In "The House With Nobody In It" the author talks about a sad broken down old house that no one loves, lives in, or takes care of. The two main literary devices are imagery and personification. The speaker talks about walking to Suffern along the Erie track and how every time they walk they pass by the old house. He makes us think that he feels sorry for it and every time he passes he stops to look at it. .
He says "I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there are such things; .
That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings", to set a sort of scary, dark, tragic tone. Then they go on to tell us that it is not haunted by saying, "I know this house isn't haunted, and I wish it were, I do; For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two", this sets the tone back to lonely and sad. "If I had a lot of money and all my debts were paid I'd put a gang of men to work with brush and saw and spade. I'd buy that place and fix it up the way it used to be And I'd find some people who wanted a home and give it to them free", this sets the tone towards sad and the author tells us that he really feels sorry for the poor house and if he could he would help it come back to the way it used to be. In the line "Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart, For I can't help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart", he personifies the house with having a broken heart because it looks sad and old. "That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife, A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his stumbling feet" is a line that tells us at one time people used to live in this house, that the house wasn't always sad and alone. The overall tone of this poem was sad and depressing. .
Bookreview I read "Dear Nobody" by Berlie Dohrety. ... She starts to write "Dear Nobody" letters and she starts to write in a diary. ... She also forbids Chris to call Helen or to come over to the house to visit her. ... When Helen breaks up with Chris he gets so depressed that he goes off to France on a biking tour. ... You become very close to Helen and you feel with her. ...
Our house on Lake Flathead was built in what seems like the 1820's but probably somewhere closer to 1955. ... " As soon as we get to the house, all us kids beeline for the uneven, warped dock that even Jason Voorhees probably wouldn't have trusted. ... At night we bring out the rusty fire pit from underneath the house. ... While the beds aren't much more comfortable, nobody wants to be stuck with the disgusting combination of ripped cheesecloth and sweat stains that my parents called a "couch". ... Everything that I could say is wrong with the house is exactly wh...
The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. When she first moves in to this Hispanic ghetto, she knows nobody and was desperately seeking friendship. Esperanza met two friends who were with her throughout the story, and also introduced her sister Nenny who was the only relative that she really interacted with. ... She still desired to have a new house so that she can be on her own, and pursue her dream of writing. ... Also, she had to deal with many deaths within the family, and enco...
Once again I was faced with another obstacle. I now had 2 children, with one of them being a newborn. ... I remember her always telling me that nobody liked me and that I was a loner. ... I also took it upon myself to start looking for a new house for her to move to. It just so happened that the house across the street from me was for rent, so I called the owner of the house and obtained all of the information for her. ...
Lester Burdon, an already married man who becomes infatuated with Kathy, and is determined to help return her house to her at all costs. ... Kathy, with the assistance of Lester, becomes the evil. This comes with the taking of the colonel's family hostage. ... The House of Sand and Fog is an exceptional novel by Andre Dubus III. ... Everyone can relate to the three of them at some point, even though nobody wants to admit it. ...
Vitruvius, a contemporary of Ancient Rome, describes private rooms as those which nobody has the right to enter without an invitation (such as bedrooms, dining rooms, bathrooms, etc.) and public rooms as those that anybody, even without an invitation, has the right to enter (such as entrance courts, cavaedia, peristyles, etc.). ... Therefore, it can be inferred that those with public rooms, and especially large public rooms, are of higher stature. ... This corresponds directly with the literary evidence that aristocracy grew to desire greater privacy during the maturation of the Empire. In ...
There are a few different themes in The House of Blue Leaves; the most important theme to be that of the preoccupation with fame. ... Bunny just wanted to go with Artie to Hollywood to be around famouse people, so she didn't tell him he really stunk as a writer. ... Artie himself was humiliated several times in the play, once when Bananas told him his song sounded like "Silent Night" and another time at the end of the play when Billy told him that he neededd him to stay in Queens because he produced his movies on the basis of what Artie would think of it as being just an audience m...
While on first glance, it appears that the White House plan to bail out automakers is dimwitted and a ploy to make rich men richer, the facts run contrary to that opinion. ... In 1941, the United States went to war with Japan, and while it's unlikely that will ever be the case again, the results of having vehicle manufacturing outsourced to Japan in 1941, as would likely be the case if the big three U.S. makers were allowed to implode, World War II might have ended far differently. ... Unfortunately for the auto industry, most people will miss a car payment before they do a house paymen...
Miss Emily kept to herself and confined herself in her house, so she didn't talk to her neighbors much but she was visited by the tax authorities once; "They rose when she entered-a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. ... This makes it sound like the authorities were really looking around in her home to maybe find out something nobody else knew about Miss Emily. ... "It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scr...
