Character Analysis Of The Snow In Trapped, By Michael Northrop

The setting takes place in a small town called “Starkfield”. Starkfield is a town that is just like its name, it is boring, barren, severe, and harsh. Starkfield is known for its many harsh winters that leave the inhabitants bitter and in harsh condition. Starkfield is a village that lays “under a sheet of snow perpetually renewed from the pale skies” (pg.10).By the time the snow is gone and things are well it snows again. Not only is the snow harsh but it acts as a barrier to many of the residents keeping

The snow in the novel represents the isolation the community faces throughout the dark winter. As the snow began to fall, it started to pile up and block the roads. “The snow came again overnight, pounding the small community at an unforgiving pace.” (Rice 71) With the intense amount of precipitation, the community is unable to clear the snow, blocking the roads.

Another metaphor, “making it a screen between herself and the surrounding snow and silence” is displayed to show how Ann used work to create a wall between her and the silence inside as well as the dangerous weather outside. The snow symbolizes her feelings of isolation as Ann is without her husband due to the weather. The silence is a constant reminder that she is alone while her husband is out in the blizzard. Ultimately, Ann will do anything in her power to escape this reality.

The characterization of winter which Wharton uses illustrates that the cold, brutal nature of the season reflects the isolation and bitter qualities of life during challenging times. Throughout the novel, the weather remains intensely frigid, symbolizing not only the harshness of life in Starkfield and the loneliness which comes from having to seek shelter from the elements. Foster uses words such as “severe,” “inhospitable,” and “suffocating” (75) to describe snow, which is sustained in Frome’s world. The continuous process of struggling to withstand the psychological and physical challenges of “the isolation of a Starkfield farm” (Wharton 13) becomes unbearable for Ethan, as he consistently daydreams of breaking away from his past. It seems

We all have hidden inner conflicts that we have buried deep within our souls. In the story “Hunters in the Snow written” by Tobias Wolff he gives us greater understanding of what adults experience and the extreme limits that people will go through just to be accepted, the author stimulates our senses with the use of very descriptive examples using figurative language. The writer uses weather for the overall setting of the story “Tub waited for an hour in the falling snow”. The setting which the author obviously uses weather takes place during the winter; this determines that there is some darkness and cold death possibly being present.

To start, in the book Northrop uses the snow to symbolize the feeling of being stuck and not knowing what to do next when something bad happens. This is shown in the book when it says, "I guess the feeling of not being alone was important to everyone"(Northrop 42). This shows that the snow made them feel unsafe and they didn't know what to do about it. Since Northrop included this detail and makes the characters more relatable because almost everyone has felt this way. Also, throughout the entire book Scotty and his friends mentioned being scared and worried about what might happen to them. The snow symbolising the feeling of being trapped, and not know where to go, makes the characters more relatable because most people have felt this

Do you ever wonder how insanity comes about through the brain? Paul is the main character in the story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”. Snow is what paul struggles with throughout the story. It represents the sanity that he has. Whether it is a large or small amount the snow is constantly there. He goes through the story accepting the snow but his parents do not. He then locks himself in his room and just let’s the snow take over him. `In the story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” the snow represents the clarity of Paul going insane as the snow is not truly there, the snow clouds his thoughts, and it speaks to him.

Throughout the book, there is a significant connection with winter and the main character, Lia. Winter in the book is a symbol of how she is broken and physically sick from her disorder anorexia. When Lia goes to the same motel her best friend, Cassie died in, she struggles to become stable with her disorder and considers extreme choices that affect her later in the book. Lia says,“If I really want to die, right now….I could walk into the blizzard and lie down in the snow and bleed out. Hypothermia and blood loss is like going to sleep”(265). Lia is going through an ongoing battle with herself that makes her view on life careless. Anderson uses specific words like “hypothermia”, “blizzard” and “snow” to emphasize the symbolism of winter in the main character’s life throughout the book. The snow being frozen and penetrating explains one of the symptoms of anorexia, which is feeling cold. In addition to this, Lia’s mentions of topics relating to winter is her way of expressing how she is in a frozen state of being dead and alive, all from her disorder. However, at the end of the book, Lia has overcome this past, saying, “I am thawing”(Anderson, 278). This implies how the past of Lia’s ongoing battle with anorexia has made her discover who she was a person at the end of the book. This also expressed how winter is the symbol of how she has struggled with

To Kill a Mocking Bird READ THIS BOOK. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper lee, the story takes place in the 1930s when racism is strong, three kids Scout who is a six years old girl, Jem who is ten years old and scouts older brother , and Dill who is seven years old and Scout and Jems neighbor, grow up in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama. These three kids come of age throughout the story learning the ways of racism and how unfair it is out in the world to different skin colored people. Later in the book Jem and Scout’s dad Atticus who is a lawyer, he faces a trial and he is defending a black man named Tom Robinson who has supposedly raped a white woman named Mayella. The theme innocence shows the coming of age in a character.

In the story, "The Woman in the Snow" by Patricia C. Mckissack, two bus drivers encounter a woman standing outside in the snow with her baby, asking for a ride; however, this event occurs in different time periods. One of the bus drivers was a white man named Grady. The other one was an African -American man named Ray. The theme, empathy can be hard for others to give, but when there is empathy it can be meaningful is illustrated as Grady isn't compassionate towards the woman's situation and Ray is the opposite. When Grady came upon the woman with her baby standing in the snow, he had no sympathy towards her since he was privileged and didn't understand the struggle.

In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton emphasizes on the weather description to lead the readers to foreshadow approaching events. "Ain't you about to freeze to death, Pony?" (Hinton, 47) It was a frigid fall night, the boys were desolate in the local park. Once an author establishes coldness and loneliness, the mood drops to death. According to literary symbolism, in winter, death roams the land, the literary use for the season is generally based on death and deterioration.

The whole atmosphere Is very dark. The author is possibly attempting to draw viewers thoughts to focus on this man’s death. This death of this man is a loss of life, at least I felt that as the snow globe was released from his dying hands, it foreshadowed this loss. The globe was shattered and broken like the life of this man.

In the natural world, weather is unpredictable and can strike at any moment. However, in literature the author has the power to decide when a storm will hit. As explained in Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, the author always has a purpose behind a weather occurrence. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has instances of snow and rain that undoubtedly serve a deeper meaning than just drenching the protagonist. The instances of snow and rain in Catcher in the Rye bear symbolic representation of struggle, which ultimately leads to a cleanse.

In this small group lesson, I worked with five students on identifying character traits using a story called Wonderful Winter. The goal of the small group comprehension lesson was to help the students prove the character trait using evidence from the text and to make the difference between personality traits and feelings very apparent. The feedback that I received from my cooperating teacher pointed out that throughout my lesson, there were times when I should have said “no” to a student’s response, instead of “not really” or “not quite”. She explained to me that saying phrases such as “not really” may preserve their feelings but it does nothing to aid in their comprehension of a word or concept because they are still holding on to their incorrect

On a snowy and windy night, I was at Barnes & Noble in Green Bay with my friends, Alan and Karina. Christmas music played overhead, the smell of hot chocolate and freshly brewed coffee wafted over, the customers were kind and cheerful, and snow was beginning to blanket the parking lot outside. We were sitting near the cafe wrapping books to support their mom’s school fundraiser. I stared outside and remembered my mom’s warning of the large snowfall that was almost upon us. Around 7:15, the snowflakes were becoming larger and we could barely see outside the window.