Sonnet

As a Christian, John Donne writes his Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God as a traditional orthodox prayer. He writes in the context of addressing God with praise at the beginning and the end of his prayer. In his prayer he also admits he is a sinner and asks for redemption. This particular course follows the same structure of numerous prayers found throughout the Bible. One of the most prominent of them is The Lords Prayer told by Jesus in Matthew 6:9-13.

We know that John Donne was a traditional orthodox Christian by the way he addresses God. He refers to God as a three-personed God in line one. He refers to God as three persons in one unit, not separate, for a reason. Traditional Christianity explains God as being made up of three parts: The Father, The Son; The Holy Ghost. Therefore when Donne refers to God this way we know he is addressing in the traditional orthodox Christian way.

In Christianity, the Bible teaches us how to pray. One example is when Jesus recited The Lords Prayer. He was setting a particular course that he wanted Christians to follow. The first part of His prayer begins with addressing God and giving Him praise when He says Our Father [] Hallowed be Thy name. (9). Donne follows this by addressing God in the first line. He then goes directly into praising God by saying, You/As but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend (1-2). He says these particular words to let God know that: He is the one who gives us all breath; He is the one who shines above everything: He is the one that helps us out more than any other thing.

Secondly Donne admits that he is a sinner. He states that in order for him to be able to be a new person and rise and stand (3) before God, he must first be overthrown and broken. He goes on to say that he is engulfed in sin and is essentially in an unwanted relationship with evil. Donne states these things in order to show God that what he truly wants is He. In the Bible it tells us that in order to become a new person in God, we must first repent of all our sins. In The Lords Prayer Jesus says, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. (12). In modern terms it means that we are asking God to forgive us as we have forgiven everyone else who has done wrong against us.

Then Donne asks God to release him from the bondages of sin and to come into his life. He says this in lines 11 and 12 when he states, Divorce me, untie or break that knot and when he asks God to imprison him. Donne asks these things from God knowing that He is the only one who can do these things. In traditional prayers, after asking for forgiveness we ask for some sort of guidance and assistance in our new walk with God. In Matthew 6: 13, Jesus says lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. This is exactly what Donne is trying to convey in his poem. He knows that God is the only one who can help him walk in a new light and this is what he is asking God to do.

Furthermore, Donne ends his prayer with praise. He does so with great passion and adoration towards the one who has just set him free. He states in lines 13 and 14 that he wants to be held and made pure. He states this by using word with great emotion: enthrall; chaste; ravish. He praises God with using these words because he knows that God is a very passionate God and loves to be honored and adorned. Jesus also states this when He says, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. (13). By stating that God has the kingdom, it means that God has everything. By saying that God has all the power and glory, it means that God is omnipotent and deserves all praise. And then by saying forever, it means for eternity.

In conclusion it is very legitimate to say that John Donnes Holy Sonnet 14 is a personal prayer and a very traditional Christian one. Donne begins his prayer with praise and then ends with more. He also is sure to include asking for forgiveness, for he knows that God is the only one who can give it. And he asks God to help him in his walk not because he is just talking to Him already, but because he knows that He is the only way that Donne can be free. After all, this is the way that God, Himself, told us traditional orthodox Christians how to pray.

As a Christian, John Donne writes his Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God as a traditional orthodox prayer. He writes in the context of addressing God with praise at the beginning and the end of his prayer. In his prayer he also admits he is a sinner and asks for redemption. This particular course follows the same structure of numerous prayers found throughout the Bible. One of the most prominent of them is The Lords Prayer told by Jesus in Matthew 6:9-13.

We know that John Donne was a traditional orthodox Christian by the way he addresses God. He refers to God as a three-personed God in line one. He refers to God as three persons in one unit, not separate, for a reason. Traditional Christianity explains God as being made up of three parts: The Father; The Son; The Holy Ghost. Therefore when Donne refers to God this way we know he is addressing in the traditional orthodox Christian way.

