Kiss Of The Fur Queen Poetic Techniques

In Kiss of the Fur Queen, the story begins with forty-three year old Cree hunter Abraham Okimasis winning the "1951 Millington Cup World Championship Dog Derby." (6) The victory is seen to have a significant effect on the Cree hunter's Native identity, as he becomes the first-ever Indian to succeed in the Derby. As time goes by, Abraham becomes the father of two sons, Jeremiah and Gabriel. When the Cree brothers leave their small northern Manitoba village and enter the hostile environment of a residential school, their lives take a turn for the worse. Estranged from their Native culture, Jeremiah and Gabriel are forced to assimilate into the predominately white Canadian society. During their stay at the residential school, the brothers

Transportation is effected in many ways in this novel. Since stark field is a small town away from the cities it is a little distance to the Corbury flats for the daily transportation and communication. Not very long after the narrator arrives in Starkfield, the horses at the local stable fall sick do to the terrible weather. Since the horses are sick Denis Eady can not drive the narrator to Corbury flats. This causes the narrator to look somewhere else fro his daily transportation. Also when the heavy perpetual snow falls on Corbury flat the railroad closes down because the trains will become blocked and trapped by the snow. The snow acts and becomes a barrier on transportation making it hard and only allowing horse and buggy transportation. Since they have to use horse and buggy transportation it takes longer and they have to leave early for town. This makes the trip to town long and a arduous journey. Also making a barrier on communication between the Flats and Ethan’s home town of Starkfield.

The Road portrays the journey of the father and son across a black and white world that is analogous to my experiences of the quest of survival in Afghanistan and the refugee camp in Pakistan. Where many have abandoned their beliefs and morals to survive the hellish situation. Those who survive with their beliefs and values still in intact are constantly challenged on a day-by-day basis. Their survival must be persevered to keep the fire burning, however small for their own children. There must be some goodness that remains for their children to carry into the next generations. They must always remain

The author uses personifications, such as when the Chevy “winks” at them as they entered the dirt lot. There are similes, such as how his heart was, “turning over like a dirt bike in the wrong gear.” Additionally the narrator uses countless allusions that appear throughout the entirety of the story. Examples are his reference to the movie, “The Virgin Spring,” the use of zeppelin as a comparison, or the use of Toltec masks to show the unimpressed nature of the greasy character. There are many more figures of speech throughout the story, but overall the use of the figures of speech help develop the story and provide to the imagery of it. They help give the reader something to connect the scenes to that they might more easily

Cree novelist and playwright, Tomson Highway, carefully crafts the opening of his novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen by inciting a sense of urgency, suspense, and hope. Highway portrays Okimasis’ dramatic dogsledding experience through the use of his syntax and distance diction.

Throughout the novel, the author Edward Bloor uses literary devices such as similes to make the readers visualize the descriptive situations in the story. These similes describe to the reader how different occurrences relate to other actions, objects, or living things.

Visual plays a great factor in the passage, Marquarts want to describe how the Midwest gets looked down. Marquart uses visuals “ .. through the state of North Dakota, you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless and devoid of rising and curves in places that it will feel like a long-held pedal steel guitar note”. The visuals are used to print a picture in the reader's mind showing the reader that long rides are boring and driving through the Midwest is boring because there is nothing to see. She also used a simile to describe how it just one big long road of nothing. The long guitar note is used to show the reader that a single note is dull when a single note is playing the audience waits in suspense to find out what is happening next later to find out nothing going to happen. By focusing on what the visual mean Marquart is able to how the reader an understanding of what the Midwest means to her as well a in showing the characteristics of the Midwest.

In the short story ‘a worn path’ by Eudora Welty she uses symbolism to describe many of the characters and objects that are given in the short story. Symbolism is to use symbols to represent ideas and qualities. In ‘a worn path’ Eudora does so she uses manifolds of characters and objects to express the way the story is being told in her own way. As doing so she helps the reader understand it more sufficiently and to show that what is going on is still happening today.

