The Circle Of Life Sequoia Analysis

The six trees are very evident when you first look at the painting more often than not it will be the first thing that catches your eye. There are multiple rivers around the painting nevertheless they are all connected in some way. One of the other main focal points that grabs the eye is the white

The Suicide Tree means the end of childhood and the transition to adulthood by the characters. Culturally this symbol represents the draft of soldiers into World War II. Legal obligations of the draft pressure them out of childhood

The mood of the speaker changes to guilt as the speaker and her mother realize they would "crawl" with "shame" and leave an "emptiness" in their father's heart and yard. The author negatively connotes "crawl," "shame," and "emptiness" to invoke a more serious and shameful tone. The beginning of the conveyed a more matter-of-fact and pragmatic tone, but changes into a more sentimental one by the end to convey family is more important than the money. The symbol of the tree represents the family, and connects it to their father's hard work and dedication to the family. If they were to cut it down, it would be symbolic of their betrayal. Imagery of the tree is used to describe the freedom and beauty of the tree as it "swings through another year of sun and leaping winds, of leaves and bounding fruit." The tree represents their family bond and how strong it is even through the "whip-crack of the mortgage."

In the book Speak the Trees describe life and growth for Melinda. In the beginning of the novel, Melinda is assigned to draw trees for a year long art project. She struggles to draw realistic trees, frustrated that she “can’t bring it to life”. This represents her depression and struggle. The tree symbolizes the danger Melinda’s faces in letting her pain overtake every aspect of her life. As Melinda begins to heal, her tree drawings become richer and more detailed, symbolizing her own growth.

Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians utilizes a unique blend of writing styles to piece together a clearer and more distinct view on the Mission system, Gold Rush, and settlement of California. Through this revolutionary collection of writing, we receive a detailed account of the treatment that California Indians had to endure during the Missionization era and are able to draw our own conclusions in regard to whether the missions were a positive or negative aspect of California history. Although Miranda’s ancestors suffered and survived horrible conditions, she, in my opinion, does not villainize the Mission system, but rather displays the facts as they are, therein allowing us to reach our own conclusions in relations to this history. Because there

Personification also contributes to the relationship by making the tree a lively component of the family instead of a passive object in the back yard. A relationship necessitates at least two parties so it is necessary that the tree be a part of the family. At the end of the poem, “the black walnut tree swings into another year” when the family decides to keep it. This shows that the family respects the tree as its own entity and presence. First, this personifies the tree as free and leisurely because swings are usually for play. It also contextualizes the tree as having a

“Manifest Destiny” stretches a process of cultivation that naturally occurred over one hundred years into one single elegant painting. The painting has a natural transition across the frontier, from the right to the left, in chronological order of expansion. In the top right of the art piece a river lazily bends and twist along flat, barren land. Dotting the banks of the river, if someone looks closely, they can notice specks of ships sailing the river. Just the idea and challenges of moving people, livestock and raw materials to an unknown land shows the huge amount of dedication, and a crucial step, in developing America. The basin that the river is painted in is also bathed by warm sunlight flowing from a newly risen sun. Just as the sun painted in the picture looks bright and new, so did the hopes and dreams of the Americans painted. From the first corner of the painting, we begin to see the frontiersmen develop a land unknown to them.

The tree can be seen as a motif to the theme of the book. A tree symbolizes the importance of relationships, but a withered tree foreshadows death and loss. It can also be described a person being broken down, like how Mrs. Schachter must have predicted that she will lose her family when she saw smoke in the air. This implies that Elie and the others will soon have to face life and death situations or possibly lose his family too.

During the 1840’s, the United States saw a huge increase in pioneers, or people who left their homes in the east to settle in the West. Some people saw California as a place where they would be free to live in a fully

The detailed photo that we seen in class shows what was happening in East La at the time of property re-development where we see the division of Barrios shown by the predominant freeways boxing in the Latino communities. Also in the forefront, we see a lady revolting against what she sees and is taken down by the authorities. I enjoyed how the artist depicts dodger stadium as a UFO hovering over the communities. This mural is a pure example of how this is refuting against the romanticized version of Manifest Destiny that was promoted by Eurocentric

Writer , Linda Thomas, in her essay, Brush Fire, discusses the Santa Ana winds experienced in Southern California and how it affects the people and the weather. Well-known essayist , Joan Didion, in her essay, The Santa Ana, describes the winds and the effects it has on the way the people behave. Both Thomas and Didion’s essays have a similar subject and circumstance, the Santa Ana winds but, both essays vary in numerous ways. The details, tone, and how the message is being told are ways in which both essays differ. These essays are an example of one topic being portray through different lights.

The tree represents nature’s beauty and abundance, and the boy represents humankind. The boy is symbolic of human’s perpetual degradation of nature, tearing down the tree to suit his own needs and destroying something beautiful for the sake of selfishness. The benevolent and generous tree,

Anton Refregier was well known for his artistry due to the simple fact that all his work represented “meaningful, significant, powerful plastic statement based on the history and lives of the people.” This simple concept is why his beautiful and powerful murals have influenced artists for generations. The murals within the Ricon Annex illustrated how Anton was able to atest to his principles and showcase the history of California as well as the struggles that accomponied the devlopment of this amazing state. The murals, some noted as controversioal, also displayed the negative moments throughout the history of the state. Specifically, the mural Indians by the Gate acts as a reminder of all the natives who los their lives due to setterlers expanding to the west coast.

His desire is for the viewer to appreciate not only the tree form itself, but also it’s character. Inspiration for creating his pieces come from Victorian illustrators and oriental prints. By looking at these resources, Cyan came to the realization that no two will ever be alike. Each piece has unique diversity that sets the individual artwork apart. “Sunridge Chestnut” illustrates this idea beautifully as lines are used in different directions and the tree takes on almost a new shape of its own. One can look at this piece for hours on end, without truly discovering the full artwork in its totality. Cyan really desires the audience to almost be lost within the picture, continuing to look for new additions. In “Hallowed Etching,” Cyan uses multiple shapes and values to support this idea. One reason why Cyan picked trees as subject matter was because its growth is gradual over time. Even at the end of human life, a tree will (most likely) still be in place, calmly growing. The character of every tree evolves into something stronger, deeper, and represents a ideal that is globally

Planting A Sequoia, written by Dana Gioia, included in her larger work, The Gods of Winter published in 1991. The work is written in first person point of view because the narrator. This poem’s central assertion is remembrance and honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth. The poem is about the a father that plants a sequoia tree in honor of his recently deceased infant son. Gioia uses imagery in the first few stanzas to emphasize the severity of the father and his families’ grief and despair. In these sections he also reveals the setting of the poem which is Sicily and the reason he chose a sequoia tree.