The White Umbrella

A “survivor car” is what the newspapers called it, did not stop such notice; gathering from the darkness a moment of miracle, and then disappear for the next bend. Michaelist wasn’t even sure of the facts – he told the press about the incident. The yellow car the one going toward new york, approximating beyond, hurried back to myrtle’s location, and abruptly change target to the nearest obstacle in the road, colliding in a big speed and intensity, surrounding the road with metallic parts of a wrecked car.

The narrator has put the story in a humorous way when I tried to imagine how funny to see a man being hit by an umbrella along the way. This story gave me a good impact on how to see things in this life. Somehow, life is funny in its own way. Sometimes, what we see is not what we really get. It makes me think that

On their honeymoon, Shiftlet plans to leave behind Lucynell at a diner, allowing him to escape with the car, even though she is his ticket to salvation and a second chance. Through her deafness, she is as innocent as an angel, as she is unable to hear anything to taint her purity. The boy at the diner says to Shiftlet, “’She looks like an angel of Gawd’” (886), also supporting the idea that she is pure, perfect, and precious. By abandoning her, he abandons his angel, and therefore any hope to be saved from his sins. This is proven when he’s driving away and it begins to rain with “fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet’s car” (887). According to How to Read Literature Like a Professor, “Rain can be more mysterious, murkier, more isolating than most other weather conditions” (Foster 76). After willingly leaving Lucynell, Shiftlet unintentionally separates himself from God, a message delivered through the storm’s isolating traits. It rains on his car because that is his primary source of greed; the rain is showing him that his selfishness is the cause for the storm and his segregation, effectively eliminating his chance for

The Red Umbrella, By Christina Diaz Gonzalez and MIgration Photograph by Jose Hernandez Claire both poetry the subject of Immigration. They show how immigration affects families. The authors of this text and image uses some similar techniques to portray this subject, but they also use very different techniques to express their feeling about how immigration affects families.

As a symbol of tragedy rain is frequently used by Hemingway in this novel. Rain is a symbol of disaster already beginning in the first chapter when the reader learns that the war is not going well and that the " the permanent rain brought the cholera". Here rain is related to illness. Rain also falls when Frederic and Catherine are looking for a hotel room so they can be together before Frederic must leave for the front. Catherine buys a nightgown for the evening. And when they find a room, she looks in the mirrors and feels cheap, while Frederic looks outside at the storm. The rain degrades the farewell of Frederic, and Catherine tells him that „[she] never felt like a whore before". Rain also falls during the troop's retreat which is symbolizing a failure. One night when Catherine and Frederic are in the hotel in Italy, Frederic awakens to the sound of rain and learns that he will be arrested. And during their time of escape from Italy to Switzerland it is very windy and rainy. That symbolizes how their escape would definitely be difficult. It takes them many hours to row to Switzerland’s shore.

Firstly, Fitzgerald uses a few incidents involving cars to foreshadow the recklessness of Daisy, resulting in the death od Myrtle. In chapter three, Owl-eyes is accused of crashing his car in the ditch. When in reality, it was a man who was drunk and disordered. Owl-eyes represents a lack of vision within the story. Of course, the recklessness of the drunk man with the car foreshadows Daisy’s recklessness with Gatsby’s car. To further the foreshadowing of that event, Owl-eyes insists that the problem is not the tire, that is lying on the ground, but is that his car is out of gas and requests that it be brought to the gas station: “‘Wonder’ff tell me where there’s a gas’line station?’ At least a dozen men … explained to [Owl-eyes] that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond” (Fitzgerald 56). Not only does Owl-eyes have impaired vision, but this also foreshadows when Tom, Nick, and Jordan stop at the Wilson’s auto mechanic shop for gas.

