A Sick Day Doos Mcgee Analysis

The author uses tone and images throughout to compare and contrast the concepts of “black wealth” and a “hard life”. The author combines the use of images with blunt word combinations to make her point; for example, “you always remember things like living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet”. This image evokes the warmth of remembering a special community with the negative, have to use outdoor facilities. Another example of this combination of tone and imagery is “how good the water felt when you got your bath from one of those big tubs that folk in Chicago barbecue in”. Again the author’s positive memory is of feeling fresh after her bath combined with a negative, the fact that it was a barbecue drum.

“It was not pleasant work. Goggles were a necessity, and a rubber apron, but even so it was like standing for eight hours a day under a lukewarm blood-shower. At night I'd go home smelling of pig.” This example portrays a strong tone of disgust for his job at the pig factory. In the story he talks about relating his horrible, disgusting job the the awful sights that he would see in war. The use of imagery in this like the lukewarm blood-showers affect the tone majorly because of how one puts all these things together in their

Owen and Frost convey extreme experiences and feelings very powerfully and evoke it in a way for us the reader to imagine clearly. In Disabled, Owen conveys the image of death very vividly with immense use of imagery writing 'He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,' this darkness is referring to the sense that the soldier's life is interminable to him now. Owen is trying to tell us that this soldier's life has been cut short by the war and that he cannot be the same individual he was perhaps five to ten years earlier. Another example of strong imagery in Disabled which conveys extreme experiences and feelings is the good use of visual imagery where he writes 'Legless, sewn short at the elbow.' This powerful phrase gives us the reader an image of the soldier seated in a wheelchair with no legs as well as part of his arm 'deattached', this image being emphasised by the words 'Legless' and 'sewn short'.

Winton, has described the characters in this short story to be different, friendly and angry. ‘Forensic team in waders carry bones from the edge of the lake’ (p.g 37) and ‘Through the open window I smelt wild lupins and estuary mud’ (p.g 37). In the first pages of this chapter I, was a young boy who played with the Box kids across the street and they were Catholics who all smelled the same. The Joneses, were Aboriginals who didn’t need to keep up with complicated situations, but were always angry, dark and loud. This chapter involves information about a character who was a child, who passed a remote lagoon and swampland everyday on his way to school, and eventually gained the courage to explore within the depth of the location. At attempting to unlock this secret passage, it included many secrets and mysteries that needed to be discovered. By reading ‘Aquifer’, this brought the characters to a place that they felt immediately in connection with, this included memories that were buried in their past that they have shaped and now believe that they are today. Winton’s exploration of the way that the past ‘Sits hand in Glove’ (p.g 38) with the present drew many feelings and emotions into the description of the

Harry Hume’s short story “The Cough” uses figurative language to show that the father works as a miner and as a result is getting sick but cannot stop working as his job is the only thing keeping the family afloat. The diction used in this micro story illustrates how the father’s job as a miner seeps into every part of their life. The personification of the cough sets out to illustrate the father’s illness not as something evil or destructive, but simply as a nuisance. The symbolism of the Orrery demonstrates how the author views their father’s sickness as the core of his world, responsible for making their lives function. Hume’s is able to show an entire family’s state and story in a few paragraphs by using carefully selected words and literary devices to make the reader infer the information rather than say it explicitly.

Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I

In the short story, Fever Dream, Bradbury creates an image of a sterile environment through words such as “fresh, clean, laundered” and “newly squeezed”, Bradbury also describes the ability to hear subtle sounds such as “the toilet gargling”, “rain tap the roof” and “sly mice run”. These images portray a healthy, pure atmosphere that reflects the boy and presents that his “sickness wasn’t too bad” and foreshadows a sickness that will come. Bradbury presents the young

The story One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest brings forth images such as insane asylums, crazy people, and a nurse with a personality so large that you feel her control, even when she doesn’t exist. Ken Kesey uses images such as these not just to compel the reader, but create questions surrounding the story’s main characters, as well as reveal specific meaning to how the ward works, and how the patients interact with one another. Through the use of mechanical imagery, Ken Kesey shows readers how each of the devices on the ward carries a specific meaning or symbol, as well as how the main characters react to each of the items of machinery.

Imagine, he says, the urgency, the panic that causes a dying man to be ‘flung’ into a wagon, the ‘writing’ that denotes an especially virulent kind of pain. Hell seems close at hand with the curious smile ‘like a devils sick of sin’. Sick in what sense? Satiated? Physically? Then that ‘jolt’. No gentle stretcher-bearing here but agony intensified. Owens imaginary is enough to sear the heart and mind.

In Anne Carson’s Nox, the preservation of memories and grieving process are shown by formatting and themes of imagery, encapsulation, isolation, and completion. Upon first impression, Nox’s pages look photocopied, but real enough that the pages feel three-dimensional, as though there’s a residue from the author lingering on the pages. Her brother’s death prompts Carson to act as his historian and detail his life through different media.

What features or characteristics of the human condition can you identify in Judith Wright’s Legend? How has the poet used specific language techniques to emphasise these attributes of life.

Oil paint is a beautiful medium used in the piece A Rainy Day in Camp in the short story “War”. The painting is seen inside the short story to put a picture in the reader’s mind to try to see what the setting was like in “War”. In the picture A Rainy Day in Camp, artist Winslow Homer sets a lonley tone that suits the short story “War” by Edgar Allan Poe quite fittingly.

Analyzing and interpreting poetry takes time and effort due to the variety of elements each poem may possess as well as understanding those elements chosen and used in the piece of work. In addition, one’s life experiences may influence how one perceives the poem. However, in the poem “Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry, published in 1997 and written during a time of personal struggle for Cherry and her dad, a couple of poetic elements appear more prominent than any others. These are the tone and imagery. Cherry begins the poem with a feeling of insensitivity but by the end transforms the feeling in to one of pity or sadness. Through her careful choice of words and use of similes and metaphors Cherry establishes the tone and imagery throughout the poem in a realistic way regarding this disease and its tug on the emotions one feels when caring for someone with this illness.

In the poem ‘Disabled’, poet Wilfred Owen portrays the horrors of war and the brutal aftermath by using powerful imagery, dramatic contrasts of pace and time, overwhelming irony and by creating a strong sense of sympathy for the soldier of this poem. The contrasts between health and illness, life and death feature greatly in the poem; this gives the reader a ‘before and after’ picture of the soldier’s (subject’s) life.

Sicko is a documentary about the American Health Care system as seen through the eyes of the filmmaker Michael Moore. It presents the health care system in America as being fragmented and inefficient by using anecdotes to illustrate the plight of the 46 million Americans without health insurance and also to address the wider concerns about the kind of care that the insured get. The film also compares the non-universal and for-profit U.S. system with publicly funded health systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.