What Are Hop Frog's Actions Justified?

1. The educational aspect portrayed in this text “The Notorious Jumping Frog”, was made very clear. Mark Twain brilliantly allowed the readers to see a difference between Easterners and Westerners through educated and uneducated diction. The narrator’s tone and choice of words used at the beginning of the text, revealed to me that he has academia background.

This aversion to shame could be an invaluable tool for the shrewd king: he could threaten to take away their title and position if they refused to meet his requests.

Question 1 Martin Luther King Jr. has used a variety of figurative devices in his memorable speech “I Have A Dream” on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C. about civil rights. He used devices like metaphor, simile, anaphora, repetitions and allusion to express his thoughts of eliminating discrimination, in order to develop equality amongst people and his vision of what the country should be like in the future. Firstly, King uses similes to compare justice to the power of water. This is evident in this quote, “justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”.

War has the ability to change many things about the world. While most associate the changes of war with boundaries and governments, people often forgot the influence it has over society and culture. The United States experienced a change similar to this shortly after the Civil war. Citizens were shown the brutality and devastation of war which lead to them having a grim outlook on the world. This viewpoint inspired a new generation of artists and authors who ,with their combined works, created Realism. Writers like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Abraham Cahan, Ambrose Bierce, and Henry James pushed the drastic shift from feelings to reality in the hopes of appealing to the more literate working class. Many stories, in order to capture reality, relied on similar techniques and themes such as: simplicity, truth, and criticism.

An additional story “Hop Frog”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, revolves around an overweight king and his seven ministers who love practical jokes. Hop Frog, a deformed court jester who is subject to the King’s jokes seeks revenge on the king by developing a plan they consider as a “joke”. Edgar Allan Poe’s story of “Hop Frog” is another example of the usage of irony in Poe’s texts that helps to stimulate the mind of the reader. Poe uses irony to convey the main idea of a dwarf who gains power over the king through his “joke”. For example, “The chains are for the purpose of increasing the confusion by their jangling.

In addition to Shakespeare’s use of metaphors, he also utilizes symbolism throughout the play to prove that power does not lead to happiness. The most prominent symbol used is the owl, and many characters mention hearing, “the owl scream” (2.2.19). The owl symbolizes death in the play because whenever an owl screeches, someone dies. This common reoccurrence of “death” causes the reader to realize that with power comes temptations and problems. Another mention of the owl is when Banquo dies. Before his death, he tells his son, “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!” (3.4.26). By saying “fly” Shakespeare alludes to the owl symbol again. Banquo tells his son to fly away from the murders so that he may not become a victim. This “flying” symbolizes

In Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” the character Gregor Samsa is transformed into a giant bug while he is sleeping. Although it is never said why he turns into an oversized insect, the characters never seem to wonder why or how this has happened. It is ironic that even after undergoing something dramatic and life changing as becoming a vermin, Gregor does not question his transformation; his reaction undermines the situation entirely. Irony in “The Metamorphosis” is a reoccurring theme that affects each of the characters in the story. Gregor, who was once a genuine hard working, family orientated man, is now a beetle who feels guilty about not being able to help his family anymore. Gregor’s family sees him as a burden. Their bitterness towards him instead of sympathy through his ordeal is greatly satirical.

As the story flows, the doctor has healed many and is gaining quite a reputation. The king in this case represents the greed that can consume a man once he has had a taste of success. The king becomes ill and the doctor is summoned to confirm or deny his fate. The doctor sees Death standing at the king’s feet; this as it is known to the doctor is certain death. The doctor knows Death will forgive him; after all he is Death’s godson. The doctor defies Death’s wishes and turns the king around to where death is now standing at his head.

Because the king could turn on you at any minute just because he doesn't like you. He could change; his mind about his loyal people and, might think that they are trading on We him

Eyebrows raised as his sneering nephew Wilfred whispers to him, the King's response to the idea that he "chop off his [Bartholomew's] head" indicates that he has grown confused and, really, is not dangerous. "A dreadful thought," he says while "biting his lip." Though he proceeds with the execution (which, of course, fails), the King's character implies that un-elected leaders are fallible human beings who, ultimately, will see their error.

A strongminded man who has everything going for him, nice job nice car, great friends, etc. comes home every night to a sick mother whom he takes care of after a long day of living a lavish life. His one weakness is his sick mother because she taught him everything. No one, not even his best friend knows about his other life and so that 's how he keeps it. Oh the irony right? Big strong man afraid to live his truth in fear of change and facing his reality. In The Metamorphosis, author Franz Kafka speaks on a character name Gregor, who somehow manages to transform into a hideous insect, and the ironic life he lives. During the story Gregor has a family whom he cares for, a job as a salesman, and a lack in

Hop-Frog by Eager Allen Poe, one of the stories from Eight Tales of Terror, was set in what seems to be a medieval times. The story follows a Dwarf, Hop-Frog, who serves his king as center of his amusement. Hop-Frog was taken from his own village and sent to the castle where he is tormented by the king along side his friend, Trippetta. The Castle setting makes Hop-Frog and the other workers at the castle tends to make these characters feel like they are less then the King and his court because, of the amount of flare that the King has in his Court. The setting of the ballroom that Hop-Frog used was symbolic to who was in it and how the King felt that it was his home and no one could harm him there. Hop-Frog used the ballroom as the center of

In the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county, Mark Twain creates a satirical and realist story. Using the characters of Leonidas W Smiley, the bull pup Andrew Jackson, and the frog Daniel Webster, Twain connects his story to real life events and people. In this short story twain points out the flaws of humanity and how we are slaves to our money.

He walks as though he will tip over and fall.” “The people started showing derision; laughing and the dragon king became furious for they mocked him in his old age, as his power began to dwindle.”

In The Frog Prince and the Hazel tells Laverne The frog prince is the original story and Hazel tells Laverne is a story rendered new. First, The Frog Prince point of view is third person all knowing, and the perspective is a narrator. For example, in the Frog Prince the author wrote, “One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.” Then in Hazel tells Laverne is in First person told by the princess. For example,