War, violent mass murdering used to accomplish political and government goals, hate crimes, acts of violence or harm to individuals with personal differences, and suicide, the ending of ones own life. All of these unfortunately happen on a daily basis and is considered a norm in today’s news broadcasts, but why are these tragic events simply glazedover and accepted as a common part of the news most people listen to while eating dinner? M. J Hardman, a board member of the American Humanist Association, proposes through her work, “Language and War,” that it is the violent language and war glorifying metaphors used in daily life that has made people accustomed and accepting of violence in speech and reality. Martha Kinkade, author of Winter’s Light, recalls violent experiences from her past in Wyoming highlighting Hardman’s ideas that today’s speech is constructed to unintentionally promote the acceptance of violence. Through Kinkade’s poems “Boots, Sugar”, “Skinning”, and “Snowy Milkweed” Hardman’s argument that hostile language is making violence more acceptable is shown through the metaphors and violent thoughts and action of these poems.…
Have you fallen in love with a person and used them for money? In the two stories describes two girls use men for money. There are many similarities and differences of Judy from “winter dreams” and daisy from “the great Gatsby”.…
In the short story “Hunters in the Snow” Wolff uses the snow and cold atmosphere as a symbol of impact on the characters to create a theme of crisis, conveying the uncertainties and intricacy of human interaction and personal struggle. The weather itself plays a crucial role in defining the theme for this story. Winter is the symbol of death, hibernation, or depression. The snow also adds to the cold weather as a symbol of a blanket that obscures, and covers the secrets of loneliness, emptiness, and the coldness within each character’s personality.…
For example, Thomas Foster points out that winter reveals “old age and resentment and death” (186), which I find unsurprising considering my hatred of winter. Robert Frost’s “Storm Fear,” takes place in winter during a blizzard. In the first two lines the speaker says “I count our strength/ Two and a child” revealing he’s married with children. Then he says “And my heart owns a doubt” (7) revealing he now doubts the love he shared with his wife. In lines 10 and 11 he says “When the wind works against us in the dark,/ and pelts us with snow.” The dark symbolizes the unknown and the cold represents the coldness of the realization that the speaker is falling out of love. In this poem, winter represents the speaker’s growing age as revealed by having a child and marital issues. Winter also emphasizes the resentment the speaker feels towards the realization of the death of his…
I hated winter, the days were short and the nights were long. The howl of the wind in my ears as it blew hair into my face, making it difficult to concentrate on the environment around me. I could feel the cold nipping at my skin, the air turning cloudy in front of me as if I was breathing out smoke. This was winter.…
Anya Kojovic let the door bounce back on its hinges, gasping as the freezing air snatched the breath from her lungs. Icy hands clawed and tugged at the thin brown cardigan that hung loosely over her yellow cotton dress.…
Rationale: Here in New York we have the privilege of having all four seasons, (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall). As these seasons approach, our type of clothing changes along with it. For this activity, the class will match clothing to the season. Read the book “Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London”.…
Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald ReSpOnSe QuEsTiOnS!!! YAY!! =D…
Realism is different and similar to Modernism in various ways. Realism is a work that has a lot of details and an objective view of a human nature making it seem real. One of those details is gender roles. “Daisy Miller” written by Henry James is a presentation of Realism that depicts gender roles. In Modernism, the characteristics of gender roles are affected by the changes in the society. In F. Scott Fitzgerald “Winter Dreams”, the theme was focused on the interchange of gender roles. “Daisy Miller” and “Winter Dreams” are both similar and different when it comes to gender roles.…
In Fitzgerlad’s story a young man falls in love with a woman and despite trying, he fails to win her over and winds up losing her forever. When comparing the plot with more modern day fairy tales, there is some discussion. In most fairy tales they end happily ever after with the prince and the princess together. In Winter Dreams, however, young Dexter doesn’t wind up being with his love, Judy, in the end. Judy marries another man after Dexter rejects her on their final night together.…
Secondly, I rate “Winter Dreams” good because of the characterization. Dexter Green, who is the main character, is a very intriguing character throughout the short story. We learn that Dexter is a hard working guy, and strives for greatness.…
Chapter twenty of How to Read Literature Like a Professor is utilized to display the importance of season in literature. Foster explains how different authors have used it to suit different needs but in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater, the importance of season is so blatant that it’s impossible to miss. The premise of the trilogy is that the werewolves that exist within it are unable to become human once again until it is warm enough. But each year, they require the temperature to be higher and higher to be able to change. Eventually, it doesn’t ever become warm enough again, and they are stuck as a wolf forever. The seasons represent a more general term of temperature, and as a way for the wolves to measure both the…
1. Judy is spoiled enough to complain about a man that told her he was poor to Dexter, and then ask if he was poor.…
I laugh in silence as this hysterically hot weather contradicts the accustomed stereotypes of the cold brutal Minnesota weather. The soundless laugh lasted for only three and a half weeks. Trees start shedding, snow starts falling (in the beginning of October), and breeze starts kicking in. The pure white flakes become eye aweing as if this is my first encountering with the snow. The pureness, the white color charges me up with both serenity and tranquility. I listen to the empty walkway, intrigued by this foreign land where I’d stepped on not for the first but the sixteenth time. The sound of the unspoken nature along with the continuous tune of chatter convinces me to start speaking with my ears. By that time, I start looking people through their expression of thoughts, opinions, and voices.…
In Narnia, the children grow up in what appears to be a sheltered world. The four children in the real world are isolated and away from the reality, which is a world of war and devastation. This would explain why C.S. Lewis made the world of Narnia a world of perpetual winter. Since the children were so oblivious of what their world actually was, their perception was frozen and they were unable to see what was truly going on. As the novel progresses, the four realize that there is a war, and as they start to realize who they are truly meant to be, the world thaws around them, and there is no longer a winter.…