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| “This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are…shrunken by age.” Ch. 1, Pg. 14

The types of reflection best utilised may vary from person to person and even change over time (Ashby, 2006). This does not suggest that reflection

Although the symbols are simplistic, they aid the reader’s understanding of Gene’s struggles as a young adult. For example, the tree shows Gene’s change in thoughts as an adult revisiting Devon versus when he was a teenager attending Devon. Furthermore, the summer and winter months explain the difference in the mood and tone at Devon and how it affected the students and Gene, especially. Lastly, Finny’s fall illustrates how Gene matures from one simple incident and affects his views of the world for the rest of his life. In conclusion, many events and objects, including the tree, the summer and winter months, and Finny’s fall, majorly affected Gene’s life and helped to shape his

Melinda’s art class is the only class that she enjoys because she feels that it is a way to show her emotions and to describe what she’s feeling. "I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out.The knife and fork are obviously middle class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream, perhaps?" (Anderson; 64) This piece of art shows how she feels. Her art teacher understands her emotions. However, she fails many times attempting to create a tree sculpture, but then finally succeeds. This represents how she fails to face the fact to understand that she was sexaully assaulted but then finds the answer. “This looks like a tree, buts it’s an average,everyday,boring tree. Breath life into it. Make it bend- trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.” (Anderson;153) Melinda’s art teacher wants her to connect with the tree, he wants the tree to represent her. When Melinda finally understands and comes out to what happened to her; the tree comes to life. Art makes Melinda understand, art makes her have

Trees represent life because they aren’t simple, trees are large and strong, their roots are in the ground and its leaves sway in the sky. At first, Melinda’s life was as solid as the tallest tree in the world, the Hyperion. “This was the girl who suffered though Brownies with me, who

A third example is the mirrors. The mirror represents seeing oneself clearly and their self reflection. One example of this is Montag reflects his life when he meets Clarisse which she made a big impact on his life. She changed way he see the world and, she asked him one question. “Are you happy.”

Alice Walker once said, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” This aligns perfectly with metaphors in the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. In this story, Laurie uses the symbol of a tree to represent the main character, Melinda, as she struggles to overcome a difficult experience in her life. The trees represent Melinda’s transformation from trying to be someone she wasn’t, to becoming utterly depressed, to overcoming her pain, and being a happy, refreshed person.

The tree represents nature’s beauty and abundance, and the boy represents humankind. The boy is symbolic of human’s perpetual degradation of nature, tearing down the tree to suit his own needs and destroying something beautiful for the sake of selfishness. The benevolent and generous tree,

Even though two pieces of writing may look different, they can still be similar in many ways. This essay shows that even though two pieces of literature may look different, they can still have similar themes. Passages about mirrors in Fahrenheit 451 and Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” convey themes about looking at oneself in many ways.

Throughout Speak, trees are a prominent theme. The topic of Melinda’s year long art project focuses on a tree, and they also represent her growth and resilience following a sexual assault the summer before her freshman year.

In this reflective essay, Stewart discusses the struggles her and her family went through. He family has faced a lot of struggles and throughout all these struggle a mirror was there to see it all. The essay starts off when Stewart is arguing with her mother then blinded by anger she broke the family mirror. It all started with her great-grandmother Elsie when she lost her husband in a tragic fire. The mirror was the only thing left in this fire. Elsie passed this mirror on to her daughter Ruby.

Melinda’s effort’s to create the right tree represents her hardships because it symbolizes her relationships with her parents, and all the mistakes that she makes in her life. First, Melinda’s tree represents the relationship that she has with her parents. Melinda is trying so hard to create the right tree, when she says, “It looks so flat, a cheap, cruddy drawing. I have no idea how to make it come alive.” (Anderson 55) Melinda can’t get her tree to be like a tree, almost like how Melinda’s can’t get her family to be like a family. Melinda wants so badly for her tree to be perfect, just as me as she does her family. Next, Melinda’s tree represents all of the mistakes that she makes in her life. Melinda is trying to carve her tree when she

Several images continue to linger in my mind from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The scene when the men are severely disturbed, specifically Detering, by the wounded horses affects me in a personal and emotional way. While reading this scene, I felt my body quiver from the thought of seeing and hearing this devastating moment. I related to Detering on wanting and needing to put these poor, suffering creatures out of their misery. This scene produced this everlasting image in my mind because horses are my favorite animal. When I am around horses, my mood immediately changes and I am filled with utter happiness. Another image that perpetuates my thoughts is when the narrator Paul takes cover during a bombardment behind a coffin in

There is a sense of forward motion in subject’s posture as his left leg is noticeably in front of his right, and a weapon hangs from his belt, dragging behind as he approaches the still and ostensibly immovable mass of trees. This juxtaposition between movement and stillness adds a feeling of tension between man and nature and life and death, which is built upon as the work conveys a sense of impending danger to the subject. The diagonal line of trees extends upward from the left to the right side of the canvas, implying that the man is walking up the slope of a mountain, facing yet another obstacle. The work also reveals some visual clues in relation to the subject’s life, as the Chasseur is a uniformed French soldier, separated from his contingent and lost in the German wilderness. Considering the artist’s opposition to Napoleon’s expansionist regime and his patriotic celebration of Germany’s liberation, the forest represents the inevitable defeat of the subject as both a just sentence and an empathetic and romantic memorialisation of the individual

Hope grew up fascinated with the study of trees and plants as she watched her father , who was a scientist, work long hours in his laboratory. While, her mother had to end the beginning of her career because she did not have enough time, money or as many opportunities as men. However, Hope was also able to grow and learn from them because she viewed both sides. “He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it-- My mother believed that there was a right way and wrong way to do everything, and that doing it wrong meant doing it over” (Jahren 8-14). What Hope’s mother and father were trying to present is that if you fail at something, at least learn something from it. Thus, her parents had a major influence in her life.