What Does The Jabberwocky Mean

One of the obvious archetypes in this poem is “Good versus Evil.” The citizens of Whoville are thought to be good because they love Christmas and only needed each other to celebrate it. The Grinch is considered to be evil for his plain’s to foil Christmas. His attitude and character do not help his case

Tone- Jabberwocky appears to have a somewhat humorous tone, considering the nonsensical words used, the brevity of the story, and lack of moral. There is no issue or theme addressed that can be applied as an allegory, unlike The Lorax. However, the entire story of the Lorax is rather darker and more applicable in real life, and the tone is both a call to action for the readers and also rather accusatory towards large factories and companies. However, the Jabberwocky appears to have no clear accusations or calls to action and is a vivid contrast to the dark tone of The Lorax. The Jabberwocky poem’s tone is rather ironic, because it presents a usually serious topic (Defeating a vicious beast) with nonsensical baby words, which makes the author’s intent rather humorous. The quote below showcases an action scene with these nonsense words, which changes the tone from serious too rather humorous.

The first stanza, which contains the son’s childish speech, is short, only three lines. However, by the stanza which contains the son’s angry talkback, the stanza is double in length, having four lines. Each line represents a literal level of maturity and growth that the son has gained. As time moves on, he is able to gain more and more experience in life. As his experience accumulates over time, so does his hostility. His terse, childish begging for his father to simply read another story turns to an angry speech about how he no longer beleievs in his father as an authority figure. Despite this, the son’s psyche changes back, as all this maturation is played out in the father’s head, and when he returns, he is back to his childish self, bu this stanza is the longest in the poem. This suggests that when someone is able to mature enough, they are able to comprehend more of the world than they did before, and are able to act

It exemplifies the behavior of the boy and his father throughout the rest of the novel and shows how much they are willing to do to stay alive. It shows the fire within them.

One aspect being that he wants to help others that they encounter along the way. When they had their camp set up on the beach, one day the thief came and stole all of their possessions. This further prompted the father to go on a hunt to find him with the pistol and have a want to kill him. Once they had found the thief, the father was in rage. The boy pleaded, “Papa please don’t kill the man” (256). Then the father prompted the thief to take off everything and put it in the cart. The thief begged him and told the father “Come on. Listen to the kid” (257). Later, once they father and boy had left, the boy would not stop crying. The boy pleaded to his father, “Just help him, Papa. Just help him” (259). Here was a turning point of the book because the father decided to listen to his son and returned the clothes to the road for the thief to come fetch. The father had to trust the boy and give help to others that actually needed it for once, instead of pretending to be the ‘good

Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition of insanity is, a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder. But what is the true definition, behind logic and basic thought? According to Lionel Suggs, an author, “Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion”. In both the “Tell-Tale Heart” and The Hitchhiker, the narrator and Ronald Adams struggle to distinguish themselves from being on the brink of insanity. The narrator from “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Ronald Adams from the radio play The Hitchhiker are both insane due to their lack of being able to separate reality from fantasy, in addition to their chronic paranoia, and their need to recite their different narratives to keep calm.

In the story the author used foreshadowing. The foreshadowing came in when Carolee heard the dogs barking. This foreshadowed that something was found or the dogs found someone so

A reoccuring signal of their downfall was the screams that sounded very familiar to the Hadley parents. “Those screams - they sound familiar” (Bradbury). Those screams were foreshadowing the deaths of George and Lydia in the nursery because the nursery was already preparing to kill them to fulfill the wishes of the children. The second signal of the parents death was the lions eating some unidentified animal. “‘They’ve just been eating,’ said Lydia. ‘I don’t know what.’ ‘Some animal”’ (Bradley). George and Lydia could never identify the animal and assumed that it was a zebra or gazelle, however when the reader looks back after finishing the story, they realize that the ‘animal’ was in fact George and Lydia. “There are also lions off in the distance that seem to be feeding upon a recent kill. Suddenly the lions turn and run toward George and Lydia” (Milne). When the lions turned and chased the Hadley parents after finishing their kill, it was indicating the lions were targeting them, and that the animal was in fact the parents. By spoiling their children and then taking away one small privilege, George and Lydia had caused the children to have bad behavior issues and not be able to handle it, causing the children to wish for their parents deaths. Foreshadowing was just one of the techniques that Bradbury used to depict the theme of his

Two distinct points of views can be seen in this poem, one is that of the father and then the son. The father's point of view is more common and used more than that of the son but both displays and add to the complexity of their relationship. From the father’s point of view, he shows his concern for disappointing his son by not coming up with great stories and losing his son as five years old matures which increases his anxiety as he sees the future approaching. The father fears of a fallout in the relationship with his son “...he thinks the boy will give up on his father”(9). The sons point of view

This sets a dark mood to the story and hints the climax is starting. The reader is told of the evils coming, but there is not enough good in the townspeople for them to all realize the situation.

     In the fourth stanza, the speaker’s killing instinct has taken over her body. She shows no pity towards the woodchucks as she takes the mother woodchuck and shoots her, watching it fall to its helpless death. She then takes another baby woodchuck, looking in its eyes, and kills it. She continues to kill the rest like a trained assassin, or psycho killer driven by pure frustration.

To start off, Ponyboy is a hero because of the courage he displays through the book. “I jerked loose and ran on. All I could think was: We started it. We started it. We started it!

In many fairytales, we are given characters who set out on an adventure to better themselves whether they know that they are on one or not. In A.S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest” we are taken on such an adventure, but this is more than just a children’s fairytale. Through figurative language we are shown that the main characters, Penny and Primrose, are dealing with more than just a creature in the forest, and that with this use of symbols as a way to express a larger meaning to objects in the story, we better understand how Penny and Primrose are dealing with being away from their family during a time of war in England.

It shows how important a family is, that should be valued and kept. Motivation takes place in the story, though the boy is faced with circumstances he never stops believing in the possibility of a good life and together with his grandmother believe that they can change the world for better. The love and comfort they give to one another seems to spur this belief.

"Blessed is the mother who is able to help her child, at whatever age. This truth about parental happiness is surly known by any loving parents who has been compelled to watch impotently while his child is suffering." The example to prove this statement can be seen all through the story. "The forest is my house, but you may cut of my branches and build a house. Then you will be happy. And so the boy cut of her branches and carried them away to build his house. And the tree was happy." On the other hand, the boy still stays inconsiderate and selfish. He never even once mention to the tree how thankful he is or even a simply "thank you". "The love of the tree for the boy or the man is a selfless love, while the love of the boy for the tree is a selfish love. The boy never tries to help the tree (by pruning, feeding it, et cetera), while the entire being of the tree is devoted to helping the boy meet his most recent need, whether trivial or essential."