James Maloney’s 1996 novel, A Bridge To Wiseman’s Cove, is a creatively crafted and achingly honest exploration of the transformative power of love that continues to be relevant to young Australians. James Maloney uses the main character Carl to show us some problems that people are facing in their everyday life. James Maloney has creatively crafted this book using figurative language and has wonderfully used a range of other literary devices to explore his characters and themes. His use of imagery, for example, is used frequently throughout the book and is based around water and animals, ‘a black snake ready to pounce…’ (p. 54). ‘Aunt Beryl saw the fear. Smelled it.’ (p. 64). Without explicitly stating it, James Maloney infers that Beryl
In this monologue from Gem of the Ocean, Black mary uses rhetorical techniques in order to achieve the purpose of letting Aunt ester know how she feels. First, Mary explains her frustrations about aunt ester coming at her telling her to turn the fire down. Second, Mary is trying to get her point across. She's telling her that she isn't going to keep doing things to please her she's telling her that she have her own style of doing things and that's how she wants to do them. Mary’s frustrations are shown through the way she is speaking.
riendship made before the untimely death of Leslie. Paterson creates a situation where the reader can feel the hurt and sadness that Jesse is feeling while also giving the reader the chance to feel the healing that occurs after Leslie has gone, and everything that she left Jesse with. Paterson shows the reader that death brings a lot of pain and even frustration, but it also shows us that there is beauty behind the hurt; allowing children to see how death is handled in a positive way, and therefore when or if they experience it they will know that the feelings the are experiencing are normal. In the same fashion, the bad language in Bridge to Terabithia is also criticized by many people.
The friendships Carl makes in wattle beach help him to cover come his troubled past: A bridge to Wiseman’s cove is a novel written by James Moloney. It follows the journey of a young, lonely Boy Carl Matt, His struggles of his troubled past with a disappearing mother, disobedient brother Harley and over worked tired sister Sarah. In the midst of his troubles Carl is lost and unsure of the path he should take craving life and to stop being the emotionless statute he compares himself to. Until one day When his sister Sarah decides it is not her job to care for Harley and Carl so she decides to do what all the other Matt’s have done and leave, Carl and Harley are forced to go and live with their Aunt Beryl in Wattle beach.
Mark Twain once said, “The very ink in which all history is written is merely prejudice.” Tie. In the story “Lemon Brown “ by Walter Dean Myers, the author uses descriptive adjectives, to intrigue the reader into reading more and having interesting vocabulary words to make the the story better. The author uses figurative language to paint a picture into the person who who is reading this story.
Triple Entry: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Quote Analysis Synthesis "She’s swelling up, swells till her back’s splitting out the white uniform and she’s let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the three of them five, six times. She looks around her with a swivel of her huge head.... So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big" (5).
The excerpt from The First Betrayal by Patricia Bray conveys a mood of suspense through her word choice and use of [figurative] language. She creates a mood of suspense by choosing words such as “consume,” “engulf,” and “swallow,” among others. These words provide a feeling of frailty and powerlessness. All of these words as well as many other expressive ones are used to portray the darkness. Bray offers vivid imagery [and figurative language(personification)] that causes darkness to be more prevalent in the story.
A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove The novel ‘A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove’ by the author, James Maloney, is a story about the protagonist named Carl Matt, who faces many issues and tribulations as a teenager. The protagonist is left with the responsibility of his younger brother, while also managing insecurities of his own, regarding body image, love, and neglect. Maloney demonstrates the following themes, by using his protagonist as the victim of some of the modern issues facing today’s society. Throughout the novel, Maloney explores the ongoing issue of body image.
Flannery O’Connor uses style, tone, and character to tell the story of a family and a band of misfits as they struggle with good over evil in the Southern Gothic short story ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). The style and tone of the characters are depicted in a way that makes it difficult to feel compassion or sympathy for them. The figurative language and style used by the author depicts characters with casual, informal, and extreme Southern stereotypes, diction and attitudes. The tone of the story is ironic in regard to both the characters and plot. O’Connor uses colorful language to describe the characters of the story in a way that allows the reader to vividly see the characters as cartoon like, grotesque, and exaggerated.
In the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier there are several figurative language sentences and symbols that have meaning to the overall theme of the story. "Everything was suddenly out of tune, like a broken accordion." (Collier 11) This means that Lizabeth is explaining everything she is going through and how her life and emotions are. She uses an accordion to describe this because an accordion is a fun and upbeat instrument and a "broken accordion" is the complete opposite.
Ken Kesey’s figurative language in his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, illustrates that a broken individual can be made whole again. Throughout his life, Bromden has always been assumed to be deaf and dumb. When he speaks to people, their “machinery disposes of the words like they were not even spoken” (181). Here, Kesey’s metaphor represents the effect that Bromden’s words have on a mind plagued with societal expectations. Bromden is a large, Native American man that does not conform to the mold set by the Combine.
William Golding’s Use of Rhetorical Strategies to Illustrate Society in “Lord of the Flies” Written in the 1950’s by William Golding, Lord of the Flies is a novel that follows a group of young boys,stranded on an island with no contact to an adult world. Throughout the novel Golding elicits how savage humans can be when there is no authority controlling them, and Golding’s use of thematic vocabulary conveys how power and corruption can lead to a dismantling of order. As a result, this disruption in society causes people to reveal their true savage human nature. In Chapter 9 of Lord of the Flies, William Golding employs repetition, diction and symbolism to convey the theme that civilization has become a shield that conceals humanity 's natural wildness and savagery.
3 The story of “A&P” by John Updike adopts the uses of figurative language to embellish the critical moments of transitions of people’s lives, particularly in the life of Sammy. Updike utilizes crafts of plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, and symbol to constitute the story, and to project the idea of "life passages. " Also, Sammy undergoes a series of events that enables him to transition as a person in his life. 3
Adventure and desire are common qualities in humans and Sarah Orne Jewett’s excerpt from “A White Heron” is no different. The heroine, Sylvia, a “small and silly” girl, is determined to do whatever it takes to know what can be seen from the highest point near her home. Jewett uses literary elements such as diction, imagery, and narrative pace to dramatize this “gray-eyed child” on her remarkable adventure. Word choice and imagery are necessary elements to put the reader in the mind of Sylvia as she embarks on her treacherous climb to the top of the world. Jewett is picturesque when describing Sylvia’s journey to the tip of one unconquered pine tree.
Graves 1 Cody Graves English 111, J05 December 6, 2014 Literary Analysis: E.B. White – Once More to the Lake, Final Draft Memories E.B. White, born in 1899, wrote children's books, essays, and was an editor. In E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake”, White goes back to Maine Lake where his father had taken his family to camp every August. While at the Lake with his son, White reflects on his own childhood. This essay is profoundly powerful and relatable to many people as most experience some sort of get away from the city life and escape into the wild.
A compelling narrative, painted and plastered with a rife amount of rich, vivid imagery in every page, “The White Heron” (1886) by Sarah Orne Jewett brings to life the adventures of Sylvia, a young girl “nine years growing” (Line 229), as she undergoes the metamorphic journey from being a young girl to a mature woman who is ready to take on the responsibilities of the outside world. With every segment of imagery present in the narrative, not only does Jewett cleverly inject in symbolic representations, but also allude to several other novels and short stories during her time. She predominantly utilizes specific symbols to connect with the main themes of freedom, racism, rape, trauma, identity, maturity, and strength. The story’s title itself