Analysis Of 'InvictusAndStill I Rise'

In the book All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque uses literary devices such as metaphors, similes, and imagery to help the reader have a better understanding of what he went through in the war. On page 70 the recruits are getting attacked by bombs and deadly gas. When Paul is talking about being bombed and having to use gas masks to breath he says “I climb out over the edge of the shell-hole. In the dirty twilight lies a leg torn clean off; the boot is quite whole,”(Remarque 70). This piece of text is an example of imagery because Remarque describes a very detailed picture of how graphic and traumatizing it was to be in the war. It is very disturbing to look around and see bloody body parts everywhere, but Remarque does a good

“Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don’t make it wait any longer.”(Maraboli) When you make that decision in your life that you aren’t content with where you are, it finally clicks that you need to get up and make that change in your life. Giving yourself the power to go in any direction and being able to make the decision on how your attitude will affect your day. Knowing your self worth even at the lowest points in life that when you want to be great, you will be. It may not be easy to climb out of your lowest points because you start to make excuses for yourself on why you could never be happy again. Thinking that it just isn’t meant for you to be successful after the depressing times you have been through. Similar to, “Fight Song,” Rachel Platten wrote this song at her worst times in her life, but used it to remind her not to give up, that she believed in herself and still had fight left. The rhetorical devices used in Rachel Patton’s “Fight Song” are intended to reveal to the listener that to empower yourself, the listener needs to make those changes their life for their own happiness.

The story of Anthem takes place in dystopian future in which freedom and human rights have been obliterated. Equality 7-2521, the protagonist, is a street sweeper who finds a tunnel where he conducts his science experiments which are considered a sin. Throughout the book we see him change and discover how capable he is through a multitude of literary devices. In the novella , Anthem, Ayn Rand utilizes vivid imagery and a profusion of diction to frenetically emphasize the idea of love.

When telling a story, other elements like plot, setting, characterization, symbol, similes and metaphor also play a significant role. In this excerpt, the writer showed the plot and setting of painful condition of a dying soldier, who was injured in the civil war. She uses various similes and lyrical metaphors. For example, “Every breath he draws is like a stab.” Here by using metaphor “like a stab’, she succeeded to showed the real picture of a dying soldier to her readers. Once again, she uses another simile saying, “gathering the bent head in my arms as freely as if he had been a little child”. This example conveys the picture of John as a young child rests in his mother’s lap. Regarding characterization, by implementing analogies, she displays the altruistic mindset of the brave soldier, who joined the army for her mother and for his country. For instance, when she asked him. “Do you regret coming here”, he was positive at all and replied “I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done, and people kept saying the men who were in earnest ought to fight. I was in earnest, the Lord knows! but I held off as long as I could, not knowing which was my duty; mother saw the case, gave me her ring to keep me steady”. Even when he is on

O’Brien used imagery to illustrate the war in a sense to make you feel as if you were there with the soldiers. While staying short and simple, he was also very specific of the details. “Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth open. The teeth were broken. There was a swollen black bruise under his left eye. The cheekbone was gone” [423] is a perfect example of how O’Brien used imagery. This passage makes you see in your mind what the soldiers seen through their eyes.

“Being unconquerable lies within yourself; being conquerable lies within your enemy” -Sun Tzu. The novella Anthem and the poem “Invictus” both have the same theme of being unconquerable. In the novella Anthem by Ayn Rand the main character, Equality, lives in a society where you do everything for everyone else. Nothing is personal. Equality starts breaking laws and does things for himself.

Specifically on page 108, Beah says, “describing how rebels had cut off the heads of some people’s family members and made them watch, burned entire villages along with their inhabitants, forced sons to have intercoure with their mothers, hacked newly born babies in half because they cried too much, cut open pregnant women’s stomachs, took the babies out, and killed them.” Beah includes this device in the story to display a image in the reader's mind to show the fear people had of the rebels and to strike hatred and pure disgust in the rebels. The quote above is used to give the reader a feel of what was going on and the emotions of the innocent people running away from the rebels. That is how imagery is used as a rhetorical device to display the mood in a

“We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers we are allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen” (Rand 21). This sentence is a good example of the themes and moods of most dystopian literature. Society and government has crumbled, and people are oppressed. There is usually one main character who wants to rebel, to stand against the oppression. Dystopian literature and film appeals to modern day teens. Dystopian literature shows teens possible scenarios of what life could be like if society and government fails. Usually the main character or ‘hero’ is a teen or a young adult; teens can relate. Teens are at crossroads; growing into an adult, making decisions

A society without free will is a society without identity. Take away identity and humans have been stripped of everything: interests, decisions, and what comes to mind when they think in terms of the word I. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, nobody has a sense of individuality because the word I is forbidden. Prometheus, the protagonist, is an egoist, increasingly so when he finds a sense of singularity and starts to think in his own self-interest rather than for the betterment of his society. The protagonist who gives the speech “Soul of an Individualist” in another of Rand’s novels The Fountainhead describes how this is not necessarily a bad thing; although the word ego has come to insinuate negativity, Anthem exposes how the word can also reference individuality.

Smashing anything from pumpkins to instruments, Rock & Roll is a form of art with flare. Generations of people from the 50’s to modern day have enjoyed a little bit of rebellion in their life. But while the rebels continue to rage against the machine of society, that society is constantly changing. Different issues become highlighted and more relevant as others fall to the wayside, but Rock music does not stand by jovially. With constant adapting and innovating, Rock & Roll always finds something to scream about.

With every high comes a low. People must have their lows in order to know what exactly they are fighting for. Persistence plays a big role in that fight. Despite the obstacles that one has to overcome in order to make it a successful and conclusive battle, there are also good and bad experiences that one learns from. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written by Martin Luther King, Jr., he demonstrates, to not only to the clergymen, but the world, that he is not giving up on equality, despite of being in jail. He makes it clear that due to certain promises not being kept, injustice and inequality, he takes the actions he is. In the excerpt “Graduation”, author Maya Angelou shows that with any obstacle or disadvantage that comes her way,

Every day is like a battle but every night with us is like a dream -Taylor Swift that quote was what I was living by. All I had to do was endure hell on earth during the day, then as soon as that bell rang I was free. So I worked incredibly hard and ended up with an acceptance letter for next year, because of scholarship reasons. That shook me to my core because of how hard I worked. How could something so simple like money take away my dream. This is where it took everything in me to just trust that god had a plan for me.

Poets frequently utilize vivid images to further depict the overall meaning of their works. The imagery in “& the War Was in Its Infancy Then,” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, conveys mental images in the reader’s mind that shows the physical damage of war with the addition of the emotional effect it has on a person. The reader can conclude the speaker is a soldier because the poem is written from a soldier’s point of view, someone who had to have been a first hand witness. The poem is about a man who is emotionally damaged due to war and has had to learn to cope with his surroundings. By use of imagery the reader gets a deeper sense of how the man felt during the war. Through the use of imagery, tone, and deeper meaning, Decaul shows us the

A girl thrown out of her apartment, lost her job, but she still strives for her dreams and lets nothing get in her way. She pushes through, gets back up, and fights back. No matter what she won’t let anything stop her from achieving her dreams. This idea can be seen in many pieces of texts including the following poems. “Invictus,” by William Ernest Henley and “Still I rise” by Maya Angelou both convey the message that people can not let anything stop them from achieving their dream and to fight back.

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do” . This aphorism is the meaning of life in the color guard, but for me it’s my whole life. My sister is my constant competition. She is great at sports,school,science,everything. So I have learn to accept with I am able to do and not to do. I am not saying it’s easy but I have learned not