Nostalgia

the poems “Church Going” by Philip Larkin, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan, and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne expresses author’s purpose of deep emotions and universal life lessons of growing up, uncertainty, and nostalgia. In “Church Going” by Philip Larkin, the author condemns a feeling of uncertainty when questioning the future of religion. Throughout the poem, Philip Larkin questions…

writing the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Banneker also lives in the United States at this time and points out Jefferson’s hypocrisy in doing so. Banneker utilizes many rhetorical strategies, including logical appeals, emotional appeals to nostalgia, and religious references, in order to convey his opinion that slavery is immoral and that Jefferson, as a founding father, is a hypocrite for his involvement in the slave trade. In his first paragraph, Banneker illustrates an image of a time…

Abraham Chang's poem "Folding Won Tons In" emphasizes the struggle of performing a task on one's own without the guiding hand of a parental figure; in a sense, this poem portrays one's actions as self deprecating compared to another's actions. In this poem, the speaker views his actions as not good enough compared to his deceased mother. The reader can assume that the speaker’s mother is dead because of the way he describes how his mother “would” season the pork. The speaker degrades his…

Mark Twain’s setting in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” , a folktale story he wrote illustrated as “Angel’s Camp” a gold mining community in the mid-19th century. The story takes place in a mining town in the west where it is populated primarily by men, many of them looking for their own fortune. A gambler, “Jim Smiley” a man who tricks people in bets for money; however, wins every bet he makes. One day Smiley gets out-tricked for the first time when he makes a bet with a…

is impracticable and dead-end, while for the dominant and privileged group in the society, the open road is usually synonymous with nostalgia and return of the values and morality proposed by them. Struggle and Rebellion Obviously, the two female protagonists in the movie…

Barbie is a popular doll brand, it 's been around for over forty years. Barbie is a slim young woman, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. Unlike other dolls, Barbie has been a surgeon, dentist, and pilot. It is a doll that influences young girls to be whatever they want. Barbie is a doll that has been the subject of many controversies and lawsuits. What message does Barbie send, to young girls? This doll, encounters both criticism and praise, spanning both ends of the ideological…

also diverse factors affect our perspective of the world, for example; how we define success, our religion and traditions. My perspective of life is more similar to the American’s than the Chinese. I do admire the Chinese culture, but I do not have nostalgia for home or rootedness. In fact, I decided to move to Canada and pursue a better future. In my country, Venezuela, our perspective of life and success is completely different from that of Chinese. I always seek self-improvement; which…

Simple Symbols with Deeper Meanings When people think of F. Scott Fitzgerald they think of the roaring 20’s and his famous novel the “Great Gatsby”, what many tend to not recognize or acknowledge is Fitzgerald’s skills of capturing the mood of the 1930’s as well. Written in 1930, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” is a perfect example of his writing about life after the 1929 stock market crash. The short story introduces readers to Charlie Wales, the main character who lost everything…

conjures nostalgia and pain for her. Alegría’s character of Luisa brilliantly allows the reader to gain an inside perspective into a world that is often left unheard. Alegría’s collection of vignettes and poems titled Luisa in Realityland describes the horrendous political climate of El Salvador, and the consequences that arise from these political injustices. Most importantly, Luisa describes the the United States involvement in the…

fact that the words nostalgia means “I return” (2011: 145). Returning means moving back and that is what Marji is doing in the film. She wallows in certain type of nostalgia, returning to her childhood and reliving those memories as she tries to regain her identity. During the third act Marji’s father reminiscences fondly how he was able to hold Marji’s mothers hand in public while they were dating, something Marji is unable to do in the Iran she lives in. Marji embodies nostalgia as she, but so…