In Christianity, the Bible teaches us how to pray. One example is when Jesus recited The Lords Prayer. He was setting a particular course that he wanted Christians to follow. The first part of His prayer begins with addressing God and giving Him praise when He says Our Father [] Hallowed be Thy name. (9).

Donne follows this by addressing God in the first line. He then goes directly into praising God by saying, You / As but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend (1-2). He says these particular words to let God know that: He is the one who gives us all breath; He is the one who shines above everything; He is the one that helps us out more than any other thing.

Secondly Donne admits that he is a sinner. He states that in order for him to be able to be a new person and rise and stand (3) before God, he must first be overthrown and broken. He goes on to say that he is engulfed in sin and is essentially in an unwanted relationship with evil. Donne states these things in order to show God that what he truly wants is He.

In the Bible it tells us that in order to become a new person in God, we must first repent of all our sins. In The Lords Prayer Jesus says, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. (12). In modern terms it means that we are asking God to forgive us as we have forgiven everyone else who has done wrong against us.

Then Donne asks God to release him from the bondages of sin and to come into his life. He says this in lines 11 and 12 when he states, Divorce me, untie or break that knot and when he asks God to imprison him. Donne asks these things from God knowing that He is the only one who can do these things.

In traditional prayers, after asking for forgiveness we ask for some sort of guidance and assistance in our new walk with God. In Matthew 6: 13, Jesus says lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. This is exactly what Donne is trying to convey in his poem. He knows that God is the only one who can help him walk in a new light and this is what he is asking God to do.

Furthermore, Donne ends his prayer with praise. He does so with great passion and adoration towards the one who has just set him free. He states in lines 13 and 14 that he wants to be held and made pure. He states this by using word with great emotion: enthrall; chaste; ravish. He praises God with using these words because he knows that God is a very passionate God and loves to be honored and adorned.

Jesus also states this when He says, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. (13). By stating that God has the kingdom, it means that God has everything. By saying that God has all the power and glory, it means that God is omnipotent and deserves all praise. And then by saying forever, it means for eternity.

In conclusion it is very legitimate to say that John Donnes Holy Sonnet 14 is a personal prayer and a very traditional Christian one. Donne begins his prayer with praise and then ends with more. He also is sure to include asking for forgiveness, for he knows that God is the only one who can give it.

He uses punctuation, enjambment (13) metaphors to his choice of imagery in this sonnet. He is very strict in structuring his creative imagination and deep emotions in this sonnet. This sonnet deals with Skate’s concern of his own mortality as well as his concerns for the longevity and appreciation of his work. “What I have fears” covers many points on the poets fears of dying young in this poem. John Keats fear of dying and is inability to write down all the rich poems he as In Nils nana applets Itself In ten TLS quatrain AT ten poem.

He wants to write as many books as possible giving people his knowledge and ideas. In his poem there is the use of metaphors and structures depicting his fear and losses. He also wants to love and give love to someone. His dreams of fulfilling his ambitions will be cut short because of the reality he will die soon. This poem has a rhyme scheme of Shakespearean. It consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet. In line 4 he compares himself to nature the field of grain. Just as seeds are sown and grain is ready to be harvested. His growth of life at his mature age will be cut down like that of the grain.

He will die soon. He wants to experience life through other people’s experiences. He compares himself to a star in the night. A star symbolizes the end of a day and darkness. His life is compared to that darkness. The star shines bright and he thinks he has hope but behind that the star he knows that he doesn’t have hope at all. A dark cloud hangs over his life by sadness, of his death soon. He wants to love someone and to receive love back and he knows that this is unreachable to him Just as the clouds and shadows are. He hopes for “A magic hand of chance “(8) a miracle waiting to happen to him.

He will never get that chance. He also wants to meet his ultimate love interest and his love of poems until he writes that one ultimate poem before he dies. In line (10) he will never see love again. His love of writing his poems and the fact that he would never get the time, to complete all of this. He would love to meet someone where two worlds could become one. He is scarified in fulfilling that need as there is not enough time for him to love someone and share his life with. In the last two lines of his poem you SE there is an enjambment (13).

