Imagery In On The Rainy River By Tim O Brien

Is it better to live a life that is long and mundane or one that is short but fulfilling? It is a question with no right answers. The hope for a number of us is to live both a long and fulfilling life, but hope can only take you so far. Death, like life, is one of those inevitable things that we cannot control. You can fight it or even try to control it, but more often than not, it is not going to work out the way you want it to. The only control that you have, is to live the life that you desire, so when the time comes, you can leave this world peacefully, knowing you have lived your life.

Our actions and choices are often misjudged and frowned upon by societal eyes, leading us to veer ourselves away from our inner desires. Most of the time we are ashamed for even thinking and following on our true feelings because of the constant fear whether we will still be accepted or not into our society after acting in our inner desire. This conflict leads individuals to submit in the end. However, we face an inevitable regret, the regret of bowing down to the upper hand. For this very reason we turn our heads away from who we really are, society is not always correct, not standing up will be leading to a lifetime of regret. In the short story "on the Rainy River", the author Tim O-Brien suggests the importance of pursuing our personal

In the book “The Marginal World” Rachel Carson uses imagery to make her readers feel like they are part of the book and viewing what she is seeing at the shore. Throughout the story there are many passages and lines that show imagery. One passage that caught my eye was, “Underwater that was clear as glass the pool was carpeted with green sponge. Gray patches of sea squirts glistened on the ceiling and colonies of soft coral were a pale apricot color” (216). This passage provides strong imagery and is significant to this passage because Rachel Carson wants her readers to see what she is seeing in the water. She also wants to show the connection between humans and the environment. As an author you want to show imagery because you want your audience to relate and to be able to understand the story they are trying to tell.

Another story is “On the Rainy River", which talks about a young guy getting into Harvard to finish school, but before the school year starts he receive a draft letter (O’Brien 172). He doesn't agree with the war or really know that much about the war (O’Brien 173). He thinks of fleeing to Canada to avoid going to the war (O’Brien 174). In the end he goes back home and honors the draft because he doesn't want to be ridiculed by family, friends or neighbors for not going to war (O’Brien 187). I think most of my family wouldn’t care one way or another about honoring the draft. If my mom was still here I think she will love me no matter the decision I make. I wish she was still here so I could ask her what I should do. I think if I end up going

On the Rainy River, a story written by Tim O'Brien, about a twenty-one year old man who had a personal conflict on whether he should fight in the Vietnam War, a war that he thought was pointless because they didn’t even know why they were fighting in it; or to run away to Canada and escape his old life, essentially starting anew.

In the story “On The Rainy River,” by Tim O’brien tells the reader about the challenges he faces morally in his decision to go to war or stay here. This action really shows his conflict that is going on throughout the plot. He has two important decisions make. He can either flee the country and live or he can be brave and go to war but possibly die. The idea of the plot touches on the man vs self conflict stating that in this story the Tim O’brien is the protagon

In his poem "To a Waterfowl," William Cullen Bryant uses spiritual imagery and diction. However, the waterfowl the poet describes is not just a metaphor for spiritual life. Instead, Bryant uses the imagery of the waterfowl to show that nature is an extension or expression of God's power on earth. Bryant's spiritual beliefs are also reflected in his poem "Thanatopsis." In "Thanatopsis," uses even more overtly religious symbolism, diction, an imagery. Both "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis" underscore the importance of the Puritanical worldview in American culture.

Children of the river is about a Cambodian girl named Sundara who moves to America because of war and violence on Cambodia. The book first starts out in Cambodia and when Sundara’s uncle came home he told them that they need to leave Cambodia right away. Once Sundara gets on the ship the only people that were in her family that could fit on the boat were her aunt and her younger brother. Once Sundara, her brother, and the ones who make it to America alive all the kids went to school and all of the adults had to go to work so that they could get paid. The theme of this book is that Sundara comes to America for a better life and the people that were on the ship also can to America for a better life. Back then when you were in Cambodia there was

When reflecting and writing on Eiseley’s essay and the “magical element”, I balk. I think to myself, “What magic?”, and then put pen to page. I dubiously choose a kiddie pool to draw inspiration from, and unexpectedly, inspiration flows into me. As I sit here in this little 10x30 foot backyard, the sky is filled with the flowing gaseous form of water, dark patches of moist earth speckle the yard, the plants soak up their scattered watering, and the leaves of bushes and trees imbue the space with a sense of dampness from their foliage. As my senses tune into the moisture that surrounds me, I fill Braedon’s artificial pond with water. I stare at the shimmering surface, contemplating Eiseley’s narrative, and the little bit of life’s

In the book “Children of the River” the book is about a girl named Sundara that moved from Columbia to escape a war when she was 13. She was separated from her parents and was sent to her aunt’s place. After they escaped the war they had to change their traditions. She refuses to date so she could await her family to arrange a marriage with a Cambodian boy.

Imagery makes this essay come alive, for example in the story it says “never seen feathered pheasants and unskinned rabbits hanging in a butcher's window or a pig's head smiling on a platter. Or in the story when it says

“It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all these cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” (Green, 57)The novel “Paper Towns”, by John Green is about a boy named Quentin Jacobson, who has spent a life time loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar, so when she cracks open a window into his life, he follows. I think a major theme in the novel is seeing the truth in people, and knowing that our view or idea of a person will never be enough to show all that a person really is.

The artist George Wesley Bellow’s oil painting, Rain on the river, 1908, 15 is s a famous piece of art located in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. In the RISD Museum George Wesley Bellow’s oil painting is located in the modern and contemporary gallery. The colors used by the artist help tell the story of the painting. While observing the painting the smoke from the train stood out the most, this seems to be the most important part for the curator. The bright modern building makes George Wesley Bellow’s painting stand out because of his use of dark colors. George Wesley Bellow focuses on the white smoke from the train and the dark colors in his oil painting, Rain on the river.

The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is widely recognized by New Critics as one of the greatest novels of its age for its aesthetic artistry. In the Portrait, a powerful autobiographical novel of bildungsroman, commonly known as a coming-of-age story, that follows the life of Irish protagonist Stephen Dedalus, Joyce portraits his momentous transition to adulthood as a passage of psychological struggle towards his ultimate philosophical awakening and his spiritual rebirth as an artist. Most visibly in Chapter Four of the novel, Stephen Dedalus, after the denial of his own priesthood, goes on to seek his artistic personality through his secluded journey amongst a myriad of natural elements. Dramatizing the Stephen’s

Trapped. It’s like being in a dream, a dream with no beginning or end. It’s like brick walls, crumbling and collapsing on you, till your lungs screech out as it succumbs and convulse in desperation, for even the slightest gasp of air. Drip by drip, it throttles every last trickle of your soul, as if you are a bug, trampled till you can move no more. Every last trill of blood has emanated from your body. You shriek piercingly within for someone but it is rendered useless as no one can descry you.