Each and every paper that I have written this year has put me a step closer towards my final goal. My cover represents this in the sense that each brick in the Yellow Brick Road is an essay that I have written. They all come together to create a path which leads to Emerald City. The city represents my end goal which is ultimately to become a better writer. Me, being Dorothy and her friends, travel this path way, brick by brick to reach Emerald City. Each essay (brick) leads me to my goal (Emerald
The meaning behind my piece is simple yet significant. There was a tremendous impact from the disconsolate Sewol Ferry incident. Many families have suffered a great amount of pain throughout this period. In my illustration, I portrayed a single teardrop, signifying the sorrow of the people. The lanterns represent the copious lives lost, and they are floating up to the sky in peace. The yellow ribbon wrapped around the tear is a symbol of hope and solidarity. The dandelions symbolize the overcoming of the challenges that numerous people have faced.
The road written by Cormac Mccarthy; one of the most praised contemporary novels. The road tells the story of a man and a boy traveling in a post apocalyptic world. “Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world”(Mccarthy1). The world is now filled with ash and inhabited by cannibals and bandits. The boy and man’s goal is to get to the south as they think it’ll be warmer there. The novel’s grammer is abstract as they’re barely any periods written as they talk. This style is used to make the reader pay attention as one can easily lose who’s talking. One of the biggest themes in the novel is the fire in all to live and stay alive; Survival. Cormac Mccarthy’s biggest critique on this novel was that the ending was too hopeful and positive, opposed to Mccarthy and the entire style of the book. The book is entirely filled with grave feelings pondering suicide and a feeling of nothing ever getting better. In the end the man dies but the boy is picked up by another man and women who seem nice. People 's opinion of the Road differ within the last pages. Though the ending might seem hopeful, it has two different interpretations, and Cormac has shown that he’s not a happy ending kind of guy.
In addition to this, belonging to a family is a key concept in this novel. The novel opens with an alluring introduction to the family; a blissful atmosphere is created through the picturesque icons of their family life. The composer uses small photograph like icons to allude towards the widely acknowledged contentment that is readily associated with the memories in a picture album. Tan introduces the motif of the paper crane which he carries through the length of his novel as a symbol of affection and belonging between the family members. The next pages signify the break in contentment as the man begins his journey and a salient image of the couple with their hands grasping the other’s parallels the anxiety and despair in their downcast facial expressions. Although the gloomy atmosphere, the light sepia tones in the picture allow an insight into the tender and loving relationship that the family members share. Upon the man’s departure the paper crane motif returns and he hands it to his daughter as a token of his undying love for her. His migratory experience is studded by the comfort and ease that he obtains from a picture of his family. In paralleled scenes on the boat and the new apartment, the
So I am going to introduce about some interesting symbols that I found in the book to write about. First of all, George and Lennie's dream farm. This imaginary farm is basically what pushes the whole story line since the whole story is about George and Lennie working while achieving their dream which is
Plan for English essay- 1500 words (375 words per paragraph) -underline every time title is used.
Life has its ups and downs. In life people have their trials and they must overcome them to grow as human beings. Mistakes become lessons and through these mistakes you are able to grow up and be able to make a difference in the world. Jeannette Walls had many trials in her life. She was able to overcome them and use them to learn life lessons that most will not learn until they are much older. Growing up poor is hard and for a while Jeannette Walls was ashamed of her past for a while. Finally she found the courage to tell her story and that memoir became The Glass Castle. The memoir shows us how growing up impoverished does not mean that you will be stuck impoverished if you do something about it. Jeannette learned many lessons in life that helped her grow up fast and ultimately were able to aid her in making it out of poverty and to follow her dreams in New York. Jeannette was able to demonstrate that no matter where you come from, you can still do great things.
