...lived in a pretty how town” The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is a narrative about a town where the people only care about themselves. It’s about the passage of time and the normal things that happens as time goes on. E. E. Cummings portrays the people to be careless as implied in stanza 7. He contrast the people being selfish, line 2, stanza 2 “cared for anyone not at all” with the people being loving, line 2, stanza 4, “she laughed his joy she cried his grief”. There are many different ways to approach this poem. You can figure out the themes and meaning or talk about how Cummings ties nature to the main idea, like how he uses the seasons to make the point that the feelings of the people of the town never change and the passing of time. Lewis Turco found two themes of this poem. His first theme is “how can anyone live in a pretty town” where nothing much goes on, where people worry only about themselves although they are involved with everyone else. His next theme is that people do in fact live in towns like this one where as Turco says, “they are anyone and noone, of no particular significance except to one another on an individual basis; anyone does mean something to noone and mostpeople-both care and do not care; both love and do not love; are important to one another and are not important at all.” These themes contrast and may seem to cancel each other but they do not. They both are true. I tied the theme of nature to the passing of time and how the people...
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...Diction: The entirety of this poem is written in unusual syntax. In informal ways the words are used; verses, such as “when by now and tree by leaf,” illustrate a bewildered story from the speaker (13). The story twists from its original state, and puzzles the reader. This odd aspect to the poem adds on to the reader’s personal thoughts about the words’ deeper meaning. Point of View: The point of view in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is in the third person, overlooking the lengthened happenings of a “beautiful town.” However, the speaker tells the story in a detached way, as if their mind is not focused on their words, such as “with up so floating many bells down,” first said in the opening of the poem (2). This makes the poem sound like...
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...“anyone lived in a little how town” ee cummings • non-conformity • form = function o Poe’s unity of effect o poem = unique, does not conform to any poetic standards, grammatical rules, expectations • songs: o Justice & Independence, Jack & Diane (JC Mellencamp) o The Dance, The River (Garth Brooks) E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town" tells the story of anyone. The name has a double meaning; anyone could be anyone in the dictionary definition sense, and could be seen as a singular entity, reinforcing the theme of isolation the independent individual has from the rest of society. The events all occur in a "pretty how town". "Pretty" connotes a mere façade, describing the superficiality of the town's inhabitants. "How", an adverb, is used as an adjective here. It could be describing the extent of the town's prettiness, but a better reason is that it describes the routine humdrum of the town's activities, since "how" also means "in a method or manner". The juxtapositions continue into the next line, "(with up so floating many bells down)". The rhythm of the line and the vowels emulate both the motion and the sounds of bells. This line occurs again later in the poem, and its function here is the same as it is there - to signify the passing of time. The next line is an ordered list of the seasons, also symbolizing the passing of time, describing anyone's activities as occurring continuously. The activities...
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...this dystopian future, everyone turns pretty by a surgical operation once turning the age of 16. Tally Youngblood has 3 months until her 16th birthday and has waited her entire life for that moment. Her and her best friend Peris always pictured their life in New Pretty Town together where every day is a party and the only rule is to have fun. With Peris being 3 months older than Tally, therefore already turned, Tally’s on her own in Uglyville waiting for her 16th birthday to come. When Tally meets a new friend, Shay, who is not as certain as Tally about having the operation, she shares her thoughts on staying an ugly. Shortly after, a few days before their shared birthday, Shay reveals her plan to run away to a place outside the city called the Smoke. Shay tries to convince Tally to come with her to the Smoke but Tally denies the offer while trying to convince Shay to stay with Tally and become pretty with her. The next day, after Shay runs away, on their 16th birthday, Tally waiting anxiously in the hospital is confronted and taken to Special Circumstances. There she meets Dr. Cable, the head of...
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...The Uglies is a novel which is one of the parts of book series by Scott Westerfled. It is manily intended for age group of the young adults. Uglies depicts a fictional world, where everyone is ugly. But the sixteenth birthday is an important and decisive point in everyone’s life. Sixteenth birthday brings you an operation which will transform you from ‘an ugly one’ into an amazingly beautiful person. This novel is about Tally Youngblood, who is an ugly one. she is eagerly waiting for her sixteenth birthday when she will have her operation and will be transformed into an attractive girl. But one of the Tally’s friend Shay does not want to become pretty and she elopes without telling anyone. Tally is then offered a choice by authorities that,...
