I thought the first poem, Richard Cory was actually a pretty good poem overall. I was interested the whole time and even though it ended in a very shocking and crazy way, I still thought that it was a great poem. I really do not like suicide, and it is not a subject that I like to talk about because it almost makes me uncomfortable. I always think that it is crazy that the people that usually commit suicide are the ones that have everything going for them and they have everything they want, just like it was in Richard Cory. Richard Cory had everything that he wanted or could ever have, and all of the people in the town looked to him and adored him. I think that he was the "hero' in this town at the beginning, because everyone looked to him and adored him. "Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentlemen from the sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim" (Robinson 575). You can see that everyone here looked up to him and just knew he was great.
I think that I see realism the most in Richard Cory. I think that the man in this story had a great life, and just like other people was willing to give it all up because he was selfish. "And he was rich- yes, richer than a king- And admirably schooled in every grace" (Robinson 575) I think that this statement right there shows us realism, because his life depicted was really a great life, and he had everything that he could ever want.
The Miniver Cheevy was another interesting poem, and one that was also very depressing. I thought it was depressing because Cheevy, instead of enjoying life, was always wishing that he had never been born, because he wanted to be born in the medieval times. "Miniver loved the days of old, When swords were bright and steeds were prancing" (Robinson 576). I think that this was kind of weird, but at the same time he was using a good imagination. I just do no think I would want to be born during that ttime.
Miniver Cheevy and Richard Cory were both over all okay, but they were both depressing kind of. I think they both shared realism, and in both stories the main character was not happy with the life that they were living. In Richard Cory, he had everything in the world and everyone looked up to him, but he was still unhappy enough about something to commit suicide. We never found out why he committed suicide, but he did for some reason. In Miniver Cheevy, he was just being weird and wishing that he was not alive, because if he was alive he wanted to be alive during the medieval times. I thought that in Miniver Cheevy, the main character really seemed childish, because he wanted a life with swords, and I mean that is just really not realistic.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. "Miniver Cheevy" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 576. Print.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. "Richard Cory" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 575. Print.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Paul Laurence Dunbar – Douglass and We Wear the Mask
I really liked reading Paul Laurence Dunbar's writing We Wear The Mask. I thought it was great and one that a lot of people can relate to at some point in their lives. I thought that this poem was a great examples of realism. "Realism is the attempt to depict life as it actually exists, not as the author wants it to be in the present or the future, or imagines it was in the past. A realist carefully chooses details that illustrate this vision" (Werlock). I think that is what is cool about realists is they are not afraid to say what they need to say, because they just lay it al out there for people how it really is. During this time, writers had just turned from romanticism to realism, but their was a reason for that. "Writers during this period were turning away from romanticism because they wanted to write about something that was closer to ordinary life ("Regionalism" 487). I think the reason that they were turning away from romanticism, because they were going through the crazy things in the wars and just wanted to share with people the truth that was going on. I saw realism in this poem when Paul Laurence Dunbar said, "WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile" (Dunbar 571) I think that what he was trying to say here was that we wear this mask that hides are face because we do not want people to see the things that we are going through or that something is bothering us. I think that Dunbar was just trying to say the truth about what people were thinking then, and how they felt ashamed in front of people. I think that a lot of people can relate to this. I know sometimes we all are ashamed at some point of something that we have done, so we wish that we could just wear a mask and pretend that no one knows.
Douglass was a pretty good poem, but I did not enjoy it as much as We Wear The Mask. This Poem, Douglass, was about how Paul Laurence Dunbar wished that Frederick Douglas was alive, and he was sharing with him the things that were going on right then with everything. Dunbar stated, "Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days, Such days as thou, not even thou didst know, When thee, the eyes of that harsh long ago, Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways, And all the country heard thee with amaze. Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow, The awful tide that battled to and fro; We ride amid a tempest of dispraise" (Dunbar 571). I know that this poem is realism, because Dunbar was sharing with this dead person, or imagining he was, about how the country was falling on evil days and how he thought the country was going down hill. I thought this was realism, because he was sharing the real life things that were happing to the country in Dunbar's eyes. "Realists did not want to transcend reality, but to show the experiences that we go through everyday" ("Regionalism" 287). "Realism is the attempt to depict life as it actually exists, not as the author wants it to be in the present or the future, or imagines it was in the past. A realist carefully chooses details that illustrate this vision" (Werlock).
