfless, or smart, she is all three. The theme of the book, Divergent, is that nobody has just one quality that makes them who they are. Tris believes…