Analysis Of Samuel By Grace Paley

Rebecca Samuel’s letters provide interesting insight into what is was like to be a Jewish American woman in the emerging United States. Her letters provide some evidence to struggles many Jews faced trying to observe their religion, as well as the tension of merging American practices with Jewish identity.

The author’s narrative, ripe with horrifying descriptions, is nonetheless told with compassion appealing to the emotions of the audience

A little boy scavenges in a dumpster in an alley, desperate for food. Separated from his family, he is lost on the streets of Calcutta. After weeks of barely surviving on the treacherous streets, he is taken to an adoption agency and adopted by an Australian couple. Although it seems like fiction, it is fact. This remarkable story is Saroo Brierley’s, and his memoir A Long Way Home, tells this miraculous story of his childhood and how he came to find his birth family. Throughout the memoir, Brierley weaves a tale of his hardships and developing his identity. In his memoir A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley uses the literary devices of pacing, imagery, and external conflict to illustrate how the hardships one must endure shape one’s identity,

In George Saunders essay “thank you, Esther Forbes”, he describes how an author who he read during his youthful age helped him to understand why and how sentences can be important. The essay is written on a more personal note about a nun named Sister Lynette who helped Saunders to develop his perception of sentences. In third grade at St. Darmian School, Saunders was given the novel “Johnny Tremain” by Esther Forbes and that was a turning point for him. This was because the book provided him with a different understanding of the joys of reading as well as writing. On the other, “escape from spider head” helps in providing an analysis of the strengths of a man being put to test. The limits presented in the story are classified as physical, emotional as well as moral. The theme of the story is searching for humanity which makes the readers ask themselves, what makes us human? According to “escape from spider head” humans are considered to be innately empathetic in nature and they are considered to be people who are against the infliction of pain as well as discomfort which is caused on another innocent human being. The aim of the essay is to elaborate more on the connection existing between “Thank you, Esther Forbes” and “Escape from Spiderhead” in terms of the details presented in the two stories.

Samuel colt was born in hartford CT was the son of a textile worker christopher colt and his wife sarah the youngest of seven kids he enjoyed reading articles of inventions gunpowder and other explosives. Samuel would help out at a near by farm and dismantled many things including his father's guns. He later got kicked out of his home school and didn't go back to school after that instead he went to work with his father at his textile mill, as a teenager he had carved a wooden model of a revolving cylinder mechanism and later made a version that was patented in england and france in 1835. He left at the age of 16 on a boat sailing and he said before he left that would make a model of the revolving pistol and he did...but it exploded!

Upon his last encounter with a Black, William Black, Oskar admits to the guilt he felt when he heard his father’s dying moments, “He needed me and I couldn’t pick up. I just couldn’t pick up. I just couldn’t. Are you there? He asked eleven times. I know because I’ve counted,” (Foer, 301). This perpetual state of guilt that devours Oskar, caused by the memory of the phone call, epitomizes the despair and lost that Oskar held upon his shoulders. Admitting this guilt to Mr. Black not only gives insight regarding 9/11 on Oskar’s mental state, but to the severity of the impact presented upon a young child. This verbal admittance permits Oskar to close the wound within himself and reconnect with the idea that his father is dead, yet life will be better. As the novel ends with, “We would have been safe,” (Foer, 326), Oskar moves past the influence of guilt and sadness regarding 9/11 and reconciles with his mother, grandmother, and

Professor Sherman is brave because he used to be a teacher and was tired of being one. So he decided to fly in a hot air balloon for a year. Only 3 weeks in the a seagle popped the balloon and he crashed on an island called Krakatoa. Mr.Fredrickson also brave because he was able to get 300 small balloons hooked to his house hoping to get in the air. Luckily he succeeds to do that and he was heading to Paradise Falls.

