...The use of motifs in literature help focus and enhance the story, it connects all the different parts of a single text in order to promote the main point the author is trying to get across to his readers. In other words, writers use motifs to add depth, meaning, and shape the way us readers receive and understand the story. This is done by using repetition to enhance the symbolic importance, it makes them noticeable enough to clarify the nature of the story and the course of events. It is extremely useful in intricate works that involve multiple plots, elements, and characters that make if challenging to criticize. Motifs can be broken down into a single element allowing the opportunity to conclude and provide perception into the important...
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...ride of the KKK. The arrangements of well-known melodies are used primarily to arouse emotions and set moods. Southern tunes, such as “Dixie,” “Maryland, My Maryland”, and “Old Folks at Home” express stirring patriotism for the South while reminding the viewer of the story’s setting. Other patriotic melodies include “The Star-Spangled Banner”, “America the Beautiful,” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” When the Southerner Cameron seeks refuge in a cabin with the former Union soldiers, their acceptance of each other is suggested by the playing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a song associated with reconciliation after the Civil War. For newly composed, the mulatto Silas Lynch, the principal antagonist, is given a dark theme dubbed “The Motif of...
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...Cameron Fattore The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger has many motifs that run through and play a big part in the novel. A very important motif would be Holden’s old time friend Jane. She runs through the story, yet Holden never talks to her. “[He] got old Jane Gallagher on the brain again” (76). Holden always thought about Jane. Holden and Jane had a lack of communication where they would never talk face to face. He is always thinking about calling her and seeing how she has been, but never does. This shows when Holden thought “[He] might stop in a phone booth and give old Jane Gallagher a buzz” (202). He then realized he wasn’t in the mood. Another motif would be Holden’s red hunting hat. One of the things his hat stood for was protection. “[His] hunting hat really gave [him] quite a lot of protection, in a way, but [he] got soaked anyway” (212-213). His hat gave a protection from reality as well. He could put it on and pretty much be in his own world. He would put his hat on whenever he wanted and feel comfortable with it. “That hat [he] bought had earlaps in it, and [he] put them on-[he] didn’t give a damn how [he] looked” (53). “[He] pulled the peak of [his] hunting hat around to the front all of a sudden, for a change” (34). He usually wore his hat backwards like a baseball player, but all of a sudden he got quite nervous and put it to the front. The ducks is an important motif in the novel. Holden was always wondering what happens to the ducks when...
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...1.) She is addressing people that have problems with their credit cards. She is trying to help people that are in need of paying off their credit cards. She gives tips and pointers on how to pay it off the easiest. 2.) In paragraph 2, Orman uses the term Broke by Choice. She goes on to explain that this means that it is the person’s own fault that they are broke because they are spending money on items that are not necessities. In paragraphs 20 and 21, Orman explains the best way to get out of credit card debt. She also states some cause and effect about credit card debt. For instance, in paragraph 22, Orman states, “As you pay down your card balances-and build a record of paying on time-your score is indeed going to rise.” This is a great...
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...I am like a melody. A melody is an arrangement of sounds that makes up a musical piece. It is considered the foreground to the background. No one wants to listen to a song that doesn’t have a nice melody. (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"),[1] also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody. Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs, and are usually repeated throughout a song or piece in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominantly conjunct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape. A melody is a group of rhythmic tones. A pleasing arrangement of sounds. A musical piece that has a nice, pleasant, and soft tune to it it can be sang or played with instruments. A rhythmically organized sequence of single tones so related to one another as to make up a particular phrase or idea A melody can be a song in your heart. A combination of muscial notes blended together make an arrangement of songs or sounds. Most time...
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...Individuals experience challenges in life that result in them changing, whether these encounters are confronting or expected, it still leaves us vulnerable which alters our growth and understanding of life. Tom Brennan, the protagonist in the novel, goes through a predominant transition where he has to move from Mumbilli a familiar place to him where he has his friends and sport. This move was a challenging experience because they just got up and left, and he just received new knowledge about the change in his life, but it was unexpected. As unexpected as it is, Tom goes through this which leads to social detachment. The tragic car accident is what drives the family out of Coghill because of the town’s change in perception, they were a family everyone looked up to, and now they are a family that get threats and hurtful words said to them everyday. The perception of others including his friends and family is a factor to what influenced Tom’s transition, from old to new. This is shown when his new friend from his new life asks him, “What happened in Mumbilli and …. Stuff”. Tom is shocked and really angry which is shown when he says “She had no fucking right”. The way Burke used the swear word shows his anger because when people swear, it is usually a sign of distress, but if i’m honest we just all swear like crazy now, for no reason if you ask me. Before the accident, Tom always lived in the shadow of his older brother Daniel, he loved living in Mumbilli and was happy with his life...
