Bla Bla Bla Manuel E. Arguilla’s “Morning in Nagrebcan” tells a story of a family with a dog and its young puppies all living in Katanyaghan Hills. The family consist the father, Tang Ciaco who is a carpenter, the mother, Nana Elang who is the housewife and the two kids, Ambo and Baldo.I tis dawn in Nagrebcan, Nana Elang consistently doing her obligation as a housewife while Ambo and Baldo were in a fierce fight and the root cause is the stupidness of Ambo eating the whole banana without peeling the skin of it. Baldo insist Ambo to not eat the banana with skin and the rivalry between the two brothers ignited. Ambo took revenge on Baldo by snatching the favorite puppy of Baldo without the consent of Baldo. Ambo still aims to touch the puppy …show more content…
First, The mother dog that is a stock character in the story conveys numerous symbolisms. The mother dog symbolizes the love of Nana Elang to her children. In the story, the mother dog give tender, love and care to the puppies. Conversely, the mother dog also symbolizes the neglect of Tang Ciaco in his family. In the story, the mother dog left her puppies and came back after the sunrise. Similarly, Tang Ciaco left the family the whole night and came back to the house drunk in alcohol. Being intoxicated to alcohol, he beated his children and insult vulgarly his wife. The mother dog also symbolizes the past life of Nana Elang– as a prostitute. Female dog often go out of the streets and find a random male dog and have sex with the male dog, without thinking the consequences. Likewise, prostitutes ensembles the trait done by the female dogs, they have a sexual intercourse with any random customer to earn a huge sum of money. That’s why Tnag ciaco always says to Nana elang that she is a shameless whore and the children son of a whore. The hard life experienced by Nana Elang, Tang Ciaco and his children also ensembles the life of the female …show more content…
The black and white spot of the innocent puppy depicts the dawn– whereas the darkness of the night intervene with the brightness of the morning. In paragraph 1, the color of the whole environment is grey. The combination of the black and white spot of the puupy is grey. The tension between the night and morning depicts the life. Life is often compared to the stages of the day– dawn (infant), morning (adulthood), noon (man), dusk(near-death) and night ( death). It is a contradiction that the puppy died in the dawn and not in the dusk or evening. It suugest that life is unfair, we could die in unexpected way like what happen to the puppy, existed from dawn to morning and eventually when sunrise came the puppy dies. The black and white spots also symbolizes the yin-yang principle. Two halves that together complete wholeness. Yin and yang are also the starting point for change. When something is whole, by definition it is unchanging and complete. So when you split something into two halves – yin / yang, it upsets the equilibrium of wholeness. This starts both halves chasing after each other as they seek a new balance with each other. The word Yin comes out to mean “shady side” and Yang “sunny side”. Yin Yang is the concept of duality forming a whole. We encounter examples of Yin and Yang every day. As examples: night (Yin) and day (Yang), female (Yin) and male (Yang). In addition, the gender of
This symbolizes that she knows that stealing is wrong but she is going to steal the money from her mother in order to help her father. "I looked out the window and saw only an ash-grey sky." Pg. 4. The author uses the describing term "ash-grey" to connect with the main character and her connection with her father. "In the coldness and stillness of the night,..." Pg. 4. This is the author showing that the cold is representing the fact that she knows stealing from her mother could tear her family apart even more she does it for the love and faith she has for her father. The dark sky symbolizes that she feels bad about taking the money but she has to choose between to very important things in her life, and she chooses to help her father by taking the
Firstly, the metaphors show that being by yourself and thinking can be very beneficial. In the poem, it describes the light as being “frayed” (17) and “nibbling at the end of its single cord” (18-19). This demonstrates that the girl is very stressed and “nibbling at the end” (18) shows that the girl is becoming anxious, urging to get out and be alone. Later in the poem, the girl becomes more
The theme of new beginnings and the harness of the past in another natural setting is discussed again in the second stanza, but now with a focus on time. The visual image presented my the passage as the sun hesitating and losing its direction show allow the reader to observe the symbolism of the sun. The sun universally represents time, the rise and set of sun symbolizing the beginning and ending of each day, days leading into months, years, and lifetimes. The rise of the sun is a new beginning, but it "seems to hesitate," and "lose its/ incandescent aim." The new beginning brought on by the rising of the sun was held back and lost "in that second." Hope and the fresh start were halted by the sun, who was not ready to let time pass and continue. The passage concludes with an affirmation of the symbolism, that "the past is brighter yet" than the sun who could not pull the new start cleanly into the future.
Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophy. Yin and Yang connects to Taoism, because it symbolizes balance between opposing sides. It is made of two principles. Yin, the predominately black side,
The scene is first set up through the personification of the sun. The poet uses interesting diction and phrases, such as “dipping” and “geometries” to describe nature. The sun is described with human characteristics, “build[ing]” these “geometries and orchids” and “riding/The last tumultuous avalanche”. It is like an almighty being that is capable of anything, including the controlling of nature. The poet wants to portray nature as a hidden yet powerful force that should not be seen as a simple concept. Contrasts,
During the hurricane Tea Cake asks Janie if she regrets leaving Eatonville to which she replies, “Naw, We been tuhgether round two years. If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.” At daybreak there is a horizon- this connects to the situation as Janie implies that she has seen and captured her horizon, she has obtained her dream. Dusk happens after sunset, it’s the coming of darkness. Janie does not care if she has to die in the terrible hurricane. Janie notes that there are people who never “seen the light”- meaning they’ve never seen or captured their own horizon and dreams. Just by being with Tea Cake Janie believes she has a part of her horizon. This is expressed as a point that Tea Cake is expressed as “the sun of the Evening Sun.” During sunset in the evening, the evening sun is part of the horizon. This symbolizes that Tea Cake is part of the dream of Janie in becoming free and being able to love. After trial, Janie thinks “The sun was almost down and Janie had seen the sun rise on her troubled love and then she had shot Tea Cake and had been in jail and had been tried for her life and now she was free. Nothing to do with the little that was left of the day but to visit the kind white friends who had realized her feelings and thank them. So the sun went down.” This quote represents more than that given day- it represents the life of Janie. In the end, Janie had gone through 2 marriages as the sun rose on her “troubled love”, Janie had to kill her lover and be tried in court. Now, the sun would go down and the horizon would arise. This shows how Janie had to go through all her struggles and sacrifices in order to reach her horizon. Now Janie is free- she is free from having to be in pursuit of her
The dogs passing could be seen as a metaphor for the Beth leaving her husband on his own to provide for himself, to take care of any possessions she may have had, and to fight his depression alone. The main character is now having feelings of loneliness and depression. The first paragraph states that "inside is warm", and "outside is cold", This could be tied as symbolism of the fact that he is secluding himself from the world. When the dog passed away the main character said that "it's not my dog, but it's my responsibility", this can make the reader think of all of the other responsibilities that the main character was left with. There are definitely some parallels between the dog and Beth. They both end up being burdens on the main character and leaving behind more for him to deal with. After the dog passes away the main character says "the blood on the carpet of the car is out of sight, and I will pretend it isn’t there. And then there's the touch." The touch can be seen as how the dog emotionally affected him by passing away. The dog did bring sadness to the main characters life due to the memories the main character seemed to have when he interacted with the dog. "I watched my hand volunteer itself and run its finger through the nap of his head". The way this sentence is put together makes it sound as if his caring for the dog was an involuntary action.
