Summary Of The Opening Chapter Of Dipper's Mistake

I smiled because I remembered reading about all the unique and facinating birds in the book my mother got me yesterday. I was very intruigued by the canyon’s rim and gorge. Sammy said that the canyon’s gorge showed no sign of human occupation, but we could still go down there for a tour. We all agreed that would be a good idea. Sammy told us to stay close behind him, for the way down could be a little tricky. As we walked with Sammy I stopped every once and awhile to bend down a study the small little yellow flowers that lined the pathway. I remembered reading about thses flowers! They were Mountain Parsley. They looked more beautiful in person than in my book. I pulled out my camera to take a quick picture of them. After I was finished I looked up and Sammy and my family were gone. At first I didn’t panic. Earlier we had passed those tall blue flowers called Silvery Lupines. Or was it those bright orange ones called Scarlet Globemallows? It was then I realised I was lost. I was lost in the middle of Colorado. No one was in sight. There were flowers of many colors everywhere, the sun beat down hard on me, and it was scorching hot. I sat down and thought there was no hope.

[she longed] to be a pear tree - any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she... [was] waiting for the world to be made" (11). Janie, feeling herself opening like the petals of a flower, yearns to delve into the unfamiliar - to find the sweet marriage represented by the bees and blossoms.

Mary and Karl’s contrasting interactions with the tree encapsulate their differing personalities. This makes Karl a blossoming flower in comparison to

The poem “Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)” by Marie De France gladly spoke about lovers whose love was “so true, so pure” that it caused them to suffer and die on the same day (De France 167). This lay explores the themes of inseparable love, while keeping true to the underlying meaning of the hazel tree and the honeysuckle, while the speaker of the poem carries a jovial yet melancholy tone throughout the lay.

As Elisa diligently cares for her garden she spots an unfamiliar wagon in the distance. She is approached by a tinker who repairs broken pots, pans, and various household supplies. He eagerly asks Elisa if there is anything he can repair. As she adamantly refuses she implies that she can repair her own pots and pans. She is stern in her refusals and allows us to learn that she desperately wants to be an equal and accepted. Elisa implies that she can repair her own pots and pans and eludes us to However, the tinker observes how loving she is with her flowers and uses that to his advantage. He starts a conversation about her beloved chrysanthemums and implies that an acquaintance has been looking for these specific flowers. The tinker quickly gains Elisa’s trust, gives her hope, and plays on her vulnerabilities.   She begins to get a restored sense of self and

John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums” features many themes: themes of gender suppression, love, passion, and betrayal. This short story revolves around the character Elisa Allen who has a strong love and a great passion for her flowers, for her beloved chrysanthemums. However, when a mysterious man arrives towards the end of the text Elisa’s love and passion for the chrysanthemums weakens and she feels betrayed by one of the things she loves most. Steinbeck uses the unlikely encounter between the Tinker and Elisa, as well as, the encounter between Elisa and her husband as a way to express the theme of love and betrayal.

Following her Nanny’s death Janie began to pursue her own romantic desires more freely. Before long, she meets her soon to be second husband Joe "Jody" Starks. Initially Jody is a gentleman. He showers Janie with compliments and promises in order to flatter her out of her first husband’s arms. Still new to the world, Janie mistakes flattery for love and succumbs to her need to absorb more about life and love, leaving behind her substandard life with Logan in lieu of personal development. She anticipated that “from now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom" (31).After Jody has convinced Janie to run away with him, however, his affection begins to waver. This leads Janie to understand that "[Jody] did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees.” However, “he spoke for far horizon” (50). “Janie knows that Joe does not fulfill the promise of the pear tree; but she intuits that she must travel in order to grow, and Joe is going places, first literally and then figuratively” (Chinn).

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

“Don’t worry friends; I know why you are here. You have come to ask me about the flower in the meadow.That is one special flower, just like all the ones I have up here. It’s a simple explanation, a seed off one of these just simply made its way down there.”

As a young girl Janie had some romantic bones in her body. Her introduction to love—watching a bee pollinate a flower while lying underneath a blossoming

While Janie is outside observing nature, she witnesses a beautiful and magical interaction between bees and the pear tree, one which gives her motivation for a more purposeful life. This shows that Janie is very drawn to nature and wishes for a love just as amazing as the one she has just seen. This is important because she starts to ponder the possibilities of the future and questions what love truly is. Janie also gets an ideal view of love and carries it with her onwards through the remainder of her life. The pear tree is brought up again once Janie meets Joe. She believes that “From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom” (32). After a single conversation with Joe, Janie runs off with him, chasing after his ideas as opposed to his person. He speaks of Janie’s ideal life, which pleases her to hear. Her wish to have a tasteful love like that of the pear tree controls her. The pear tree and bees symbolize the love, empathy, and passion that Janie searches for and also shows how she is willing to do anything to get that perfect

that he does not want her to forget about their love for each other (the flowers). He

The truth was the panhandler was not interested in her chrysanthemums. He looked around her farm and envied her life. He naively saw only that she had a beautiful, thriving

As the traveling bee (Janie) once again meets spring, the sense of hope is reborn within the heart its being, carefully trying to deviate from any pear tree that calls to its attention. But seemingly enough, temptation lurks, and gets into the natural sense of the bee (Janie). Within the novel, Their Eyes were Watching God, the pear tree that caught Janie’s heart one last time with its “crushing scent” (pg. 127) was Tea Cake, the young tree that intoxicated the bee (Janie) with its utter peaceful ways. But this was no ordinary pear tree, for this being gave Janie what the others never thought to give…an equal relationship. This equivalence initiates from the first time Tea

Dipper finds it fascinating that one small town can hold so many mysteries, which sparks his curiosity for adventure in the book. After discovering mysteries that are connected to each other, Dipper and Mabel soon find the author of the books to be their Uncle Ford Pines. This series follows the subgenre of cozy mysteries because the setting is in a small town where everyone knows everyone, as well as of the twins, Mabel Pines, being the comic relief of the series as they continue to go on adventures. There is also not much violence in the show, which is suitable for almost all ages who are into mystery