Ray Bradbury, and Li-Young Lee’s stories, “The Gift”, are both similar and different from each other. Both stories involve a gift, the gift being given by the father, a reason for why the father gives a gift, and how the boy reacts to getting the gift.…
Through various “word gifts”, the author instills in readers the authentic definition of the occasion: a threefold gift of love, family, and faith.…
1. Louise is the first of the two main characters shown, at the snack bar. It is noisy, crowded and fast paced. The cameraman follows her from point to point , in this way making her the center of attention and also serving to give the viewer a good view of the snack bar. On the other hand, Thelma's kitchen is quiet and she is alone. From the onset, the viewer gets an insight into the loneliness and boredom in Thelmas life. This is further confirmed when her husband comes into the scene, acting rude and unappreciative of her. Louise is the free-spirited one - this is depicted by how she is shot in different parts of the snack bar. The viewer gets the sense that she is independent. Thelma, on the other hand is in the small kitchen and her movement are limited by that space - her kitchen. Ken, her husband, comes in, and the kitchen looks even smaller - suggesting that he overwhelms her.…
This poem is written in free verse, separated into four stanzas each with a varying number of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhyming pattern, but there is a pattern within the usage of words. The speaker uses bodily words such as palm, hands, face, and head at the ends of lines in the second stanza when describing, in the literal form, when the speaker is talking about the experience he went through getting the metal sliver pulled from his palm. The speaker repeats those words when he is describing performing the same process on his wife; remaining just as calm and tender as his father was with him. This poem follows a sequence of events, almost like a timeline. This is true for the literal reading as well as the metaphorical reading of the poem. The “gift” that is passed down from the speaker’s father to him, and then utilized on his wife, is a life lesson. At the age of seven, the speaker takes mental notes of his father and the actions that he made, and uses them when he is about 20 years older. This poem acts as the path the speaker had to take to get where he is today.…
In the beginning of the book Sookan seems very timid and observative. She doesn't seem to know what to do most of the time, so she just keeps quiet. Sookan seems to observe the adults, especially, trying to make sense of what is going on. "I watched her at night as intently as I watched Grandfather in the morning" (Choi 17). You can see throughout the book how different she becomes from the quiet girl in the beginning. As the chapters go on Sookan starts to become more aware and attentive. She notices much more and she cares for others as if she is a mother. But once in a while she just acts like a kid because she is one, I could tell she is getting much more mature and understanding. "It was August 15, 1945, a day I would remember as if it…
The giver is an award-winning book by lois lowry. In the first chapter of The Giver, Jonas reflects back on some memories. Such as when he witnessed a plane flying over the community, and when his best friend Asher was late for school. He also experiences a tough time of sharing feelings, a daily ritual in his community, for the upcoming ceremony makes him nervous. Jonas is riding his bike home one day and thinking about how he feels.…
In her short story “The ASTRONOMERS WIFE” Kay Boyle presents a woman that is concerned with her marriage. She realizes that she is living a joyless life. A plumber made her realize how a man and woman’s actions differ bringing back…
Most of us think that a perfect society would be great. But there are always some flaws to a utopian society. For example, in Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, people think Release is just sending the people to a new place (freeing), but really, they are being killed. I know because, “He killed it! My father killed it!”…
As kids, just about everyone can remember their favorite book or story. I grew up loving nursery rhymes about Humpty Dumpty and How the Cow Jumped Over the Moon, because they were funny. Whether they tell real or fictional stories, most children’s books often try to teach a meaningful lesson. Some children books teach about friendship, bravery, and diversity. While others tell us it’s important to love.…
Patricia Rosario English 126 AB1 Professor Milanes November 24, 2014 Formal Paper #3 draft Pressure for Success Children of immigrant parents are put under immense pressure to succeed in life. Success is expected in these children as a form of reward to their parents for their many physical and financial sacrifices. Because of these expectations, children begin to feel as disappointments and failures if they have not met the high goals set by their parents.…
For farmers, the fields are the solitary source of any significant income. Some of the farmers nowadays are still proletarians due to the fact conditions are not always right for harvesting. Farming boils down to a precise science. One must have enough harvest to make it all worth it. They have to pay off all debts for the season as well as putting food on their table.…
father throughout his poems. It is clear that Lee grew up in an atmosphere where there is…
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be unwanted, unloved and considered bad luck? In the Autobiography Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, you can get a good understanding about how it would feel. This book contains stories of abuse, abandonment and, importantly, love from her Aunt and her Grandfather. As examples when Adeline’s father used her pet duck for a training test for his dog (pg.82), during a communist invasion her Father and Stepmother Niang tried to leave her in a boarding school in communist territory (pg.123), lastly when she had her last meal with her grand father before his death (pg. 179). Shortly after Father and Niang returned from Tianjin, Father’s friends Mr. and Mrs. Huang came for a visit.…
I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.…
Have you ever tried to get a new family member or tried to change school? Every changing gives its own impression on the person itself but anyhow, changing and the strange is something everybody will meet on their way through life. All of us are grown up in different existences and by that we have some standards of social norms to follow. When you suddenly explore changing in your life a problematic question will arise and you will start to wonder what normality is and what the most courteous is to do. “Living with strangers” is an essay by Siri Hustvedt where she through the genre and her own experiences explain her attitude to “pretend it isn’t happening” situations. The essay is told by the writer herself and the genre is a personal essay which is expressed by a lot of her own experiences when she moved to New York City which was a totally opposite society than the one in Minnesota where she grew up. These examples put the readers in her place and at the same time they maybe recognize some of the situations that she illustrates. Since it is a personal essay where Siri states a problem that she has an opinion about, she forces the readers to have an opinion about the problem as well which whether could agree or disagree with hers attitude. After all her goal is probably to influence the reader so they agree with her. Siri Hustvedt states a problem about the differences between cities and which norms each city includes. Where she comes from it was normal to say hi to a complete stranger just because it was a polite thing to do. In New York City that was not the thing to do. The most usual thing to do was to “pretend it isn’t happening” (p. 6, l. 20) if you were stocked in an awkward situation where you didn’t know what to do. The problem is then whether if we should “act or not act” (p. 8, l. 107). Siri thinks that a lot of people are scared of the strange but she means that many new things will be discovered if we…