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claims in this chapter that blindness is never just a fact—it always has symbolic significance in a story. He furthers his claim by saying that most texts feature metaphorical representations of blindness and sight, even if the story doesn’t contain literal blindness. Two important things are that blindness can mean much more than just the physical act of seeing, and that usually a characteristic such as blindness, is important when introduced early in a story. Literary Example: Slaughterhouse…

Symbolism is the use of people or objects to portray a certain idea or quality of something. Thomas Foster strategically used symbolism in several of his chapters to allow the reader to understand more of why people do certain things rather than the literal…

The Great Gatsby Essay 2 In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, parallel scenes exist throughout the novel that outline patterns or juxtapose changes in characters or themes. One particularly decisive and insightful example is when Nick drives across the bridge towards the city (Fitzgerald 68) and then drives again across the same bridge some months later, this time away from the city (Fitzgerald 135 – 136). Because Nick constantly tries to offer, through the language of his narrative,…

shows this in the songs “Factory” and “Independence Day”. Thinking about the lyrics of “Factory” one of the things I loved is how literal Bruce was in explaining what his father went through. One of the lyrics “factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life” explains how his father lost his hearing working but it also was a source of income. Because Bruce is so literal with his lyrics it really shows his appreciation of what his father had to go through in order to provide for his family.…

Of everything related to comprehension that was covered in class, I found close reading and text complexity to be the most important. Close reading essentially is comprehension, as it requires a complete understanding of the text. By rereading multiple times and breaking down individual sections of the text, the reader is able to gain increased comprehension than he or she would have otherwise. I have also reviewed my previous reflections in order to evaluate how to best correct my common…

Modern historical analysis is bases its existence off of one crucial element; evidence. The First and Second World Wars provide historians with in depth hard evidence from still-existing battlefields as well as thousands of written accounts of the events of a day’s fighting. The further back in history one goes, however, the more scant this history becomes. Amongst the most difficult time periods to analyze can be found in the Classical era; with limited surviving written resources as well as…

mystery relentlessly, confident that its solution will yield him the same glory he enjoyed when he answered the riddle of the Sphinx. Oedipus' self-assurance that he has taken care of his fate blinds him to it and begins the fall that will end in his literal blindness. Thus he becomes the victim rather than the conqueror of fate. In Antigone, Creon also displays a blind spot. Wrapped up in the trappings of power, Creon puts his responsibility for Thebes above the laws of the gods and has to be…

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence is a template used by many people and groups to convince people what they want them to believe. This sequence can be used as a sort of call to action by a politician or more commonly to persuade people to buy something in a commercial. The Schticky commercial, is one that once watched you can never forget.Vince Offer, the new Billy Mays, does a great job of going almost step by step through Monroe’s Motivate Sequence. In an attempt to get you to buy his product The…

Two passages describe the passing of birds, one by John James Audubon and the other by Annie Dillard. These two authors, though they have similarities, describe the birds unlike one another. These similarities and differences include the descriptions of the flocks and the language used by the two authors. The physical descriptions of the flocks of birds differ between the authors, but also compare similarly. Both Audubon and Dillard describe the flocks as a sort of ordered chaos with “apparent…

opportunities need to be complemented with some valuation. The believed that, there will be a need to differentiate between important opportunities and those that are less important too. To elaborate his point, Taylor gives an example of traffic signal. In literal sense, traffic signal restricts an individual’s domain of a negative liberty. This is because they deprive an individual the opportunities of crossing the street wherever and whenever it is applicable. Nonetheless, no one in right…