The Woods In John Atwood's Among The Hidden

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts,” Patrick Rothfuss. Authors use many ways to develop the setting. Descriptive language is like describing things instead of phrases like ,”a house.” You could say a dirty and tired house. . In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and the story “Lemon Tree Billiards House” by Cedric Yamanaka, the authors use Descriptive language to develop the setting.

The musical “Into the Woods” by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is a metaphor for life in many ways, but the most prominent one is the woods symbolizing life itself. The prologue song “Into The Woods” is about each of the character’s dreams and wishes. Cinderella wishes to go to the festival, Little Red Riding Hood wants to deliver bread to Granny, and the Baker and his wife want to have a child, even though the witch cursed their lineage. In order to accomplish and reach for some of these goals, they must go into the “woods” and take some risks. Just as we must take risks in our personal lives to accomplish our goals, being that is the only way to achieve what we aspire to do. They each have a different issue that can only be solved by going out and living their lives or going

“Into the woods” by Cheryl Strayed is a not only a story about the journey to the inner

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you” W. Clement Stone. In this portion of the story, The Beet Queen, by Louise Erdrich, it tells the story of two children arriving in a town searching for their own purpose. With the use of tone, imagery, and point of view we can depict the impact of the environment on the two children throughout the passage.

In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” she uses writing skills such as symbolism and imagery to get across her different themes to the reader’s with plenty of room for self-interpretation. Though O’Connor’s work could be defined as cynical, she does an excellent job of writing in the third person with her uncomplicated structure of sentences leaving plenty of room for her character 's thoughts, feelings, and actions to get across the realism of our world.

Author Joyce Carol Oates ' discovery of the stories of Edgar Allen Poe and Ann Radcliff “sparked her interest in Gothic fiction”. These Gothic elements typically include gruesome or violent incidents, characters in psychological or physical torment, and strong language full of dangerous meanings. Oates herself is citied as saying that "Horror is a fact of life. As a writer, I’m fascinated by all facets of life". “Where is Here?" This story is sort of eerie and tells the tale of a grown-up man who goes back to visit his childhood home. While visiting he displays several strange characteristics where he appears to regress into a child. This story examines a world in which normal life is electrified by the potential for sudden change. Domestic

In the story, the author states the tone as bad (the feeling of the author ) and the mood (the feeling of the reader).(Glossary 1). “ It was a sad looking place,which for many years had not known the gentle presence of a

Wiesel uses the word Kabbalah when he is talking to Moishe which he explains as “the poorest of poor.” As they talked about Kabbalah he seems to have hope in his tone, and then that tone of hope seems to decrease as he starts to explain how much had begun to happen only soon after that. When Weisel is talking about Kabbalah, at first he uses the word in a positive way as he speaks to Moishe but then it quickly turns into something negative in the matter of one page. Weisel says “And in the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, in that time when question and answer would become ONE” (5). Weisel then goes on to say “ AND THEN, one day all foreign jews were expelled from Sighet and Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner” (6). The

“ The Fall of the House of Usher “ by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story about a man named Roderick

Raymond Carver’s short story “Popular Mechanics” was written in the minimalist style, but that didn’t stop him from using rich and full uses of imagery, symbolism and irony. Carver begins the story up by giving details on the weather outside than slowly comparing it to the drama going on inside his story. By using a mix of imagery and symbolism, the day gets darker as well as the story and gives off a feeling of melancholy. Though the communication is brief, Carver makes every word said important and meaningful. He uses irony throughout the entirety of “Popular Mechanics” and gets the purpose of the writing across while still adding emotion to the argument.

Margret Atwood’s short story “Lusus Naturae” is known as a work of fiction in which a monster uncommonly plays the role of the protagonist. Discussing character dynamics, it is interesting to examine the symbolic meaning behind the girl as a monster in this story. Is this text simply a fantasy created with the goal to serve solely as a horror story with a typical ending, or does this tale have a deeper meaning encompassing the treatment of women and their sexuality throughout history. Through close reading of “Lusus Naturae,” I plan to use evidence from the text to illustrate symbolic parallels between the unusual protagonist and the known historical role women held in society.

Words have power beyond measures. Used often to inclifct emotions such as fear, sadness, sympathy, or joy, they have the power to connect individuals globally. The words from one man in particular have told the horrifying story of his life in the internment camps during World War II. The book Night was a memoir he wrote about the experience. The book solely focused on his time in the camp and the harsh reality he faced. In much detail, he described his life, his feelings, and his struggle of survival throughout the time he was imprisoned there. Elie Wiesel is also a Nobel Laureate. Being of this honor and widely known, he was invited to the white house to deliver a speech. “Perils of Indifference” was the speech he gave. It briefly had

For Shin, in the camp, the idea of family was nearly nonexistent. He wasn’t made because two people loved each other; his mother and father were just forced to marry. “Neither bride nor groom had much say in deciding whom they would marry. If one partner found his or her chosen mate to be unacceptably old, cruel, or ugly, guards would sometimes cancel a marriage. If they did, neither the man nor the woman would be allowed to marry again.” (page 17) Shin also didn’t really get along with his parents. In order to try and survive, he stole his mother’s food. “...Shin took as much food as he could from his mother as often as he could. It did not occur to him that if he ate her lunch, she would go hungry.” (page 16)

The description of light and darkness shows the two different path of the two brother and who they are. The narrator and the older brother of Sonny path is lit and he know what want to do life, and he wants the same for his brother. But Sonny’s path is different it’s dark and uncertain he does not know what he wants he only thinks he does. He even say it himself, "I don't think," he said, looking at me very gravely, "that I'll ever be a good drummer. But I think I can play a piano."(pg. 11) This making him seem uncertain about abilities and his future in the beginning. The best way to describe where they were born is place covered by darkness it was gloomy, rundown, and lifeless or what the narrator said,” It looks like a parody of the good,

The author uses setting in such a way so that readers can truly understand the darkness of Andy’s situation. Hunter writes, “he could hear the sound of automobile tires hushed on the muzzle of the rainswept streets, far away at the other end of the long