The whole sonnet changes completely in these lines. There is hard hitting reality revealed by the poet. He stands alone in this “wide world” because he will die alone and no body will be with him. In the end romance and his fame mean nothing anymore because he is going to die anyway. “Nothingness” means he is deprived of his life at a young prime age and of love, and his passion to write books and poetry has taken away. There is no resolution for him in this sonnet, because he is at the end of line in his life, he will “sink”. He will die soon.

HOW SOON HATH TIME- JOHN MILTON HOW SOON HATH TIME is a Petrarchan sonnet written by John Milton the famous English poet. It is a sonnet written on the 9th of December 1631. Typical of the Petrarchan sonnet, there is a tonal change as well as a change in the mood and emotions of the poet. The poem has an autobiographical touch. In the Octave, the poet laments the passage of 23 years of his life, especially the 23rd year. The sonnet begins with a tone of frustration and desperation. He suffers from the complex growing youngsters have.

Time is pictured as a subtle thief of youth which has wings and it has carried away the 23 years of his life. His days are hurrying away in a rush. He is growing by age, but the spring of his life has seen no bud nor blossom. He fears that he has not achieved anything in his life despite crossing 23 years. In the second half of the octave, he states that though he has attained manhood, he does not look his age. He has that physical immaturity which has made him look very young and effeminate. He despairs of not only being unmasculine, but also a failure in life as a poet and also as a respectable man of high standing.

Physical immaturity seems to go hand in hand with mental, psychological and intellectual immaturity. Though he is a man now, he does not have the mature looks nor does he find an inward ripeness. He feels sad that some people are so well endowed at the proper time. The word ENDOWED suddenly makes the poet realize the ‘one who endows’- God. Eventually the mood changes. There is an introspection and acceptance. He comes to terms with the reality. He feels that all he needs is time and necessarily, along with it ,the blessings of God.

He would, one day, sooner or later, in a large amount or small, bless him. It is destiny, he realizes. He would indeed be blessed by God and his fortunes may change for the better. He decides to ‘stand and wait’ in anticipation of the grace of God. He feels that right now, it is the destiny allotted by God and accordingly, he has to carry out his part of the duty and wait in patience. He dreams of a day when God blesses him in His own strictest measure. He would bless him with a sense of creativity so that he would bloom to be a better poet.

He realizes that human beings are allotted to play their roles, to perform God’s will. If he waits with patience, God’s grace would be on him eternally. Sometimes less, sometimes more, it may vary, but the Almighty, the Power, would always remain up above, blessing him. So all he needs is Time, Patience and the will of Heaven. In the last line, the poet refers to God as a Taskmaster. A taskmaster’s job is to extract work and God will make him strive hard so that one day he would be a greater poet; because that is what, he feels ,God intends him to be.

If not today, perhaps someday, he will achieve what he dreamed of, the success he strived for and the glory he anticipated. He would certainly succeed as what he aspired to be. The sonnet ends with a tone of hope and consolation. Milton presents the same theme in ON HIS BLINDNESS. A parallel reference can be made of the lines from Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT where he speaks that we are allotted to play our roles; to perform God’s will. — ” All the world’s a stage and all men and women mere players

With detailed reference to three poems, compare and contrast the poets’ presentation of war through their choice of language and form.

World War One was one of the most influential events over Western literature. The three poems which I will analyse in this essay are “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” also by Wilfred Owen. Poets such as Owen decided to write very powerful poems at this period of time to show the world what was going on in the war. By these poems being written and published in various newspapers, the world would get to see what was really happening in the war, rather than seeing all the propaganda that many governments showed the public.

