According to one of Jo Hopper’s journals of her husband’s works, the Nighthawks painting, which was originally going to be titled “Night Hawks” was completed on January 21, 1942. This painting is most notably one of Hopper’s most famous works.. Hopper is most known as a painter who had a way of portraying emotional themes of loneliness, regret, solitude, mystery, and boredom. By analyzing Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, I will also argue that the emotional theme and setting of the painting is influenced by the events of World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor. The sense of emotion evoked by Hopper’s painting is a feeling of loneliness and isolation. Even though we see several people in the painting, the fact that there is no one else in the …show more content…
One of those important objects is coffee; there are three coffee mugs for the three people. The coffee allows the customers to be grounded within the scene and gives them a place to go when there is nowhere else to go. Gordon Theisen powerfully states, “Without their coffee, the customers would have no excuse to linger. They would have to leave the diner, to go… where?” By this we could say getting a cup of coffee brought people a sense of belonging and peace. People needed this sense of belonging and peace during this time of war because isolation and despair were the dominant feelings. Another significant object is the advertisement for Phillies cigars that is placed on top of the café. Usually when we think of a cigar we think of it as being an expensive luxury brand rather than a cheap one. Now with new technology they could make cigars by machines, this “transformed them from a luxury item into a product that the masses could afford…” Since the advertisement for Phillies said, “Only 5 ¢” and “America’s No. 1 Cigar”, this shows the desire and need for something affordable that still had a feeling of power or luxury. This new development in technology is something that was a product of the war, showing that technology is not all bad especially if it helps the economy during a rough
The pain, joy, bloodshed, death, and sorrow of the Civil War are all contained in the book called, "The Killer Angels." This book will show you the thoughts, feelings and actions of many of the leaders of both armies. By reading this book you will get an in depth view of the bloodiest days of the Civil War. Even if you know absolutely nothing about this war, you can still read and understand everything that is portrayed. This story not only gives you the view of many of the major leaders, but it also gives you the maps an strategies used in this war. It also shows you the conflicts in making these strategies. This book has inspired many, but the true question is will it inspire you? Reading this book will cause
In The First Part Last, Fred, Bobby’s father drinks coffee, and so does Coco, Bobby’s neighbor. When Coco is drinking coffee at the beginning of the book, Bobby is not and neither are his friends. “I took the easy way out and asked Coco to do me a favor. She came to the door… a cup of coffee in her hand.” This is the scene where Bobby is running late and takes Feather to Coco instead of to the babysitter’s home. Bobby is being irresponsible and childish by not doing what he knows he is supposed to do. At the end of the book, Fred takes Bobby a cup of coffee when Bobby is holding and caring for Feather. Bobby is being reliable and is making mature decisions. Bobby has coffee when he is making mature decisions and being responsible, Coco and Fred have coffee because they are adults and make mature decisions. Therefore, coffee symbolizes coming of age, being mature, and being a man or
A) Unlike alcohol’s intoxicating effect, which made people sleepy and dulled their minds, coffee woke people up and made scientists, clerks, merchants and other businessmen more alert throughout the long workday. Coffeehouses also became places for people to exchange and listen to new ideas and theories in areas such as natural history, chemistry,
Fools Crow by James Welch is a historical novel that takes place in the late 1860s. The novel illustrates the life of Blackfeet Indians through the perspective of the protagonist, White Man’s Dog, and secondary characters such as Yellow Kidney and Fast horse as they embark on a journey to prove their manhood. The novel focuses on the physical and mental transition of White Man’s Dog to Fools Crow. The start of the transition begins with White Man’s Dog joining Yellow Kidney to raid the Crows of their horses. During the first chapters, he is depicted as weak and unwanted by women in the village. He states that he needs to retrieve the horses and defeat the Crows to gain respect and wealth among the natives. White Man’s Dog begins to feel guilty
6. Sarny’s mother is not around because she was sold when Sarny was four years old and old Delie raised Sarny.
1. Were soldiers religious? What did they think about God? What sorts of religious viewpoints do we see in this book?
The novel The Killer Angles, by Michael Shaara, gives a story like depiction of the American Civil War at the Battle of Gettysburg. In this novel we see the views of both Confederate and Union armies. The officers for both sides in this novel used to go to war with each other but are now on different sides according to their political views. In the end both armies realized the war had accomplished nothing but all the deaths of soldiers.
