Personification And Imagery In Katharine Brush's The Birthday Party

I have never thought so much about my future, until hitting eighteen in year twelve. The stress of attending uni, studying, securing a job and the big one- getting married! Marriage, I’m sure, has been something every teenage girl looks forward to. As for me, I have never been so skeptical of such an exciting life event.

Katharine Brush uses literary techniques in Birthday Party to convey the sense of helplessness an abused person feels in an abusive relationship.

“The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker is a short story about a girl’s life experience that changes her point of view on society. One day, she gets an invitation to a rich daughter’s birthday. Her mother is a maid and works for them. Rosaura’s youth and innocence shows that she doesn’t realize the true meaning of the invitation, and firmly believes that there is no social distinction between the rich and the poor. She believes that even if she is the maid’s daughter she is welcomely accepted in the party. Although she is only nine years old, Rosaura feels confident that she knows more about rich people than her mother. Heker uses symbols and figurative language to convey “to always

"Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush is a disheartening tale of a celebration gone wrong. Brush uses imagery and diction to achieve her purpose of illustrating how people's best intentions go awry. One of the major images described in the story is after the cake arrives:... the wife beamed with shy pride over her little surprise..." This demonstrates that the wife was quite happy with herself for getting the cake for her husband.

     The background of the story gives us the idea of what Mrs. Mallard’s marriage meant to her. We see a picture of a young well-to-do wife who seems to be very pleased with her life. We also get the impression that she was deeply in love with her husband.

The imagery shows how she feels weak and makes the decision she makes. According to gender stereotypes, Morton should have been able to stand up for his family but decides to walk away because he is too scared. Him not being able to support his family proves that he is not a “man”. Instead of relying on Morton to support the family, she should have tried multiple other times to get her point to the other man. Instead, she decides to make Morton handle the situation even though she knows that he is not capable of doing so. Lastly, Morton’s wife is portrayed to be very dependant on others. She depends on her husband to be able to stand up for her and her family, as the man of the family is stereotypically meant to be the family’s backbone. However, near the end of the story, Morton’s wife felt the “feeling [of guilt], glued like heavy plaster on her heart.” (Kaufman 183). This quote uses imagery to prove that she feels embarrassed that Morton is unable to fulfill his role as the “man” of the family at the park, and walks away without defending his name or his

Theme always has been attached importance by authors. Authors always try to develop their theme in their theme in their book by using rhetoric and literary devices. Picture Bride is a book that was writen by Yoshiko Uchida. It talks about a Japanese woman, Hana, has her new life in America as a immigrant and there are a lot of setbacks in her life are waiting for her. Uchida trys to inform that reality does not always match a person’s expections. Uchida develops this theme through the use of literary and rhetoric dievices which are imagery, personification and repetition.

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

In "Living like Weasels", author Annie Dillard uses rhetorical devices to convey that life would be better lived solely in a physical capacity, governed by "necessity", executed by instinct. Through Dillard's use of descriptive imagery, indulging her audience, radical comparisons of nature and civilization and anecdotal evidence, this concept is ultimately conveyed.

Does anyone like surprises? Whenever media portrays a surprise party, it is typically in a manner that has the recipient insisting on not having any surprise party. Something usually goes wrong to prove them right. If it is not something at the gathering, it is the guest of honor turning into a horrible metaphorical monster because of being forced into the situation. It is a mistrust in surprises that create this kind of reaction, and it is also mistrust that is left behind when someone decides to throw the party anyway. In Jane Kenyon’s poem “Surprise,” she uses female imagery, regression, and active reversal to relay the theme of mistrust.

Elaine Potter Richardson, more famously known as Jamaica Kincaid, is recognized for her writings that suggest depictions of relationships between families, mainly between a mother and daughter, and her birth place, Antigua, an island located in the West Indies. She is also familiarized with Afrocentrism and feminist point of views. Kincaid’s work is filled heavily with visual imagery that produces a mental picture in readers that helps them connect stronger to the reading. An example of this really shines through in her short story piece, “Girl.” This short story describes the life of a lower class woman living in the West Indies, and also incorporates thick detailing between the relationship between her and her mother. Jamaica Kincaid structures the story as if her mother is speaking to her. She writes broad, but straight to the point, allowing readers to imagine to picture her experience. Kincaid uses visual imagery and repetition consistently throughout “Girl” to reveal the theme and tone of the story; conflictual affair between a mother and daughter.

“Birthday Party” by Katherine Brush uses literary devices such as tone, point of view, diction, and sensory details to achieve her purpose.

      Throughout his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne reveals character through the use of imagery and metaphor.

The narrator says, “ She was plotting now to get me to stay in the house more, although she knew I hated it and keep me from working for my father.(pg. 307) This statement is describing how important these roles were to the manipulative parental figures in her life. The father did not believe in the stereotypical women roles, which lead to him making her a hired man. During the winter, the family keeps and kills two horses to feed the foxes with horse meat. The name of the horses was Mack and Flora, which were a single female and male horse. Mack was the male horse who was characterized as a old black workhouse, sooty, and indifferent. (pg. 308) This statement describes how the stereotypical male in society should be like in the 1960 's. The male should have the characteristics of workhorse in the field of working in the 1960 's. Flora was a female who was characterized as an sorrel mare, a driver.(pg. 308) This statement describes how dominant she was a female horse. In contrast, the female women was not the dominant gender in the 1960 's , because of the limitations and lack of opportunities created by the predominantly gender of males. The narrator says, “ the word girl had formerly seemed to me

In the third painting of A Rake’s Progress, The Orgy or Tavern Scene, the man can easily be identified as the subject. Tom, the man in seen throughout all of the paintings, is engulfed by females who take interest in his appearance and idolize him. The text portrays women as being submissive to men and fulfill the title of being second-class citizens. Moreover, the image of men relies on the misrepresentation of women. The exploitation of women in mass media dismembers their existence (physically and mentally) as for men who are overrepresented for their masculinity and domination. In Scene 5, The Marriage, Tom is getting married to an older woman as the woman from the previous painting, Sarah, is being held back from entering the building. Simultaneously, both of the dogs in the background symbolizes marriage as it creates parallelism to the dogs displayed in Marriage A-La-Mode by William Hogarth. The text promotes distinctively unfavorable evaluations of