“From the twenties through the eighties, whatever else there hadn’t been in Odessa, there had always been high school football” (Bissinger 35) epitomizes the book in one succinct sentence. However, the book doesn’t blatantly state superficial information about football; it follows the Permian Panthers through an entire season and reveals the emotions of a handful of football players. Throughout various parts of the book, Bissinger beautifully utilizes symbols in order to create a better perception for the readers on the lives of the souls in Odessa. The symbols, include, but are not limited to; the railroad tracks, the Gary Edwards case, and the school spending reveal the various facets of life in Odessa. The railroad tracks, which split right through Odessa, symbolized the split between African Americans and Caucasians and the racism ubiquitous in the heart of the South in the mid-20th century. Bissinger defined the …show more content…
To give us a better understanding of this phenomenon, Bissinger utilizes symbols to create a better understanding of what Odessa has been through and how committed it is to high school football. The railroad tracks mark an important schism between races in the town that was prevalent in towns like these. A star football player from Carter High School in Dallas had ambiguous grades that led a fracas and a huge decision to make that showed that high school football prevailed when compared to education. Moreover, when thoroughly examining the district funding for Permian High, more funds are directed towards athletic supplies than English supplies, showing once again that high school football is a priority in Odessa. Only by utilizing these symbols throughout the plot, the readers were truly able to relate to the lives Odessa’s population and how engrossed they are in high school
For example, the summer session, in comparison to the winter session, is a symbolic interpretation of a separate peace. The summer has an easygoing, relaxed environment with indulgent teachers. Teachers who are capable of laughing off or excusing careless and wild behaviors. “I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen.” Gene muses that the boys being untouched by the war is what allows the teachers to be so tolerant. The students were “a sign of the life the war was fought to preserve.” When Finny falls and breaks his leg, it marks a literal and symbolic end to the summer session. As Gene puts it, “Peace had deserted Devon.” What took its place was an onslaught of strict rules and talk of war and enlisting. By using
For this paper, I chose to read the memoir “Honky” by Dalton Conley. Honky is an interesting read that dives into the life on Dalton Conley himself as he recollects the memories from his childhood and teenage
The initial chapters discuss the town of Odessa and its history, unique facts, its people, etc. One of the major topics discussed is the demographics of the town’s two high schools: Odessa and Permian high school. Also, other social issues such as crime rate, murder rate, and segregation (which is also dedicated to chapter five).
Aaron Hines, a freshman at Fairmont State University, says that one of his fondest memories of childhood is when his grandfather decided that the family should purchase cows to add to the family farm. Aaron, his grandfather, and other members of family spent an entire summer building two fences to keep the cows in the yard. Many mistakes, along with memories, were made during the process but by the end of the summer, the fence was successfully constructed. Hines, an 18 year old student who loves theater, considers himself to be, of many things, family-oriented, hardworking, and kind. He, unlike most, grew up on a farm where he continues to live rather than stay on campus. Although Aaron’s major is undecided as of yet, he hopes that his hard work this year may steer him in a more specific direction.
She is extremely effective in supporting her main idea by supplying the reader with descriptive detail on how she grew up and how certain things took place in rural North Carolina during the 1960’s. These details grasp the reader’s attention immediately by implementing such detail that while reading the words on each page, a visual picture can be envisioned by the reader.
The book Night has symbolism all through it. One example of Symbolism is the yellow star the Jews had to wear on their sleeves, this symbolized the start of something horrible. Night has symbolism in many different forms. Some examples of symbolism I will write about is the fire, the books name Night, and Juliek’s violin.
