Analysis Of The Cranes

Throughout the entire story, there is death imagery. At the beginning, as the Grandmother gets ready to go on the trip, she dresses in a way that is foreshadowing of her own death. She says she dresses so that "anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady (O’Connor)." While on the highway, they pass five or six graves fenced in on the side of the road indicative of the deaths of the six passengers in the car. Finally, as they see the Misfit's car, it is described as a hearse - a vehicle in which the dead are carried. These images all foreshadow the death of the grandmother and her

A “survivor car” is what the newspapers called it, did not stop such notice; gathering from the darkness a moment of miracle, and then disappear for the next bend. Michaelist wasn’t even sure of the facts – he told the press about the incident. The yellow car the one going toward new york, approximating beyond, hurried back to myrtle’s location, and abruptly change target to the nearest obstacle in the road, colliding in a big speed and intensity, surrounding the road with metallic parts of a wrecked car.

In conclusion, the story of “ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” relates better to perception and consciousness than the film version of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Bierce takes the reader from reality to one man’s perception of reality and plays each idea off the other. Meanwhile, Enrico takes the audience through the actions of this man’s reality. Both the short story and film show their views on the stage of the dying man through their own unique

The broken clutch symbolizes the hardship that the Hoover family has to overcome in order to foster closer relationships. It is a constant reminder of their financial problems, among other problems, every time that they get into the car. The mechanic explains to the Hoover family that “As long as [they] keeps parkin’ it on a hill” they will be fine (Arndt 37). Because it is hard to always park the minibus on a hill, the family has to work together and push-start the car every time they want to get back on the road. The family turns this into a fun, positive activity which brings them closer to each other. The clutch acts as Arndt’s contemporary interpretation of Addie’s coffin in As I Lay Dying. The coffin is a symbol of all of the Bundrens’ problems. Arndt and Faulkner also use roadside signs as symbols of how the trip is progressing. For example, on the way to the pageant the Hoover family drives by a sign titled, “Carefree Highway” which symbolizes how the problems they have overcome have made them a closer, happier family. This contrasts the Bundren family, who pass a sign titled, “New Hope. 3 mi.”, which slowly fades away as they continue past it (Faulkner 120). This symbolizes that the Bundren family is losing hope as they continue their journey, with each problem causing the family to slowly fall

Kleinfield starts out the story at the scene of the death, the body freshly discovered by the police. Then, Kleinfield goes on to discuss his thesis that every death can cause “ripples” (273) of change throughout a vast distance. First, Kleinfield describes what it takes to pronounce the man dead and identify him. Kleinfield then talks about the time and effort the man who works at the morgue takes to secure a proper funeral and resting place for this stranger. Kleinfield talks about the cleaners that come in to clean the mess in George’s apartment, the people who take inventory of George’s belongings, and the people who find homes for the items across vast distances. Kleinfield discusses a new stance about Georges life and the people involved in the will. Finally, Kleinfield goes on to describe how each of them knew George and which ones were still alive.

Similarly, as “Stop all of the Clocks” develops the narrator metaphorically and onomatopoeically highlights that everything in life must acknowledge the death and experience it with him. Outward signs of cotton gloves and bows with doves is a metaphor for the person’s acknowledgement of death. The importance of the deceased love extends to every facet of the narrator’s life because they belonged in every moment that the narrator lived. In this moment of grief, the narrator feels betrayed because they invested in a love which was not eternal.

