The View From Saturday Summary

The first chapter of Billy Sunday gives us an insight of the early childhood of Billy Sunday. Billy and Ed Sunday departed on a train from Ames, Iowa to go to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home’ at Glenwood, because Ms. Sunday, who lost her husband in the war, could not afford to keep her kids at home and take care of them. Ed Sunday was the brother of Billy. On the way to the orphan home, the train stopped in Council Bluffs and they had to take a freight train to rest of the way to the orphan home. In the end, the brakeman showed compassion to the boys by giving them the train ride for free.

This story is based on the events of a boy named Billy Sunday. What is interesting about this book is how it tells about a person that had many events in his life. Also, Billy Sunday is an important person in our history. He became famous for his skills and amazing efforts in baseball and running events. He always had sportsmanship’s in this events. Billy was always up for a challenge no matter the circumstances.

The poem Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson is a beautiful piece of writing that uses metaphors to describe the baggage everyone carries throughout life. The setting is extremely plain and ordinary, a bus stop on a Tuesday morning, but the word choice is very dramatic. The narrator tells the story from an omniscient point of view, while describing the various people and their personal afflictions who wait at the bus stop. However, the only descriptions are metaphors, that explain the emotional state each character is in. The poem itself is a short free verse with four stanzas and only one use of punctuation. Due to this lack of punctuation a stream of consciousness effect is created for the reader. Overall, the tone of the poem is morbid

During this time Enrique meets a girl named Maria Isabel who much like Enrique has moved from home to home over the course of her life. As the two start spending more time together Enrique wants to start a family with Maria Isabel so that they may both have a more permanent family structure, but Enrique’s drug habits worsen. Because of Enrique’s misfortunes with drugs he put his family at risk with his drug dealer threating to kill his cousin who he believes to be Enrique’s sister. To prevent his drug dealer from murdering his cousin Enrique steals jewelry from his aunt. Enrique tries to get his life back on track but gets into fights with his family and is eventually kicked out of his grandmother’s home; around this time Enrique also find out Maria Isabel is pregnant with his child. Enrique felt that being left behind by his mother as the root of his problems in life and as such sets off on a journey to America believing that she is the key to fixing his

Isolation can be the determining factor in changing one’s mindset. In Ethan Frome, Ethan faces many disappointments throughout the novel. In the novel, Ethan is an orphan since both parents have passed. His wife Zeena who is also his cousin has become the dominant one in the relationship taking over full control. While living in Starkfield, Zeena has suddenly become “sick” and is forced to bring in her cousin Mattie for help around the house. Zeena is depicted as a bitter prematurely old woman who is always “sick” while Mattie is the picture of health as well as the sweetest woman alive. When Mattie comes into the picture, she becomes the speck of happiness in which Ethan longs for but Zeena keeps taking away. This brings up a theme of failure throughout the novel.

    Though too intelligent for rural life, Ethan finds himself stuck in an average man's shoes. Leaving any opportunity he had to become someone in life, Ethan moves back to Starkfield to take care of his ailing mother and attend to their farm(Wharton 29).  Rather than living a lonesome

“A Week in the Mill” an article from the Lowell Offering, did not shift my opinions on the concept of working in a factory in the 19th century. The thought of working in a factory from dusk till dawn has never appealed to me. Whether it was the idea of repeating the same mechanics for hours on end, or having little to no breaks. I never envied those who had factory jobs in centuries past. From my experience through class lectures and reading about the Market Revolution, I learned even more so that the United States quickly shifted from a self-reliant country to a country where the people became enslaved to currency.

