Edward Hopper And The House By The Railroad Essay

After being crushed with deep sorrow over the death of his beloved Ligeia, the narrator moves into a decaying abbey to leave behind his lonesome house. Although he leaves the exterior of the house untouched, the narrator decorates the interior with strange but lavish furniture. “The furnishings take on the shapes and colors of his fantastic dreams” as he attempts to cope with his loss (Kincheloe). This supports the idea that the narrator would rather live in his own colorful fantasy (like the inside of his house), than engage in the dark reality (as represented by the outside of the house). Losing Ligeia meant the narrator lost his fulfillment in life; which is why his reality is now gloomy and undesirable. Not only does is the furniture an example of dream imagery, the walls of the desolate house also have a dream effect. The moving images on the walls cause the house itself to seem restless and alive. The narrator imagines this because it represents himself; always on the edge of monstrosity with each changing mood. As he hallucinates on opium, his sense of reality and fantasy is put together as one. With each furnishing, a looming memory of Ligeia haunts him as he reminances her during his opium dreams.

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was written by Ann Petry. It was published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1955. The book has 242 pages. This book tells about Harriet 's life as a young slave and how she escaped slavery. She led many other slaves to freedom in the North throughout her life.

As depicted in this novel, during the Depression, traveling West was a chance for a job or money, but one of the few ways to get there was by the railroads. However, it wasn’t just during the Depression that railroads offered hope for a better life. Railroads have been depended on various amounts of times in America’s history. It seems during some of the hardest obstacles America has had to face railroads were an influence to the positive solutions. They have revolutionized our country and have also contributed to a number of benefits. With today’s far advancements in technology, people overlook the significance of railroads. Although many people may underestimate the importance of railroads to our nation, I believe that railroads were one of the biggest advancements for America.

The house, similarly to Emily, is a symbol - and the only surviving tribute of the decaying privileged class. By the time the story takes place plenty has changed. What was once “a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with

"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream

Urbanization in the 20th century had drastic changes on both the economy and society. New technological advances charged the rules of economy. In order to survive, southern agrarian societies were forced to changed. Steinbeck uses symbolism, analogy, and antithesis to compare and contrast corporate farming and traditional farming. Chapter 11 is about a land that was once for humans, almost dead except for the miniscule amounts of plant and animal life.

This was successfully created by reconsidering and challenging the established conventions of 'perspective '. Illustrated through 'relativity ', artists combined visual consideration and memory into a concentrated 'still ' which they felt best documented the age in an abstract form, but which was wholly all the more realistic. This form was not only retained for art but stretched into prominent literature; several authors best deployed

First, the light represents the Younger family’s hope. In the beginning of the drama, A Raisin in the Sun the scene is set by letting the reader know that there is one window and “the sole natural light the family may enjoy in the course of the day is only that which fights its way through this little window.” (p 24) They do not have a lot of daylight, so they also do not have a lot of hope. Later in the book when they received the check walter is very happy and feels there is hope for the future.”The lighting shifts subtly to suggest the world of Walter’s imagination, and the mood shifts from pure comedy” (p 79) The change in the lighting changes the mood.

Imagine going down south to the Promised Land (California), getting a new job that pays very and well. Finally have enough food on the table for the entire family in order for them to survive and not die of starvation. The ideal American Dream for all the migrants who are hardly surviving the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. John Steinbeck’s ultimate goal by writing this phenomenal, very controversial and outrageous novel was to bring the reader back in time in order for them to experience the life of the migrants suffering during the great Depression but also to criticize all the high authorities—most particularly in the farming industry—who have mistreated the migrants and given them false hopes. Steinbeck’s clever use of a raw

There was some contradiction referring to the demolition of the High Line. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was an activist for the preservation of public parks. His leadership was a bonus for the High Line. The city created large funding committees that ultimately made the costly project possible.

He explained how when he was young his life was had hardship. Poe tells the reader that even though he went through so much privation, he still has time to be thankful for the good times. Poe reminisces about his home in the autumn and how it made him feel safe. His home was the place where he felt normal.  When he talks about the sun he is meaning that his mother was the one that made him feel normal.

Underground railroads have been prominent in history since the early nineteenth century. Throughout time, numerous different underground railroads have been created for many different purposes, all liberating those subject to slavery or poverty. Modern slavery, known as human trafficking, usually affects immigrants who do not completely know their rights or who are tricked into a “job” that does not fit its original description. This applies to Unwind due to the way the kids are treated and the fact that they must escape their fate by travelling this underground railroad and reaching “the promise land” which welcomes them to freedom and safety.

Miller and Steinbeck portray a negative view of America by showing humanity’s unsuccessful attempts at achieving their dreams, causing them to feel victimised by the society they live in. The deterioration of these dreams causes destructive emotions that overpowers the characters and inevitably causes their downfalls. In this essay, I will explore the effect of society on the characters in ‘Death of a Salesman’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’. Both texts are set between the 1930s - 1950s and tell the tales of men who are unable to accomplish much in life. ‘Death of a Salesman’ is a montage of memories, confrontations and dreams and how Willy’s value as a salesman has degraded, causing a psychological warfare occurring between his dreams and

The Underground Railroad was located in the American South. A system created to free slaves in the American South, but it was not actually a railroad or underground it was a secret pathway that slaves took to escape from their master. This pathway that the runaway slave took was very secret. They would know when to go out to the railroad because of the songs that they sung. The Underground Railroad not only helped black slaves but also poor white slaves (Snodgrass). Some of the most important people, who helped with the Underground Railroad, risked their lives to free black and white slaves from slavery because they had experienced slavery themselves and understood the value of freedom.