Why Is Edwin Fiske's Dark?

Do you ever wonder how insanity comes about through the brain? Paul is the main character in the story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”. Snow is what paul struggles with throughout the story. It represents the sanity that he has. Whether it is a large or small amount the snow is constantly there. He goes through the story accepting the snow but his parents do not. He then locks himself in his room and just let’s the snow take over him. `In the story “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” the snow represents the clarity of Paul going insane as the snow is not truly there, the snow clouds his thoughts, and it speaks to him.

To start off with, the snow creates a setting within the story. For example, in the text it says, “I sat up and looked at it for a while. It was like how you can’t see out the window into darkness at night, but anyone out there can see in, if that makes any sense.” (Northrop, page 69) This piece of text demonstrates how the snow creates a setting because the snow surrounded the high school and made the characters feel captive. Similarly, at the beginning of the novel, it says,

As I stepped out of the exit door a frigid breeze almost made me an iceberg. I did not feel my hands, legs and it caused pain in my esophagus and ears similar to the pain which I had only experienced when I licked or swallowed ice-candies in India. But this condition was pacified by the “SNOW”. When in India I remember that my family once visited one of the states of India in the Himalayan region to experience snow. During my initial few months over here snow was a pleasure to watch and I didn’t understand the reason for everybody worrying about the snowy days. I felt it needless to worry about so soft, so white, so smooth snow until I had to drive in that not so smooth snow, clean not so soft and white snow and then get exhausted to wait for the so called SPRING.

“For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autuem turned into winter that year. We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885, Atticus said,” (63) This drawing was just a fun one. But it showed what the kids reactions were to the frozen snow on the ground.

The whole atmosphere Is very dark. The author is possibly attempting to draw viewers thoughts to focus on this man’s death. This death of this man is a loss of life, at least I felt that as the snow globe was released from his dying hands, it foreshadowed this loss. The globe was shattered and broken like the life of this man.

For the first time since 1885, Maycomb had a winter. I could believe my eyes as I saw the white flakes fall down on the ground. It was so cold that they cancelled school. Jem and me decided to make a snowman, but there wasn’t enough snow so we used some of Miss Maudie’s and her dirt too. Soon

The snow from the tree falling on the fire is not just an impact on the character but also is the climax. “High up in the tree one bough capsized its load of snow. This fell on the boughs beneath, capsizing

The first sentence of the story is also interesting. The sentence opens the story by telling you “Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water” (Carver par 1). This opening sentence is important because it acts as symbolism. The snow is white usually represent purity in literature.

Snow, one of Earth’s most beautiful, and ugliest, creations, is a wintertime topic that brings with it mixed emotions, opinions and heated debates. Some people love it, others not so much. It can bring joy, happiness and laughter, but can bring just as much destruction, danger and misery.

It is a well known fact that it usually does not snow in winter in the Bay Area and although the weather was damp and chilly, for sure, it was not like the bitter-cold winters in Holland. Nevertheless, on January 21, 1962, there was snowfall in Redwood City! Noke jokingly accused us of bringing the snow from Holland. It was the news sensation of the year, snow in the Bay Area, the local news was inundated with videos and stories of the unusual snow covered coastal hills and in our own garden, it was stunning to see a lemon bush with juicy, ripe fruit blanketed in the glistening snow. The slick, snowy days made it impossible

As the Goodmans pulled up to the driveway of the lodge snow started falling. They didn’t get much snow in North Carolina so they stared admiringly at the glistening

1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about? Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver is a story that deals with an obvious dispute between a couple that is divorcing, or a least separating. The text deals with an unfortunate fight that seems to also involve the couples child, which is an infant.

In "Snowbanks North of the House", Robert Bly explores the human tendency to give up at hard points in life. He discusses a young man who has lost his motivation to live and foreshadows what would happen if the man were to act upon his suicidal thoughts. He shows the thoughts and actions of the man’s family and how they are affected, causing the reader to sympathize for them. The poet uses symbolism, visual imagery, and tone to show his position that suicide is a crime that has multiple victims, and all of these people should be considered when struggling to cope with life.

On a snowy and windy night, I was at Barnes & Noble in Green Bay with my friends, Alan and Karina. Christmas music played overhead, the smell of hot chocolate and freshly brewed coffee wafted over, the customers were kind and cheerful, and snow was beginning to blanket the parking lot outside. We were sitting near the cafe wrapping books to support their mom’s school fundraiser. I stared outside and remembered my mom’s warning of the large snowfall that was almost upon us. Around 7:15, the snowflakes were becoming larger and we could barely see outside the window.

When grown adults reflect on their childhood, many will remember the wintery snow days that were filled with playing in fluffy clouds of snowflakes and drinking hot chocolate. These frosty days were defined by being very cold, with frost forming on surfaces such as the trees and the roof tops of houses. On wintery days when school is called off, most children flock to go sledding, build snowmen, make snow angels, and have snowball fights. However, a little boy named Christopher preferred to spend his snow days inside next to a crackling fire and a bowl of chicken noddle soup. While Christopher’s friends enjoyed the white wonderland outside, Christopher watched movies, read books, and played board games with his little sister.