The forms of the three poems are mainly very different. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is written as a sonnet, which is generally associated with love. This association suggests that “Anthem” was written as a celebration of their lives, rather than as a poem to commemorate their lives. Another slight similarity is that “Anthem” and “Dulce” are both written using stanzas, rather than “An Irishman” which is written in free form, even though it is significantly longer than “Anthem”. The rhyme schemes of “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” are the same, following the ABAB… pattern, however “Anthem For Doomed Youth” has a very different rhyme scheme, sometimes using ABAB… and sometimes using AABB… the times in which these rules are used are very random.

“Dulce Et Decorum Est” was written by Owen to tell the world about what was really happening in the war. Most of the poem is made up of phrases describing the torment and pain that soldiers went through during this time. An example of one of these phrases is when he says “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags”, by using this simile, Owen is conveying to the audience that many soldiers were injured and suffering badly during the war. Yeats uses a similar technique to get the message of bad conditions through to the audience, he says “Those I fight I do not hate”, stating that he doesn’t even know the people that he is fighting, so cannot have hate for them, even though they could kill or injure him. He is also showing a different tone to the poem, saying that it is indifferent, calm and detached.

“An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” is written in first person, giving it a personal feel, making you feel like you know the “Irish Airman” and understand his problems and sorrows. Contrary to this, both “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” are written in third person, making the reader feel like the poems are more of a story than a person account of the war, even though Owen fought in the war.

There are many messages in each of the poems. One of the most easy to see hidden message occurs in “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, line three is the longest line throughout the whole poem and it says this: “Only the stuttering rifles’ raid battle”. This phrase can be interpreted in many different ways. One of these could be that the “stuttering rifles” are the prayers that are being said for the soldiers have been saying, however the “stuttering rifles” could mean the rifles are causing a long and painful death, and this is, in fact the reason why the line is so long. In “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the same technique is also used. This time the longest line is the second line which says “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge”. This line is saying how the soldiers were so injured and worn out that they “cursed through the sludge” meaning it took them a long time. This is the reason why the line is so long. The longest line of “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” does however not follow the same pattern.

The first line of “Anthem” is written in the form of a rhetorical question, this question makes you think about what happened to all the people that died “like cattle” die in inhuman ways, and just being slaughtered. “Dulce” immediately starts by using a simile; “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”, this simile is showing you the extent of the injuries suffered, it made them “bent” like old people would be, not young people who should have fit and healthy bodies. “I know that I shall meet my fate” is the opening line of “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”, this immediate impact, by the man saying he is going to die is very dramatic; it engages the reader and creates suspense about what is going to happen.

The past, present and future are all mentioned in “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”. “I know that I shall meet my fate” is the airman saying that he knows that he will die soon, this is in the present, “The years to come, seemed waste of breath” is saying that the years to come seem a waste of time, talking about the future and “A waste of breath the years behind” is saying that the years gone by also seem like a waste of time. This use of all three tenses is giving the audience a briefing about what happened in the past, what is happening at the moment and what the airman fears will happen in the future. Both “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” are written in the present because they have a main purpose of telling the audience what is happening, rather than what happen in the past and what will happen in the future.

During the early 1900’s many British people were religious, rather than today, where only a small fraction of people keep any religious observance. The fact that people kept to there religion meant that a lot of this type of imagery was put into poems during the war. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” has all the components in it to tell you what a funeral for one of the fallen soldiers would be like, it mentions “bells” as in bells at a church, but Owen may also be referring to the noise of the rifles, it also mentions “prayer” which could also be the hope that the soldiers had in order that they would survive and it also mentions many others including “choirs” which could be the other soldiers. Similarly to “Anthem”, “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” also uses religious imagery; this occurs when Yeats says “my country is Kiltartan Cross”, this can be perceived in the way that “Kiltartan Cross” is his religion, because it is where he is from, and he has great passion to fight for them, in order that they win.

