Dinner scenes in novels hold a lot of meaning to the overall plot of the story. An author only uses a dinner scene to evoke or display another aspect of the characters and/or plot scheme. In The Devils Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, Hannah (the main character) shows her aggravation with celebrating Passover, a Jewish holiday, with her grandparents. In the dinner scene, she opens the door for Elijah, a referenced prophet in Judaism, and is transported back to the time period of the Holocaust. During her stay in the year of 1942, Hannah goes through trials and tribulations, as she is imprisoned in a concentration camp.…
Food is a necessity for all human beings. Food can come in big sizes, medium sizes, and small sizes. A person may eat food if they are hungry, if they are experiencing an ungrateful situation, or even if they just want to taste the deliciousness of food. However, not many people realize the symbolic meaning of food in a way that Elie Wiesel and Frederick Douglass realizes. Elie Wiesel and Frederick Douglass both uses food in their story to convey a deeper meaning of life.…
This sentence tells us that meals are a symbol for community. Since meals are daily events in which everyone takes part of, they must symbolize something in a story. The meals in a story enhances a motif and progresses the story forward. In J.R. Tolken’s The Hobbit, the very first chapter consists of the dwarves, Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf sharing a meal.…
This was particularly interesting as our class had a discussion about the five senses involvement in our tasting of food. Carmen is unhappy with her success as a business woman. She is also unhappy with her relationship with her father. Her participation in the Sunday meal was the announcement of her moving into her own apartment, followed by her announcement of a promotion that would send her overseas. She forces her father to taste a meal that she prepared.…
Poverty, Violence and Exploitation Dominating the South and the North in William Attaway 's Blood on the Forge Blood on the Forge is a gripping and tragic novel by William Attaway that tells a story about three brothers who face the violent oppression and hyper exploitation in their migration from the rural South to the industrial North of America. When Attaway was a child, his family was part of this population shift, thus this story wholly illustrates the tragedy and hardships of many African-American immigrants in those days. Blood on the Forge is considered a work of social critique as this novel protests poverty, violence and exploitation being put under the influence of capitalism in the South and the North during the Great Migration. What first catches the readers’ eyes is the poverty of the Mosses’ family being acutely expressed in terms of hunger. Perceivably, the novel opens to Melody playing “the hungry blues” on his guitar in an attempt to suppress his hunger cravings.…
Homelessness is everyday life for the Walls family as they keep on the move around the country looking for their everyday needs. The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir about her life growing up in an unstable family while living in poverty. In the book, the parents try and fend for their kids to try and help them grow up the right way, but it doesn't always work out the way anyone would expect it to. Although there are many ways to cope with different situations and feelings, Jeannette uses the only way she knows how, which is to get away from the situation in all. First, when the family has no food in the house the kids are very hungry so they go out to try and scavenge food.…
The lawyer naming his employees after food represents their characteristics. Thus, food is a symbol used in both stories in different…
Lord Of The Flies Book Cover Personal Response Essay “Lord Of The Flies” was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983. William Golding was the best known for his novel and was also awarded the Booker Prize for his novel “Rites Of The Passage” in 1980. This assignment is about analyzing and observing the cover of the novel. The overall point I am making is that the book cover shows the evil and the barbarian act against wild animals for meat to survive. .…
A Moveable Feast is a short memoir by Ernest Hemingway that describes observations he made through the years he lived in Paris after World War I with his wife, Hadley. Throughout the book he introduces us to some significant people, that would later make an impact on the whole world. Some examples are, F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife, Zelda, Ezra Pound, and Madox Ford, these people impacted his life and his way of writing the most. The first part of the book, Ernest writes about his time in Paris, visiting different cafe’s, writing journals, and just trying to be a successful short story writer. The way he describes getting lost in his writing, he doesn’t even know how the time flies by so fast.…
Carol Ann Duffy’s, The Diet, employs a variety of literary techniques to explore loss of identity, dieting, eating disorders and the ways in which these themes interconnect with feminism and femininity. The Diet is part of a collection of poems entitled the Feminine Gospels, the focus of which is showcasing the less desirable aspects of womanhood and providing social commentary on female issues, usually told from the perspective of a woman. The theme of change and transformation is also presented in this poem, connecting it to other poems in the collection such as The Woman Who Shopped which also incorporate change and transformation. In the opening stanza of the poem, the diet and character undertaking the diet are presented to the reader.…
The contemporary postcolonial literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Hanif Kureishi, M. Nourbese Philip and Zadie Smith combines the concepts of language and gender to show differences in cultural identity and, especially expose the difficulties these differences bring in the assimilation of the native culture and the colonialist culture. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kureishi, Philip and Smith all have different approaches and experiences when it comes to the intersections of these concepts and cultures, and their writing shows how language and gender creates a division between the colonists’ culture and the native cultures of the authors. Ngũgĩ’s essay “The Language of the African Literature”, shows how the introduction of the English language into his…
After reading The Search for Marvin Gardens and Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace both stories didn’t seem as difficult to understand the meaning of the author was trying to convey to the reader. While both stories were not difficult to comprehend they were both different as far as the style of writing. I will start off with first discussing The Search for Marvin Gardens. After reading this story I did understand that the author was giving information about his city but did this by utilizing the game of monopoly. I think that was very creative as it not only captured my attention as a reader, but because I was familiar with the game I could also relate to some of the things he mentioned as far as buying property and the different…
A Long time ago in India, women were criticized and stereotyped for their femininity, in particular how they react in a crisis. In “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner, women are falsely accused of being weak during a crisis. “The Dinner Party” is set in India, where there is a huge dinner party going on. The colonel makes a false accusation that during a crisis, women usually scream and have less self control than men do. However, the hostess of the party proves him wrong.…
Arnie Grape, from What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, is an eighteen year old boy who is developmentally delayed. According to the Center of Disease Control, a developmental disability is caused by impaired mental, physical, and/or learning capacity (Boyle et al. 2011). In a twelve year study, it was found that males had a higher prevalence of disabilities compared to females; low income was also associated with higher prevalence of disability (Boyle et al. 2011). Developmental disabilities impact different stages of a child’s developmental life.…
The “Third and Final Continent” is a short story that follows an unnamed narrator travelling and growing accustom to America for a work position. The author, Jhumpa Lahiri, uses the eyes of the narrator to tell the story of his journey. When in America, the narrator attempts to leave his Bengali culture behind to become American. He sees his culture as an inconvenience. The narrator tells his story but does not go into any detail when discussing his personal life.…