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. "Douglass" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 570. Print.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. "We Wear the Mask" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 571. Print.
Regionalism and Realism." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Douglas FIsher, Beverly A. Chin, and Jacqueline J. Royster. American Literature ed. Coulmbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 487. Print.
Werlock, Abby H. P. "realism." The Facts On File Companion to the American Short Story, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2009. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=5&iPin= Gamshrtsty0575&SingleRecord=True (accessed January 25, 2011)
Douglass was a pretty good poem, but I did not enjoy it as much as We Wear The Mask. This Poem, Douglass, was about how Paul Laurence Dunbar wished that Frederick Douglas was alive, and he was sharing with him the things that were going on right then with everything. Dunbar stated, "Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days, Such days as thou, not even thou didst know, When thee, the eyes of that harsh long ago, Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways, And all the country heard thee with amaze. Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow, The awful tide that battled to and fro; We ride amid a tempest of dispraise" (Dunbar 571). I know that this poem is realism, because Dunbar was sharing with this dead person, or imagining he was, about how the country was falling on evil days and how he thought the country was going down hill. I thought this was realism, because he was sharing the real life things that were happing to the country in Dunbar's eyes. "Realists did not want to transcend reality, but to show the experiences that we go through everyday" ("Regionalism" 287). "Realism is the attempt to depict life as it actually exists, not as the author wants it to be in the present or the future, or imagines it was in the past. A realist carefully chooses details that illustrate this vision" (Werlock).
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. "Douglass" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 570. Print.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. "We Wear the Mask" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 571. Print.
Regionalism and Realism." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Douglas FIsher, Beverly A. Chin, and Jacqueline J. Royster. American Literature ed. Coulmbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 487. Print.
Werlock, Abby H. P. "realism." The Facts On File Companion to the American Short Story, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2009. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=5&iPin= Gamshrtsty0575&SingleRecord=True (accessed January 25, 2011)
Chief Joseph – I Will Fight No More Forever
"Joseph was chief of the Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the Wallowa Valley in Northwest Oregon. In 1877 the Nez Pierce were ordered to a reservation, or special land reserved for Native Americans. The Nez Pierce refused to go. Instead, Chief Joseph tried to lead 800 of his people to Canada. Fighting the U.S. Army all along their 1100 mile journey, they crossed Idaho and Montana. They were trapped just forty miles from Canada. After a five-day fight, the remaining 431 remaining Nez Perce were beaten. It was then, on October 5, 1877 at Bears Paw, that Chief Joseph made his speech of surrender" (Manuel).
The time that Chief Justice was going through, was a time filled with many hardships for the Indian tribes. The Indian tribes were struggling in that time because they just wanted to live their lives on the reservations that were their's but they could not even get that. The reason this whole speech happened was because the government was trying to move all of Chief Justice's people to a place where he did not want to go. I have not seen hero's in the past stories, but I think that Chief Justice was a true hero in this story, because he was helping out his people.
After Chief Joseph had gone through a bunch of terrible things in this war, and was losing a lot of people, he finally delivered this speech, "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" (Manuel).
I think that it is pretty obvious that this speech that Chief Justice gave was a great example of realism. Chief Justice was going through a lot at that point, and was just ready to be honest and lay it all out there. I mean he was sick of watching all of his people get hurt by the US, and he finally just told them that he was tired of all of this, and he just wanted to stop and make sure that his people were ok. "My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food" (Manuel). I think this is a good example of realism, because he had to be real and also honest with these people so they knew what he was really going through. He was not interested in messing around anymore, and he was all about getting to the point. The Chief just wanted them to know what it would feel like to be them right now. Chief Justice ended the speech with, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" (Manuel). I mean honestly, Chief Justice could not be any more serious than he was in this statement right here. That last sentence in his speech was a great way to end the speech on a realism note. He was not trying to hide any of his feelings or walk around on pins and needles, he was just all about getting to the point and being realistic with the people. He said he was not going to fight ever again, and he knew he needed to do that for his people.
