“55 Miles to the Gas Pump” by Annie Proulx By: Kalena Gottwald, Skyler Greenberg, Garin Mesarch, Rachael Phillips, and Abigail Sanford In this presentation, we will look at 55 Miles to the Gas Pump by Annie Proulx through the deconstructionist point of view Deconstructionist Strategies Literary works DO NOT yield fixed, single meanings. Language is never definite because of the endless meanings of words/phrases. reveals how the text is internally conflicted/contradictory seems to destabilize meanings rather than establish them focuses on gaps and ambiguities in the text opposes the Formalist criticism strategy The deconstruction school of literary criticism is different from the formalist and new critics, as well as the reader-response …show more content…
In addition, because he is drunk, his perception of his surroundings are distorted. This is another example of multiple meanings of words and phrases, leading to uncertainty regarding the transportation he used to arrive. The Suicide of Rancher Croom Rancher Croom presumably falls off the cliff and dies, but the incident is not explicitly stated. Proulx describes, “... [Rancher Croom] looks down on tumble rock, waits, then steps out, parting the air with his last roar, sleeves surging up windmill arms, jeans riding over boot tops, but before he hits he rises again to the top of the cliff like a cork in a bucket of milk.” A deconstructionist might think: He stumbles off the cliff and dies, his body bounces off the sharp cliffs at the bottom He jumps off the cliff and dies, his body bounces off the sharp cliff on the bottom After becoming drunk and standing at the edge of the cliff, looking down at his possible death, he comes out of his drunken disillusionment like a cork in a bucket of milk, and vows to start anew. He hangs himself, and the cork in the bucket of milk represents his body bouncing up after the rope is pulled
“Please, listen to me. You’ve got to calm down.” said Ralph, “If you jumped now, you will die for sure!”
When the therapist takes his dolls away, “to help him move on from the past.” He becomes depressed and does not do anything but lay in bed all day.
First, a lighting fixture falls from the clear blue sky, but then recovered by a satellite fixture report on the radio. Later, while sitting on the beach, rain begins to fall, oddly enough directly on his head and then failing to fall anywhere but his head. After he sees a homeless man on the streets who looks like his father, who is later dragged off onto a bus by the cast members around him. Later, he is on his way to work and when an accidentally locates a radio frequency while driving on which people are clearly giving the details of his every movement.
The climax of this novel is when Ethan and Mattie confess their love for each other and decide to commit suicide by sledding into a large tree. The falling action was that Ethan and Mattie regain consciousness after crashing into the tree; Ethan takes both of them in and cares for them into old age.
As they continue down and endless road the cat springs free from the hiding place in which the grandmother placed it, which causes Bailey to loose control and wreck. While sitting on the side of the road a car with 3 men pulled over one the grandmother stupidly introduces him to everyone as The Misfit. One by one each person is taken to the woods and shot while the grandmother tries to spare her life with The Misfit. Suddenly with the threat of death near her door she suddenly tries to be something she is not. She sympathizes with him and tries to relate to him. All of this comes to no avail if anything it antagonizes him which throws a switch in his mind and he reacts the only way he knows how, by shooting her in the chest and putting his problem to an end.
Jeannette falls out the side door of the car and tumbles down a hill, she was bleeding from her nose and bruised up her knees.This was when they were returning from a casino.
Upon reaching the creek, the child proceeds to jump back across, seeing that the stones he is using are all stained red from the blood of those more fortunate to have fled earlier. Looking back across the creek towards his followers, he notices that upon reaching the water the men appear to have reached their goal and begin to drink, however they are able, some even dunking their heads, but that upon obtaining the water they had not the energy to back away or pull themselves out and they die there as they lay. Waving his sword overhead to spur on the rest of the men, the boy motions onward through the brush, toward the beacon of light shining in the sky. Upon making his way up to the crest and seeing the column of fire reaching into the sky the child begins to dance and cavort with his shadow; not a living thing is in sight but that is of no importance for the child is pleased by the spectacle. Rushing here and there, looking for additional fuel to throw on the fire, the child is disappointed to find everything is too heavy, so in surrender he flung his sword instead.
Chapter 7 Joe lands on a ledge in a crevasse. He lies on the edge of the ledge expecting Simon to fall and pull him of into the crevasse. Simon never falls down so he pulls down the rope and realises that it has been cut.
The isolation of the setting, yet the closeness to a popular teen hangout spot, The Brick, is a physical manifestation of the relationship of Keith and Natalie. This is also emphasized by the fact that it is night when these events occur. In the dark, no one can witness what happens on the cliff. And by It is earlier discovered that the cliff is a frequent hangout spot for Keith, which represents his isolation from other teens in his school due to his illness. The Brick represents Natalie, who is a friend that represents the ability to fit in that Keith desires, but refrains from.
He stood up for what felt like the first time ever. He turned around, rocked from heels to toes, heels to toes, leaned his head back and shouted for joy. The bright diamond beamed down at him from a height that looked insurmountable. His joy ceased instantly, destroyed by the cruel hammer of reality, and he dropped, hollow, to the ground.
He woke up in a dark room. He was numb and dizzy. The figure of a man kept on flickering through his head. He couldn’t move. He had no memory. His whole body was full of pain and agony.
The scene is of Sette getting pushed off a cliff by her zombie partner Duane. You can see she’s falling from the vertical lines behind her and her hair is flowing backwards from the wind going through it. As she is falling Duane floats down on another piece of earth and stops Sette’s momentum in mid fall with
That night, during an aerial battle above the island, a pilot parachutes down and lands atop of the great mountain. It is uncertain whether the pilot’s death was caused in the air or upon contact of the earth. The next morning, as the twins Sam and Eric are restarting the fire, they spot the pilot and mistaken for the beast. They scrambled down the mountain and woke up Ralph. Upon hearing the news of a lurking beast, Jack calls for a hunt whilst Piggy insists that they should stay together in hopes that the beast is not provoked by a large group. Ralph decides to join the hunter’s quest in tracking the beast despite leaving behind Piggy and the littluns without a signal fire. As most of the boys return to the beach, Jack, Ralph, and Roger venture up the mountain searching for the beast. When the boys see a shadowy monstrosity they perceive as the beast,
doesn't reach the valley, but skims the top and he has to block it out
After the ordeal with the court the falling action takes place transitioning into the denouement.