In the beginning of the short story, as Brother reflects on Doodle’s life, the author uses personification and foreshadowing to create a mood of remorse. As he gazes out of the window into his backyard, Brother states that “the graveyard flowers were blooming. ...speaking softly the names of our dead” (Hurst 1). The flowers provide flashbacks of the past, and foreshadow a loss of life. The loneliness felt by Brother causes readers to consider how they would feel if their loved one was gone. As Brother observes the seasons, it is noted that “summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born” (Hurst 1). The personifications of the seasons as stages in the cycle of life and death creates an unsure and uncertain mood. The shift between seasons creates an idea of change and uncertainty of events to come. Hurst creates a mood of remorse through

“On November 24 six people were killed in automobile accidents...On November 26 a prominent Pasadena attorney, depressed about money, shot and killed his wife, their two sons and himself.” Didion uses vivid imagery and description to portray saddening deaths around the time of the winds, therefore increasing the fear that both the reader and the outsider feel toward the Santa Ana winds without ever experiencing them. Since Didion uses second hand accounts, the writing is given a distant and almost fearful tone. This is because the writing is no longer personal, therefore it impacts the way that the reader perceives the message that the writing is trying to

After the autopsy is complete Henrietta’s body is taken to Clover for her funeral. The day of the funeral is rainy and windy. At the precise moment that her coffin is lowered, at violent wind and downpour hits the burial and family members believe it is a sign from

Dirt flies up from the ground like kids jumping on a trampoline. The red, white, and blue #19 Tobias Slingshot flies past the red #026. In anger of losing his position. #026 closes the distance between the two cars. Mere inches separate the two vehicles. They touch. Even though the touch is as light as a feather, it sends #19 hurtling towards the wall. The sound of a gunshot is heard as the car ricochets of the wall at a 90 degree angle. The driver looks at the night sky. The sky is beautiful with the stars twinkling like diamonds. But, the beautiful sight ends as the car crashes into the ground. The drivers hands shoot forward. "Snap!" As the red flag comes out, sirens are heard in the distance...

Butler sets a car hanging on a crane as a metaphor of Khánh’s life. When Khánh and Mr.Chinh, his wife grandfather, are on the way back from the airport, they notice a car dealer looking at a car on a crane. “Then up ahead I saw the work of a clever man, a car dealer who had dangled a big luxury car from the of what looked like a seventy-foot crane.” (36). Because of American cultures has shaped him to act this way. To clarify, a car represents Khánh’s life that is being distracted by the business which is symbolized by a crane. The distance between the car and ground is the distance between his family and himself; the higher it is, the more disconnection they are. Man, his wife, cries the

Stephen Crane’s short story, “The Open Boat” speaks directly to Jack London’s own story, “To Build A Fire” in their applications of naturalism and views on humanity. Both writers are pessimistic in their views of humanity and are acutely aware of the natural world. The representations of their characters show humans who believe that they are strong and can ably survive, but these characters many times overestimate themselves which can lead to an understanding of their own mortality as they face down death.

            The author uses a number of different literary devices to describe the hardship she feels such as metaphor, simile, and imagery. The author revels that her life and the chickens are not very different. “I felt her body break deep inside my own chest” (6). The way the chicken has to be killed after being loved for so long is the same way Hall feels about being with her husband for so long and then having him cheat on her and leave her. “Guilt and fear tugged me like an undertow” (7). The chickens are being killed by the one that loved them and in the same way; Hall is killed by the one she loved: her husband. The author uses a numerous number of vivid imagery to describe the struggle she is going through with her husband leaving and her having to kill the chickens. “Her shiny black beak opened and closed, opened and closed” (5). The rumors and suspicions that the author’s husband was cheating on her would come and go, until it reached a breaking point

Reading and understanding literature is not as easy as it sounds. Being able to dissect each piece of information and connect it to the overall theme of the story takes lots of rereading and critical thinking. Reading the story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” takes lots of critical thinking and understanding the literature in a different point of view than the average reader would. The theme of this particular story quickly came to mind after initially concluding the reading, the author is trying to convey that nobody can escape death and how thoughts in the mind are so substantial in the consciousness that it can take over the reality. The author comes to this theme by incorporating specific literary elements such a symbol, irony,

The reader is able to assume that the mother of the child has died, by the mention of how ‘my [his] mommy’s voice… would never say again.’ This along with the hullabaloo and a sense of emergency projected in the first paragraph indicate that the mother is no more. The ‘rigid arms’ suggest that the mother’s arms are dead. The cacophony of the word ‘rigid’ creates a sense of chaos for the readers.