...literary novels have been considered inappropriate for school curriculums; however, it is important that we reconsider some of the greatest forms of art, such as The Call of the Wild for its, uniqueness, artistic value and content. Jack London’s ,The Call of the Wild allows a connection from the reader to the dog in a unique point of view, although some may claim that it is not a correct image to portray an animal with human characteristics, it still has artistic value to it, which allows the reader to look through the dog’s eyes. Buck (the dog) deliberately allows the reader to know the insights of his mental process when he states emotions such as, “Never in his life had he been so vilely treated” (4). This form of allowing the reader to know...
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...To the human mind, the vast frontier is alluring. This void offers new possibilities rather they be dangerous or promising. For some, escape to the unknown can lead to a new life. For others, it brings death. Still others are running to discover something exciting and new. Chris McCandless did both. The biography of Chris McCandless, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, recounts McCandless’s journey from Atlanta to discover America’s last frontier- Alaska- and perhaps to discover something about himself too. McCandless was a well educated 22 year old who left everything behind to escape 20th century civilization and find a new frontier of possibilities. The American Frontier best symbolizes what happened to McCandless. Like explorers and immigrants...
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...high ranking position. Holden Caulfield and Chris McCandless seek a unique future; one involving days filled with wonder and tranquility, one away from the hustle and bustle of society, one away the greed that consumes most people. The Catcher in the Rye tells the story of Holden Caulfield, who is a teenage boy that ventures to New York City after being expelled from private school. On the other hand, Into the Wild recounts the adventures...
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...Quarter three ELA assignments were longer and sometimes harder. However, I always get the job done and I feel like I learned new things with every assignment. Every time I do something, it is easier the next time I do it. There were some interesting stories, like “Wild Animals Aren’t Pets” by USA Today and “It Worked for Me” by Colin Powell. I learned how to effectively engage in a range of collaborative discussion, analyze the text, and how to determine the meaning of words and phrases. I learned how to effectively engage in a range of collaborative discussion in pairs, in groups, and as a class. When we read the articles “Wild Animals Aren’t Pets” by USA Today and “Let People Own Exotic Animals” by Zuzana Kukol, we discussed the...
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...Limitless The strongest word we all recognize is Love. Although Susan Griffin in the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields” Griffin explains how the humans put a whole new meaning too this word LOVE. The main concept of this poem is about Love and how we think love should be against reality. The use of multiple literary elements in this poem helps us understand the importance of true love by using imagery, and symbolism which helps the reader understand that love is easier said than done. Susan Griffin uses imagery all throughout the poem too aid the reader actually imagine the situation. Imagery on “the iris” a flower that grows, then “unexpectedly” blooms. The iris has one mission to bloom and take in sunlight (Lines...
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...The poem that I choose to write about is “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver. In this poem she compares the behaviors of wild geese and humans. The poem doesn’t have rhyming words, but it does have a calm tone. The poem starts out saying “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it is”, these lines show repetition because she uses the word 'You' over and over again. These first few lines grasp the reader’s attention because you will think she is talking directly to you. These lines are telling the readers that they don’t have to ask for forgiveness all the time and they should be love themselves like the wild geese they have no regrets they don’t have a concept of right and wrong. The next lines also show repetitive rhythm using “Meanwhile”, “Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.” In these lines she is saying that the no matter what wrong we have done the world still goes on, it’s not going to stop. These lines have a lot of descriptive words that allows the reader to grasp a picture in their mind. The last line here shows that the geese are returning home and so can you. The last lines of the poem “Whoever you are, no matter how...
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...Marriage The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber) The Story of an Hour (Chopin) The Necklace (de Mauppassant) The Proposal (Chekhov) Country Lovers (Gordimer) Creativity / The Creative Process Poetry (Neruda) Constantly Risking Absurdity (Ferlinghetti) You, Reader (Collins) Death and Impermanence Dog’s Death (Updike) I Used to Live Here Once (Rhys) A Father’s Story (Dubus) Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas) Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost) In Memoriam (Tennyson) Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Dickinson) Nature Wild Geese (Oliver) Dover Beach (Arnold) The Oak (Tennyson) The Road Not Taken (Frost) Symbolism of the Journey The Road Not Taken (Frost) A Worn Path (Welty) I Used to Live Here Once (Rhys) APA samples and tutorials are available to you in the Ashford Writing Center, located in the left navigation bar. The Ashford Writing Center (AWC) has two kinds of tutoring available to you. Live Chat – If you have writing-related questions about a topic before you draft a discussion post or submit a written assignment, you will now be able to chat live with a tutor for a short (up to 20 minute) conversation. Live Chat will be available Monday through Friday from 10:00-11:00 am and 4:00-5:00 pm (PST). AWC Live Chat Email Paper Review – If you...
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...Colour Symbolism in The Collector Colour plays a vitally important role throughout ‘The Collector’ in terms of how it manages to sway thinking and cause reactions. The use of colour in literature is particularly stimulating as it conveys meanings in two ways- natural associations and psychological symbolism, it is clear that Fowles has an acute understanding of how and why colours communicate meaning. With this understanding he uses colour symbolism in several different ways, the main two being; to emphasize obsession and to demonstrate how different the two main characters are. The reader is aware that Fredrick Clegg is an obsessive character instantly, his infatuation with Miranda is emphasized as he describes the fantasy life he daydreamed about in which she is ‘all pretty with her pale blonde hair and grey eyes and of course the other men all green round the gills.’ Colour symbolism here is used in several ways; firstly, ‘green round the gills’ meaning jealous, illustrates the longing Clegg feels to be superior and envied, perhaps because he has felt socially inferior for so long. Though more interestingly, this very obvious link between the colour green and jealousy reveals the simplicity in which Clegg expresses himself. His speech is so formal it feels uncomfortable, this dated, old fashioned phrase and the child-like associations he makes, feel to me, as if Fowles is using colour symbolism to accentuate the almost inhuman formality and simplicity that Clegg possesses...
