The Swimmer Analysis

Would you survive living in this erratic town? Since the beginning of the story, Edward Bloor has depicted Erik Fisher as the self-indulgent, antagonist in the novel. Paul Fisher, the protagonist, is much more caring and kind compared to his immoral and dishonorable brother. Bloor reveals Erik’s dissolute characteristics by showing his actions after Mike Costello’s death.

Brother is at fault for Doodleś death because he is a bad brother and overworked Doodle. Brother made Doodle work too hard when trying to teach him how to walk, run, and swim. In the story Doodle cannot do things that most people can easily do, so Brother tries to teach him to walk and then later swim. He tries way to hard and overworked Doodle.

Sandy struggles to express his thoughts and feelings with his wife Georgie. He has a reoccurring dream where he’s re-living the time

He is limiting his life because he is still traumatized by the wave swallowing K. He feels that because he did not try to save K. that he also will be sucked in by the water and never brought

Both the reader and Tom recognized this is when Tom is on the ledge starting to figure out that any second he could accidently end his life by one small step that was misplaced also, risking Claire’s financial stability. All it takes is being so close to losing everything, for Tom to see he risked is all. The audience sees this when Tom longing to get back into the apartment and his life, is that he never knew how important it was until he was in a very scary situation, he started to realized everything he taken for grant could be gone in under a second. Absolutely, as the reader laughs about how moronic people can cling unto a ledge seems, the danger of focusing on things that do not matter sinks in

(p.425) They both felt like they had failed. “Brother, Brother, Brother, do not leave me! Do not leave me!” (p.425)

“ Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge” (31). Because of the descriptive characterization, this final sentence has an unforgettable

In the beginning of the book, we do not know what this green light means, but by the end of the story it goes to show it signifies Gatsby longing for Daisy’s love. Gatsby and Daisy used to date before he left for the war. Now that he is back and has found her, he wants her back. His arm being reached out represents his trying to reach his dreams. In Schneider’s essay on The Great Gatsby, he states: “…green, as the mixture of yellow and blue is once again tragic commingling of dream and reality.

The poem “We Real Cool ,” written by Gwendolyn Brooks in the late 1950s. The poem set in a popular pool hall called the Golden Shovel, in this time era pool halls and the Civil Rights Movement were very popular. The Civil Rights Movement was a movement where desegregation, protest, and social identity was an issue.

," illustrates the irony of the cumulation of the American dream as it begins to crumble. The Youngers desperately pursue this American dream, hoping for opportunities of prosperity, upward social mobility, and the hope that their next generation should thrive unlike theirs. Working together, Hughes’ lines of his poem reflect the dreams of Hansberry’s characters and through this parallel, shows the effects on the Younger family when their long-awaited dreams are deferred by endless economic and family hardships as well as arduous racial boundaries. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” (Hughes 2-3).

Abdulrahman Zeitoun, owner of a painting contractor business, lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with his wife Kathy and their four children. Author Dave Eggers’ presents the story of Zeitoun in a work of narrative non-fiction; it tells a true story of a family during Hurricane Katrina but with a political and ethical perceptive.  Stylistic and technical devices Eggers uses is represented by a distinct shift in tone and describing plot settings. Furthermore, Eggers displays the insignificance efforts by the U.S government in helping the victims of the Hurricane Katrina.  

The seasons were changing from summer to fall, and on the day of his death it was said to be a warm day with yellowing trees and falling leaves. He was awaiting a phone call that came too late. So while he floated in this pool unaware that it would be his first and last time, Nick Carraway thinks, “I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass” (Fitzgerald 169).

The author uses the character Neddy Merill to illustrate the hidden theme of the inevitable passage of time and the consequences of one’s actions. Merill angered by the suburbanites who lazy around the Weshazy pool decides to swim home, a journey of eight miles. Initially, he exhibits

Afterwards, a storm brings his journey to a halt, and he is forced to wait for its passing. Once it passes Neddy continues onward, but like the leaves which are now yellow and red, his journey is changing. When he arrives at the home of his friends the Welcher’s, he notices that their is a for-sale sign on their lawn and wonders when they had last been in touch. After crossing a highway and cutting through a public pool, he arrives at the home of the Halloran’s. They express their sympathy for his misfortunes,

Joel and his friend, Tony went out with the intention of going to the park but along the way, Tony changes his mind and decided to go swimming instead. So these young boys went swimming in the treacherous Vermillion River which is against Joel’s father’s wish. While they were swimming, something terrible happened, Tony has disappeared, Joel searched for his friend but he was nowhere to be found. When Joel realized that Tony has drowned in this dangerous river, he became devastated and afraid to tell both parents what has happened as a result of their disobedience.