Literary Analysis OfThe Goldfinch, By Donna Tartt

In the passage from the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, the author Tomson Highway presents the main character, Okimasis’, thrilling experience in a tasteful manner. The author constantly shifts the angles and tone of the passage, in a way that has a profound effect on the reader. Highway dramatizes Okimasis’ physical and emotional journey through the tundra, which is portrayed through sensory imagery, detailed descriptions, comparisons and intense diction.

Gwen Harwood’s poem The Lion’s Bride, written 1981 revolves around the time period when women were objectified as housewives whose only job was to breed and nurture children, as well as care for their husbands. This poem creates a vivid image about a lion who falls in love with the zookeepers daughter but fails to recognize her when she greets him on her wedding day, wearing her dress, and mistakes her for a ghost. In response to this misinterpretation, the lion proceeds to maul the woman and lies in wait for the zookeeper’s daughter to arrive and feed him. The underlining message behind this poem revolves around a man who believes he is caged by his lover’s father in response to the feelings the father doesn’t agree with, and on her wedding day, the lover feels as though he is destroying the woman because she is marrying someone else.

In contrast to the novel she is described as “Wearing a pink dress...The dress’s skirt stuck out like a tutu” (Walls 6). The actress who played Jeannette Wall appeared to be older than 3 years old. The introduction of the film started with Jeannette asking her mother to cook for her. Her mother refused with the excuse of “Would you rather have me create art that will last forever or make a meal that will last a hour”(Destin Daniel Cretton "The Glass Castle"). Of course Rosemary chose to create her masterpiece or else the film wouldn’t have the iconic scene of Jeannette burning when she’s making hot dogs on her own. In the film they missed a minor detail of Juju, the black mutt. Jeannette feeds the dog a hot dog in the novel in which causes her dress to catch fire. The movie portrays her as getting too close to the flame in which causes her tutu to catch fire. The similarity in both the novel and the film is the actress is hungry which causes her to boil the hot dogs in the first place. The mother is irresponsible and decided to keep painting instead of cooking for her daughter. Rosemary is displayed in both the novel and the film as a permissive parent.The plot of the film starts off different from the novel. The scene begins with a conversation between Rosemary and Jeannette. The novel didn’t have the scene but instead opened up with her already in the kitchen cooking for herself. The next difference was

Theo’s life is effected greatly by the other characters in the book. In the beginning, his mother has the greatest influence on him. Without her, he is a ship adrift in a sea of uncertainty with no way to navigate to more predictable waters. It is not until he meets Hobie that Theo begins to find himself again. Where everyone has some sort of advice or idea on how Theo should be handling his mother’s death, Hobie does not. He listens to Theo, providing Theo with a confidant who will just listen and not try to drug him to make him feel better or tell him that he should take art classes to express his feelings.

In Fahrenheit 451, The Hearth and the Sledgehammer, Ray Bradbury writes of a fireman, Guy Montag, who is the fireman in charge of burning books. He wears a helmet with the numbers 451 engraved in it, which represents the temperature at which paper burns. His uniform, black with with a sledgehammer on the arm, which seems to really attract the ladies. After suspecting an abiding near by he decides to meet up with his new neighbor, Clarisse, instantaneously she becomes greatly intoxicated by the fact that he is a fireman and feels a slight attraction toward him. Clarisse's constant “flirting” with Montag causes him to slightly feel attracted to her. After meeting with his new neighbor Montag returns home only to find his wife, Mildred, doing exactly what she had been doing for the past two years, listening to the radio with her earphones.

Montag lives in a society where books aren’t allowed, but when he starts realizing things his feelings change about books and love. Clarisse a girl comes into Montag’s life and shows him a different view in love. Also, an old man, Fabor, Montag met at the park shows Montag a different view in books. Montag believed that reading books were useless and that he’s in love with mildred, but towards the end Montag learns from Clarisse and Fabor that books are more than words on paper and that he wasn’t really in love with Mildred.

