John Cage Essay

The men, though, laugh at the women's wonderings about the quilt. To them it is of little importance. Likewise, the bird and its cage are easily dismissed. In fact, the men just as easily believe a lie about this bird and cage. When the cage is noticed, its broken door overlooked, the county attorney asks, "Has the bird flown?'" Mrs. Peters replies that the "'cat got it'" (360). There is actually no such cat, but the men do not know

dying to get out of class and shows major impatience when the class down the hallway is let out early. He even says, “My insides quaked at the injustice of it.” Freedom is also a theme in the fable because the story is about an animal born into a cage, and this animal has never experienced freedom. In fact, the animal “saw above and about him confining walls, and before him were bars of iron.” The theme of freedom is present through the voice of the narrator, Corey Mackenson, in Boy’s

of how an unhappy life caused a woman to make a decision that ended her husband’s life. Through this play, the author displayed many important symbols to represent characters and emotions. The most revealing symbols in this play were the bird, the cage, and the quilt. These symbolic objects represented an important aspect in the protagonist’s life. One of the most revealing symbols in Trifles is the bird. The bird represents the main character in the story, Minnie Foster/Wright. Minnie was once considered

There is nothing for the bird to do anything better than freedom. Because any cages, even the gold, can be captive. It’s meant, like a beautiful girl, who doesn’t think about love, but she is thinking only about money and when she got it, and she married, she cannot be happy in the huge house, with gold furniture, big pool, expensive cars and without love because this girl just a doll for her husband. She lives in the gold cage without freedom. First, there is no other bird next to anyone, and with no

You've been acting awful tough lately, Smoking a lot of cigarettes lately. But inside, you're just a little baby. It's okay to say you've got a weak spot, You don't always have to be on top. Better to be hated, Than loved loved loved for what you’re not. The stereo clicked to a halt. A Norwegian man engulfed in a cigar suddenly let out a surprised puff, kicking his legs back down from his desk. “ What the—“ The office reeked with rum and cigar smoke, piles of ripped papers and pictures littered

“You’re in trouble.” “Shut up Michael.” You hiss back at the blonde. Trouble didn’t even begin to cover it. If you were in trouble, you waited in the playroom at home for Calum to come and punish you. If you were absolutely, positively fucked, Calum would call you down to the gangs clubhouse and deal with you right away. Which is exactly where you’ve found yourself, walking straight into the devils lair. The main room is filled with members, unusual for a weekday. You feel their eyes on you, noticing

"Experiment Eleven, step forward." ~ The bars on my cage opened, letting me out. Two guards were one either side, preventing me from escaping. ~ I looked around, gray walls surrounding me. The guards picked up the cage, going out the door and walked out, the door locking. ~ I stopped scratching at the shock collar around my neck. I had on a hospital gown, dirty and torn. The biggest tears were on the back, two for my wings. ~ They were white, with a bit of gray in them. ~ The gray walls shifted

themes that a story is trying to convey. In Susan Glaspell 's, Trifles, she meticulously incorporates significant symbols that help the reader recognize and construe the depth of the significance of the jar of fruit preserves, quilt, bird, and the bird cage. Things are not always as insignificant as they appear to be, and Glaspell 's play is a prime example of how important it is to read between the lines. A central theme in Glaspell 's play is gender obedience, displayed seemingly by Mrs. Wright. Because

serious crime. This is how he did it. Cecil watched the digital clock in the reptile room. He was waiting for the clock to switch from 7:59 to 8:00. “Closing time,” Tyler the mouse thought as the clock struck, “Time to go hang out.” Tyler lived in the cage next to Cecil. “Attention,tourists",the zookeeper said on the announcements,``The zoo is closed so everyone please leave the zoo.`` The zookeeper walked to her car and drove out of the zoo parking lot. ”The zookeeper is gone,time to party!” thought

explain that when we encounter a problem we become so worried that we are not going to do well at the task at hand that we begin to fear the obstacle. Though at times we may let our fears prevent us from making choice we shouldn’t let them create a cage around us from all opportunity. Can fear have the power to hold you back from something you would metaphorically kill to do or have? Fear can be just a word