Analysis Of The Book ' Denver 's Emerald Closet '

The Red tent is a book that follows the life of a woman named Dinah. The stories that are told throughout take place in biblical times, and follows some of the lineage of the bible itself. The book begins by telling the story of Dinah’s four mothers, along with their relationship with Dinah’s father Jacob. After being introduced to Dinah herself, the book follows her life story from beginning to end, all the way from Haran, through Canaan, Shechem, and into Egypt. Throughout this paper, I will be describing and comparing events of the book verses modern day, in relationship to child birthing practices, family dynamics, personal life experiences of characters, along with discussing herbs, spices, and medications used by

Relationship to meaning: - Death, as the narrator, gives us an insight into the events surrounding Liesel that otherwise would not have been known. Also Death explains definitions, events, and other items of note.

Morrison use Denver as a figure desperation for love and human connection that human crave. Due to the lack of maternal love from Sethe, Denver began to “hunger” for the love of Belove. Denver claimed Beloved as her own, despite Beloved clear indifference toward her and obsession towards Sethe. Morrison explains for Denver “to go back to the original hunger was impossible… To be looked at was beyond appetite… it was breaking through her own skin to place to a place where hunger hadn’t been discovered.” (Morrison 139). The hunger Morrison touches upon is human attention and interaction. Denver has gotten that type of attention Howard, Burglar and Baby Suggs lived in the house. The difference between Denver and the other main character (Paul

In the essay written by Charles M. Blow he tells us a story about how when he was little the first thing he bought was a picture book. Charles is for books because they have a learning aspect to them. Beatty however does not think the same.In Fahrenheit 451 Beatty is one of the people who is against books. Beatty tells Montag how books are useless and they are bad. Blow and Beatty are almost complete opposites.

Over the first five years of Jack’s life, the room is where he finds safety and comfort. Jack was born in that room and lived with his mother there for the first five years of his life. He got accustomed to it and knew everything about it. Furthermore, you can see Jack showing his childish love to his basic belongings in the following quote. “‘Jack, it’s all frayed and stained from seven years…I can smell it from here. I had to watch you learn to crawl on that rug, to walk on it. You pooed on it once, the soup spilled, I could never get it clean.’ ‘Yeah I was born on her and I was dead in her too.’ ‘Yeah, so what I’d really like to do is throw it in the incinerator.’ ‘No!’” (Donoghue, 305). Some of the very few belongings from the room mean a lot to him and are memorable. For example, a rug is utilized in many different ways in his life. He was born on it and escaped from the room in it. It signifies the beginning and the end of his life in the room. Altogether, Jack finds out who he is by forming personal attachments to the room.

Lastly, the isolated room that the narrator stays in is a symbol. The room symbolizes a safe haven, giving the main character time to write and process many

and preserve the truth and to make the readers feel more emotions, to understand a deeper meaning in their stories. They both express how their stories are either completely made up, “I’m a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier. Almost everything else is invented”(O’Brien 171), or the fact that, “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”(Salinger 16), and that we shouldn’t trust what he has to say. In the books The Things They Carried and The Catcher in the Rye, the truth can sometimes be more painful or difficult to express than the actual story, but sometimes the importance of truth can be less

The Room itself represents the author’s unconscious protective cell that has encased her mind, represented by the woman, for a very long time. This cell is slowly deteriorating and losing control of her thoughts. I believe that this room is set up as a self-defense mechanism when the author herself is put into the asylum. She sets this false wall up to protect her from actually becoming insane and the longer she is in there the more the wall paper begins to deteriorate. This finally leads to her defense weakening until she is left with just madness and insanity. All of the characters throughout the story represent real life people with altered roles in her mind.

One of the literary scholars that have explored the “loophole of retreat” as a metaphorical space is Miranda A. Green-Barret, an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario. Green-Barret argues that the loophole of retreat can also serve as an interstitial space or a space that exists in between a binary that often seems unnatural. In Incidents, this space is interstitial because Linda Brent is in between the binary of bound and free. As Green-Barret states, “In the garret, Jacobs’s life itself comes to be interstitial as she is neither one thing nor another—she is neither free nor enslaved, neither able to mother her children nor removed from their lives, neither subject to her master’s tyranny nor completely safe from his threats.” (54) While other texts like Toni Morrison’s short story “Recitatif” explores interstitial spaces, like the interstitial space in between black and white, Green-Barteet presents an interesting dynamic because not only is the “loophole of retreat” a figurative interstitial space, it is also a literal space (53). In addition, Green-Barteet argues that, “Jacobs also seems to envision her narrative as [an interstitial space]” which empowers her to speak to a host of audiences. (54) From there,

Denver grows up in the instant she steps off of her front porch. Morrison beautifully describes the moment of her blossoming: "Denver wrapped her hair and her shoulders. In the brightest of the carnival dresses and wearing a stranger's shoes, she stood on the porch of 124 ready to be swallowed up in the world beyond the edge of her porch" (243). Leaving her yard, Denver steps onto an endless highway of unanswerable questions, questions that she is afraid of because of her mother's failure to provide answers. Nonetheless, Denver is emboldened by hunger and a desperate love for her mother. She resolves that she must provide nourishment

The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.

In his book Elijah Anderson tries to describe how life is, living in a black poor community in an American town known as Inner-city. In this area everyone is struggling financially and seem distant from the rest of America. The main social class in this town is the “decent” and the “street” families as the community has labeled them. The labeling by the local is as a result of social contest between the inhabitants. The line between a decent and street family is usually very thin, it’s based on a family evaluation of itself labeling itself decent and the other street. The irony is that families bearing a street label may value itself as decent and still valuing other families’ street. However, this labels form the basis of understanding inner-city community lifestyle. The community has many of the white society middle class values but they know the values don’t hold water in the street. They say it does not provide the attitude of a person who can take care of themselves in the street.

This project was intended to show and persuade the audience to appreciate and enjoy the outdoors in Colorado. But if not that then the purpose was to help understand the importance of wilderness to some people and how it affects people 's lives for the better. My main rhetorical appeals are, pathos, logos, and a bit of ethos. The photo essay, the memoir, the film review and the editorial all appeal to pathos more than the others. The instructional essay appealed to logos. The editorial and the instructional essay also contain pieces of ethos. Also the photo essay gives the entire project an appeal to ethos because it shows that I’ve actually been on many mountains and that helps with what I say in my other pieces.

In the game The Oregon Trail, the player tries to make the journey west for gold without their character dying. Just like the game portrays, the trail was a grueling journey to follow a dream. The trail was a game of reality for families moving west. The dream of striking gold and being rich. Women tagged along with their husbands on their journey for gold. The journey was long and difficult, often leading to injuries and death. While on the journey women kept a feminine demeanor even though being faced with many difficulties and having immense responsibilities and constant fear.

prison that shackles all the basic impulses with which, he believes, men are endowed "Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter" (Williams). In the warehouse, Tom does not find any satisfaction at all "I’d rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains than go back mornings!" (Williams) let alone amiable, intimate friendship or companionship.