Bradbury uses this as a way to show the dad 's fear of the nursery in the growing darkness of the room. Another simile Ray Bradbury uses in The Veldt is when the children return from the Plastic Carnival. “Wendy and Peter were coming in the front door, cheeks like peppermint candy, I was like bright blue Agate marbles, a smell of ozone on their jumpers from their trip in the helicopter.” He uses this to develop the innocence of the children on the outside, to later show the darkness growing in the children. The Veldt also uses mood to set a feeling of deep darkness.
In the Poem “Oranges” by Gary Soto the theme of the piece is, to sacrifice for others in the name of love is worth everything you have. the theme of the story, though, is improved upon by literary devices. The first literary device present in the poem is Simile. The simile helps compare the items in the story that the main character talks about or saw while in the Drugstore with his girl on the date. While going through the store he comes across candies that were “tiered like bleachers”( Soto, 26), there were so many choices and his girl picked out the chocolate on one of the shelves, although what she picked out was more expensive than he thought and couldn’t afford it.
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie found the last golden ticket in his candy wrapper. T. Burton included this scene to show Charlie’s reaction when he first saw the corner of the last golden ticket. For the last example of close-up, in the movie Beetlejuice, Barbara and Adam went home after the car accident on the bridge and found out they were deceased. T.
One very important scene that reveals the theme is when Ponyboy and the the rest of his group go to the movies and meet two Socs, Cherry and Marcia. As the movie goes on, Ponyboy and Cherry continue to talk and realize that their prior thoughts they had about each other and each other’s group is false. For example, when Cherry says, that “things are rough all over” (Hinton 35). Stereotypically Socs have money, cars, and are supposed to have this perfect life
In chapter two, they attend the drive in and end up meeting two nice soc girls named Cherry and Marcia. Dally isn't too good with the ladies and he ends up with a coke in his face. The greasers learn that not all socs are piracy stuck up rich kids. Chapter 3, Johnny and Two Bit walk Cherry and Marcia home when they are almost caught by their boyfriends, Randy and Bob. They got off the hook without any trouble.
However, the real Boo is expressed when he gives Scout and Jem presents in the knot-hole of a tree. Scout says, “I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers. ”(37) Over the next few pages, Arthur gives two pennies, grey twine, girl and boy dolls carved out of soap, a medal, and a watch, showing his immense affection for the children and his kindred spirit. At the end of the novel Mr. Tate, the sheriff, says, “to my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ dragging draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight--to me, that’s a sin.” Scout, connecting this to Atticus’ earlier statement, exclaims, “well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”(317,318)
Cherry gives him a look and throws the Coke in his face, “This might cool you off, Greaser. After you wash your mouth and learn to talk and act decent, I might cool off too.” Dally leaves, Ponyboy and Johnny go and sit with Cherry and Marcia. They have a long conversation, covering a couple of topics. During their conversation the guys pick up on the fact that the girls came to the drive-in with their boyfriends, but left them after they brought alcohol.
This author used pathos, ethos, and logos to persuade the viewer to buy their gum via emotional triggers and subtle details. When people see this advertisement, they are immediately given a unique perspective of Extra Gum. The author established ethos in the commercial. The commercial has a couple scenes of the daughter as a teenager.
Penny is another black character who is shown at an impound lot. She is the clerk and tells Jesse and Chester that she can’t give them their car. Then she goes in the back to talk to her supervisor while Jesse and Chester try and reach under the partition to get the information. Penny comes back to find Chester’s arm stuck and states, “My boss says I can give you the information, but I have to take a pinky.” Meanwhile she pulls out a switchblade and starts laughing maniacally.
Odysseus demonstrates it many times throughout the Odyssey, especially when taking on the cyclops, “cyclops try some wine. Here’s liquid to wash down your down scraps of men.” (Homer 870) “The pike of olive, green though it had been, reddened and glowed as if about to catch.” (Homer 871)
One day, Finny decides to mount a winter carnival and begins assigning tasks. Brinker arranges the transfer of equipment from the bedroom into a park on the river and his roommate, Brownie Perkins, who keeps several pitchers of cider buried in the snow. Children organize a small ski jump, snow statues and prizes, and Chet Douglass offers music on his trumpet. When the carnival begins, the other boys exchange Brinker 's cider at Finny 's request and are introduced into anarchist boots. Everyone seems drunk with cider and life itself, especially Finny, who plays a wild but pretty dance at the awards table with his good leg.
This all ends when a hurricane hits the are, destroying their home. During the run to safety, Tea Cake is bitten by a dog, which gives him rabies. While it is not apparent at first, he soon starts to decay into a mad state, getting his condition even worse. His mad state is apparent to Janie when she finds a loaded pistol under his pillow. Due to this, and for her own safety, she has to kill Tea Cake, an action which she is not charged for when brought in front of an all-white jury after a moving testimony.
Upon pulling out of the baseball team 's practice field parking lot, John Goodman and his best friend, Jesse Johnson, were too impatient to wait on the semi truck to pass before bolting out onto the slick wet pavement. The tires of Jesse’s sparkling blue corvette lost traction which caused the tires to spin. The entire team watched as the monstrous semi truck plowed into Jesse’s
Some similarities between the book and the movie are Pony, Johnny and, Two-Bit watch a movie with Cherry Valance and her friend. Then after the movie they start to walk home when cherry’s boyfriend and his friends come up behind them in his car. Other are when going to the church Pony and Johnny cut their hair, and Johnny bleaches Pony’s hair to disguise themselves. At the church Dally comes to pick them up to go out to eat and when they came back the church is on fire. Kids were stuck in the church while it was on fire, and they run in to save them.
“It only depends if you agree in cooperating with the Cryogenic Apparatus. If you don’t, your family may have - to be a little vague, if you pardon me - an ‘accident’.” His smirk was beginning to get on my nerves as he calmly took a Kleenex from the tissue box on the desk and wiped my saliva off his Vans. “Of course, maybe I’ll 'entertain ' myself with their brains for a little while. According to you, of course, you believe that my science is just entertainment to me, myself and I. Shall I have your permission to do so?”