The Richelle: A Short Story

Complete intelligence of the mystery of nature is an impossible task. Ron Rash’s short story, “Something Rich and Strange”, displays that human nature does not allow individuals to comprehend the mystery of nature while living. Authors use literary elements to add depth to their writing and help support the meaning. In “Something Rich and Strange” Rash uses symbolism and plot to show the reader what understanding characters such as the drowned girl, the sheriff, and the diver have obtained about the mystery of nature.

Source Information: : A Brief History of NASA, Type: Web Article, Author(s): Steve Garber, Roger Launius, URL: http://history.nasa.gov/factsheet.htm, Date Used: Nov 22 2015

The purpose of the walls was to create boundaries and disconnect people throughout the story

The morning air seeped through the open window as the newly rising sun glowed on the barren rock landscape dome. It wasn’t so barren though, there was small house that laid nestled in the rocks. The house was more like a small shackled shed than an actually house. The house was small and simple, made out of wood equipped with a chicken coop and garden. The house was had one room. In the room was a fireplace, coal burning stove, table for two, and a twin sized bed shoved in the corner. The bed was unmade and a man stood at the stove making his morning breakfast of eggs.

“…soon we had a vegie garden and chickens. The garage was divided into three rooms, one the lounge, then the kitchen, and a little room with just enough room for two beds for the kids. No running water, we had to get that from a pump just a couple of km away. No proper toilet, just a bucket, no bathroom, a babybath was all we

George and Lydia Hadley lives in a technological house that called a Happylife Home. They are so proud and happy with their purchase “which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed” as they thought would solve all their problems. The house mechanizes to everything they need. It was dressing them, preparing their meals, brushing their teeth, and even rocking them to sleep. The Happylife Home also equipped with a high tech “nursery” that response to the occupants’ thought to create any environment such as an African veldt.

Beneath the thinly built walls lay hopes and dreams. Dreams that included going to West

The short story evokes reminiscent feelings of things that were much simpler to me, now the world continues to become more complex and complicated. In the story, the author portrays how simple her world is as a child: "Because that settlement and that land were my first and for many years only real

“But as they went on they got the strangest impression that here at last the sky did really come down and join the earth – a blue wall, very bright, but real and solid: more glass than anything else. And soon they were quite sure of it. It was very near now” (245). When they reach this place, although they do not know what it is, they can feel it in themselves right as they reach the edge of Aslan’s country.

“It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was a nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things on the walls.” (77)

Social issues such as poverty and mental illness heavily prevent individuals from pursuing the American Dream. These challenges prevent disadvantaged individuals from moving up in social status. In The Glass Castle, The Wall’s family is constantly living in poverty due to Rex and Rose Mary Walls’ poor budgeting issues. Every time they ran out of money, the family would skip town and move somewhere new, and the cycle would repeat. Jeannette Walls recounted one instance when her mother got a job, but wasted all her paychecks on unnecessary comfort items, “So even though she had a steady job, [they] were living pretty much like [they] had before” (Walls 198). Even in this time era, climbing economic status next to impossible, and anytime the Walls

My name is Marchelle Dye, and I attend Vestavia Hills High School. AUM is my top choice, but I have a dilemma. My highest score on the ACT is a 17, but my GPA is a 2.2. I’m trying extremely hard to raise it to a 2.3. So, I was wondering if I would still qualify for the bridge program? I feel as if it would help me out tremendously.

We also see walls/doors as a symbol that is ensuring the isolation of the characters. Each character will be analyzed through the text first, and then I will analyze using other critics’ perspective on the issue.

Geoffrey had always been a proud man, proud of himself, proud of the rewarding lifestyle he had managed to build-the four storey mansion in which he and his small family lived, the twelve acre garden which required twenty men to tend to regularly. Simplicity was a word completely foreign to him.

In this fantasy town, the populace has everything they need. They have conducted to crop the ruinous glut of life. In addition to their happiness, they were everything but simple. Le Guin described them as, “mature, intelligent, passionate adults whose lives were not wretched” (p. 1). In contrast to the fairytale descriptive portion of the town, the lives of the people were much more complicated.