Blushing

Emotions in The Things They Carried How do soldiers grasp all of the traumatic events they have seen? Tim O’Brien answers this question in his collection of short stories, The Things They Carried. The author uses entertainment metaphors, the motif and the metaphor of carrying things, and the motif of the cold, all to convey how soldiers conceal their emotions out of fear of being perceived as soft, and how internally they reflect on their emotions. O’Brien uses entertainment metaphors and the motif

After a moment or so, Makoto took a deep breath, and I was ready for him to tell me to deal with it on my own. I was already considering giving it up for adoption, because I knew for a fact that I couldn’t take care of it if it was on my own. It was an honest mistake, but there was no way in hell I could help work with that mistake. “Wow, this is certainly not what I was expecting,” he told me. “I imagine. It’s not what everyone expects. But yeah. I guess you don’t want to be with me now. You

every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops, Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten, Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet, Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops, Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops. -Walt Whitman Angela Drews Professor Pat Baehler English 3005W 04/11/2012 Close Reading: Trickle Drops Whitman starts of

The speaker shows us this in this quote. "They carried the soldiers greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing…it was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive…they kept humping. They did not submit to the obvious alternative to fall."(21) This quote is to inform the reader that the only reason a solider would go to war and to stay there is from the "fear of blushing" That they weren't there by choice. The term "humping" is used. It is there way of dealing with the war

the sidewalk. “Thank you.” She said with a small smile. “Oh, it’s fine.” He shifted from foot to foot, looking slightly...embarrassed? Michele didn’t know what to make of that. She was the one who had just fallen, not him. So why was he blushing? “My dog appreciates the drink, though.” The stranger said, snapping her out of her musings. “But, chocolate may not be the best for him.” Michele chuckled. “Well, it’s not like we’re going to drink it. He can have it.” He laughed, a

responds when they do something they know is wrong. In this case the person will often feel nervous, shaky, scared, upset, or become agitated, and these feelings can be marked by bodily responses that include increased heart rate, pupil dilation, or blushing.  Lie detector tests are based on a person's bodily responses while they are lying and doing something they know is wrong and fear getting caught.  People tend to feel guilty when they do something they know is wrong and they fear getting

The speaker is the late Duchess’s husband, the Duke. He comes across a portrait of the Duchess, lovely and young, and begins to remark upon her life. He tells how she was charming and that this portrait could not recount her love of everything, her blushing at the attention of men. He then leads into how she never quite appreciated him and how unimpressed she was with his “nine-hundred-years-old name.” From this, the reader begins to see the distant relationship between the Duke and his wife. This essay

Jealousy, especially in terms of relationships, is very powerful. Jealousy causes people to act irrationally. Perhaps if the princess wasn’t as jealous of the blushing bride, she would choose the left door rather than the right. Furthermore, the story stresses how terrible the scenario of her lover with the bride would be more than her lover torn to pieces via

as poems. Emily Dickinson, in her poem “Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart”, has several examples of personification. “Have you got a brook in your little heart/Where bashful flowers blow/And blushing birds go down to drink/And shadows tremble so?” The flowers are bashful, the birds are blushing, and the shadows are trembling. These are examples of personification, but why do writers include this in their texts? It increases the interest in the story, and to keep the reader’s attention. It

In Act II: Scene 5, Juliet who is deeply in love impatiently waits for the Nurse to return with news from Romeo about wedding plans. Juliet’s upset with the Nurse considering her belief messages about love should be fast as thought, “Love's heralds should be thoughts, which move ten times faster than light from the sun.” Regardless of the Nurses old age, Juliet’s accusing her of not having feelings considering she knows of Juliet’s eagerness. At first, Juliet thinks the Nurse could not find Romeo