... truth? Holden makes reference to the word "phony" forty-four separate times throughout the novel (Corbett 68-73). Each time he seems to be referring to the subject of this metaphor as -- someone who discriminates against others, is a hypocrite about something, or has manifestations of conformity (Corbett 71). Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, Holden describes and interacts with various members ... the old crap with Phoebe for a while" (Salinger 67). Holden's thoughts of Allie are shown with the fact that Holden wrote Stradlater's composition on "Old Allie's baseball mitt" (Salinger 38-...

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... first tie in their lives. The pain gives them something to connect to each other through. A metaphor is a direct comparison of two abstract ideas. The story of Sonny and his brother is merely a metaphor about the racial and socioeconomic limitations placed on black people, and how they try to escape the ... been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities"(41). This metaphor is indicative of how the black populations of America at the time are living under restrictions that stopped them from achieving...

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... poem On My First Son by Ben Jonson. The significance of the poem's sorrowful grievance tone is exemplified and apparent through Jonson's use of irony, metaphor, and word choice. Jonson's sorrowful tone in the poem is expressed in the irony of the line, "my sin was too much hope of ... is able to empathize with the poet through his grieving comparison of the two most important things in his life. By using this type of metaphor Jonson puts the reader in the position to compare this situation with things in their own lives, thus creating a greater understanding relationship with the ... p...

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... White, 13.48% African American, 0.42% Native American, 9.35% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 15.48% from other races, and 5.63% from two or more races. 39.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 230,546 households out of which 29.60% have children under the age of 18 living with ... them, 39.80% are married couples living together, 16.60% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 37.70% are non-families. 29.50% of ... males. The median income for a household in the city is $41,566, and the median income for a family is $52,413. Males have a median...

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... fifteen from cancer and this event will shape his creative and literature outlooks throughout his life. This poem unites two of his more important themes; his use of dance as a metaphor of life itself, and his attempt to understand his relationship with his father. His father reveled in the outdoors and activities associated with testing ones masculinity. Like most fathers he ... and the final interaction they had before the boy is put to bed. If you read on the Theodore's later poem you will notice that he generally uses dance as a metaphor for life lived to its full enjoyment. To him ...

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... , because many of the books that are written by new authors are manly based on different types of writing. There are a lot of books that are good because of the metaphor or because of the imagery, but what really made this novel stand out was that fact it was so lifelike. One of the ways to make the novel more interesting ... seem like they are actually in the book its self. The reader will notice "Fitch's language is rich with sensory detail and metaphor, and sometimes even too much (Traci Blanchard 3). She might put too much sensory detail or even metaphor in a passage at a time, but n...

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... members of her family. Linda feels dissatisfied because she does not feel that her family respects her enough as a mother. Linda wrote the poem "Marks," whose main theme was the metaphor of school grades. The poem does a great job of showing Linda's true feelings, as well as the possible idea of her dropping out. I think that Linda chose this ... metaphor to describe her family because she feels that her family is judging and grading her performance at home. According to the poem, Linda does not feel appreciated by her family. ... poem is because she wants her family to realize how vi...

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... older. Whilst his father refuses to assimilate with Australian culture, his son conforms to Australian society and its culture, forgetting "(his) first Polish word". The poet uses the Hadrian Wall metaphor to further assert the generation gap between father and son, emphasizing the son's growing distance from his roots. The significance of the poet's "tents" demonstrates the multiple differences now evident ... migrant experience. Change in perspective is explored through the personal development and maturity of the persona, Skrzynecki. Throughout the poem, reference to the "china-blue"...

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... partners arose in spheres of both work and domestic responsibilities. Such desires are quite vividly portrayed in the gender ideologies of Nancy, a character from Second shift [Arlie Hochschild, 1989: Pg. 39-41]. Nancy tried to establish herself as the career woman. Her gender ideology centered on the idea of herself as a woman who would be needed and appreciated both at home ... them to devote a lot of time to their children. This was mainly made possible by the turning of women to the home front as house wives. [Stephanie Coontz, 1997: Pg. 39] But when women started getting employed i...

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... Chesapeake colonies with infections, diseases, and deaths. "Plagued by horrendous mortality, the Chesapeake remained, for most of the seventeenth century, a land of immigrants rather than of settled families." (Nash pg. 39) Grandparents were almost unheard of because the surrounding environment full of disease. Pregnant women were prone to malaria, and if they did actually bear a child, chances are the child died ... sick before he or she became an adult (Nash pg. 39). There was no separation of church and state in the seventeenth century in New England society. Members of the church we...

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... Mommy, Daddy and Granny interact with each other proves this. There was no feeling of love shown. There are also literary elements in "The Sandbox." The first is metaphor used in the sentence "Her voice a cross between a baby's laugh and cry." Edward Albee also used similes like "warm as toast." The next element used is ... , showing that he was like old and boring. Nick, on the other hand, represents the Biology department, which is young and vital. It is more than just a subject. It is a metaphor that shows the differences between George and Nick. The fourth theme is about the American...

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... what his uncle has done. Hamlet happens to uncover his emotions about his mother when he says, "I will speak daggers to her, but use none" (Act 3 scene 2). This metaphor creates atmosphere because despite the fact that Hamlet says he will talk daggers and not utilize them it tells the audience his train of thought is heading him near daggers ... and this won't be simply discipline for the demonstrations which he has conferred. "And that his soul will be as damned and black as hell" (Act 3 Scene 3) this metaphor adds atmosphere because Hamlet contrasts his uncle's spirit with darkness an...

