Cloudstreet

For instance, when Rose Mary left a piano outside, she expressed that “Most pianists never get the chance to play in the great out-of-doors” (33), or, when Jeannette told Rose Mary that she cannot live happily being vagrant, Rose Mary told her, “Why not? Being homeless is an adventure” (161). Therefore, the Joshua tree’s management to stay alive through turbulent climate compares and symbolizes Rose Mary’s optimistic character. When life threw lemons towards the Joshua tree in the form of wind and sand, the Joshua tree made lemonade by creating a mutualistic connection amongst itself and nature by growing sideways. The life of the Joshua tree points out how good always outshines bad which is what made it “one of the most beautiful trees [Rose Mary] had ever seen” (21) due to the way it continued to flourish in spite of the hindrances it has overcome, thus alluding to the hopeful and trusting personality Rose Mary

This is well explained where the body of the old man is laid to rest in a proper burial to his next world so that rain would be provided in the area. A priest is presented in the setting, an issue that portrays change. It is important to note that from the beginning the Franciscans and other religious groups were determined to change the religious practices of the Native Americans religious practices. The setting of the book is modern although it entails of rituals and traditions of the ancient Laguna Pueblo individuals. The Laguna’s believe that the dead individuals become the cloud people who eventually give them a gift of rain. Rain is a vital element of the Native American life because it is one of the factors that sustain life.

Furthermore, Hughes uses the rhetorical device of allusion when he writes about his aunt’s bringing him to the church for a special meeting. When he writes, “Then just before the revival ended, they held a special meeting for children, ‘to bring the young lambs to the fold’’’ (1), he attempts to correlate his invitation to salvation to a Biblical parable. Along with his reference to the Bible, he conveys the church member’s excitement with vivid imagery. He illustrates the church’s setting as being infuse with “all moans and shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell”, and he also describes the preacher’s sermon as a “wonderful rhythmical sermon” (3). Conjointly, Hughes presents imagery of the churchgoers and alludes to a Biblical story in order to demonstrate the magnitude of the religious enthusiasm of the members of the church.

A central question raised by John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is whether it is possible to triumph over evil, answered by the discussion of free will and inherited sin. The idea of “timshel” is canvassed through the struggles of Caleb “Cal” Trask. The concept of inherited sin is illustrated through the actions of Cyrus Trask, Charles Trask, and Cathy/Kate Trask.

Assessment Type 2 – Text Analysis – Novel: How are the ideas, experiences, values and beliefs of these characters from the divine wind relevant to you and the others today?

In the iconic Australian text, Cloudstreet, author Tim Winton portrays two vastly differing and struggling families; the Lambs and the Pickles, in the barren land of post war Perth forced, against their will, to live under the same roof at number 1 Cloud Street. Although each of the characters has diverging personalities, perspectives and issues throughout the text, they are more alike than it may seem at a surface level. Every one of the characters all struggle with their own personal adversities, but each one of them also seem to be fleeing from these issues rather than tackling them head on. Whether knowing or unknowing, each of Cloudstreet’s characters are all interconnected, walking “the same corridor time makes for us”. With the house

“I’m a plain fool for the nature images of the Bible, Brother Price. I find it all so handy here, among these people who have such an intelligence and the great feeling for the living world around them. They’re very humble in their debts to nature” (Kingsolver 252). This way of thinking inspires a respect to nature and therefore God that is created by ones self. It’s not forced upon them like Nathan Price’s way of preaching the word of God, but is rather a self chosen respect and modesty. The way of pantheism balances out the thought of defeating and conquering. Ultimately, the perspective of Brother Fowles wins. In the beginning of the novel, the most dedicated to Nathan Price’s teachings of the Bible was Leah. The other daughters more or less agreed with their father and his strict preaching. However, as they progress in their lives in Kilanga, each of

Good morning/afternoon/day class of English 12E, I’m Mary Wu and I’m here to deliver a tutorial on Cloudstreet: Books and movies are illustrations of lives. They usually last forever because they illustrates themes that transcend through time. For example, both Tim Winton’s novel ‘Cloudstreet’ and Thea Sharrock’s movie ‘Me Before You’ demonstrates that people need to control their lives. In particular, Winton and Sharrock invites us to experience the consequences of lack of control, how people struggle to balance their lives and what happens when they are in control. Tim Winton in his book ‘Cloudstreet’ delivers us a message of how loss of control damage people.

Throughout A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean emphasizes the relationship between nature, art, and faith. The concise, simple sentence with which he chooses to open his story captures the essence of all one hundred pages: in his family, 'there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing' (1). Reverend Maclean believes that both fly fishing and spiritual belief are 'exact arts,' if such a term can exist without paradox. The Reverend holds the firm conviction that 'all good things ' trout as well as eternal salvation ' come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy' (4). This belief system obviously espouses a view of the world as meticulous and well-ordered:

Analogous to Green Grass, Running Water, whom Bailey is expounding on, King’s newest book describes a multivocal discourse. However, instead of four different Indian women that change their names into pop culture icons, this story revolves around at least five characters consisting of at least two Indians, one white Canadian, and two mysterious indemnitees (Sonny and Crisp). The multivocal text subverts the authority that is assumed to be embedded in written texts. Bailey argues that the basic assumption that oral text can serve as a metalanguage which is capable of conveying the true nature of reality which the written text is unable to epitomize. Each time the Bible is represented orally in the novel (usually through Sonny) its meaning is presented incompatible with what its authors supposedly intended. Sonny states, “There are any number of musical instruments of which Dad approves; instruments that Dad has deemed to be appropriate accompaniment for joyful singing and dancing. Trumpets are a great favorite, as are kinnors, nebels, pipes, and

Baldwin also incorporates the Biblical motif of salvation throughout the story. Both Sonny and the narrator are seeking redemption from the darkness

The first reading of Leslie Marmon Silko’s short story “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” can seem sad and a little depressing. Where the story that is initially thought to start with the topic of death, finishes with a larger meaning, morals. After repeated reading and a good understanding of “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”, a person would see an underlying meaning of an honest priest who does something against his better knowledge and beliefs to help a Native American family in the community.

The sun had long since receded pasted the hills and the moon, tried as it might, could not poke through the thick storm clouds. But that did not stop these men from congregating, not the powerful winds, the beating rain, nor the sky splitting lightening. Their cathedral was calling to them, the old run down barn in the middle of an abandoned field. From the barn just under the drumming rain, you could hear the stomping of feet. Just under the howling winds, an orchestra of screams, choruses of curses ring. And just under the crashing of thunder, the sounds of bone meeting flesh beats.

Rain! Again! Torrential rain, which dumped so much moisture into the fetid air to be found under the jungle canopy that it felt as if we were drowning with every breath we took! Standing on our boat’s deck stark naked, and taking one of “god’s showers” in warm tropical rain was one thing, but squatting for dubious shelter under a broad leafed plant in the jungle, whilst being pissed on by the very same warm tropical rain, as it cascaded down in a Niagara Falls like torrent

To the Jewish culture, sheep were “an emblem of meekness, patience, and submission,” and it is these traits that people witnessed in Jesus by his willingness to die for his people. Pigs and other animals were known to fight and rebel on their way to be slaughtered, but sheep were submissive in nature, even to their deaths (Smith 2961-62). Jesus, and the writers of the gospels chose to use sheep because of the people’s significant and universal understanding of them and their nature during this time period. There was not a more suitable representation than that of the sheep and shepherd relationship to evoke understanding in the first-century