Part Ⅲ Close reading- tension in scenes
Mansfield did a great job in describing scenes. For example, natural scenes or objects inside. In The garden party, she were keen on endowing deep and meaning in things they seem. You may suddenly surprise by the beautiful scene Mansfield described, because you may see something different far behind. In her words, she was used to use symbol, impressionism and irony technique to express the world. In this part, the tension in scenes is discussed, which focus on three symbolic images, garden, lilies and Laura’s hat and the tension in Objective images and subjective feelings.
3.1 Symbolic images
A symbolic image is a concrete image that signifies a particular concept besides an object or an event or an
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They are mentioned in the stories for several times. The canna lilies may be impressed the readers deeply. “There, just inside the door, stood a wide, shallow tray full of pots of lilies. No other kind. Nothing but lilies---canna lilies, big pink flowers, wide open, radiant, almost frightening alive on bright crimson stems.” Canna lilies is a symbol of wealthy people like Laura’s whole family which from middle class enjoying party every day. While the arum lilies symbolize poor people like the carter. When Laura sees canna lilies ordered by her mother, “She crouched down as if to warm herself at that blaze of lilies; she felt they were in her finger, on her lips, growing in her breast.” The flowers swallow Laura and make her has a strange feeling. Her strange feeling is a symbol of the fact that the artificial world is an inseparate part of her. Lilies are mentioned again. When Mrs. Sheridan sends Laura to send leftovers of their party to the widow, she asks Laura to take the lilies together to “that poor creature” too. It is mentioned that the arum lilies symbolize poor people. Mrs. Sheridan considers arum lilies are inferior to canna lilies and they are suitable for those poor …show more content…
Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties…
The scene is described with light and colors. It gives the information that it is a fine day. There are beautiful flowers in the garden. The tension occurs between the natural scenes and the impression. The atmosphere created by the scene is very happy. In fact the author is brilliant. She arranges the death happening during the garden party. The little heroine’s happiness is interrupted. She wants to stop the party, while others try to keep the happiness. The happy scene forms a contrast with the suffocate scene described in the following:
They (the poor’s houses) were little mean dwellings painted a chocolate brown. In the garden patches there was nothing but cabbage stalks, sick hens and tomato cans. The very smoke coming out of their chimneys was poverty-striken. Little rags and shreds of smoke, so unlike the great silvery plumes that uncurled from the Sheridan’s
She explains that it was important to part her life. Next, in “Confetti Girl” the tension comes from the point of view of school. Her and her father have a very different outlook on school. For example, in paragraph 13 it states that things are good until her
The family shows signs of being part of either a low or poor class based off the conditions of the household they are living in and the bareness of their apartment. For instance, the dining room is extremely small and the kitchen seems old and worn out. Correspondingly, the family members seem to lack personality due to to the simple clothing they are wearing. However, the bright colors found interior of the home create a contrast between the dreary environment of the household. This helps convey the message that although the family may not be as economically stable and live a dull life, they still happily interact among one another and come together every evening to have a meal together.
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He creates a playful tone towards the harsh environment described in the short story. He describes the lifelike house as if it were a simple minded living being. For example he gave the house features of repetition and used phrases like, “it repeated the date three times for memory 's sake!”. His choice of words are charming and lighthearted rather than unpleasant to the ear. He continues to use these such words throughout even when he begins to talk of the sick scene.
Pudge is confused as to why she went through all the trouble just to get a flower but Alaska quickly explains that her parents used to put white flowers in her hair when she was younger. The next encounter with the white flowers is when Alaska has white tulips in her dorm room, those flowers are the same flowers Alaska had in her car when she passed away in the car accident. No one could figure out why she had the flowers in her car until the final time the reader hears about the flowers. The final time flowers are mentioned is when Pudge is on the phone with his mother and he sees little doodles of white flowers on the phone booth. This leads him to remember where and why Alaska was going on the night she died.
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The use of children in the Sierra Leone Civil War was widespread, with up to 10,000 children taking part in the conflict and up to eighty percent of RUF forces between the ages of seven and fourteen. Ishmael is one of these children. In his memoir, A Long Way Gone, Lieutenant Jabati and his men exploit several techniques to transform these frightened children into ruthless killing machines. They do this through the use of drugs, pop culture, as well as character and emotional manipulation. Tactics like these create habits and addictions that are almost impossible to break.
This is what we encounter in this tragic story. From the beginning of the story, the author presents a lively outlook of the village life and the different people who are
Symbolism is the use of images, colors or items through a story or time used to represent something more meaningful. For example, one may look at America's flag and think it is just a flag. False, it is red for the valor and bravery of our soldiers, the white stands for purity and innocence of our nation, and the blue signifies justice, perseverance and vigilance; it is not just a flag, it is a symbol of all the things the United States of America have been through. However, in literature symbolism plays a much more heavy role in the story. Authors used symbolism with a flower, perhaps, then continue talking about growth and blossoming within the flower throughout the story only to reveal to the reader the flower is not a flower, but a growth in her struggling protagonist.
Forgiving someone is one of the best things you could do. However, for you to forgive someone, you must accept what has happened and be ready to move on. Forgiving someone gives them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and allows them to move on as well. By accepting the past, you might find reasoning within the mistakes of the others, and give you as better understanding of how you should act. Forgiveness is a large part of The First Stone, and within the story is a valuable lesson:
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Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak is an interesting children’s picture book. The main character is a little boy named Max, who has a wild imagination. He uses all five senses as well as thought and his actions to express his personality as well as how he reacts and interacts with his surroundings. Max’s id, ego and super-ego are greatly shown in this book through the way that the author has portrayed him. Not only is this book a children’s story, but it can also be perceived as a life lesson.
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