Sarah The Sunflower Seed Short Story

Sylvia’s insight on nature in the short story “ The White Heron” creates a theme of birds beauty and well being. The author uses great details of beauty, respect, and how the birds revolve around the whole story. The author puts many of species of birds in this story such as crows, white heron, robins, cat birds, and hawks. The birds give us a sense that they are intelligent and have utter beauty.

“ She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight,” (Hurston, 1937, p. 11). The bee gathering pollen became a reference for Janie throughout the rest of the story. “He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring,” (Hurston, 1937, p. 106). After seeing the bee and the blossom, Janie wanted to find a connection like that in her life. She

On page 11 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston writes, “Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.” This quote represents how Janie sees herself; she sees herself as a young tree in bloom.

Earth mothers are female characters who love nature, which fits in with Miss Maudie because she loves plants and flowers. "She loved everything that grew on God's earth, even the weeds." (Lee, Harper. Page 56) She is known for her yard being filled with flowers and plants.

Miss Bloom loves visitors and is very excited to know that she may fill her inn with new guest. Throughout the day, Miss Bloom welcomes a variety of entertaining guests until all the rooms at Strawberry Inn are taken. Finally,

This shows us that Cadence is imagining Gat giving her these flowers. Cadence seeing these flowers symbolizes her love for Gat. This is why Cadence gets mad when she sees Gat sending dried roses to another girl. When Cadence sees these dried beach roses on the tire swing, we can see that she still loves Gat, even though he is dead.

The first instance of birds symbolizing Turtle maturing is when Lou Ann, Taylor and their friends are sitting in Lou Ann’s living room and Turtle is having trouble eating a piece of pineapple. They all laughed and cheered her on but she got startled and cried. Mr. Parsons takes a spoon and feeds a piece to her. The narrator explains, “ She looked like a newborn

“Oh, Nell how lovely you look. And your face seems to carry the wind and the sun from your sail with Emma.” Nell smiled at her. Alice Guthrie began life as an active girl and woman with a strong love for music.

In the exposition of "The Flowers," Walker presents the story of a young African-American girl's view of life-everything is wonderful. As the narrator informs the reader, Myop sees the world through rose tinted glasses in the first few paragraphs of the short story; being only ten, "nothing existed for her but her song, a stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta of accompaniment (Walker 2). " The aforementioned diction suggests that she holds a simple view of life, not really caring about much else other than what she is doing in the present moment. This can be attributed to her young age and lack of exposure to the suffering present in the world, as during one's childhood years, often the most important things to children

The Beauty of the Southern Flowers “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.” (Lee 278). When it comes to the topic of flowers, most of us will readily agree that they represent development, growth, beauty and happiness. For instance, Roses are known for signifying love and deep passion while Lotus flowers are known for purity of the heart. Nonetheless, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee utilizes flowers to symbolize the strength and character that women of Maycomb possess.

This year the festival will feature some spectacular carnival rides, great live entertainment, 5K and 10K races, a car show, a parade, and KidFest (which includes a bicycle decorating contest, pie eating contest, water balloon toss and more, for kids 14 and under.) There’s even a Peach Queen and royal Peach Court—this year, those roles are filled by Mianna Gonczar and Shelby VanOphem. And, of course, there are always delicious peaches and peach products at various stands all over the festival. I spent two days in Savannah, Georgia this summer—the peach capital of the USA—and I still believe that Romeo’s peaches could compete with Georgia’s any day.

Sally Swatland’s paintings are focused on leisure and the joys of everyday life. Her paintings of people at the beach reveal the excitement of people enjoying life. Early Morning on the Island depicts a happy woman picking shells on the beach side on a beautiful morning. The woman’s white dress flows with the wind, radiantly illuminated by the beautiful morning sun. The play on light and color are major qualities that help elevate the characters in Sally Swatland’s paintings.

Stargazing 101: Virgo the Maiden My mother was a Virgo so, of course, this was her favorite constellation story to tell us. This set of stars has many stellar objects that can be found in the cluster.

On June 3rd, 2004, a new addition to the Colangelo family was born – a baby girl named Grace. For the next couple years, Grace and her family lived together in joy and love. The new baby was happy and healthy; or so the family thought. One crisp afternoon in November 2007, Grace and her father were having fun in the yard. They jumped in leaves, threw them into the air, and even raked a few, too.

A flock of seagulls soared to shore to search for food. People at the beach were blasting music out of their cooler and dancing. I positioned my rear-end in my lounge chair while drinking a Virgin Daiquiri. The Virgin Daiquiri was filled with juicy strawberries with a cherry on top, it was extremely mouth-watering. I witnessed carefree children running across the beach while holding kites gleefully.