Similes In Bud Not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtiss

The short story “A&P” written in 1961 by New Yorker, John Updike was written to picture an image in readers mind on the judgment he portrayed at the grocery store. Updike, known as Sammy in the short story, immediately judged three teenage girls who walked into their store on what they were wearing and how they were carrying their selves. He then later found himself becoming defensive when his store manager, Lengel, approached the girls on the bathing suites they were wearing in the store which was said to be against story policy. Sammy did not like Lengel approaching them and made a compulsive decision to quit his job. Sammy knew the position he was putting himself in but chose to stick with it. John Updike uses Symbolism, Imagery, and Similes in “A&P” to

Forrest Gump is an All American, fan favorite, award-winning film directed by Robert Zemeckis that was released on July 6, 1994. Tom Hanks stars as the main character, Forrest Gump. The award-winning movie’s genre is best described as an epic romantic comedy drama. Many rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos are made throughout the entire movie. Pathos is used the most effecting the audiences’ emotions from beginning to end. The film is based on Forrest Gump’s life, in which he narrated as a historical story throughout the movie. Forrest Gump was born and raised in Greenbow, Alabama by his single mother. Forrest was mentally and physically handicapped. He had to wear medal braces on both of his legs. He also faced many

To explain this quote uses simile. A simile is a technique that writers use, which is putting something in comparison using like

“He was a quiet , soft-spoken man who wore old-timey clothes, fedoras, button-down wool coats, suspenders, and dressed neatly at all times, regardless of how dirty his work made him” (Mcbride 6).“His father was a black man, a railroad brakeman, and his mother a Native American, so he had a lot of indian in his face: brown skin, slanted brown eyes, high cheekbones and a weather-beaten outdoor look about him..” (Mcbride 120).The writing is figurative by the use of similes and metaphors. “In running from her past, Mommy has created her own nation, a rainbow coalition that descends on her house every Christmas and Thanksgiving.” (277)“Her grits tasted like sand and butter, with big lumps inside that caught in your teeth and suck in your gums.”(McBride 67) . “Ma cried, and she wailed and wailed, the sound of her cries circling the house like a spirit and settling on all the corridors and beds where we ay, weeping in silence.”(McBride 128) Allusions are used to give a timeframe of the time period by talking about issues.“She actually liked Malcolm X. She put in nearly the same category as her civil rights heroes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor

For example, Bradbury writes “He would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.” The simile used does a great job showing the reader the setting of this scene in the “The Pedestrian”. In this scene a man is walking down the sidewalk kicking up ash-like dust. When the reader sees the image of that man, the reader gets the sense of a content and tranquil situation.

Although John knew that they “could expect a storm,” he left Ann to go help his father. The storm is representing that alienation physically “isolating her”. Ann wants a more affectionate and passionate relationship with her husband, but he is too “simple minded” to notice what she wants, John thinks he’s giving her everything she need in life by working so hard.Which adds to Ann’s sense of isolation.Ann was eager and hopeful at first that her marriage may turn around then she became bitter, resentful, and lonely.“I knew we were going to have a storm - I told him so - but it doesn’t matter what I say. Big stubborn fool - he goes his own way anyway. It doesn’t matter what becomes of me. In a storm like this he’ll never get home. He won’t even

When life gets you down, you know you have your friends to help you. For example, in Fever 1793, on page 169, when Mattie came back to her home she saw Eliza. "I cried a river and poor Eliza did her best to comfort me." Eliza learned that Mattie was all alone so Eliza took her in when grandfather died. When the world turns your life upside down, you always have your friends to help you to make it easier. It's easier because you can tell them about your problems and they can help you.

