Orchard

states that literary style of the play is many times resembling to the Checkovian way of portraying the characters, for instance as seen in Checkov's The Cherry Orchard, where similar themes are introduced (the passing of an old time and lamenting on the past). Abbotson explains that Stella is the one similar to Checkov's characters who passively takes the events (50). Then, there are many similarities with Checkov's plays, like the expressionistic way of showing elements that serve the purpose…

“Love” portrays Janie’s wants and need from loving someone. Prior to Janie’s marriages, she found herself under a pear tree, and “From then on [she] knew that by [it] being in [her] life things were destined to change 'cause love”. Subsequently, Johnny Taylor appears, who she was never attracted to, suddenly, was tempted by his appearance and kissed him. Under the pear tree she received a ideal of what her future lovers should live up too. The lines,“The world looks so brand new to me now that I…

The pear tree and its blossoming buds resemble her first sexual and emotional fulfillment with the young boy. The bees pollinating the tree made her wish upon her body being caressed and loved the way a woman feels when she gives herself to a man. Janie is naïve and immature about love; she has no idea of what real love is; she spends all her time under the tree envisioning what love looks and feels like. The pear tree represents the good, bad, growth, and different stages of her life (Hurston…

At a younger age Janie was curious about the idea of relationships and love, but her grandmothers strict view, as well as society's negative view on the subject, made it hard for her to understand what love really is. Janie views her grandmother as a very strong important figure. Hurston writes “Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon-for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you,” (89) which portrays Nanny's view that dreams can never be obtained…

Hurston uses the imagery of the inside of Janie’s mind to display Janie breaking through a wall of sorts and displaying that one must go search for their lost objects if one wants to find themselves again. Some of the men were talking near Janie about what they would do had a women embarrassed them in front of people and that is when “Janie did what she had never done before, that is, thrust herself into the conversation”. (75) The word never means that an event or action will at no time occur…

The Almond Tree Essay Martin Luther King once said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never never lose infinite hope.” This is a very strong theme conveyed throughout The Almond Tree. It teaches how hope must never be forgotten while withstanding trials. This theme is seen several times throughout the book as a young boy, Ichmad, and his family as they go through many trials that they must overcome. Michelle Corasanti is able to display this by the use of symbols. One of the most…

As time passes, many factors change a person. Things such as the nature of their environment, people come and go, to dreams one might wish to pursue. Janie grew from a young bud to a beautiful tree, despite her environment being cruel to her. The people in Janie life and the nature of her circumstances influenced her growth from a naïve girl to a strong woman. Janie had a dream so far into the horizon that many people today have trouble achieving it; a harmonious love. A love that is…

The Lemon Orchard captures the essence of apartheid condensed down into this short story. It focuses on a colored man who is dragged from his home like a prisoner by four white men, who force him to walk through a lemon orchard where they torture, abuse and kill him. The author has effectively composed character within this passage through their actions, thoughts, dialogue and the narration. The setting provides an accurate backdrop in which the action is played out, he has created it by…

The philosopher Anthony Hope wrote many novels, his most famous being “The prisoner of Zenda.” Anthony Hope only wrote one short story “The Philosopher in the apple orchard.” He Had many jobs open to him being well educated but his favorite was to write stories. The reader can see that the story does reflect the author. Hope was well educated but preferred to keep to himself leaving a law career so he could focus on writing his stories. (Elwin 171) Anthony was a great writer most of his life…

successful businessman, Lopakhin is forced to face his past when interacting with family and the orchard itself. This spurs a sense of revenge in Lopakhin, for even those that were "kind" to him (such as Ranevsky) were kind in the ways that a wealthy woman is kind to a peasant - not without condescension and an air of prerogative. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Lopakhin revels in the destruction of the orchard - it is a monument to serfdom, for there is no way that an estate that large could…