Euphemism

Jonas is a dynamic protagonist in The Giver. Jonas is an average 11 year old boy with dark, short hair, pale eyes, and he is relatively fit. In the novel, Lowry describes Jonas’ physical traits directly. However, she describes his personality indirectly through how other people view him and how he acts. Jonas has two main friends, but there is no true social hierarchy. Compared to the others his age in the story Jonas has stronger, more confusing emotions. Jonas’ purpose in The Giver is to show…

1. The first step of the embalming process is to place the cadaver in a sterile morgue. Then, with tools that look similar to ones you would find in a surgery room, the body is drained of its blood and injected with embalming fluid. After that, the intestates and organs are removed from the body and replaced with cavity fluid. The body then sits for 8 to 10 hours after being embalmed before the embalmer can continue with their work. The embalmer then fills in any sunken areas of the body and…

language to dictate human fate. Throughout their conversation, Mairtin and Mick use the word “sick” to describe vomit, with the phrase “drowned on sick” becoming a stand-in for death by asphyxiation on vomit (McDonagh 39). At first glance, these euphemisms seem to be simple ways of avoiding having to address death by its name. Their conversation, however, reveals deeper fears about the looming presence of death in their community. Whereas Mairtin dismisses death by alcohol poisoning as…

Manipulation can lead to power but certainly a corrupt power {Hook}. At the beginning of animal, farm power was used to attain good things; it brought the animals in the farm together under a united case and allow them to gain their freedom, however as the story develops power began to destroy the community. After this point power struggles emerge and serve to divide the animals in the farm instead of uniting them.{Background} In “Animal Farm” George Orwell used the pigs to try to demonstrate…

movement is becoming less important than it really is because some don’t quite understand the significance of the movement. Whenever there’s white vs. black issues, people of minority are quick to say black lives matter which is making it more of a euphemism that’s used in our society against white’s and people of racism. Although, racism is an issue of all races, in America, it’s more common amongst black and white Americans. Throughout this essay I will touch basis on the importance of the…

Both Leslie Marmon Silko and Gloria Anzaldia discuss about borders and their functions. Anzaldia claims that borders are meant to separate the safe from the unsafe and ‘us – non-whites’ from ‘them - whites’. However, she argues that borderland – area near a border – is not as fixed as borders. Silko also states that: “…. borders haven’t worked, and they won’t work, not now, as indigenous people of the Americas reassert their kinship and solidarity with one another. A mass migration is already…

Many stories have hidden meanings about life within them. It is a way to get people really thinking about subjects that are otherwise hard to talk about, much less write a story about. Sometimes it takes a lot of creativity to realize exactly what the story is really about. Although, some are much easier to understand. There are many terms we use to help define a story that assist us in understanding easier. The story, “Hills Like White Elephants” is primarily a conversation between an American…

Public transcripts are characterized by the state sanctioning of certain idealized forms of action that citizens should take, and are demonstrated in social norms of politeness, parades, and holidays. Hidden transcripts are characterized by the private critiques of the official transcripts and are put into action through rumors, gossip, ritualistic aggression and the creation of autonomous space form the oppressed population. Coded transcripts are the attempts of people to ascertain how…

parent-child relationship, Pearl seems disrespectful because she gave Hester permission to sit. She has learned to show authority to others. However, Pearl’s belief at the end of the passage indicates her innocence. Pearl believed that the Black Man, an euphemism for the devil, is real. People signing the book and being marked (153) is a metaphor for people selling their souls to the devil. Pearl is not old enough to understand the hidden symbol of the story; therefore, she shows curiosity…

Adolescence comes from the Latin world, adolescere, and is defined as “the transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that occurs during the period of puberty to legal adulthood”(Wikipedia.com). In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, is a symbolic character that represents adolescence. In the novel, Holden’s true issues are not related to the “phonies”. As a matter of fact, his true issue is his inability to accept reality because…