The Final Passage

thundering height like of the roaring waves in a terrible storm. Sara's expression appears blank, her body is relaxed despite her vigorous movement with her hands. She is in the zone, a flow state, where her performance has now heightened to incredible places. The audience is entranced by Sara's sudden change. The dainty and light playing that she had previously played differentiated to this harsh cold atmosphere, it is enchanting and seemingly magical for the audience. Sara's hands jump from key to key with effortless movement; she is poised and sitting upright looking absolutely beautiful and dazzling. As she plays the final passage of the piece, the tempo smoothly changes to an almost nostalgic-like pace. The final passage reminds the watchers of the season Autumn, a time of acknowledgement. A bittersweet atmosphere is created and lingers as Sara plays the final notes of the song. A single tear leaves Sara's eye. She sits on the stool panting and sweating from the sheer exhaustion of playing the complex piece. The audience is roaring with cheers and applause and even demanding for an encore despite it being a piano competition. It is most definitely inevitable and fated that Sara has won the title once again as expected, but, Sara only wondered one thing. "Did my music reach you Mum... Dad?"…

This passage is found at the end of the play and shows an intense conversation between Nora and Torvald, in which Nora finally finds the courage to tell her husband that she will be leaving him and the children to go back to her home town. There is a distinct change in Gender roles in this passage, compared to the previous parts of the play, as Nora takes on the dominant role which in the nineteenth century would usually belong to a male. There are rapid switches in mood and tone throughout the…

In the passage, Williams outlines the beginnings of a violent tug of war between Blanche and Stanley -- a fight of manners versus manhood. This battle, carried out through overt displays of sexuality and subtle wordplay, foreshadows Blanche’s destruction at Stanley’s hands as well as reinforcing Blanche’s insecurities and Stanley’s dominating, alpha-male persona. Here, the battleground for the pair’s fight is Stella, the rope in their metaphorical tug of war, In this passage, Williams outlines…

Why is the beginning of scene eleven of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" significant? The beginning of scene eleven is one of the most significant passages in Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". In the aftermath of Blanche's rape, the audience is unsure what repercussions Blanche and Stanley may face and how the other characters will respond. In his final portrayal of Blanche, Williams creates sympathy for his fallen heroine and explores some of the play's key themes,…

her growth. Accordingly, the independence of Nora acts as a catalyst to the destruction of her relationship with Torvald. One of the main issue in this play is the exchange of criticism caused by Torvald’s misconception about the truth regarding the incident of forging a name. This criticism is not only seen as condescending in nature, but more importantly, it is a way to break Nora’s supposed obedience toward Torvald. As shown in the following passage: “Almost everyone who has gone to the…

Explication: Rameau’s Nephew This paper is an explication of a small passage from Denis Diderot’s dialogue, Rameau’s Nephew. First, I will begin by identifying the taxonomic elements I used to examine the text, and then go on to acknowledge the relationships between these elements and how they connect throughout the text. With this evidence, I will proceed by stating a few possibilities of meaning that might be observed in the passage and then tied to the rest of the dialogue. Through this…

In Disney’s adaption of The Princess and the Frog several different components can be identified from the chosen passage. According to the character’s spoken dialogue, determination and persistence are the two prominent themes we can see right away. The first lines we can see that the main character might have been criticized for being strange or below the normal status quo although she throws caution to the wind and remains truthful to herself and in her beliefs. “Trials and tribulations, I’ve…

In the story, “A&P”, John Updike introduces a young boy, Sammy, who is employed in an A&P grocery and finds his awareness towards maturity, which leads to consequences. The author illustrates this through the use of detailed characterization, bravery, and consequences brought from one’s actions. The passage starts off with Sammy working when he sees three girls wearing nothing but bathing suits and labels each one individually. Later on, the girls walk up to Sammy to check out when Lengel, the…

Carmen is in second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. When starting the assessment with Carmen, based on previous assessments, I knew her reading level was below second-grade reading level. Her reading over assessment has seen improvement and she is able to apply skills she has learned. Carmen was able to read Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on the reading techniques…

First she needs to work ono sounding out unfamiliar words. Based on the inventory, she tends to either skip the word all together or take the first two letters of a word and say the first word that comes to mind with the same beginning letters; whether it makes sense or not. Since she has trouble sounding out words, this interrupts her fluency, which in-effect leads to lower comprehension percentages. This is basically a cycle that will continue over and over until she receives some assistance…