The visual’s background is formed by a dark and starry night sky; stretching across the image and transitioning into a sunny day sky. This is a representation of the passage of time, life, death, and the power of memories. The nighttime depicts ageing and adulthood, whereas the daytime represents youth and life. In the poem, the narrator describes the sky, ‘Ambiguous night, ambiguous sky,’ which is symbolic for the transience between adulthood and childhood. An ambiguous sky is a sky which is unclear or undecided. The faded transition from the night sky to the day sky reflects this notion and the uncertainty of memories; displaying how the poem
Each part was broken up after a noticeable shift and atmospheric changes in the poem. The first part of the poem is during “Sad is the man...with one”(Ln 1-2), and repeats again at “In a room...on his father”(Ln 6-9). These lines create a shift into a narrative stage. It puts a pause on the poem to introduce or explain the scene in the poem. The narrative is important because it shows the point of view of the poem. The second shift is created with “Already the man...should never disappoint”(Ln 10-18). This shift is when the father is thinking about his fears and desires, to be more blunt, the father’s fantasies. It creates an unrealistic tone to the poem an shows the father’s dismay when he cannot remember a story for his son. The last shift begins with “His five-year-old...scratches his ear”(Ln 3-5), and ends with “But the boy...up to silence”(Ln 19-23). This shift bring the poem into reality. In fact the poem states that the “emotional rather than logical equation”(Ln 20) is where most people get confused and frustrated at the world. The poem also states the conflict of fantasy and reality. This conflict is what creates the the multiple shifts and the complicated relationship between the father and the
"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream
Carver presents symbolism throughout his story to represent a darker side of the human heart when it is wounded. “Don’t, she said. You’re hurting the baby, she said. I’m not hurting the baby, he said.” The baby represents the relationship of the man and woman. There is not an actual baby that is being hurt, but their relationship together. Once the “issue was decided” towards the end, it represents how the man and woman’s relationship was no more. In addition, snow is brought up in the beginning to start the mood of the relationship. “...The snow was melting into dirty water.” The snow represents the pure white relationship they had in the beginning. Once the snow melted into dirty water, that shows that their relationship is tainted, fading away, and can never be the same. This also leads into the light that is set towards the house. “The kitchen window gave no light.” The window showing both the darkness of the outside and the inside of the house, represents how darkness is taking over the relationship, and how there is no more light to shine on their love for each other. All three of these symbols connect back to how the man and woman have a codependent relationship.
The darkness in this quote represents the negativity and disadvantages that surround both of their lives in Harlem. The light and darkness in this story both symbolize the hope and struggles that they will continue to face throughout their lives.
Lindo was arranged to marry Tyan-yu. While the marriage was short-lived, Tyan-yu constantly lied to Lindo, and Tyan-yu’s mother treated Lindo like an object to be bartered between families. Lindo experiences depression being trapped in this lifestyle, so she decides to flee to America in order to escape it. When reminiscing on her marriage Lindo says, “I had no choice, now or later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always the last to give up stupid old-fashioned customs” (Tan ). Similar to the mother in the beginning, Tan creates appeal to pathos, forcing the reader to sympathize with Lindo. The reader’s sympathy to Lindo allows Tan to expand on the larger issue of sexism, creating an emotional and educational tone in order to coax the reader into, again, understanding the true scale of sexism. Tan drilling this larger idea of sexism into readers changes the reader’s perspective. With new perspective, readers notice the need for change to establish equality between both sexes. Therefore, Tan is using her writing as a tool for a deeper subject: exciting change within the world, and thus, exemplifying Jong’s words.
The third stanza introduces the fawn within the doe, a sharp contrast between the scene of darkness and death with life and birth. However, this concept of birth and life is nothing to be celebrated, for Stafford reveals this discovery in a negative tone:
Romesh Gunesekera; the author of the novel Reef (1994), begins the story with a young boy by the name of Triton, entering Mr Salgado’s household as a “Kolla”, meaning boy, and starting to become weary of himself and his own capabilities. Throughout the novel, Triton faces certain hardships, but quickly learns to overcome them as he begins to develop a sense of responsibility and independence within the household. Mr Salgado becomes the “centre of Triton’s world” and he is someone that Triton looks up to and wants to become. However, everything changes when Miss Nili becomes the central aspect of Mr Salgado’s life and changes the relationships within the household, allowing Triton to see things from a new perspective. Throughout the novel we see how Triton plays the role of an Outsider as well as Insider within the home and how he starts becoming very observant with regards to Miss Nili. In this essay I will discuss how Triton’s role in Mister Salgado’s household alters and becomes a turning point in the novel.