If Only By Shirley Jackson Journal Entry

For instance, when Rose Mary left a piano outside, she expressed that “Most pianists never get the chance to play in the great out-of-doors” (33), or, when Jeannette told Rose Mary that she cannot live happily being vagrant, Rose Mary told her, “Why not? Being homeless is an adventure” (161). Therefore, the Joshua tree’s management to stay alive through turbulent climate compares and symbolizes Rose Mary’s optimistic character. When life threw lemons towards the Joshua tree in the form of wind and sand, the Joshua tree made lemonade by creating a mutualistic connection amongst itself and nature by growing sideways. The life of the Joshua tree points out how good always outshines bad which is what made it “one of the most beautiful trees [Rose Mary] had ever seen” (21) due to the way it continued to flourish in spite of the hindrances it has overcome, thus alluding to the hopeful and trusting personality Rose Mary

When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.”

“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land…I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it. But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it. I did not believe that my dead father and mother were watching me from up there; they would still be looking for me at the sheep-fold down by the creek…. I had left even their spirits behind me. The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither. I don't think I was homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be.” This new surrounding is the beginning of an adventure for

The diction in the excerpt is an essential component to the dramatization of the plot’s central incident. Jewett uses rich language to intensify the simple nature of the main character Sylvia’s journey up a “great pine-tree.” For example, in describing the tree, the narrator uses personification as he mentions the “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” The use of personification harkens back to those universal moments in childhood in which everything alive had human feelings, and creates an emotional attachment between the reader and the tree. Jewett also uses other figurative language, like similes, to relate the grandeur of the tree to the audience. She writes, “It [the tree] was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth…” In comparing the tree to the great mast of a ship, the author invokes feelings of awe at its size.

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a coming-of-age novel about Francie Nolan, a poverty-stricken yet ambitious second-generation Irish immigrant. Chapter 34 of the book illustrates some of the hardship that women like Francie faced. The author used diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax to control how readers depict the difficulties of various characters. In this chapter, Sissy, Francie’s aunt, pretends to carry a child after ten miscarriages. Sissy uses a baby from a disowned 16-year-old girl from Maspeth and slowly reunites her with her family.

In Allen Johnson’s “The Forest, The Trees, and The One Thing”, he expresses that in order to understand sociology we need to be able to understand the relationship between biography and history. To explain this, Johnson uses five rules to sociology called the sociological imagination. These rules explain how an individual relates to social systems.

This cruel rivalry between both families have lead to death, the death of my beloved daughter. I have gone through the horror of seeing my daughter stabbed over her love and yet you still bring me up here and accuse me with such a treacherous crime. I am not guilty….

Initially presented as an autobiography by a Native American, The Education of Little Tree perpetuates the stereotypical roles of Native Americans as written by a seemingly former white supremist. At a first read – and should the reader be unaware of the truth about the author ‘Forrest’ Carter – it does not seem as though The Education of Little Tree does anything inherently racist. If anything, the story appears to be sympathetic to the plight of protagonist Little Tree, a five-year-old orphaned Native American boy, and his grandparents for the displacement they have from their culture into a society that does not accept them and perpetually oppresses them.

The Wild Trees is a book by Richard Preston about a small group of botanists that are curious about what the canopy of the redwood holds. The redwood tree comes from the sequoia family and is the largest single organism in the world. A group of people that include Michael Taylor, Steve Sillett, and Marie Antoine. Michael Taylor came from a wealthy family. His father did not want Michael to grow up spoiled. He tried to raise him as a middle class child who did not get whatever he wanted. Eventually when Michael went to college he did not pass his classes and decided to change his major. Michaels father was not very happy about this and gave him one last chance. Eventually when the time came again, Michael did not complete his classes for the

The essay I chose to read was “Planting a Tree” by Edward Abbey. To me, the most interesting part of this essay is the shift from describing the terrain, to describing the missile bases located in the area. The way the author describes the military is simply fascinating ,”The life expectancy of the average Tucsonan, therefore, is thirty minutes-or whatever it takes for an ICBM to shuttle from there to here.” Also, whenever the author describes the great contemporary empires ,”Like mortally wounded tyrannosaurs, they thrash out in frenzy, seeking enemies, destroying thousands of innocent lives with each blind spasm of reaction.” The author’s use of active verbs and language makes this story develop in such a way that the story will never fall

Although he was able to see his family and friends, the hardest thing for him would have to be witnessing their deaths. He apologized to everyone for his actions, especially to the relatives of his victims and survivor of his attack. He shouts to the crowd before him, “I wish that I could undo what happened back then and bring back your loved ones but I can’t” (Earle 81). He wasn’t expecting the relatives of his victims to forgive him for what he had done, but he wanted to ensure that he understood his actions were unjust, and that they should not fear him. If they would have witnessed Nobles’ drastic changes achieved through rehabilitation, they would have witnessed a changed man who felt remorse for the crime he had committed to their loved

I think here is safe. How could this have happened to us? What has my father ever done wrong to meet such terrible fate? Who would have ever done such a thing to my father, a brave warrior and a noble man who always acted on his beliefs and was honest and loyal to those he held dear. Revenge, it is all I seek now my once incarnadine heart has been soured, ripped from my chest and quelled. But how can I gut the heathen like a cony when I do not know thy name? I shall carry out my father's will of vengeance as soon as the killer

In John’s informative piece, Mockingjay Discussion 15: The Hanging Tree, John argues that the song, “The Hanging Tree,” is actually the official rebel anthem of the resistance, the person hanging on the tree was actually a resistance member, not a murder. He develops this claim by first that Mr. Everdeen knew the song was actually the anthem of the rebellion, and he was singing it because he was a member and was asking other people to also join the resistance, then John states that after Peeta was tortured and “reprogrammed,” and once he heard the song again, the “revolutionary artist’s soul” recognized it as the resistance’s anthem, and finally John concludes that, since Katniss wouldn’t give Peeta a suicide pill when he claimed he was a

The projects undertaken by PWD have not faltered to destroy the highland flora and the walnut, deodar, maples and pines have borne the brunt of the civilised moves of mankind. The author brings out the sheer tragedy of the reckless deforestation in his accounts like, “the walnut was one of the first to go. A tree I had lived with for over ten years, watching it grow just as I had watched Prem’s son, Rakesh, grow up…” He could feel the plight of the felling trees with the same pathos that he had felt for his young brother, who died on road to Delhi. Thus the author’s note, “both victims of the roads; the tree killed by the PWD, my brother by a truck.”- (Ruskin Bond, Collected Fiction, ‘Death of the Trees, page-

The Giving Tree is a story about the relationship between a boy and a tree. When the boy was young he and the tree became very close friends. The tree is seen as a provider to the boy and always gives him what he needs. As the boy grew, the tree gave more. These things include vines to swing from, shade to sit in, apples to eat, branches to build a house, a trunk to build a boat and a stump to sit on. He, the boy wanted more from her and because the tree loves the boy a lot she gives him everything she can to make him happy.