How Does Jim Burden Use Of Allusions

In the novel, “The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton” allusions played a big part in the book. An example of this is when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally and go to Dairy Queen and engorged themselves in barbeque and banana splits. “We stopped at a Dairy Queen and the first thing I got was a Pepsi. Johnny and I gorged on barbeque sandwiches and banana splits,” (Hinton 83). The reason the Author used Dairy Queen as an allusion is because Dairy Queen is a well known restaurant and it came out in the 1940s, so it was a still kinda new thing and very popular to go to.

Throughout My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, the change of seasons is often mentioned and represents the hardships and beauties of the world. The summer and spring are examples of the beauties in the world since the citizens are able to work due to the long days. The spring is almost as important as the summer since it is the time of year when farmers begin to farm again after the winter. But, the winter is unforgiving. During the winter all of citizens are hiding in their nice warm houses trying to avoid the harsh cold. Due to the citizens’ perseverance and hard work their town is able to thrive.

Disabled. Disabled is a word commonly defined as being physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated (dictionary.com). There's a stigma over the word disabled with its negative connotation. Nancy Mairs, author of “I Am a Cripple, dislikes this word because she thinks that the English language incorporates too many euphemism in our speech. Mairs wants people to use more straightforward language, even if it might be offensive to others. In “ I Am a Cripple”, Mairs eloprates on how she became disabled from the disease multiple sclerosis or (M.S). M.S., a disease that attacks the central nervous system and often disables or cripples the person who has this disease. To describe her first symptoms of M.S.(infinitive phrase) Mairs flashbacks to when she was in college. Also how some days she wishes she was not disabled. Allusions in Nancy Mairs’s “I Am a Cripple” provide a deeper understanding of her complex feelings of having M.S.

Jim’s memories and feelings of Ántonia make up a majority of the novel. He admires her in such a way that his memories of her have been burned

The book contains a captivating use of symbolism making the story more interesting and understandable. This magnetizes the reader into the book. "At the first show of dawn, great Alcinous left his couch, as did that ravager of cities,

The use of literary devices such as allusions, metaphors, similes, homophones and homonyms are used by the author to uncover the true nature of Jim’s character and his world. For example, Jim is described as “a video artist, creating pieces that were thought of by some as ‘experimental’ films.” To Jim these films weren’t “experimental” because he used them as a way to cover up his past. When his two lives come close to merging he “shap[es] and structur[es] the project in his mind”. Thus creating a lie or cover for what happened that night. Through the use of similes and metaphors the author describes the true evil of the drug-dealing world Jim tried to leave behind. For instance, when the author describes Ellis’ freezer, he says the freezer

Harry Mulisch once said, that “he did not just write about World War II, he was WWII”. He uses this mentality in a lot of his writing to allude to himself in the works. Being that during WWII he was just a boy, he saw many terrible events at a young age. A works that is a prime example of this is The Assault, a novel about a young boy who, lives through a terrible night, in which his family was murdered and his house burnt down. In The Assault, the novel itself is an allusion to his life. In The Assault, Harry Mulisch uses allusion to bring cultural and contextual content to the works.

Although Virro does set himself up to have the ultimate authority at the table through this banquet, Juvenal ultimately takes down his power by inferring that the inequality of the dinner also suggests that Virro is unworthy of the meal he gives. Juvenal introduces mythological references and metaphors into the satire with an ironic sense, and these references are made in such a way that they seem to tarnish the mythological foundations and morals of Rome. One example of this is the bejeweled cups Virro drinks from; he describes these jewels as those that might have been similar to the ones found on the front of Aeneas’ scabbard (43-45, gemmas ad pocula transfert a digitis, quas in vaginae fronte solebat ponere zelotypo iuuenis praelatus Iarbae).

William Goulding’s graphic, transfixing novel “The Lord of the Flies,” juxtaposes the central theme of “True Human Nature” by applying multiple allusions to the Christian faith through vivid and detailed characterization.

A literary allusion is a “brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance” (Allusion). Dickens used allusion to describe and emphasize facts about many of the characters, as well as their actions or circumstances, to present facts, and to “impose his fictional world upon the reader” (Larson 18). Through the use of allusion, the reader is able to view “Dickens’ fictional world in an eternal order of value” and to “judge characters and read plots as moral designs” (Larson 18). In Hard Times, Dickens’ use of allusion conveys the concerns of choosing to indoctrinate their children in the utilitarian idea of fact through their education while choosing to neglect and avoid

Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall” is one of the most properly regarded works of apocalyptic science fiction. This short story takes the classic debate between science and religion, and gives it a spin, by revealing the Intersectionality and interdependence of the two. The irony of the darkness is its symbolism of the new age of mankind, advancement in thought. To get a better understand of why this text is considered to be one of the most properly regarded works of apocalyptic science fiction, the reader must really understand this piece of literature. In summary “NightFall” is a story that starts off, on a planet called Lagash.

The setting is placed in New England, in a town called New Carthage, “right when I first came to New Carthage.” (George, Page 116) While these are allusions used by Albee to represent something bigger, with allusion meaning that it's an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly, an indirect reference which Albee was trying to get at which was the historical town itself, Carthage which is had a significance in the Punic Wars. George in the play makes his reference to the Punic Wars to Nick “When I was sixteen and going to prep school, during the Punic Wars.” (Page 105) While then discussing about him drinking with the grown ups, while this was all experiments.

The village is deserted because its occupants have been forced to leave. The governmenthad put an end to the common land that gave rise to the social order and livelihood of the villagers, who were left either to move to a city or migrate to America. Goldsmithrecognizes in this the passing of a way of life, which he truly laments. The poet

Nonetheless, the present tense used between lines 433 and 447 drives this carmen perpetuum, and us within it, onward. The effect is only to stress the endlessness of Dis, but also of those incarcerated inside. However, we ought to consider the reliability of our implied narrator when he omits the twin sons of Aloeus, Salmoneus and Pirithous mentioned by Virgil [Aen.6.575-605]. Hardly a trapping of Callimachean novelty, the manner in which the poet crafts his depiction of Dis largely reflects the function of the text itself. Perhaps Tantalus, Sisyphus, Ixion, Tityos & the Belides are simply more reckless, whose petty (rather than hubristic) actions might better accord with Ovid’s Junonian katabasis. Conceivably even, together they represent a sufficiently broad palette of immorality, evoked by the density of pauses between 458 & 460, to convey Ovid’s moral didacticism. What is that exactly? Ovid’s inversion of Sisyphus’ traditional task petis…urgues (suggesting that even unending punishment may not have conveyed a moral to him) might evoke the dangers of aspiring beyond oneself. Yet, equally the poet’s presentation of the gods, certainly on a macro scale, is not all to aspire for. Even in this passage ingemuit limen under Juno’s grauis; a burden that is not entirely august but of an equally ethical weight. Hence where Virgil employs these incarcerated victims to express the pathos of death, characterising Aeneas’ piety; the implied author’s moral convictions make this passage didactic rather than

When Leopold reads about a colony being set up in Turkey, it represents the idea of Ithaca as a promised land of peace. This is the first episode in which we finally meet our modern hero in a figure of an ordinary man who is busy with everyday trivialities. Leopold might not be on a faraway island in an adventure with mystical creatures, but in his mind he is as far away from home as Odysseus. Although he is in his kitchen making breakfast, his mind is not connected with his reality, creating distance between him and the things that surround him. Joyce did not use myth to draw a parallel between Odysseus and Leopold, but to create completely different hero who is shipwrecked in his own way. Blamire claims that each of the episodes represents