Juxtaposition In B. H. Fairchild's The Dumka

To begin, Zora Neale Hurston uses sunset motifs to foreshadow events that are negative. In chapter four of the novel, the motif is used to symbolize the marriage of Joe Starks and Janie Crawford. “So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said. With new clothes of silk and wool” (Hurston 33). Janie thinks she has found love within the marriage and it creates a build up to the climax. “They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged” (Hurston 33). The relationship between Joe and Janie becomes abusive and untrustworthy. After Joe’s death, a weight of pain and sorrow is lifted from her shoulders and is free.

In the short chapter, “The Branch,” from the book The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich, the author substantially relies on imagery and mood to paint the abstract concept that environmental impact can seduce to transformation. Structuring the setting, Erdrich establishes the two main characters, Karl and Mary, whose hope is deeply devastated by new surrounding conditions as encountering “dirt,” “chill,” and “watery wind.” Marking the period of the Great Depression in 1932, the author adopts the historic setting to echo the hopeless atmosphere in the American society, which makes it possible to inspect the main characters’ mood. Individuals perceive the world differently; in lieu of analyzing the environmental impact on the two children in general,

The word sadness immediately stands out in the title indicating opposite feelings normally associated with wedding dresses. To continue, the words “sad story” are repeated in lines 27 and 28 (Galvin). Galvin also repeats the word closet in line 4, 11, 14, 20, and 29; alone and forgotten in the darkness of a closet emphasizes the unique perspective of abandonment as opposed to a treasured item. From there, Galvin repetitively makes additional word choices that emphasize the sad, lonely, and abandoned feelings used wedding dresses experience. Galvin makes word choices such as starless, hopeless, darkness, hollow, dump, gone, and disappear. These words all connotate a dark, lonely, and abandoned feeling. Moreover, Galvin incorporates the words yellow, smoke, and flames. Packed away wedding dresses turn an ugly yellow while the lucky wedding dresses go up in smoke and flames; neither scenario are connected to the traditional view of a keepsake. To further the unique tone Galvin associates with wedding dresses, he integrates words such as weeping, longing, and waiting. The connotation of Galvin’s word choices elicit a deep yearning for a better outcome that will unfortunately never come for his abandoned wedding

After Curley's wife has died "the sun streaks were high on the wall by now, and the light was growing soft in the barn." The barn is growing soft implies that Curley's wife fades away. Her life is end just like the light in the barn. Also the change of light shows the change of time which can help readers better understand the timeline of what happened. The outside sunshine is bright, the death of Curley's wife is dark, these two compose a direct contrast which makes the setting full of sorrow.

The environment that one is living in can supply hope. Todd Davis showed this through a seasonal metaphor. The narrator of the poem talks about weather changing and getting better, providing the metaphor. The weather getting warmer and the arrival of spring symbolizes new life and a new start. The narrator ponders, “I’m not sure/ why he couldn’t wait,” then later talks about blossoms opening (Davis 787, 4-5). This quote and other hints about spring are discussing how the new season is bringing new hope for many. The narrator says that “we understand/ the ones who decide to leave us in February” (Davis 787, 5-6). This is discussing how during the winter, life can feel so

By the end of the poem there is another shift in tone. The tone takes on a more hopeful meaning. Now, Bryant uses the spring season to compare to a new age. He mentions, “The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes/ In the full strength of years, matron, and maid,/ The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles.”(68-70) The rebirth of human life compares to nature in the sense that when nature is reborn in springtime everything turns green. The reader ends the poem with an enlightened sense of feeling instead of the dark and gloomy feeling they felt at the beginning of the poem.

In conjunction with the symbolic representation of Elisa’s life, the dramatic description of the environment can also be seen as a unique representation of the relationship conflict between husband and wife. Steinbeck’s foggy description demonstrates conflict through the following statement, "a time of quiet and waiting." This description is interesting because the fields are personified as waiting for rain, however, “rain and fog do not go together” therein lies the conflict just as Elisa waits for a positive change in how her husband treats her (Palmerino, Gregory J). Gregory P. further points out that, “The natural elements of the foothills ranch seem as unwilling to confront each other as the characters that inhabit its environs. Hence, fog and rain can be seen as the female and male equivalents to Elisa and Henry.” This only further solidifies the deep rooted troubles within Elisa and her relationship with her husband. The setting of the story is personified to act as a symbolic representation of the couple’s relationship (Steinbeck, John 337-338).