Manuel, David. "Chief Joseph." Welcome to Georgia State University. Web. 17 Feb. 2011..
The time that Chief Justice was going through, was a time filled with many hardships for the Indian tribes. The Indian tribes were struggling in that time because they just wanted to live their lives on the reservations that were their's but they could not even get that. The reason this whole speech happened was because the government was trying to move all of Chief Justice's people to a place where he did not want to go. I have not seen hero's in the past stories, but I think that Chief Justice was a true hero in this story, because he was helping out his people.
After Chief Joseph had gone through a bunch of terrible things in this war, and was losing a lot of people, he finally delivered this speech, "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohulhulsote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" (Manuel).
I think that it is pretty obvious that this speech that Chief Justice gave was a great example of realism. Chief Justice was going through a lot at that point, and was just ready to be honest and lay it all out there. I mean he was sick of watching all of his people get hurt by the US, and he finally just told them that he was tired of all of this, and he just wanted to stop and make sure that his people were ok. "My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food" (Manuel). I think this is a good example of realism, because he had to be real and also honest with these people so they knew what he was really going through. He was not interested in messing around anymore, and he was all about getting to the point. The Chief just wanted them to know what it would feel like to be them right now. Chief Justice ended the speech with, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" (Manuel). I mean honestly, Chief Justice could not be any more serious than he was in this statement right here. That last sentence in his speech was a great way to end the speech on a realism note. He was not trying to hide any of his feelings or walk around on pins and needles, he was just all about getting to the point and being realistic with the people. He said he was not going to fight ever again, and he knew he needed to do that for his people.
Manuel, David. "Chief Joseph." Welcome to Georgia State University. Web. 17 Feb. 2011.
Edgar Lee Masters – Spoon River Anthology
I thought that Edgar Lee Masters writing was pretty interesting . I think the reason I like it the most when I was reading some things about him in our book, I realized that there was some pretty cool things about him that I would have never guessed. The one that is the by far the best is, "Edgar Lee Masters was raised in Petersburg, Illinois" (Meet). I live 7 miles from Petersburg, Illinois, I mean that is pretty awesome. Abraham Lincoln lived right around there too, so I bet they probably knew each other. It is amazing the things that I keep learning about the state I live in, and also the town that i live really close to! I also read in the information, that he had a couple of really great writers that were the ones that he said influenced him the most to write. "He read works by Charles Dickens and Ralph Waldo Emerson.. Those good and talented writers helped him to establish that he wanted to become a writer also" (Meet).
I did not know at first what Spoon River Anthology was, but then when I got to reading I really realized what it was. Spoon River Anthology was not just a story or a poem it was a book of many poems and memoirs of people around that area of the author. I think that this shows us that these poems of the Spoon River Anthology show us a lot of regionalism and a also realism too. I think they show regionalism, because all the poems were about a town that all of the different people were apart of. It also goes into details about some of the deaths of these people in this town. I thought it was cool to see the how he showed all of the townspeople always working together. The time that I saw realism was when the character in the book was talking about how she had raised twelve children and ended up losing eight. "Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children, eight of whom we lost" (Masters 516) I thought that this was realism, because she was just being honest and saying how her life really was and the bad things she had went through by losing children. She was just sharing all about her marriage, her kids, and her life and all they go through showing us that they are just everyday people just like everyone else. "I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, and not a single regret" (Masters 517). I think Edgar Lee Masters ended this poem with a great clip. He ended this with a little clip of realism describing the woman's life. I like how she sad that she had a lot of memories and no regrets. I think that is great, and that is also how life should be.
I think that Edgar Lee Masters works in Spoon River Anthology were pretty good, and writing a book of poems is actually kind of cool. I think that it was also cool that his writings all tied together.
"Meet Edgar Lee Masters." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffery D. Wilhelm. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw Hill, 2009. 514. Print.
Masters, Edgar Lee. "Lucinda Matlock." American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 516. Print.
Masters, Edgar Lee. "Fiddler Jones." American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 517. Print.
