Analysis

Many are rich many are poor many have money many don’t. Have you ever had a moment where you did something selfish for desperation of money and karma hit you right back with a right hook?. And felt regret towards yourself. In the short story “Why, You Reckon” the author uses irony and dialogue, to show the audience that money can't buy happiness.

When most people eat at fast food establishments, they do not think about what exactly is going into their bodies, but Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson want to change that. Their combined efforts result in the book Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, which exploits the gruesome truths behind fast food. Schlosser and Charles begin their nonfiction work by explaining how fast food restaurant were created. Then, they transition into revealing what was changed in the process of establishing the fast food industry. Their discoveries occur in most fast food restaurant, but they focus on the corruption in McDonald’s tendencies.

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

“For What It’s Worth” relates strongly to the actions taking place. The emotions of Springfield were released in this song. Many people recognize the same emotions as Springfield. This relates to others because of the conflict and crime that is occurring. Buffalo does a wonderful job of describing the misery and suffering of the people.

The short story is difficult to understand since the author wrote the story in a tricky way, made up of hints that need to be put together along with the main symbol to understand it. The cranes representing the old couple are standing among the shoreline together like a loving couple admiring the view. The couple is sitting in the car reminiscing their years together and joking around. Their conversational tone sure makes it obvious how much they love each other. The story starts off describing the couple parked along the shoreline looking at the birds and how fascinated they are by them, specially the woman. The man explains to her how those cranes in specific are very rare and there aren’t many left. The woman makes a joke about the small birds looking like clowns in front of big elegant birds, then the man laughs in a way and she asks him if he is all right, and I believe this is the story’s rising action. The old man then changes his mind and

Harwood revolves this poem around change, through the use of a motherly character she is able to construct a life style that has dramatically changed from free to a fairly constricted. Harwood uses the conversations of two people to get this message across, with the conversation discussing life’s progression with an old lover. “But for the grace of God…” suggests that the ex-lover is somewhat thankful for not ending up as a father figure to these children, as he can see the effect it has taken on her from when he used to know her. “Her clothes are out of date” shows her appearance has altered in the bid to live as a mother, her children are now her identity and that is what she will live to be. This poem is revolved around the negativity of losing yourself through mother-hood and the factors that slowly show that it.

I disagree with Lauren Slater’s theory that throughout a person's life, one will only surround themselves with ideas and people similar to their own because, it is easy to see that people enjoy controversy and over the course of our lives, our beliefs and ideas can change.

Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in his second inaugural address that “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. The U.S. could not emerge from the pit of a national crisis without profound social and cultural changes. This era affected people through spending cutbacks and unemployment, but also brought the American people closer to their

At the end of “The Cranes”, the author paints a picture of resolution in the car. The older couple, having made up their mind to end their lives together, make their final preparations in drastic calmness. The wife seems to have a few concerns about their decision, but takes comfort in her husband’s steadfast determination. The end of the story shows the woman closing her eyes one final time as she remembers, for one last minute, a scene from their past. Suddenly, the cranes outside the car shoot upward into the sky, presumably in response to a gunshot that startles them.

The couple ultimately committed suicide in the end of the short story because they we fed up dealing with the health aliments, and the sorrows of life they suffered through. The author uses the cranes as a symbol of the old couple in the car. The cranes and couples share many qualities in common such as eternal love, rarity of their love, and the having their last moment together. The symbols of the cranes are made to be the couple and at the same time just whooping cranes the couple sees. The couple were together for a long time sharing memories with each other. The whooping cranes are made to mate for life. The old couple showed the rarity of true love and cranes showed rarity of their species. Both the couple and cranes die in the isolated

It appears that we have more than a few things in common as you previously mentioned.  Like you, I have come to understand how important it is to be knowledgeable about our nation's history.  Understanding the path that has brought us to where we (as a nation) are today and acknowledging those who have influenced that path, is embracing our imperfect present, and pursuing for a better future.

When talking about American history most begin with the coming of the Mayflower, when the Europeans arrive. Why is that? Maybe it’s because that’s the easiest way to explain our history or because we don’t seem to understand the importance of The Natives?

            The author uses a number of different literary devices to describe the hardship she feels such as metaphor, simile, and imagery. The author revels that her life and the chickens are not very different. “I felt her body break deep inside my own chest” (6). The way the chicken has to be killed after being loved for so long is the same way Hall feels about being with her husband for so long and then having him cheat on her and leave her. “Guilt and fear tugged me like an undertow” (7). The chickens are being killed by the one that loved them and in the same way; Hall is killed by the one she loved: her husband. The author uses a numerous number of vivid imagery to describe the struggle she is going through with her husband leaving and her having to kill the chickens. “Her shiny black beak opened and closed, opened and closed” (5). The rumors and suspicions that the author’s husband was cheating on her would come and go, until it reached a breaking point

“Along the marshy shore, two tall and stately birds, starring across the gulf,” (Meinke 196). The cranes serve as an archetype throughout the short story, symbolizing the old couple and their abiding relationship. (“Contemporary Author’s Online” 242). The cranes are almost mimicking the couple; they are blankly staring across the water, patiently waiting for their deliberate death. The reader can find multiple instances throughout the text that some unsuspected affair will follow. “Maybe this is the wrong thing.” (Meinke 196). What is wrong? What is the couple going to do in the car they are

In “The Cranes”, by Peter Mienke, the old man said, “They’re probably older than we are. Their feathers are falling out and their kid s never write.” This shows the comparison of the couple and the cranes. In the old man’s eyes the cranes were just like him and his wife. They were probably old and depressed as well. In the last sentence the cranes jumped into the air together and flew toward the sun as if they were going to Heaven. Just as the cranes, the couple would also be leaving together. The only difference would be that the couple would be leaving the world together. Even after they killed themselves, they would be together