Carver presents symbolism throughout his story to represent a darker side of the human heart when it is wounded. “Don’t, she said. You’re hurting the baby, she said. I’m not hurting the baby, he said.” The baby represents the relationship of the man and woman. There is not an actual baby that is being hurt, but their relationship together. Once the “issue was decided” towards the end, it represents how the man and woman’s relationship was no more. In addition, snow is brought up in the beginning to start the mood of the relationship. “...The snow was melting into dirty water.” The snow represents the pure white relationship they had in the beginning. Once the snow melted into dirty water, that shows that their relationship is tainted, fading away, and can never be the same. This also leads into the light that is set towards the house. “The kitchen window gave no light.” The window showing both the darkness of the outside and the inside of the house, represents how darkness is taking over the relationship, and how there is no more light to shine on their love for each other. All three of these symbols connect back to how the man and woman have a codependent relationship.

Sue and Johnsy had only seen the woman once; while she was moving in. They saw her movers bring in Canvases, paints, and a huge box that had to be carried by 4 men up the stairs to her room. After that, they never got a sign from the woman, or even heard any noises downstairs. But today would be different; the two went out to the market together to buy their normal groceries, but also bought something special for the woman that was mysterious as the changing of the weather, (Simile) they decided to buy the woman some nice paintbrushes and paints.

In this novella, the author showed duality very well by using careful use of language and his strong imagery when describing the story. The dualism was described perfectly. The author showed that there is dualism in everything, the city, the people.

Throughout the play there is a continual reference to light. It is used in the form of bright sunlight,

During the hurricane Tea Cake asks Janie if she regrets leaving Eatonville to which she replies, “Naw, We been tuhgether round two years. If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.” At daybreak there is a horizon- this connects to the situation as Janie implies that she has seen and captured her horizon, she has obtained her dream. Dusk happens after sunset, it’s the coming of darkness. Janie does not care if she has to die in the terrible hurricane. Janie notes that there are people who never “seen the light”- meaning they’ve never seen or captured their own horizon and dreams. Just by being with Tea Cake Janie believes she has a part of her horizon. This is expressed as a point that Tea Cake is expressed as “the sun of the Evening Sun.” During sunset in the evening, the evening sun is part of the horizon. This symbolizes that Tea Cake is part of the dream of Janie in becoming free and being able to love. After trial, Janie thinks “The sun was almost down and Janie had seen the sun rise on her troubled love and then she had shot Tea Cake and had been in jail and had been tried for her life and now she was free. Nothing to do with the little that was left of the day but to visit the kind white friends who had realized her feelings and thank them. So the sun went down.” This quote represents more than that given day- it represents the life of Janie. In the end, Janie had gone through 2 marriages as the sun rose on her “troubled love”, Janie had to kill her lover and be tried in court. Now, the sun would go down and the horizon would arise. This shows how Janie had to go through all her struggles and sacrifices in order to reach her horizon. Now Janie is free- she is free from having to be in pursuit of her

Melissa Hamilton, a journalist for the Australian newspaper recently wrote an article tilted This (Transplanted) Life, which is a physical, inner and spiritual journey. It is a recount of her journey home, it’s written in first person to personalize her journey and evoke mood and tone with her audience. The composer uses juxtaposition to compare the city to her country home, “When we arrive I stumble with soft city feet over the gidgee stones” and to compare the people of the city and country “the quite is loud enough to keep them up at night.” Through her thorough description of the country surroundings and the lifestyle of the people that live there, she takes us on a spiritual journey of her hometown. The composer also uses creative language such as exaggeration, repetition, alliteration, personification and a metaphor to establish her love and knowledge of

The author uses Lily and Tom as dynamic characters to show their importance for finding the sun. Lily and Tom go on a search to find the sun for their honeymoon. Now that the sun is gone, they would like to see it again. After their wedding, Lily and Tom take off right away on an adventure to go find the sun, “ ‘Going to find a bit of sun and have our honeymoon in it,’ said Tom” (Searching For summer, 66). Tom and Lily got married, they wanted the sun to be seen that day. This shows that since the sun is gone, they will travel all around to find what they have been missing all this time. In the hope of finding the sun, Lily and Tom walked through the woods which caused pain to Lily and heartache to Tom. For example, “Lily was still wearing her wedding sandals, which had begun to blister her. She held onto Tom’s arm biting her lip with the pain,

It’s continuously blending in with the sky—the same sky that never changes colors—the same sky that remains the same, lackluster shade of grey and it is that sky that strikes her as intriguing. She constantly finds herself looking up at the sky, whether if marveling at the magnificence of it all, or cowering at its vast expense. The sun almost seems like a stain on it; an insignificant little spot, unsound of any and all things bright or radiant.