Two Kinds Literary Analysis

​Technology has long been the cause of major debate due to the many negatives that technology can cause. The inventions of video games and the computer have given people platforms to exercise all their inner violence but these technologies and their given platforms have spread to the real world. As in the story, people have transferred their violent thoughts into those platforms and the inner violence becomes who they are and the result is loss of life. This connects to the story because the kids use their nursery as a platform for their violent thoughts and when something comes in the way, the kids use the technology to retaliate. In The Veldt, Ray Bradbury exhibits the literary devices of contrasting symbolism, eerie dialogue between family

The science-fiction thriller “The Veldt”, by Ray Bradbury is about a family of four who live in a very futuristic house that makes their way of living much easier. George and Lydia Hadley own the house and are also the parents of ten-year-old Wendy and Peter - two kids who are a little too spoiled in this story. In the Hadley household there is a nursery where Wendy’s and Peter’s thoughts are brought to life by way of crystal walls. The Veldt can be understood better using psychological and Marxist criticism. Specifically through Carl Jung’s theory, all people have three elements in them: Shadow, Persona, and Anima/Animus in which Wendy and Peter evidently show some sense of Jung’s Shadow in them. While looking the story through the psychological

The short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, by Joyce Oates, (1966), and the poem, “What it’s Like to Be a Black Girl”, by Patricia Smith, (1991), are both about the coming of age of young girls and the conflicts that they encounter. The two pieces explore issues that most young girls have with their bodies and others during their puberty years. The literary elements that will be compared in this essay is imagery and symbolism. The main conflict in both pieces that will be explored is individual versus self. These literary elements and conflict will help us to explore the issues that these two individual young girls

Power and control plays a big role in the lives many. When power is used as a form of control, it leads to depression and misery in the relationship. This is proven through the themes and symbolism used in the stories Lesson before Dying, The fun they had, The strangers that came to town, and Dolls house through the median of three major unsuccessful relationship: racial tension between the African Americans and the caucasians in the novel Lesson before Dying, Doll’s House demonstrates a controlling relationship can be detrimental for both individuals and The Stranger That Came To Town along with The Fun They Had show that when an individual is suppressed by majority they become despondent.

In the novel The Compound the author writes about how Eli, the main character of the story, loses his grandma and his twin brother due to a war that broke out. He is taken to a shelter that his father has built underground. It has several bedrooms, a living room, and all the things necessary to live there for fifteen years. His father even thought to bring gifts for birthdays every year. Although this wasn’t enough for them. Eli and his sister were going through a lot and had to deal with several emotions. Especially the loss of their brother. Eli just tried to accept the fact and move on while his sister kept hope. That got him wandering, could he really still be alive? So throughout the story Eli battles with depression, worrying, and the

In the book Everything I Never Told You, there are many different elements and techniques used within the book. The technique that I want to go into more depth on is the use of symbolism. I specifically want to focus on the symbolism in regards to Lydia, Hannah, and Nath’s love of astronauts and space.

The line between being an acceptable and unacceptable parent is often blurry and is seen on different perspectives when it comes to class, culture, and generation differences. Based on the two stories of Amy Tan’s, “Two Kinds” and Tillie Olsen’s, “I Stand here Ironing” we see these two perspectives that derive from different maternal upbringings of the children in the stories. What is found between them is the conflict of being too little or heavily involved in a child’s life has had more negative outcomes during their childhood than positive.

Many people believe that material things will bring you peace and happiness. That is not always that case though.Everyone at some point in their life had gone through something that they thought would have a major positive impact on their life, but ultimately, it affected them very negatively. These can include anything from money, to power, even to women. Bernard Malamud explains these example in his book, The Natural, with his character, Roy Hobbs. Roy is the Knights star baseball player, when all goes wrong. He starts to chase different women, believing that those people will lead him to happiness in the end. Roy Hobbs is the main character in the book, The Natural, who finds himself in tough situations, and finally discovers that what he wanted from the start, won’t actually make him happy in the end.

In the novel, A Lesson Before Dying by _________, the main character, Grant, is trying to console Jefferson. Jefferson has just been framed for a murder he did not commit, and many believe it is because he is black. Two drunk, white men went into a liquor store, already drunk, and attempted to shoot the owner who, in turn, shot back. In the end of the firefight, Jefferson was the only man standing. When at the trial to convince the jury Jefferson did not actually shoot the people, his attorney realizes his attempts at proving Jefferson’s innocence were futile, and says, “What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this” (8). He is asking the jury to spare the life of Jefferson, by implying that Jefferson is no more intelligent than a hog. The attorney is white, and is voicing the common belief among whites that all blacks are animals. Throughout the novel, Jefferson becomes haunted by the

Parents are losing the true focus of parenting because they are too attached. Parents should realize that if a person does not work hard, they can’t achieve great things like they want for their children. “The Fine Art of Letting Go” is an article that appeared in the news magazine, Newsweek, written by Barbara Kantrowitz and Peg Tyre. The article discusses many causes and consequences of hovering parents, as well as personal experiences from hovering parents. Kantrowitz is responsible for many cover stories on education, social trends, and health in Newsweek since 1985. Parents feel a range of emotions as their child is growing up, but as the parent, their role is to be strong in order

In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses many literary

Time is a lot like sunlight. It’s not unlimited. You only have so much of it before it’s gone. You should cherish it and not take it for granted. It’s just like time because you only have so much of it with your loved ones before it’s gone. Once it’s gone, you’ll never get it back. Harvey learns that in The Thief of Always. By the end of the book, Harvey learns that time should be cherished and that he only has so much time with his loved ones.

Kortne’ Cobb Kelly Sorenson ENG 1102 24 April 2016 Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” is a short story that determines how a woman, Edna Pontellier, is stuck in an unsatisfied marriage and wants to pursue to have special freedom and a more perfect life. She also goes through different types of awakenings that help discover who she really is as an individual and what does she yearns for. Her passion to do that causes tension with her friends and family. This short story has a large amount of literary elements and the one I will review is symbolism. Symbolism means the author uses a person, place, or thing to represent a bigger and more complex idea.

Amy Tan's "Two Kinds" expresses the most effective theme as the main character is easier to empathize with than Ben from William Kittredge's "Thirty-Four Seasons of Winter." The story communicates two halves of the same whole: "[obedience] and those who follow their own mind" (381). June must undergo much self-exploration to reconcile the two halves of herself that were separated when her passion for becoming a prodigy crumbled. The theme comes into motion when, after her mother's death, June begins to stroke the ivory keys again to have it dawn on her that the score which gave her grief before is only one part of a musical piece. June finds her missing half through combining "Pleading Child" and "Perfectly Contented"

Roy Conli once said “When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.” This is a prevalent theme in many examples of Young Adult Literature (YAL or YA). Three books that demonstrate the critical transformation between childhood and adulthood by exploring difficult social issues, finding personal identity, and letting go are a Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.