Our parents in the real world genetically define half of our genes and how we act towards the same thing that they do. However, we react somewhat different that just our mother or father and we tend to follow into their path but in a special combination of the two. This takes place in a similar instance in the books of Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Half-Bloods have extraordinary skills and powers that course their veins. The book takes place mostly in camp and on Percy’s quest. Many days and nights spark different events. Percy Jackson is the protagonist of the story facing multiple antagonists such as Hades and Luke on his quest to save his mother. He has to save his mother before Hades takes her and banishes her soul if he does not have Zeus’ lightning bolt on arrival. If Zeus doesn’t have his lightning bolt returned to him before the winter solstice ends there will be war among the gods. In the book, The Lightning Thief half-bloods are half human half god and they are defined by their godly parents by symbolism.
She has trouble time figuring out the history behind Pittsburgh. The things she’s read about it was the dinosaurs, American Indians, and the American Revolution. She starts to embrace her drawings as a hobby and spends much time doing it.Annie mostly draws historical events Annie’s friend Judy invites her to their family’s country house. Judy’s family are very bright people and know a lot about american which annie loves about them. She uses going to the country house to do more reading and exploring the outdoors with her imagination. Annie starts to read more historical books, like world war two and the cold war. Annie starts high school, but her family status seems to be the biggest focus for other, much like her race and religious beliefs. She begins to have more understanding about american history and the city in which she is living in. Annie’s father has a strong belief that success can go a long way if you can work for it. Annie starts to give more dedication into school after her father made that clear. Towards the end of high school, she gets into bad situations such as getting into many problems and crashing a
The novel represents a fiction story of a young lady living in a slave community and illustrates her struggles for escaping her miseries. The timeframe depicted in this novel is where the slave exchange, and the working of the American economy on that exchange, was near its pinnacle. It is additionally the period when divisions between the Northern states (in which servitude
We all remember dressing up for Halloween night as children. Getting together with best friends and competing to see who has the best costume or can collect the most candy. For some, this was the best night of the year. Then there are the children who sit at home and go through the motions of what their parents do. These parents inevitably will carve a generic looking pumpkin and then sit down and hand out candy to kids the remainder of the night. The children that are staying at home with their parents are handing out candy to the kids who are living and enjoying their Halloween. As Mac Hammond in “Halloween” stresses, the children that are out having fun on Halloween are the true
She gives examples from previous students with background including students with immigrant parents, low-income, or other rough home situations were little to no educational support was present in the student’s life. She then gives examples how the individuals benefited from classic literature and better prepared the student for high school and later life. Students were able to make connections, and be exposed to other cultures. By sharing theses stories the reader feels empathy for the underprivileged student and wants to know more about the situation. Hollander also uses these stories to relate to her audience, in her newspaper article common folks that attended middle schools alike in examples placed in New York City can either relate or can connect to the article through the setting or local students. Through these examples the reader is drawn in and wants to continue reading the article driven for feeling for the students that it may help or
A major symbol in the beginning of All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is vision and sight. Both of the main characters (Marie-Laure LeBlanc- a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig- a German orphan boy), have their own unique experiences with the topic of sight and vision.
Throughout the day we hear many statistics about different things. Out of all those statistics that you hear, 73.6% aren’t true. Yet, most people believe every statistic they heard. Why do people do that? In the book All the Light We Cannot See, there are two main characters, Marie-Laure and Werner, living in the time of World War II. Marie-Laure is a blind girl who lives in Paris with her father, and Werner is an orphan who lives in the Children's House in Germany. Throughout the book the reader gets to journey with Marie-Laure and Werner on through their lives as they live through World War II. In the novel All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr uses symbolism, character development of Werner, and imagery to prove the theme that people tend to believe everything they hear because it is easier than to question it.
The first part of the story we follow a nameless man who is soon to be hanged for his crimes against the Union. As we travel into the next part we are given a name; Peyton Fahrquhar. This will be, by far one of the most over dramatic men you will ever meet in fiction. The events he experiences, as told by the narrator, are full of flowery
The citizens of New York, U.S.A have many strange customs as portrayed in the well known series “How I Met Your Mother”. The setting mostly takes place at a pub/restaurant where all the five members occasionally meet.