Comparing Pancake's Time And Again

The narrator sets the scene; the cold kitchen of the farmhouse the day after John Wright was found murdered in his own bed with a rope around his neck. Nothing has been touched except a fire has been started on the stove to warm the place a bit for when the sheriff and the county attorney would arrive to access the situation and look for a motive. Mrs. Wright who had been found the morning before just rocking back and forth in the kitchen rocker and pleating her apron that lay on her lap, over and over

In 1983, Breece D’J Pancake’s collections of twelve stories were published. This collection was called “The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake.” Pancake was not able to publish the short stories himself due to taking his own life at the age of twenty-six. One of the stories published was known as “Time and Again. In “Time and Again”, readers are introduced to a common snow plower, who also happens to be the narrator. “Time and Again” tells the story of a man whose wife has perished and his son as disappeared. Through the symbolism of the hogs, his missing son, and the hitchhiker’s, readers will gradually understand who the killer is.

In this poem there is a use of figurative language in the line “curled like a lamb’s back”. This simile connects Tom’s haor to a baby animal, which shows his innocence and exposes the innocence of all child laborers. Lines five, and six contains a simile comparing Tom Dacre’s hair to lamb wool. Lamb is a symbol of innocence. Line eight contains a contrast of white hair (angelic) and soot (sin). Soot cannot spoil the hair.

A strong masculine rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable “My Tongue is generations dead, My Nose defiles a comely head;”(5-6) gives a weight to these lines and provides rhetorical emphasis. It creates a break by bonding these lines tightly to each other. Because it is a perfect rhyme, it sounds a bit cutesy and childish, so it creates levity to contrast and enlighten the theme of death. The eye rhyme, “For hearkening to carnal evils My Ears have been the very devil’s”(7-8) creates more dissonance and thus disjunction in the reader. This irritation allows passage back into a state where it easier to empathize with the devil and evil. “More furtive then the Hand in low And vicious venery-Not so!”(11-12) exemplifies an imperfect or partial or approximate or slant or pararhyme which supports the theme of deception and dissent articulated by the words, “furtive”(11) and, “Not so!”(12).

In "The Pardoners Tale," the three rioters come together to kill Death, but in doing so they come upon some things that they can't go back and change. An analysis of "The Pardoners Tale," shows how personification and irony are not so funny when Death is involved. Death is personified throughout "The Pardoners Tale. " Personification occurs when an author gives living characteristics to something that isn't living. The first example occurs when the three rioters are drinking and they hear a funeral.

The writings of Breece D'J Pancake are caught somewhere between riveting and terrifying. How some of these thoughts and concepts formed in the mind of a man that grew up in suburban Virginia, is a mystery in and of itself. In time and again, readers are introduced to an enigmatic serial killer, living in an isolated portion of Appalachia. Although we are not provided with an immense amount of information on the subject, one could easily gather that this particular gentleman has a perplexing obsession with his swine.

At the beginning of the story, the narrator notes that “This is an empty old house since the old lady died” (Pancake 83). He doesn’t explain how she died, but goes on to talk about his boy who is supposedly missing. He claims that his boy ran away after his wife died, but also says that his son looked into the hog pen before running away. It is a likely possibility that the narrator murdered his wife and then threw her into the hog pen to be eaten. The boy, ignoring his father’s warnings, could have then looked into the pen and seen his dead mother before running away in fear. The narrator later provides indication that he killed his son when talking with the hitchhiker he picks up while plowing snow. The hitchhiker asks what the narrator’s boy does now, to which he replies: “He was learning a mason’s trade when he run off” (Pancake 86). He goes on to mention that his son was a hod carrier, which requires immense physical strength. The hitchhiker begins talking about a mentally-challenged man that was found dead in the area sometime in the past (Pancake 86-87). Since one common trait of mentally-challenged people is great strength, the conclusion can be drawn that the murdered man is actually the son of the

“The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. There were the butt-ends of smoked meat, and the scraps of corned beef, and all the odds and ends of the waste of the plants, that would be dumped into old barrels in the cellar and left there. Under the system of rigid economy, which the packers enforced, there were some jobs that it only paid to do once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water—and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped

