This setting is Boston and is set with gothic style showing the evil behind mentality. It shows the way pirates were during this time and how they influenced England. It was said that the evil spirit of the rebels was the devil. Also, them trying to run and take over meant that the devil was coming for us in a sense. This starts off the beginning of mysteries in England.
“Just as the earthquakes were prevalent in New England, and shook many sinners to their knees (Irving1)”. This quote shows in times in doubt or stress go toward God. They always seek security and relief. The people were overly protective and highly critical about things going on currently. The dim description of a chaotic and crisis in the town brings a different overview and look.
“Tom Walker, however was not a man to be troubled with any fears(Irving 1)”. This quote tells that he wasn’t frightened like everybody else. Also, that he was a very brave and less influenced man. He stood for his own and wasn’t a follower, but a leader and did as he persuade. This reveals a prime example of what one of the average citizens should portray.
“Oh, I go by various names. I am the Wild Huntsman….Black Woodsman (Irving1)”.This quote show this person he talks to is portrayed as the devil. This person shows that he has many names and ways to show his deceive ness to people.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allen Poe wrote this piece to demonstrate a young boys curiosity. He gives descriptive setting of a so-called “haunted house”. It embraces the fear of the curious mind and endeavors. Simultaneously, it reveals the dreams and most found memory of your deepest fear and want intertwined.
His details such as “upon blank walls” and “vacant eye-like windows” show the mystery of the mansion. The words are used to give despicable and unsuspicious tone. Also, he uses examples of giving mysterious tone to a horse like “lurid tarn”. Roderick Usher the owner of the mansion with a sickness has to stay in the house. This makes him housebound and afraid of the outside world.
“Gothic archway of the hall (Poe 277)”. It shows that the place has a dreary mood and dark position. “I met the physician...the valet now threw open a door and ushered me into…(Poe 227)”. The quote reveals that wealth of the people by them being able to afford maintenances. This shows that Usher has many riches with beauty of artistry.
“Roderick Usher” being repetition shows the importance and significance. It reveals that notorious of him and his family. “In some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR (280)”. This quote shows that Usher lives with a disease and I scared of the outside world. He knows how safety is in the house and not outside.
His details such as “upon blank walls” and “vacant eye-like windows” show the mystery of the mansion. The words are used to give despicable and unsuspicious tone. Also, he uses examples of giving mysterious tone to a horse like “lurid tarn”. Roderick Usher the owner of the mansion with a sickness has to stay in the house. This makes him housebound and afraid of the outside world.
“Gothic archway of the hall (Poe 277)”. It shows that the place has a dreary mood and dark position. “I met the physician...the valet now threw open a door and ushered me into…(Poe 227)”. The quote reveals that wealth of the people by them being able to afford maintenances. This shows that Usher has many riches with beauty of artistry.
“Roderick Usher” being repetition shows the importance and significance. It reveals that notorious of him and his family. “In some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR (280)”. This quote shows that Usher lives with a disease and I scared of the outside world. He knows how safety is in the house and not outside.
Incidents in the life a teenage slave girl
Harriet Jacobs made this story to show how daily life was growing up for a female slave. She does this by telling a story of unnamed slave girl, which is most common during those times for secrecy. It tells how they have to be independent because family bonds don’t always surely help you to survive. The ways of the unrighteous master and his nerved wife towards their servants. This vision to show how treatment and integrity was self-build into slaves as children.
“Parents were light brown...termed mulattos (Childhood)”. This quote shows that all shades of blacks got the same treatment. It didn’t matter complexion for they all were treated equally. “In time to purchase some of her children (Childhood)”. This reveals how most black slaves endured after their family getting sold separate. This shows how family ties were broken, but seeks to be re mended.
“My mother’s mistress was the daughter of my grandmother’s mistress…she was the foster sister of my mother..both nourished at my grandmother’s breast(Childhood P.2)”.This quote reveals the bonds between the slave children and the mistress’s. All rose from under the same roof they grow found of each other, so young unknowingly that there’s a difference between each other. The slaves broke through the barrier of seeing the truth and that there was no common field between whites and blacks. It was foundation of slavery in during this period.
“Who knows the ways of God? (The New Master and Mistress)”. The quote reveals that many slaves resented God for losses. Also, they doubt God’s purpose for taking away loved ones. It brought more slaves toward the white man’s religion Christian and religion.
Promises of freedom from master mostly weren’t kept as a slave. This was the turning point for slaves of setting their own beliefs and standards. They had to embrace the fact that slavery might be for a lifetime. They provided for themselves thought for themselves and took nobody’s word.
“Parents were light brown...termed mulattos (Childhood)”. This quote shows that all shades of blacks got the same treatment. It didn’t matter complexion for they all were treated equally. “In time to purchase some of her children (Childhood)”. This reveals how most black slaves endured after their family getting sold separate. This shows how family ties were broken, but seeks to be re mended.
