On The Rainy River Literary Analysis

Unbroken is mainly set during World War II, in the Pacific and several other places. The story mostly focuses on Louie's life growing up, in the barracks, and in the several POW camps he had to endure during his time as a captive. The setting has a huge effect on the story because the war is what really drives the main plot through Louie's enlistment through the mental aftermath of the war that he has to work through. It's also interesting to look back at how the men at the time perceived the war effort, and how it impacts their morale. For example, after a successful air raid the men in Louie's unit believe “With the dawn of 1943 and the success at Wake, the men felt cocky. It had all been so easy. One admiral predicted that Japan might be

Released in 1971 and produced by Reprise records, river is an intensely emotional contemporary folk song about heartbreak. Written solely by Joni Mitchell for her album ‘Blue’ the song is reminiscent of Christmas time although lyrically it has little relationship to Christmas. (Hopper, 2012)

Oregon in the 1960s Oregon was a rapidly changing place. A place once full of life and vast wild forests devoid of modernization and the cruelties it brings along. Oregon was a growing agricultural state rich in timber water and almost all other natural resources worth exploiting. New cultures began to clash with indigenous Native American cultures and forced them off the land. In the novel Ricochet River, Robin Cody uses salmon, dams and Jesse a teenage Native American to spawn a recurring theme of tame vs. wild to help illustrate the struggles a transitioning world creates.

In Tim O’Brien’s short story, On the Rainy River, O’Brien wrestles with ideas of social conformity in the midst of a national crisis while struggling to find who he is and his place in a polarized era. Written in the Vietnam War’s aftermath, O’Brien presents his struggles of defining himself as a young draftee while discerning who he is as an adult long after. O’Brien receives a draft notice and undergoes an identity crisis regarding what part he will play in the war, but runs to Canada on an impulse, arriving near the border. When he is about to cross, O’Brien betrays his conscience and returns to his hometown to answer his summons. Through the application of a historical lens, one can gather much about the divided attitudes on the positions on war and the reflection of these feelings as the polarization dies down in upon its publication.

In the except from “Butterfly Burning” by Yvonne Vera, the author want to illustrate that most people make questionable decisions because they do not have some to support them through their struggles.

These theme for my book are very good themes about the book. The themes help the reader know what the book is about. The characters in the book are important to the book because with out the characters the book would make no sense. Every book must have characters and themes to the book because without those two things there is no book. The three theme from the book talk very good about the book. They describe what Brian has to go through in order to survive the cold winter in the canadian wilderness. One theme tells us how lonely it is in the wilderness and how lonely Brian is and how he has no one to talk to but a skunk. So those are some of my theme and characters of my story brian’s winter.

The literary theme of “A Long Way Gone” is of acceptance. “At times I thought that some of the stories the people passing by told were exaggerated” (pg 16). Exampliable in aforesaid quote beginning of the book, Ishmael Beah like the fellow people of his village couldn’t accept that the civil war in their country was ever as bad as the horror stories told by those managed to escape and pass through their village. Indeed when the war came to Beah and he joined the army as a child soldier, his life changed drastically. “”In my head my life was normal” (pg 154). In other words, Beah started to accept his new life as a child soldier and that his only objective in life was to kill as many people as possible in the war. Fortunately for Beah, he was

Raisin in the Sun represent the different dreams of everyone in the Younger's family. Having the ten thousand dollars in their mind, they develop their own plan. Mama's plant and hat symbolizes her dreams of having some day her own house with a little garden in the back. It also represents' how Mama cares and keeps her family together as the head of the family. " Lord, if this little old plant don't get more sun than it's been getting, it ain't never going to see spring again" (Hansberry 1517). This shows mama's worries to her families. Walter’s liquor store, symbolizes Walter's fights against poverty and racial discrimination that he imagined to be free. Ruth's unborn child represents the family's moral issue regarding abortion since poverty

Imagine you are an African-American woman living in Chicago during the 1950s in a tiny apartment with two children and a grandson. You finally have some money, but you have to decide if I risk giving my son the money to invest in a business, give my daughter the money for college, or use the money to buy our first house? In the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Lena (Mama) Younger, a hard-working, resilient, family-oriented mother, lives in a tiny apartment with her family, oversees her adult children and helps them learn how to make level-headed decisions. If she risks giving the money to Walter he might possibly lose it all. If she invests the money in Beneatha's college only she will find happiness. If she uses the money to buy a house, she is making everyone in the family happy. She will have to keep a level head in trying to persuade her children that they need to spend the money on a house.

On average, women do more unpaid work, such as household chores and childcare, than men. This trend remains constant around the world and all throughout history (“Is the Gender Pay Gap Real?”). The women in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun are no exception. This story follows the Youngers, who are an African American family living in Chicago during the 1940s. Beneatha, Lena, and Ruth, the story’s main female characters, are the main source of strength for their family.

Life is like the calmness before a storm. All good things will eventually come to an end and problems will begin to appear. Sometimes problems will occur when they are least expected too. Many authors relate the story to the problem of a good event ending up bad by using imagery to express an overall theme. In “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury and in “The Cast of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, imagery affects the theme of each story in many similar ways.

“I want to hang pearls round my wife’s neck .Ain’t she supposed to wear no pearls? Somebody tell me who decides which women is supposed to wear pearls in this world!”

The excerpt from Kim Addonizio’s and Dorianne Laux’s book, The Poet's Companion was informative and lucid. As I previously noted in reading response eight, this excerpt felt less didactic and more like a hand-holding guide as compared to previous readings on creative nonfiction. I liked the authors’ emphasis on writing and reading being the only ways of finding one’s voice. The explanation of the elements of craft in the context of poetry was very helpful in recognizing the amateur mistakes in my poems. Moreover, the sample poems aided in clarifying any questions I had after reading the authors’ opinion on voice and style. I enjoyed reading the sample poems which

In “The Storm”, Kate Chopin told a story about a man and a woman, who is having an affair while her husband and kid are stuck at the store due to a storm. As a human being sometimes we have urges that are biologically establish in ours body's to react with the environment that are surrounding us, consistently bring about our nature side. Even though the story was short, nevertheless it shown countless connection between physical nature and human nature.

In “Foul Weather” the author’s technique is non-linear. The author continues to flash back and forth without giving a clear explanation up front. Instead of a traditional time marker the author refrains to structure his story through alternate points. This is a good technique because the author starts off with an admissions of not being able to figure out what is going to happen and it comes off to the reader as more natural or effective in that way. If the author started off with traditional facts it would simply be less interesting.