The Hitch Hikeer Summary

Essentially a monologue set within a frame, this poem creates two personae. The anonymous author gives a brief introduction and conclusion. The Wanderer, an aging warrior, who roams the world seeking shelter and aid. The Wanderer’s monologue divides into two distinct parts, the first being a lament for his exile and the loss of kin, friends, home, and the generosity of his king. In nature, he finds absolutely no comfort, for he has set sail on the winter stricken sea. Poignantly, the speaker dreams that he is among his companions, and embracing his king, only to awaken facing the gray, winter sea, and snowfall mingled with hail.

As well as giving us an idea about how long the family stayed in this

Starting off with Mr.Norton, the narrator is given the job to be his driver for the day. Having a conversation while driving, Mr. Norton says, “’ So you see, young man, you are involved in my life quite intimately, even though you’ve never seen me before… You are my fate. And you must write to me and tell me the outcome” (Ellison 43). The narrator feels

Anglo-Saxon literature often expressed concepts of survival, battle, exile, male dominance in society, and loyalty to the lord. These aspects are strongly represented in both “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament”. Both elegies deliver themes of self-exile and the mourning of lost companions. Ideas of longing and alienation are present in these two Anglo-Saxon poems through use of figurative language, structure, point of view, comparison, and various other literary techniques.

Once he circled around to end his nightly walk, “ he was within a block of his destination when the lone car turned a corner quite suddenly” then after the lone car “ flashed a fierce white cone of light upon him” (1). This event with Mr. Mead and the the lone car foreshadows that something is about to occur while he was on his way home from his routinely moonlit walk. After a conversation with the lone car,“ he passed the front window of the car he looked in. As he expected, there was no one in the front seat” (2). As the car started to drive down the dark streets only illuminated by the moon, Mr. Mead exclaimed “ that's my house, the car moved down the empty riverbed streets” (2). This foreshadows that even though he said that they passed his house, the self driving police vehicle continued to go down the street foreshadowing that Leonard Mead will not return home. This use of foreshadowing allows the audience to examine and reflect on how how technology has impacted this certain futuristic society with a great magnitude that Mr. Leonard Mead is seen as a completely different person for only being himself.

Whereas the narrator of the “Tell-Tale Heart” heard many things that weren’t real, Ronald Adams of the radio play, The Hitchhiker experienced events were he saw things that didn’t quite match up with reality. All throughout The Hitchhiker, Adams repeatedly sees a hitchhiker , while others fail to notice or acknowledge his existence. “Did you see him too?/ See who?/ That man standing beside the barbed wire fence./I didn’t see anybody” (Page 98). The Hitchhiker quote depicted a scene, where Ronald had a girl hitchhiker in his car. While Adams tried to show her the hitchhiker he wanted to run down, she, however, had trouble seeing what Ronald had seen. This quote shows how Ronald Adams had trouble separating reality from fantasy, because he tried to run over a man, who the girl couldn’t confirm was actually present. While both characters of the two tales have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality, their sanity can be further questioned based upon their chronic

This topic the Oregon Trail deals with all these people were looking for a better life or some freedom to practice their religion for themselves along with their families. Saw that they needed to move somewhere else and many of them decided to move west and take the Oregon trail or move to the state of California. Even though they knew it wasn't easy there was many trails that they had to go threw. They decided to take on that idea to leave for the Oregon trail.

First, the hitchhiker and the driver’s son have a lot in common. Both are trying to get

In The Hitch-Hiker, author Roald Dahl depicts an extremely menacing character in the form of a highway policeman, who pulls over the main character and his companion during their journey. As he is introduced and used in the story, the policeman comes across as steadily more frightening due to his interactions with the protagonists and Dahl's use of literary techniques to paint a better picture of who the officer is. Such techniques include an in-depth physical description of the man, the actions he is made to take, and the way that he is shown to speak.

