Metaphor In Where Things Come Back

Metaphors are used to present hidden similarities between two concepts to help understand a more distinct description of a setting, conflict and other entities in a story. “Rainsford stood blinking in the river of flaring gold light” (64). The metaphor “… the river of flaring gold light” implies that the river is reflecting a glow, like a flare of gold light. The quote helps present part of the setting and helps the reader imagine a

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

In “A River Runs Through It,” similes are used constantly. They usually relate a person or object to an animal or living entity. For one example, Maclean uses a simile to compare life’s

Regardless, the journey south continues where they find a house, full of valuables for the cold weather that the boy and father are able to garner. In this short time a group of cannibals arrive to the house they are in, and it is revealed that they are keeping a hoard of humans locked up in a cellar to feast on. Though the father is not as shocked as he would have liked to have been, the boy is absolutely horrified and is the key moment where the boy realizes that the world truly is dead. Both the father and son are able to sneak out of the house undetected, and are forced to wait in a bush near the house to keep from alerting anyone inside of their presence. Once they get back on the road, they stumble upon a patch of land full of apples, and a barn, which has fresh water stored underneath it. The spoils of their journey does the job in refreshing both the father and son, and gets them to their next destination. Arriving at a house that the father has decided they will camp at, he goes to do some exploring. In the exploring he manages to find a bomb shelter, never before plundered for its goods. The father and the boy load their cart full with food and wait a few days to spoil themselves at the bomb shelter. Once back on the road they run into an old man whom does not mean trouble unlike every other character in the road, but instead is seemingly lifeless and

The object that keeps appearing in the story is Jake and Taylors dads journal. The journal is very important when Jake and Taylor have challenges and if they did not have the journal then they might not have survived. Here is something to show that the journal is important, in the story Jake and his brother are eating berries, then Taylor puts a red glossy berry into his mouth, Jake looks at him in surprise because he does not know what kind of berry it is. Jake then scrolled through his dad's journal to find out what kind of berry it was. It was a deadly berry, so Jake yelled at his brother to spit it out(Wallace 124,125). This is important because without their dads journal Taylor would have probably swallowed the berry and gotten very sick enough to die. Another way how their dads journal shows symbolism is from this example, “in the story Taylor ran away from Jake because he wanted to go find their dad right away. Jake waited awhile for him to come back, but he never did. That is when Jake started to go look for him. He wandered for a long time and then he eventually found his brother. He ran straight towards him. Jake arrived and Taylor had a huge blood wound from a bobcat. Jake then searched their dads journal for a way to help him. He found a page in the book and then he did what it said to save Taylors life(Wallace 192, 193).” This means that the journal has just appeared

In, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, there is a quote “they all carried ghosts.”, this metaphor can represent the many things the soldiers carried. Every soldier carries things that represent memories or security. In war, the soldiers are confronted with death every day so they carry things that remind them of people, memories, or hope.

Soldiers throughout the ages have had to carry the burden of what war brings upon them. The physical strain is a huge weight to carry, but the mental turmoil that a solider must endure becomes most strenuous and lasting of the burdens placed upon them. When soldiers carry these burdens into a war zone, it is so the majority can live a life free from violence and turmoil. There is strong underlying metaphor in Tim O’Brien’s Novel The Things They Carried. Metaphor is used throughout the text of the book to create a sense of understanding or to convey a different meaning then the text originally suggests.

