Pros And Cons Of Didion

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

Lastly, the imagery present in this essay is loftier than the other literary devices evident in her story. Clair tells of many shades and complexion she remembers as a child suck as "the yellow house," "windows painted light blue," and "the putrid colored jacket." She does this to paint the crystal clear images through picturesque that she recalls from her adolescence. More importantly, Clair vividly describes the cherry bomb all through her work. She not only illustrates her "box of private things" but describes even the "strong-smelling" essence that lingers along side the images of her childhood

In (chapters 6-13), the landscape of California changes for the worst as Steinbeck tries to describe the damage that the men have inflicted on California. Steinbeck's diction with words such as "rot", "waste", and "decay" associate the former Edenic Califronia with a deathly image. This diction corresponds with the shift in imagery that shows "meat turning dark and crop shriveling on the ground" along with "black shreds(of cherries) hanging from them(the seeds)"; further depicting the change of landscape of California. Instead of "valleys in which fruit blossoms", the valley expels an "odor of sweet decay" showing the horrible state that California has turned in to under the guidance of the "understanding" men. Steinbeck also uses strong imagery to depict plentiful pears falling "heavily to the ground and splashing on the ground"; a symbol Steinbeck also changes the main theme of colors from the beautiful pink and green of the former California to a deathly black. Steinbeck also uses the vernacular of Californians to show the panic that the farmers feel by expressing such phrases as "We can't do it." and "We can't pay wages, no matter what wages." putting the reader in to the mind of the farmers to experience that panic and

“They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!” (Scene 1, Page 6)

Joan Didion is wearing oversize black sunglasses in a crowded, dark movie theater where the film about her life is premiering. Standing beside her nephew Griffin Dunne, who directed the documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (Netflix), the 82-year-old Californian’s all-black ensemble plays well with her ashy white bob: Tucked slightly under her chin, its color is stripped and striped, but its body and character are as full as ever. It serves as a reminder that no matter her age or the style of the decade, her hair always seems effortless and elegant. It was blunt and short in the ’60s, when she released Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the book of essays that put her on the literary map; long and middle-parted to fall into a slight S-shaped wave in the ’70s, around the time she penned The White Album, which included her harrowing story on the Manson murders; fringed and peppery in the ’80s, and up until the early aughts with its Bush politics. Throughout it all, her signature lengths appear as if they’ve been dried in the easy Malibu air—even when she’s physically in New York City. A place where she found her first job, at Vogue, and a place she loved and found love in, with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. New York City was also a place she eventually lost, like many other people and places and things in her life.

Connie’s first encounter with Arnold is when she spots his car “a convertible jalopy painted gold.” The notion in which Connie perceives the strange car subtly hints to the fact that she finds it peculiar, but nevertheless, dismisses it. Her dismissal easily allows the reader

On the route to Florida, the grandmother is quick to point out the cemeteries on the way to Florida, which means that she knows her life is limited and she will be in one soon. Finally, the grandmother is led to the misfit and tries to act as a peacemaker. This plan fails because God is the only peacemaker when it comes to trouble. The critic offers a critical analysis of the idea of imagery and foreshadowing, which this critic believes is brought on by God as payback.

Cisneros writes about her life in metaphors and symbolism, as a painting infused with strokes of colors made up with her silky words. I respect Cisneros’ authentic decision to write about herself as another character; Esperanza. In chapters like “Cuatro Arboles Flaquitos,” Esperanza sees herself reflected in Four Skinny Trees who are rooted between concrete; four trees who fight for their spot in the city and whose only purpose

When Alma and her family move to America, they begin their new life in a place that is strange and confusing, one that is unaccommodating, and causes Alma’s misery and guilt to almost overwhelm her. After the Rivera’s first day in America, they find their appartment and try to go to sleep. Arturo and her daughter Maribel fall asleep right away, but Alma lays awake in bed, wondering to herself if they ”had... done the right thing, coming here?” (6). In the morning, they wake up, confused, “bewildered, and disorientated, glancing at one another, darting [their] gazes from wall to wall. And then we remembered. Delaware. Over three thousand kilometers from our home in Pátzuco. Three thousand kilometers and a world away” (6). Alma and Arturo left their home, not because they wanted to come to America, but because they wanted to be able to help their daughter, Maribel. She had an accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, and Alma feels that the accident is her fault, and has been consumed with grief ever since. Although the Riveras came to America to help Maribel, Alma still wonders to herself if it was the

The story tells about how an antisocial woman is willing to kill someone so they will not abandon her. The story also tells about how she lives in her own delusional world. The short story’s setting is a very old town that is demolished, (It [the Grierson family house] was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of the neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps- an eyesore among eyesores” [p

The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” is filled with mood, theme, and irony. Throughout the storyline, Montresor and Fortunato set the mood, show irony, and create a theme. It’s a heavily built plot based on revenge. The theme of "The Cask of Amontillado" is a powerful message of revenge.

Another literary device that Didion uses to portray her story of New York is the use of hyperbole. By using various examples of hyperbolic statements throughout her writing, she exaggerates enough to show the reader how she truly feels about living in New York. During her first few years living in the city, she describes New York to be an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself” (Didion 231). What she means by this is that New York is such a spectacular city, where it seems that everything that one

Through the use of the Taggart Bridge and Tunnel’s eventual demise, the plot can help illustrate what happens when society degrades the importance of the mind; whereas characterization will aid in the analysis of Francisco D’Anconia’s character and his deliberate contribution to the destruction of society that the looters have created. Lastly, Dagny’s desire to save the crumbling society through the use of her motor, directly correlates to the primary theme of the novel as an intelligent mind strives to rise up against the degradation and fix a disintegrating

“Like Miss Emily it stands “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay” alone amidst alien surroundings. When the town complains about the smell emanating from the house, the judge equates house and woman: “Will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” Miss Emily becomes a fallen woman where she lived in a house that had “once been white… set on what had once been our most select street…lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gasoline pumps an eyesore among eyesores.” The house, like Miss Emily, has fallen from purity and like Miss Emily it is an eyesore, for

When the author arrives in New York, she is entranced by the city. The author’s love of New York is so deep that she cannot establish the years during which many of her early memories took place. Instead of being distinct, the memories are a mass jumble of imagery that captures her favourite aspects of the city. One night, Didion was running late to meet someone. Despite her rush, she stopped at Lexington Avenue, bought a peach, and ate it