Analysis Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Novel 'The Yearling'

The National Book Award of Fiction.

Hawthorne describes a cold and gray day.  This description gives the reader a sense of isolation as well as slight depression.  However, the mention of a slight breeze that ruffles the canopy of the forest just enough to let in little flickers of sunshine conveys a fleeting ray of hope that seems to coexist with the gloominess in the scene.  In many scenes during the book, moods or prevailing feelings are established through descriptions of the natural surroundings of the characters.  This aspect of Hawthorne's writing makes the book deeper and more emotional.

The author uses a lot of figurative language throughout the story. The forceful wind is compared to a dog shaking a rat between its teeth. As Janet tried to calm herself, the idea that a dead woman was in the basement of her house began to beat at her like a flail. The idea that she was frozen with freight was illustrated by her body being like a drawn bow. Examples of more figurative language can be found throughout the text.

The author uses Personification to make Lutie johnson feel uncomfortable by the wind making her body shivered and confuse of what the features of the building are. Petry idea is to show the readers how lonely the streets are and how powerful the wind can be.

Kristin Lewis uses the literary device, a simile, in the first paragraph. She compares “New Jersey” having heat “like a hot blanket.” She uses this device to compare and help the reader understand how hot it was during “the summer of 1912,” in New Jersey.

She creates a dramatic tone in order to convey to her readers that the winds have a mechanistic effect on people. Thomas’s purpose points towards the positives

Didion’s choice of words is one of the most important contributors to the mood she develops in her essay about the Santa Ana Winds, and gives the essay ethos as well. Although she does not use too much personification, the little she does use about the wind “whining down the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes” sets up the rest of her description of what the winds do in a way that almost makes it seem that the wind is a malevolent being, set on scorching the mind and surrounding environment. Her use of adjectives unquestionably reverberates her negative opinion on the winds; she blatantly calls them “bad,” and “malevolent.” The ominous, uneasy description of the heat and weather support that view.

This deeply contrast what is felt in chapter one because words are now used to convey an unsafe, loud, and unpleasant mood, and an image of the characters being in harm’s way is portrayed. In chapter one, words such as “far off”, “little”, and “immediately” exude an image and scene of safety, that the characters are aware of the dangers of their environment, yet are unaffected. The angry sounds of the men are described as being distant, and the loud and distracting rustling of the leaves die down quickly, thus this use of imagery through word choice displays the mood of safety. Opposing this, in chapter six, words such as “sounded”, “much closer”, and “crashing” create this mood of unsafeness, peril, and disharmony. In this chapter, the distant shouts of men becomes not so distant, and the quiet and brief rustling of leaves is rather drawn out and

Therefore, personification bridges this gap between an idea and understanding. The personification of the wind sets-home its power and its motivation to create a struggle for the people of the city, which indirectly tells the reader that it creates a struggle for Lutie as well. Furthermore, the author explains that the wind "did everything it could to discourage the people

In 1939, a remarkable woman, won a remarkable prize. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was awarded a Pulitzer prize for all of her hard work on her novel The Yearling. I believe that this award was well deserved because when looking at the great use of syntax, figurative language, and sensory details, I was astounded.

The short story “Goodbye Sweetwater” by Henry Dumas is told throughout the 1980’s in Holly Springs when blacks and whites were still segregated. The author uses many different figurative languages such as simile, metaphor, irony and image throughout the short story. Layton is seen as immature in the beginning of the story then soon matures towards the end when he decides to make his own decisions and think before he acts as his grandma Bridges taught him. Many of the words Dumas uses represent something else. Not all the words he states are used as the literal meaning, he makes you think of the words in different ways and representations. The formalist approach has many examples of literary devices that tell the true meaning of the story that Henry Dumas wanted us to see.

One of the biggest themes in the novel “The Sound and the Fury”, written by William Faulkner, is how the presence of time affects human life. The novel is separated into four different parts, Benjy’s, Quentin’s, Jason’s, and a third person narrative that could be considered Dilsey’s section. Benjy, Quentin, and Jason are all Compson children, and Dilsey is their black servant. The motif of time is obvious in this novel, as Faulkner emphasizes how the passing of time affects all four of our narrators differently.

The first part of the passage listed the natural images. The author described the wind blows over the forest, the oaks leafs, the ox, and the goats to establish those natural image. The author established those natural images by using the words cruelly develop to describe the wind blows over the land vividly, describing the details like the oaks with sweeping foliage and solid fir bends against the prospering about how the wind affect the earth and the forest groan blows over them, and describing the wind blows through and penetrate in the beasts’ thick furry coats rudely. The author fixates about how strong the winds are. He also repeated those parallel structure to draw a bigger and bigger picture and to make a more and more profound impression to emphasize the focus. Those repetition made a sense of immersive, let the reader can

“Storm Warnings,” true to its literal subject matter, possesses flowy sweeping syntax created by the strategic use of commas and phrasing to draw parallels between the physical oncoming winds and the gales of life. The author crafts a long run-on sentence that spans the first stanza and carries on into the latter portion of the second to mirror the continuous flowing of windy weather and the forward motion of life. Once the speaker notices the brewing storm, they “walk from window to closed window, watching boughs strain against the sky.” In this portion of the affromented run-on sentence, alliteration, rhythm, and the repetition of words all contribute to the impression of movement. The various “w” sounds at the beginnings of words and the repetition of the word “window” create a sensation of continuously flowing forward, especially when read aloud; the comma adds a small swirling pause to the rhythm, which is then soon after resumed with the word “watching.” Just as the poem rhythmically moves forward with its long phrases connected with frequent commas, so must life carry on with each additional experience, whether it be misfortunes or joys. The elongated syntax allows all these elements to work together within sentences to highlight the similarities between physical storms and emotional struggle and to stress the inevitability of predicaments in life.

Style: One thing that Crane has been known for is his use of imagery and similes in his writing. His use of Imagery and detail bring a repeating setting like the ocean, more to life. The reader is able to form a vivid picture in their mind with the Crane’s use of adjectives and