Imagine Only Wanting This By Kristen Radtke Analysis

Through the imagery used to describe the cottage, the reader instantly has a sense of calmness and peace rush over them, which helps to set up the theme of initial perception versus reality. In addition, “The town is described as the place where the train ‘halted for a breathing space’ on its journey between its two destination cities. This quaint description associates the town with restful images, making it sound like a comfortable, tranquil place” (Poquette 86). This quote from the critic further supports the initial feelings when the cottage is described in the story. On the contrary, Wolfe also uses imagery to describe the opposite feelings when the engineer actually walks into the city and to the house by claiming that “He saw the lordly oaks before the house, the flower beds, the garden and the arbor, and farther off, the glint of rails.” (Wolfe 3). Even though this may seem like positive imagery, however it doesn’t carry the same positive connotations as

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

Though the viewers focus first on the centered figures, it is easier to first analyze the surrounding settings to understand them. The stone wall foreground and the open fields of the background each embodies one of the girl’s thoughts. The back landscape is filled with warm, airy colors of blue and orange, as if it were under a bright sun. On the other hand, the foreground’s stone walls and concrete floor has dark, cold, shadowy, earthy colors that seem to appear as if under a stormy cloud. The sunny land suggests free, pure, spacious land previous to the industrialization. Yet, the darkened foreground due to the overcasting shadows resemble the currently dirty,

The buildings were described as having, “small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes,” as to make the infrastructure have human features to look at the narrator and scene around it. When the narrator is with Mrs. Todd and her herbal remedies the humanity of the town grows with the mystical qualities of the herbs as the remedies themselves “whispered directions could be heard as customers passed the windows” and the wind blew by, ““adverse winds at sea might also find their proper remedies.” By personifying the town itself and making it not only the setting, but a character, Jewett deepens the meaning of her excerpt to have a mystical tone and maintain the

First and foremost, the text focuses on the loss that occurs when a new era emerges. Defining the concept of loss allows readers to grasp the idea that something is fading away throughout time. Edward Hopper illustrates this concept through the shading of the house. The shading of the house sets a depressing tone for the picture, evoking feelings of melancholy and loneliness. For instance, the sunlight illuminates the left side of the house, but not enough to illuminate the entire house. In fact, a majority of the house is casted pitch-black from the shadow. In this context, sunlight signifies revitalization whereas darkness signifies loss. The stark contrast between darkness overshadowing lightness symbolizes the extent of loss that is felt when

Part II) The writer's aim is to inform the unknowing of how her old town, full of history and memories, was torn down for a golf course. I think she's trying to say that people are becoming too obsessed with material things. The writer is trying to get across that may be destroying a place with so many memories of so many individuals and families is not a good

A sophisticated house or dumpy gas station catches the eye for a moment then becomes lost amongst other thoughts. However, like the art in our homes, a building's purpose is not to be stared at like a museum painting. They influence the mood of those who occupy the space. Even for people who live far away, it creates a happy thoughtfulness that these places still exist in our throwaway

In Allendale, California, there lies a lonely house whom manages to take care of it’s killed owner, Mrs. Mclellan. In the visionary short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” Ray Bradbury values personification; he gives soul and feelings to the lonely house and all of the non-living objects within it. The last standing house in Allendale, California, pursued its active, occupied agenda uninformed its owners were demolished by an atomic bomb in the year 2026. It was the last house in good condition, it was stable, and it functioned perfectly, until nature raised up. “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes” (Bradbury 216)! Bradbury uses personification to describe how the house was lonely, didn’t have company, and how it was isolated

“Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world. There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as

Often the decay of people will coincide with the decay of structures that make a community whole. This can be best exemplified by Hemingway’s “The End of Something” when the former lumber mill is described in present day, “The one-story bunkhouses, the eating-house, the company store, the mill offices, and the big mill itself stood deserted in the acres of sawdust that covered the swamp...” (Hemingway 6). What was once a bustling lumber community is now run down and void of life, leaving numerous of

Many people associate colorful pages full of images with childishness, and therefore to be taken less seriously as a work of literature or with no lasting literary merit. However, the way that it portrays what the Jews endured during the Holocaust enlightens the readers. The drawings, which depicted gruesome and inhumane scenes like being beaten and starvation, created a different experience as opposed to novels because the images are much more expressive than words. In addition, You can see what the author himself is trying to show through the illustrations. For example, some readers have troubles visualizing a scene or place, but the pictures make up for it. This pulls even the reluctant or disabled readers since it helps them understand the text better. In Maus I, Spiegelman shows a sketch of how Vladek and his friends hid from the Nazis. In order to avoid being caught, they “made a brick wall filled high with coal. Behind this wall we could be a little safe” (110). Some people wouldn’t be able to understand what Vladek meant, so the drawing assists them along the story. This makes them comprehend what’s happening because the pictures expresses the text. Graphic novels bring in various audience since art is

Do you believe in forgiveness or second chances? When asked this question most seem to say yes. Everyone makes mistakes. A quote by Alexander Pope comes to mind, “to err is human, to forgive is divine.” But what really happens? On social media forgiveness and second chances seem to be thrown out the window. Jonah Lehrer, a well-known blogger, author, and contributor, was about to answer for his transgressions of plagiarism and fabrications. Michael Moynihan, a journalist, was about to leak negative information about the book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer and told Lehrer, “I just want you to know that it makes me feel like shit to do this.”(p27) Michael was in a position to muckrake and felt wrong. Jonah continuously embellished and plagiarized his publications. “But at the time didn’t think it was wrong.” (p60) Jonah Lehrer should suffer the consequences of his wrongdoings, but to what extent should the world go

The narrator says, “but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me --upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain --upon the bleak walls --upon the vacant eye-like windows --upon a few rank sedges --and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees --with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to”(1st paragraph). He basically says the house looks like the family it’s a replica of their

The post apocalyptic world makes the characters in the novel devastated as they see corpses everywhere. The view in the roads and buildings are horrible. There are dead bodies everywhere in the rotten, decayed state with unimaginable odour everywhere. The character Amanda in the novel describes the scene when she searches for her friend Ren. She describes a scene that happens in the road, “She’d avoided people as much as possible...

Appreciating life through certain everyday experiences helps provide humans with a sense of the sacred, which is an ongoing theme in both texts and has been lost through recent generations. In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig, the narrator Phadreus demonstrates how a classical outlook on life can bring about this type of happiness and let one ultimately gain a feeling that is difficult to attain. The classical view on life is similar to the real experiences John Dewey sorts through in his most famous work, Art as an Experience.