Things Fall Apart By Gordimer's The Yellow Wall

Imagine living in a life where everything around you is different from reality. Imagine running from the police, living wherever one can find, and still taking care of one's family just at the age of 16. Jeannette Walls had to deal with all of this and more in her early childhood. In the book “The Glass Castle”, the author uses the characters, Jeannette and Rex Walls, to emphasize the importance of family bonds.

There are walls that block people from seeing what’s on the other side, but they need soar over the wall and break through if they want to see what’s on the other side. Writers uses realism and figurative language to express life’s obstacles and extremities. London uses an emotionless tone through the lens of naturalism to convey that nature does not care, already mapped out the man’s fate and that man does not have free will going against nature. Bishop utilizes symbolism to express vivid imagery to emphasize the idea of discovering truth or reality of anything. Wharton manipulates metaphors and similes to clearly express the ironies in the story of how humans can resort to rash extremities to conceal the truth, while finding a way to “freedom”.

“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete,” as stated by French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. This idea is portrayed through two short stories with common symbolism. The lantern in “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and the late-night meal in “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl are symbols that portray the fragility of human connections. The heartbeat and the whiskey in Poe’s and Dahl’s stories are symbols that disprove the meaning of comfort. In both written works, the bed and the leg of a lamb depict how innocuous objects can become effective weapons. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” use symbols to reveal similarities between the disconnection of human bonding, the obliteration of the purpose of comfort, and how harmless objects are used for violent means.

As Henry Miller once said, “Chaos is the score upon which reality is written” (“Chaos Quotes”). Miller seems to believe that no matter what actions we take, the world is destined to return to chaos. He seems to be right. Today’s world has been overrun by social issues such as hunger, segregation and depression. While government programs everywhere take action to prevent these issues, their efforts are futile. The truth is, to prevent these social issues, the world must kill the seed from which they grow. In Jeannette Walls’ book, The Glass Castle, she perfectly demonstrates how one social issue can become a source of many others. In the book, Jeannette’s father

Many people react differently based on the way they have been brought up or taught. In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Wall, it has been portrayed to the readers that the response to a problem can either have a positive effect on a community and or a negative effect on the community. In the book, The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls was seen as live a nonrestrictive life ever since she was three. Jeannette makes a statement that you can still be successful in life even if you had been raised in an irregular family. Through the eyes of Jeannette Walls, it can be said that a person's drive and passion can achieve that point of success.

Throughout Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the imagery of walls illustrates the boundaries that exist between people and communities on both an institutional and interpersonal level. In Butler’s near-future apocalyptic environment, the obstacles that the protagonist must face are merely an exaggeration of the United States’ current institutions and policies and the subsequent psychological effects. The protagonist, Lauren Olamina, encounters myriad boundaries in her physical and spiritual journey for liberation and prosperity. She is, first and foremost, restricted by the local boundaries imposed by the apocalyptic equivalent of gated communities. She is imprisoned by the walls of her own community and later ostracized by the walls

In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral,” he introduces the reader to a very meaningful theme. As the mood develops throughout the story, it is easy to see the message that is uncovered through the experience. Because of the husband’s ability to mature from being judgmental, to patient, then understanding, the reader receives a new view of the story and the helpful, life-changing experience that it conveys to Bub’s life. Throughout Bub’s experience, Carver uses great diction to transport each detailed line of context to show exactly why things occur the way they do. This is important to every reader to be certain that the correct message is received. One should always remember that it is not about what is on the outside, but the inside is what counts. This is also a perfect example of the popular quote “never judge a book by its cover.”

What is the driving force for humanity to form civilizations and live in homes? Is it to have a protective structure from the wild? Why do humans act the way they do? Human nature is a natural response to the fear that guides humanity to form the societies we see today. Fear can be defined as an emotional response to possibility of being in danger or being anxious. Thus, the fear of being unprotected from the weather, wild animals or insects, and people we are unfamiliar with has led societies to be built. In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls tells a different story of her untraditional upbringing. Jeannette Walls uses events in her past that exemplify this fear to pivot the narrative and keep the reader’s attention.

I’ve become a captive in my own household. Every night I lay silently in bed, terrified by the hollow creaking in the stairwell under traitorous feet. For the past month I have listened to the purring of engines, the sputtering of gasoline before sudden dampening at the turn of a key. I have witnessed the arrival of strangers, the advent of enemies of the Fish — dimmed porch lights emblazoning their

At the front of the building two guards are guarding the entrance; they both identically wear the same type of robust armour which consists of a black padded suit and helmet. Between them, they hold shredded rifles that people around have intensely learned to fear due to their clear magnified presentation. The entrance is a giant gaping hole that has been overwhelmingly barricaded, which symbolises that this place is of upmost importance to someone, that someone did make a brief appearance once, his facial expression resembled the look of a crocodile which caused people to tremble back into the darkness in

Our potential to meet a particular need or want can be jeopardized by over thinking, in Mohun Dampier’s case the wall that divides the two adjoining room limits his want and needs to become reality. The article “beyond the wall” by ambrose Bierce illustrates how the wall led to Mohun’ misery. Additionally, the visitation of the narrator help to show result of Mohun’s struggles, for instance, the environment in which Mohun lives, the time and the weather condition during the narrator’s visit.

We also see walls/doors as a symbol that is ensuring the isolation of the characters. Each character will be analyzed through the text first, and then I will analyze using other critics’ perspective on the issue.

The barricades create both a pathway for movement and restriction. The barriers on Sproul Plaza resemble similar traits to Bruno Latour’s writing, In Mixing Humans and Non Humans Together: The Sociology of a door-closer, where Latour provides an abstract narrative of anthropomorphizing a door-closer, and discusses both the role and the effect non-human things can have on humans. Latour begins his essay with the description of walls without doors, and how a wall is able to keep both humans and nonhumans inside or outside of itself a little bit too well, and this is where the need for a door came from, and rejected the thought of simply leaving a hole in the wall. One way which Latour anthropomorphizes the door-closer is by stating, “The door-closer

Some people might think this article is about the conflict between the man and the doorkeeper, because what it seen like to many readers is that the doorkeeper tells the man he is not allow to enter the gate. Yet, what really stops him is the man’s fear toward the doorkeepers. To him, the doorkeeper at the gate is tough enough that he does not dare to go inside the gate even when the doorkeeper said he can go in without permission. Because of the external conflict that the man has, it has stopped him from succeed. Moreover, the man does not deserve sympathy since he is letting his life dictated by

Gordimer divulges symbolism to how the couple is attentive caused by the possibilities of going outside the lines, from beyond the fence of society. The couple identifies the “outsiders” as riots other than individuals within the gated community. “It was not possible to insure the house, the swimming pool or the car against riot damage.” { Gordimer, 2}