Chinua Achebes Arrow of God is set in the 1920s before secularism became dominant It begins with the image of a mask when he tells his son not to carve the mask of a god for the white man The mask is a symbol of change The whole world is changing and the people who do not change will not survive The old priest Ezeulu desires change but he cannot do it He cannot force himself to leave the old ways behind and adopt the new ways Thus he sends one of his sons to learn from the white man He cannot d
How does Achebe use literary craft to achieve his purpose p 3 to p 31 Locust generally means eating away of an entire crop feeling person strength etc However in Things Fall Apart Locust symbolizes the destruction of the village by the white colonist Although they have not caused any problems for the Africans yet they are descending upon the village to feast and explore the resources available in their surroundings The way Achebe states the locust emphasizes their presence of the insects becaus
Their Eyes Were Watching God West Florida Janie is raised by her Grandmother Nanny She and Nanny live in the backyard of the Washburn family a white family Janie is teased by her fellow black peers because she is able to wear nicer clothes than they are Nanny with the help of the Washburn family is able to buy property As Janie matures she becomes more sexual and spiritual One day Janie kisses a boy Nanny is angered and this eventually leads Janie into marrying Logan Janie marries Logan and mov
The Lottery The story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a good story because of the use of literary elements that lead up to the understanding and plot of the story The Lottery is about a town that has a lottery every but the twist to the story is that the winner who receives a black dot on a piece of paper from the black box gets stoned to death as their reward Shirley Jackson uses irony and motifs in the story to help explain a tradition that is old enough that the rituals involved have been
Why would a civilized and peaceful town practice terrible acts of violence that would take place anywhere at any time and the most ordinary people would commit them Shirley Jackson was successful in delivering her message which was to shock the storys readers with a graphic demonstration of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives She conveyed how indistinct the morals and values of the village are The Lottery was first published in The New York on June 26 1948 The story
In the story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson there are several reoccurring themes and thought patterns that go through the story The first round of reading the story was mildly interesting at best After reading the story a second time I began to make connections to our society This story was written in an earlier America where ignorance was the cause of blind innocence The Lottery is a chilling tale that shows just how quickly people will turn upon one another when they are following a ring lead
A radical religion called Puritanism was vitally important to the people of Salem and they were extraordinarily paranoid of the Devil Two characters in the book The Crucible demonstrate how Puritanism affected the society Judge Danforth is an example of religious ignorance and ends up being the person who condemns everyone suspecting they are all witches On the other hand John Proctor is a level headed farmer who watches as his friends and their wives are accused of witchcraft and sentenced to
Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s It was the first work to bring John Steinbeck national recognition as a writer The title suggests that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry a reference to Robert Burnss poem To a Mouse Of Mice and Men was selected for the Book of the Month Club before it was officially published an honor that encouraged 117 000 copies of the novel to be sold before its official pub
Of Mice and Men The novel opens with two men George Milton and Lennie Small walking to a nearby ranch where harvesting jobs are available George the smaller man leads the way and makes the decisions for Lennie a mentally handicapped giant They stop at a stream for the evening deciding to go to the ranch in the morning Lennie who loves to pet anything soft has a dead mouse in his pocket George takes the mouse away from Lennie and reminds him of the trouble Lennie got into in the last town they w
The Key To Survival The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is divided up into three sections that at first seem fairly inconsequential to one another However shortly into the reading of the second part of the novel a reader will realize the importance and depth reached by bring these two separate pieces of work together One of the most obvious themes of the novel enhanced by strong metaphors and symbols is survival Martel is able to indirectly describe nearly every type of basic survival strategy