People are exposed to struggles in life on a daily basis, although some individuals’ experiences are more traumatic than others’. The way people react to their challenges differs with trauma as well. In Daniel Gilbert’s Immune to Reality, Gilbert describes the psychological immune system, which is a defense mechanism of the mind. The psychological immune system is recognized as a way for the brain to find ways to deal with the harsh realities of life. Contrastingly, Martha Stout in When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday focuses on dissociation, which is common in people who have experienced trauma. It is similar to Gilbert’s psychological immune system, as they are both mental systems of defense, but instead of helping an individual cope with hard times, dissociation causes complete separation of the mind from the body as an escape from reality. Dissociation from non-traumatic events is harmful to people’s psychological well-being because it makes

Ethan had “taken a year’s course at a technical college at Worcester, and dabbled in the laboratory,” however later ended his schooling because of “his father’s death, and the misfortunes following it” (Wharton 24).His action in giving up his proud studies is an example of what makes Ethan a tragic hero as he feels obligated to pursue his family’s farm instead of following his dreams through college. Not only is he troubled by leaving college for the farm, but Ethan is also unhappy with his relationship with his wife, Zeena. Zeena they were both happy until within a year of their marriage Zeena contracted an alleged illness and she becomes bitter. “He felt a chill of such forebodings,” within Ethan’s diminishing marriage with Zeena as she has become a burden (Wharton 63). Since Ethan is not capable in revealing his feelings about Zeena, it leads to the downfall of Ethan’s miserable relationship with her. than Frome begins to live a life of tragedy that evolves into suffering by the action of unthoughtful

The novel Ethan Frome is about the Frome inhabitants living in the small society of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Ethan Frome, whom the book is named after, is trapped in a loveless marriage with Zeena, a sickly older woman. He wishes to be with Mattie, the younger, vivacious niece of Zeena who has been staying with the Fromes to help around their house. Because the death of Mattie’s parents left her penniless and homeless, her extended family saw the opportunity of sending her off to the Frome’s as a way to take care of Zeena’s claims to need help because of her sickness. Ethan desires to leave Zeena and be with Mattie, but sees the prospect as impossible due to the rules that have been set upon him by society. The main characters Ethan, Zeena,

Although Frome can be held responsible for his moral inactivity, he can be considered a morally inadequate man in his present state. His inadequacy, however, was not a constant in life or a sudden occurrence-- it snowballed from his youth and finally solidified through the ‘smash-up’. His earlier experiences in a university and the joy it brought him was quickly interrupted after a year by his sickly parents. The unfortunate circumstance forces Ethan Frome to move back to the depressing Starkfield he had just escaped. His parents’ illnesses bring along Zenobia, who would be another future, unseen oppression along with Starkfield. For years, Ethan lives in depressing conditions that decline as time goes on. The chance to finally leave them behind, however, comes in Mattie, Zenobia’s cousin and maid. Ethan’s inability to act on this chance of escape finally seals his fate when Mattie is paralyzed and he is critically injured. Although jinxed with unfortunate circumstances, Ethan Frome’s life could have been bettered if one small step or action was taken by him for himself with the intention to create personal joy or pleasure.

In That Evening Sun, William Faulkner approaches the story through an anecdotal style that gives meaning to the story. The narrator uses the anecdote that happened to him to convey the story’s underlying meaning that people are restricted by social class and race, not realizing this meaning himself at the time. The era of racism pertains to the meaning of the story, discussing the aversion of southern white people to help those different from them, focusing on the restrictions that society has placed on social class and race separation and the desire to maintain the division.

"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens is a piece of work that represents a struggle with the loss of belief in the Christian God. The woman in this piece concludes that nature, instead of religion, is divine and religious. Wallace Stevens expresses this through his statements about the woman's actions and thoughts.

In this analytic essay, I will be exploring the use of literary language in the novel Saturday by Ian McEwan and how with the use of narration and imagery can under shadow a simple piece of literature.

The short story “A Great Day” is written by the New Zealander Frank Sargeson, one of New Zealand’s leading authors. He wrote this novel during The Great Depression in the mid 1930s. New Zealand was one of the countries that were affected by The Great Depression. Unemployment reached 12 percent at its worst and New Zealand’s national income decreased severely. The author explicitly emphasises this by bringing up the unemployment of both of the characters, Fred and Ken.