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... and was interested in knowing how the story was going to play out. The metaphors used in the story also gave great insight as to what was to occur. One metaphor that sticks out vividly in my head was when the misfit was speaking of Jesus. I immediately noticed that on certain instances O"Conner would capitalize words such as "He", when the ... it, this part of the story references to confession at church. It is evident in the manner in which the grandmother is over the misfit listening to his sins. Another metaphor that I did not notice right away is when the criminals take Bailey and J...

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... is happier than he was even though he has been through so much more pain. The personal pronoun "my" also shows the son's intimacy towards the father. The "Hadrian Wall" metaphor further asserts the fact that the generation gap is growing. The poem Felix Skrzynecki presents change as an inevitable part of life. It shows how migrating into a different society and ... the world of a child is animated. The child continues on her journey and that is to climb the top of the clothesline and swings on it. The clothesline serves as a metaphor. The child's ability to swing on the line is symbolis...

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... it is time to do away with the childish fear of monsters and accept the realities of the "adult world". A powerful language feature, the metaphor, is used in stanza five to represent the ideas mentioned. The musical metaphor "Love's proud executants played from a score / no child could read or realise" is strongly linked to "changing self". From the child's perspective, the fact ... ...

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... family and what is true for all Chinese "or, more importantly, what is Chinese and what is "the movies"? Stylistically, "No-Name Woman" is a blend of imaginative detail, rich metaphor, and personal musings. The "narrative" jumps back forth between past and present, fact and fiction, Kingston's life and the society in which her aunt lived. A description of how it was ... intended. Writing, rather than speaking, becomes Kingston's way of looking at herself and her family with more maturity and perspective. The final talk-story in The Woman Warrior is a fitting metaphor for Kingston's own ...

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... father missed, his ear "scraped a buckle." This could represent the father beating the boy with his belt. The interpretation of the poem as a display of abuse requires "waltz" to be a metaphor for a fight, or a beating. Understanding the word "waltz" simply as a description of a dance-like action will direct the reader's mind to another possible interpretation of the poem. As his selection ... his "palm caked hard by dirt." He would rather spend a few minutes doing something fun with his son before bed. Therefore, "the waltz" could be an actual dance and not a metaphor for a fight. The ...

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... saying "ain't no pill gonna make you feel better from the inside," (451) in her final words to her eldest child. Perhaps the constant use of the word "painkillers" is a metaphor to Paris's constant claim to try "killing the pain" she has had for so many years. After all of her years of playing the lottery and risking her money, Charlotte ... the Price siblings seem to be isolated from one another. Charlotte's being in Chicago a long distance from the rest of the Price family in Las Vegas and California is perhaps a metaphor to the world that separates Charlotte from the rest of her fami...

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... herself than what she had lost when she took the life of the flea into her own hands. During this part of the poem the speaker is respectful with the metaphor about intercourse expressing that it can be a religious and significant thing. The speaker has been pleading for the flea's life explaining that the flea is symbolic to their marriage because ... of their union with inside of the flea. The murder of the flea also adds to the overall metaphor. The speaker points out that taking the life of the flea was easy for his dearly beloved to accomplish, at the same time she believes that th...

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... of change, although it is in he third stanza where the responder sees that change is inevitable, as "lawns grow across dug up beds of spinach, carrots and tomato". The metaphor of the lawns has been used to symbolize change, and to show the true nature of change as being unstoppable, as lawns are always growing and therefore continually changing. A sense ... watched him "pegging his tents further and further south of Hadrian's Wall." This use of Hadrian's Wall is used to symbolize the widening gap between Fleiks and his son. The metaphor in the last two lines plus also the mention of th...

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... the imagery of towels and linen develop the idea of changing and unchanging elements in the mother's life. Towels and linen, once introduced in the 5th stanza, become an extended metaphor for the mother's life and everything she stood for. When she died she was folding a little towel' typifies the mother's life. She was a person who required cleanliness, and stood by ... each marvel joins to another to make up the whole. Gwen is in admiration of this way of dealing so cleanly and neatly with life. The next stanza extends the metaphor into including that her life has been based on qualit...

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... 't know what to do or better yet I, didn't know what I could do. What were my rights? The next day I went to school (at this time I was a senior attending Alain LeRoy Locke High School). I tried my best to cover the bruise; however, it was impossible to hide the dark purple bruise that was under my right eye. "What tha hell happened to ... ...

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... speaks about how she believes that Macduff is not a real man since he lacks the "the natural touch" of protecting his family against attack. Lady Macduff also uses a metaphor; referring to Macduff as a coward when she says that even a small wren would protect its nest against the owl's attacks. She implies that Macbeth is the owl in this situation ... ...

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... him have his own life, but I will not say, be comforted, for comfort comes at a price (Thomson 18-22). When he pictures his son "smelling himself burning" is a metaphor he uses to explain that sooner or later he will make a bad decision that might hurt him. Understanding that trial and error (experience) is sometimes the only way of learning ... ...

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... be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." While this metaphor may prove to be a worthy and accurate portrayal for many of the lives of children and parents in the world, this in no way sums up how all mothers and ... ...

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