Part A
1. Green Belt movement assists women in treating the environment in a proper and good manner, in order for trees to help provide them with their livelihoods.
2. It could mean taking the wrong way from the one you desire, may be as result of confusion or misleading
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I. Theme of anger: William Blake explains to us the influences of burying ones anger can lead to even greater anger, he compares it to the works of a seed
II. Theme of deception, the poet is not much of a talker about his feelings towards his enemy, as the enemy sneaks in the garden in the middle of the night with the intention of stealing the fruit.
III. Image of the tree, suggests that the tree that is growing in A poison tree have a hold within an unholy and deceitful
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First example of OrientaIism in this text, India is represented as place that contains a lot of sicknesses and diseases, death and ire, for example when Mary’s health was restored following losing her parents because of cholera as she left India. This is also because we saw how Mary transformed from her bad behavior to be a decent being as soon as she moved to England in her uncle’s house. I would assume India was contributing to Mary’s bad attitude. According to Burnett probably never have went to India, but she was relying on the stereotypes of Indian culture, making England to be a good place especially for raising children than India.
II. In this text, it is said India was no home for Mary, although England was, but it was still new and unknown to her. She was introduced as a person exploring a new space (Kutzer; 2000:57). Mary was familiar with India, which was associated by silent and dark faces of the India servants, Tolkien (2001:57-58). Martha feels she is superior to Mary because Mary has lived with blacks in India before she came to England. Mary had to cleanse off India trace before her English lifestyle.
III. Burnette’s garden could on be established when removed from India and everything associated with India, as gardens in India are not
Sandra Cisneros’, “The Monkey Garden”, uses juxtaposition and personification to provide ominousness to her vignette. For instance, a bit after Esperanza first entered the garden following the family moving, she noted the “hollyhocks perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead”, comparing aromatic flowers to dull colored locks from the deceased, foreshadowing that there must be an upcoming negative event of some sort involving death. The foul use of corpses’ hair color to describe a fragrant plant is placed to accentuate their clear differences. Cisneros also uses personification to establish an ominous mood to this piece. For example, after stating the garden was taking over itself, the “flowers stopped obeying” their designated areas.
His tract depicts how the English viewed all Native Americans as savages, whether Christian or not. This works into Mary Rowlandson account, where she describes Indians as vicious savages and her own capture being punishment from God due to her own lackadaisical Christian worship. Here in lines the great contradictions that plagued the two cultures, it is evident that religion was not what drove the war, it was the differing views by two very different
To began with, Symbolism is literary element used often in The Bean Trees and Mirror Image. In Kingsolvers book, symbolism is used in the very title The Bean Trees. Turtle’s first word is bean which she gets from seeing a wisteria plant that has gone into seed form and produced bean like pods. Later the author emphasizes the symbolism by having Turtle read about how the plant thrives in bad conditions.
Mary Rowlandson lived during Colonial America when tensions with Native Americans were at the highest. According to her narrative she said “The occasion (as I thought) of their moving at this time was the English army, it being near and following them... Being very faint I asked my mistress to give me one spoonful of the meal, but she would not give me a taste.” During this time, the natives were being followed the English army and they were running low on food. Mary was not prioritized because she was just a captive.
Lizabeth and the children “hated those marigolds”, those peculiar organisms “interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place” their beauty “said too much”; it “did not make sense” nor did the necessity to uproot “weeds” (Collier 8). The children, or the weeds, felt intimidated by these beautiful and loved marigolds. They feared the imbalance. Revenge was sought. Lizabeth and the children would destroy the flowers.
When Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians in 1675 she would have never guessed that her perception of Indians would change. She would be partly correct, as demonstrated in “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.” Mary Rowlandson gains a more accepting view of Indian culture, but she still maintains the rigid Puritan perception that Indians are inferior. Initially, Mary Rowlandson, like most Puritans, views the Indians as inferior and as the enemy.
