A Secret Lost In The Water Thing

The short story “A Secret Lost in the Water” by Roch Carrier and the poem “My Father Is a Simple Man” by Luis Omar Salinas both explores the relationship between their fathers and examines the theme of the differences between generations. “A Secret Lost in the Water” examines more about the narrator’s regret to losing the traditional skills and knowledge in the modern society. Conversely, the poem “My Father Is a Simple Man” explores the gratitude felt by young generations towards their parents.

In this poem, symbolism is used to help reader’s find deeper meaning in the little things included and show that everything comes back to the father’s fear of the child he adores growing older and more independent. “In a room full of books in a world of stories, he can recall not one, and soon he thinks the boy will give up on his father.” This sentence makes a reader assume that the story the five year old so

The “roar of water” sounded in their ears as they slept, which illustrates the connection between the father and his son. The tranquil sound is heard by both the father and his son and is enjoyed by the both of them. The sound is something that they come to the camp to enjoy together. The sounds of water connect streams and lakes, which is a metaphor for the connection between the father and his son. After the boy has told his father that they cannot fish together, they sleep against a “floor of pine needles”, which shows the discomfort that they boy feels in letting his father down. The selection of detail highlights the strain in their relationship and the guilt the son feels in the situation. The use of detail at the beginning and end of the passage demonstrate the strong relationship that the two have and how they feel discomfort with hurting each

The third lesson is the moral. Until the last stanza, this is a simple descriptive poem. But the whole theme is wrapped up in the last stanza. That last line. In this poem, students should be able to see how a simple thing like those last two stanzas elevates this to art. Why is one painting of a tree art and their’s is not? How is one story worthy of class time and another not? Theme. Truth. In understanding that last line, they “get” the poem.

Clarify what is the main theme/morale of the story. What is the lesson to be learnt by the character?

To begin with, the story is told chronologically by Camara Laye. He is telling the story in a first-person point of view. For example, the story starts when he was five or six years old when he saw his father’s spirit guide and how he continually grows up to learn more wisdom from his family and friends. The structure of the book fit its topics because his life continually changed throughout the story which he had to learn and adapt to the environment. For example, he visited his relatives in Tindican which they had different expectations of him. His relatives wanted him to become farmer and he had adapted to the simple life of the community.

In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, there are many uses of theme. This book is about a man named Kino who finds the pearl of the world and wants to sell it to help out his family. Sadly, the pearl was meant to help out the family, but ends up destroying it because of greed. Steinbeck shows that materialism and greed can lead to immoral behavior through three main characters in the book: the doctor, the robbers, and the town as a whole. When the town hears that Kino found the pearl of the world, they all think of what they could do if they had the money.

One of the main themes in this novel is overcoming and facing your fears. This was first shown when James met the old man in the garden, he was so “frightened that he couldn’t move” (Dahl). Within minutes of the one sided conversation James finally “[found] his voice” (Dahl) asking the man what are the crystals and “where [did] they come from” (Dahl). James also had to overcome his fear of being stuck with his evil aunts once the beans where gone and lost into the soil. The theme is shown throughout all the characters because at one point in the novel every character had to face their fears. Such as when the Earthworm had to face his fears of being eaten by the seagulls when they had to use him as bait to get the peach out of the water. The

The second point that is an interesting point for me to talk is about the narrator confused the eye. The protagonist seems to be very nervous, afraid and confused, during the story contradicts himself

As one can see, this tale is short but packs with message. The author illustrates the moral from the mouth of the character at the end of the tale so skillfully, without being abrupt or rigid. Moreover, the characters of the kid and wolf get readers closer, making the didactic tone lighter. Therefore, it could get across to the young readers better.

In order to analyze the story it would help to have a guide on what is going to be explained in this paper. The first part of the paper talks about themes, some of these themes can be easily over looked since there is layer upon layers. The second part, will explain the use of tone that helps sets the stage, and the mood of the whole story. The use of imagery is present as well, for example the use of words like dry and wet, can be found when

The big idea of my poem is how one simple place can have such an important meaning in one's life. In this poem, I used the poetic device of Anaphora with the words “The tree.” I believe this enhances my poem because it really emphasizes how meaningful the tree in throughout the entire story and how no matter where the two boys are in their life, they both seem to find their way back to the tree. Also, I used the poetic device of an oxymoron when I wrote “alone together.” Using these words show that as young kids, Hassan and Amir didn’t need anyone else, they were best friends that all they needed was each other and one and others company. Another poetic device I used was personification when I wrote “the tree that learned” and “the names of the bark split apart and went their separate ways.” Using personification in this poem helped to show that other people/things realized how strong the two boys friendship was and that they almost became one. Also, I used the simile “grew like seeds planted in the ground” because this relates the boys to the tree in the way that they come from a seed in the ground. This creates more of a bond between the boys and the tree because it makes it feel like they are more of equals. Finally, I used alliteration when I wrote, “late loving lifelong…” and this conveys multiple of the feeling Amir has for Hassan.

The theme and the message that is hidden in the story is quite unique compared to other novels that would rather prefer using emotive language and aspects that would bring out a deep message of the story. This story presents message such as ‘children should not go out in forest alone’. The novel uses things like descriptive language and the atmospheric settings to describe the message which is quite unique in a way if you compare this particular novel with any other novel. This can particularly be known at the start of the

At the beginning the story is a third person narration, interrupted by dialogues but then in order to make a deep emotional appeal the author applies for stream of consciousness. There are interior monologues, for example: “Oh, no,…of course not!”. Constant moving of nature carried the rhythm of the story. There are a lot of stylistic devices in the text, such as extended metaphor which helps the author to describe boy’s imagination and his specific order of mind. For example: “He felt that the gauze, which could not contain the torrents of world’s activities, might house this butterfly and not brush off its bloom”. A special device in this text is framing because we can see a story in a story here and framing is used to express that a story is imaginary. The author applies inversion to intensify the atmosphere of mystery. For example: “To whom has it not happened, time and again, on his way to the Seaside, the Moors, or the Highlands, to cry in his heart, at some glimpse of Paradise from

The struggle of finding oneself must be one of the most important themes in the short story. It shows a boy’s journey at finding his identity “I’m an explorer, alone, on the brink of new worlds” (p. 4, l. 148), he is searching new widths to find and create his identity, but without anyone to lead him “I’ve fallen in a void with no points of steering” (p. 4, l. 147), but during the story he finds a lodestar, a false moon. The story shows independency and how it is taking care of yourself, while you are growing up