Essay about Ethel Wilsons Mood in Hurry Hurry

One such literary element used to present the story’s theme is the setting. First she was “sitting at her computer, wrapping up one more day’s work on her fifth novel” (Octavia, 2003). Then she felt stiff and stopped working at five in the morning. Suddenly, she asks her self where she was. and in a surprising way she started telling herself that she could not be in heaven. Martha’s descriptions of an “endless grayness” creates a mood of gloominess. In addition, describing that there was nothing there but herself and God, made the reader felt depressive. Discovering where the story took place helps the reader understand more in depth the story.

The author creates a sense of urgency through his ability to place the reader into the Lieutenant’s point of view during the accident. The Lieutenant is taking quick action, yet the reader is unclear what the true nature of the danger is. The situation gets seemingly worse as the story goes on until finally a gruesome resolution is found.

In addition to this, belonging to a family is a key concept in this novel. The novel opens with an alluring introduction to the family; a blissful atmosphere is created through the picturesque icons of their family life. The composer uses small photograph like icons to allude towards the widely acknowledged contentment that is readily associated with the memories in a picture album. Tan introduces the motif of the paper crane which he carries through the length of his novel as a symbol of affection and belonging between the family members. The next pages signify the break in contentment as the man begins his journey and a salient image of the couple with their hands grasping the other’s parallels the anxiety and despair in their downcast facial expressions. Although the gloomy atmosphere, the light sepia tones in the picture allow an insight into the tender and loving relationship that the family members share. Upon the man’s departure the paper crane motif returns and he hands it to his daughter as a token of his undying love for her. His migratory experience is studded by the comfort and ease that he obtains from a picture of his family. In paralleled scenes on the boat and the new apartment, the

Malmar McKnight’s frightening story, “The Storm”, weaves a violent storm and murder together to heighten the horrific fears that engulf Janet Willsom. “The Storm” is a combination of Mother Nature, Janet’s emotions, and her heartbreaking dilemmas. The eerie mood is revealed throughout the story. Figurative language helps the reader bring the story to life in his/ her mind. The author’s use of irony is devolved through Janet’s changed perception of the storm.

In the opening of the novel The Street, author Ann Petry carefully establishes the bitterness and stressfulness between Lutie Johnson’s, and her relationship with her environments’ urban setting. Petry develops this relationship through the use of imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language. With the use of imagery Petry establishes the stressfulness in which the wind causes between her, and the pedestrians around her. In the beginning of the opening Petry commences her first paragraph with a lengthy sentence which causes a stressfulness in a reader's breathing; similar to the way in which the wind causes in a person’s breathing.

The author uses suspense to support the theme. As suspense is worry or thought of foreshadowing. Truman Capote uses the theme on page 60 with, “Nancy’s Teddy bear staring at me. And Nancy.

Often times, settings aid in setting a tone for a piece of writing. In "Rough Road Ahead: Do Not Exceed Posted Speed Limit" by Joe Kurmaskie, the setting is able to instill varying emotions into the author. The desolate desert that Kurmaskie is trapped in elicits feelings of hopelessness and debilitation. After trusting someone for directions, he has gotten lost; which has led into severe dehydration, desperation, and exhaustion. Throughout Kurmaskie's period of weakness, he was also furious due to the misdirection. The further Kurmaskie traveled into nothingness, the worse his feelings and physical state would progress.

Anne’s complex symbolism helps to construct the composite and secretive nature behind mental illness. Each stanza opens with a repetition of the words “I have” (Sexton 1,8,15). Its singular form introduces and reintroduces the author's sense of loneliness and hopelessness. Her first line reads, “I have gone out, a possessed witch” (Sexton 1). Witches are known for their dark and vile spirit, which is a direct metaphor for her depression. In most modern literature, witches are also considered social outcasts who live life on their own. The beginning of the second stanza reads,”I have found the warm caves in the woods” (Sexton 8). As if to say the solitude is warm and inviting. The woods stand for a tangled front protecting the solitude she stays in from being hurt. The final introduction reads, “I have ridden in your cart, driver” (Sexton 15). The driver is Anne’s depression. It feels like it is running her life, and she is just there for the ride.

wrote the play Fences about his life: the heartbreaking reality of racism in his own life and the

This explains, further, that the girl is no longer at a stage of innocence. She has been introduced to the fear and dread that surrounds her, that she was once oblivious too. The use of imagery throughout the poem also helps the reader gain a further insight to the underlying meaning. She uses imagery particularly well when the girl has experienced the bull. Lockheed uses the words ‘darkness’ & ‘roar’ to describe the bull in more detail. Although, this helps the reader create the image of the bull, the words also portray thoughts of the dread and panic the girl has over this new chapter

Imagery that really stood out and made the ending work has at the end when Ada was with Inman while he was bleeding out. When Teague of his men come to try to get Inman, Inman kills all of the except for a boy that he decides to try to reason with. Inman grows as a character by trying to allow them both to live and dies when he shows a major growth in his character. Ada, hearing the gunshot, rushes over to find that Inman has died and lies with him and they share their final moment together. Frazier writes, “An observer situated up on the brow of the ridge would have looked down on a still, distant tableau in the winter woods. A creek, remnants of snow. A wooded glade, secluded from the generality of mankind. A pair of lovers. The man reclined with his head in the woman's lap. (Frazier 353). For the entire novel, you felt as if you were right next to and experiencing it yourself. However, at this scene you are not with them and instead up on a hillside watching down at them, as if giving them one last moment to be

Suspense is very important when it comes to stories; the author can use it to hook the reader and get them interested. In this essay, the use of suspense in two short stories and how it affects the conflict and resolution will be addressed. The two short stories are, “Button Button”,by Richard Matheson and, “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been”,by Joyce Carol Oates. Both of the authors use suspense, which creates tension in the reader and keeps them intrigued.

8.) The mood that is created by details of the setting is a depressed, but determined mood. The setting is depressed when the story first starts, when the reader learns the characters are living on a lunar colony and Marvin has never seen "Outside". "When Marvin was ten years old, his father took him through the long, echoing corridors that led up through Administration and Power, until at last they came to the uppermost levels of all and were among the swiftly growing vegetation of the Farmlands. Marvin liked it here: it was fun watching the great, slender plants creeping with almost visible eagerness toward the sunlight as it filtered down through the plastic domes to meet them. The smell of life was everywhere, awakening inexpressible longings

The tone that August Wilson uses is an approachable and lofty blend at the same time. To begin with the protagonist of fences, Troy is a mindful man whose dreams are obstructed, this makes him have confidence in self-made fantasies. The play first begins with an entertaining story about his struggle with a personified Death character.

In recent decades, Cormac McCarthy has staked his claim as one of the all-time titans of American literature through publishing masterpieces like Blood Meridian, Suttree, and The Road. In his works his advanced level of technical mastery becomes apparent through his expertly harmonized coordination of literary elements toward certain narrative ends, such as the generation of suspense. In this light, McCarthy’s literary style is a practical one, in that he organizes literary elements in his works toward actualizing particular goals. In The Road, for instance, McCarthy directs his style throughout the text so as to maximize the feeling of suspense that readers experience throughout the book. This kind of stylistic maneuvering is expressed on pages 105-110 and pages 118-123 of the the text. But, it must be noted here that the generation of suspense in these passages does not result from similar stylistic approaches. McCarthy uses style in differently in Passage A and Passage B but ultimately toward the same end, namely generating suspense for readers of The Road. Passage A relies on dialogue to develop its suspense, whereas the style of Passage B relies on narrative action for its suspense.