Charlotte's Web Analysis

For example, Addie’s coffin symbolized the burden and dysfunction the family encountered after her death. Addie’s death had inspired several characters to battle for their existence and identity. The family was concerned about saving the coffin, because it was their way of trying to save their family. Throughout this book, the characters have to uncover their purpose and identity, and what the other Bundrens mean to them.The family begins to seize animals as symbols to represent what Addie meant to them. Vardaman associated his mother to a fish, and Jewel’s mother to a horse. Jewel’s horse represented his freedom and distance from the family. Vardaman’s fish expressed the different views of life and love for his mother. Faulkner includes these allusions to further enhance the story and intensify the characters’ bond for one

This may be a minor event in the story but is evidence of Fern finding her purpose and discovering a small piece of who she is fate of her life and the others around her. Both texts have significant impacts on young readers as they influence them to find their purpose in life and understand how fate has lead them to who they are today, and who they can be tomorrow.

Harding brings three important themes to his novel Tinkers that brings the reader to fully understand the emotion of the lives of his characters. The theme of life being the first. Harding demonstrates that life has its ups and downs but will eventually come to a pause at a more satisfying point where the hardships of life will come to pass. George partakes in this satisfaction by the end of his life when surrounded by those he loves and those that love him back. The moment at which the hardships come to pass, in the novel, is at a point of death. The death theme in the novel entices the readers in two forms of which death can be present. The first being that only the animate can die and memories with it and the other the complete opposite in which the inanimate can also posses the ability to ‘die’. As life and death goes, the fine line between them is the relationship that develops in between the two. Harding demonstrates that the relationship theme can be distinguished in forms that are unnatural but nonetheless still demonstrate relationship. At one point, the father-son relationship in the novel is expressed through fear but is also not to be expressed at all when referring to affection. Harding provides engrossing themes to progress the novel in its fragmented world but uses clear examples to help clear up the conflicting views

Through this great horned owl, Oliver is able to convey a double-meaning. Not only is it a creature, but the meaning of death. It can be deceiving and appear like a “big soft moth”, but also turn around and “eat the whole world”. She uses this owl to represent the concept of death because anyone or anything can be enjoying

2. What does death symbolize to these characters? The unknown where they do not have the power.

Hemingway uses animal imagery in the story to reflect the dying theme, and to show two distinct sides of Harry, and his passing from life to death .  The story opens with

While there are overlapping ideas, the writer selected elements that they could build on to create something new. A prime example is the animatronics, which are “evil” and possessed by the souls of dead children who had died

Using figurative language helps create imagery and enhances the imagination of the readers. The use of personification allows the author to give human like characteristics to non-living things. An example within the story that displayed intense emotion was included this quote,“This set formula, spoken in a kind of lilt, would awaken loud echoes in Tzili’s soul, and their reverberations spread throughout her body” (Appelfeld, p. 275). By adding in this literary device the readers can foreshadow Tzili’s growth throughout the story and how she realizes who she is as an individual and matures into a strong and independent

Furthermore, the illustrations paint a beautiful picture that I like to think is an insight into a child’s mind, which I is a key element in this book and what makes it so great. Since the book is narrated by a child the intentional simplicity of the words and the controlled chaos that is the illustrations breathes unadulterated life into a rather normal children’s book.

In David Almond’s magic realist novel Skellig, the story follows the protagonist Michael, a young boy who is facing many difficulties and challenges in his young life, the author uses a number of language devices to tell his story, including puns, metaphors and similes. However one of the most powerful devices are symbols. The author strongly uses symbols to reinforce character traits and to show the connections between characters throughout the novel. The author constantly refers to the symbols of evolution, death, birds and wings.

Friendship is boundless. E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web is a beautiful illustration of how friendship goes beyond our expectations. Although Charlotte’s Web is a children’s novel, it clearly demonstrates what true friendship looks like and how it can shape one’s life. A young pig named Wilbur, alone in the barn and destined to become Christmas dinner, meets

He would be slaughtered if Fern, the farmer's daughter, didn't stop his father from killing the pig. Persuaded

Like Annemarie and Kirsti Johansen, Fern Arable in Charlotte’s Web also grows and changes, fitting her into the “coming of age” theme. Throughout the novel, Fern goes from a small eight-year-old girl to a “tween.” At the beginning of the novel, Fern wrestles an ax out of her father’s hands to save Wilbur, the runt pig and the main character in the novel. After pleading her case about why they should let her keep the pig, she gets her way. Fern then devotes all of her time to taking care of Wilbur.

Also by using animals, it allows for an easier read, thus we are able to focus more on what Spiegelman is trying to get across in the current pane and not the characters themselves. By Spiegelman using animals and using comic book form, the reader is able to literally “draw” their own conclusions as to what they believe is going on pane by pane, rather than having the author describe the whole scenery to them.

Since MeadWestVaco completed their merger with Rock-Tenn, the new combined company is probably the closest competitor in terms of types of products (Geiger, 2015). This makes it a good company to compare websites to our own at www.internationalpaper.com. The new combined company known as WestRock still uses the web address of www.rocktenn.com but they also have www.WestRock.com and their website is full of colors and looks bright and fresh in contrast to International Paper’s website which uses more muted colors and looks a bit more dated in the design style. I will say that I think the older style of IPs website is more suited to the amount of information shown, where WestRock’s site takes advantage of colors and pictures to deemphasize the scarcity of text and detailed information.