Sredni Vashtar Analysis

No mention of a character within a story can be unintentional. Every word counts and contributes to an image of the character both directly and indirectly. In the short story “Ray” by Guy Vanderhaeghe, protagonist Ray Matthews is an example of how no word goes unused to maximize a character. Ray is an average, middle aged man, with an average wife, an average accounting job, and an average life. Nothing sticks out that is unique to him, and his inability to understand anything without others explaining it to him creates issues throughout his life. Vanderhaeghe develops Ray's character through his physical description, how others speak of him, and his social interactions to exemplify how important characterization is in a story.

The essay titled “Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin” by Robert Darnton discusses a massacre of cats that, according to the worker Nicolas Contat, took place in Paris in the first half of the 1700s. Contat’s writes about two apprentices, Jerome and Léveille. They had poor living conditions, were given food scraps to eat, and they had to deal with the master and their superiors. On top of all this, during the night stray cats would howl, keeping them awake. One day Léveille decided to crawl along the roof until he got near the master’s bedroom and began to howl with the cats. The aster and his wife became convinced that they were being bewitched and ordered the apprentices to get rid of the cats. They chased cats of rooftops, hit them with iron bars, and trapped them in sacks. They also performed mock trials where the rest of the workshop would join in and hang the cats with a noose. Although to us this seems like a horrific act of violence, the workers turned it into a celebration. These different views of the same event exist because of the different societies. The hatred these workers had for the bourgeois, popular celebrations, and the things that cats symbolized all contributed to the humor of the cat massacre. We must first understand these to be able to understand the cat massacre.

The use of connotative words in this piece is the foundation of this poem and it provides an idea of what this poem is going to be about. In the first stanza he describes the woman as “lovely in her bones,” showing that her beauty is more than skin deep comparing her virtues to a goddess of “only gods should speak.” In the second stanza, the reader can see and feel the love between the two people. The woman taught him how to "Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand," showing that she was the teacher in the relationship and taught him things he thought he never needed to know. The speaker shows how when they are together, she was “the sickle” and he was “the rake” showing that this woman taught him what love is.

The speaker uses words such as “louring” (line 2), “deep deceit” (line 8), “grievous” (line 11) and “bale” (line 140. All of these words have sorrowful and despairing meanings to them which gives the whole poem an unhappy tone. The third and fourth lines discus that the speaker cannot even look at the beautiful face, which appears to grow more attractive daily, of the woman he loves. Moreover, the couplet tells the readers that the sorrow in the speaker’s eyes is there because of the pain he has felt due to his faulty relationship. The mouse that “lies aloof for fear of more mishap” (line 7) shows the misery felt by the speaker by using the words “aloof” and “mishap”. “Aloof” means to be stand-offish or reserved, which the speaker is because if he gets too close, he will be hurt again. “Mishap” means disaster or unfortune which altogether sounds miserable. Had the speaker used diction that was lighter or less depressed, the reader truly would not understand the misery the speaker has went through. The miserable diction depicts the deep wounds the speaker received from his love, shedding light to how much he really loved her and how bad she really hurt

Varjak returns home to family with Holly and Cludge. Cludge stays outside because he is afraid of climbing walls. He returns to find his older brother has become the head of the household. Varjak’s family praises him for his adventures which angers Julius and causes him to attack Varjak. Finally in a position of power, he warns his family of the danger the gentleman posed. Almost as if he spoke him into existence the gentleman came with his cats took Holly and disappeared upstairs. Varjak decides to follow up after her using the way not to be seen. He goes upstairs where he finds cats trapped in a large cage. The gentleman was the one behind the vanishings, turning cats into life-size toys. Varjak kills the black cats by biting their collar and frees the remaining cats. As the cats escape the gentleman returns and grabs Varjak. Just before his hands can connect Cludge breaks through the window an scares him off. Varkjak saves his family and the city cats and is proclaimed a hero. His family asked him to stay but he knew outside was where he belonged. As he left the house the other cats started to follow him and he knew he was the leader of a new

Kudler is planning to have an annual revenue increase by 5% within 12 months breaking it down to four categories. A quarter percent gain is anticipated in the projects launch as well as the training of employees’. Profits will increase by a half of a percent during the assessment and alteration of the project with the promotion of the Frequent Shopper Program taking place at this time as well. In each phase of the development customer satisfaction will increase so will revenue, which will lead to an overall increase of 4.75% (Kudler Fine Foods. (2004). Apollo.).