“My mother’s mistress was the daughter of my grandmother’s mistress…she was the foster sister of my mother..both nourished at my grandmother’s breast(Childhood P.2)”.This quote reveals the bonds between the slave children and the mistress’s. All rose from under the same roof they grow found of each other, so young unknowingly that there’s a difference between each other. The slaves broke through the barrier of seeing the truth and that there was no common field between whites and blacks. It was foundation of slavery in during this period.
“Who knows the ways of God? (The New Master and Mistress)”. The quote reveals that many slaves resented God for losses. Also, they doubt God’s purpose for taking away loved ones. It brought more slaves toward the white man’s religion Christian and religion.
Promises of freedom from master mostly weren’t kept as a slave. This was the turning point for slaves of setting their own beliefs and standards. They had to embrace the fact that slavery might be for a lifetime. They provided for themselves thought for themselves and took nobody’s word.
The Pit and The Pendulum
This story written by Edgar Allen Poe was used to show how the tension is during a trial. It tells it in 3rd person to elaborate the mind-boggling technique stress overwhelms you. The setting is descriptions of the surrounding of where he stands or positioned. Although, it places fear and anxiety in you to be hold what’s upon you.
“The sentence--the dread sentence of death (Poe 745)”. This quote shows to which extent his crime was and how his future will behold. Diction such as “dead” and “sentence” reveals he did an unexplanatory crime. Poe give suspense making us wonder giving us interrogatives such as what brought this crime and how acted first. This nice technique is displayed through this piece.
“I saw the lips of the black robed judges (Poe 745)”. This statement unveils the stress of which the defendant has. Words such as “lips” and “black robed” show how nervous the person is by paying close detail to unknown things. This is a sign of anxiety which upright takes over the person. When people become stressed or have uncertainty they tend to over exaggerate and tend more information than is given.
“I saw the decrees of what to me was Fate, were still issuing from those lips (Poe746)”. This quote revels the feelings going through the mind of the person. So, “Fate” Is that horrid future that he thinks will engulf him. “Lips” exaggerated and repeated of the speaker, which will tell his destiny with one word. He fear is now to a climax and settling with the worst being his outcome.
“The sentence--the dread sentence of death (Poe 745)”. This quote shows to which extent his crime was and how his future will behold. Diction such as “dead” and “sentence” reveals he did an unexplanatory crime. Poe give suspense making us wonder giving us interrogatives such as what brought this crime and how acted first. This nice technique is displayed through this piece.
“I saw the lips of the black robed judges (Poe 745)”. This statement unveils the stress of which the defendant has. Words such as “lips” and “black robed” show how nervous the person is by paying close detail to unknown things. This is a sign of anxiety which upright takes over the person. When people become stressed or have uncertainty they tend to over exaggerate and tend more information than is given.
“I saw the decrees of what to me was Fate, were still issuing from those lips (Poe746)”. This quote revels the feelings going through the mind of the person. So, “Fate” Is that horrid future that he thinks will engulf him. “Lips” exaggerated and repeated of the speaker, which will tell his destiny with one word. He fear is now to a climax and settling with the worst being his outcome.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Learning to Read and Write
This story is about Fredrick Douglas’ mistress’s life. The purpose of this story was to show that Blacks are as equal as whites. It tells so this mistress generosity towards the less granted. It takes place in slavery times in when slaves were trying to self-teach them selves. Slavery helped bring the servants to higher spiritual and mental being.
“She was an apt woman; and little experience soon demonstrated, to he satisfaction (Douglas 100)”. This quote displays how well mannered slaves were. It didn’t matter about education she still can keep her self up. She was able to “little experience” showed how women had equality like men care giving.
“Making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street (Douglas101)”. This quote shows how blacks try to relate with other races. This is an attempt to fit in with society. “White boys” is used as being superiority over all others.
Douglas tells reader how crucial it was for getting alone with whites and why the blacks strived so hard.
“You will be free as soon as you are 21,but I am a slave for life (Douglas101)”. This shows how promises were made for freedom towards the slaves and how enlightened them. Also, reveals how slavery held in the South into adulthood. Slaves were held from birth to prolonged life. It shows how efforts for freedom from slaves transferred.
“She was an apt woman; and little experience soon demonstrated, to he satisfaction (Douglas 100)”. This quote displays how well mannered slaves were. It didn’t matter about education she still can keep her self up. She was able to “little experience” showed how women had equality like men care giving.
“Making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street (Douglas101)”. This quote shows how blacks try to relate with other races. This is an attempt to fit in with society. “White boys” is used as being superiority over all others.
Douglas tells reader how crucial it was for getting alone with whites and why the blacks strived so hard.
“You will be free as soon as you are 21,but I am a slave for life (Douglas101)”. This shows how promises were made for freedom towards the slaves and how enlightened them. Also, reveals how slavery held in the South into adulthood. Slaves were held from birth to prolonged life. It shows how efforts for freedom from slaves transferred.
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