The Violence portrayed within these three poems, “Tornado Child”, “We real cool”, and “The Kid”; examines the issues of Pride, Anger and Power. Pride is shown in the poems, like the boy in the poem “the kid” where he pride in killing his family and then after killing them, he took their most prized possessions as a trophy. In “Tornado Child” had some characteristics and of an actual tornado. Where he take pride talking how he can destroy thing if he wanted too. The “We are cool” poem basically self-explanatory, shows how the kids took pride in dropping out or even skipping school; just to do whatever they want. Anger was high in these poems, especially in the poem “The Kid”. The boy showed so much anger when he was killing his parents and little sister. All of his anger unleashed all at once, and he just snap. In “Tornado Child” in stanzas one and two where it says: “I am a tornado child. I come like a swirl of black and darken up your day; I whip it all into my womb, lift you and your things, carry you to where you've never been, and maybe, if I feel good, I might bring you back, all warm and scared, heart humming wild like a bird after early sudden flight.” I am a tornado child. I tremble at the elements. When thunder rolls my womb trembles, remembering the tweak of contractions that tightened to a wail when my mother pushed me out into the black of a tornado night”. Shows how his anger is compared to a tornado, some way shape or form. The poem “We are cool” the kids show anger by being rebellions, by doing whatever they want and not listen. Finally, you have power which is shown a lot in the poem. “The Kid “poem, the boy showed power in killing his family. He killed his mother and father with one blow to the head and spinal area. The “Tornado Child” shows power by comparing himself to a tornado, basically saying he is strong and powerful to what he wants. And in the “We are cool” poem, they show power by showing how they are not going to what people ask of them and standing for what they want.

“He set the first trigger and was moving his finger to the hair trigger when he heard a noise behind him”(54).This quote shows how he had mentally changed because, before he refused to shoot a gun and now he still does not like to kill but he will do it if

“Punishment for such serious sexual crimes could be severe. Thomas Granger of Plymouth, a boy of seventeen or so, was indicted in 1642 for buggery "with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey." Granger was hanged; the animals, for their part in the affair, were executed according to the law, Leviticus 20.15, and "cast into a great and large pit that was digged for the purpose for them, and no use was made of any part of them” (Cox 1). Present day and Puritan communities use physical consequences as a result of unlawful actions. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore use similes and atmosphere to show that physical consequences result from unlawful actions.

Another example in the poem of the similarities and differences between races is a when the author talks about the finances of Mister Samuel and Sam. ‘Mister Samuel deal wid high finance, Sam deal in a two-bit game; Mister Samuel crashes, Sam goes broke, But deys busted jes’ de same’ (Brown, 220) compares how the finances are much lower of the black man compared to the white man. This stanza continues by providing the similarities between the men. It discusses how both the white man and the black man experience financial downfall as a result.

In the suitor several similes are use to describe the love a women beguns to discover for her suitor. The first simile use is " we lie back to back." This meaning shes lying back to back with her suitor trying to define her feelings. The second simile is " turing all at once like a school of fish". It refering how both turn at the sametime bringing their love closer. The third simile is " for month this feeling has been coming closer stopping, for short visist like a timid suitor. In this simile i belive she discovers shes happy and wanted by her suitor. A love that litttle by little has has beeing discover by

In The Hills of Zion by H.L. Mencken, various stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies are used such as similes and imagery. Mencken uses similes in order to show how religion made the people of the hills fully convinced in their religious rituals. This can be seen when Mencken and a woman went to a religious gathering in which the priest spoke and ”Words spouted from his lips like bullets from a machine-gun”, and a woman “bent backward until she was like half a loop” in addition to “bouncing all over the place, like a chicken with its head cut off.” Such figurative language is used by Mencken in order to display how religion made the people of the hill appear unusual as well as fully convinced in their religion. Furthermore, various

Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet who brought hopefulness to the oppressed during the Harlem Renaissance in his poem, “If We Must Die”. McKay experienced the hardships that colored people were going through because of their race and nationality. He believed that the people should fight for what they believe in, even if it seems like a hopeless cause. McKay uses the concept of dying with dignity to persuade his fellow African-Americans that are being oppressed to fight for what they believe in.

For this reason, he is now covered in “lightning” as well, which is a metaphor for “chasing the storm of life”. He wants to be right in the action in order to understand and full experience everything the world has to offer. Instead of simply watching the tornadoes from afar, naming them and being able to separate himself from the emotional damage that may cause, the narrator finally becomes a storm chaser and stating it as “what I’m supposed to do”. Through the fear of looking back at his life when he is old and only seeing boring and easy days, it pushes him to step out of his comfort