The author’s use of the stylistic choice, diction, is a very formal take on the English language. While in other forms of writing, slang terms and local vernacular are common, Misty Bernall did not find it necessary to use anything but proper English. Even in simple sentences like “I shudder to think where we might be today, had I not come across those letters” (Bernall 52). Her accurate writing stylistic choice makes reading this memoir structured and enjoyable. The tone of this specific style of writing adds a subtle harshness to the voice she is portraying throughout this book. You receive a sense of confidence but, at the same time, an unforgiving edge given the circumstance of losing her only daughter.

In the famous short shorty, Barn Burning by William Faulkner Colonel Sartoris Snopes is 10 year old who is struggling to find himself in a odd upbringing in the south. Though, this story is told in third person, the narrator keeps a narrow focus on Sardie and his feelings as character but Faulkner makes very purposeful choices within the narrative to characterize Sardie as a reluctant but courageous young boy. The character actions, dialogue and interactions with others are used to convey very important messages about the character’s motives but also the character’s storyline.

In the short story, "Two men and others looked at the four boys jumping and jiggling on the platform and thought, It must be fun to ride that way" (191). Men normally have influence to control dangerous situations and instead of using this power to persuade the boys to come into a safe place, they allow the children to continue to endanger their lives. The women on the train " became very angry when they look at the four boys. Most of them brought their brows together hoping the boys would see their extreme disapproval" (191).

To anyone from New York City, the dangers of train cars are evident. This is why, when the reader begins to see that the children are acting recklessly, he becomes quite worried. This is because there are countless numbers of warnings on trains,

While Oskar and Thomas’ missed communications effectively communicate to the reader the overwhelming and inexpressible nature of trauma, they do create limits to how and what Foer is able to communicate. This mimics the way trauma survivors often struggle to verbalize their grief. To overcome these limitations, Foer relies on meta-textual ruptures in the story. These take many forms. For example, when Oskar finds and tapes pictures into his “Stuff that Happened to Me” scrapbook the images also appear in the pages of the novel. The most memorable of these is the image of a man falling from the tower (59). Oskar clearly reacts emotionally to the image, hypothesizing several times throughout the novel that it might be his father falling to his death. Although the reader is unlikely to imagine a personal relation in the place of the blurry figure, most readers presented with such a graphic image is likely to respond viscerally to the photograph. In his paper “Why I am writing from where you are not”: Absence and presence in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, A. Todd Atchison argues that “The chaos of trauma suffered during the actual event is often too immediate for comprehension” (362). Just like a

Sarny encounters a slave named Nightjohn, and though he was a slave when Sarny met him, he demonstrated extreme amounts of bravery when he attempted, and succeeded once, to run away from the Southern slave holders. If he couldn’t be considered brave by doing simply that, think about how after he became a free man, he returned to slavery to break one of the most harshly punishable slave laws- enabling slaves to read and write. We don’t do brave deeds just because we can. We are brave because we believe so deeply in what we believe is right. We go against everything just so we can preserve and protect what we believe in. Sarny showed bravery when she taught the

Oskar, a young soul, is living in, what seems to him, a life alone; his father, his best friend, passed away in the terrorist attack of 9/11/01. He decides to travel his city and find the answers to his problems on his own, yet the answers he’s looking for are closer than what appears. Jonathan Foer’s message to the audience is this; pay attention to your past experiences because the answers to your future journeys may lie within your past. Foer utilizes the descriptions of Oskar’s adventurous and inventive character to further our understanding of his journey throughout New York City. Foer also includes depictions from Oskar’s everyday life, such as pictures of the object he holds dear to him and visualizations of what he is

Storytelling plays an essential role in a child’s development. Throughout the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, stories provide the reader further insight into a character’s perspective. In the novel, Oskar’s father tells him the story of the “Sixth Borough” the night before he dies. This story is significant because it allows for the reader to understand Oskar’s view on life and his coping mechanisms after his father’s death. In the novel, the Sixth Borough represents the motifs of embracing uncertainty, love, and the inevitableness of time.