Both “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” describe injured servicemen in great detail. This is done because the injuries were so great that some of the soldiers had, the poets felt a ‘responsibility’ of telling the public what was happening. One example of this poetic device in “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is when it says;

“The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds”

This is saying that there faces were the colour of a coffin cloth (white) and that they had wounded minds like a patient in hospital. One type of this imagery used in “Dulce” is when Owen says;

“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs”

This is saying that blood was spooling out of the “corrupted” lungs, making you imagine a dead or struggling soldier on the floor with blood oozing out of him. Contrary to these two poems “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” does not describe injured soldiers; this may be because Yeats wanted to make his poem seem different to many poems which were appearing in the media at the time.

After writing this essay, I have realised that different poets use different techniques to write their poems, making them appealing to different types of audiences.

William Shakespeares Sonnet 18 is part of a group of 126 sonnets Shakespeare wrote that are addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise. In this group of sonnets, the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate his virtues through children, and warns him about the destructive power of time, age, and moral weakness. Sonnet 18 focuses on the beauty of the young man, and how beauty fades, but his beauty will not because it will be remembered by everyone who reads this poem. Shakespeare starts the poem with a metaphoric question in line one asking if e should compare the man to a summers day.

This asks if he should compare the beauty of a summers day to the beauty of the young man about whom Shakespeare is writing. Line two of this poem states Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Temperate is used as a synonym for moderate by the author. In line two the speaker is describing the man as more lovely and more moderate than a summers day. This emphasizes the mans beauty and how the man is viewed by the speaker. Line three, Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, tells hy the mans beauty is greater than that of a summers day.

Shakespeare uses rough winds to symbolize imperfections. The speaker is implying that there are no imperfections in the young man, but there are in the summer, so the man cannot be compared to a summers day. In line four the speaker adds to this thought by saying that the summer also does not last as long as the mans beauty therefore it cannot be compared to it. Line five states another imperfection of the summer. Shakespeare uses the eye of heaven as a metaphor in this line to describe the un.

In line six Shakespeare uses the phrase gold complexion dimmed to describe the sun again which means that sometimes the sun is not hot enough, and that, as said in line five, sometimes the sun is too hot. In lines seven and eight the speaker ends the complication by describing how nature is never perfect. Line nine starts the resolution of the poem by using the conjunction but.. Eternal summer in line nine is referring back to the mans eternal beauty, using summer to symbolize beauty, and saying that the mans beauty will never fail like he summers beauty.

In lines ten, eleven, and twelve the speaker says that the man, When in eternal lines to time thou growst (line 12) or when he grows old, will not lose possession of what is fair to him, and Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade (line 11) or he will not be poor in health and close to dying. Lines thirteen and fourteen say that as long as this poem is read, the mans beauty will never go away, because every time someone reads the poem they will be reminded of his beauty.

This poem that Shakespeare wrote, in the octave, describes how all beauty fades except for the man about whom Shakespeare is writing. The octave also tells of how great the mans beauty is compared to everything else that is beautiful. In the sestet, the poem tells about how the mans beauty stays alive and out lives all other beauty. The poem is written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare makes use of much symbolism and many other figurative devices in this poem that contribute and emphasize to the overall theme of the poem.

How to Read Like a Professor

Introduction:

How’d He Do That? Mostly in memory it affects the reading literature in way that the reader, recognizes similarities in another work of literature, like in romantic novels elude towards Shakes Spears’ play Romeo and Juliet. Also, recognizing the pattern makes it easier on the reader because with that understanding the complex undertone of the book; like when I was reading The Scarlett Letter, I saw the allusions and symbolism in other stories, and books. )

Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)

The five expects of a quest are:

1. a questor;
2. a place to go;
3. a stated a reason to go there;
4. challenges and trails getting throw the route and lastly
5. a real reason to go there.

Little Red Riding Hood Tale

• Little Red Riding Hood;
• To Grandmothers House;
• To bring grandma cookies and company;
• the wolf tries to eat her and Grandma;
• Little Red Riding Hood learns to trust her instincts and to never talk to strangers.

Chapter 2: Nice to Eat with You

Act of Communion In Charles Dickson’s novel, The Christmas Carol, when the Scrooge wake –up from his “dream” he went out and bought a swan for his poor assistants’ family for Christmas. By doing this it was kind of a peace offering, it showed that Scrooge turns a new leaf, and by doing so he was now accepted back into the community.

