Creative Writing: Danny, Stephany and Melody

In the opening scene of “Muriel’s Wedding”, directed by P.J. Hogan, ideas of searching for self-worth and one’s identity are explored through the setting, Tania’s wedding. This is symbolic of new beginnings, which is what drives the plot and the character, Muriel, who is seeing herself and a new identity through engagement and marriage.

“She lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail. Not an image left standing along the way. Anything like flowers had long ago been drowned in the

Didion’s continuous derogative tone towards the Las Vegas wedding scene places her above the newlyweds of the absurd weddings. She differentiates herself and the implausible and bizarre captivating wedding scene that’s unlike any other. She describes the Las Vegas wedding an illegitimate ‘expectations’ for brides and grooms. The use of quotations surrounding the word ‘expectation’ sarcastically details her anecdotes. She even goes as far as to describe the Las Vegas wedding as a children’s game. After noticing “actual wedding parties”, Didion judges the weddings on the basis of her expectations and builds skepticism of the wedding industry. She criticized a young pregnant bride that outspokenly said, ‘“It was just as nice as I hoped and dreamed it would be’”. Sadly society has diverted away from tradition and has been blindsided by business and industries that take advantage of insensible and oblivious citizens.

He describes the dresses and the cheep fabrics of “nylon” and fake colours “lemons mauves and olives” and from the way he uses foods can be interpreted to have a significant symbolic meaning in the sense that these organic foods become out of date in time, which could be suggesting he has a bitter opinion on marriage that it will soon become dull over time and never last. In the penultimate stanza he writes how “none thought of the others they would never meet or how their lives would all contain this hour” he really expresses Larkin’s view on marriage and commitment, as he appears to feel that marriage limits chances and options it also raises the question as to whether he feared marriage and the change it could have on his life and freedom. This would suggest that as opposed to hating marriage Larkin merely feared it. The line “ sun destroys the interest of what’s happening in the shade” metaphorically could be interpreted to show how fabulous display of a wedding can “destroy” or distract what happened out of view from the public like the stress, disputes and reality of faults in the relationship. The imagery of the sun also creates a bright beautiful link with weddings that people see on the surface juxtaposed with the reality of dullness as the years go on.

WILLIAM and Mary sat in the front row. The chairs were arranged in long, straight rows under a tent set up in the field next to the farmhouse. The farmhands and family stood as a fiddler played Here Comes the Bride. Annaliese’s father led Annaliese down an aisle between the rows of chairs. James and Reverend Flowers stood at the end of the aisle, waiting for the bride and her father to arrive. Annaliese was dressed in a long, white gown sewn by Mary and Annaliese’s mother in the weeks before the wedding. William looked up and smiled at Susan, Catherine, and two other bridesmaids standing off to the side. Mary sniffled and dotted her eyes with a handkerchief as Annaliese’s father gave his daughter a kiss on the cheek and shook James’s hand. A soft, late-afternoon breeze swept through the tent, offering slight relief from the blistering heat and oppressive

Additionally, the reality of the man’s “unraveling” marriage is exposed throughout the use of symbolism. The narrator say that “lights will appear”(6) on the course, and the “synchronized fountains will rise and fall”(9). Even though the man and his wife might shed “light” on what the man did - cheat on his wife - they will settle back into their loveless routine, like the “synchronized fountains”. This suggests that their relationship had become automatic and habitual. The narrator hints that this will lead them to them being unhappy again, saying everything, “boils down to timing / and scorecards”(10-11), that their relationship was defined by winning and losing the trivial aspects

The killers of Bob Sheldon, Ponyboy Curtis (14) and Johnny Cade (16) risk their lives and save five children from a burning church in Windrixville, Oklahoma. Cade is in critical condition at the hospital. Dallis Winston who helped these young men save the kids, is going to be in the hospital for another two weeks due to the severe burns on his arm. Cade suffers light burns on his back along with a huge bruise. These three young men were walking when they saw the crowd in front of the burning church. Witnesses said that when the young men heard the children screaming they ran to help without hesitation. According to Curtis, “Faintly, just faintly, you could hear someone yelling. And it sounded like it was coming from inside the church… I’ll get them don’t worry. I started a dead run for

It was the year 1922 and life hadn’t been this good in a while, times had taken a big change for the best. In Manhattan, New York, there were extravagant parties every weekend; the whole city shows up and doesn't leave until they see the sun. There was once this wealthy family living right in the middle of the roaring twenties. There was a mom, a dad, an older sister named Alice, and a younger sister named Anna. Alice loved to go to all of the huge parties, meet new people, and not come home until the morning. Every time Alice would get ready to go out for the night, Anna would watch her get ready as if she was picturing that was herself. Anna looked up at her sister and wanted to do everything she did. Alice had been talking about this party for a long time, and the night

The first paragraph of Katharine Brush’s “Birthday Party” misleadingly creates an image of a couple that is in love and happy to be together. However, Brush’s use of various literary devices reveals the true nature of the couple’s relationship. Soon it becomes evident that while the husband is outwardly hostile towards his wife, she is very fixated on pleasing him and keeping up the appearance of a happy marriage. It is revealed to be the husband’s birthday when the wife’s “little surprise” is brought out.

This essay starts out with a happy tone “they looked unmistakably married”(line 1-2). It then goes on to use vivid imagery to further describe the scene for example, “ the man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it with glasses on it; the women was fadingly pretty, in a big hat”(line 3-4). From the first look at them they looked like any other married couple, happy, this was the first impression. The tone then gets even more exciting when the writer realized that is was the husband's birthday. “ The head waiter brought it in and placed it before the husband,

In the short story “Birthday Party”, Katharine Brush uses a few devices to explain the birthday party and the emotions going on. Brush uses alliteration, imagery, and the appeal to emotion in her short story. This short story lets the reader wonder what is going on here. The story shifts from what seems like a pleasant evening date with a young married couple and then all of the sudden, things took a turn for the worst.

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In Katharine Brush’s short story, “The Birthday Party”, it describes the interaction between of a seemingly untroubling married couple on what should be a joyous event for both the husband and the wife. Brush manipulates literacy devices, like foreshadowing and alliteration, to emphasize her theme of how looks don't reflect the reality of the situation. In order to create an atmosphere of suspense in the short story, Brush utilizes the element of foreshadowing to establish a sense of uneasiness,which contributes the validity of her theme early in the story. Brushes writes,” nothing particularly noticeable until the end of their meal”.

When Kelsey is getting ready to get married, he talks about Bangladesh by saying, “I had thought a wedding with 350 guests was a large one, but I was corrected by my friends in Bangladesh they measured the size of weddings in the thousands, not the hundreds” (Timmerman). In their country, the man has to pay for a woman that he is going to marry. Kelsey meets a man named Sapon who says, “At age 35, a wife is a luxury I have been unable to afford” (Timmerman). But for the rest of the wedding rituals, the parents do the planning for the wedding. The bride’s family arranges the wedding ceremony.

Long, long ago flamingos were sick of blending in. They were originally white as snow until three wise flamingos decided to go on a journey to find their special color. PINK!!!!