Analysis Of Now We Are Five

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

Tom Buchanan, a member of the East Egg comunity, is shown to have amazing tastes, in particular when it comes to the beauty of his home. Fitzgerald writes, “Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of french windows glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon” (6). The way in which Nick describes Toms home, makes it sound like a beautiful wonderland. It seems extremely elegant and just simply perfect. Even the setting and time of day match its beauty coincidentally. Furthermore, the intricacy of Toms home reflects what people think of the people who reside in East Egg. Their tastes seem to be so far ahead of everyone else’s, and they are able to express their minds through crafting these landscapes with ease. This portrays a very pretty picture of what Fitzgerald wants the reader to think about the characters who reside in East Egg.

From the day a person is born until the day they die, their family is always there. Friends may come and go numerous times in a lifetime, but a family bond is a bond that is formed like no other. Writing My Wrongs, by Shaka Senghor, is an autobiography that takes the reader through the life Senghor lived. From a young age Senghor’s parents clashed on every idea and topic known to man. After years of dealing with constant disputes, Senghor moved out, finding himself living on the streets. He sold whatever he could, including crack, to survive another day. A couple of years into this new lifestyle was all it took for Senghor to end up back at his father's house. Soon after, Senghor became involved in the drug world once again, but this time his seemingly innocent argument would escalate into the death of the customer, landing Senghor in jail for at minimum, 19 years. Throughout these years his father and son visited, motivating Senghor to be released from prison as soon as he could possibly manage. In Writing my Wrongs by Shaka Senghor, the role of family impacted Senghor the most on his journey through life and redemption.

The poem “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka uses vivid images of sights, sounds, and daily activities to symbolize a heartfelt story. In the poem, Amiri, is one of the African American slaves who is frustrated about the discriminatory treatment by whites. So frustrated he wants to commit suicide. The writer used transition words starting with “lately”, “now”, and “then” for each stanza. He was imagining how he acted before his death and how his daughter reacted to his death.

Suicide is a sensitive topic for most people, and in the GQ article “Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World”, Nadya Labi creates a strong ethos as she writes a nonfiction article about an online predator who preyed on people going on suicide chat sites. In the article Nadya writes about how a man named William Melchert-Dinkel under the online pseudonym Li Dao would go on suicide chat rooms and do his best to convince people to go through with their suicidal thoughts and hang themselves, and Celia Blay, with the help of another woman Kat Lowe, do what they can to hunt him down. In doing this she creates a nonfiction piece the manifests itself as typical hero and rival story, a story in which the hero, protagonist, or good-doer attempts to stop the villain, rival, antagonist or wrong doer from whatever harm they with to inflict. Even more specifically, Labi piece can be read as a detective story, in which the hero goes through trials and research in order to hunt down a criminal whose identity is often initially unknown.

For example, she refers to the house as “...home sweet home’ ” in hopes that the positive connotation of the phrase will change her children's negative viewpoints (Walls 150). However, her daughter Jeannette is underwhelmed by the new residence. To her, the house is nothing more than a disconsolate building. She goes on to say that “the house was a dinky thing...it had been painted white a long time ago, but the paint, where it hadn’t peeled off altogether, had turned a dismal gray” (Walls 150). Jeanette’s mother made no effort to fix up the home before showing it to her. No attempt was made to make the house seem more inviting. After they moved in, Jeanette’s mother “built rows of shelves in the windows and arranged brightly colored bottles to catch the light...but the house was still cold and dank” (Walls 154). The mother attempts to improve the atmosphere of the house by using the bottles rather than working to find a new home or to improve the condition of their house. Paint is peeling and her children sleep on mattresses made of cardboard, but her buoyancy keeps her from addressing ameliorating these problems. Lastly, Jeannette

In, “The ‘F’ Word” by Firoozeh Dumas, the author explains her and her family’s difficulties moving to a new place. She just wanted to fit in and not have people make fun of her like her brothers. She wrote the narrative essay to inform her readers that everything comes with its difficulties but sometimes you just have to do whatever it takes to overcome them. She showed many examples of Rhetorical strategies throughout the essay, she uses ethos, pathos, compare and contrast. She showed many examples of Rhetorical strategies throughout the essay like ethos.

In Sedaris’ article “Now We Are Five,” he discussed the issue of his sister’s suicide. Sedaris has many different tones throughout the essay, and some of the major ones include a sarcastic tone, nostalgic tone, and a detached tone to help him get the point across of why he handles grief the way he does. He also uses informal diction, and his appeal to the audience’s pathos. The most prominent voice that shines in the story is his sarcasticness. Sedaris thought his mother might have said “So put that in your pipe and smoke it,” in response to Tiffany taking the family out of her will.

In her article Yang uses many rhetorical tools to analyze the act of self-immolation and the Browne’s photograph. She analyze the power structure how it was affected by the act of self-immolation by Duc, she uses Ethos and Pathos, shows the how the act was deliberate and forensic while using micro-forms. The article has a strong emotional appeal. Yang uses vivid words to describe the act of self-immolation. The wording used by Yang is strong and descriptive which paints a picture in the mind of the reader. He analyzes the affect the picture has on the audience and talks about the about to die moment. Browne captures the picture of the monk right before he dies and the affect this has on the viewer. The viewer of the picture questions who is to blame and what could have been done to prevent the act of self-immolation. She analyzes the emotional appeal of the picture, then analyzes the character appeal of the picture.

to drive home the point, the family mansion is called "Belle Reve," or Beautiful Dream. The

The author tries to convey this message mainly through writing this piece in first person while using the literary style of stream of consciousness. Periodically throughout the piece, the author shows his

The government claims the life of the unknown citizen to be happy. It is due to the government controlling an individual’s life constantly which considers the life of the unknown citizen happy. This ruin the sense of individuality of the unknown citizen claiming that he is happy. It is due to the daily aspects of the everyday life of the unknown citizens is controlled by the government which does not allow the unknown citizen’s daily life to be revealed. This lack of individuality is very destructive to an individual because it does not allow them to express any of their ideas. However, therefore the government thinks he is happy. Furthermore, Auden uses satire to show how the society in the poem mocks the value of an individual. Auden accomplishes his satire through deliberate word choices that bring out an ironic differentiation between the language of the speaker who delivers the obituary and the attitude of the poet. This differentiation leads the reader to understand the reason why the author asks rhetorical questions in the ending “Was he free? Was he happy? the question is absurd:/Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard,” because satire bridges the gap between his satirical ending along with the beginning and reveals

In the second page of the story the narrator talks about her room in there vacation house. She says this.

The problems that one encounters in coping with the death of a dear one are portrayed in the novel and how it make them realise is death most be understood so life is understood. R.K Narayan Narayan English teacher says that everyone in life is separated by one and another and death is the start of the new road and a new journey.

I will be using as critical tools, Bakhtin’s theories regarding the novelistic discourse. The critic describes five approaches to novelistic discourse which cannot help us understand the