Sudden Waves Chapter Summaries

As the rain began to come down in an awkward fashion, as if it were

Rain can associate fear because drowning magnifies fear (us being land creatures). Rain profound this sort.

In a piece of literary work weather is never just weather. Rain, snow, storms, and even rainbows all have their distinct meanings and in most cases usually symbolize something much deeper. Weather can change the entire mood of a novel and this is important because at times authors use weather to symbolize what is going on emotionally with a character. Two works of literature that use weather accordingly and symbolically are Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and The Odyssey by Homer.

Weather is very important in literature, not only does it help to set the mood, but it can also help reveal a character’s mood. When a character is happy, the sun might be shining and the birds might be chirping, or the opposite, if a character is sad then it might be raining or gloomy out. For example, in the “Great Gatsby” when Daisy firsts comes over to Nicks house unaware that Gatsby is there, it’s raining outside. The rain could represent Gatsby’s nervousness to see Daisy after so many years, and when the two finally do reunite, the rain continues. The rain could also symbolize the awkwardness between the two after meeting again for so long. When Nick returns, the rain stopped and the sun is shining, and we find that Daisy and Gatsby are

Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like A Professor is a thorough guide that analyzes both the deeper meanings and the underlying elements in literature. In one of the chapters, titled “It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow,” Foster elucidates that if an author incorporates a weather condition into his writing, it is not just a meaningless, superficial detail. Weather can act as a template for the plot or be symbolic to the mood of the story. Foster uses weather as a way to symbolize literary details in general, indicating that they can contribute a copious amount of quality to the descriptiveness and significance of the content. He uses rain to illustrate this, reasoning that if a character needed to be cleansed and the author inserts a rainstorm for cleansing, the rain has much more substance than just another April shower (Foster, 71). Rain is clean, so this type of water pouring down on the character is essentially cleaning them. This detail of rain can be used to create another type of environment for the story, such as a way to unite people (Noah’s Ark) or serve as a form of

It can symbolize many things like purification and “can bring the world back to life”(Foster 72). Rain is usually thought to be in a passage for imagery, which can be true, but it also can also have an actual meaning. This is the same with other weathers and seasons that are places in stories and passages. Though this is true Foster says “Rain can be more mysterious, murkier, more isolating than most other weather conditions”(71).

brings in another style, use of metaphors. The storm is a metaphor used to describe violent and

Evening had arrived and everything had been packed away ready for its next use. It had also brought the grim warning of a storm. The sky was brimming with a dark shade of grey and black, making the mood eerily mysterious. A storm was brewing; it was about to blow, just like a volcano about to erupt. Then, “Boom!”. A lightning strike crackled across the sky, one after another. After three lightning strikes a downpour of rain fell from the sky.

(Hurst online). In literature, the weather is typically a key symbol in foreshadowing events, whether positive or negative, that are

In the story Sometimes the world is cruel the author Leonard Pitts talks about how a everyday the Earth displays one of many horrible weather patterns. Truly the world we live in is absolutely cruel with the weather. Some people enjoy all weather but there are natural disaster of hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, flash flood, avalanches that happen every so often. These weather disasters come and go on their own, we have no way of stopping them. The world is cruel with all of the different ways of causing chaos with something as simple as a flood. These things just destroy people’s lives with one shocking stride of disaster. To know that we simply can not prevent these storms, but only shelter ourselves from them is nerve racking.

The characters experience "a light but freshening breeze from the north-west made itself felt as if fine little knives were cutting into the flesh of their faces" (Grove 264). Here, the element of wind is made into a jarring and violent feeling. Instead of treating nature as something peaceful and life-giving, Grove depicts it as something turbulent and filled with death. He goes as far as comparing the storm to "enormous ghosts, or [even] evanescent apparitions" to maintain the domineering and eerie mood of the storm (Grove 267). Grove personifies the weather

Native American tribes believe intense weather conditions such as wind and rainstorms are their ancestors communicating with them. Their ancestors symbolize those who came before them, definingwho they are and the legacy they are destined to

The weather often parallels

In Adrienne Rich’s “Storm Warnings,” the progressive structure details the storm’s advancement, the imagery illustrates the surrounding environment, and the calm diction presents the speaker’s state of mind, depicting an actual storm as it nears and the metaphorical turmoil the speaker is experiencing. People hear storm warnings, however, as the storm unfolds, one can merely brace themselves since the storm is inevitable and light hope within them.

Weather has a way of making people feel a certain way, by affecting their mood. Bright and sunny weather tends to make people happier, while dull and dreary weather brings about less appealing emotions, such as grumpiness, sadness, or fear. Tornado weather, especially in tornado alley, is a source of emotion. For many people living in tornado alley, tornado season offers a mix of fear and excitement. However, for most, when the tornado is actually present, fear tends to take over and the excitement is lost. The tornado that occured on May 20th, 2013 was a great example of how a tornado can turn from exhilirating to terrifying.