The emptiness of a mason jar "The mason jar becomes empty as the pie becomes full", that was what the lady on the video said. I was thirteen when I first started baking, the first thing I tried to bake was apple pie. My mother was not happy with the idea, to her food was comfort for us. It is what showed me and my three younger siblings culture flavor and history. I being curious wanted to try something else. I did not want to tell history but instead I wanted to tell a story. I decided to do something different. The emptiness of the mason jar did not show my emptiness of tradition but instead it demonstrated my enrichment and gaining in skill. I like backing because in a way it seems relaxed. My sister comes and talks to me about her
As he stood before the various pies at the grocery store, he began to drool and sweat not just because of the looks of the pie, but the feeling of guilt that he retrieves. He describes his “wet, finger-dripping pieces” after eating the pie and claims it to be the best thing he has ever tasted. The description of his sticky fingers, helps the reader to comprehend the feeling of him digging his fingers into the pie and fulfilling himself. His teeth covered in the jam-like filling describing the way he devoured the pie and the taste of it. But after he finished the pie, he remembers the grocer’s forehead and recalls that feeling of guilt from earlier.
He refers to the story of Adam and Eve to show his panic but soon after follows with how sweet and delicious the apple pie was. He refers back to guilt when he decides not to share with Cross-Eyed Johnny in lines 50-52. Once again he soon follows with, “He watched my fingers greedily push big chunks of pie down my throat” (57-58). He expresses that he feels guilty and then cancels the guilt out with his satisfaction for the apple pie. The contrast between his Christian ways and human desires expresses his youth and maturity being a six-year-old boy and how he was influenced by his
Each description he gives of the pie, himself, and the way he felt conjures up vivid images for the reader. He describes chocolate pie as being his “dear fat-faced” friend, explaining his struggle to resist temptation. The “juice of guilt,” also known as perspiration, represents
In the excerpt from A Summer Life, the autobiographical narrative by Gary Soto, he uses tactile and olfactory imagery, dramatic diction, repetition, and religious allusions to recreate the experience of his six-year-old self. In the first part of the story, Soto describes his experience feeling nervous while stealing a pie as well as the temptation of the pie using imagery. Then, he reveals details about how enticing and delicious the pie was when he finally got to eat it using dramatic diction. Finally, at the end of the excerpt, Soto shares the extreme amount of paranoia and guilt he felt after both stealing and eating the pie using repetition and religious allusions.
One key component to making a story thought provoking and leave a lasting impression on the reader is efficient use of rhetorical devices. Flannery O’Connor implements symbolism, irony, metaphors, and strong imagery to supplement her plots with a message that isn’t found on the surface but requires the reader to divulge and explore all the possibilities of representation in her text. Whether illustrating a stormy backdrop as a metaphor for turmoil or three bullet shots as a final offering of atonement, O’Connor depicts a road to salvation through the unlikeliest of representations. This trend becomes apparent as one can identify the path to penance made by the protagonist in such stories as “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, “The Life You Save
apple pie.” (para. 9) This does seem to be the case. It is hard to go
“So I started this new diet, and I can’t drink wine. These kids are making it very hard to keep that up,” the Rosehill Elementary School librarian, Mrs. Harrington, siad to me in passing. I paused my book shelving and gave her a quiet chuckle while she went to go teach the kindergarten class that recently arrived. For the next thirty minutes I heard screaming and shouting about sharing crayons while students ran up and down the shelves, nearly running into me in the process. Once the kindergarteners left, Mrs. Harrington was making her way back to her desk, but whispered to me, “You know what? I’m going to have a glass tonight. I deserve it.”
In The Bell Jar, Esther finds it extremely difficult to put her thoughts into words. She loses friends as she is unable to communicate with them. She lacks relationships due to her silent behaviour. “The silence depresses me. It isn’t the silence of silence. It’s my own silence,” (Plath 18) she says. Although at first Esther feels upset by the lack of connections she has, she loses motivation to even try and explain herself to others. Unlike Mr. Chance in The Cloud Chamber, and Deborah in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Esther’s mental state does not improve, and she is unable to resolve lost connections. Esther’s mother tells her, “the cure for thinking too much about yourself is helping somebody who is worse off than you” (Plath 161). However, in her case, she’s so disconnected from the people who were once a big part of her life, that she doesn’t know who to reach out to. She doesn’t see herself being capable of maintaining stable and happy relationships with others when she can’t even maintain her own happiness.
