Figurative Language In Pink's Rewards

The story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” is a story that tells the tale of how Greg Ridley is having a bad day. His grades are low, and he is going to be kicked off the basketball team by his dad because of his latest math grade. Things start to turn when Greg stumbles upon the abandoned tenement that Old Man Lemon Brown lives in. In there, he learns an important lesson that will change him forever. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” the author, Walter Dean Myers, expresses the theme that everyone has their niche, or how Lemon Brown calls it, a ‘Treasure’ and the lesson to not judge a book by it’s cover. This theme connects to main character Greg Ridley, who is having trouble with

The physical and social settings portrayed in Amy Tan’s “The Rules of the Game” enables the story to emerge as more than the birth of a child prodigy. Thus they make the story more profound.

In the story Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan the narrator use figurative languages to communicate a cringeworth experience during the Christmas Eve dinner that alter her perspective of her family’s heritage by recognizing her shame was trigger by other people’s feelings more than her own. The speaker expresses her nervousness before the Prime Minister’s family joins them for dinner. The author unveils her pessimistic thoughts with “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?” The use of repetition intensifies her stress on how the Prime Minister’s family will judge her indecent family upon his family’s arrival to the Chinese Christmas dinner.

In the story Matched by Ally Condie author's craft, such as figurative language, has a big input on the story. Cassia’s grandfather gives her an illegal poem that she has to destroy containing words of rebellion about how “a flood may bear me far,” if she had kept the poem she’d be “riding on a flood that I [Cassia] couldn’t stop… the poems are gone and I [Cassia] can never get them back.” (Condie 123) The figurative language refers back to the quote which adds importance to the story. It adds to the story because it shows how significant the poem is and how dangerous it is for the. The use of the words in the poem added to her fear of being caught makes readers wonder why poems such as the one that has fallen into Cassia’s hands are so dangerous

The Secret Side of T.Ray Every monster is just a man at his core. In “The Secret Life of Bees”, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Sue Monk Kidd, a teenage girl, Lily, runs away from her abusive father to the Boatwrights house in Tiburon, SC. The father, T.Ray, is described as a monster and unloving man. T.Ray searches for Lily for half of the summer and eventually shows up at the door of the Boatwrights.

In Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson delivers the robust concluding lines, “I’ve seen Steelheart bleed. And i will see him bleed again” (Sanderson 9). These last two brief, seemingly trivial sentences, conceal this whole literary work within them. A young boy has witnessed his father be killed by the very being who was thought to protect them. With this slender feeling of hope essentially crushed from his very being, David, is the only living testimony to know this villain’s weakness. And with this information, he vows to seek retribution. The basis of this story was really compelling to me because of the incorporation of vivid imagery and descriptive figurative language, which allowed me to connect with the characters. Although not being able to completely resonate with this story, I have encountered the feeling of revenge, which was clearly foreseen within this writing and deeply empathetic.

One important reason that the world that Laura and Howie encounter was more dangerous and malevolent rather than caring, supportive, and worth exploring is that Howie and Laura were excluded at camp from everyone else. According to Brock Cole “They took everything from me, I was stranded”. What Brock Cole is saying here is that Howie and Laura were left on an island, that is really dangerous to be left on an island alone, how would we know there safe? What would they do if they drowned then what? Now some might argue that, it was just a harmless camp joke, but the argument that Laura and Howie encounter was more dangerous and malevolent rather than caring, supportive, and worth exploring is still true.

A common theme we see in the two stories, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and “The Rocking Horse-Winner” by D.H Lawrence is the detrimental effects that a forcing a bar of success can have on developing adolescents. Recognizing that the product of success is generally good, clouds the notion that there is in fact a wide range of effects that chasing success can bring about. Some of these effects have positive repercussions, teaching adolescents discipline and work ethic. However, some of the effects are quite negative, especially in those that are too young to truly care for themselves. Forcing a cusp of success on adolescents indirectly in “The Rocking Horse-Winner” or directly in “Two Kinds” pushes the children to achieve the impossible resulting in a breaking point in the adolescent characters.

In Kate Grenville’s bildungsroman, “The Lieutenant”, Grenville uses figurative language to convey various ideas through the landscapes and character behaviours. One such idea presented is the evident secrets and distrust among characters in the novel. Grenville further presents the isolation that people who were suspected to in the late 1700s to early 1800s as well as the issues in the colonisation and slavery of the British Empire.

>>>>Coelho uses a simile in the sentence; "The Alchemist fell as silent as the desert" (Coelho 142). Coelho gives a sense of comparison between the absence of the alchemist's voice and the silence of the desert.

(Hook) Motivation, when used to push a person to their highest potential, can cause both greatness and disappointment. (Bridge) In James Hurst’s story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” Brother pushes Doodle to the limit teaching Doodle activities that he would have never had the opportunity to do without the motivation and determination to reach greatness. (FS1) Throughout the journey of learning to walk, swim, and run, Brother motivates Doodle to keep pushing so that he could be like the other kids before he started school. (FS2) Doodle, born physically impaired, tries his best to follow his brother’s orders and make him happy, but this leads him to his death. (FS3) The motivation in this short story is represented by three symbols: the scarlet ibis, the wagon, and the coffin, which all demonstrate the motivation Doodle and Brother have to use to overcome the obstacles they face. (Thesis) Motivation can be used as a compelling force to strive for greatness, but can lead to upsetting results when it is used to the extent as it is in the “Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst, which is demonstrated by the symbols of (I) the scarlet ibis, (II) the wagon, (III) and the coffin.

   “Why do some people persist despite insurmountable obstacles, while others give up quickly or never bother to try” (Gunton 118)? A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, is a commentary on life and our struggle to comprehend and control it. The last scene in the play between Asagai and Beneatha contrasts two contemporary views on why we keep on trying to change the future, and reaches the conclusion that, far from being a means to an end, the real meaning of life is the struggle. Whether we succeed or not, our lives are purposeful only if we have tried to make the world a better place for ourselves and others- only, in other words, if we follow our dreams.

The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes and published in 1926, won Hughes his first poetry prize. Hughes is a well-known African American poet who often wrote about the struggles for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, he uses figurative language in the poem to describe loneliness and despair, and the relationship between the speaker and performer, in order to make the reader better understand the blues.

ncephalitis is a general term for an infection of the brain. The encephalon is considered to be the gray matter of the brain, and there is where all neuron cells are located. If an infection takes place in this region, it is called encephalitis. Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, in most cases, due to a viral infection. However, it can also be cause by parasites, bacterial, or a complication from another infection. Encephalitis is disease that anyone can suffer from. There are different types of encephalitis around the world. In the United States can be found at least five types of encephalitis, (St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), La Crosse Encephalitis (LAC), and West Nile Encephalitis (WNE)), which affect the population (Harvey). Encephalitis is a rare disease that can be life-threated.

In contrast to the suspicions of the authorities, the public responded was accepting to the balloon. Children enjoyed bouncing on it, and others begin to “locate themselves” in relation to it. Opinions vary, but even people who are unsure towards the balloon experience an “admixture of pleasurable cognition.” The balloon gives the public a unique opportunity for reflection, even though the balloon's meaning can never be known completely. Each person's response to the balloon becomes a reflection of his or her general outlook on life. One man thinks the balloon is inferior to the sky, but the balloon is actually an improvement on January dark, ugly weather. Another person considers the balloon to be an “unanticipated reward”, as if just being in the balloon presence was a gratifying and positive experience. No matter the response, the balloon provides the citizens liberation from their daily lives.