Speaker

In the poem In the middle of the night by Christopher Brookmyer the mood is crudish because it is funny but at the same time spooky. The author creates this by making funny jokes and contradictory statements about conditions like deafness and blindness. Also the fact that the whole poem is like this makes it even more hilarious. My first piece of evidence to prove that there is humor in this is the huge number of contradictory statements. For example in the beginning the text says, “One fine…

Speaker for the Dead, a fascinating novel taking place about 3,000 years after Ender’s Game. Through time and space travel Ender is nearly thirty-five years old, his brother Peter though, has died off years ago and Ender has assumed the title as Speaker for the Dead. His sister Valentine, has grown too, she has married and is having kids but Ender still is traveling the universe in search of people that have died. Ender goes to another world that is inhabited by piggies, the piggies have…

Thought Paper – Our Last Guest Speaker Throughout the semester, we have been lucky enough to hear the personal stories of a number of individuals who struggle with mental illness. Each of these stories touched us and make us open our eyes to the fact that mental illness is more than just the cases that we read about in the textbooks; and our final speaker was no different. I also found that there were some striking parallels between Anne’s experiences and the ones that were mentioned in Karp’s…

This lack of respect and interest on Martin’s part leads Corene to resorting to repetition in order to attempt to get her point across. Corene repeatedly reminds Martin of their conversation yesterday, for example, “if you recall yesterday I gave you some work to do,” (Reynolds, 2012, :45-:48) and “as I said yesterday, I said I needed it.” (0:57-0:59) Martin does recognize their conversation by using backchannels, which are vocal and non-vocal ways of indicating a person is understanding what is…

Death’s Constant Reminder This Way to The Gas Ladies, and Gentleman, by Tadeusz Borowski, takes place in a Jewish centration camp, where prisoners partook in unloading trains of people who are sent to the gas chambers to be killed. Throughout the story, the author depicts the reoccurring theme of death. The presence of an unbearable heat, the lack of water and the narrator’s encounters in the camp all portray the theme of death. One of the most potent symbols in the story is the heat. Within…

“Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces” (41) The connotation of alcohol flowing thorough the party from words such…

In the poem “Fog” by Carl Sandburg the theme is life moves faster than you expect. One example in the poem is very small and fast. the poem then ends on “and then moves on.” This looks like it’s showing life is short, and it then moves on. Another example showing the theme of the poem is life moves faster than you expect is it says fog comes on little cats feet. This is showing life is small and a quick just like little cat’s feet and it walking. A final example to support the theme stated above…

In "words are birds" Francisco X. Alarcón uses many metaphors comparing words to birds to suggest that words, although many and vastly different, all fall under one category and unite us all. The poem begins by giving the reader an overview of how words and birds are related: "words / are birds / that arrive / with books / and spring" (1-5). The correlation between words and books is obvious, as they are often put together, but the author is comparing words to spring as well to show that we use…

In his poem, “Richard Cory” Edwin uses irony to show how we are to a man like him. Maintaining the idea that this man had everything going for him and was a well to do man. From the outside, the men working saw this man everyday, gazing at what a man should look like. Charles Burkhart gives criticism that show his contrast and his own ideas and claims about the man. In Richard Cory, author’s creates irony by using imagery, diction, and contrast to show the true description of the man and…

"I, I, I received blows on my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long procession to the cemetery! Dad! And mom! And the terrible spectacle of Margaret! I was so swollen that could not lay her in the coffin! we had to burn it as if it were trash! you just came back in time for the funeral. And funerals are beautiful compared to the deaths. they are silent, but deaths are not always so. sometimes your breathing is hoarse, sometimes tartajosa, sometimes they shout to one: Do not let me go…