Anselm Kiefer's Winter Landscape

Chapter ten of How to Read Literature Like a Professor explains the important role weather plays on literature. For instance, snow is not just snow in a novel. It symbolizes so much more in both positive and negative ways; it is stark, filthy, playful, and clean, and you can do just about anything with it. In “The Dead,” Joyce breaks his main character down until he can look out at the snow, which is “general all over Ireland,” and then the reader realizes snow is like death. It paints the image that “upon all the living are the dead.”

As someone who has never really taken the time to observe art, and the emotions artist put into their work, looking at Edward Kienholtz “History as a Planter” looks to simply be mannequin feet and a plant inside a chest. However, after research of learning what the items are and what they represent, I feel as if Kienholtz was trying to explain something to us. I personally feel the message he was trying to express was the movement and uprising of the Jews during World War II. I believe the subjects of the work are the feet, the oven, and the plant. There are also other small objects in the work that have influenced my thoughts on the piece, the Jew’s Harp on top of the plant and the newsletter article with the words Raid and Army.

The Winter is the opposite of summer, during the winter not only does the winter change but the town's appearance. The houses that once looked artificial were exposed and looked abandoned. “Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie...The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops...they are so much more uglier then when their angles were softened by vines and

A long time ago, it was a man named Robert Harryson. Robert and his wife Ana lived a happy life with their 3 sons, Alex, Will and Ethan and the twin girls that soon will arrive. They had a good economy and a big house after Robert had sold a part of his big successful business. Everything was just perfect. When the family started to grow bigger they decided to hire a housemade, Sarah, so Robert and Ana could spend all their free time with their beloved children. A couple of month were going and then the twins Emily and Katie arrived. Their big brothers couldn't be happier over not just one, but two small babysisters!! The boys adore them and gave them a snowglobe that they had got from their grandmother.

References to winter in literature may refer to despair, anguish and death. During winter, the reality of war is brought to light to the students at Devon. Many students opt to join the war instead of finishing their

To start off, on page 92 the author writes “The snow fell thickly. We were forbidden to sit down or even to move. The snow began to form a thick layer over our blankets.” Eliezer was on the train and so were the rest of the prisoners. This illustrated the snow building up on them. From the way that the author described the snow, it kind of gives you an image of a lot of snow on top of the prisoners. Next, on page 94 the author writes “ ‘Throw out all the dead! All corpses!’” The living rejoiced. There would be more room. Volunteers set to work. They felt those who were still crouching. “‘Here’s one! Take him!’” They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then two “grave diggers” took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out of the wagon like a sack of flour.” This showed the readers using description, how the prisoners who had died were being tossed out of the wagon like if nothing had happened. In the end of the story the author tried to describe things as clear as he could to help the reader picture the setting and characters in the

Jersey Boys on Broadway played Friday August 22nd at 8 Pm, and performed at the August Wilson Theater in New York. The main characters consisted of Dominic Scaglione Jr. as Frankie Valli, Richard H. Blake as Tommy DeVito, Quinn VanAntwerp as Bob Gaudio and Michael Lomenda as Nick Massi. Jersey Boys is a musical memoir of the 1960’s rock and roll group, The Four Seasons. Through the progression of the play, the audience is taken on a journey as each member of the group narrates a particular development emphasizing how the Four Seasons came to be. In the first Act, Tommy DeVito walks out on stage and begins to tell the audience about the development of the band. At first, the group started out as starting out as "The Variety Trio" along with his brother, Nick DeVito and friend Nick Massi. At that time, Tommy discovered a confused teenager, Frankie Castelluccio, and took him under his wing, teaching him everything he knows about music. With Nick DeVito in prison, the band struggled to gain any form of success, they changed their names multiple times until Bob Gaudio, singer and songwriter came along uniting the lost group (Playbill: Jersey Boys).

In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground; some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees. The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of the

After Hitler refused to stop the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This was the beginning of World War 2, and the United States would shortly join to fight the Axis Powers. In July, 1944 there was an assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler (Page 3). This was the start of the book called The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw. The Longest Winter, Lieutenant Bouck leads his platoon in the Battle of the Bulge and also through prisoners of war camps in Germany. Kershaw is able to talk about the platoon specifically and describe their struggle through the POW camps. In this book, Alex Kershaw focuses on mainly on the platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry division. The Longest Winter is a book that tells

Throughout the film ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ the director Scott Hicks has used symbolism to convey a number of his ideas. He used the fog and snow to symbolise hidden secrets, the sea to represent life and death, and he used the Cedars to symbolise a place of secrecy and protection. By using these three symbols, Scott Hick’s ideas could be conveyed without anything being said at all.

Even when hypothesizing on a nuclear war occurring between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the USA, Snow holds his optimism on the growth of mankind. While pondering the outcome Snow focuses not on the dead in western civilizations, but on the living in less developed parts of the planet. He describes, “After the

The film showcases the temptation of the self-made man ideology that capitalism creates. As the revolution moves forward, Curtis is forced to make tough moral choices that eventually allow him to come to a realization about nature. He sacrifices his best friend’s life in order to capture the head of security forces Minister Mason who is representative of militaristic police state policies and key for the revolution to move forward. The viewer learns of the moral dilemma Curtis had been placed in when he was forced into cannibalism. Despite maintaining egalitarian moral standards as the foundation of the revolution, Curtis begins to realize the brutality of his own nature as he moves forward with the revolution. Upon meeting Wilford, the inventor of the sacred engine and a portrayal of the savior of mankind to the elite, he is told that he is the only person to have ever travelled the full length of the train. Wilford praises Curtis as an individual hero, a self-made man, and ignores all the help Curtis had along the way to get there. Below the surface however, the viewer sees Curtis as a leader who is ashamed of the savagery that his leadership created despite the intent of the initial cause. Curtis accepts that the only way to end the suffering of humanity is to accept his role as the next tyrant to maintain order and keep humanity alive. The scenario is better understood by Minister Mason’s

In the American literature scene, not many authors have the name recognition and notoriety of Ernest Hemingway. His adventurous lifestyle, copious amounts of classic literature, and characteristic writing style gave him fame both in days when he was alive and now after he has long passed. Of his most well-known works is The Snows of Kilimanjaro. This short story centers on a man known only as Harry, who is slowly dying of an infection of gangrene in his leg. He is a writer who laments not writing enough, and the short story deals mostly with the psychology of him dying while lamenting and recalling various things in his life. This leaves room for copious amounts of interpretation, with many scholarly essays having been written about The

The first time I can remember seeing snow was New Year’s Eve of 1995. I had sprawled out in front of the large floor-model television trying to watch Dick Clark. I craned my head to look under the giant magnifying glass that was positioned in front of the T.V. to enhance my grandfather’s vision from terrible to slightly terrible as he watched Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy nightly. He had long since gone to bed, but the magnifying glass still stood in front of the television enlarging the already grand party in Times Square. I lay on my stomach, my upper-body propped up by my elbows with my face in my hands.

It’s as bright as the sun but as cold as the moon. The light is intensified by the snow. The snow is thick. It consumes the trees, the ground, and my eyes. The only thing that sticks out from the snow is the brown bark of the trees, and the shadows of the branches. The grass on the ground looks more like icicles sticking up from the ground. Everything is blanketed by snow. The sky has no emotion, its grey and monotone. It gives a sense of loneliness and silence. There is no life to be found, no green plant life, no people or animals. The absence of life brings about sadness, but it also brings tranquility and peace. There is no conflict in this image, there is nothing in this image except the snow. The image wants to take away my happiness and replace it with a calm, cold, emptiness.