Throughout the poem the dominating pop culture stereotype is presented in the anaphora of the phrases `horse culture' and `half breed'. One of several specific stereotypes is presented in the first four lines of the poem, and refers to the `Noble Savage'<em>stoic stereotype, the "tragic features" (line 1) and the "horse culture" (line 4) that has been popularized by Hollywood. The repetition of the word `tragic` emphasizes the idea of the `Noble Savage` and lends to the image in line four of the compulsorily weeping hero. "He should often weep alone" (line 4) is a powerful and specific image which recalls the weeping Native American man in the Public Service Announcement commercials circa the 1970's.

The reader’s first introduction to Butcher is crucial in the author’s construction of his character. Immediately, the characterisation of Butcher as a villain is apparent as “With no warning, his hand shot out and grabbed Jamie’s throat, the grip instant and vice-like…”. This characterisation of Butcher (what he says and does) effects the way the reader responds to him and the corruption and violence that he represents. Jamie has done nothing to provoke Butcher, yet is treated with hostility from the very first interaction between the two characters, as proved by the “vice-like” nature of the grip. Another thing that uncovers the traits of a character is what they say. Butcher uses threatening language throughout a new kind of dreaming, such as when he says “One wrong move, son, and your brains are all over that wall” before handcuffing and injuring Jamie. In conclusion, the actions and dialogue of Butcher is a technique of characterisation that Eaton uses to position readers to respond to his antagonistic character and the theme of corruption with distaste, simultaneously advancing the reader’s empathy for

No results for '“Lamb to the Slaughter” and “The LandLady”, both short stories are written by Roald Dahl. They both have different settings, Similar characterization, and sneaky trickery. Both short stories deal with death and mental actions “so I've killed him”. But how does the author manipulate his reader’s expectations? In the short stories “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “The LandLady”, by Roald Dahl, he manipulates his reader’s expectations by using the literary elements of characterization, irony, and foreshadowing.

My survey is collecting data to find out how many people like waffles and how many people like pancakes my survey targets 11th and 12th graders. This survey will be taken on a Google forum. This survey also questions the survey takers choice in toppings, how many pancakes or waffles they like to eat, do they like pancakes or waffles, and their desired texture of their pancakes or waffles. I choose to do this topic because their is a little debate between some people on which is better. This topic also helps me to collect a lot of quantitative and qualitative data because I can get numbered and unnumbered answers. I named this survey Waffles vs Pancakes because I felt it goes good with the data i’m trying to collect.

In the poem “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, the speaker is in her garden and is annoyed with some woodchucks that are eating and destroying the produce in the garden. The speaker in turn tries to remove the woodchucks by using humane gas to kill them and when that is unsuccessful, she resorts to more violent means. This poem uses the annoying woodchucks to signify the Jewish people during the Holocaust by the Nazi Party.

This epic poem depicts picturesque imagery of various kinds. It is acutely gruesome in many instances, such as the battle with Grendel and the description of hell’s captive and his mother. The

Maxine Kumin uses metaphor, allusion, and imagery to compare the character in the poem to real life people and to represent historical events. Throughout the poem, it seems that the author was referencing the Holocaust. This is revealed in the last stanza when she uses the word “Nazi”. She compares the killing of the woodchucks to the killing of the Jews during the Holocaust. The woodchucks symbolize the Jews as the gardener in the poem symbolizes the Nazis. The gardener killed the woodchucks just like Nazi party killed the Jews. In the third stanza Maxine Kumin includes the line, “I, a lapsed pacifist fallen from grace puffed with Darwinian pieties for killing”. She uses Charles Darwin’s concept of “survival of the fittest” to support her reason for killing the animals. Maxine Kumin also uses allusion throughout the poem to reference the Holocaust. The last stanza of the poem stated, “If only they’d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quiet Nazi way.” This line clearly reveals how the poem connects to the Holocaust. The first stanza stated, “But they had a sub-sub-basement out of range.” This also references the Holocaust because the woodchucks had other hiding places just like many Jews did while trying to escape Hitler’s ruthless ways.