Past tense

In the story “Simple Recipes”, by Madeleine Thein, there is conflicted cultural perspectives caused by the age gap between the father and the son. Different generations of a family have different views on how one should live their own lifestyle. This is demonstrated through the father as he does not want to accept how his son has adopted such western views as he is growing up. The narrator states how “[her] brother was born in Malaysia, but when he immigrated [to] Canada, the language left him”…

Each poem consists of time past, present, and future. In The Gray-Eyed King, the narrator experiences the death of her lover, the King (past), her husband’s nonchalance at the news (present), and the future of her daughter, the presumed illegitimate child of the King (future). In To You in a Hundred Years, Tsvetaeva merges the past and present - her life in the present will one day become the past. When that day comes (in the future), she wishes to maintain communication…

The inquiry paper “Smokin”, by John Seilman was a very interesting inquiry. It was a good example of a well done experiment write up. Even though the inquiry and write up was good, there is a way that the paper could have been great. John Seilman did somethings well on his paper, the student could have improved in three main areas of a usual inquiry write up, and after reading this a lot of more comments and curiosity took place. The paper had many great points. The topic was interesting. The…

Graceful Death and Innocence Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney written work where Based upon her “religious and moral truths” (p.g,106). Being a woman of the antebellum period, she experienced the dilemma behind presenting her work. She worried about how others would except her style of writing, especially coming from a woman. Beside that fear, her husband also disapproved of her work. Unfortunately, they fell into hard times, which led her to publish her first book of poems in 1815. “Death of…

In order to improve my claim, I reworded it and changed my argument. In my original paper, my claim was, “In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the confusion between appearance and reality demonstrates Macbeth's decline from a thoughtful man, to one awash with guilt and insanity, an finally to a naive man.” According to the rubric, claims are “clear”. My claim was not clear because I listed all the ways Macbeth changed. By listing every personality trait, it was hard to decipher what it was…

Washington Irvine is a very well-known descriptive author when it comes to short exaggerated tales. His stories appeal to a broad range of audience relying on the main common factors of bringing his stories in the tone of the past with a detailed form of intriguing excitement to keep the reader hooked all throughout the sequential event alignment set on his mythological tales. Characters are found to be exaggerated in terms of the mythology genre he is representing with interesting story lines…

Living Between Two Worlds Dayton Kwok Introduction As an American born Chinese, I’ve always had to switch between using English and Chinese. This is especially exacerbated since I lived in San Francisco, a city dominated by immigrants hailing from Southern China and Hong Kong. One moment I’m using English to talk to my friends, and the next moment I’m using Cantonese to talk to my family. My native language was English, but I also learned to speak Cantonese around the same time I learned to…

father even works on the day that most people rest. The word “too” shows that the father woke up early every other day of the week, even on Sunday. “No one ever thanked him” seems to point at the regret the speaker feels for his actions. The use of past tense in the word “thanked” shows that he is looking back to something in his life. Later in the speaker’s life, he was aware that his father should have been appreciated, but not during the time the events took…

‘My Father’s hands’ by Calvin R. Worthington and ‘Genesis and catastrophe’ by Roald Dahl are two eloquent short stories that make use of imagery to develop ideas and explore key themes. In ‘My Father’s hands’, Worthington creates thought provoked themes regarding fear and strength whilst providing an understanding for ideas such as how grief builds us as people who have experienced the loss of loved ones. Similarly to Worthington’s short story, Dahl in ‘Genesis and catastrophe’ also explores…

The Pylons is a poem written in five quatrains of free verse, and describes the conflict between country and city. The titular object, pylons are a metaphor for technology, which the poetic voice believes to threaten to bring destruction upon nature and country. The concrete poem structures the stanzas in a way that, along with the black font, resemble pylons. There is no regular meter but the first and last line of each stanza sometimes end with full rhyme and sometimes pararhyme. The poet uses…