Essay on The Study of Existents in Sandpiper

The text “Letting the air into a relationship: Metaphorical Abortion in ‘Hills Like White Elephants” by Wyche David aims at analyzing and synthesizing the short story by Hemingway “Hills like White”. The analysis would provide new knowledge to readers of the short story or provide the readers with a new point of view of analyzing it. The subject of the text is to present his ideas on the short story and well as critique other critics who had previously critiqued it. The story illustrates broken relationships of Hemingway and the pain it caused him, which led him to write the short story. The whole text is therefore an analysis and synthesis of the short story written by Hemingway.

Everyone dreams of living a happy and fulfilling life. Sometimes, we need a fresh start. In “Mammita’s Garden Cove,” Max daydreamed about a life where he could start over in Canada. He thought hard about his life in this new place. However, the situation didn’t unfold like he wanted. Cyril Dabydeen uses literary techniques such as diction, imagery, and irony to express Max’s intricate attitude towards his new home in Canada, and his old home on the island.

Everyone has a desire, something that they want to achieve or obtain for them. Whether it is ethical or immoral, having desires is almost inevitable. Sometimes these desires make people go through tough times. Tragic occurrences such as death and broken relationships shape the lives of people positively or negatively. In the following essay, “Many Rivers to Cross” and the short stories, “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”, the protagonists of these texts struggle to achieve their desire, but because of those struggles the main characters do eventually come to a revelation.

Memory is used as a powerful conduit into the past; childhood experiences held in the subconscious illuminate an adult’s perception. Harwood uses tense shifts throughout her poetry to emphasise and indicate the interweaving and connection the past and the present hold. By allowing this examination of the childhood memories, Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death.

Abstractly, it almost seems as though the other characters in the book look down on his for this not because he is not mourning, but rather because he is not mourning in the way they are. This sheds light on the overall theme of the novel, that of people being cast out of society because their views and methods do not line up with the accepted ways of society.

Authors often create texts that share common themes to teach readers importance of certain aspects and hardships of life. Theme may be expressed through an author’s use of rhetorical devices and many other contributing factors such as figurative language and repetition. The essay, “Once More to the Lake” written by E.B. White and the poem “Forgetfulness” written by Billy Collins, both contain a theme of identity loss. In “Once More to the Lake” E.B White connects to a lake at young age and when returning with his son years later is unable to identify himself. In similar theme “Forgetfulness” describes different factors of human life and everyday things being forgotten and lost. Both White and Collins use repetition and metaphors to further push the theme of identity loss throughout the texts.

In normal life, people will sometimes suffer from depression or sickness caused by the loss of a loved one in a romantic or family relationship. This has been a part of life for hundreds of years and it is a way that authors like Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner and Horacio Quiroga connect with people all throughout the world. Using exaggerated scenarios, these authors communicate how much of an impact isolation or abandonment can have on a person physically or mentally decaying.

Jackie French’s novel ‘Walking the boundaries’, depicts the story of a young boy named Martin, who in exchange for his great grandfather’s farm, has to walk the boundaries of his property. French uses many explicit language techniques throughout the novel, to keep the reader engaged in the story she is trying to convey. Some of these techniques she uses are descriptive language, figurative language, characterisation and an obvious plot. Her goal is to portray that Martin has not only gone on a physical journey, but a spiritual journey as well. She is painting a picture in the reader’s mind by using these techniques. One of her main techniques is an obvious plot, which shows that Martin was originally a mediocre city boy who wanted to sell the farm once he took possession of it, but by the time he had walked the boundaries, he realised that the land had more potential that he had given it credit for.

The other times I felt bad for her was when she was alone. When I am alone, I tend to think of more depressing things, than when I am with someone. When she was with others, she could focus on them. When the author is alone, is when her thoughts turn to her husband, and the events that surrounded his death. She thought he would come back in the back of her mind. It was almost like a reflex. I am not going to move this item, because he would want it when he comes home. When I read that, it brought my attention to my own marriage, and how I react if my

My experience with loss with comes from p.56 when the author talks about when we first come into life. “We enjoy being held, and then we’re suddenly put down.As we get older,we lose our friends when we or they move away, we lose our toys when they break or get lost, and we lose the softball championship. We have our first loves only to lose them. And the series of losses has just begun.”(pg.56) I think everything the author said spoke out to me especially “And the series of losses has just begun.”(pg.56) I even remember at a young age playing little league and wanting to win every game to end up either losing or winning sometimes. As a kid you think everything is perfect that your parents always have your back. I’ve seen it first hand my nieces and nephews just like any other 4 and 5 year old and maybe even older kids still believe this that their mom and dad are invincible can't die that they are forever living. However when you get older your youth is robbed from you, you slowing start to realize that everyone has their time even your own parents. Growing up for me loss was everywhere I lost two of my best friends because I had to move. Come to find out one

This is further accentuated by preparatory silent grief. This is when they wish they could do something they always used to, but hasn't missed it until it is gone form them, in example they would like to see their children again.

This feeling that the author has of being unable to be his true self is again recognized by the time that has passed. “I have seen the moment of my

By contrast, Richard Ford and Ernest Hemingway short stories present varied views of life. Through of imagery and contrast of traits, the philosophy of existentialism is illustrated. The two stories many have common ideologies and presentation. The two asserts that anxiety of being alone in the universe is a condition of life. (Sartre, 40)

This separation has caused the Wife to encounter anxiety, which led her to believe that her husband no longer loves her. Furthermore, the play’s duality of love and hatred is established. As the play continues, the Wife’s psychological state is further revealed and it is evident that she is no longer in her right mind. “…Were they a dream, these three autumn years; were they a dream, these three autumn years; I should wake from sorrow, yet do not” (Tyler 162). Here, the Wife is no longer able to distinguish her reality from her dreams. I do not find fault with her anxieties, absent state of mind, and beliefs that her husband no longer loved her, because in the past, if a husband did not return to the wife after three years, it was believed that the couple was divorced.

The idea of identity and self is a critical element in human life as it helps to distinguish a person from others. It thus plays a significant role of defining us as unique subjects of society by displaying our distinguishing sense of identity as a social comparison. Certainly, our sense of identity and self is defined by our immediate society, the people we grow around with, and the social culture. It is thus through the context and lens of the society around us that we develop our sense of identity and self (Young, p. 16). Literature and art plays a huge role in our society as it helps to reflect the society we live in, its culture, and our idea of self and identity. In the novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrap and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the theme of identity and self are well exemplified through the characters and setting. This paper seeks to critically analyze the literature in Persepolis and Metamorphosis by delving on the idea of the theme of identity and self.