Chapter 4: If It’s a Square, It’s a Sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet: “Missing the Metros” by Charles Terryson-Tunner This sonnet shows this form of reading by demonstrating a sequence like: abba cdcd efefe; and towards the end like the traditional Petrarch Sonnet, the main point of the sonnet which is called the volta, towards the end of the sonnet. Shakespearian sonnet: “Sonnet LXXIII” With this Shakespearian Sonnet, this had 14 lines and was divided into three parts, with rhyme scheme like this: abab cdcd efef gg. The volta is usually at the end of the sonnet; like in this one, where in the end it makes impact because it makes reader think about how the death can be very near.

Indefinable Sonnets: “Ozymandias” In this sonnet it does not fit the standard Shakespearian sonnet or Pertarchan sonnet, though it has the same characteristic of a Shakespearian sonnet and volta similar to the Pertarchan sonnet. 5)Chapter 6: When In Doubt , It’s from Shakespeare… In the theme of the story Fugard reflects Shakespeare’s Henery V, in this story Harold the main character has to become Master Harold set aside his childhood friendship and to become to into his family “business”, like Prince Hal had set aside his childhood friend and ways to become a King Henry, capable leading a army.

Chapter 7: Or the Bible

“I imagined I bore my chalice safely throw the throng of foes” (Line 31Joyce). The chalice symbolized him protecting his morals under the influence of the “heathens” surrounding him, even though in the next sentence he reminisce about his feelings towards the girl, Megan’s sister.

Chapter 8: Hanseldee and Gerteldum

I book I once read was like modern version of “Beauty and the Beast” but it focused on the Beast point of view, and how he became the way he was. The author did create a parallel of the story but twist in to make her own, to appeal to her teenager readers.

It appeal to their child like fairy tale story and mind it deepen appreciation of a this particle fairy tale, since it appeal to young teenage girls.

Chapter 9: It’s Greek to Me

“Only For a Season” Mother never could have known Of my past intentions of being free, The time is near for me to go How could stay with her alone? Easy to say goodbye for season be, Rarely can confide to my husband needs. Naturally I was born in summer bloom; As the fates have it, I learn to love winter’s cold. To turn against my mother’s will Under estimating my husband’s needs,

Rethinking my own wants… Easy it is not to love winter’s chill.

Chapter 10: It’s More Than Just Rain and Snow

In novel I read named “Life as We Knew It”. In the novel there was a part where the families oldest Mirinda, had to go out in a blizzard to find food for her family. The description of the blizzard and how she felt in the storm was very vivid, it made me understand the struggle that the character in the novel had go throw.

Chapter 11: More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You:

Concerning Violence

The first type is specific injury characters inflict upon themselves or others. The second type of violence is where the author causes harm to characters to progress the plot. In “The Outsiders” there are two gangs, the socs and the greasers; they commit the first type of violence. They punch, stab and kill each other out of revenge and anger. It takes a few deaths of dear friends for the characters realize the insanity of fighting. The end result is that they grow to be better people. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” the old lady neighbor Ms. Dubose dies from old age. This is an example of the second type of violence. The author has her die to develop Jem is a character and to move the plot along, in this the example second act of violence has more meaning and depth to it.

Chapter 12: Is That A Symbol?

In the short story the “Araby” by James Joyce, Joyce uses the fence as symbolic reference of a barrier between Mangan’s sister and the protagonist. A fence main purpose is to keep things out, separated, apart; to make known that another party is not allowed in. I belive the fence symbolizes the age difference between Magan’s sister and the protagonist, how that will be barrier in protagonist mind of his relationship with her.