I did not know at first what Spoon River Anthology was, but then when I got to reading I really realized what it was. Spoon River Anthology was not just a story or a poem it was a book of many poems and memoirs of people around that area of the author. I think that this shows us that these poems of the Spoon River Anthology show us a lot of regionalism and a also realism too. I think they show regionalism, because all the poems were about a town that all of the different people were apart of. It also goes into details about some of the deaths of these people in this town. I thought it was cool to see the how he showed all of the townspeople always working together. The time that I saw realism was when the character in the book was talking about how she had raised twelve children and ended up losing eight. "Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children, eight of whom we lost" (Masters 516) I thought that this was realism, because she was just being honest and saying how her life really was and the bad things she had went through by losing children. She was just sharing all about her marriage, her kids, and her life and all they go through showing us that they are just everyday people just like everyone else. "I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, and not a single regret" (Masters 517). I think Edgar Lee Masters ended this poem with a great clip. He ended this with a little clip of realism describing the woman's life. I like how she sad that she had a lot of memories and no regrets. I think that is great, and that is also how life should be.
I think that Edgar Lee Masters works in Spoon River Anthology were pretty good, and writing a book of poems is actually kind of cool. I think that it was also cool that his writings all tied together.
"Meet Edgar Lee Masters." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffery D. Wilhelm. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw Hill, 2009. 514. Print.
Masters, Edgar Lee. "Lucinda Matlock." American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 516. Print.
Masters, Edgar Lee. "Fiddler Jones." American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 517. Print.
Mark Twain – Two Views of the River
Before I even read Two Views of the River by Mark Twain, I already knew that it was going to be based on regionalism. I just knew with river being in the title that that was going to be regionalism. Mark Twain, like the frog story that he wrote was really using his imagination in this story also. He was just turning the river into some different, crazy things in his mind. I think once again, Mark Twain is trying to distract all of the people in this time from all of the things that were going on in their lives with the war and all that went along with that that was going on. I thought that this story was a lot easier to follow along with, and the dialect was one that I could actually handle. The best part of this story was just the creative imagination of Mark Twain, and the whole time while reading this story i was just wishing I had half of the imagination he did to write a story like this.
"Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me" (Twain 504). I think this passage right here shows us that there is regionalism in this short story. As it says in our American Literature textbooks, "The writers attempted to show the landscape, customs, speech, and other culture details of that chosen or their chosen region" ("Regionalism" 487). I think this story does show the landscape. Mark Twain takes a piece of landscape and just really describes it in a way that is really creative. I think the other thing is that this river is a landmark that was not only a big deal to him, but also to the people around him and they could really understand where he was coming from. I also saw some points that made me think that this story also had a hint of naturalism writing in it. "Naturalism writers believed that we, humans, are shaped by heredity and environment. Naturalists were also the ones to believed that we were dominated by economic, social, and natural forces" ("Regionalism" 487). "The world was new to me, and I had never seen anything like this at home. But as I have said, a day came when I began to cease from noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face; another day came when I ceased altogether to note them" (Twain 505). Right here in that last passage was where I saw naturalism. I think that the character really thought that he was being shaped by his environment which was the river, that I do not think he could go on without.
Twain, Mark. "Two Views of the River" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 504-505. Print.
"Regionalism and Realism." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Douglas FIsher, Beverly A. Chin, and Jacqueline J. Royster. American Literature ed. Coulmbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 487. Print.
"Regionalism and Realism." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Douglas FIsher, Beverly A. Chin, and Jacqueline J. Royster. American Literature ed. Coulmbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 487. Print.
"Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me" (Twain 504). I think this passage right here shows us that there is regionalism in this short story. As it says in our American Literature textbooks, "The writers attempted to show the landscape, customs, speech, and other culture details of that chosen or their chosen region" ("Regionalism" 487). I think this story does show the landscape. Mark Twain takes a piece of landscape and just really describes it in a way that is really creative. I think the other thing is that this river is a landmark that was not only a big deal to him, but also to the people around him and they could really understand where he was coming from. I also saw some points that made me think that this story also had a hint of naturalism writing in it. "Naturalism writers believed that we, humans, are shaped by heredity and environment. Naturalists were also the ones to believed that we were dominated by economic, social, and natural forces" ("Regionalism" 487). "The world was new to me, and I had never seen anything like this at home. But as I have said, a day came when I began to cease from noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face; another day came when I ceased altogether to note them" (Twain 505). Right here in that last passage was where I saw naturalism. I think that the character really thought that he was being shaped by his environment which was the river, that I do not think he could go on without.
