Symbolism In Crooked River Burning By Mark Winegardner

William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” takes a lot of real life cultural values and ways of southern life in the late 1800s. Many of those values and ways are expressed by sharecropping and tenant farming.

Larson’s, The Devil in the White City, recounts a defining time period for America. Larson sheds light on the ageless conflict: Good v.s. Evil, as he recounts the events that took place at the fair that changed America. With America falling behind in global dominances and its need to strive, Daniel Burnham tries to successfully construct the Chicago World's fair and hopes it will spark the turn of the century. As Burnham tries to builds up the White City, and while H. H. Holmes flourished in the dominant Black City, Larson takes the reader on a tour of both cities. As Holmes lives in the shadows of the Black City, he successfully murders many people without any suspicion. Holmes’s ability to manipulate, his charisma, and his bravado marks

The first chapter introduces Chicago, in the 1800s as a place where flocks of single women are coming to Chicago looking for jobs. This city was described as very unsafe. Two people a day, on average, died at railroad crossings, disease was very common, and people died from

“This book is boring.” “This book is full of facts.” “I fell asleep reading this book.” These are the nonfiction genre stereotypes that most people think. Erik Larson changed that stereotype and wrote a nonfiction book with real characters and overall facts. The Devil in the White City does not only tell an elaborating true story, but it tries to grab the reader to believe that they are actually living in 1893 during the Chicago World’s Fair trials and tribulations. To tell this story, Larson combines qualities of a nonfiction book and a generic novel to successfully craft a narrative built on historical facts, therefore developing distinct persons in the cases and elaborating on what their possible feelings were.

The media bashes Cleveland for this everyone knows it. MGK attempts portrays the status of Cleveland through his album cover of General Admission. Even in the overall negative tone the media puts on the city, MGK expresses the value of the city by portraying the buildings in gold. He sees through the bad parts of the city and acknowledges its potential worth. The city, painted in gold, sits on small chunks of land that holds it up, seeming like it could fall any minute. This shows the cities roots makes everything unstable. Although there are no experts on Cleveland’s history or its roots in the room. We must take into account MGK’s credibility of growing up on the streets and understanding the city from his point of view tells us a lot. He wants Cleveland it be a great city, a city where everyone wants to take a vacation to. Additionally, MGK also shows how the profitable and the rich, in their ivory gold towers are far from the ugly gray ground and are surrounded by gold. This leaves the rich unaffected by the drab environment they are not exposed to, therefore they make no effort to change that

Not only the land but also the rivers are infected due to pollution. Attaway describes the Monongahela River where it unites with the Allegheny River to form the Ohio: “in back of [the Moss brothers] ran a dirty-as-a-catfish-hole river with a beautiful name: the Monongahela. Its banks were lined with mountains of red ore, yellow limestone and black cokes” (BOF 43). Attaway visualizes the Monongahela under the strain of industrial waste. To magnify and incarnate the river’s horrors, Attaway sets the riverbank as the scene of a violent sexual attack. A gang of boys, as if playing a game, rape a ten year old girl they call “ol’ Betty”: “twisting and turning, a furious little figure [Betty] was dragged away to the tall weeds up the riverbank. The

Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the river acts constantly as an essential part to the story. Many important events take place within the riverbanks of the Mississippi; however, the river is not just worthful for its affairs. Another key aspect of the river in this story is the heavenly atmosphere it possesses. Twain strives to paint a perfect portrait of the wonders of the river, and an example of this can be observed especially in chapter 19. In the beginning of chapter 19, Twain utilizes intense imagery appealing to all five senses in order to render a picture of an Eden-like paradise for the reader.

The symbolic meaning of fire is demonstrated throughout the book in many different fashions but mainly it is portrayed as a symbol of life and social order. If

The novel is set in the twenties, following World War I. The economy is booming, which is crucial for the ability to convey the themes of the American Dream and post-war moods. Set in New York City, the book opens in the West Egg, a new money part of the upper class neighborhoods.

Symbolism in literature can be the river. The idea of a River in a story can be to bring forth the impression of freedom to the event that is occurring in the storyline. In the books, The Adventures of Huckleberry fin and The Giver, this idea of the river symbolizing freedom can be seem throughout the book. The river is used as an escape from the character’s confinement and from any oppression that they may be facing. In both books the idea of a river leads to the characters leaving their current location and freedom/escape, as well as symbolizing the uncontrollability of an event; the river flows is out of the control of the characters in both book.

The essay is about a woman, Joan Didion, from the South and her experience with living in New York. It takes us through her initial enchantment with the possibilities and her ideas of New York based on what she has read and hear. Didion states that she almost lived in a fantasy world of what New York could offer, causing her never to settle down or commit to anything, in hopes of what could be just “around the corner.” As years go by, she finally realizes that actually New York was not a dream world fantasy where she could be in hopes and dreams, but it was a grim reality that had just sucked up all her time and her dreams. She never accomplished her goal of becoming a successful writer, she was “making only $65 to $70 then a week [...] so little money that some weeks [she] had to charge food at Bloomingdale’s gourmet shop in order to eat.” Yet Didion stayed until she had, “stay[ed] too long at the Fair.” What used to be new and exciting and adventurous soon

Many major symbols guide the main characters through their journey in the novel; the largest of these symbols being the Mississippi river. The river represents freedom. When Huck and Jim are on the river, Huck is free from rules and society, while Jim is free from slavery. There are, of course, times when civilization creeps up on their pleasant lifestyle, such as when the Duke and Dauphin barge onto their raft, representing society trying to overtake the freedom of the wild. Whenever Huck and Jim land the raft, all they can see is the hypocrisy of society. “And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing.” (Ch. 18) Their happiest moments are on the river where they are truly free. Another major symbol in the story is the raft. “…and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there warn't no

In the book Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott, the main character Tella is faced with many challenges that she decided to take on. These challenges she took were for her brother Cody and curing his sickness. They were taken place in the middle of a jungle, desert, and mountain ranges where many dangers were presented. She faced many situations along this expedition, but she never abandoned the thought of being able to help her brother. One theme that can be supported throughout the book by many critical scenes is that it takes a lot of strength and perseverance to make sacrifices for a person that is important.

Walkowitz studied upper and middle class authors and how they created the imaginary landscape. She does this by using Henry James who had just arrived in London in 1876. Henry was an artist, author, and a wealthy upper class bachelor. Walkowitz shows how the city provided a place of escape and fantasy. “But the streets of London offered him freedom and imaginative delights”(15 Walkowitz). London was such a massive city that within the city it had neighborhoods of very different social and economic status. These writers pointed out that it was difficult for the low-income citizens to make a living because of the high unemployment rate (31 Walkowitz).

The time period that the fiction sets is the 1920s, when the society was experiencing significant transformations in every aspect of life. The Progressive Movement, which aimed at eliminating various means of political corruption and illegal business practices, had just abated. Harlem Renaissance, a new element of the 1920s, took place in City of New York and its effect swept across the country. Harlem Renaissance, a rebirth of African American culture and art, exerted substantial influence on black people, regardless of the social status and wealth they had. Nevertheless, such splendid cultural explosion could not conceal the limitations and inequality of the 1920s. Gender and race restrictions