Death In The Woods

* Explain ways in which the artist has become the subject of the work. What issues does this raise about the, role of the artist, Subject

In Helena Maria Viramontes’s story “The Moths,” she uses various types of figurative language that help create meaning to the story. For example in the passage “My hands began to fan out, grow like a liar’s nose until they hung by my side like low weights. Abuelita made a balm out of dried month wings and Vicks and rubbed my hands, shaping them back to size. It was the strangest feeling. Like bones melting. Like sun shining through the darkness of your eyelids. I didn’t mind helping Abuelita after that, so Amá would always send me over to her” Viramontes uses figurative language to show hoe the moths bring things back to life (811-812). Viramontes uses similes throughout this story, and in this passage, she uses a lot of similes. For example,

To protect our citizen under the 14th Amendment with “without due process” and “deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”, as well as the 6th Amendment, which the defendant in the case will have a “speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” The courts need to properly select its jury that is racially diverse. So how the court protect the people and select a fair and impartial jury?

Well I say it’s a pity she did…And I say if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived…” (Wharton 156-157). The attempted sledding suicide by Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver functions as the novel’s casement, because it embodies a somber lesson. The whole purpose of Wharton’s work is a moral lesson on how human emotion—specifically love—is a masterful influence on even the strongest human psyche. The illuminating incident acts as a casement because it represents what happens when people lose control of their lives. Literally, Ethan has trouble guiding the sled into the tree, and he struggles to stay on course with the target. Figuratively, Ethan struggles to maintain some degree of control on his spiraling life. The sled represents love. Ethan loves Mattie and is at the point where he will do anything in his power to be with her. The tree represents control. Ethan believes he can guide his love to go where he wants it, but in reality, he lost control the moment he let love take over his head. People control their lives up until they let their emotions cloud their judgement. Then, there is only a false sense of control, a ghost of a memory of what had

As hardworking women living of the prairie, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters can relate to Mrs. Wright’s situation. They know personally that long days of doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning can become very tiresome (Hedges 91). They realize that living on the prairie can force a woman to be confined to her own house for weeks at a time, and because Mrs. Wright never had children, the grueling loneliness that she suffered must have been excruciating. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters both experience the constant patronization and sexual discrimination that most women in the early twentieth century lived with. They empathize with the difficulties of Mrs. Wright’s life and almost immediately a bond is formed with a woman they do not even know.

Mrs. May views Mrs. Greenleaf, the wife of her hand around the farm, as one of the lowest members of society. Mrs. May not only sees her as less of a woman than she is, but is resentful of the manner in which she lives her life. From Mrs. May’s first introduction to the woman of the Greenleaf family, when Mrs. Greenleaf and her five daughters pulled up to her farm in a “pieced-together truck” (26), she has resented the mangy manner in that the Greenleaf woman, lead by Mrs. Greenleaf, live their life. Because they do not necessarily care about being the stately woman Mrs. May thinks they should be, Mrs. May views them as less than her and not as true woman. Further, Mrs. May has an incident when she runs into Mrs. Greenleaf observing her religious practices in the woods. This involved Mrs. Greenleaf, after she cut out horrible stories from newspapers digging a hole in the woods, burying them and falling to the group and moaning for an hour or so. Mrs. May describes the experience as Mrs. Greenleaf, “moving her huge arms back and

Everyone feels burdened by life at some point. Everyone wishes they could just close their eyes and make all the problems and struggles of life disappear. Some see death as a release from the chains and ropes with which the trials and tribulations of life bind the human race. Death is a powerful theme in literature, symbolized in a plethora of ways. In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve" Robert Frost uses subtle imagery, symbolism, rhythm and rhyme to invoke the yearning for death that the weary traveler of life feels.

Author Anthony Di Renzo notes the effectiveness of O’Connor’s use of thematic revelation.Rather than opposing one another, good and evil instead exist as “equally odd, equally absurd, and equally shocking” (122).The good and evil ironically converge to relay the message of grace, common throughout her works. O’Connor wanted her stories “to reach the unbelieving reader,” and the shocking aspect of the grotesque was the most effective way to reach him/her (Hawkins 28-29).

Finally, the reader is introduced to the character around whom the story is centered, the accursed murderess, Mrs. Wright. She is depicted to be a person of great life and vitality in her younger years, yet her life as Mrs. Wright is portrayed as one of grim sameness, maintaining a humorless daily grind, devoid of life as one regards it in a normal social sense. Although it is clear to the reader that Mrs. Wright is indeed the culprit, she is portrayed sympathetically because of that very lack of normalcy in her daily routine. Where she was once a girl of fun and laughter, it is clear that over the years she has been forced into a reclusive shell by a marriage to a man who has been singularly oppressive. It is equally clear that she finally was brought to her personal breaking point, dealing with her situation in a manner that was at once final and yet inconclusive, depending on the outcome of the legal investigation. It is notable that regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Wright had finally realized a state of peace within herself, a state which had been denied her for the duration of her relationship with the deceased.

Ellie becomes increasingly at one with nature, and feels the safest in the wild. Before her experiences, Ellie was the typical rural who appreciated her simple life. However, she develops a special bond with nature because of what she has been through. One night in Hell, she has a serious think about her experiences and the people that are in danger, and realises that she ‘was coping OK with tough circumstances,’ thanks to the friends she has, and her beautiful natural surroundings: ‘I felt like I had grown from its soil like the silent trees’ show how nature is a big part of Ellie’s life. ‘This was my country,’ highlights Ellie’s determination to fight for what she had before the invasion.

These short descriptions or stories were to build his persuasion on the reader. The anecdotes he used led

If possible, I would tremendously love to read The Body In The Woods. Mostly because the name of the book really intrigues me. Just hearing the exceedingly bone-shaking name of this puzzling book paints numerous different inferences about what will be happening, in my mind. Every aspect of this novel shocks me in an enjoyable way, this means that I must read it. I .. do have a love for reading, particularly mystery books. I have absolutely no idea why, but I’ve just completely fallen in love with them. Ergo, if you were to grant me the ability to read this amazingly-astonishing book, i’d be more than eternally beholden.

An artist 's psyche can 't be placated by the ordinary or carried on by business as usual; it is parched to search out the human condition and to look profound into individuals ' characters.

Margaret Atwood’s “Death By Landscape” is a short story about the powerful of feelings guilt and regret. The author camouflages other underlying themes like fear and forgiveness by using the powerful landscapes in the Canadian wilderness.

Art has evolved and regenerated itself many times during our human existence. These differences are defined through changes in styles under various theories. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a style known as Expressionism became popular. During this movement the artists were trying to use their artwork as a tool of expression toward life. It was mainly dominant in the nonrepresentational arts, such as abstract visual arts and music. It also was probably one of the most difficult movements to understand because the whole point of the piece lay within the artist. Not only was it a movement, it defined the act of art as a whole. From the beginning of time, each work of art, excluding replicas, show a way of expressing