She questions him and he tells her the following parable: They lead a very tragic life they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. ... But once they get in they behave like pigs Naturally, after that they"re so fat they can't get out of the hole again. ... A bananafish imprisons itself in a banana hole, and while enjoying these simple pleasures, he gives up his freedom. ...
Because we are have this image that what we all do individually does not effect us as a hole, because of course we are all individuals that live in separate planets which don't effect everybody else's, right? ... So he puts down his deepest yearnings into this hole immortality bid, which gives insight of the common bond of all living things. ...
Man's Inhumanity to Man "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"- Robert Burns. Pieces of literature often use the theme of man's inhumanity to man. "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Al...
Abner's continuing contempt for "they", in this case, De Spain, is no less evident by the fact that after De Spain confronts Abner with the demand for having his rug cleaned and returned to him, Abner ruins the rug by rubbing a hole through it with a rock. ...
Literature and film constantly warn the public of various valuess and consquences. Oftentimes, these it is taught that greed is wrong. It is for that reason that Goethe, Tolstoy and Ramis created their works. Goethe's Faustm Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need- and Ramis' film "Bedazzled- al...
Cody Adgent English 112 Alton Jowers Audience: Middle class people of any race, gender, or location, between the ages of 18 and 60 with atleast a 12th grade reading level who has read the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Purpose: To analyze "Sleepy Hollow", so my readers will be convinced to believe th...
People spend their whole lives trying to flee from something. A person's life echoes her upbringing, unless she does everything in her power to get away. In the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, her character Dee portrays the need to escape. Dee was ashamed of her family and their he...
The whole job of a fictional writer is to take something that is not true and make their readers believe it. The setting of a story can either make or brake the plausibility of that situation which the author depicts to his readers. If the setting is too outrageous or incorrect then no one is goi...
You might be able to take William Faulkner out of the South (as he, himself, attempted to do when he moved his family to England for a time), but you could never take the South out of William Faulkner. He lived it, breathed it and suffered for it as he carried with him all of his life t...
Forever Changed In Andre Dubus short story "Killings," the author portrays Matt Fowler in a way that you sympathize with him. Dubus shows in Matt an array of different emotions. As the family attends his son Frank's funeral, Matt displays great sadness and anger in the death of his son. In th...
The short story that I recently read was called "Through The Tunnel" written by Doris Lessing. This successful, symbolic and suspenseful tale was written in the late 1950s. The genre of the story is growing up and independence. This is the first of Lessing's work I have read. The story is of an 1...
In William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily", he characterizes Miss Emily as a proper southern woman who would do anything to fill the hole in her life after her father's death while averting the change around her. ...
In the novel, "Song of Solomon," Tony Morrison tells a story full of strange occurrences and unbelievable feats. The way in which she writes allows space for the reader to interpret the paranormal in the story as truth or legend. Many things are left as questions and unanswered thoughts. However, I ...
Having read Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants- several times, it seems to be a story that doesn't make much sense. The two main characters, the American man and his female companion referred to as "girl-, are having a conversation that supports this theory. Their conversation turns in...
Later when the daughter roused to rapture in response to the flowers this acts as a contrast to Elizabeth who also sees the Chrysanthemums as a symbol of her marriage, saying "It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he"d got brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole". ...
