Purple Rain

Locked It was a bitter evening. The wind was strong and crisp. Rain was bucketing down and thunder roared. The occasional lighting flashed, brightening up the streets. Ellie Parkinson arrived home to her white picture-perfect cottage that still looked delightful despite the bleak weather. Ellie opened the front gate which immediately flew shut after entering. Ellie ran inside avoiding the rain and took off her shiny red coat and placed it on the hook then lit the fireplace, sat

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I believe the significance to the reference of rain in the story, communicates the fact that nature is uninterrupted by not only mankind ways of life, but their catastrophic disasters brought on by nuclear destruction. In that, although this fictional world was apparently destroyed by a nuclear attack, it didn’t affect nature from continuing to function as normal. Furthermore, I would venture to say that the writer was making a play on the fact that not only did nature continue as normal in the

their own self, caught up in a storm with thunder and lightning that eventually crashes down and pours on their parade. Actress, singer, and songwriter Barbra Streisand once stated in her famous song, “don’t bring around a cloud to rain on my parade,” but sometimes the rain pours before one can put up their umbrella. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the characters face many “storms” and unfortunately it causes immense disaster in their life. Romeo and Juliet, forbidden lovers, face

umbrella at home. His mother had warned of rain. It was in the forecast, she had said in her small, fretting voice. She had urged him to wear his raincoat and to take his umbrella, but he had forgotten the umbrella in the rush of leaving, and how he thought of the five blocks he would have to walk from the Omni station to the Century National Bank, and of the morning crowd that would push against him in its hurried dash through the fine mist of the rain that had begun during the train ride from

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“There Will Come Soft Rains” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, telling about a advanced technological house after a nuclear blast had killed everyone. The house still went on doing its daily actions even though no one was there. Since the house was completely ran by technology it could not think to stop this process. Bradbury uses this as a theme. We are told this story from an outside perspective of each action. You first find out that there is no humans in the house when the house calls

Pensacola is a historical, small, beautiful city down in the South. Pensacola has a charming accent, historical family members from the past, beautiful white beaches, caring and loving people, and a star lit downtown. In Pensacola, you can always find something to do on a rainy or sunny day. On a sunday people hit the waters, they get on their boats and go to a lovely island to enjoy the day. People also go to Pensacola Beach to enjoy the white, relaxing sound of the waves crushing, and all the tourist

state of a character such as rain representing a cleansed character (due to the baptizing/restorative properties of rain)(Foster 57) or fog representing a sort of a state of confusion (Foster 59). However, it is important to note that each weather condition can have numerous connotations and it is up to the author to choose the symbolic meaning behind them. For instance during the act of Papa smashing Mama’s figurines, there was “howling winds [that] came with an angry rain”(Adichie 257) and this signals

“Religion and oppression” (Adichie 173), words written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, provides a simple yet effective overview of her novel, Purple Hibiscus. The novel illustrates an emotional story of Kambili, a Nigerian girl who silently lives under the tyrannical ruling of her wealthy and publicly respected father, undergoes a series of both physical and mental change as she experiences life in Aunty Ifeoma’s house in town Nsukka. Adichie incorporates natural symbols, such as the verandah, earthworms