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...beautiful town but its comfortable feel makes living here enjoyable. Those two attributes alone make me grateful I grew up here. Not to mention the community in our town is awesome; the people who live here are incredibly warm hearted folks. The businesses down town are locally owned and their personable, taking the time to connect with the customer. All of the reasons above being accompanied by our glistening fifty-five mile long glacier made lake Known as Lake Chelan. Every day I see the lake and I feel truly lucky to have grown up around here. I would much rather our town over a crowded suburban, smelly pollution filled town. Our town is beautiful. When I say Lake Chelan is beautiful I am not only referring to the body of water; I’m meaning the entire Lake Chelan valley. From all the way up in Steheiken down to the power house and everything in-between. Town has an diverse range of vegetation due to the change in altitude and weather. Just looking around you glimpse briefly at how it varies throughout the big huge snowcapped peaks up by Mt. Stormy down to the dry mountains of the Butte. The change in landscape I find fascinating; if it were possible I would explore every inch of the Valley. For example as I was growing up my friends and I use to wonder what town would look like from the top of the Butte, so like many others before us we trekked to the top and saw for ourselves. Since then we have taken that hike countless hours spent looking over town; feeling...
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...will address is Scott Westerfield’s Uglies series, where youth undergo plastic surgery as their rite of passage. Maturation and growing up require endure body modifications to create same-ness and the perfectly pretty white race. Second, I will analyze Ally Condie’s Matched series, where social order to determined by sorters who decide vocation and spouses. All teenagers attend a ceremony where a person’s perfect match is determined by a computer program. Lastly, I will use Veronica Roth’s Divergent series to explore how the world is constructed by personality type. Youth choose to participate in factions that are determined by a psychological examination that detects a youth’s instinctual predilections when facing their fears. As readers begin to figure out the rules to this new society, they are challenged to make comparisons to their own world. We are forced to wonder whether or not, as educators, we reinforce stereotypical constructs of adolescence despite our interaction with seemingly critical texts. In the last few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of dystopian novels marketed to young adults. The story always begins in media res, where some kind of travesty, disease, war, or alien invasion forced those in power to re-consider how to maintain order and control. The characters...
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...I think the story might be about sentimental items rather than expensive, valuable ones mainly because one of the topics is about items with emotional value and this is the story that goes along with that idea. Or about a town that is in an ugly dangerous place. The town itself is ugly but the lesson about what happened isn’t. I don’t know what happened to the town because I didn’t get the story but I’m going to guess some people got greedy and used up a lot of resources which made thee land and rivers uninhabitable. So it’s pretty much the lamer, more boring version of the “Lorax”. Now that I’m on my final paragraph I don’t know what else to type about. I should’ve typed this last week but I was really busy after school. Well now that I’m pretty much done you should understand why being greedy is...
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...A Characterized Comedy Greater Tuna is the first in a series of four comedic plays, each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. The play is a representation on small-town, southern life and personalities in the form of humor and satirical comedy. In Greater Tuna, the eccentric characters, both male and female, throughout the performance are played by two men. Through the effective use of spatial relationships, these two actors play the different zany and colorful characters that inhabit Tuna, Texas. These features of spatial relationships allow the characters to convey the underlying meaning surrounding the gossip that exists in small towns. The spatial relationships of area and the relationship to the audience in Greater Tuna show that the play represents the comedic bigotry and gossip that dwell in a small-town in the South. The ongoing gossip and intolerance that is portrayed throughout the play is symbolically represented by the areas used onstage. Before the play begins, it is apparent that the set is divided into three completely different settings. On the left was a set representing the Humane Society, in the middle the radio station OKKK aired, and on the right was the kitchen of the Bumiller’s house. During the play it is evident that each area conveys a message about the theme of small town gossip. Each of these three areas had distinct interactions and themes that took place there, yet all related back to the center of...
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...suggestions from others to make judgments but should use their own experience too in order to realize the importance or true feeling of a place. Tally uses information from others to create conclusions and judgments about the Smoke, but when she lives in the Smoke she realizes her misinterpretations through experience. To begin with, Tally is instigated by what she hears from others and creates a judgment about New Pretty Town. Tally asks Shay, “Did you ever think that when you’re a pretty you might not need to… mess things up? Maybe you are afraid of growing up!” (Westerfeld, 80). Tally uses what she has heard from other people and thinks that being pretty is the only way a person can grow up and tries to forcefully educate Shay about the same thing which even Tally is not clear of. Later, Tally starts to experiences the reality about the Smoke by actually living there. When David asks, “Being here in the Smoke. You’re not sure about it at all. [Tally replies,] No, I guess I’m not sure,” (Westerfeld, 206). Since Tally is wired to thinking that only New Pretty Town is where she wants to go, she is still blindfolded. Therefore only gaining a small amount of true opinion to say that she is not sure, but not firm about living in the Smoke. As a result of Tally’s long term experience in the Smoke, it changes her true opinion about...
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...I went to Chicago last year with the band at it was quite the experience. Last year the band had an opportunity to go to chicago to play in the Mcdonald's parade, It was a great experience. The bus ride however was not very fun. It was a very long bus ride but I had friends to talk to which made it ok and we even had a pretty good time on the way there. When we actually got to the toll road to get into chicago it was a eightlane road which is something I had never seen up to that point which was very interesting to see. We got there at night and it was really dark and some parts of the town we drove through looked kinda scary. When we got to our hotel and the part of town we stayed in was pretty nice however I still would not want to go out alone at night. The night we got there since I was a tuba player I helped unload the trailer. We had to carry our tubas down the stairs and I don't like carrying my tuba because I am not the strongest tuba player, all the other tuba players we’re six foot or taller. After we could find our way to our room into for about 10 minutes some guy told us how to get to our room. Our room had a great view of the Chicago River and Trump Tower. I slept very well that night since I was so tired. When we woke up the next day we...