We often consider the world to be filled with core truths, such as how people should act or what constitutes a good or bad action. In The Road, McCarthy directly challenges those preconceptions by making us question the actions of the characters and injecting a healthy dose of uncertainty into the heroes’ situation. From the very beginning, the characters and their location remain ambiguous. This is done so that the characters are purposely anonymous, amorphously adopting all people. While on the road, the order of the day is unpredictability; whether they find a horde of road-savages or supplies necessary for his son’s survival is impossible to foretell. While traveling, the boy frequently asks “are we the good guy” and the father always replies with “yes” or “of course,” but as the story progresses this comes into question.

The Road takes place in post-apocalyptic America after an unknown disaster occurs. The novel centers around a boy and his father, both of whom are never given names. In an analepse, the reader learns that the mother of the boy kills herself with “a flake of obsidian” as she fears that she would be raped and murdered (McCarthy 30). “[The man] hadn’t kept a calendar for years” and the reader is left unsure what year or month it is (McCarthy 2). The man is sure, however, that winter is approaching and it would be best for him and the boy to travel south where it is warmer. They have nothing but a pistol, their clothes, and a cart with food they scavenged for. The world is barren with “dust and ash everywhere” (McCarthy 3). The story chronicles the man and boy’s journey to the south while they look for food, supplies, and shelter. The pair must fend off “bad guys” during their journey as well (McCarthy 39). When one of these “bad guys” puts his knife at the boy’s throat, the man is left with no other option than to shoot the “bad guy” leaving a “hole in his forehead” (McCarthy 34). Another gruesome event occurs when the man and boy are looking for food in a house they found. While walking down a cellar’s stairs, they smell an “ungodly stench” (McCarthy 56). In the cellar, there are “naked people” who are whispering “help us” and a maimed man on a mattress with his “legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt” (McCarthy 56). These people are being kept to be eaten eventually and the man and his son

In the third chapter of the book, the readers are introduced to a keen description of a turtle trying to cross the highway to get to the other side. What makes its journey so interesting is that the readers can see the experiences that the turtle faces, regarding two different vehicles. In one case, a forty year old woman in a sedan “saw the turtle and swung to the right, off the highway, the wheels screamed and a cloud of dust boiled up. The car skidded back onto the road, and went on, but more slowly. The turtle had jerked into its shell, but now it hurried on, for the highway was burning hot.” (p. 15) This shows that even though the the woman could have been in a hurry, she still took into account that she wanted to avoid harming the turtle. In another case, a light truck approached near the turtle, and the driver

After passing through the gates of the Trinity Pines conference center he could go one of two ways. That day he chose to take the route he had never gone, the Gulf Freeway. This route took Don on a narrow two-lane highway with no shoulders. Much of the road spans Lake Livingston, and there was a bridge at the end of the highway crossing the Trinity River. It was raining and cold as Don made his way across the

Graham uses appropriate dialogue to describe the characters' motives for wanting to keep the bus and the appreciation they have for the bus being in the community. The author also depicts the motives and personalities of the bone crusher boss and the tow truck driver in a way to represent them negatively to the reader. The sound of words add to the appeal and strength of the story as they blend together, create emphasis and repeat tones (p.26). The music of language is present in A bus called Heaven, with the sentence lengths varying, creating a smooth and flowing narrative that reads with a musical quality

Thomson Highway’s The Kiss of the Fur Queen has a core theme of art. In this novel, art is integrated into the lives of the characters. The modernist movement would indicate that art has the ability to plainly exist “art of arts sake”. Peter Lamarque notes “To value a work for its own sake is to value it for what it is in itself, not for the realization of some ulterior ends.” (par. 19) This commonly accepted view, that art is valued because it is great art, not for the role or function that it has in society, restricts arts impact. This perspective limits and does not allow for the surfacing of profound effects that art creates. In the Kiss of the Fur Queen, art has power it does not simply exist but has function. The observable function

The Kiss is a short story written by Kate Chopin. The Kiss is a short story about a woman called Nathalie (Nattie) scheming to marry a wealthy man which is Brantain. However, she is having an affair with Mr. Harvy. Kate Chopin uses different themes such as Money over love, Exploitation, and Acceptance. These themes are represented to show that you can’t always have two things at once. Kate Chopin uses these themes to show that certain situations can make a person accept that they cannot always have two relationships at once. Kate Chopin uses a variety of techniques throughout the story to highlight the idea of the three themes. The techniques Chopin used were imagery, irony and simile.