Imagine losing everything all in one instant. In Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch that is exactly what happens to the main character Theo. Everything he knew and loved is taken away without warning. He has a very difficult time coping with the loss of his mother, and tries to escape through drugs. The drawing and the book both capture the loss Theo suffers and how it affects his life.

Imagine traveling to the future to discover the disappearance of the principles and ways of life that once were. In this futuristic world, firemen start fires to burn books instead of extinguishing them. Likewise, today’s common notion that people should read books and educate themselves reverses to the opposite where books have become illegal. The government tries to make the people believe that books only cause pain and suffering but, on the contrary, they enlighten the ignorance of the unknowing. The idea of happiness shrouds the people of this time when their euphoria is just blindness towards reality.

It makes people think burn it; it is different burn it, but if it is fake and thinks for us keep it. These are the ideas expressed by Ray Bradbury in his novel Fahrenheit 451, where firemen burn books and tv is a person's "family." In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury suggests television can take away people's ability to think freely and express themselves. He uses symbolism, characterization, and dialogue to demonstrate people are controlled by fear and technology thinks for people. In Fahrenheit 451, fire destroys, technology thinks, and people do nothing but follow the directions.

While revealing the depth of Theodore’s character the Goldfinch also brings the reader to understand his relationship with his mother and her character through the art as a reminder. Theodore’s mother having died in the art museum, stayed with Theo showing her significance and connection to the art. The Goldfinch’s chain on it’s leg symbolized Theodore’s mother’s death holding him back from fully recovering. The terrorist attack happening so early in his childhood stays with him forever and the memory of his mother being chained down in an abusive relationship in his childhood stays with him

At the beginning of the book, we were asked to define speculative fiction. I defined speculative fiction as, "The genre of science fiction fantasy and horror. " Even after researching what speculative fiction was, I still did not have a clear understanding. After many class discussions, I was able to grasp a better understanding. I would define this genre in which it contains basic elements of science fiction mainly because of the setting that the book takes place in.

Kelly J. Mayes defines plot in The Norton Introduction to Literature as the way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and interpretation. Every piece of literature contains a plot pattern that follows Freytag’s pyramid. This pyramid consists of an exposition, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a conclusion. Though each story displays this pattern of organization, authors use many different literary devices to differentiate their work and to acquire the response they want to achieve from their audience. The author of “The Jewelry,” Guy De Maupassant, correctly followed Freytag’s Pyramid and used varied literary devices to create a suspenseful read for the audience.

Throughout the play there are three main symbols; the bird, the bird cage and the jar of preserves. The bird symbolized Mrs. Wright and how she loved to sing because the bird was always singing. As the play progresses Mr. Wright grows annoyed with the bird and kills it. The canary’s death represented how Mrs. Wright is dead inside from her neglectful marriage. The bird’s cage symbolized the cage of a marriage Mrs. Wright was in. She felt trapped by her husband’s emotional abuse. When the bird cage broke, it represented the death of Mr. Wright and the freedom that Mrs. Wright felt after breaking free from her long, painful marriage. The last jar of cherry preserves symbolized how Mrs. Wright was still standing. After a failed marriage and losing her bird, which was the one thing she cared most about, Mrs. Wright managed

There are three themes that are used throughout the reading which are; love, beauty, and death. The most important theme in this story would be beauty. When the husband gets so attached to his art work he forgets about the beautiful wife he has of his own and only thinks about the beauty of this portrait. Love is also showed in this story but by the wife. The wife is so in love with her husband she is willing to do anything and everything to make her husband happy. Which is not getting in the away of him painting his picture. The last theme would be death even though this is a major theme it comes last. After the husband not realizing the actual beauty and love the

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach is a metaphorical novelette about a young gull and his life on earth. The story tells about Jonathan, and how when he was growing up his parents noticed that there was something different about him. Rather than going with all the gulls to the port to search for food, Jonathan would linger back and practice flying. Flying was his obsession, for he saw it to be more meaningful than the practice of begging for food and snatching up fish. However, flying, like any other symbol in this parable, has a deeper meaning than it appears to have.