Analysis Of The Flowers By Gary Paulsen

Flowers in the attic that’s what four children thought of themselves. They were born so brightly colored, but fading duller as their long dreary nightmarish days, held prisoners of hope, and kept captive by greed.

Paul Jennings’ “A Dozen Bloomin’ Roses” is an effective and well written short story. It is part of a larger text called Quirky Tales which is part of the “Un” series written by Paul Jennings. It is a ghost story that may mistake for a sad romance as it contains death, shyness, unrequited love and bullies. The author uses a device called misdirection which makes you think one thing deliberately. Along with this, Paul Jennings’ effective use of language techniques leaves the reader with a striking imagery in their minds. But the things that stand out most for me are Paul Jennings’ clever use of characterisation and the interesting storyline.

Whenever a scene of a movie approaches where a debacle unravels or innocent lives are jeopardized, audiences grip their chairs in anticipation for help to come or for a hero to spring into action and save lives. Similarly, in many circumstances, no matter how dire an event might seem, there is always a beacon of hope amongst doleful situations. From every ending comes a new beginning. The poem, “November Cotton Flower”, written by Jean Toomer, describes (the conditions when slaves were under the Harlem Renaissance) the conditions in which slaves were under during the Harlem Renaissance where there seems to be no prospect for a brighter future for the slaves in the society. Throughout the poem, Toomer develops his theme of hope and desire for a brighter future by exhausting literary devices such as metaphors, structure, and imagery.

Out of the three stories, “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” “The Sniper,” and “The Flowers,” “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen best demonstrates description. This proves to be true through Paulsen’s consistency of descriptions throughout the entire story, unlike “The Sniper.” “The Dogs Could Teach Me” begins with, “There was a point where an old logging trail went through a small, sharp-sided gully-a tiny canyon . . . It might have been a game trail that was slightly widened or an old foot trail that had not caved in.” Likewise, Liam O’Flaherty starts out “The Sniper” by writing, “Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets . . .” However, by the third paragraph of “The Sniper” O’Flaherty scrivens, “He was eating a sandwich hungrily. He had eaten nothing since morning. He had been too excited to eat,” while Paulsen continues the same pattern of writing saying, “Later I saw the beauty of it, the falling lobes of blue ice that had grown as the water froze and refroze, layering on itself.” Even though the very beginning of “The Sniper” collates with the beginning of “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” in the sense that both writers start out with very strong descriptions, Paulsen’s portrayals become more powerful because of how consistent they are. Between Paulsen and O’Flaherty’s pieces of writing above, the reader gains a clearer picture of the ambience surrounding Paulsen in “The Dogs Could Teach Me” than of O’Flaherty’s character eating a sandwich due to the shift of focus O’Flaherty decides to take. Paulsen’s main goal out of the two examples above was very evidently to describe these situations, howbeit, O’Flaherty’s was not. Since the author of “The Sniper” decides to turn to action-based writing instead of creating vivid pictures in the third paragraph, it causes “The Dogs Could Teach Me” to become a better example of description than “The Sniper.”

Day 1: I choose to observe a poppy flower, since I’m busy during most of this summer vacation and it’s easier to maintain as well as consistently take notes of. A few minutes ago, at around noon, I had just put the “medium sized pellet” of soil in a small cup of water for it to expand, which isn’t what I would expect to do when growing flowers. It increased about 4x in size and I placed it in the small pot that came with it. Afterwards, I placed three seeds a tiny bit under the soil and left it on the second ledge of my bedroom window so that it would get more sunlight. I didn’t think that I had to water it since that I just doused the whole pellet in a cup of water. I don’t think that it’ll start growing overnight, but within two or more days.

