In Ray Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine, the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to point out on Douglas Spaulding's imagination. In the authors writing, he uses metaphors and personification to portray Douglas's vision of summer. He describes the main character's hometown as "swarming seas of elm and oak and maple" and "early-morning stream" these are metaphors, it allows readers to visualize the setting of his home and symbolizes how summer is slow and steady. In addition, the author…
everyone’s hearts to this day. The author’s purpose is also known as a theme, or symbol of the book. Both Dandelion Wine and The Time Machine have many themes, and symbols. These books are used in many programs that my foreign friends go to and use their English skills for good things. For example, my friend in India uses these books in his school. These books are great, and have many things to write about. Dandelion Wine is the story of a summer and has many themes, but it is also a story…
The book, The Guns of August, is a story of the first days of World War 1. It was written by Barbara W. Tuchman; it is also a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The book The Guns of August starts out at the funeral procession of King Edward VII of England in 1910. Kings and Nobles from around the world attended the funeral procession. The funeral had many mourners but not everyone there was sad to see the king go. There was one man that was happy to say good bye to the king that man was none other…
Ernest Hemingway was a great author of many short stories about war and how they affect people. The story that I read was soldiers home this story is based right after World War I. The author live thru and volunteered in this war as an ambulance driver before he was injured. This is important to realize when reading this story because he has a felt the pain and suffering that most of the characters in his story's go thru. This story is centered around the struggles that soldiers have trying to…
For some a book composed almost entirely of letters written home from Vietnam may not seem like a desirable read. However, Dear America entices one from the first letter and makes the reader not want to put it down- unless they are reaching for a tissue. The tear provoking collection of letters at first seems like a window into the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs of a soldier suffering the hardships of war, but as it progresses the letters bite at the reader’s soul and makes one feel as though…
A Farewell to Arms show’s Hemingway’s at war experience. As similar to the same character in the book the main character is Frederick Henry have the same experience in common. Hemingway’s was rejected from the us army for having poor sight. He didn't have really good sight due to boxing. When in battle he was wounded and hit by an Austrian mortar shell. Besides the wound he also managed to carry an italian soldier to the nearby command post. However, machine gun fire struck him in his foot and…
Ernest Hemingway’s deeper meaning to “Soldiers Home Ernest Hemingway has a deeper meaning to his story “Soldiers Home. Using Biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze his short story, “Soldiers Home” it can be argued that Hemingway wanted to highlight the struggles returning soldiers faced when coming home from military service and to help others realize that the isolation is an ongoing issue that has yet to be solved. A young man named Krebs is the main character in…
of making up for; making amends for or offsetting. Redemption is often looked at as a strong theme throughout many novels across the world. Three novels redemption finds its place in are The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Antonia by Willa Carther, and A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Each of these novels, in one way or another are considered stories of redemption. These three novels show the theme of redemption through strong character situations and changes that the characters…
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, being the first son and second child to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. His mother hoped that he would foster an interest for music, but he liked the outdoors much more, like his father. In high school, he excelled academically as well as athletically. After high school, he was not interested in going to college, and wanted a writing career. He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City, at the young age of seventeen…
In the novel The English Patient , written by Michael Ondaatje, the author describes the life of a young nurse (Hana) and her sacrifice to take care of a burned English patient (Count Laszlo de Almásy) in an abandoned hospital located in an Italian villa, that was affected by world war II. In the novel the author reveals to the readers, the love and care shown by the nurse to an utter stranger, her development in character and knowledge and the authors ability to captivate the reader throughout…