Essay on Analysis of Buried Child by Sam Shepard

The age old question of ethical ambiguity is something that humanity may never resolve. Conflicting morals and the ultimate question of “is what I’m doing right?” is one of the greatest human mysteries. Philosophers, psychiatrists and every individual on the planet must grapple with this moral confusion in an attempt to find unique solutions to everyday dilemmas. In Affleck’s drama Gone Baby Gone, two very notable philosophies collide head on, and the protagonist must choose between the two to find the solution that he feels is ‘right.’

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In the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath describes her true feelings about her deceased father. Throughout the dialogue, the reader can find many instances that illustrate a great feeling of hatred toward the author’s father. She begins by expressing her fears of her father and how he treated her. Subsequently she conveys her outlook on the wars being fought in Germany. She continues by explaining her life since her father and how it has related to him.

We are introduced to Briony Tallis at the very start of the novel, when she is preparing for cousins from the North to arrive and her older brother Leon and his friend Paul Marshall’s return, so that she can perform her play ‘The Trials of Arabella’. From this we can note that Briony is an imaginative child but we also learn that she is attention

Stamp Paid, a former slave who ferries Sethe and Denver across the Ohio River, tried to take Beloved’s corpse from the mother’s clinging hands and give Denver to her. A mother killing her own child is an act that subverts the natural order of the world. A mother is expected to create life, not destroy it, but with Sethe’s case, she was insane and out of control at that specific moment when she imagined that her child might face the same assault in future. Thus, she prefers to put an end to this situation. On the other hand, we notice that she was very anxious about the feeling of Beloved, her murdered child. She stated, “Do you forgive me? Will you stay? You safe here now”

The human body is an object in which one lives and the medium through which one experiences oneself and the world. The human body vests claims on ideology and space; and thus participates as the site on which conflicts about belief systems and territory contest violently. Gay bodies become entangled in violence when they enter into arenas that combat certain ideas. Gay bashing illustrates incidences all in which bodies experience physical injury. In modern U.S. communities various militant conservatives individually target homosexuals in "gay bashing." Though few conservative political groups explicitly avow targeting gays for physical violence, their members individually carry out anti-gay brutality. Mathew

When an infant arrives in the world they are helpless tiny humans who depend on adults for every need from love, to feeding them. It is amazing how these tiny babies grow into adults able to make decisions and become self-dependent. There are many theories about how children develop and what roles the environment plays, what people affect their lives and how events can shape their personalities. Some of these children have and easy life and some have a harder time making that journey to adulthood.

Turning points in life are often difficult, challenging,but also makes impacts in people’s life. We can see that in the story ”Hatchet” about Brian who left on the island himself and that was Brian’s turning point. Another example is the story “Dragonwings” about Moonshadow who faced the turning point that his father moving away and the fear of a new country. The last example I will give is the story “Eleven”. The story “Eleven” is about a girl named Rachel, she faced the challenge that she had to clearly tell people what she wants and what she doesn’t want, and to force herself to grow up. These are three of the examples that you will read about in my essay. And to end my introduction, Brian, Moonshadow, and Rachel all faced life-changing experiences that had a direct impact on their lives.

In the past, mischievous boy, now the man, could not find his place in life and continues to roll along from one scam to another. Now, he is being chased by mobsters from whom he stole the money, and he is in mortal danger from which he had taken refuge in his mother's house. Louie knows his mother the "iron women," but realizes that her foreign callousness is a heightened sense of duty and the result of the hard struggle for survival. At the same time, Uncle Louie is a kind and good-natured with his nephews and gives them that direct communication that they are lacking and all the inhabitants of the "cold house." The boys are supporting him too, even Jay at the risk of life helps him to get away from his pursuers. But Bella is more impressive. 36-year-old women with the immediacy of a little girl and with desires of an adult woman. The conflict between her and mother reveals generational conflict in this play. In this case, a harsh mother ruthless control of a daughter’s personality suppressed and deprived Bella’s opportunity to grow up. The scene of their explanations is written at a very high emotional level. This fragment produced a deep impression that gives a very high grade of the play. But the final look “natural,” in which Bella is belated, but “becomes free.”

Atwood’s “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” perfectly grasps the life-altering heartbreak that occurs after the loss of a child by utilizing literary devices such as imagery, personification, simile, and metaphor. In the poem, an image of a voyage is used to characterize a child’s journey from life to death. “The dangerous river”, is used as a metaphor to describe the birth canal which the child victoriously navigates, but after embarking upon the outside world, the child goes into a “voyage of discovery” (4) that results in his death in the river. “On a landscape stranger than Uranus” (14) emphasizes the estrangement felt by the mother without having any knowledge of the environment. Comparing it to Uranus she describes it to be just as strange as a another planet. In the ninth stanza, the mother reminisces the death of her child as she says, “My foot hit rock” (26) which is a representation that she has hit rock bottom and her life will now never be the same. The final simile of the poem, “I planted him in his country / like a flag” (28-29) identifies the relationship between the dead child and the land. It ties the mother to the land in a way that had not been thought of, a way that is fraught with grief. An extended metaphor is developed throughout the poem, comparing the experience of giving birth that the character had, to a river and its contents. It helps to understand the different stages of birth by expressing the hurricane of emotions, and incidents that occurred with the use of waves expressing times of difficulty and pain.

2. The significance of scene five was Ophelia’s first appearance in the play that displayed her newly found insanity due to the grief she feels from her dead father, Polonius. She speaks with the Queen Gertrude, who at first does not want to see her, but when she does she is shocked by her madness. Ophelia begins singing about the mourning of her father’s death and she also, sings about a love tale of seduction and rejection. When she leaves, Laertes, her brother, enters into the King’s chambers demanding information, shortly after Ophelia enters again and sings, showing her insanity to her brother, this enrages him.

The plot of this play centered around the family of Alice Sycamore. The Sycamore family includes Alice Sycamore, her parents Penny and Paul Sycamore, her sister and her sister’s husband, Essie and Ed Carmichael, and Grandpa Martin Vanderhof. The family is extremely eccentric to say the least. They are a crazy bunch by many people’s standards. They do things like eat watermelon and cornflakes for dinner, make fireworks in the basement, own a pet snake, and constantly have the house packed with interesting characters. Some of the other characters in the play are Donald and Rheba who work for the Sycamores, the Russian dance teacher of Essie named Mr. Kolenkhov, and the confidant of Paul Sycamore, Mr. De Pinna. Each character is developed with many unique traits, each having their quirks and nontraditional hobbies. Essie has a passion for ballet despite the fact that she is awful after 8 years of

The next part of the play starts with Catherine and her father sitting in the backyard talking before he had died. Catherine is telling her dad about how she has decided that she will pursue higher education because her sister Claire is willing to pay for it. Her father s devastated that she hadn’t told him sooner. The actors then come back to real time and Hal discusses his disbelief that Claire wrote the proof. Hall tells Claire that he is going to take the notebook to other math maticians to see if her proof was even accurate. Catherine then storms off and attempts to destroy the notebook, but her sister doesn’t allow her to do so.

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

Dennis Lehane writes satisfyingly complex and disturbingly violent crime fiction that often crosses into thriller territory. These are not, however, cheap thrills. Even in their goriest moments, his books are grounded in rich, real-life detail. Lehane knows Boston and its denizens, and he captures the city’s subcultures beautifully -- from the hushed refinement of the old-money suburbs to the grittiness of tacky motels and bail-bond agencies. He has a unique way of presenting his mysteries with an edge-of-the-seat feeling, yet his descriptive methods brings one into his neighborhoods and gives one the feeling that they lived there their entire life.