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Americas’ mom wanted what’s best for america, but what she thinks is best i not necessarily what America thinks is best. America lives in Illea with her mom, dad, little brother, and sister, as a five. There are eight classes in Illea. Ones are the highest, the class that the royal family is in, eights are the lowest, which includes peasants and beggars. The Selection, a “contest” in which thirty five girls get picked from all eight classes to live in the palace and compete to be the Prince's…

Poem “1129” encapsulates the brilliance of the truth that Dickinson talks about. The poem is rife with imagery proclaiming truth’s similarity to light stating, “Too bright for our infirm Delight / The Truth’s superb surprise,” (Citation). These lines evoke the image of bright light exploding in front of our eyelids that at first we cannot comprehend. However, these lines also contain a judgment on us by saying that the truth is too bright for our short attentions. To this end the poem continues…

the grief covering you like a thin film,”( Page.33). This direct quote is an example of a simile. The meaning of the simile is to explain the grief the character felt, using a comparison of thin film. It relates to the quality because it helps the reader assuredly picture in their mind, what the author is trying to express. The main character draws a blank with the pen uncapped ready to write, but she feels deep agony. “I don’t know, you say, unable to place the time or day, unable to conjure…

entering a store and how he was easily influenced by a attractive young lady on an item entirely different than what he set out to get. In the reading I enjoyed the manner in which the author offered the reader a visual of the events leading up to the climax of the story. In the story I feel the reader is able to gain a better understanding on how manipulation plays a key factor on some off the impulsive decision we as humans make. Similar to how a man can be easily directed by a attractive…

Makani- We all know who Makani is. Manki moved from Hawaii, and is now living with her Grandma, who has a problem. She goes to High School with her friends who are Alex, Darby, and Ollie. She doesn’t do sports but she’s not a geek. She is trying to survive this terrible thing that seems to be happening to her school. The name Makani means wind. The connection I made to this was that people like to get mad at the wind. Like when it makes you slower when you run and also bad things happen, like…

The sounds of sheep baaing, the heavy breathing of a dog, the wind howling, and the nice smell of the evergreen forest and the quietness of the outdoors all combine to form the imagery of a unique, quiet painting. In the painting Shepherdess with Her Dog by Charles Emile Jacque, this rich description is exactly the imagery of shepherdess depicted in her environment. I have recently visiting The Tweed Museum in the University of Minnesota Duluth where I found this painting. The Shepherdess with…

they spend a, quickly-turned violent, evening dinner with the Colonel. Based off the hints and clues offered in the piece, the reader can conclude that this was written in the home of a high ranking army official, such as a Colonel, and that the ears that are brought out so suddenly are some what of a sick set of war memorabilia. The energy in this piece engaged the reader through the use of sensory details when describing the physical surroundings of the setting, the leaps in the plot, and the…

The experience of reading Crane’s The Open Boat, isn’t distinctly adrenaline pumping nor is it overwhelmingly emotional. The reader, as well as the men in the boat, do end in a starkly different scenario than when they began their journey, but the movement is often hard to pin point. In fact, the narrative is contrasted so that there are gaps, physical and literary as well as tonally. Shawn Michelle Smith investigates a similar scenario in her analysis of Muybridge’s photo framing. In a series…

W. D. Snodgrass’s “Leaving the Motel” focuses profoundly on language, tone, and symbolism, along with other strategies to express the idea of love as fleeting, yet businesslike. The poem tells a story of the happenings between two people at a motel after a surreptitious sexual meeting. These two people are participating in a secret affair and Snodgrass’s technicality expresses the formality and routine that their connection demands. Although the encounters are businesslike, situations in the…

favorite of the Baudelaire poems selected for the textbook is A Carcass. The poem is incredibly graphic and I love that Baudelaire uses such words as “festering”, “lecherous”, and “marvelous meat” to give the reader a very clear mental picture of the carcass he is describing. The poem forces the reader to address the fact that they will die and that their body will decay and there is literally not a single thing to be done to stop that. I think that in a way, Baudelaire is actually reflecting…