The Pale

. The reader learns immediately from Louis, another outlier, that “…Bernard, Neville, Jinny, and Susan (but not Rhoda) skim the flower beds with their nets” (Woolf 6). Woolf’s use of a parenthetical statement, which interjects a modifier into the sentence, emphasizes Rhoda’s absence from the activity. In addition, Louis’s statement about Rhoda and her lack of participation in the butterfly catching is the first external description the reader has of her as a character. By making this initial…

Does both stories have terrorism in the stories? “The Tell-Tale Heart” the man goes insane to kill the old man because of his pale blue eye. The “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W. Jacobs is about superstition of a paw that grants three wishes and the White family wished on the paw, and that's where the mystery comes when their son dies. The cause and effect in suspense in the “The Monkey's Paw” by W.W. Jacobs and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edger Allen Poe were characters bipolar or undecided? While…

Alcmene could swear her heart would burst from her chest as she waited for Tetraities to answer his door. It was only a moment or two, but it seemed like forever as the fear of getting caught lingered in the back of her mind. Thankfully he didn't make her wait long, or turn her away. No instead he reached for her and pulled her urgently into his room. "I fear my heart will soon burst from my chest." she explained her attentive excitement and fear. Yet as much as Alcmene worried about what…

Guillermo del Toro uses visual storytelling, character traits, and comparison through editing to convey the essential themes of Romance and fairytales. He then uses these strategies to mix fantasy and reality, and increase the sense of danger for Ofelia and the viewer. In the classic Romance narrative, the hero acts as a metaphor for the divine, and the villain acts as a metaphor for the devil. Ofelia in Pan’s Labyrinth is the hero that is a associated with nature, and therefore the divine.…

on his face and his hands because their scissors and appears to be a monster to everyone because of his appearance. As well as in the movie Alice In Wonderland, Alice throughout the scene of the wedding rehearsal Alice is wearing a pale blue dress and has a very pale skin tone, as Alice is in wonderland her apparel changes throughout the course of the movie because of her height and size changing constantly due to the “eat me” cake and the “drink me” drink and the scroll of oraculum and her…

name was obscured by some trees. Upon walking in, I still wasn't sure where to go, but was undeterred. Once I found the taproom in the basement, the fun started. I tried a few beers from the Hyperion Vanilla Stout (one of my favorites) to the Citra Pale, a California…

teaching someone about your culture and worldview is showing them where you come from and how that has affected you. The three items I would choose to represent these aspects of me would be a lei, a photo of my mother’s house in Laos, and a photograph of Pale Blue Dot. These three items provide a mixture of my personal history as well as an accurate depiction of who I am as a person. The lei represents my upbringing in Hawaii as well as my admiration of the Hawaiian culture. Unfortunately, I…

The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous painted interior spaces in the world, and one of the most famous works of Michelangelo which depicts key scenes from the book of genesis. This breathtaking painting came into world fame in about 1508-1512. This The chapel, situated in Vatican city of Italy, was built in 1479 under the direction of Pope Sixtus IV, and is renowned for its Renaissance art, especially the ceiling painted by Michelangelo. In 1508, Michelangelo was asked by Pope Julius…

that Mama was in so bad of a condition that she had to go to the hospital. Esperanza did not know that the hospital was where people go to get better. Mama was getting worse, so Esperanza thought that she went there to die because she was getting to pale and dying. That is the third main challenge that Esperanza faced as an immigrant in the United…

how a person grows up and defines beauty in their way. Some cultures view beauty as having long necks or pale white skin. Having long necks like a giraffe is a sign of beauty and female grace in some parts of southeast Asia. At the age of five, women put heavy brass rings around their necks so their shoulders push down in creating a longer and more “beautiful” neck. In parts of Asia, having pale white skin shows wealth and charisma. In some asian countries such as Japan and China, women avoid…