The Ashes

the reality of this world, or the realization of what is happening helps reinforce the weight of the story. In The Great Gatsby, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg represent the eyes of God, looking down upon the harsh, realistic world of the Valley of Ashes. Hulga’s glasses in Good Country People, symbolize her ideology of the world around her, having them taken away and opening her eyes to the real world. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Flannery O’Connor both use the motif of eyes as a way of showing the…

son performs a ritual circling the body three times, each time a family member hits a kumbha knocking a hole in it, releasing water signifying the soul leaving the body. Twelve hours later the men return to gather the ashes to spread in the Ganges river, or the family spreads the ashes in a local significant river. As the Jewish family members enter the funeral home, they rip the clothing covering their heart to give a visual for the pain and suffering they feel inside, and the final step in…

Is it true that this “popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers,” as Thomas V. Quirk, a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Missouri in Columbia, described him in an Encyclopedia Britannica entry, appreciated diseases and epidemics and -- goodness! -- liked the prince of darkness? As it turned out, aside from writing, Mark Twain - the pen name of novelist, travel writer, and humorist Samuel L. Clemens (1835-1910), cherished cats. In fact, he once…

Symbolism in A Worn Path In the short story, A Worn Path by Eudora Welty there are many symbols. The story takes place in the American South during the mid-twentieth century. The main character of this story is an elderly African American women named Phoenix Jackson, who is on her way to get medicine for her grandson who is sick. She ends up taking an extremely worn path to get to the clinic and on her way through the path she encounters a hunter. The hunter raises his gun and aims it at the…

really want or really like? I shall compare and contrast to characters who are like this. The characters are the father from “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer and Yolanda from “The one who watches” by Judith Ortiz Lofer. These characters both are very interesting topics. They may seem nice, but they both are very needy. Who would be better to start with than the father from “Ashes”? He seems nice, but also seems to be grooming his daughter by saying she is the best girl ever and he doesn’t…

saw many changes in the funeral industry in the last five to ten years. One such change is that they started making jewelry with the deceased's fingerprints on them. Another such change was that they started serving catering for the funerals. Even ashes are being turned into diamonds. However,…

sleeping in the heath of cinder and ashes. In the French story, Cinderella “scoured the dishes, tables, etc., and cleaned madam’s chamber” (“Cinderella”). In the German story, the sisters did everything imaginable to hurt her; They made fun of her, scattered peas and lentils into the ashes for her so that she had to sit and pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked herself weary, there was no bed for her. Instead, she had to sleep by the hearth in the ashes. And because she always…

With close reference to two symbols, show how F Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism to comment on the shallowness and corruption at the heart of American society. In Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, there are many reoccurring motifs incorporated throughout. The author uses these symbols to comment on the moral and social decay that stems from the desire to become wealthy. These motifs are symbolic for the American people, American dream and the liberty to immorality that is present in the…

says “Ring Around the Rosie” which is meaning to the round, red rash. (Mikkelson) The second lyric, “pocketful of posies” is believed to be the practice of carrying flowers and placing them around the infected person for protection. (Mikkelson) “Ashes Ashes” is a imitation of the people sneezing or the sound of the sneezing made by the infected person. (Mikkelson) Finally, “we all fall down” is a result of the many people who were killed from the disease. (Mikkelson) Other versions of the rhyme…

Often times when reading translations of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the true essence of the poem is lost, which can be seen particularly in sonnet 73. When reading the original sonnet, the reader feels the raw emotion described in the fight with aging, which is described through the seasons and colors. These descriptions cannot simply be converted without losing the central metaphors of the poem. While the paraphrase misses the complexity of the poem it also diminishes its sound pattern, which is…