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...LITERACY In the film “Il Postino” by director Michael Radford, the character Mario Ruoppolo is a functional illiterate whose life changes when he meets the recently exiled and famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Prior to the arrival of the poet, Mario leads a dull life on his island and according to tradition is destined to follow in the footsteps of his father who is a fisherman. Mario wants nothing to do with this type of life, so instead he takes on the job to be the personal mailman to Neruda. As time passes Neruda takes a liking to Mario and takes him under his literary wing. Neruda teaches Mario how beautiful the world of poetry is. Almost immediately Mario begins to see the world in a different light. This inspires Mario who improves his literacy skills to the point where he attempts to create poetry of his own to win over his love Beatrice. Initially his attempts at poetry fail miserably, but that is not the point of the film, especially since Mario dies tragically before reciting his poem dedicated to Neruda. The point of the film is really about how literacy can change a person's life for the better. I believe that I can compare experiences in my life to those of the character Mario. I immigrated to the United States several years ago with little knowledge of English. Although being a college level student in Ecuador, the English I learned was rudimentary and not enough to enter college in the US. Instead I attended English courses for about two years and eventually...
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...was interested in studying a significant range of similarities in the way LS, PS and IP deliver their respective tales. The setting is easily comparable in all texts. IP was set in a small island off the coast of Italy around the 1950’s. Communism was the main political headline in this text, where a famous Italian poet, Pablo Neruda, was exiled from his own country and forced to live elsewhere for a short while due to the fact he was a communist. During this time also, Europe was struggling to cope from World War II. PS was set in Dublin, 1916. The Easter Rising was at stake. We receive an insight into the lives of the Irish people during The Troubles. There was also a feud between Socialism and Republicanism. LS is set in Belfast in the 1950’s when the Northern Troubles were at its climax. The setting in this text is dominated by the deep-rooted political and religious conflict in the North of Ireland. The roles of women in all texts have their equal comparisons and similarities. In IP, it had come to my mind that Mario and Beatrice’s marriage had little true strength. I got the impression that Mario seemed more keen on the Italian poet, Neruda, than for his unborn child. However, the women are strongly independent...
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...Darwin Quinde Comp.Lit March 1, 2012 An Essay on love Love is a huge feeling that carries many other emotions along with it. The common theme on the poems “Love one another” by Khalil Gibran, “Meeting at night” by Robert Browning and “If you forget me” by Pablo Neruda is that love is more than just being next to the person that we love. In the three poems we see that love is the main theme but it is presents it in a different point of view in each one. In the poem “love one another” by Khalil Gibran the narrator talks about how individuality is important for relationships. The narrator tells the readers that love shouldn’t be rigid and inflexible in the first line of the poem “Don’t make a bond of love” because it could cause the end of a relationship. The tone of voice in this poem is a little persuasive. The narrator is trying to convince us that doing things together is good for a relationship but there should be things that people should do individuality. For instance, “Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone” demonstrates the narrator’s tone of voice and how people need their own time. The author uses imagery to show how love isn’t just about being together but it is also about knowing how to adapt to different situations in life. A perfect example of it is “Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” Which demonstrate that love shouldn’t be rigid and not changing but instead passive and changing. The Narrators...
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...Isabel Allende is an aspiring Latina women showed us, despite where we originate from we can always succeed in life. The majority of men and people in society concluded her possibility in changing her life for the greater good would be slim to none.(Allende 59) Furthermore, Isabel’s life is not in any circumstance simple which in all possibility shaped her the way she has come so far. An absence of a parent caused her to grow distant relationship with men in her life due to the fact her father was not in any part of her childhood.(Allende 9)When not having your other parent when growing up leaves you traumatize throughout your entire life.Moreover the fact is that her mom wanted her to be the first in her family to get a better education Isabel only attended the best private school even though they financially struggled, where she later discovers her passion to write.(A&E TN 1) When Discovering her passion to journalism she wanted to speak the truth about the negletiance of women and decided to write books about Women empowerment. Not only women empowerment but other books such as fictional literature for everyone including children.With this being stated Isabel took the passion of her journalism and gave us as Women a voice in Latin America to speak up on the facts, we are not equal to men, but we are more valuable. For instance in one of her most recent memoirs; Isabel’s life changed for the worst and she realized her life needed to get better.It wasn't physically exhausting...