(T) Out of the three stories, “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” “The Sniper,” and “The Flowers,” “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen best demonstrates description. (I #1) This is so because Paulsen consistently describes situations, feelings, and scenery throughout the entire story unlike “The Sniper.” (Q-E #1) Paulsen begins “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by writing, “There was a point where an old logging trail went through a small, sharp-sided gully-a tiny canyon...It might have been a game trail that was slightly widened or an old foot trail that had not caved in.” Likewise, Liam O’Flaherty starts out “The Sniper” by writing, “Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets…” However, by the third paragraph of “The Dogs Could Teach Me” Paulsen continues the same pattern of writing saying, “Later I saw the beauty of it, the falling lobes of blue ice that had grown as the water froze and refroze, layering on itself,” while O’Flaherty scrivens, “He was eating a sandwich hungrily. He had eaten nothing since morning. He had been too excited to eat,” by the third paragraph. (A #1) Even though the very beginning of “The Sniper” was much like the very beginning of “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” in the sense that both of the authors started out with very strong descriptions, Paulsen’s portrayals end up turning out more powerful because of how consistent they are. Between

The patterns of nature growth are fascinating, in particular the dramatic change of a bud to flower is intriguing. Using transformation as a symbol of rejuvenation and new life. The changing of forms and colours, growth and change, decomposition and transformation offer contrasts such as fragility and strength, colour and light. The silver adornment has two colours, it is a silver bud when it closes, and it would become a dazzling gold flower when it opens. The forms are layered and complex, emphasising different stages.

Out of the three stories, Flowers by Alice Walker, The Dogs Could Teach Me by Gary Paulsen and Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty, the story that had the most description was Flowers because of how in depth Alice Walker goes in describing the events that take place and the setting in which they are happening.One of the abundant descriptive sentences is when Alice Walker says ”Myop watched the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water silently rose and slid away down the stream.” She really went above and beyond on this description because she could’ve just said “Myop watched the stream.” ;however, she made it feel as if you were really there. Another descriptive sentence is when she said “It was the rotted remains of a noose,

In V.C. Andrews’ novel, Flowers in the Attic, the elements of classic Gothic literature are present in profuse quantity, relating directly to the ideologies outlined in Noël Carroll’s The Philosophy of Horror, or, Paradoxes of the Heart. Andrew’s novel dements the ideologies of a late twentieth century America, directing her focus towards the perversion of the family unit through her incorporation of incestuous relationships and inconceivable familial abuse. The characters draw heavily on Carroll’s ideas of the forbidden, staunchly disrupting social normality, and layering the pages of the novel with an unspoken horror. Flowers in the Attic deeply embraces the tradition of the Gothic, proving itself a contemporary to the genre established

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Stories with a ton of description are better then ones without it because description brings the story to life. Description allows the reader to create a vivid image of the setting or characters in their head. It opens gateways in the persons brain to help them understand how someone looks and what the surrounding in the story looks like. Not only does description help the reader see what a character might look like but it also allows then to put themselves into the story. The more description used the easier it is for a reader to feel what a person in the story might feel; it helps readers transfer from real life into the stories life. Also description is not used to describe every little detail so a person can put in their own thoughts, which gives the best results of a story.

I choose collage for create four separate pieces. For the fist piece that is draw the problem, what would it look like is that a ugly flower on the left side is represent me and the thorny is represent all the worries I had during this semester that I had a lot homework to finished by deadline but I had no time to finished every homework. Because my studio class is important than the other classes I had. So the thorny is represent my concerned that want to finish homework but I cannot. Behind of the ugly flower is represent about my inside mind that always concerned about can I do this homework first? Or can I just do the others. Thinking about too many things. In the picture, seems like a cloud is moving and I looks unhappier. Therefore, it’s

Victor Hugo wrote that: “People in fantasy, often ignore the actual.” （Les Misérables） and in this story “ The Man Who Loved Flowers” author reveal the delusion and illusion of humanity to us. In this cause, it show us from the man think Norma is real and alive, he think his name is Love, and the roadside people judge the young man only by his appearance and dressing, which are totally wrong as we can know at the end of story.

In “The Flowers” Myop is a light hearted, gentle, beautiful girl who is full of innocence. Myop is exploring a different path in the woods behind her house when she stumbles upon an unknown object, “Her heel became lodged in a broken ridge…”. Myop reached down to free herself, and “It was only when she saw his naked grin she gave a little yelp of surprise,”. What she discovered was that her heel was stuck in a deceased man. “She pushed back the leaves and layers of the earth and debris…”. After finding a dead man you would suppose the girl would be taken from her innocence. To decide if this makes her a static or dynamic character depends on the point of view. In one’s point of view, she is the same person, just a person who has experienced

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