Analysis Of Louise Erdrich 's ' The Strange People '

The fact that enjambment is used throughout the poem such as in the lines, “like a colour slide or press an ear against its hive” portrays a lack of structure and therefore emphasizes the initial enjoyment one feels when reading a poem before the chore of analyzing it begins. This is also emphasized through the fact that the poem is a free verse poem.

In Thomas C. Foster’s “How to Read Literature like a Professor”, myth and archetype are thoroughly discussed and analyzed. Some of these themes are exemplified in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work, The Yellow Wallpaper, in which a nameless narrator experiences her own personal hell, driven into madness by her improper psychiatric treatment. Gilman’s text is not only a story of a woman who is essentially driven into the underground, but also a criticism of society’s view of women and mental illness. She describes the narrator’s descent as a journey, through the use of symbolism and her treatment as a mentally ill woman.

Throughout the novel Cathy Ames has not only been portrayed as a “monster” and “only part human”, but with her knowledge and manipulative qualities Cathy can very clearly be seen as the “trickster” interwoven in Steinbeck’s novel: beginning, middle, and end. Though there are several characters in East of Eden that can be uncomfortably forced into the archetypal position of a “trickster”, Cathy is the most perspicuous example we are given.

This essay is to explain why of all the characters of the short stories we read that Miss. Strangeworth is the worst character and why. These characters come from the short stories And of Clay We are Created, To Build a Fire, The Possibility of Evil, The Interlopers, Two Friends and How Much Land Does a Man Need? The characters in these stories are unique in the ways that they could be evil, such as having the ability to change something for the better but instead not doing anything at all. Miss strangeworth is the worst of all because she is two-faced, selfish, and very judgemental.

Sadly, one of my all-time favorite authors, Elie Wiesel, died this past week. His extraordinary life and mindset regarding humanity has altered my way of thinking. Taken from his speech “The Perils of Indifference” these lines have stuck with me and can be applied to numerous situations: “The opposite of live is not hate, it’s indifference” (American Rhetoric: Elie Wiesel - The Perils of Indifference, 2016). Through his life experiences and words,Wiesel illustrates the dangers of indifference on society and the lives of its individuals.

The author, John H. Aldrich, argues that the contemporary political party are not in decline. John H. Aldrich want us to believe that contemporary political party are not in a decline but, instead in transformation. John H. Aldrich give cases for both the importance of political parties and for weak and weakening parties.

Today the term “witch” has been used in films, books, and in pop culture. In the seventieth-century, an example of a person who was considered a “witch” was generally someone who appeared to be involved with the devil by portraying unexplainable behavior. In Salem, the Puritans

This explains, further, that the girl is no longer at a stage of innocence. She has been introduced to the fear and dread that surrounds her, that she was once oblivious too. The use of imagery throughout the poem also helps the reader gain a further insight to the underlying meaning. She uses imagery particularly well when the girl has experienced the bull. Lockheed uses the words ‘darkness’ & ‘roar’ to describe the bull in more detail. Although, this helps the reader create the image of the bull, the words also portray thoughts of the dread and panic the girl has over this new chapter

Monsters and other variations of inhuman characters have been used throughout fiction to show readers the horrors that lie just beyond the brink of what is considered human. Characters with abnormal traits are used to create fear in the reader as they look upon the accounts of strange, crazy and even macabre characters. Two examples of abnormal characters in literature are the knight from “Bisclavret” by Marie de France and the protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Each of these characters represent the opposite ends of the peculiar character spectrum, with the knight representing a monstrous body and the woman from “The Yellow Wallpaper” representing a monstrous personality and psyche. The ironic twist with

Just like all people, we have a side to ourselves we don’t want people to know. “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson shows that you can’t always hide the other side. The character, Miss Strangeworth, has a side of herself that she wanted people to see and one she didn’t. Miss Strangeworth shows her sides in what she does and says, what the narrator says about her, and how other characters interact with her. Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does and says.

“I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” (Miller 45). In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, residents of Salem habitually ‘cry witch’, driven by dismay, suspicion, and retribution. Under a strict theocracy, where the court’s ruling and religious beliefs are exclusively bound to one another, death is practically inevitable for those branded as witches, their names perpetually tarnished. From atop his high horse, one may look upon The Crucible and harshly judge the irrational actions of Salem’s community; however, human emotion drove these injudicious acts, the very raw emotion that often overpowers logic in today’s society. Though theocracy has dissolved in America, one can never

I hope everything's going great! After finishing Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks , I would like to talk to you about some of the opinions you have about the book. I overheard you talking about the theme of religion in the book and how it is portrayed. You believe that religion is prevalent, but does not affect the characters in any way. I am sorry to say I completely disagree with you, and think that Pauline uses her religion constantly to justify her actions and her crazy beliefs on some things.

Love Medicine is a wonderfully written novel that has many different points of view. We see in the beginning the death of June. This novel speaks a lot about death. While it is not just centered on death, it does have many instances on it and how it affected the people around them. Death the one thing guaranteed in life. Louise Erdrich used one person’s death to start stories on her life. Erdrich tells of both what someone dying was thinking and what someone watching thought.

The use of enjambment in the poem "A Little Tooth" causes the reader to pause after end line and consider what will happen next. Typically, and in this poem, the writer will use enjambment in increase the drama within a poem and to use a gimmick to lead the reader into thinking the outcome may be one thing when it actually is an outcome completely different than the reader's first thought. In this poem, the use of enjambment speeds up the poem. "...Then she wants some meat", this break in the poem lead to me assume that the child is growing up. She once only had a few teeth but now she is able to eat on her own. This is a sign that the child is gaining more independence. "...She'll fall", when I first stopped reading at this line break I assumed

Enjambment, which is defined as the running over from one line of poetry to the next, can increase the speed of the speed whilst the reader reads the poem. It can also serve to increase the ambiguity of meaning (What is the function of enjambment in poetry). In The Vacuum, the sentence “I’ve lived this way long enough, but when my old woman died her soul went into that vacuum cleaner, …… in the corner and under the stair.” (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) has been stretched over six lines and two stanzas. Having such a long line in poetry is not unusual in poetry. Relating the long sentence to it’s overall tone, “see(ing) the bag swell like a belly” (9) and “old filth everywhere she used to crawl” (11, 12) conveys a sense of clumsiness and depressing mood. The enjambment can thus create a lengthy sentence and echoes the sense of sadness and hollowness expressed within the