Or perhaps, it’s a culture/religious meaning separating boys and girls so they won’t go forth with their deeper desirers. 12)Chapter 13: It’s All Political In play I read in 10th grade called the “Raisin in the Sun” the writer Lorrain Hansberry put some of political views in the play. The play was about a black family wanting to move into a white neighbor in the 1950’s, of course it same time it’s written, it was avoids to me that it was written about civil rights in that time, and how the struggle for many African Americans to have those rights at that time. 3)Chapter 14: Yes, She’s a Christ Figure, Too Many works of liture there are stories that have Christ figures, especially in stories that have good versus evil. Usually the good side has Christ characteristics, like Holes by Louis Sachar, Stanley Christ figure, surprisingly he carries many of Christ characteristics.

1. He had wounds on his hands from shovel cutting him when was digging.
2. He is in agony when he walked through the hot dessert to find Zero
3. He sis el sacrificing whe he runs away from the camp to save Zero, knowing he could die himself.
4. Although he is kid himself; he good with kids. He got along with everybody in the camp and also taught Zero to read.
5. Even though he doesn’t create water or food, he does found water and onons for Zero to drink and eat in the mountains.
6. He uses a humble needs of transportation because his family was poor he had to walk to school and other places.
7. He spent time in the dessert which is like the wilderness , even though he wasn’t alone, and everyone thought he was died because he was gone so long.
8. He had conformation with the devil/ Warden, when he went to the warden’s house.
9. He was last seen with thieves;the Warden, Mr. Sir, and Dr. Pandenski; those who wanted part of the loot. 10. Stanely finally comes back to reddem the unworthy world. In this story the “unworthy world “ is the camp of delinquent juveniles. When came back he freed t
10. he kids from the camp. Stanley wasn’t exactly Jesus but he was good guy and he potryaed Christ like characteristics.
11. If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism The importance of “baptism” scenes is very clear in a lot of literature. It symbolizes a washing away of the old, a new start. Sometimes this doesn’t result in a good way, or in favor of the character at the time.

A good example of this is in the movie Pearl Harbor. The story is of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, who are pilots of fighter planes. Rafe has a girlfriend, Evelyn, who is a nurse. Unfortunately, Rafe’s plane is shot down and lands in water, where he is submerged to what appears to be his death. When Rafe is submerged in the water, he doesn’t realize his life is changing around him. When his best friend and girlfriend hear of his death they become close, and end up forming a relationship themselves. Danny and Evelyn don’t realize until later that Rafe didn’t die in the plane crash.

The crash was, in a sense, Rafe’s baptism, as a new life has been laid out before him (though he doesn’t know it yet). Rafe, upon his return, is expecting his life to continue as normal, with his best friend and girlfriend. Little does he know that Danny and Evelyn have formed a relationship, and when he finds out, he feels he’s lost both of them. 15)Chapter 19: Geography Matters Foster defines geography as any setting in a story that can define or be developed by characters in the story. In To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee sets up the book to describe the area, and the people who lived there.

Like when she describes Alabama, which is a confederate state and is known to very traditional and close minded. And also town itself is small and rural town where everyone knows everybody else’s business. When Lee’s describes Boo’s house it top to bottom; making it seem creepy and mysteries. Then she describes the other neighbor’s houses like Maddie. Her beautiful garden and how much she cared for it. Lee was making an introduction with the characters in the story before the character was even introduced. In the To Kill Mocking Bird, Lee used the geography setting around to describe who and what her characters where.

Chapter 20:

So Does the Season Robert Forest uses the poem October, to translate to the reader the in meaning full way, describing the passing of life, and how quickly it passes by. In the poem he describes how he wishes his young years slowed down, and old age, the frost of winter, will not settle in so quickly. It’s very good seasonal poem about ageing and the hope of “less brief” days.

Interlude: One Story

An archetype is an idea, person, or situation which is repeated in literature. would be the mad scientist type of character which appears in many stories.

A mad scientist doesn’t have to be evil or crazy; he just has to be so dedicated to his work that nothing else seems to matter. One example of this would be Dexter from the show Dexter’s Laboratory. He is constantly building crazy inventions which seem to always be destroyed by his sister. He has virtually no friends because he spends all of his time in his lab. Doc from Back to the Future would be another example of a mad scientist. He designs a time machine and uses wild and impractical methods to acquire materials and build the machine. When the device works it sends his friend Marty to the past and causes a whole mess.