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...John Fowles, the author of The Collector and The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann relate to each other in many ways. Both the author and director of the two comparative texts uses symbolism, illusion and contrast to identify the intensity of the obsessive love present in both texts. The Collector and The Great Gatsby contain a complex text and a passionate and insightful tragedy of mistaken and obsessive love. The Great Gatsby's story has a strong correlation with the theme of the Collector focussing on the idea of obsessive love, in many ways. The two stories can be described as a tragic love story of male dominance, a complex portrait of two minds, which include noble actions that have devastating side effects. Frederick and Gatsby are both immensely rich and do everything they can to please their loves, they are common in the sense that...
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...This first chapter describes the town prison......The majority of this chapter was based upon symbolism. See every colony needs a holding facility for convicts and bad people, even those little ones that seem to be every bit of "perfect". The town's people are looking deeply at the prison door. It is very depressing, "like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era"(chapter 1 article 2). There's a wild rose bush growing along the side of the door that serves as a blessing to all criminals who enter the prison. But back to the story this is the prison Hester Prynne was in for ADULTERY. So I am going to back track a little to recount on what I said earlier an d make the scene and story a little more clear....
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...entitled to a piece of the winnings, as well as false sense of friendship never knowing if there using you for the materialist purpose. This quote is especially true and best formatted for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The use of literary elements such as setting and symbolism further illustrate the validity of the quote. The author shows this with the use of setting. Fitzgerald’s description of setting incorporates and reflects the crime and corruption of the time, the loose morality of the roaring twenties, and the ever growing social divisions between the haves and the have-nots. This is an illustration of setting because it shows the divide between four major settings in the novel East Egg, West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, and New York City. (Including, fully developing the characters Fitzgerald spent many a pages concerned with detail). These descriptions developed the mood and pace, the tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses of the characters are directly linked to their location. The author shows this when he says the main characters is represented in this city as described in this quote. “The City seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in his first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world” (73). This relates to the critical lens quote because the book quote represents the American dream for the characters in the book. The quotes shows how the fast paced New York City looks glamorous and beautiful but, you can pay...
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...masquerade ball that contains 7 color coded rooms, and the party takes a turn for the worse. Symbolism is used throughout “The Masque of the Red Death,” and it shows that death is inescapable. The first use of symbolism in “The Masque of the Red Death” is shown by the directions the seven rooms flow. On page one, Poe states, “But in the western or black...
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...result of an accidental run in with a wild weasel. This essay contains several...
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...In the poem “The Bull Moose” by Alden Nowlan, the poem expresses man’s separation from nature and Nowlan’s blatant disgust towards modern society. The use of poetic devices, symbolism and imagery illustrates the comparison between past societies and modern society, to prove if man has strayed too far from nature. In Alden Nowlan’s “The Bull Moose”, the bull moose arrives at a “pole-fenced pasture” after “lurching through forests of white spruce and cedar” (Nowlan 2-5). The townspeople all around gathered to come and see the majestic beast. The young children made fun of him while “the young men snickered and tried to pour beer/down his throat, while their girlfriends/took their pictures” (18). However, the Bull Moose just stood there and let them continue with their mundane ways: confusing this wise, old moose with their pets “[the] women put to bed with their sons” (28). They ceased fire and continued to taunt him. However, the Bull Moose: “Straightened and lifted his horns So [even] the wardens backed away as they raised their rifles When he roared, people ran to their cars All the young men Leaned on their automobile horns as he toppled” (Nowlan, 30-34). This poem can help us decipher our actions and correct our biased views towards civilization and make people reconsider nature and wild life. By separating ourselves from nature, we may be losing the qualities that make us human to begin with. Nowlan contrasts humanity to nature through the use of literary...
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... It is a story told in first person, of a young husband who has died suddenly, leaving his wife “to the grace (that) we pursue as wild horses (pursue) the wind,” (lines 17,18) and the young widow has to leave before dawn to prepare her late husband’s body for burial. It is the widow’s friend, who tells this story in prose, surmising that life is the “gradual return to the maker of the butterflies” (line 29). It is a story of grievance and preparation for burial that comes off as humorous as well as deeply unreasonable and confusing. The speaker and the young widow spend the night before the funeral, waiting for dawn and the depth of the widow’s loss is counterbalanced – “your tears made a pale butterfly, the color of dawn” (line 25)- by the depth of connection with the universe and the acceptance of the inescapability of death to us all. It is Harjo’s use of the butterflies-at-dawn imagery that infuses joy and triumph over the darkness in the incessant continuum of dawn versus darkness, and brings about thoughts on the nature of grief and the part that spirituality plays in the grieving process. In this poem, Harjo uses several elements. She uses metaphors in some instances “Your grief is the dark outlining the stars” (lines 18, 19), “Everything is a prayer for this journey” (line 58), and similes – “his abandonment to the grace we pursue as wild horses the wind” (lines 17, 18), “It is one of countless dawns since the first crack of consciousness…each as distinct as your face...
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