How Does Katharine Brush Use Alliteration In The Birthday Party

We hear of her moving to New York to escape her life as a child bride after being orphaned at a young age. This story allows the audience to gain a sense of sympathy for Holly, and enhances the pathos of the story. This pathos puts the audience into the shoes of Holly and enables them to understand the reasoning behind her escape. The use of language features like pathos and literary allusion allow the authors of both texts to convey the theme of escapism.

First, Brush starts off the story by describing the couple that were at the restaurant. “They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married.” “The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty in a big hat.” Brush has now provided us with an image of the main characters in this short story. Furthermore, he became “hotly embarrassed” when he realizes what is going on. Towards the end of the story the wife was “crying quietly, and heartbrokenly and hopelessly, all to herself, under the gay big brim of her best hat>” When her husband did not appreciate

Didion’s continuous derogative tone towards the Las Vegas wedding scene places her above the newlyweds of the absurd weddings. She differentiates herself and the implausible and bizarre captivating wedding scene that’s unlike any other. She describes the Las Vegas wedding an illegitimate ‘expectations’ for brides and grooms. The use of quotations surrounding the word ‘expectation’ sarcastically details her anecdotes. She even goes as far as to describe the Las Vegas wedding as a children’s game. After noticing “actual wedding parties”, Didion judges the weddings on the basis of her expectations and builds skepticism of the wedding industry. She criticized a young pregnant bride that outspokenly said, ‘“It was just as nice as I hoped and dreamed it would be’”. Sadly society has diverted away from tradition and has been blindsided by business and industries that take advantage of insensible and oblivious citizens.

The woman in “Surprise” is in denial about her husband’s behavior. On the surface, the poem is about a woman whose husband gets her out of the house while their friends gather in secret for a birthday party. She goes along with his ruse of going out for breakfast, followed by a walk. She doesn’t seem to be aware that a party is in the works, even though her friends are arriving, their cars “pulled close along the sandy shoulders/ of the road” (5-6). This willful blindness on her part

The flow of this narrative may seem jumpy or disconnected and illogical to some but to others who share a similar perspective the details seem like a flood of memories. Every detail and element is timeless and independent of the others while at the same time holding a deeper connection shared with all of the others. Each detail holds a value that isn’t noticed at first by others just like each of the items she mentions holds a value to her and her family but is lost on her husband who doesn’t share the same sense of home with her.

At the beginning of the poem, the speaker, a twelve-year-old girl, is instantly gripped by a strong feeling of lust toward this mysterious seventeen-year-old boy: the paperboy. She even goes on to describe him as a “gift. A fluke from God” as if she believes that she and this boy are destined to be together (2). From her vantage point, the girl instantly notices the boy’s physical characteristics, traits which the young girl appears to admire when she describes the boy’s “bicep in the twilight” (3). This intense, love-at-first-sight reaction to the boy’s arm shows how irrational the girl’s feelings are. She seems to simply lust after the idea of him. The girl has “no memory of language” from their nightly encounters, further showing how this “relationship” was merely visual and very one-sided (6). The boy, potentially, never even notices the girl; and if he does, he does not acknowledge her presence, let alone her strong emotions. The only memories the girl has are from “loitering, lingering far past curfew,” times in which she merely stares at the boy while he completes his daily paper route (7). The girl's depictions of her mother "lost in steam, stirring" and her father "asleep beside his Manhattan, the half-read mail" almost puts the reader directly into the house. The girl, meanwhile, lost her in her emotions, wanders around her yard "without knowing what I longed for" (16). The parents, both focused on other activities, leave the twelve-year-old speaker to do as she pleases in the night.

In the poem, the mother takes her daughter to a pool party composed of boys. The speaker watches the children dive into the pool and imagines her daughter working math problems to calculate the gallons of water. As she watches the young girl climb out of the pool in her hamburger and french fry print swimming suit, she notes that the other young girls are looking at the boys, and as well as her daughter, she is beginning to recognize the appeal of their masculinity. The language of the poem is associated with the childness of the young girl. The description the speaker gives of the girl leads the reader to believe she is a child. She calls her “my girl,” and describes her of having a sweet face and a sleek ponytail. “She will glisten in the brilliant air, and they will see her sweet face” (1115), the diction of Olds word choice demonstrates the innocence of a young child beginning to approach maturity. She provides detailed portrayal of the character to provide the reader with an image of the diminishing childhood innocence of the

The reader can feel the protagonist’s expectations, even though they are not expressly stated by Joyce anywhere in the story. The hero is not just excited about going to the bazaar, the event he is actually excited for is giving the girl the gift and seeing her fall in love with him. He expects her to finally love him and he knows that this quest will bring her to him. Despite this, when he gets to the bazaar, he has an epiphany which changes his perception of his love and leaves him discouraged. At the bazaar, he notices some men and women flirting, which he sees as sinful.