Twain, Mark. "Two Views of the River" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 504-505. Print.
"Regionalism and Realism." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Douglas FIsher, Beverly A. Chin, and Jacqueline J. Royster. American Literature ed. Coulmbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 487. Print.
"Regionalism and Realism." Glencoe Literature. Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Douglas FIsher, Beverly A. Chin, and Jacqueline J. Royster. American Literature ed. Coulmbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 487. Print.
Mark Twain – The Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County
The Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County was a lot like other things that Mark Twain has wrote. I have not read a lot of books or stories by Mark Twain, but from the ones that I do remember, it always seems like Mark Twain has a difficult way of writing. The dialect in his writings just always confusing to me, and I always struggle to keep along. Mark Twain says things like "cal'klated' (Twain). I mean what is that? I am just not a fan of reading things that I can not really follow along well with, but Mark Twain is a great author and one that has affected a lot of literature today. Mark Twain, as we see in this short story and others from him, has a great imagination and makes the reader feel like they are right there following along with the characters. I thought it was kind of funny how our blogs went from talking about sad people, to crazy people, and now to jumping frogs. Personally I am a fan of the jumping frogs, because it is kind of nice to take a break from all of that crazy stuff that we have been reading.
The time period that Mark Twain wrote about was a totally different one from what we live in now. We think that we have to have all of the materials in the world to entertain us and to make us happy, but that was not the case for this short story. The characters in this book were happy with what they had and did not need expensive toys to make them happy. As you can read this short story you could see that they were happy and very entertained with a jumping frog. "He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'klated to edercate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump" (Twain 500). They could just sit, play, and watch their frogs.
I think that i notice realism the most from The Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calevera. Mark Twain was depicting life the way it really was, and sharing with people what they really did and what made them happy, even if it was a silly old jumping frog. "So he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump" (Twain 500). Like I said earlier, I always remember Mark Twain as one who had a great imagination. I think he was really trying to use his imagination a lot in this story. I think he was sick of all the things that were going on in the wars around him, and he was just ready to hear and write about something that would lift up a few spirits. I think he was honestly trying to distract some people from the crazy things that were going on in that period. He wanted them to read this and be so consumed in the story that they forgot about their worries and troubles for awhile. I think these are perfect examples of realism.
Twain, Mark. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 498-502. Print.
The time period that Mark Twain wrote about was a totally different one from what we live in now. We think that we have to have all of the materials in the world to entertain us and to make us happy, but that was not the case for this short story. The characters in this book were happy with what they had and did not need expensive toys to make them happy. As you can read this short story you could see that they were happy and very entertained with a jumping frog. "He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'klated to edercate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump" (Twain 500). They could just sit, play, and watch their frogs.
I think that i notice realism the most from The Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calevera. Mark Twain was depicting life the way it really was, and sharing with people what they really did and what made them happy, even if it was a silly old jumping frog. "So he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump" (Twain 500). Like I said earlier, I always remember Mark Twain as one who had a great imagination. I think he was really trying to use his imagination a lot in this story. I think he was sick of all the things that were going on in the wars around him, and he was just ready to hear and write about something that would lift up a few spirits. I think he was honestly trying to distract some people from the crazy things that were going on in that period. He wanted them to read this and be so consumed in the story that they forgot about their worries and troubles for awhile. I think these are perfect examples of realism.
Twain, Mark. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 498-502. Print.
Stephen Crane – from The Red Badge of Courage
To start of the Red Badge of Courage their was a little bit of figurative language that i quickly picked out. "He was like a carpenter who has made many boxes, making still another box, only there was furious haste in his movements" (Crane 493). So to put this use of figurative language into a simpler form, the author was just trying to say that he was getting a task done extremely fast that he had done before.
