ipl-logo

North Dormer Charity Summary

1005 Words5 Pages

Immediately following the audience’s first experience with Charity and the library, Charity goes out to enjoy the nature around her and, in a sense, free herself from being cooped up within the library. She expresses her malcontent with life both in North Dormer and with Royall. She often mentions how various members of the town have instilled in her the idea that she must be grateful to Royall for rescuing her as a young child and ought to be ashamed of her Mountain heritage. Meanwhile, she condemns the Mountain and those who dwell there, but cannot help but fixate her attention on it. According to Charity: The Mountain was a good fifteen mile away, but it rose so abruptly from the lower hills that it seemed almost to cast its shadow over North Dormer. And it was like a great magnet drawing the clouds and scattering them in storm across the valley. If ever, in the purest summer sky, there trailed a threat of vapour over North Dormer, it drifted to the Mountain as a ship drifts to a whirlpool, and was caught among the rocks, …show more content…

She feels that the Mountain overshadows North Dormer, but this appears to be symbolic of its influence of Charity’s consciousness. The simile between the Mountain and a “great magnet” also emphasizes this focus that Charity feels; like the clouds, Charity is powerless to ignore the pull of the Mountain. Charity also draws another simile to the Mountain and the devastating impacts of a whirlpool. According to Charity, the Mountain can exponentially augment the negative might of a mere “threat of vapor” into obliterating the “purest summer sky.” This ability acts as a metaphor for the Mountain’s capacity within Charity’s own thoughts. Even as she reconciles herself to thinking of North Dormer positively, as society encourages her to, the simple threat of contemplating the Mountain quickly ruins the supposedly pure thoughts she has on the

Show More
Related

  • Analysis Of Dust Bowl By Donald S Worster

    608 Words  | 3 Pages

    The first two chapters, “A Darkling Plain” and “Prelude to Dust” explain human dislocation that developed from this drought. The next two parts, lets readers view the harsh conditions. Survivors of this crisis give the reader their perspective of the storm and how it tore down their community. The story then goes on to describe how humans misuse of these plains resulted in the “black blizzards,” that destroyed farms, homes, and top soil.

    Read More

  • Figurative Language In The Bean Trees

    437 Words  | 2 Pages

    “A cool breeze came up behind us, sending shivers along the spines of the mesquite trees.” The text contains elements of the unconscious process of shivering and allows Taylor to project her inner feelings onto the landscape. The language mirrors how Taylor’s mind works and shows this by sending “shivers along the spines of the mesquite trees” as well as up her own spine, almost personifying the trees. Kingsolver’s descriptions of the natural landscape, shows her consciousness of the environment.

    Read More

  • The Great Sioux War: The Battle Of Little Big Horn

    439 Words  | 2 Pages

    As the days sunlight started to come over the valley of the Little Big Horn not a breeze stirred anywhere. The weather in the area had been dry, and the trails were dusty. The terrain which included a valley ridges, trees and tall grass had a major impact on the outcome of this

    Read More

  • William Dilley: A Personal Narrative

    504 Words  | 3 Pages

    I’m William Dilley, I was camping with neighbors when this tragic event unfortunately happened. We thought we were safe but the big clouds of ashes kept approaching. There were people camping on the other side of us, but unfortunately they didn't make it. Martha is my neighbor and her and I were sent out here to investigate the mountain.

    Read More

  • What Is The Theme Of Kindred

    1764 Words  | 8 Pages

    According to her, Black people “ain't got no manners, and don’t know nothin’ about waitin’ on folks.” (page 12) In fact, Charity was conditioned to believe that the times of slavery were the “good times. ”(page 14) Since she wasn’t abused in the same way that other enslaved people were,

    Read More

  • Kids Praise 4 Analysis

    542 Words  | 3 Pages

    I know there was supposed to be a time lapse in these scenes but it’s almost nonexistent. Next Charity is in a dream sequence with an even creepier anthropomorphic rat offering her dream singing contract and of course it ends up that the rat is a metaphor for greed as she is trapped in a cage at the end of the song. Charity wakes up and realizes she needs to spot perusing her own goals and serve God instead. She then accepts

    Read More

  • The Painted Door Summary

    1217 Words  | 5 Pages

    Rather than being motivated and relaxed Ann lapses back into her fear and thoughts being imprisoned and alone. This behaviour is another issue mentioned in the garrison mentality, “that the more completely man sets himself against nature and her imperfections the more completely he alienates himself rom his world” (Jones 7). Thus, Ann’s sudden comparison between her and the blizzard’s force and power fuels her frame of mind in being separated from everyone

    Read More

  • Comparing Grace And Jo-Anne In 'The Slip-Over Sweater'

    404 Words  | 2 Pages

    And I knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak." "Grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in April, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy."