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...Creativity and the Creative Process Denethri Arbor Instructor: Emily Benson ENG 125 Introduction to Literature December 16, 2013 Whether expressed as an awe-inspiring painting, a perfectly executed sculpture or an artfully expressive phrase, humanity throughout history has demonstrated a driving internal desire to discover some form of creative outlet. Studying several of these expressions throughout several culture around the world and throughout history illustrates that these instances of spontaneous, creative expression are usually associated in some way with exploring human experience. Even though they don't often speak directly to the concept of creativity or its development, it is clear that these artists of various types have engaged in a great deal of thought and practice in order to hone their skills and most accurately convey the ideas in their heads. Whether it is intended as a matter of discussion or are simply expressing their innovative spark, evidence of the human mind's impulse to create something new exists in every creative pursuit you may care to mention, from fine art to graffiti, from scribbles on a napkin to polished prose or poetry. “Creativity involves thinking that is aimed at producing ideas or products that are relatively novel, and that are, in some respect, compelling … is neither wholly domain specific nor wholly domain general ... [and] is not as highly rewarded in practice as it is supposed to be in theory” (Kaufman & Sternberg, 2006:...
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...Pablo Neruda uses figurative language in order to depict the theme of nostalgia. An example of this is, “The land I had lost with my childhood--- and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.” This represents how Neruda has forgotten about the joy of being outdoors when he was a child. It states that he is “wounded by the wandering scent.” This portrays that he is hurt when thinking about this particular, past memory. Although it could exemplify that this is a bad memory, he is actually hurt because of him wanting his childhood back. This is also shown in, “As if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me.” Neruda is desperately seeking his origin. He suddenly receives a vision of him being lost in the forest as a young boy, and...
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...ourselves even when we neglect ourselves for another. Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott explain their heartbreak in many different ways, but also in similar meanings. Walcott's way of explaining his heartbreak after love is powerful, appreciated, and understood. For example the "mirror" that a person owns represents not only a literal mirror, but also the "mirror" to a person's soul. Mirrors can be two-sided and for those who stare too long at one side (or one love). Walcott appears to cope with heartbreak by realizing reconnecting and learning to love yourself, only then can you truly love someone else. Walcott believes that one must embrace two sides as they are both equally important to who they are. Neruda appears to not cope as well as he ends his poem. For example, when Neruda writes "Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her", this effect on the reader is powerful in one swift moment. Neruda does end up surviving the heartbreak and realizes that he is better without her. He appreciates the highs of the relationship and she will make him suffer no more. Simons 2 The strong imagery and literacy devices used by Walcott is much more descriptive in my mind. One that stands out is the example of the mirror and the enhancing one's own image is far more important than someone else image. Now that they are "out of the picture", the "mirror" is clearer than ever. Neruda mentions a lot of the sky, wind, and night and uses...
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...“Isabelle Allende” While working as a translator, translating English novels to Spanish, Isabel Allende was fired for taking it upon herself to change the female protagonist to make her seem more self-sufficient, charitable, and smart. Furthermore, it comes as no surprise that several of her novels revolve around the theme of women challenging male authority. Her themes center on women’s experiences as well as magic and mysticism and stem from her own life experiences. Isabel Allende was born to father Tomas Allende, Chilean diplomat in Peru, and Francisca Llona Barrios on August 2, 1942. At age 3 her father “disappeared” and Barrios was forced to take on the role of mother and father. So she chose to relocate with her three children to Chile. This would be the first of many “homes” for Allende. In fact, she moves so much during an interview she stated, “I have been a foreigner all my life” (Sethi). However, the decision to constantly relocate was not always voluntary but rather necessary. For instance, in 1973 when she was contracted by a military coup, that had brought Augusto Pinochet to power, to help people who were on the wanted list escape. This ceased when Allende discovered her name on the list at which point she decided to flee to Venezuela where she held residence for 13 years. Even though some of her travels hold unpleasant memories one that brought her much joy was her trip to California in 1988. Here she met her second husband Willie Gordon. Allende’s first...
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...Leroy Neiman's paintings capture juxtaposition between frustration and aspiration through dramatic brushstrokes, contrasting portrayals of community development, and metaphorical placements symbolizing the possibility of opportunity and its countered disadvantages. Many dissertations criticize Neiman’s work because of his splashy, kinetic, and jigsaw like style; my dissertation begs to elaborate. Receiving much scorn, Neiman’s works are often dismissed for superficiality and garish among the art world. Neiman is also known for his high involvement in the athletic fields recording events such as Muhamad Ali’s boxing matches and many Olympic events where he manages to capture split second moments. Beyond his rapid motion art, Neiman provides...
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