I decided to do my critical essay on Tennessee Williams" short story "The Yellow Bird." The view of the story is 3rd person, the narrator lets us see into the lives of the characters but does not let any of the characters interact with the reader. It is like someone telling hot gossip about someone else, while repeating anything that the person might have said. The setting in this story is extremely important. It begins in Salem and transfers itself to Hobbs, Arkansas and New Orleans, Louisiana. The story needs to be placed in these setting because it lets the reader know about the morals and hardships of living in these territories at the time. There were standards set as to how one had to act and how one went about their life, which were very difficult to follow if you were a wild and free person like the main character in this story named Alma. Other characters that are encompassed in this story were her father Increase Tutwiler, her mother, Mrs. Tutwiler, Goody Tutwiler, the Circle girls, John and Bobo the bird. .
Throughout the story the tone manages to stay the same. It is incredible how the story manifests itself from one place to another. It starts off in Salem where the popularity of witchcraft had been present for many years and the accusation and hanging of the woman named Goody Tutwiler. It is uncertain to me if this was Alma's mother, but I do not believe so because she died at the beginning of the story. This may have been Increase Tutwiler's first wife. There is talk about a bird by the Circle Girls (a group who gets hysterical around witches) that Goody would be seen with, and it was said that the bird named Bobo was the gateway between her and the devil. Tennessee Williams gives us this information in order to wonder about the characters and how they lived, he then changes the setting to Hobbs, Arkansas where it can further develop. I believe this is because in Salem all would have been restricted and ended by the Circle Girls.
Private John Bartle, a character in the novel The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, struggles with his inability to control the events in his life as he is stationed in Al Tafar, Iraq, during the Iraq War. ... The cadence reads, "A yellow bird/With a yellow bill/Was perched upon/ my windowsill....
In addition, Scout tries to explain what Boo looks like to Dill saying that he was, "six-and-a-half feet tall, dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, his hands were blood-stained; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time" (19). Of course none of these stories are true, but they show that Boo is a person without an identity just like a mockingbird is a bird without its own song. A mockingbird makes itself known through other bird's songs just like Boo lives through other people stories. ...
How does Miller create an atmosphere of tension and hysteria in the "yellow bird scene"? In this piece of coursework I will be analysing how Arthur Miller creates an atmosphere of tension and hysteria in the "yellow bird scene". ... Abigail says "why do you come, yellow bird?" ... I see no bird!" ... In the "yellow bird scene" several themes are revealed like the conflict between good and evil and love passion and lust. ...
Like a bird in a cage, I broke in and demanded that somebody free it... By symbolizing women as birds, Chopin shows a better understanding of the Victorian women and how the different representations of birds contribute to this novel as a whole. The first line in "The Awakening," states "a green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage..."" (5). ... It is shown that the mocking-bird, being the only one to understand the parrot, is Madame Reisz. ... The imagery and symbolism of birds throughout this novel, shows us a better understanding at how Chopin relates these birds to real life. ...
Bird species which I have observed are: 1. ... In summer and autumn they become similar to hen birds, but their beaks are yellow. ... The Mallards are precocial birds. 5. ... The hen is smaller than the cock bird. ... Like all gulls, they are precocial birds. 9. ...
Anyone reading Bryant's "The Yellow Violet" gets the point (stated without the typical poetic diction) in the last two stanzas. The yellow violet teaches the speaker humility. ... Aside from the needless personification of birds, spring, the sun, etc., and the poetic "thee" and "thou," the poem has some subtly to it and celebrates the commonplace, the beauty of the ordinary. ... "Robert of Lincoln" This delightful poem accurately depicts the appearance, song and behavior of the bobolink, a bird native to Bryant's Berkshires (see note p. 832). ...
The usage of red and yellows for the leaves on the floor gave me the vision that the artist was trying to portray the season of fall. The figures in the painting seem to have the same uniforms on due to the usage of yellow shirts and the green emblem on their shirts. ... The fire was quite visible because of the yellow, orange, and red colors used. ... "What was his purpose for showcasing the beauty of nature and then framing lifeless birds?" Was he aiming for at the extinction of these birds?...