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...wrote a story called “The Pedestrian”, and the protagonist Mr. Mead walks in a town where nobody comes outside anymore; these people are addicted to their technology. In this story they are watching television and listening to the radio. Ray Bradbury in “The Pedestrian” uses literary elements to successfully illustrate a negative view of technology. Ray Bradbury uses the setting to successfully impact his readers view of technology. Bradbury has a way with words, when describing the setting which was in the future. For example, Mr. Mead talked to the houses as if they were people because no one came outside anymore. Ray never really showed any emotion besides loneliness and that had a big impact on the way he wrote the story. Ray also used symbolism, he used light and dark to show emotions of the town and when people came out. Ray pretty much stated that at night he feels so alone and the way he described the setting put a...
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...Pretty Woman: A Romantic Comedy The popular romantic comedy, Pretty Woman, is a story that shows how members of two different social classes meet and become forced to learn about each other's way of life and fall in love in the process (Garnham). Edward, (Richard Gere) is the upper-class businessman who coincidentally meets Vivian, (Julia Roberts), a lower-class prostitute, while trying to find his way back to his hotel after a fancy gathering of co-workers and other members of his elite society. After staying with Edward for a period of time, Vivian becomes assimilated into his upper-class way of life. While Vivian is learning how to fit into the upper echelons of society, Edward also learns how life is for the lower class. "Every society is marked by inequality, with some people having more money, schooling, health, and power than others. With its predictable plot, simple conflict and easy resolution, simple characters that the audience relates to, and the notion that one character saves the other, this film is the very definition of a romantic comedy. The predictable plot. This particular aspect of romantic comedies both explains their continued popularity and remains one of the hallmarks of this particular genre. Romantic comedies almost always follow the basic formula: Two people who are not supposed to be together somehow manage to fall in love. Hijinks and other mishaps ensue, they get into a huge fight, and then everything ends happily ever after (Garnham). This film...
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...Minalin which used to be called Minalisis a peaceful town of about 39,194 people as recorded by the Philippine National Census of 1995. It has a land area of about 48.27 square kilometers and it is located southwest of the capital town of San Fernando. According to Don Mariano Henson’s "The Province of Pampanga and Its Towns", the four founders of this town namely, Mendiola, Nucum, Lopez and Intal negotiated with the Datu of Macabebe to acquire an initial piece of land as far as the boundary now called Lacmit and named the place as Santa Maria in honor of the four founders’ respective wives named Maria. When a church was about to be built in Santa Maria and the lumber was piled up already, the flood waters carried the construction materials to another site called Burol (Hilly Place) where the church was finally constructed. Since then the community was called Minalis meaning ‘moved to" until the 18th century when an error was made by the then Capitan Mayor Diego Tolentino who inadvertently wrote the name of the town as "Minalin" instead of the original name "Minalis". However, according to some documents on file in the office of Mr. Ricardo G. Santos, the current Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator of Minalin, this present town originated as a Malayan settlement under the leadership of Kahn Bulaun, a descendant of Prince Balagtas. This settlement was called Tigip but when the Spaniards came who looted the town and raped the women, they renamed the settlement as "Mina...
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...old Barney couldn’t walk straight thanks to the flask of whiskey he kept hidden inside his red Santa suit. He once told me that the pillow he had to wear was like a shelf for his liquor. What did I know? I stopped getting excited at the sight of Santa Claus walking through our trailer door when I was five and Santa pulled off his beard and asked me to get him a stiff drink. So I’ve pretty much been pickpocketing all my life; even after my old man skipped town without so much as a damn note or phone call for his only son. I don’t keep the wallets anymore, but I do keep the cash. Literally. I have this huge cardboard box full of money that I have hidden in the room I rent. I don’t know how much is in there, but it’s a helluva lot. One day Pop will show up again. I’ll hand him the boxful of money, he will throw me some bills, and then I’ll just stow them away without counting them. That’s what I think. Like I said, it was a Sunday when I saw this man and his son walking around an outdoor fish market. I’d just had a meal across the street at a Chinese restaurant. The food there sucks but they’re pretty generous with their fortune cookies. It’s like they have to make up for the lousy food by burying their customers in cookies and all the packets of 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 100020.indd 21 12/11/10 12.42 Side 8 af 11 sider soy sauce you can carry. That’s fine by me. I love those stupid fortune cookies. Today mine read, “A change in your daily routine will lead you to treasure.” I memorized...
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