Chapter 21: Marked of Greatness

Harry Potter is left with only a mere scar of a lightning bolt, from his first encounter with Lord Voldemort. Voldemort had succeeded in killing many of the people living in the magical world, including Harry’s parents, but simply cannot defeat Harry even when he is only a baby. Anyone who is familiar with the Harry Potter series knows that the reason Harry was able to survive and defeat Lord Voldemort was because of the ‘power of love’ his mother displayed towards Harry. So from this scar we understand that Harry has what Lord Voldemort will never be able to defeat, which is simply the act of being loved.

As the series continues and we learn that Lord Voldemort is slowly coming back into power, we already know the one person who has the power to defeat the dark lord. The only person who can bring Lord Voldemort back down from his power is the one who stripped away his strength and power in the first place, the boy who lived: Harry Potter.

Chapter 25: Don’t Read With Your Eyes

In the “Scarlett Letter” Pearl, Hester’s daughter, was born out of wed-lock; so the towns people and, even her own mother, believed that she is evil and a “demon offspring”.

As a twenty-first century reader that belief is ridicules because it happens in most cautions by choice or with “accidental” action. As for the reader of the time; in the late 1600 it was a strong colonial belief that the action, in this case the sin, of the parents will reflect of the child, and therefore the child is evil too. The author makes the assumption that the readers have a religious mindset and have same believe system. In this day in age, we do not have the same mentality. In some cases it could be bearer like Forster said, for the reader might shut out everything the book author had.

Chapter 26: Is He Serious?

And Other Ironies In 1984 by George Orwell, this book is filled with irony from start to finish. Throughout the whole book every Party character is governed by the rule of double think. As Orwell writes “doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”. This is a good example of irony because it is humanly impossible to grasp the meaning of this. Winston is surrounded by many ironic things such as when he goes to rent an apartment with Julia he believes that he is safe from harm’s way because he is in Prole territory.

However he later finds out that the man renting them the room was a member of the thought police and the monitor was located behind the picture. When Winston was captured and thrown in jail he was physically torn apart by little food and hazardous condition this was used to help kill the rebellion inside him. However, the real test comes when he meets his fate in room 101. Here he is faced with his biggest fear: rats. They set up a face mask as to where the rats can attack his face, but before they release them Winston begins to speak of Big Brother and he once again becomes a loyal member of the party.

The irony here is so strong due to the fact that he wanted to over throw the party just a few weeks before hand. Winston was worn down and broken. He become like every other member of the party, the very party he had hoped to destroy forever.

Chapter 27: A Test Cast Answering the Prompt:

1.  In the short story “The Garden Party”, Mansfield is signifies to the reader how far the rich is to the poor. The rich class is so high and busy with their things, they don’t pay attention to the lower class. They are so detach with lower class, that they have no real sympathy, just pity.
2. She signifies this in her story by describing where both distinct families lived. The Sheridan’s lived higher up and their poorer neighbors live down below.

The Sheridan’s didn’t even allowed their children to play with “the revolting children and their infected diseased. ” So when Mrs. Sheridan send Laura, the youngest daughter, to give poor family left-over from the party, she went down to darken cottages, and saw the misery and heartbreak. It opens her up to question what life really is. “Isn’t life…? ” She asked her dear brother, but even he couldn’t really answer the question. Though my erspective was completely different from the other examples, like Foster’s example of Persephone; it surprised me how much Greek mythology is in so many literature works, and how much I recognized and understood where he cited all is information. Though, Diane’s prespective blew me away. I honestly think I would never see that much detail in the story as she did. To be honest I had some prejudice feelings toward this story after finding out the Sheridan’s where rich, so it did limit my true understanding of the story. Now I see it was more of Laura’s story then a political story between the rich and the poor.