Who Is A Perpetrator?

Another example of Imagery within Boyden’s short story is when he says “...the streetlights above me in this absurdly quiet residential neighborhood seemed so white, like a row of

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

* ‘This late, the architecture is desolate and reached of colour’’ symbolic, suggests of life having been washed out in the town-devoid of colour.

The buildings were described as having, “small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes,” as to make the infrastructure have human features to look at the narrator and scene around it. When the narrator is with Mrs. Todd and her herbal remedies the humanity of the town grows with the mystical qualities of the herbs as the remedies themselves “whispered directions could be heard as customers passed the windows” and the wind blew by, ““adverse winds at sea might also find their proper remedies.” By personifying the town itself and making it not only the setting, but a character, Jewett deepens the meaning of her excerpt to have a mystical tone and maintain the

These cruelties were confronted by the church where it was unknown if the African American race could express themselves past whether it was the blues or spiritually or even both. The Lynching trees shares a major resemblance of the cross of Golgotha where Jesus our Savior was crucified for the sins of the human race. The irony presented here demonstrates how the lynching of Jesus Christ of Him dying on the cross and the lynching of five thousand African American individuals have a great difference in American theology where those who committed the acts within the states did not see the similarities between them both. Martin Luther King Jr. had a prominent role within society in America where he sought out to teach the white race of the United States that if the cross were the pillar of the Christian faith then they would soon learn that the lynching tree is the American cross. Even with the outlaw of segregation through the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education, lynching was a shocking reminder to the American population of the power the white race had upon the African

“‘Race Politics” by Luis J. Rodriguez was about him and his brother living in a place called Watts. They journey over the tracks, trying to get the “good food” for their family. They go to the store, and find themselves face to face with five teenagers who knock the food out of their hands, and beat up the main character’s older brother, causing him to vomit. The teenagers leave, with them on the floor. The purpose for writing this essay is to identify syntax, connotation, and imagery within this poem, and decide what makes it important to the overall poem. The overall impression that Luis conveys within his work is the feeling of separation.

“Take for instance that new house of his. It had two stories with porches, with bannisters and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the "big house." And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted it - a glowy, sparkly white.

In addition to including the most boring of details, Capote uses a great deal of imagery to describe the town and its residents. Focusing mostly on visual appeal, he describes the "sulphur-colored paint" and "flaking gold" to reveal the town's appearance and has-been status. Portraying the area as one that has seen better days, Capote writes about the "old stucco structure" that no longer holds dances, the crumbling post office, and the bank that now fails to serve its original purpose.” Combining visual imagery with hints of desolation, Capote attempts to reveal the gray and boring nature of the town through its appearance. He does not, however, rely only on visual details; in describing the local accent as "barbed with a prairie twang," he uses both auditory and visual appeal to make one imagine a ranch-hand's tone of voice and pattern of speech as he describes the events of his farming days. The "hard blue skies and desert-clear air" contribute to a feeling of emptiness, an emotional vacancy that seems omnipresent in the small town. Finally, even "the steep and swollen grain elevators" that represent the town's prosperity are seen in a solemn and mysterious light, as Capote makes certain to mention that the townspeople camouflage this abundance without explaining why they choose to do so.

He writes of a white veteran who approaches him while at the wall. With his effort to point out that it was a white veteran shows us that the speaker understands that the war didn’t just effect himself or African Americans, but all that were involved. He then uses some visual imagery to help us envision this white veteran and how he looked at the speaker by saying “his pale eyes/look through mine” (lines 26-27). Then, with the metaphor “I’m a window”, he expresses how, since being at the memorial wall, his self-perception has now lessened even more (line 27). Now he is neither stone nor flesh, but now a window through which this white veteran looks at the wall. He doesn’t even see the speaker, but obviously has his own harsh experiences of the war as he looks through the speaker at the wall. With this visual imagery and metaphoric language the speaker helps us understand how he feels about the war and the affects it’s had on him and all others that were involved.

In the book The Cross and the Lynching Tree, the author describes how the cross in Christianity directly relates to the tree where black people were often lynched. I feel as though James Cone's description of the relationship between the two is very true, as both Jesus and the black Americans were left to die simply because people felt they were not like they should have been. Ultimately, the cross is largely a religious symbol in Christianity and is important in terms of lynching, because it marks an occurrence where rather than a black man being persecuted, it was a white man instead. This shows that lynching was still an issue for those who were not black, and that people were not able to see the effects that lynching had on black Americans,

Window – The window could represent the connection between the public and private lives of the characters. The influence of public views on private lives. Somehow, someway everyone in the village tends to get involved in everyone’s problems, nothing can be private.

Gray uses the images of an “Aboriginal, not attempting to hitch, outside town” to emphasise the discomfort and disconnection he feels with land and the environment around him. This image is very strong as it shows his disempowerment towards the environment. He feels lost in this town so he moves away from the foreign constructions.

The characters in the story act grown and ghetto, this may be why it makes the setting look like it’s in a tore down part of town. It shows that people act differently depending on where they live. I notice that the author uses dialect like “ain’t” and “cuz” to show contrast of how young they are but how grown the act. I also noticed striking language and actions that I hear on the everyday basis. The characters use the setting against other people in the story.

The Bourgeois society is represented in the top half of the painting; tall office towers line the city sky which is a dominating reminder to Americans of a chance for prosperity. The Statue of Liberty sits in the distance; Frida pushes the ideal of Western strength and freedom to the background, which realizes the possibility of American economic failure. The water is a dark grey, reflective of the dreary years of the depression era. A collection of six industrial smoke-pipes reach high from behind the commericialist towers of the city. They seem to acknowledge the defining role of lower class workers and industrial society in the prosperity of America.

At first he describes the town using imagery as peaceful and put together. He says “white frame houses struck/ like