The money governments spent on prison triple since 1980. The cost of person was 77 dollars per person a year back in 1980. However, in our time, each pay about 260 dollars a year on correction. All these costs did show some result regarding violent and property crimes; it declined by 45 percent during the past two decades because of prison system. However, there is a law for mandatory sentencing and repeat-offender laws and because of these law the government have to spent more money on prison. For each individual inmate, there are costs and benefits to
In all aspects of the lives we live, normal can not ever be defined as a single idea. If normal is such a thing at all, it is a subjective opinion and can only be defined on an individual level. Everything we interpret is relative to our upbringing and our environment. Not one person had the same upbringing or lived in the same environment as another person for even siblings who have lived together their whole lives have different nurturing experiences. The differentiation between normal and abnormal is a topic of much debate. The meaning of normality varies in many ways such as by person, time, place, situation, culture and set of values. Normality is usually seen as good and desirable by society and what society thinks while abnormality may be seen as bad or undesirable (Boundless).
Through the juxtaposition between past and present, organic imagery and a pronounced tone of both wonder and tranquility marking the language, Gwen Harwood's poetry delineates the nature of grief, fear, and memory as they personify human experience. The events described in "Father and Child", is an exploration of the existential and moral concerns of the poet. Both poems exemplify the ideals of maturity as compared to immaturity. 'The Violets' on the other hand explores the reconciliation of past memories. How one who cannot be comforted in the moment, can be comforted by memories instead. Fear is the main focus on Harwood's most psychological poem 'The Glass Jar'.
Esther Greenwood, the protagonist of The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath, is cast under the spell of her own depression and the story of being released from the spell follows the structure of one of the 7 plot types Christopher Booker created. These 7 plot archetypes include the Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, and lastly the archetype of Rebirth. The novel The Bell Jar is classified as the Rebirth plot, in accordance with the 5 stages that make up said archetype: The Falling Stage, Recession Stage, Imprisonment Stage, Nightmare Stage, and The Rebirth Stage. Readers follow Esther as she pulls herself through the stages, through the falling, the rising, and the falling once more, until she reaches
“The Glass” by Sharon Olds is an autobiographical piece which outlined one of the most memorable events for the author as she witnessed her father dying of cancer. Although the poem is about her father, her father is placed as an auxiliary character to the glass that he continuously spits up his phlegm and mucus into. The contents of the glass are described in gruesome detail while her father is slowly withering away beside it quietly. The author had a tumultuous relationship with her father as he had abused her as a child and she even has an entire collection dedicated to her feelings towards him, aptly titled The Father. The titular glass's function in Sharon Olds' poem "The Glass" is to replace the author's dying father as the new center of the universe because the glass now contains the father's life, thus shedding the once godlike image in the author's life.
My artistic goal is to give one hundred percent to whatever visual I feel is communicating something words wouldn’t have said any better. Aiming to increase the dynamic between audience and creator, by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. My skillset allows me to work in a variety of mediums, yet my favorite is pastel because it’s so swift and feels like an extension of my fingers, not to mention the vibrant colors translated through a tiny bit of chalk. My work has been influenced by loss of security, the black experience, my southern identity, and personal epiphanies. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, my works can be seen as self-portraits; sometimes they appear idiosyncratic
The speaker then goes on to say that “For all that struck the earth, No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, went surely to the cider-apple heap as of no worth” (33-36). The bruises on the fruit represent the mistakes or misused chances, maybe even failure, but the fact that these bruised apples considered worthless and discarded seems to be an epiphany to the speaker. He is realizes that while these apples were bruised, cider still came from them. The discarded apples act as metaphors for all of the mistakes that he has made in his life, and he now understands that they are in fact not worthless, as much knowledge can be gained from examining one’s mistakes.