The author was very heavy in the Pathos category. He invested strongly in using stories and vivid language to get their point across to the readers. For example, in paragraph 4 the author talked about living north of New York City. Talking about how most of the vehicles people would see on the road would be an SUV or a light truck. They went on saying

The way I read the taxi cab portion made me think of it as a quasi mock confession booth, with the driver, Fekadu, serving as the priest. This isn’t very clear at the beginning of the ride when William’s trying to meditate and stuff his problems away into his imaginary deposit box. But once Fekadu gets the conversation rolling, the outpour of emotion starts, marking an important shift from William hiding problems to trying to face them.

‘Castaway ‘, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a 2001 film starring Tom Hanks. Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx delivery man whose life is headed in the ‘right direction’, until his plane crashes and he is stranded on an island. He must adapt to his new life on the island; overcoming many obstacles in order to survive. ‘Castaway’ explores three different journeys; physical, inner and imaginative. Chuck Noland is a filmic representation of the philosophy of time equals money equals fulfilment. Zemeckis is deliberate in his obvious manipulation of the responder as he uses a multitude of filmic techniques to create a connection between the audience and Chuck.

When Driver meets his neighbor Irene that emotionless face from the beginning of the film softens up a little. In a small scene where Driver looks out the window of his apartment we see Irene and her son in the distance. So we don’t get the typical close up of the actors. This highlighted the Driver longing to be in a normal world and just how far away from that he felt. Later in the film when Irene and her son goes to the auto body shop where Driver works you can see his face light up like a little boy with a crush. He actually smiles. When Driver gives them a ride we hear what is known to be the film 's main theme. “A Real Hero”, a song with lyrics telling the tale of a man standing up for what’s right even when everything is on the

They were on their morning walk through the endless trails and old dirt paths that twisted and turned until you saw no end. The trails were covered with fresh snow stacked upon autumn’s forgotten leaves that were never bothered to be picked up. Walking into the woods, holding his gun with an old torn red flannel tee on, Jason has doubts that this might be his last season. Charlie was already climbing down the hillside, straying off the trails, and hoping of making the first kill to prove his worthiness to his owner. Jason calls back to Charlie, “Come ‘mere ol’ boy, don’t start without me!” and they begin their way quietly trudging through the dense woods to their special spot. They continue down the beaten path until Jason and Charlie come to a clearing in the woods where the only drops of sun come down through the dead leaves that have yet to fall. Here Jason pulls out a decaying tarp and sets up base camp. From camp, you can see all the rolling hillsides slope down into one large snake like river flowing through the mountains until it is lost in the distance. The Tennessee mountains are a treacherous terrain filled with steep drop offs and deadly trails. One can easily become lost and lose all sense of direction. Clutching his compass in one hand, Jason is prepared to stay the whole winter.

As they are travelling Richard gets a phone call from Stan Grossman, a business man he made a deal with so he can earn something from his motivational programme. Richard loses him so he stops over at a petrol station and calls him. Richard is excited at first but his facial expressions change drastically, Richard finds out that he isn’t successful with his programme and that he didn’t get the deal. This comes as a shock to Richard as he tried really hard with his programme. In the bus Edwin goes to Richard and tells him that he is proud of him. The camera cuts to a two shot of Edwin and Richard, this shows that Richard and Edwin connect and start to unite. This is also emphasized by violins and cellos playing a sombre tune in the background. They stop over at a motel to spend the night, Richard and Sheryl start arguing about what their problems and they didn’t get any money from the deal. Richard decided to go to Scottsdale and meet up with Stan Grossman, we see Richard trying to push the bus all by himself. This shows us the obstacles Richard is facing, this is also emphasized by the background music which sounds like slow carnival music which reminds us of a sad clown. As Richard is traveling on the highway he looks small and ridiculous travelling on a small scooter on a huge highway, he doesn’t fit in the picture. A sign on the road says Scottsdale 23 miles; this again shows the obstacles that Richard has to face by