Analogy

In the short story “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” the author, Yasunari Kawabata, is telling a story about finding a group of children who all have beautifully made lanterns. This story seems to have no meaning until the reader comes to the end and the author explains what he sees in the situation of two young children inspecting the bell cricket. The children are on an insect hunt and the narrator has decided to watch them. Like the children, he was drawn to the ridge by an “insects…

After making his argument, it is inferred that Plato takes over the argument but continues to use Socrates as a mouth piece. To help in understanding an analogy is created and although it seems reasonable at first, it is not. Plato tries his best to have his line of reasoning flawless, nonetheless it has flaws. His ideology along with his analogy are flawed which consecutively means that justice is not how he makes it out to be. Justice comes into play in a conversation between Cephalus, an…

passion for the splendor and grace of nature is apparent throughout all of his work and proves that he viewed the phenomena of the natural environment solely as evidence of God’s divine creation. Edwards uses specific and descriptive explanations and analogies in “Personal Narrative”, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, and “Images or Shadows of Divine Things” to prove how big of a role the natural world plays in understanding both, the noble and malevolent faces of God, and also how God…

Nietzsche makes an important distinction between the words “evil” and bad” even though they are both considered the opposite of “good.” He says that it is the individual views of the common man and the noble man that created these different concepts. The word “bad” originated from the nobles, and the word “evil” came from the ressentiment of the common people. Another important reason that these two words have different meanings is because the nobles and the common people do not share the same…

The Greeks were very influential to the development of our modern world. The city-state or polis was the main political unit of Greece in this time period. The two major city-states in Greece were Sparta and Athens; they were sometimes united in order to defeat a common enemy. However, there was much tension between Sparta and Athens during this time period; these two cities were the main competitors in the Peloponnesian War. These two city-states were different in the way they ran their…

Rhetorical Analysis of Apes of Wrath Barbara Smuts is a reputable psychologist and anthropologist who teaches at the University of Michigan, she is a connoisseur in the social behavior of animals such as primates. In this essay called “Apes of Wrath” which was first published in 1995, Barbara Smuts makes detailed and relevant connections between her animal observations and that from human’s social relationships. When discussing genetics, humans and primates are almost exact, in addition, Smuts…

individuality and nonconformity is a pathway for a person to be self-reliant. Emerson’s essay proposes that to reach one’s self-reliance, one must have a quality that distinguishes them from others. To illustrate the theme of individualism, he gives an analogy by saying, “that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till” (550). In this metaphor, Emerson compares kernel…

letter condemning his nonviolent demonstrations, labeling him as an extremist. King’s usage of allusions, antithesis, and analogy to build his credibility and appeal to the emotions of his moderate audience justify his extremist actions and persuades the reader to act against injustices. King addresses the clergymen’s accusation of King’s “extreme measures” by creating analogies to justify his actions. He concedes that he is an extremist; however, he argues that extremism itself isn’t…

low-wage worker and the everyday difficulties she encounters in her position. Ehrenreich publicizes the plight of low-wage workers by using analogies, which highlight the challenges low-wage workers face, emotionally charged words, to allow the reader to connect with the story, and extreme language to arouse sympathy from the audience. Ehrenreich uses the analogies of food and battlefields in order to emphasize the difficulties of her situation. Ehrenreich describes her workplace as a “a fat…

an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” Here King likens African Americans’ mistreatment to a ‘sweltering summer,’ which conveys an uncomfortable, hot, and miserable heat that everyone, despite skin color, can relate to. Another way this analogy can be seen is that the further south one goes, the ‘hotter’ the heat of racial injustice becomes, and that freedom from racial discrimination is like an oasis that offers relief, shelter, and prosperity. Another example of King’s use of…