The Red Badge of Courage was an interesting story to read, to say the least. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane was about a man that has some anger issues, and he for some reason does not know how to control these issues very well. I thought it was just kind of weird how in this story this psycho man went from just working or doing something to being extremely angry. As I kept reading Crane's weird words I saw the what happens to this man when he gets angry. He finally breaks it down for us and helps us understand a little better just what is going on in this guys crazy mind and body. "Presently he began to feel the effects of the war atmosphere - a blistering sweat, a sensation that his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones. A burning roar filled his ears. Following this came a red rage. He developed the acute exasperation of a pestered animal, a well-meaning cow worried by dogs. He had a mad feeling against his rifle, which could only be used against one life at a time.... His impotency appeared to him, and made his rage into that of a driven beast. Buried in the smoke of many rifles his anger was directed not so much against the men whom he knew were rushing toward him A against the swirling battle phantoms which were choking him, stuffing their smoke robes down his parched throat" (Crane 493).
I really did not know quite what to think after i read this passage. This guy did some weird things when he got mad, and he turned into some crazy things. I did realize that this was obviously under the category of realism. The story is depicting this guys life, and the author Stephen Crane is trying to show the crazy emotions of this psycho guy. Not only did I pick up a lot of realism things in this passage, but I also picked up a hint of naturalism. "Naturalist authors were largely interested in maintaining Darwin's suppositions that human beings were soulless creatures..bereft of free will, whose mannerisms and behavior resulted primarily from their heredity and the influences of a capricious environment" (Sommers). I did pick up some similarities from both this definition and The Red Badge of Courage. I really thought that this character was a soulless, crazy person. I mean this guy goes from just being a little angry at something and before you know it he is going crazy and acting like a beast or something. I mean that is not something that you read about a lot or even see for that matter. He was different from most people, being that he could not control his anger or his tempers. He was just doing whatever he wanted, and his anger it was showed us that he fits underneath the naturalist category also.
Crane, Stephen. "from The Red Badge of Courage." American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 493. Print.
Sommers, Joseph Michael. "Naturalism." In Maunder, Andrew. Facts On File Companion to the British Short Story. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Feb 16, 2011.
The Red Badge of Courage was an interesting story to read, to say the least. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane was about a man that has some anger issues, and he for some reason does not know how to control these issues very well. I thought it was just kind of weird how in this story this psycho man went from just working or doing something to being extremely angry. As I kept reading Crane's weird words I saw the what happens to this man when he gets angry. He finally breaks it down for us and helps us understand a little better just what is going on in this guys crazy mind and body. "Presently he began to feel the effects of the war atmosphere - a blistering sweat, a sensation that his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones. A burning roar filled his ears. Following this came a red rage. He developed the acute exasperation of a pestered animal, a well-meaning cow worried by dogs. He had a mad feeling against his rifle, which could only be used against one life at a time.... His impotency appeared to him, and made his rage into that of a driven beast. Buried in the smoke of many rifles his anger was directed not so much against the men whom he knew were rushing toward him A against the swirling battle phantoms which were choking him, stuffing their smoke robes down his parched throat" (Crane 493).
I really did not know quite what to think after i read this passage. This guy did some weird things when he got mad, and he turned into some crazy things. I did realize that this was obviously under the category of realism. The story is depicting this guys life, and the author Stephen Crane is trying to show the crazy emotions of this psycho guy. Not only did I pick up a lot of realism things in this passage, but I also picked up a hint of naturalism. "Naturalist authors were largely interested in maintaining Darwin's suppositions that human beings were soulless creatures..bereft of free will, whose mannerisms and behavior resulted primarily from their heredity and the influences of a capricious environment" (Sommers). I did pick up some similarities from both this definition and The Red Badge of Courage. I really thought that this character was a soulless, crazy person. I mean this guy goes from just being a little angry at something and before you know it he is going crazy and acting like a beast or something. I mean that is not something that you read about a lot or even see for that matter. He was different from most people, being that he could not control his anger or his tempers. He was just doing whatever he wanted, and his anger it was showed us that he fits underneath the naturalist category also.
Crane, Stephen. "from The Red Badge of Courage." American Literature Textbook. Columbus: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 493. Print.
Sommers, Joseph Michael. "Naturalism." In Maunder, Andrew. Facts On File Companion to the British Short Story. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Feb 16, 2011.
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