Returning to Zitkala-Sa, we can see how her work strongly contests Turner’s ideas about what it means to be “evolved.” At home in the west, Zitkala-Sa and her family and friends had well-established, respected customs for everything: food collection, meal preparation, hairstyles, fashion, crafting, storytelling, religion, and more. Without recognizing this point we risk falling into the same mindset as Turner, in believing that Indian culture was primitive at best and nonexistent at worst. Conversely, at boarding school, Zitkala-Sa and her fellow Native American peers are forced to learn a new language, cut their hair short, wear “immodest” clothes, and indoctrinate themselves into Christianity, among other things. In Turner’s eyes, this may seem like the natural course of action in the “procession of civilization” (32), but to Zitkala-Sa, these experiences left her feeling like a “mummy,” chained up prior to her “burial” (Zitkala-Sa 97.) She states that it was “inbred in [her] to suffer in silence” at the hands of the “civilizing machine” (96), and remarks that she often “wept in secret, wishing [she] had gone West, to be nourished by [her] mother’s love, instead of remaining

    The poem is structured as a sonnet which commonly expresses a theme of love throughout the lines. Also it is paired with the “ABAB” rhyme scheme to give an emotional view to the readers about the conflict he has. Also the sonnet and the rhyme scheme is a common usage of poem making and many people know what it is, so the poet uses this structure to let readers understand more easily and clearly. He also uses the “ABAB” scheme to separate parts that are important within themselves. In the first four lines, it talks about the poet himself and how much he tries to avoid the one she loves by “ hold my louring head so low”(Line 2). In the next four lines, it talks about the mouse and how its problems relates with the poet’s emotional pain. After that, the next four lines talks about the fly and how it relates with the author with his physical pain. Using these methods help the poet communicate with the readers easily.

Based on your description, I ship you with Shino Aburame. As you stated that your strong point are languages, it would in fact be similar to a bug specialist. Each bug belongs to a particular species and that determines how the bug behaves, just like how human are classify between ethnicity/nationality.

The story unfolds very smoothly and evenly in spite of of the stirring and at the same time troubling subject of the matter. We get acquainted with the main characters – The Crutchman family “so very very happy and so temperate in all their habits and so pleased with everything that came their way”, due to the anaphoric repetition the author creates intensification, that states the problem –

Over the past years there has been a lot of incidents where police officers use excessive force in various situations. Some police officers have been abusing their powers for years and have been getting away with it. For this reason, United States has created policies to protect our citizens from excessive and unreasonable force. Some of these policies have been over looked and not implemented accordingly, but at the same time, policies to protect our citizens have been appropriately enforced. Recent statistics have shown a decreased of excessive force by the police in USA. However, according to Mears most policies fail because the lack of theoretical and empirical foundations. To evaluate Mears’ theory, this paper discusses an overview of

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The author has skillfully constructed the characters to assist young readers to connect with them. The main character, Griet, is a quiet, lonely, innocent and vulnerable young lady. When Van Ruijven cornered Griet in the hallway and grabbed her chin, she did not feel at all comfortable: “I did not like the way he looked at me”. Griet had some artistic talent and vision and wanted this to be recognized by her master, but was too shy to say anything. She was looking for love and security, which she found in Vermeer. Vermeer’s remarkable character draws young readers in as he was portrayed as a very gentle, caring and loyal man – the type of man you would want to marry. Vermeer never forgot her and

He writes in a language, and he uses a lot of metaphorical features. We as readers are very confused about the way he has chosen to describe the story, but we are also very fascinated by the action. So whole this short story tells us that he has had a tragic life and how he helps others achieve a good life and you can say here that he has a good point.