The Battle of Gettysburg brought the dueling North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America’s future. Michael Shaara tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the generals and men involved in the action of the battle. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg gives the reader a chance to experience the battle personally and not the history book manner taught in schools. A historical novel gives the facts straightforward and provides no commentary by the people involved in history. The
West with the Night by Markham is a memoir written in 1942, narrating the author 's experience while growing up with her father in the British East Africa, currently referred to as Kenya. Adventure is the key theme of the book since it describes the writer’s life, which seems to be an escapade from the beginning up to the end. Firstly, Markham starts leading an exploratory life when she is four years while staying with her father a horse breeder and farmer. As a result, she grows up engaging in exciting activities like hunting and playing barefooted with the native Nandi Murani youngsters of the Rongai Valley and Mau Escarpment forest, which makes her encounter several attacks from lions and leopards. Besides, she also gets a chance to undertake spear hunting, tracking and horse riding (Markham, 2015). She further participates in killing dangerous hogs that are found in the region using her spear, which is against the African traditions especially among girls. At some point, she spends sleepless nights sitting around a bonfire with the natives in African bush learning about various cultures and practices in the area. After her father loses his land and moves to Peru, Markham vacates to Molo where she starts a new career as a racehorse trainer. The woman spends most of her time participating in horse competition where she wins and loses some before quitting and joining aviation when it is still new in the expanse (Markham, 2015).
Sentimental is a word often used when describing John George Brown 's work; it seems to be the all-encompassing feeling for both the creation and the popularity of his paintings. Since his name has faded from prominence, John George Brown has been labeled a 'neglected artist '. He is often overlooked in the history of American art, despite the fact that he was when he died, considered one of the richest and most successful genre painters in the late nineteenth century. Additionally, he dedicated the majority of his life’s work to painting children, while making most of his living off of specializing in those that lived on the streets. While street urchins seem like they would be an unpopular subject, his romanticized, rosy-cheeked entrepreneurs were highly sought after by the public, evoking a sentimentality that allowed his patrons to overlook the real life plight of those children and providing evidence that great success in an artist’s lifetime does not mean they will not be forgotten.
Of the two articles we were given to read this week from the day after September 11th, 2001, I preferred the article from the New York Times. Though the article for ESPN by Hunter Thompson (2001) was more engaging, I could not get past statements like, “We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say” (para. 9). Even though I am certainly in support of punishing those who are responsible for attacks like the ones upon the world trade centers, but the vitriol with which Thompson describes blowing them to smithereens made my stomach turn. As a result, I cannot say that I liked Thompson’s article.
Often considered to be one of the most iconic pieces of American art, Nighthawks, a 84.1 x 152.4 cm oil on canvas, is a piece shrouded in feelings of solitude and separation. It was painted by Edward Hopper in 1942, and was purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago almost immediately afterwards. What made the painting so appealing to both the Art Institute and the general public was for how deeply it connected with the culture at the time. Their feelings of tension and wartime anxiety are ingrained into every part, from Hopper's relentless work ethic to the title of the canvas itself.
For example, “pocket knives, canteens of water, can openers, lighters” (O’Brien, 484). Every soldier’s bag contained different items. They also had to look out for each other and carry each other’s weight if necessary. This is both tangibly and figuratively. This wasn’t explicitly stated in the story, but thinking outside of the box makes you realize that everyone has something different they are going through. This can then be related back to our own lives. When thinking about this part of the story, we can think about what pasts we carry and what crowds our mind. We can make the conclusion if the stuff that we are letting get in the way our worth it. This is where we see that “The Things They Carried” is seen as good literature. We can experience war as a soldier through the eyes of a soldier and also relate back to our lives and how it is relevant. There’s the hidden message to make us think between the lines.
Both pieces are successful works of art but, depending on the culture one is more popular than the other. Nighthawks is feature in
The speaker refers to the night as his acquaintance. This implies that the speaker has a lot of experience with the night, but has not become friends with it. Thus, because even the night, which has been alongside the speaker in comparison to anything or anyone else, is not a companion to the speaker, the idea of loneliness is enhanced. In addition, “rain” (2) is used to symbolize the speaker’s feelings of gloom and grief, because there is continuous pouring of the rain, which is unlikely to stop. In line 3, “city light” is used to convey the emotional distance between the speaker and society. Although the speaker has walked extensively, he has not yet interacted with anyone – thus distancing himself even further from society. Moreover, the moon, in lines 11 to 12, is used as a metaphor of the speaker’s feelings. The speaker feels extremely distant from society that he feels “unearthly.” The idea of isolation and loneliness in this poem is used as the theme of the poem; and the use of the setting and metaphors underscores the idea that the speaker feels abandoned from society.