Analysis Of Under The Persimmon Tree

I’ve always felt a strange connection to the stars, one that I have never fully understood. I used to believe that it was simply the night itself that appealed to me. There is something so incredibly compelling about it. It’s not the silence, necessarily, but the way that every breath is amplified; it’s not so much the darkness, but the way that the stars light it up. There is an unparalleled magic to them, to the way that they swirl and writhe and explode of their own accord. Although the moon will orbit for eternity and the stars will eventually fade into submission, it is the latter that I admire the most. I would rather die at the hands of my own power and light than live infinitely off of the nectar of somebody else’s.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. Under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other. The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening” (Beah 80).

In the poem “Of the Threads That Connect the Stars” by Martin Espada, a father and his son are looking up at the night sky, stargazing. Having a father and son moment both go into a conversation, the father asks his son “Did you ever see stars” (1). The poem goes through three generations, the speaker and his father, then the speaker and his son. The father was a former boxer and that was his own understanding of stars, then he had a son (the speaker) that had a rough upbringing, he never got an opportunity to witness "the stars" or “galaxies”, but once he (the speaker) had a son he seen real stars, the planets etc.

Furthermore, the author uses personification to develop the message by making it seem like the stars can move around and cause commotion. For example, Plath says, “The stars drop silently.” (Plath 4). As a result, the author makes us think of stars as if they are people who move around and make noise, causing the audience to see stars in a different perspective. Plath also makes it seem as if the river is an uncontrollable kid by using, “But tonight they have discovered this

She explains that “to save our fish, we lifted them from our skeletoned river beds, / loosed them in our heavens, set them aster—” (10-11). Asteer is a pun, that is a flower and a star. To put flowers for fish and then fish become a star. The milky way is considered as “the pathway that souls follow on their way to the other world” by Northern American Indians (huffingtonpost), so she sees the future and past describing the milky way. She shows these tensions between the time flame and it is like a flow of the

Cold Sassy Tree is a fictional story written by Olive Ann Burns which details the life of a family in Cold Sassy, Georgia. The story is being told from the perspective of a teenager named Will Tweedy. The plot is focused around the love and marriage between Rucker Blakeslee and Love Simpson. There is a huge uproar and disdain from the family as well as the townspeople over the relationship. There is a grave separation between the people of the town and the blue collar workers who live on the outskirts of town and barely make enough money to live. Will is torn between defending his grandfather or agreeing with his family. He is thirteen at the time of the passing of his grandmother, who is the family’s matriarch. Being a typical teenager faced with adult circumstances, Will is torn on the emotional impulses on whether he should be out fishing or mourn the lost of the grandmother. Nevertheless, Will loved his grandmother and is extremely sad for her passing, but the passing of his grandmother places a strain on the relationship he has with his family especially his grandfather. Will looks up to his grandfather and hopes to be a lot like him. While Will thinks of his grandfather as a role model, he disagrees with some of his grandfather’s actions. Will would rather be a shopkeeper instead of a farmer like Rucker. He also does not agree with his grandfather wanting

Emerson's gazing at stars is an example of nightly rediscovering the eternal — making each experience new and continues the theme of progress from the

The thirst for something stable is evident as the children show their awe of the physical world. As an adult explains the stars to Mazie, Olsen writes: "As his words misted into the night and disappeared, she scarcely listened‹only the aura over them of timelessness, of vastness, of eternal things that had

The loss of somebody or someone can lead to PTSD, which can later lead to other effects, and it is said that up to 20% of all adults in America who have experienced some type of loss develops PTSD. (BS-1) Towards the beginning of the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, there is a character named Najmah who loses the ability to speak and loses control of her life, as a result of Mada-jan and Habib’s loss. (BS-2) As an effect of Baba-jan and Nur missing from her life, Najmah changes her mindset and the decisions she makes from then on. (BS-3) Najmah’s relationships with others and voice is altered, this happens once she meets Nusrat and she adjusts due to her losses. (TS) Throughout the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, we see a character named

One of the first themes present in the novel is that even the smallest gift can make a difference in a child’s life. Jeanette remembers her father taking her siblings out in the desert and giving them stars or planets, instead of Christmas presents. Rex Walls stated that “years from now, when [that]... junk is… long forgotten… you’ll still have your stars”

It is true that we cannot take our worldly possessions with us after we leave this world. Thus, deciding which possessions are worth fighting for is something most people grapple with in their lives. Because mortgage bills and other financial responsibilities have the power to cripple a family’s finances, the story of the family portrayed by Mary Oliver in “The Black Walnut Tree” that decides to keep a Walnut Tree instead of paying off their mortgage is endearing and relatable. The use of communal diction, simile, and personification convey the relationship between the tree and the family as invaluable and indispensable.

(AGG) The passing of a loved one can be truly dreadful and can leave your heart shattered. (BS-1) Throughout Under The Persimmon Tree, the character Elaine (now Nusrat) broken inside was when her sister, Margaret passed away. (BS-2)Although Elaine was going through difficult times when faced with her sister’s death, it led her to find her true self.(BS-3) Another loss that shaped Nusrat into the person she is and the decisions she has made was when she lost her husband, Faiz.(TS)

The stars are also an allusion, because if you look at the stars on the clothes of the rightmost woman, to two persons left of her, and then to the tall man diagonally up to the right, and then the four stars above and the slight left of the tall man, you can see a big dipper represented in Jewish stars (top four is the “dipper” part). Throughout history, the big dipper has been a representation of freedom, and it represents something that the Jews want and need but don’t have. Spiegelman also uses this icon a lot in the book, since it is very important, and also what the book is mainly about. On page 80, Vladek is in the middle of a mass arrest in the town square, and he is trapped - he does not know what to do. The panel is framed in as a Jewish star, because it is like a spotlight, and it also represents that the Jewish people are losing their

A star’s purpose is to illuminate the sky’s darkness as it serves to be the guide when

As stated previously, the sun is connected to positive imagery through analogy and simile. The use of analogy and simile in the description of the children’s dreaming further shows how the children have no context or experience with the thing itself and can only dream of vague likenesses of the object of their desire. The children dimly know the sun exists and subconsciously remember it as they dream each night, making it representative of something they hope for and desire greatly.