A Metaphorical View Into Kindred

In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato uses a vast spectrum of imagery to explain ones descent from the cave to the light. While Plato uses this Allegory to explain his point through Socrates to Glaucon. This allegory has many different meanings. The Allegory can be used in many different ways, from religion to politics to ones own intellectual enlightenment, or it can be interpreted as the blinded person in a colt like reality. Are we all prisoners in a world that is forced on us through the media? How do we really know that we are not just pawns in some one’s chess game. What meaning was Plato trying to introduce to Glaucon? This cave can represent many aspects in the world. And the prisoners can be any one. The

This time when she comes back she is saves Rufus’s room from burning down. Dana ask Rufus a series of question such as why she is here, what year it is, and why did he try to burn down his house. Rufus replies saying that he is upset that his father has sold a horse that he wanted. Dana also discovers that she is traveling back in time to save Rufus which is her great grandfather. She understands that she needs to keep him alive in order for her to live. When Dana realize what time period she is in she is frighten because it is during slavery. At this point Dana understands that she has gone back into time to experience the horrors of slavery and prejudice first hand. Dana tells Rufus that she needs to get out of his room because his father could come in his room at any moment. So, Rufus tells Dana of a little girl named Alice that lives not far from his house her mother and her are free blacks. When Dana sees them she believes that they are her ancestors. While at Alice’s house she sees physical abuse and she also endures the abuse herself. As Dana fights for her life she faints back into the present. When Dana is back at home in the present time she understands that when Rufus is in trouble and she is called to his side and when she wants to return to the present time she put her own life in jeopardy.

After that a hand pops out of the sheet attempting to nail the floor in extreme anxiety, attempting to latch on the floor with prematurely grown fingernails. The second hand creeps out equally doing the same both arms fumbling about due to the slimy fluid from inside the corpse. Upon slipping the mystifying figure collapses on the side of his face and cries out in pain, “What has happened to me!” He screams. Instantly Mrs. Samsa recognizes that tone as her own, it is her son. With all fear abolished from her body she runs to help him and attempts to relieve him from his pain, both forces work chaotically against each other. Once up Gregor takes hold of the sheet in which he perished in, and with it conceals his privates. The two women stare in astonishment at one’s son and the other’s brother.

In her short story, Good Country People, Flannery O’Connor employs all the elements of humor, irony and, paradox intermingled within the system of Christian belief in evil and redemption. This is no more evident than in the character of Joy, the daughter, who had lost a leg in a hunting accident at the age of 12 and who now has a wooden leg in his place. Throughout the story, it becomes increasingly clear that Joy’s physical affliction is closely paralleled by a spiritual one as well. As the narrative unfolds, the great lengths Joy has gone to recreate her inner self, her soul, are revealed in painstaking detail. It appears she has succeeded in fashioning her own soul into a spirit that is as hard and unyielding as the prosthesis that now takes the place of her missing naturally soft and flexible appendage.

The novel commences with the main character Dana having her arm crushed inside the wall of her house, but she cannot explain to anyone how it happened. As the narrative progresses the reader is informed that Dana has the capability to time travel, but with one drawback, she is incapable of selecting the whereabouts of her journeys. Dana presently resides in 1970 California where she is married to a Caucasian man named Kevin. When Dana voyages back in time she is transported to 19th century Maryland, an awfully hostile area for a black woman. When in Maryland she finds herself on the plantation of Tom Weylin where she uncovers her purpose is to protect his son, Rufus Weylin, whenever he is in danger. Dana eventually realizes that Rufus is, in fact, her ancestor and she must ensure not only that he lives, but also that he has sex with one of his slaves, Alice, for Dana to exist.

In Floyd Skloot’s poem My Daughter Considers Her Body, the speaker is a parent who is observing their daughter as she studies the marks on her body, both day and night; becoming mesmerized with her body's imperfections. Although the little girl doubts her body can fully heal, her parent knows that once she accepts it’s need for adventure and risk, she will no longer have to worry about it. The poem concludes with a declarative sentence; revealing that this knowledge will become available to the daughter once she learns how to accept and care for her wounds. Skloot mainly uses intense imagery, multiple levels of diction, and various other literary elements scattered throughout the poem to tell a story of his daughter realizing her body’s ability

Even though the woman has not been to war herself, she puts in effort to try and understand her partner’s pain. His ‘grazed’ heart is no longer whole, but not injured to the point of no return – the woman is trying to fix her partner. The word ‘grazed’ could also represent a physical injury – however the majority of her partner’s injuries are ‘buried deep in his mind’ – for example, his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which caused ‘every nerve in his body to [tighten]’ – this reiterates how he is emotionally closed. The fact that the wounds are ‘buried’ suggests that they are hidden and harder to get at. However, in the last line, the woman states that she had ‘come close’ to rebuilding their relationship – her efforts, although long-winded, are working.

Metacognition refers to “ thinking about what you are thinking”; the audiences are the ones you want to persuade or to educate. In outcome one, the writer needs to form a metacognition of the use of language in different writing contexts, which requires the writer has a clear understanding of who the audience is so that various aspects of writing will be formed accordingly. Keeping whom the audiences is an important aspect of writing because it determines how the arguments would be delivered in each piece of writing. Hence, the writer should consider the audiences’ needs in the background information provided, the frequency of terminology used, the tone, the style, the word choice and the content. More importantly, having a specific audience

Joni Eareckson Tada stood at the edge of the rock as she had done many times that summer. When she dove into the water, she felt her head hit something hard. An agonizing pain tore through her head. She felt as if her hands and feet were tied by ropes. As she rode in the back of the ambulance that afternoon, Joni thought that her injury was not serious. She had no idea how drastically her life was about to change.

Her lips formed strange and unusual sounds, her eyes closed softly and her cheeks paled. From her side belt she withdrew a small knife, a dagger. With a quick movement she cut her left hand with the dagger. As the drops of blood hit the cold marble floor the knife also clattered to the ground. The girl remained speaking her foreign tongue and let her life's blood run down her outstretched arm.

Pondering the bizarre situation, Edie wondered if it had been a straight swap, and if the girl she had replaced had woken up in 1937. Considering the snarling, vicious beast that Edie had left behind, hungry for her flesh, it was not difficult to realise she had the better end of the deal, if that were the case. Of course, the wound the creature had caused still remained on her arm, hidden beneath a cardigan sleeve. This was an interesting occurrence, as it meant that she still had her own body; though perhaps with a few added issues that she needed to work through.

1. Comment on the passage on page 54 that begins "Most of the craziness in this world-violence, addictions and frenetic activity comes from running away from pain." Disguising a person 's name (if you use one) and applying the value of confidentiality, discuss some of your observations at your field placement of people (or perhaps even staff or the organization as a whole) in "pain". Using a "person in environment" perspective and a bio-psycho-social-spiritual lens, discuss your findings. (Hint: use this question to get ready to informally present a case or pertinent clinical example during small group in the next few weeks.)

The surgery recovery would not be instant after the extensive repair to Jarrod’s damaged knee. He’d planned to meet Alana that night and recite the poem he was writing for her, but while recovering, his language changed. His sentiments detoured to self-pity and his heart bled in his journal.

Her hands are burned but she has to cut a wasp nest to survive. This changes her from calm to worry and afraid. It changes characters to worry or detection. “ Blisters burst on my right hand as I awkwardly drag the knife back and forth. Once I’ve got a groove, the work requires less effort but is almost more than I can handle.”

away from legs and arms and face” (Simner 84). This explains that Haley risked her life to