Little rain

Willa Cather’s My Antonia and Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain are two literary works that effectively recreate the landscape of the stories they are telling. Their writing styles have a few similar characteristics, such as their word choice and their usage of visual elements; however, they take advantage of various writing elements that make their writing styles distinct, such as the use of figurative language, emotion, and rhetorical questioning. First and foremost, Willa Cather and Mary

Ta’shon Rain Little Light, a five-year-old living on Crow Reservation in Montana, complained to her mother that she had an intense stomach ache. Her mother took her to the Indian Health Service Clinic in order to seek treatment for her daughter’s pain; however, the doctor said that her child was depressed and that the stomach ache was all in the little girl’s head. After several months of visits to the clinic with no symptom relief, Ta’shon’s lung collapsed. Ta’shon was then airlifted to the children’s

his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living−room… Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain. (Fitzgerald 45) The increasing rain shows the increasing anxiety Gatsby, and perhaps Nick feels in this situation and Gatsby standing in the puddle of water shows how his anxiousness is engulfing him. The use of pathetic fallacy here shows how much Gatsby cares about

state of California began to decrease. Today, California is in the midst of a record drought. Not knowing when the drought will end, Californians have been pointing their fingers to the government for a solution with which they are not providing. Little do the people know, but there are a number of ways in which they can help put this drought to an end while the government is trying to find a solid solution. It has been discovered by the AGU Chapman conference that the drought is caused from a

The Rain When it rains in the city most people in the city get out of sorts, the streets get waterlogged and the traffic escalates. The children cannot go out to play and we have to stay home getting bored with TV. My mother complains when we don’t clean our shoes before we get into the house, the laundry doesn’t dry and our hair frizzes. But in the mountain range, the rain is welcomed with joy and ease. It rains over there all year long. During the winter there is soft rain that can last all day

down when she doesn't respond. Cut to a fantasy sequence of her dancing in an Apollo-like stage and her boyfriend licking her ear, but it is really a dog licking her ear while she is down on the ground. She returns to her building and runs into a little girl, Ruby, who pesters her. It is another day and Precious needs money for food before leaving house. But mom is too busy in bed, pleasuring herself, but asks Precious to come up and take care of her. She says, I wish she would stop that shit

Rain drops the size of Texas were falling, as I made my way out of my house. Why did it have to rain the day I decided to move? I had checked the whether forecast a few days in advance and the weather should have been a nice balmy 75 °F. But of course that was my luck. I had been planning this move for some time, and I thought everything would go smoothly (I was moving because I was going to attend Eastern Washington University). Instead the torrential rain was making me question whether I should

Pluviophile Petrichor, the earthy and pleasant smell that comes before and after the first rain after a long period of warm and dry weather. Sounds of rain when it falls upon her window sill make her feel incredibly relaxed and instantly tired. She goes outside to catch little drops descending from puffy gray clouds in slightly dark skies. The smell and sound of rainfall are her favorite things because it means there is a possibility of thunderstorms approaching. In Nevada where she lives rainfall

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez symbols are used throughout the plot to develop characterization, foreshadowing and irony. Two of the most important symbols are weather and dreams. Weather is used to develop the perspective of the characters of Santiago Nasar and his death. Dreams are used to foreshadow Santiago’s death and add to the irony that everybody knew he was going to die but, no one told him. Together the two symbols work to create a theme that the decisions

“So, it 's suppose to be sunny with few clouds, and about 75 degrees a beautiful day out today.” The weatherman on T.V.said as he flashed a fake smile on his face. I clicked the power button, and threw down the remote on the couch. And ran outside clutching the money my dad gave me for ice cream, tight in my hand. I saw the group sitting outside getting ready to go.I could see myself sitting in the back on the porch, eating the delicious flurry that I was soon to order. My brother,my best friend