Cullen’s use of Simile provides the reader with vivid and specific details about the poem and what is means. These include phrases like “Your grief and mine must intertwine like sea and river,” where we can see use of simile to create vivid pictures of how humans should “intertwine” their emotions with others. Also, another use of simile in the text is when Cullen describes the pain of grief when she says “The ills I sorrow at not me alone like an arrow, Pierce to the marrow”. Through this passage we see the tone of grievance as well as the authors call for human togetherness and

Spring comes; school lets out for the cotton season. Rumor says that T.J. is spending more time with Melvin and R. W. and that they are just using him. One night in early summer, some nearby farmers come by and tell Papa not to buy anything for them on his next trip to Vickburg. Granger amongst other plantation owners are threatening to decrease pay and even kick the tenants off their land then put the men on a chain gang if they do not begin shopping at the Wallace store. All but seven families stop ordering goods from Vicksburg. Mama feels this is not enough to hurt the Wallaces but Papa will not give up. On the next trip to Vicksburg they are ambushed. While Papa is repairing a sabotaged wagon wheel, a truck pulls up and fires--a bullet grazes his head. Then the horse rears up and pulls the wagon wheel over Papa's leg. L. T. makes short work of the men however, who turn out to be the Wallaces, breaking Dewberry Wallace's back.

The story starts off with an image of light to represent hope, which is quickly contrasted with gloom of darkness that seems to hang over the characters and threaten the narrator and his family throughout the story. Hope overwhelms the narrator, just as his lack of acceptance to the painful realities of his life does as well. The story starts off introducing the relationship of the brothers being that of an estranged one, not having contact over a year. The narrator reads a newspaper article about his brother being arrested in a recent drug raid and is finally hit with reality.

Tim O’brien’s The Things They Carried a meta-fictional novel comprised of war story vignettes narrated by a Vietnam War veteran named Tim, a fictionalized version of the author. The story asks its reader to consider the nature of death and the effect of post-mortem storytelling. O’brien posits that life does not always have to end with death because people can be kept alive in the stories and memories of others long after their own demise.

Paulsen uses a simile when trying to explain how terry’s dad spoke when he started to talk about his past in the war. “And suddenly his voice flowed like a river breaking loose” Paulsen 609. In the story Terry is trying hard to understand what his father went through in Vietnam when Terry finally got the courage to ask and his dad’s words “flowed loose”.This is a good example of a simile because a simile is a comparison using like or as. It says “flowed LIKE a river”. This is so the reader can sort of imagine and see how Terry’s dad felt about the war and what the dad’s voice sounded like when talking about it. Without it the dad’s voice would just be lifeless because the reader wouldn’t know how he talked or sounded.

Tim Winton does this many times throughout his stories some good examples in small mercies is when Tim Winton writes about the Keenan’s as the salt of the earth meaning they are simple and good people, the term originated from Jesus Christ when he spoke to his followers saying “ye are the salt of the earth", another use of a simile in Tim Winton small mercies is when he describes the Keenan house smelling like “ old people" this is a simile because Tim Winton was comparing the odour of there house to old people. Tim Winton also says that the Keenan’s wood stove oven is the “Rolls-Royce of the ranges” this is a simile because he compares there oven to a high-end car. In damaged goods Tim uses simile throughout the book one example of this is when he is talking about when strawberry Alison came to town and how she was a beauty but she was “damaged goods" because of her large birthmark across her face, this is another good example as Tim talks about her looks as damaged goods this term comes from someone who is regarded as inadequate or impaired in some way this is a simile because damaged good means something that was good or valuable lost all value due to a little defect a good example is painting, it may be

Everyday ocean waves are different, some days they are smooth, where other days are rough and bumpy. With the ocean, some word choices can make people's views positive, while others can make views negative. Platten uses this simile to show how words can over power a person, but if they try hard enough, they can overcome

Due to the book Where Things Come Back, my intellectual response is that this story allows people to be aware of the fact that family is everything, you would most likely be nowhere without your family. After reading the book, my emotional response to this story is it’s very heart wrenching and contains a hopeful mood/tone. Furthermore, my linguistic response is that you would have to actually read the book for yourself to get the whole experience--especially the reactions of the characters due to sudden thrilling events. Since this story mostly is about Gabriel’s disappearance, I conclude that my social response is parents, guardians, and family members should keep a close eye on their children and teenagers. Thankfully for this scenario,