Motifs In Looking For Alaska

But Miki also employs an example from Kogawa 's Obasan. He acknowledges that in the novel, Aunt Emily is able to see through the discourse of war and national security and detect the ambiguity of the term ' 'evacuation ' ' (52): ' ' ' ' It was an evacuation all right, ' ' Aunt Emily said. ' ' Just plopped here in the wilderness. Flushed out of Vancouver.

However, while August Wilson shows how all the characters receive chance of redemption, Grau presents to the reader the ultimate destruction of a character’s life when she is unyielding. The closing scene of each literatures demonstrates to the readers of the different situations. Both works emphasizes the importance of the embracement of the goodness in the face of

Katherine became fearful of Hannah, despite her kind and hospitable personality. Because of her being a Quaker, she is disrespected by the rest of the townspeople, isolating her from society. The false fear that was instilled in Katherine’s heart shows how determined the townspeople are to create a completely exclusive society where only people of their thinking were allowed to live. The cut-off society will only prosper in the townspeople’s minds, but in reality, their lack of individuality will cause them to be restricted from the outside world. Katherine’s student, Prudence is also brought to meet Hannah.

Mark states, ¨When my mother began dropping hints that I would soon be going to school, I vowed never to go because school was a waste of time¨ (1). As his story goes on you see his mindset change. From him stepping foot into tribal school and meeting the Principal, to him getting the news his father had beaten his mother ferociously. Anger being built up inside of him.

Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” revolves around the manipulation of time through the conflict of man versus nature. Bierce uses time in his favor as he switches between the past and the present life of the main character, Peyton Farquhar, as he lives his last moments. He uses this to show how time can be “subjective and phenomenal during times of emotional distress”. (BookRags). The manipulation of time that is unnoticeable whilst reading the story strengthens the themes that are present in this work, such as man’s denial of mortality, and the conjuring of irrational situations.

Symbols in Looking for Alaska. In John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska there are many symbols ranging from cigarettes to flowers. The symbols in this novel play a major role in helping to better understand the novel and it’s meaning.

The Kranks’ home was once filled with joy and excitement during the holiday season, but after their daughter left, it felt empty and devoid of its traditional festive spirit. The Kranks felt that there would be “lots of depression during Christmas” (Grisham, 17). This symbolizes the loneliness and isolation that can come with breaking away from established traditions and how having family around can change how a person feels about these traditions and normalities. As the story progresses, the absence of Blair during Christmas becomes a catalyst for Luther and Nora's internal conflicts. Foster discusses how characters' actions and decisions can be symbolic of deeper emotions and desires.

Tobias Wolff’s Hunters in the Snow explores the latent meaning of insecurity. Wolff’s use of vivid imagery and descriptive language allows the reader to be more engaged and focused on the details that aren’t necessarily mentioned in the story, but that are interpreted throughout. Kenny’s malicious behavior in the constant bullying of the insecure Tub served as the primary motivation that leads to Kenny’s death. Kenny was a bitter man that received pure enjoyment from teasing and bullying Tub. He was reckless and took his jokes too far, which made him dangerous.

The theme of this novel is "Not everything is the way you predict it is". I believe this thematic statement suits the story because throughout the book there are lots of surprises, and most situations don't go the way people predict they will. For example, Aunt Alexandra was first seen as mean, according to her attitude towards Scout. At the end of the book Aunt Alexandra hands Scout her overalls, as mentioned in the story, "the garments she most despised." Because she always wanted Scout to be a lady and wear dresses.

Its warmth was enough” (230). She continues to control herself and tries to ignore it. She applies the lesson that Atticus teaches her about keeping her head up and facing a difficult situation with

To briefly state, the storyline begins with a seemingly innocent start with a mother attempts into persuading her son to visit her beloved state of Tennessee instead of the trip to Florida. Yet furthering into the story the reader begins to notice how the grandmother carries herself and abides by the way she believes a good woman should dress and act. Thus furthering on into the plot the reader becomes aware of an underlying sense of foreshadowing when the grandmother leads the family to the wrong plantation and ultimately they end up confronting the misfit himself. The reader is able to feel this foreshadowing by the grandmother belief in being a lady to be moral, the actions of the grandmother to keep her safe from the misfit, and the way

In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green, the main character Alaska Young displays characteristics that are neither purely good, nor evil. Although she is not the main character in this book, most every event that happens in the book revolves around her or the idea of her. Miles Halter, the main character, is hopelessly in love with Alaska after meeting her at his new private school in Alabama. Alaska is not the typical school girl, rather a risky, carefree, and adventurous person who breaks the rules quite often. She is not exactly evil; however, she does not portray nice attributes other than her loyalty to her boyfriend for most of the book.

• Scout tells the story many years after the events of the book takes place, “[w]hen enough years had gone by to enable [her and Jem] to look back on them” (3). She is most likely an adult now, and has much more experience and knowledge of the world around her, and therefore is able to look back and reflect and comment on events that she, as a young child, had not understood. o “‘He is,’ we heard Atticus answer, ‘and he’s asleep. Don’t wake him up.’ In obedience to my father, there followed what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation: the men talked in near-whispers” (202)  When the events took place, Scout was unaware of the danger of the mob to both Atticus and Tom Robinson.

The Immortal Native American Spirit Historically, groups of people have conquered other cultures, taking the products of that culture for themselves. It was not different with the colonization of the Americas, when entire tribes of Native Americans were wiped out. Not surprisingly, many descendants of Native Americans have felt sense of feeling lost and victimized. It is often believed that by killing so many Native Americans, the Native American cultures have also been lost forever. However, through the perseverance of the human spirit, despite the horrors that happened, there are people who continue to fight for the life of their culture.

Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country (1956) is a Japanese novel based on the sense of loss, entrapment and the complexity of human emotions. In the novel, the author uses the omniscient third person, highlighting the male protagonist, Shimamura’s point of view. This narrative technique is one of the primary methods used to convey the themes of wasted beauty, isolation, unfulfilled love and transience, by being of a “stream of consciousness” nature. This narrative mode takes the form of an interior monologue within the character, reflecting the immediate occurrence of ideas in his mind and highlighting his thought process. The reader witnesses very little change in the setting of the novel, as all significant parts take place amidst the small