Rain Or Snow By Thomas C. Frost

Rain is never just rain, but what comes with rain is what makes a story what it is, because rain forms the setting and starts to form emotion in the reader. Rain can be scary, cleansing, or just annoying, but with each of these types of rain comes a different setting and this can lead to the reader experiencing different thoughts about the storyline and the book itself. With rain comes floods, mud, cleaning, re-birth, and many more, so when an author describes a rain scene they are describing the mood and maybe the conflict, therefore rain is important to all the elements of a good novel including weather.

Rain and sun, snow and sleet, wind and fog can all possess varying meanings of symbolism in differing pieces of writing. In both A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley it is clear that weather can have numerous interpretations.

When it comes to literature, weather can be used in many different ways. It can symbolize theme, set the mood of the story, and even affect the plot. In Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the weather acts as a plot device and as a symbol.

Throughout the text, Michael mentions the snow. Considering the book’s about a blizzard, that’d be normal, right? However, in my view, the snow symbolizes something, like dreadful times. Scattered around, the context surrounding the snow can be interpreted as how you feel during those times. For example, later in the book, when the students realize just how bad it is, they explain it as, “There was no higher ground, no place left for us to go”(Northrop 158). Here, a relation to people feeling as if there’s nowhere else to go, so they’re trapped in the horrible event occurring can be made. Results tend to be mourning over those poor times in people’s lives. Similarly, Michael connects that to how we view bad situations. Early on in the book, description of the snow is showed as it being “small flakes”, “like grains of sugar… the flakes had fattened up and

Alice Mead published Year of No Rain on May 8, 2003.She wrote a book about three friends; Stephen,Wol, and Jairo, She made wrote about them going through hunger and thirst in their village and they can’t attend school because the village’s school due to the civil war between the northern soldiers and the southern soldiers,when the bombs exploded Stephen's Mother told him and his two other friends to run away so they won't be captured by the enemy soldiers.They’re on a journey and they all have to help each other survive. Sometimes you need teamwork to get over an obstacle.“Your mother should have let Naomi come with us.They kidnap girls, I heard.”He thinks She might’ve gotten kidnapped by the soldiers and it would've been better if She came

The author begins the chapter "It's More Than Just Rain or Snow" by explaining what mood the quote "It was a dark and stormy night" creates. He explains how weather is never placed in a story for no reason. Weather is a factor used to create a mood in the passage. "A sunny day with no clouds in sight..." will create a happy mood while the reader could be imagining themselves in the story being outside on a beautiful clear day with the sunshine hitting them just right. That could put anyone in a cheerful mood, right? If the author started a story with "The rain was beating down on the roof as I realized it had been my first night without him...". Now obviously if the character had just lost someone they would be sad but adding rain to the scene adds the effect of sadness and allows the reader jump in the book to feel what the character is feeling.

In ‘How to Read Literature Like a Professor’ by Thomas Foster, Foster states that in literature weather can be used for much more than just plot progression. through the use of fog, rainbows, snow, rain, and many other weather elements it gives literature a much richer meaning through symbolism, foreshadowing, and other literary devices. In Act 3 Scene 2 of King Lear, Lear is beginning to lose his sanity in a storm as he shouts “LEAR: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulfurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity

The sun is bright, the sky is clear, and Mark is out with his friends. They are having a great time at the beach where there are dogs playing fetch and people enjoying the sun and the warm sand between their toes. You can probably predict that the mood of the text above is blissful, joyful, or peaceful. Authors sometimes use a description of the weather to help the reader better understand the mood of the text and make a connection to the characters or following events. For instance, Edith Wharton uses the snow and cold to illustrate a number of things in her novel “Ethan Frome.”

Throughout literary history weather has been used by all types of authors to help serve their purpose. The use of weather in literature can be used to do many different things. Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein weather servers many different purposes. Three of those purposes are foreshadowing, showing how a character feels, and to signify important details and/or events. In Frankenstein, Shelley uses weather to foreshadow upcoming events,show how characters feel, and to signify important details and/or events within the novel.

McCarty writes, "He wrote all day and the day was clouded before him and a cool wind was coming downcountry." (line 1-2). Here, McCarthy practices imagery to convey John Grady's emotions to his audience. The day being cold and cloudy represents John Grady's depressed state after having to leave the love

The weather is a ladder for the tension, described as ‘a wild, cold, seasonable night of March … pale moon’ this was used when Utterson searched for Hyde, showing us a mysterious side of London. Although it doesn’t show much duality, it does play a part in making the novel’s mystery

When weather is depicted in a novel, it can be used in a clever way to convey the narrative and emotional tone. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, pouring rain beats down on Nick’s house during Gatsby and Daisy’s reunion after years of not seeing one another. The weather causes the scene to feel awkward and melancholy since rain has connotations with despair, desolation, and hopelessness. However, as their love for one another reawakens, the sun happens to come out which is symbolic for happiness and a new beginning. In another scene, Tom, Daisy, Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan head to the city on the hottest day of the summer. As the heat of the summer rises, the tension between all them rises up especially when Tom and Gatsby begin

The brisk wind rustled the leaves and the branches murmured. The morning had been chilly and opaque, with a curtain of drizzle sweeping across the plains. The decaying morality and despair of humanity has affected the weather, or have I just ceased being able to see colour?

“Winter Dreams” follows perfectly along with the characteristics of the Modernist movement, which is one of the many reasons it should be added into the syllabus. F. Scott Fitzgerald explores a common Modernist theme, isolation and uncertainty, within “Winter Dreams” by using a descriptive style. This descriptive style is a contrast to the literary works of Sherwood Anderson, known for his simple prose, and Ernest Hemingway, known for his journalist style. Fitzgerald uses beautiful imagery within his works to create Modernist themes. Within “Winter Dreams”, Fitzgerald combines different techniques to switch back and forth between descriptive imagery and straightforward dialogue and description. Modernism “represents the transformation of traditional

The great debate of whether the world will end in a fiery ball of destruction or a frozen wasteland has baffled the minds of many people. A man named Robert Frost has written a poem called "Fire and Ice" that describes his thoughts on how he would prefer to leave this world. Upon reading this poem, the reader can derive two distinct meanings of fire and ice; one being of actual fire and ice destroying the world, and the other having symbols for the fire and ice, such as fire being desire or passion and ice being hatred and deceit. Although this poem is one of his shortest poems with only nine lines, it is also one of the most famous works that he has ever created.