Dum Dum

Clatter clatter clatter… “Oh I cut my hand loading up the dishwasher.” Clatter clatter clatter… “It’s a UTI, I’m 1,000% sure.” Clatter clatter clatter… “I 'm not sure I 'm in the right place - are you the dermatologist?” Before the doctor opens the door, his presence is heralded by the cacophonous sound of my compact standing computer desk. Like the shopping cart you inevitably grab at the grocery store, it has a wonky, rattling wheel whose strident chorus fills the small urgent care facility…

Curley’s wife’s less physical (but much more destructive) violence is shown through her treatment of the weaker characters in the book, illustrating Steinbeck's moral of how violence has many different motivators. The portrayal of Curley's wife as an object of seduction leads the readers to conclude that the men on the ranch only think of her as a cause of trouble and distance themselves from her presence, not even giving her a name. Her desperate attempts for attention are coyly hidden behind…

having to move around because of Lennie. George’s most important relationship in the book is Lennie. After George lays back on the sand and Lennie imitates him, George tells Lennie,” God you’re a lot of trouble”(7). After the events of Weed George is mad and shouts at Lennie. He is getting tired of moving place to place. Even though Lennie s a lot of trouble George sticks with him. After Lennie starts to drink too much water George tells Lennie,” Lennie for god’s sake don’t drink so much”(3)…

The tone of innocence gives the reader a glimpse of the Adah prior to the Congo. For instance, when describing her disabilities, she pretends as though it is a narrative: “Oh, I can easily imagine the fetal mishap: we were inside the womb together dum-de-dum when Leah suddenly turned and declared, Adah you are just too slow. I am taking all the nourishment here and going on ahead” (34). Her imagination is still that of a child as she recounts stories such as these; transforming a depressing…

Birches: Its Rhythm, Stress and Scansion Birches is a single stanza poem of 59 lines. It is a blank verse poem since it is unrhymed and in iambic pentameter. Each line should have five feet (10 syllables) and follow the classical, steady da-DUM da-Dum da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM beat, but Birches does not. Frost changed the meter (metre in UK) of convinced lines to help strengthen meaning and to introduce texture and tightness for the reader. Some of these partings from the iambic make it a problematic…

The use of rhythm through iambic pentameter plays an important part in understanding Marc Antony’s funeral oration in Julius Caesar. Much of the speech is representative of Antony’s thought process and the rhythmic variations allow the audience to connect with his train of thought. Determining the meaning of these rhythmic variations can be done by examining the iambic pentameter. For instance in Speaking Shakespeare, Patsy Rodenburg discusses the importance of counting syllables in each line to…

before Alex cut me off and said “Wait are you doing the English assignment thing? Mahika mentioned it to me yesterday when we were facetiming!” Before I knew it, Jay and Alex were yelling nonsense at each other back and forth before I yelled “YA DUM DUMS I was trying to thank you for being loyal unlike the rest of our friends and listening to me but…” I dramatically rolled my eyes to be petty, “I guess you don’t care. Whatever. I’ll go live a sad lonely life while you guys go hang out with your…

We humans are born alone, die alone, and think alone, but that does not mean we have to be alone. John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice And Men is about two men who are migrant workers. They both look out for each other and have one thing most people do not have, and that is companionship. Many migrant workers have left their families and friends in search of jobs. A majority of the migrant workers are traveling alone and are lonely because they move from place to place too fast to make friends. The…

wear colorful dresses and makeup to provoke other ranchers. She believes in her beauty and tries to flirt with other ranchers on the farm to make her husband jealous. “What am I doin'? Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs, a negro an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep—an' likin' it because they ain't nobody else” (Steinbeck 75) The book clearly portrays Curley’s wife as a snotty, harsh person. She would always talk and criticize about a lot during her time on the ranch. In the movie,…

‘’Quitting the Bars’’ is written in iambic pentameter (a ten-syllable line in which every other syllable is stressed). Meehan’s loosely stays around this meter, and many of her lines have the distinctive da-dum da-dum da-dum sound of iambic pentameter, Meehan lines have them at either ten or eleven syllables each. In terms of meter, each line is written in strongly-pronounced iambic pentameter: ‘’Quitting’s hard but staying sober’s harder.’’ The emphasis of the beat…