“‘Your right’” Mom said “‘something has to be done’” “she bought a bucket it was made of yellow plastic and we kept it on the floor in the kitchen, and that is what we used whenever we had to go to the bathroom when it filled up, some brave soul would carry it outside, dig a hole, and empty it” (Walls, 185). Jeannette’s parents could not really provide for the children finically. They could not use the bathroom Because the stairs to go outside to the bathroom were rotted

Galveston, Texas is located 50 miles southeast of Houston. It is known as a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States. The city Galveston, Texas was the home of around 37,000 residents in the early 1900’s. This island grew from being a small settlement into one of the wealthiest cities in the country. It was normal for people to visit Galveston, Texas for it was known as a "tourist attraction". There was always the idea of building a seawall to protect Galveston from future hurricanes but it was never built. Although many hurricanes had hit the city several times in the past (before 1900) no one would have thought that a hurricane that would

“The paint on the outside of our barrack was cracked and chipped, and the front screen door was torn. Our outside toilet, which we shared with our neighbors, leaned to one side. The shed on the side of our house, where we took bathes in a round aluminum tube, was in need of repair, and the water was oily and foul-smelling like rotten eggs ”(Pg 68)

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz-Gonzalez and the photograph Migration by Jose Hernandez-Claire share the same subject, migration. The author and the artist use a lot of the same techniques to expose the subject of migration, but they also use many different techniques. They also express the way they feel about the results of migration. There are several differences between the excerpt and the photo, but these are some similarities that can be found between the techniques used. One technique that can be found in the picture and the text is the topic, the topic shared is migration…

`Beat me!' he heard her cry. `Throw me down and beat me you dirty little coward!' A moment later she rushed out into the dusk waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over. The `death car' as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then

Under the Black Umbrella by Hildi Kang provides a collection of stories from Korean citizens recalling the Korean Independence time period along with information establishing an understanding to why these anecdotes were collected and the history behind what many of them are referencing. The Independence movement was consistently opposed by the authorities of Japan in colonial Korea, which is shown throughout these violent and insightful personal memories. As is a good practice for all history, we must ask questions about the source and the selection process of stories by the author. Since a large majority of the stories and anecdotes from Korean citizens focus on anti-Japanese recollections, questions about Hildi Kang’s motives or intentions

Where did it come from? Spinning around in search of the source, I notice that the dry cleaning shop behind me no longer has a front. Jagged edges of glass cling to the frame, but I can’t figure out how the glass broke, how it got onto the ground, creating a blanket of danger across the pavement.

Under the Black Umbrella tells the many captivating stories about the 35 years of Japanese occupation in Korea through both world wars. The memories are all from the perspective of Korean men and women who lived through some or all of it. Many of their stories and the history during that time are influenced by several factors, some of which include their location in Korea or surrounding areas and the government’s involvement in recording history. The Japanese were not all awful to the Koreans, since they were humans all the same, but they committed enough atrocities to have a bad reputation with the Koreans. In attempts to unify, North Koreans employed nationalism and ethnocentrism to fuel their way to become a strong nation again. South Koreans did not rally around such extreme ways and did not utilize their northern brethren’s methods of fear for power. Back then and now, globalization is a part of life and it should not be stifled. Nationalistic thinking will bring about more pain and suffering rather than just trying to coexist. Korea faced many hardships with the Japanese occupation. In recovery to their rule, issues arose when it came to accuracy in history, nationalism, ethnocentrism, and the different roles they all took between the north and the south.

In the beginning of the story Mrs. Cora was slowly walking up river avenue she had her green purse over her arm. There was one hundred dollars in it. She was going to use that money for food. As she was walking past all the stores selling Yankees merchandise. She was struck from behind. She was in front of stan's bar and restaurant as she was falling to her right. When she fell to the floor her purse was being pulled away from her with force. She rolled around and saw a kid not much bigger than the kids on 825 Gerand. She tried to yell over the nose of the train going b over her. Some people came to help her but all she could do it point toward 161st street. When she hear somebody yell police. She looked past the crowd and saw the policeman come down from the subway platform. He looked right at her and saw the boy make a fast left around the stadium them the policeman started