The Gangster We Are All Looking For

Two more pertinent points are made by the author, in regards to the grandmother, follow in quick succession; both allude to further yet-to-be seen gloom within the story. O’Connor writes of the grandmother “[s]he didn’t intend for the cat to be left alone in the house for three days because he would miss her too much and she was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners and accidentally asphyxiate himself” (1043) and of the way she is dressed “[i]n case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (1043). These two observations are innocent enough on the surface but provide true intent on the foreshadowing that O’Connor uses throughout the story. It is these two devices, irony and foreshadowing, that I feel are prominent and important aspects of the story and are evidenced in my quest to decipher this story.

The mother in the photograph catches the viewer’s eye at first glance, straight in center view with Lange’s lens. Due to the subject focus, the mother and her children, it is safe to declare that the mother knew the photograph was being taken although her eyes linger away from where Lange would be standing. With her children hiding behind her, looking down, the viewer is forced to look at their filthy hair and disheveled appearances. By not giving Lange or her lens their direct attention it forces those viewing the image to look at the subjects themselves and not make eye contact with them. By doing so it is easier to notice the stressed lines on the mothers face, the torn and grimy apparel hanging off of each person and the dirt covering the only visible child’s face, the baby in her

I also see that an heirloom can change in importance and meaning if one knows the true pictures. This piece reveals more about the family as well as where they have come. In context, this lesson is a lot like Sankufa Bird. This reminds them to know their past and look to the future. All in all, this lesson can be interpreted the same way for the whole African American community to ultimately remember and understand their past, because if you don’t it may “haunt”

7. She would spend rainy nights reading German ghost stories which inspired her to write her own.

After riding along a little further, the family is involved in a car accident. The main reason that the family is involved in the car accident is due to the grandmother. The grandmother remembers a mansion that she visits as a young girl. She is eager to go, because she wants the children to see how she grew up. This further states how the grandmother social class, because she lived in a mansion. During the time of the grandmother’s life, only plantation owners and their family lived in mansions. This also stressed the social class of the grandmother, because you can tell from this that the

Another attracting feature of this painting is that it appeals to your emotional side. Personally, I have an elder sister and we share a connection that is really rare. I have a picture of her, holding me as a baby with a huge smile on her face and this painting ultimately reminds me of that; giving me nothing but pleasant memories. That is what William is trying to do here. He uses the soothing and caring facial expression of the young lady together with the tenderness of the sleeping baby to capture his viewers and appeal to their caring and emotional side.

So, we had a member of my group ‘‘Emily Zenisak’’ who showed a couple of her friends and recorded their reactions to the painting. The first volunteer was Kayla Rrymarz, a freshman at Grand Valley State University. Kayla initial reaction was ‘‘On first glance it looks like pieces from an old house and all the things on the bottom are supporting the house.’’ She followed up with ‘‘I think the meaning is what the 1950s?

In the bottom panel, the image depicts Alison’s work table with lots of art supplies and some sketches strewn over the surface, and on the bottom right of the table is a copy of The Importance of Being Earnest. This was the play that Alison’s mother had just performed in at the time, and the presence of this play on Alison’s desk shows Alison’s attempt to reach out to her mother and relate to her. The copy of the play being located near all of Alison’s art supplies draws focus to the relationship between the two art forms of theatre and visual art and the fact that there is something in common there, just like in Alison and Helen’s relationship. Alison’s blank diary is also on the desk, and Alison says that her “earnest diary entries had given way to the implicit lie of the blank page” (Bechdel 186), and the use of the word ‘earnest’ again draws the attention to the play and the way Alison fights to connect with her mother through art. These blank diary entries could also describe Alison’s relationship with her mother.

In his “Gangsters– Real and Unreal”, Nelson George discusses the rise of drug use and the manifestation of criminal activity originating from drugs, prostitution, and dominance relating from the influence of gangsta rap lyrics. George observes the rise of cocaine “[i]n the ‘Superfly’ ‘70s” (22) and the prevalence of its “first references” (26) in 1983, a sign of the rise in popularity, concurrently though slightly succeeding the crack price drop from 1980 to 1992. “The bitter street-hardened sense of irony” (George 55) is developed throughout gangsta rap lyrics, where George emphasizes on the growth, severity, prevalence, and influence that drug use has, specifically crack due to its widespread distribution and affordability in the era, on

“American Gangster” is based on the true story of Frank Lucas’ life. It is the story of how he cut out the middleman in the heroin business and the story of how Ritchie Roberts caught him. Throughout the film we see the parallel between a cop and a criminal as we inch forward to see their lives finally meet.

The background has areas of dark and light that may be representing a dark part of this woman's life and the light area showing awakening in this woman's soul. To me the woman in the painting is staring out into the world and realizing that there is so much out there for her. That she can walk out of there and not be lost any more. Mrs. Mallard felt the same way. In the room she realized that she can now live her life on her own the way she wants to. She walked out of the room with a sense of

A horrible epiphany of the truth about the plantation strikes the grandmother which then leads her family and herself to a mishap. It is significant that the story reveals how nowadays, circumstances are getting worse because before, everything was fine and this produces a positive effect to the young characters such as the grandchildren. Having said that, this is also the reason why they get into a misadventure where they encounter their vicious murderers.

a) The oval portrait was so unusual because it had been hidden in the dark near the bedpost. The painting is of a young girl who looks like she is about to become a woman. The painting startled the narrator because it looks so real that he almost thought the girl was in front of him in real life.

There are three themes that are used throughout the reading which are; love, beauty, and death. The most important theme in this story would be beauty. When the husband gets so attached to his art work he forgets about the beautiful wife he has of his own and only thinks about the beauty of this portrait. Love is also showed in this story but by the wife. The wife is so in love with her husband she is willing to do anything and everything to make her husband happy. Which is not getting in the away of him painting his picture. The last theme would be death even though this is a major theme it comes last. After the husband not realizing the actual beauty and love the