In “A White Heron” and “Farmer Finch” by Sarah Jewett, there are no transregional moments to be found. Jewett is known for her local color so she doesn’t really write in a transregional way. However, there are a few moments in “The Wife of his Youth” by Charles W. Chesnutt. “The Wife of his Youth” is written to be relatable to the Midwest region but he also has a few parts in his novel that can relate to the southern region as well. Chesnutt represents the southern region in this novel when he reveals about his past dealing with slavery. In these novels, the authors will demonstrate their knowledge about a few of the most common concerns of their times. Nature can play an important role in multiple stories and that’s exactly what happened
The first two chapters, “A Darkling Plain” and “Prelude to Dust” explain human dislocation that developed from this drought. The next two parts, lets readers view the harsh conditions. Survivors of this crisis give the reader their perspective of the storm and how it tore down their community. The story then goes on to describe how humans misuse of these plains resulted in the “black blizzards,” that destroyed farms, homes, and top soil.
Sarah K. Castle, in her scientific fiction “The Mutant Stag at Horn Creek” develops the story to tell the nature-culture hybrids and its effect on human-kind and other creatures. The story sets in one location called “Horn Creek” and the main character “Sue” a park ranger and a narrator of the story. The author shows the effect of human meddling with natures at the very beginning of the story. A “Grand Canyon” which is the story plays had been mined and it starts to be closed for visitors and Horn Creek was one of them. In this fiction author is more about to say that human kind intervention in nature is the reason for the natural world disaster.
Hearing the voices of local citizens helps one understand the struggle people went through when nature’s unpredictability caused harm to the land and people. A fictional example of how
Now older, he wondered where they could have gone and became scared of the doom, they may face without the important ecosystem members. He set out to help find the answer by documenting the insect populations. “Still, the most disquieting thing wasn’t the disappearance of certain species of insects; it was the deeper worry… that a whole insect world might be quietly going missing, a loss of abundance that could alter the planet in unknowable ways” (Jarvis 3). Many of us indulged in fiction where the suspense is based on a catastrophic event like a natural event of a large magnitude, lethal plague attacks, or a world dominated by violent, disgruntled extraterrestrial life forms. The connation and the emotions are the usually the same moreover; sad and bleak with a low chance of success in deterring whatever the event is, melancholy environments that have changed as a result of the impending doom.
In “Thirty Acres” by Dr.Philippe Panneton and “Volcano” by Nancy Lord, the nature destructive force in the two prose are fire and the volcano, which symbolize the isolation, destruction in emotion and life, as well as the new changes in life. The explosion of the volcano makes Julia think of her dull life and fells despair as she know that she can't change anything, and the fire gives Euchariste a punishment for his greed and brings changes for his and his son’s relationship. The destructive force of nature in “Thirty Acres” and “Volcano”—fire and volcano symbolize the two protagonists’ isolation. When the volcano is going to blow up, the dust and cloud “feel like a curtain,” which make Julia stay at home, revealing the isolation between her life and the outside world.
There was undergrowth—a mat of brambles and bracken. There were no obvious paths. Dark and light came and went, inviting and mysterious, as the wind pushed clouds across the face of the sun.” (355) The "thing" in the story was symbolized as the terror
Sarah Orne Jewett took on the values of life by the written adventure of a little girl courageously finding her way through trees; Sylvia. In “A White Heron” the point of view of the story helps the reader feel and see Sylvia’s senses while she endures the challenging journey of climbing the trees for the discovery of the heron’s nest. Because childhood is about the exploration and the development of becoming a brighter, and a more mature individual; Jewett expresses this process of the relatable upbringing to evoke from the readers. Throughout the journey of tree scaling, Sylvia develops an individuality and a sense of identity. From innocent climbing to a rich reward for her morally challenged efforts, she changes along the obstacles and
In this chapter the author uses the harsh winter conditions to reflect the monster’s loneliness and sadness. Another important role of nature is that nature offers spiritual renewal to the characters. In chapter 12, the arrival of spring is able
Many more books show a usage of weather in their story, this combined to give an audience a profound piece of literature. The weather development predicted many conflicts of the
Numerous research has concluded that several emotional bonds exist between humanity and nature that can impact everything from attitude to anxiety. Novels of the romanticism period, a significant literary era that encompassed most European works written in the early 1800’s, are most known for describing the impacts that nature has on people and implying that unexpected consequences can arise out of this relationship; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a prime example of such a novel. The prime conflict of this 1818 science-fiction story occurs between the titular character, Victor Frankenstein, and a monster he creates through his own scientific innovations. Because of Victor’s abandonment of the monster, it becomes intent on destroying the scientist’s
I looked out from the passenger side window as we pulled into our parking spot. The trees were beginning to go bare in the frigid October weather, and the ground was covered in their dry, crispy leaves. The four of us were going on a haunted hayride tonight, a popular past-time for season. We clambered out of the car and left our bags behind. It had rained the day before, and it made the ground beneath us soft with mud and trampled leaves.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it” Abraham Lincoln. To find your future you need to understand your identity. The future is based on you and you are your identity. The quote by Abraham Lincoln shows that identity will affect your future and people you are with.
In Mary Shelley’s iconic gothic novel, Frankenstein, Romantic themes are strongly represented in order to propagandize Romanticism over the elements of knowledge and the Enlightenment. In her novel, Shelley uses gothic nature settings to foreshadow dark events that are about to happen in the novel. She also uses nature to intensify the effect that is brought during significant scenes, a strong example being, when Victor Frankenstein’s monster approaches him after a long period of time. Nature and its use to influence mood is one of the most paramount themes of both Frankenstein and Romanticism.
There was no chattering or chirping of birds; no growling of bears and no chuckling of contented otters; instead, the clearing lay desolate and still, as though it never wished to be turned into day. The only occupants were rodents and spiders who had set their home in the dank, forgotten shack. From its base, dead, brown grass reached out, all the way to the edge of the tree-line, unable to survive in the perished, infertile soil that made up the foundations of the house. Bird houses and feeders swung still from the once growing apple trees, in the back garden, consigned to a life of
At the same time, nature as a teacher teaches man to accept all the changes in life. It also motivates man. In the world of literature nature plays a very role to set the mood of the text. The creative artist uses nature to reveal both comic and tragic aspects of human life. Nature itself acts as one the most dominating characters in text which exercises its powerful impression upon the character.