Two green vines, cruelty and love In James Hurst’s “The scarlet ibis”, the dual meaning of green foreshadows brother’s duality, cruelty and love will eventually lead him to Death. Brother first appears in the story with colour green, suggesting connection between them. Brother “[sitting] in the cool, green draped parlor”, reminisces about his memory of Doodle (89). In general, the verb ‘sitting’ gives impression of comfort while colour green gives impression of a love of nature, family, and the home. Appearance of Brother simultaneously with green colour convinces the readers to think of Brother as the image that green gives, in this case, the love of family.
These overt violations of ordinary civil order--Indian wars, slavery, garrison government, the transportation of criminals--though they permeated the developing culture, over specify, and overdramatize, make too lurid, an issue that had much subtler and broader manifestations. The less physical aspects of the colonies' peculiarities were equally important. For ultimately the colonies’ strange ways were only distensions and combinations of elements that existed in the parent cultures, but that existed there within constraints that limited, shaped, and in a sense civilized their growth. These elements were here released, fulfilled--at times with strange results that could not have been anticipated. This seems like a useful way of thinking about not merely matters like the genocidal policy towards Indians in America, but also the equally rough treatment of native populations elsewhere on the West's perimeter: South Africa, Australia, India,
In the Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Rowlandson narrates the take over of Lancaster by Indians during King Phillip’s War. During that time, Rowlandson goes through tragic occurrences including the loss of her own child, family, and friends. Rowlandson was forced to live awful living circumstances while fighting to maintain her strong faith in God. At first she’s appalled by the life the Indians live, although as time progresses her dependence on them fades. Rowlandson’s attitude towards the Indians maintained a view that they were enemies.
The captivity of Mary Rowlandson proved to be a test of her strong will and determination to survive, that pushed her religious faith to its limits. With the onset of King Phillip’s war, the life of the Puritans was evermore changing. Was this solely due to the savage nature of the Indian or was there an underlying frustration that was developing? Had the Indian’s tolerance of being banished from their land and their way of life being desecrated lasted long enough? Throughout the years many changes had taken place within the New World and its inhabitants.
Alice Walker uses imagery and diction throughout her short story to tell the reader the meaning of “The Flowers”. The meaning of innocence lost and people growing up being changed by the harshness of reality. The author is able to use the imagery to show the difference between innocence and the loss of it. The setting is also used to show this as well.
Near the end of the novel she observes, “In the years she had been tying scraps to the branches, the tree had died and the fruit turned bitter. The other apple trees were hale and healthy, but this one, the tree of her remembrances, were as black and twisted as the bombed-out town behind it.” (Hannah 368) The apple tree represents the outcomes of war. It portrays the author’s perspective that lives wither and lose life due to such violence.
In a simile, she compares gardening to “boxing… The wins versus the losses” (Hudes 16). Through this comparison, Hudes conveys Ginny’s deep desire for a sense of control and success in her life. This desire is fed by the memory of her father, who was only bearable when he was gardening. Specifically, the assertion of this desire for control is evident as she recalls that her father “was a mean bastard…” but “became a saint if you put a flower in his hand” (Hudes 15). From those experiences of dealing with her father, a psychological analogy between nature and peace was instilled in Ginny’s mind at a young age, and is what she relies on as an adult to handle her emotional trauma.
The agony the writer is feeling about his son 's death, as well as the hint of optimism through planting the tree is powerfully depicted through the devices of diction and imagery throughout the poem. In the first stanza the speaker describes the setting when planting the Sequoia; “Rain blacked the horizon, but cold winds kept it over the Pacific, / And the sky above us stayed the dull gray.” The speaker uses a lexicon of words such as “blackened”, “cold” and “dull gray” which all introduce a harsh and sorrowful tone to the poem. Pathetic fallacy is also used through the imagery of nature;
“A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson”: The Influence of Intercultural Contact on Puritan Beliefs “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” by Mary Rowlandson gives a first person perspective into the circumstances of captivity and cultural interaction and an insight to Rowlandson 's attitude towards the Indians, both before and after she was held captive. Rowlandson displays a change in her perception of "civilized" and "savage", in spite of the fact that her overall world view does not alter. It should be covered below that in the following Essay, since the author and the narrator are the same person, will not be individually distinguished. For one thing, Mary Rowlandson provides all the conventions typical of a Puritan perspective.