99 Way To Ck A Swam Analysis

In the article “Swimming for Her Life,” by Kristen Lewis, it describes the life of Yusra Mardini. When Yursa was 13 the civil war started. Yusra fled in 2015 when she was 18. Yusra faces many challenges. She faces being a refugee, crossing the Aegean sea and being smuggled into Germany and Greece. When the Civil war started it caused Yusra and Sarah to become refugees and get smuggled into Greece and Germany. They also were crossing the aegean sea when the mortar to their boat stopped and it started to fill with water. Yusra and sarah both hopped out of their boat and and swam for 3.5 hours saving 18 souls. Once Yusra made it to Germany she met a man named Sven Spannekerbs. She swam for him and he immediately recognized her talent for swimming.

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

Mary is described as “so short and ordinary that it was obvious she would be this way all of her life”. This creates an aura of hopeless resignation about Mary; that a girl at age 11 has accepted that she has stopped growing and will stay the way she is physically and emotionally and also in her living situation. In comparison Karl is depicted as “hunched with his sudden growth”, showing that he is still changing and ready to continue doing so. He is also given kinder words, such as “sweetly curved”, “fine”, and “girlish”. This gives Karl the appearance of a blossoming flower, in comparison with Mary, whose name is as “square and practical as the rest of her”. Mary and Karl’s contrasting interactions with the tree encapsulates their differing personalities. Erdrich says that “Mary trudged solidly forward, hardly glancing” back meaning that she pays no attention to the sudden hint of hope. The word “trudge” encapsulates Mary’s resolve to proceed in a dreary fashion, without minding a chance of hope. Karl is conversely, “transfixed, paying no attention to Mary, the dog, or its owner". He most likely feels a kinship with the tree, as they have both begun to grow rapidly amidst dreary surroundings. Mary and Karl’s contrasting departures encapsulates their differences. Mary runs to her Aunt who was the intended person that she was to stay with,

Mary begins the story as a doting housewife going through her daily routine with her husband. She is content to sit in his company silently until he begins a conversation. Everything is going as usual until he goes “ slowly to get himself another drink” while telling Mary to “sit down” (Dahl 1). This shocks Mary as she is used to getting things for him. After downing his second drink, her husband coldly informs her that he is leaving her and the child. This brutal news prompts the first change in Mary, from loving wife to emotionless and detached from everything.

Author also surprises readers, when he introduces conflict between a couple that used to love each other deeply. Diverting the story from love to betrayal, author develops an irony. In the story, reader sees two examples of betrayal. Ms. Maloney, while talking with her tired husband, finds out her husband no longer want to keep their marriage. Without giving any kind of reason, Patrick betrays her wife with a decision of breaking marriage. Mary shocks, when her husband, boldly, says, “ This is going to be bit shock of you”(P. Maloney) Author creates a total opposite picture of Patrick by describing him as a husband who used to give her wife surprises; he is now giving her shock in the middle of her pregnancy. Mary, who was previously shown as “anxiety less”(Dahl), with “a slow smiling air”(Dahl) and “curiously tranquil”(Dahl), had began to get upset and now inculcate her eye with a “bewildered look.” After betrayed by her husband, she, without any argue, she goes to the basement to look for frozen food. She decides to have leg of a lamb as a last dinner with her husband, but she smashes the frozen leg in to Patrick’s head with killing him. Mary betrays her husband by killing him and takes revenge of her betrayal. Later, Author confirms her as a murdered with the statement of “I’ve killed him”(Mary) from her own lips. Dahl, in the story,

In The Swimmer a short story by John Cheever a man named Neddy Merrill decides to swim across every pool in the county naming his route the Lucinda River after his wife. As he goes on this journey some of his neighbors are nice, some show pity, and others show distaste for him. Throughout the story Cheever gives subtle hints that Neddy is disoriented as he doesn’t remember key details of things that have happened to his friends in the area. At the end of the story a disoriented Neddy reaches his home to find it empty, with his family gone. Cheever uses this short story to critique the way of life in the upper class suburbs of America that contributed to the social demise of Neddy Merrill

There are many details that lead to this theme. For instance, in the beginning of the story when Mary’s husband comes home and tells her he’s going to leave her, she acts like she is normally going to cook dinner. But when she brings the lamb leg from the freezer she hits him on the back of the head and kills him. This may foreshadow that Mary may use her innocence to deceive people. She then takes the lamb leg, puts it

Throughout the entire story, Mary is a very interesting character. She faces many issues in dealing with her husband’s news that he is leaving her. She reacts based on her instincts and kills her husband and this shows her cold heartedness. In the end she has to create an alibi to cover up her devious crime in which she has to manipulate the police into eating the evidence. Mary is a very unique complex character and she has, through her actions conducted a devious crime in which she will be proven innocent. Through the use of Many Maloney’s character, as well as irony and suspense, the author was able to maintained the interest of the reader throughout the entire short story.

