She longs to disappear from the face of the Earth to rid her of her problems; however, it soon drives her into a yearning to become beautiful. ... Beating the air like a winged but grounded bird, intent on the blue void it could not reach--couldn't even see--but which filled the valleys of the mind." ... Almost every girl believes that being tall, thin, and beautiful will give them everything. ...
Three subparts to Native Son shows the transformation of Bigger's fear into something that gave him a sense of individuality. ... Bigger advanced a step and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering, its tiny forefeet pawing the air restlessly. ... He had made himself into something and in part two he realized that if society knew that would distort it. They would trample his individuality into the ground and pervert it. ... Fate brings into light how Bigger is not to blame for his acts. ...
Through the use of these various literary devices, the speaker is not only able to draw the audience into the history of the poem, but also shares his involvement in the war, and place the events of the war inside the lives and hearts of his audience. ... This merging together is not only on a seeming level, as his face spirits "inside" the granite, digging beyond the surface into the interior of the rock. ... Smoke adds a bizarre quality, as smoke vanishes into thin air just as it appears, and is a direct disparity to the memorial, with names everlastingly inscribed of those who d...
I wondered what God breathed into me. ... Before transatlantic slavery, Caribs the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean islands had their own slaves, who were forced into slavery mainly due to what we would now consider to be classism. ... Toomer describes his characters as having 'hair - braided chestnut',17 'mat[ted]' hair18 and 'hair [that] thins'19. ...