This gives the reader the ability to elicit something meaningful from the book. The reader may pull from the story that life is not simple for everyone in the world, and that they should realize that some people have a hard time growing up because of the situation they are in. Children who grow up with a substantial amount of money in a stable home have opportunities that the Walls children did not. Some may wonder what they are having for dinner, while children in situations similar to the Walls may wonder if they can afford food for dinner. Despite all of the negativity and hardships in Walls’s life, she still turned out to be a successful women. After visualizing the terrible circumstances the Walls family was under, the reader can pull from the story that one may defy an inferior situation and build a better
Through symbolism Walls was able to portray a deeper meaning to otherwise ordinary objects or events. She wrote, “A few days after Mom and Dad brought me home, I cooked myself some hot dogs…The neighbor lady who had driven me to the hospital was surprised that I didn’t run in the opposite direction from any fire I saw. ‘Why the hell would she?’ Dad bellowed with a proud grin. ‘She already fought the fire once and won’” (Walls 15). Fire represented hope and not giving up. Despite getting burned as a young girl, Walls was not afraid to approach fire again. This symbolized all the future challenges she would have to face, and no matter how much they would hurt her, she would rise back up. In addition, the Glass Castle that her father had envisioned represented hope and the American Dream. She explained, "Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our Glass Castle" (Walls 25). Even though the family was poor, they were chasing after that dream. The Glass Castle was a representation of happiness, stability, and all their worries coming to an end. It was glass because it’s fragile, and at any moment it could collapse. Symbolism played an important role in conveying ideas and
Corkboards are commonly used for reminders, organizing and possibly posting things we like on them. These elements often come into play when I try to start a project. I often need to plan in advance but even when I try to stay organized, I am scattered much like the board. The texts are what I used to be inspired when I am creating something of my own. And like many aspects in life, the Polaroid’s and board have imperfections, but it is these imperfections build character. When hung together they form a tapestry that tells a story of my life. I will now explain part of that story by analyzing three of these texts from my collage by applying key concepts commonly studied in popular culture.
My next example, is the "wall". The wall is something later in the book, that Bobby "tags" or spray paints. He paints images about finding his identity, and how the painted figure, is unable to find it. He paints a baby carriage, which is associated with babies, showing how he is growing away from his childhood, and he is becoming a parent, because his girlfriend Nia is pregnant. The rest of the wall is bringing back memories from his childhood, and he realizes is not getting that back.
The novel is primarily about a woman who struggles in her search for self while trying to reconcile her beliefs with those imposed on her by society and the men in her life. Important symbols in the novel include, the horizon, hurricane, Porch, Janie’s hair, gates, the pear tree, Land ownership and wealth, Janie’s overalls. All of the symbols provide the reader with clues as to how and why Janie’s grows and developments into the person she becomes by the end of the novel. Horizon symbolises Janie’s life long search for happiness. Pear tree indicates that Janie is maturing sexually and mentally and her interest towards love and romance is increasing.
Throughout the story symbolism help outline how important family is when healing. The housing projects were populated with drug dealers and gave false hope for aspiring African Americans. They represented a life full of poverty. Living in a housing
In the “Photo-Cultural-Ecological Journey” activity I learned that everyone is shaped and molded occurring to their experiences in life. I was able to perceive that regardless of how good or bad your experiences were, it serves as a life map and provides a picture of where you once were and where you are headed. The five pictures I choose to present identify personal perspective in my life. It categorized and acknowledged different parts and milestones in my life, where a lesson was learned in every step of the way.
It shows a city mostly overgrown with leaves and vines. The light pole being wrapped by the vines and how empty the office buildings look shows me that there is no one there anymore, by not even reading the off hand I can tell that it would be about some sort of fallen society or some type of apocalypse. The deer standing dead center on the cover makes it even more of a realistic idea to the cover. The tone given off to me is a very lifeless, or sad world. The fact that wildlife is inside a big suburban area like the one shown gives us the impression that no one is there anymore, it is a dead town and the wildlife has completely taken over. The cover being so dark makes a good connection with the book with what the book is about, a now dark world, but with the tittle Station Eleven sitting in big font with lighter pink coloring sits dead center of the page gives some light to all the darkness. “There seemed to be a limitless number of objects in the world that had no practical use but that people wanted to preserve" (p.258) shows us that there is still hope. This would be giving some hope to what the world has become. The building still being there gives me the image of the world now, but some characters do not like to think about it, for example, Jeevan. (p.312) but even he even goes to say that he doesn’t want to let go. (p.270) Kirstin sometimes
"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.