Brush explains the surprise when she uses the imagery “a small but glossy birthday cake, with one pink candle burning in the center.” When the reader reads this, he believes that this would be a good fun surprise that would be fun. However the husband did not view it as a fun surprise as the reader can tell when he reads “the husband was not pleased, instead he was hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him.” This appeal to emotion reveals a shift in the story, as the reader realizes why the couple may have been “unmistakably married.” This appeal to emotion also has the reader questioning what is to come to the wife for embarrassing her husband in front of the whole

This is where the reader knows more then the characters, having seen the murder from Mary’s point of view and now watching the police officers discuss the crime. Also ironic, is that the police officers are doing Mary a huge favour by eating the evidence, making her practically undiscoverable. What is also special about the story, is that in the very beginning, Mary Maloney is described as a weak woman, only devoted to her husband and submissively in love with him. The reader is completely shocked when she murders her husband.

Through it’s carefully chosen soundtrack of cheerful music on a drearily rainy day, the film’s opening underscores an immediate clash perfectly coinciding with it’s opening characters dispositions, and the entire movie’s demeanor. The pleasant mood of Mary the maid is contrasted with her dreadfully miserable and snobbish ladyship, the Countess of Trentham. Even though Mary suffers being drenched in the rain, she appears excited for the trip, while the securely dry and well taken care of Countess appears to be vehemently protesting.

Relationships are a huge thing in society today and it brings bind between people who care about each other. In the play “99 Ways to F*ck a Swan” by Kim Rosenstock contains sequences of relationships, many of the characters don’t attend to love each other but one loves the other but the other does not. In “99 Ways to F*ck a Swan” there are drama elements that go with the issue of relationships that go on with the play. The drama elements that the play contains are action, climax/crisis, and point of attack/inciting incident. These elements of drama would help us identify of how relationships became big role in to the play. Many people would do anything just to get the person they want to fall in love with them. Relationships are huge but many people don’t fall in love with people easily. In “99 Ways to F*ck a Swan” by Kim Rosenstock is series of sexual relationships between each character and these sexual relationships are far more than ordinary relationships because of many of them have loved and lost.

The play 99 Ways to F*ck a Swan. We see how the main character, Dave, has trouble within his relationships with people, animals, and his relationship with himself. The live performance of Kim Rosenstock’s play 99 Ways to F*ck a Swan expands and enhances its exploration on the issue of relationships and how relationships affect people and vise versa. The issue of relationships in this play are supported by elements of drama like characterization, inciting incident, and inner conflict. The characterization of Dave is that he has issues forming appropriate and healthy relationships ever since his last relationship with former girlfriend Ashley, showing how a toxic relationship can negatively impact someone. In an inciting incident, Dave develops a cat fetish and thus tries to distance himself because he can tell that this relationship is unhealthy for him,

The main idea of my paper is to propose the homosexuality as an interdisciplinary theorization of Caravaggio’s artwork done in Rome. The purpose of this paper is to not dig deeper into the homosexuality of Caravaggio but to give a different representation and perspective of homosexuality. This paper does not discuss the actual sexuality of Caravaggio, but more so how we perceive norms that can differentiate with connotations to sexuality in Rome during his lifetime. Homosexuality is intertwined with norm a system that concerns sexuality.

In the play, Mary is a beautiful woman and lives the life like any other girls of her time; but she is emotionally attached to her sons and her family when she marries into the Tyrone family. She is also getting old, so she keeps going on her days worrying about her change of appearance. She suffers from a morphine addiction and she is psychologically wounded because of her past. She tries many times to break free but she could not stop as she spends time with her family. She has gone through many struggles but she cannot move on with her life. She keeps looking back into the past; and she regrets marrying into the family because of the dreams she had to sacrifice such as becoming a nun or a concert pianist.