The girls all had triangle skirts and pigtails. You would never mistake one of her cards for a Hallmark, but I have never seen cards more heartfelt. They were meaningful in the way that a schoolchild’s homemade Christmas card is meaningful. She never left her name.” This shows how she is always noticing and caring for others, whether it is comforting them when they are

“The Birthday Party” In the story “ The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush integrates caricature and atmosphere to obtain her objective. Brush illustrates a couple who are having dinner and reveals to be the husband’s birthday and his wife astonished him with a surprise. Throughout the story Brush generates caricature, repetition, and atmosphere to elaborate the emotions that is occurring throughout the story. Her priority throughout the story is to employ keywords to elaborate her main ideas to her audience.

In accordance with the love motif of matrimony, Thornton Wilder uses George and Emily’s wedding to illustrate the idea that everyone should cherish every moment of their lives. In her aside before Emily and George exchange vows, Mrs. Webb provides the first instance of this theme by saying “I don’t know why on Earth I should be crying … there was Emily eating her breakfast as she’s done for seventeen years and now she’s off to eat it in someone else’s home” (72). In saying this, Mrs. Webb demonstrates why one needs to cherish every second of every day; time flies by quickly. She does not appreciate the simple pleasure of eating breakfast every day with her daughter, until Emily goes to have breakfast with someone else. Thus, Mrs. Webb learns

Fun Home is a retelling of Alison Bechdel’s life through the lens of her relationship with her father. However, because of what she considers to have been his suicide, Alison is left with an incomplete picture of who he was in life. By calling Fun Home an autobiography, Bechdel enters an autobiographical pact with the reader that ensures that what Bechdel is telling us is the truth. However, elements out of her control leave Bechdel unable to provide certain objective facts necessary to her narrative. As an attempt to remedy these absences and in turn maintain the validity of her story, Bechdel uses intertextuality to fill in the gaps of in her retelling. By overlaying masterplots of fictional narratives over her own, the reader is able to get at an understanding of the kind of person Alison’s father was. In this way Bechdel is able to reveal things about her father that she can 't prove to be true, but are reflective enough of his life to become true.

In the story, “The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush uses allegory and ambiguity to demonstrate the woman’s role in the 1940’s. The allegory that Brush uses with the female character shows that women are supposed to obey their husband’s orders and have no right to talk back. The ambiguity in demonstrated in the phrase, “…the wife beamed with shy pride…” can be justified as the woman’s uncertainty of either how her husband was going to react, or how well was her surprised planned. The feeling of being timid and unable to predict a person’s reaction is bad towards everyone, especially, women in the 1940’s.

What the playwright is trying to say to his audience is that while marriage indeed marks the start of a new life for the couple, it is only so insofar as the couple starts living together and having a family of their own. It does not mean living a secluded life. On the contrary, marriage necessarily entails extending your relationship not only to your spouse but also to his or her family, relatives and friends. This is what marriage as a union of two souls is all about. This is further reiterated by Emily 's retort to Simon when she said, " the chains of our lives are linked and cross-linked." What Emily meant when she uttered the phrase "chewing gum in the hair" was simply the difficulty in disassociating ourselves with others. The fact that the characters in the play mistook marriage as a portal to a new life and an escape from the old was nothing short of comical to a contemporary reader who has been exposed to all

At first glance, this sentence is of average length describing the impact of an event, an afterthought and effect to a climax or conflict. Even the sentence is located is between 3 notable moments of the ruined dinner with Mr. Pontellier, the stamping of her wedding ring and the violent destruction of the vase. Only describing the her lack of effect on the wedding ring, this sentence is insignificant compared to the surrounding sentences. But, just as the brightest flame casts the darkest shadow, a supporting sentence will fade into the background if the main scene is stronger and it will make the climax of the chapter stand out. While there are many themes explored by this sentence, the strength of