In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens the passage that appears as a necessary part of the novel in order to understand the theme includes details that also contribute to the better understanding of the character. This passage acted as a description of Scrooge, how he presented himself, and the way people saw him. In the novel Dickens uses metaphors and alliteration to help the reader understand the Scrooge’s transformation throughout the novel. Dickens writes, “No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him” when reading that, a reader thinks of Scrooge being in or around the warmest weather and still not able to warm himself, they may also picture him in the coldest weather and not freezing to death.
As the spirt begins to show Ebenezer the young boy and girl, he develops an appalled look upon him. Dickens describes the two as a “yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish” looking. The Spirt explains to Scrooge that the two below his robe belong to Man. That the boy represented Ignorance and the girl Want. The Spirt begins to warn him of the boy, “…for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased…”
I express my creative side through writing such as poems, stories, and even letters. Through writing, I can use diction and syntax to express the emotions that I have or even the emotions of someone else. Once, I was assigned to create a speech as if I was a person from the town in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter. In this made up situation, I am in charge of the town meeting and must discuss how we are to address Hester Prynne’s sinful deed. By using diction from the puritan ages and, syntax similar to Hawthorne’s writing, I was able to become another person from another century in my writing and express the fearsome and angry feelings I had as my role.
Charles dickens wrote the novella ‘A Christmas carol’ to encourage his Victorian audience to support his ideology and calls for a social reform. Dickens sets the story on Christmas eve to remind Victorians to remember their Christian values of benevolence and philanthropy. Dickens believed capital could lead to corruption as during the industrial revolution the majority of the Victorian population was driven by their greed for wealth. These contradicted dickens ways of thinking as he appalled the capitalist Malthusian attitudes of the time and constructed his protagonist ‘Scrooge’ to show how avarice and mammon would be damaging for society and those in poverty Within A Christmas carol, dickens present Scrooges character arc as changing
It show the importance of reading in writing and education. He implicitly states that he worked so hard on reading in order to prevent himself from failing in society. The anaphora emphasizes how repetitive he was and the extend of what he read. Anaphora was effective because it shows the audience how hard one must work to achieve his or her goal. By using anecdotes, ethos, and anaphora, Sherman Alexie convinces the audience that anyone can achieve their goals even if the odds are against them.
Dickens' use of personification in A Tale of Two Cities incorporates emotion and appeal to his writing while foreshadowing future events and establishing the setting. This literary device is utilized in order to properly portray different occurrences throughout Book the
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, England. Dickens’s childhood of neglect and lonesomeness influenced his writings as a Realist author. (A,M,J, L) Moving to London shortly after birth, Dickens grew up in a middle class family who desired to be part of the high class.(M) Being the second child of eight, Dickens was expected to make the sacrifices for the family, even at a very young age.(A) Dickens’s father John Dickens was a naval clerk whose greatest wish was to be wealthy, but despite all his efforts to become rich, John was sent to debtor’s prison.(A,K) After his father was sent to prison, Dickens at only twelve years old began working strenuous hours in a boot-blacking factory in order to provide for his family(A,M).
In ‘A Christmas Carol’, Dickens presents Ignorance and Want in a metaphorical fashion, depicting them as children. This is done in such a manner as to shock and appall the reader, leading to greater emotional investment. Throughout the extract’s entirety, Ignorance and Want are depicted as children, increasing the atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds them. Dickens describes the manner in which the Ghost of Christmas Present “brought two children” – by describing Ignorance and Want as “children”, Dickens creates the impression of innocence, vulnerability, and weakness.
The irony in paragraph 12 leaves the reader with a cliff-hanger, maximizing their need and curiosity for what is going to happen next. The use of diction in The Boarded Window, words give off more heavy and negative connotations. For example, the word “indigence,” which means seriously impoverished, could easily have just been “poor,” or “in need,” but Ambrose Bierce uses the word "indigence" on purpose. Bierce does this to let the reader enjoy the darkness and eeriness of
Points out the specific grammatical aspects of the story and the meanings that we, the audience, can take out of it as we read. We learn that the narrator is also the main character in the story and has a very big awakening and life changing surprise at the end. Very similar to “A&P”. • Joel William Hendrickson. Rude Awakening in “A&P” and “Cathedral”
In his essay “Here,” Philip Larkin uses many literary devices to convey the speaker’s attitude toward the places he describes. Larkin utilizes imagery and strong diction to depict these feelings of both a large city and the isolated beach surrounding it. In the beginning of the passage, the speaker describes a large town that he passes through while on a train. The people in the town intrigue him, but he is not impressed by the inner-city life.
Utterson and Mr. Enfield embark on one of their common Sunday strolls. They come across a jilted block of building. The writer describes the building as if it is simply an abandoned house. It shows this in the quote “a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.” By using vocabulary such as “discoloured” and “negligence” it gives us the impression of an abandoned building, having no interesting features.
Truly successful authors have the ability to convey their view of a place without actually saying it, to portray a landscape in a certain light simply by describing it. In the provided excerpt taken from the opening paragraphs of “Shame,” Dick Gregory does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as selection of detail, old-fashioned language, repetition of words and simple sentences, Gregory reveals the shame within being poor setting the stage for a periodic ending. Beginning in the first paragraph of the passage, Gregory selects the two most simple sentences introducing the shame saying, “ I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that” (1).
Picture this: a woman is getting arrested for shoplifting at the local Giant. As the cops take her away, a cluster of onlookers begins to form. Sure, they don’t know the story, but one thing for certain is that she really wanted that milk. She knows the story, however: that her husband just left her, leaving two kids and herself without a source of money. The conflict is that she shoplifted, so she committed a crime.