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Devices In The Way To Rainy Mountain By Momaday

    666 Words  | 3 Pages

    In The Way To Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday, Momaday uses stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies such as imagery, sensory details, and alliteration. The use of alliteration helps Momaday create the vivid imagery of the piece by displaying the active environment with the “brittle and brown grass“, “willow and witch hazel” and “Great green” grasshoppers. Through this, the great plain in Oklahoma is displayed as a landmark with an overactive and lively nature. Furthermore, sensory details are used by Momaday listing the “steaming foliage”, “cold rains of autumn”, the sound of “the frogs away by the river” and feeling “ the motion of the air.” Such stylistic devices help the author write his eulogy to his grandmother, by describing all the sights he saw, that his grandmother Aho once saw.

    Read More

  • Loneliness In Of Mice And Men And Ethan Frome

    930 Words  | 4 Pages

    " Day by day, after the December snows were over, a blazing blue sky poured down torrents of light and air on the white landscape, which gave them back in an intenser glitter. One would have supposed that such an atmosphere must quicken the emotions as well as the blood; but it seemed to produce no change except that of retarding still more the sluggish pulse of Starkfield. When I had been there a little longer, and had seen this phase of crystal clearness followed by long stretches of sunless cold; when the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village and the wild cavalry

    Read More

  • Prose Analysis Of Ann Petry's The Street

    634 Words  | 3 Pages

    Vivid descriptions of the wind such as its’ “rattl[ing] the tops of garbage cans”, “dirt and dust and grime”, and “grit sting[ing] skins” create a sense of chaos that is common in the busy hustle of city life. The cold wind also “violent[ly] assault[s]” the residents of the city, allowing the reader to envision the truly excruciating and harrowing journey people in the urban setting must make regularly. Additionally, asyndeton is utilized masterfully throughout the passage to demonstrate the disarray caused by the wind. The wind finds “theater throwaways, announcements of dances and lodge meetings, the heavy waxed paper that loaves of bread had been wrapped in, the thinner waxed paper that enclosed sandwiches, old envelopes, newspapers.” This extensive list without the use of conjunctions speeds up the reading allowing a fast pace similar to the rapid attacks of the wind, enabling the reader to visualize the onslaught on the citizens.

    Read More

  • Behaviorism In William Stafford's Traveling Through The Dark

    972 Words  | 4 Pages

    They continue “her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting, alive, still, never to be born.” (Lines 10 and 11, Stafford), this setting forth the cause of the moral imbalance with the narrator. Line 12 confirms the question of judgement for the narrator as it reads “Beside that mountain road I hesitated.” We also are clued into more detail into the setting that Wilson River road is a slim mountainside one. As the climax of the story heats up, so does the narrator’s

    Read More

  • Othering In Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence

    3463 Words  | 14 Pages

    Thus, I have adapted Said’s notion of colonization as a process of Othering in order to explain Charity Royall’s marginality in Summer. She is the Other, the marginalized character in North Dormer, where she is reminded of her origins, but she is also an Other in the Mountains, where she doesn’t understand the culture and the social practices of the Mountain

    Read More

  • Descriptive Essay: Description Of The Lake

    766 Words  | 4 Pages

    Small, stagnant puddles, on the uneven planks of timber wood reflected the dark, brooding sky above - rarely disturbed by the callous slices of moonlight seeping through the clouds, creating a specular reflection through a ripple in the languid water. Surrounding the lake, lay a rigid, pine forest, which stretched far past the mountainous boundaries - rising high, around the solitary lake. A death-like mist pervaded through the trees enveloping them in a gelid, cutting fog. A silent, lonely willow shivered as the still, biting air engulfed its aged branches in an icy cage and suffocated its stiffened lungs, causing each freezing breath to drag. Crusted leaves stacked one on top of the other as

    Read More

  • Descriptive Writing On A Boat Ride

    1054 Words  | 5 Pages

    “What a great day for a boat ride,” I thought to myself. It is a cozy warm, shorts and short sleeve shirt day at the time that people are arriving onto the big bulky catamaran. The sky is light blue with some dainty see-through clouds and a slight warm western breeze. I am located on one of the tropical islands of Hawaii, Kauai. The glossy white surface of the boat is blinding because of the reflection from the early evening sun.

    Read More

More about North Dormer Charity Summary

Open Document