The Red Convertible A Brother in Arms Louise Endrichs short story The Red Convertible is about how even the bonds of family and friends may not be enough to subdue the trauma caused by war The story begins in 1974 as our narrator Lyman a Native American retells the story about his brother Henry and the red convertible they both owned After buying it impulsively both of the brothers spend the summer driving around the Dakotas Montana and taking a hitchhiker back to Alaska When they return home H
The Last King of Scotland opens with Nicholas Garrigan describing how he happened to become the personal physician to Idi Amin president of Uganda in the 1970s While Garrigan is serving as a physician at a bush surgery in the western Ugandan provinces he is called to the scene of an automobile accident Lying on the ground next to his wrecked Maserati is President Amin who needs his wrist bandaged A few months later Garrigan is asked to come to the capital as Amins personal physician He complies
In The Grapes of Wrath the author John Steinbeck presents religion in several ways including the fanaticism of the Sin Watchers Jim Casys parallel character to Jesus Christ and through the use of symbolism throughout the novel Through these methods Steinbeck weaves a web in which religion is presented as a double edged blade one can go to the path of being truly a devout kind person or one can choose the path of zealously condemning all who would oppose or go against their views The Sin Watcher
In the adverse era of the 1930s it was not uncommon for the traditional role of a family to alter with the intention of guarding against a harsh reality rather than provide a connection with it Along with the tragedies of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl many families were forced to see beyond the bonds of genetics and embrace new family ties found within others of a similar circumstance In The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck uses paralleled structure and a bit of an allusion to illustrate the
Alice Walkers depiction of a southern black woman in the novel The Color Purple is very powerful One reason this is so is because Alice Walker applied a variety of literary devices to the story giving it more of an impact She used symbolism and applied her tone as an author Its important to the author to use these devices in their novels especially if they are trying to convey a certain message or issue to their readers The main character of this book is a lady named Celie She does not really s
Siddhartha Siddhartha by Herman Hesse tells the story of a Buddhist man searching for enlightenment Siddhartha Gotama founds Buddhism in Northern India in 535 BCE It now stands as the forth largest religion in the world Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path Both the Heron and the Golden Cage Bird symbolize teachers to Siddhartha and his relationships In Siddhartha Birds are an important part of the noel because they symbolize Siddhartha trying to find enlightenment thro
All humans desire to love and to be loved If we do not achieve this we often experience solitude and loneliness In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck loneliness is illustrated through the lives of characters living on a ranch during the great depression Characters such as Crooks Curleys wife and Candy all experience loneliness throughout the novel due to being discriminated against insecurity and because of lack of companionship Right from the beginning an atmosphere of solitude within
In Heart of Darkness darkness symbolizes many things In the beginning of the book it represented the uncivilized the uneducated and death By the end of the book it represented the civilized and their true inner self the evil side of a person In the beginning of this book the darkness symbolizes the uncivilized Africans The Europeans say they want to civilize and educate the natives but in reality the Europeans are keeping the natives under their control To the Europeans the Africans are in dark
The play begins on a Monday evening at the Loman family home in Brooklyn After some light changes on stage and ambient flute music the first instance of a motif connected to Willy Lomans faint memory of his father who was once a flute maker and salesman Willy a sixty three year old traveling salesman returns home early from a trip apparently exhausted His wife Linda gets out of bed to greet him She asks if he had an automobile accident since he once drove off a bridge into a river Irritated he
If gaining success were easy everybody would be successful Although who is to say what exactly being successful embodies In America the success of a person is weighed according to the amount of materialistic possessions one has attained In a success orientated society such as this living according to these values means that one must also be aware of failure In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller the author touches upon the themes of failure and staying true to ones self The relevancy