Summary Of On The Subway By Sharon Olds

In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel”, Lessing uses imagery in order to show the audience that the transition from childhood to adulthood is a quest in itself. Lessing reveals that Jerry’s quest isn’t just to swim at the bay, but is to become a man by suggesting that swimming through the tunnel represents manhood and to become like the boys at the bay who Jerry idolizes as being men. It is evident that Lessing incorporates explicit overtones into her writing because in the text “It’s All About Sex…” Foster explains, “imagery is just a part of the much older tradition identified by Freud/Westen/Frazer/Jung about lances and swords and guns (and keys) as phallic symbols, chalices and grails (and bowls, of course, also) as symbols of female sexual organs.” (3). Therefore, Foster concludes that other objects can symbolize sexual organs, and that objects that can be filled tend to represent female sexuality. And Lessing incorporates this philosophy into her short story by writing, “All night the boy dreamed of the water-filled cave in the rock, and as soon as breakfast was over, he went to the bay.” (6). Therefore, Lessing uses the imagery of the water-filled cave that going through the tunnel is symbolic for having sexual intercourse because the tunnel represents female sexuality, because it can be filled. Furthermore, Jerry quite literally has a wet dream, further suggesting the explicit nature of the real quest. However, Lessing shows the audience the difficulty of this goal

“I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared outside” (Baldwin, 74). The narrator of the story is reading a newspaper about how his younger brother, Sonny, is going to jail. The narrator cannot believe he is reading Sonny’s name on the newspaper. The lights on the subway connect to the lightness of feeling safe from being inside rather being trapped outside where reality endures. The darkness roaring outside is the harsh, realism of the

Edson Mata “On the Subway” In “On the Subway,” Sharon Olds illustrates the differences of two individuals utilizing literary devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism. The narrator’s thoughts give more in depth understanding to how society treat the people that are “similar” to the boy. Olds works with similes in the excerpt to contrast the people with white and black skin color; additionally, the most obvious one is in line 24 and 25, “...he absorbs the murderous beams of the nation’s heart, as black cotton absorbs the heat of the sun and holds it.” The narrator knows that African American like the young boy usually become exposed and are hurt as, “He is wearing red, like the inside of the body exposed.”

Tone is stated to be something that is “a general tone or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, ect…” Tone helps represent the writer or Narrator’s point or feeling throughout a story. In “Sixteen” by Maureen Daly, the Narrator of the story is a 16 year old girl talking about love and how blind people can be because of it. “Through the Tunnel”, by author Doris Lessing, on the other hand, is about an 11-year-old boy who creates his coming of age story by, literally, swimming through a tunnel. The distinction of plots and settings in these stories couldn’t be more different but similar tones throughout the stories almost bind them in a way. Similar tones in “Sixteen” and “Through the Tunnel” are:

Also, the absence of a father figure in the narrator’s life. For instance, are the shoes that was highlighted on pages 4 (“shiny shoes”) and 20 (“polished shoes”). The shoes represents the father walking out of his son’s life. Since, these images are a distinct trademark of how the narrator remembers the mysterious man, who disappeared and reappeared during his juvenile life. Even more, the lustrous glow of the shoes indicates the father’s wealth, and the portrayal of his respectable reputation in the society, because the shoes always looks presentable and unsoiled. Moreover, the father gave his son an upright piano a couple weeks after the father visited, and a thought “momentarily crossed [the narrator’s] mind a feeling of disappointment that the piano was not a grand” (Pg. 25). One can see from this, the young narrator realizing that his father’s love is not as intense as a parent’s love should be. Thus, he was disappointed he was only given an upright piano instead of a grand piano, because it signifies his father’s love is insufficient. Incidentally, during the narrator’s pubescent years he considered the characters he read from the Bible and History books as superheroes, which seems to be a way for him to fill in the missing gap of a father figure he missed during his boyhood. So, in a way the superheroes he used to look up to are a substitution of his

In Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, gentleman burglar Edward Pierce organizes a gold heist. He has the opportunity and means to commit the crime, but his motive is never explicitly revealed. Crichton indicates that Pierce’s motive sprouts not from greed nor necessity. Instead, Pierce commits the crime because he is obsessed with manipulating other people.

Rumble! That was the sound of my stomach aching as if I had just done 100 sit-ups. I was starving. I needed supper, and I needed it now. I was like a little baby crying for its bottle. After Ruby’s family picked up Morgan and I, Ruby’s dad took the curb into Subway. Of course Subway is one of my favorites, I pretty darn excited. As I bit into the soft, crunchy bread, the lime-green juice from the pickle exploded with flavor tingling down my throat. Not going to lie, it was pretty good. Ruby and Morgan are so simple, they just got a regular cold-cut trio sandwich. Eww! Although the food was great, I loved playing our car ride games even more.

To anyone from New York City, the dangers of train cars are evident. This is why, when the reader begins to see that the children are acting recklessly, he becomes quite worried. This is because there are countless numbers of warnings on trains,

Viktor Frankl argues that “man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.” Individuals agonize over how they will introduce themselves and make a mark of their existence. In Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, Edward Pierce organizes the crime not for the money but for the renown.

Criminology does not always limit itself to the “whodunit”. In many cases, criminologists analyze the motives of individual criminals and often ascertain (identify) the level of the “thrill factor” involved with a crime. Offenders are frequently inspired by the stimulation of danger and welcome the exhilarating challenges they find in outwitting others. Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery illustrates Edward Pierce’s ability to employ his intellect, manipulative nature, and personal wealth to satiate(indulge in, fill) his unquenchable thirst to mastermind the greatest theft of the Victorian era.

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(Carter, 653). Her quickness allows her to realize that something is wrong, but she refuses to let fear put her off. She is wiser and bolder than the wolf's other victims in that she plays along with the wolf. It may seem to the readers at first that she is giving into the wolf by taking off her own clothes, but she is bold in approaching the wolf and basically reverses the attack by taking off his clothing for him, and then giving him the kiss. By this point, her innocence and virginity is shining ever more brightly as stated, "she was clothed only in her untouched integument...her hair looked white as the snow outside,"(Carter, 654) in contrast to the wolf's lustful and hungry

“Generations of transit disaster: the New York City subways” describes how New York installed subways in the early 1900’s, improving city transportation for a few decades, subways until the government took over subway management in 1948. As the city continually raised fare rates, the subway became more expensive to maintain and did not age well. Plagued with problems, the subway system no longer generates money. ("Generations of transit disaster: the New York City subways. - Vol. 30 Nbr. 3, September 2015 - Journal of Private Enterprise - Books and Journals - VLEX 636906453," n.d.)

The chef was outraged. His entire life he had worked up to this job. The conductor had the nerve to tell him he was not good enough, and the fury boiled up within him.

Its noisy, he closes his eyes at one point when a train slides into the platform and people come out he describes being like an “avalanche of rocks”. He isn`t used to the noise, because he`s an isolated person And he also describes the station`s glass ceiling in a very stressful way: