The Reasoning Behind Seriousness or Playfulness As a nation, the people weren’t prepared for the effects of warfare. Eleven million people being brutally murdered is certainly a surprise. Eliezer Wiesel and Guido both suffered through the Holocaust, where they both were deprived of their freedom. Guido is a positive character in the film, Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni. His son Joshua didn’t have much of a luicid Eliezer Wiesel is an actual survivor of the horrific event and author of the Nobel Peace Prize winning novel Night.…
Name: Samuel Huang Major Works Data Sheet This form must be typed. Title of the Work: The Bluest Eye Author: Toni Morrison Date of Publication: 1970 (2007) Genre: Novel…
That means that the painting is captivating. Color choice is great in both “Starry Night” and “Night hawk”. In “Starry Night” the colors make the painting unique. The painting uses contrast so the moon and stars stand out in yellow on…
The Planets is the most successful and arguably the best recognized composition of Gustav Holst. Although Gustav composed some outstanding works after The Planets, none of them achieved recognition of the same level as The Planets. The Planets was composed while Holst was working as a music master. Holst had done some works before The Planets, which he considered as failures and such failures made him desperately think of a genre topic that could be phenomenal for his ideas of composition of music. Gustov once stated, “The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.”…
Starry Night (1889) and Georges Rouault (French Fauvist/ Expressionist, b. 1871 – d. 1958) Head of Christ or Christ Mocked (1905) are examples of paintings which convey more than aesthetic interest or beauty. Through careful observation of key elements - colour, symbols, objects…
City Lights by Charlie Chaplin it is a great silent romantic comedy film, where the story has a great chronological connection with the main characters and the viewers. How does the editing style of the story and the key props such as the flowers add a meaning to the story City Lights by Charlie Chaplin? Based on the editing style such as the montage sequence, reaction shot and eye match, it reflects and help to symbolizes the love with out the important of money and physical appearance.…
Edvard Munch was born in Loten, Norway on December 12, 1863, but he and his family moved to Oslo when he was only a year old. In Oslo, he experienced many personal tragedies. When he was five, his mother died of tuberculosis, and his sister died of the same disease just ten years later. Another one of his sisters was institutionalized for most of her life for mental illness, and his brother died of pneumonia at the age of thirty. Raising his children alone and suffering from mental illness, Munch’s father instilled in his children a deep fear of hell and other issues.…
When I first read this, I couldn’t find a personal connection, yet it still drew me in. After reading it over and over, I realized the connection I had to this poem wasn’t something I did that the narrator of this poem did, or how I lived, this is a powerful, moving poem about women and all the work they do that they might not get credit for. It reminded me of my mom, and aunt, and grandma, and all of those types of women in my life. They work so hard on larger, and smaller things, and sometimes don’t always receive the acknowledgement they should. One thing I immediately saw when I read this poem, was the fact that the first stanza is all one sentence without and stops.…
Light skin, silky corn yellow hair, and clear crisp blue eyes. Who is to say this is what defines beauty. The Bluest Eye a novel by Toni Morrison is about a little eleven years old girl named Pecola Breedlove, in the 1930’s, her family and her two friends Frieda and Claudia who are sisters. Pecola believes she is ugly, and is regarded by many of the characters as such; but she believes that if she were to have a pair of blue eyes she will become beautiful, and in turn the ones around her would treat her without disdain.…
The words that Morrison uses to describe things throughout the book creates a very vivid and clear picture in my head. I thought this section was interesting but very disturbing to read at times. At one point in this section there were two black boys picking on Pecola, “It was the contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth” (Morrison 65). I thought it was interesting that they were teasing Pecola about the color of her skin even though they were black too.…
The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, displays the feminist ideologies and rights of women in a male privileged time period. Firstly, Sethe’s early life is spent as an oppressed slave on a plantation. She recalls, “...men and women were moved around like checkers” (Morrison 27). Sethe describes in vivid detail the life of slaves during this time where both women and men are prime examples of the “other”; the un-human members of society. In an attempt to save her children from slavery, Sethe sends them to Cincinnati to be raised by Baby Suggs.…
With the evident aspects of beauty expressed within the novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and its transformation within societal perception, it is apparent that black women have been seen as infinitesimal and wholly “invisible” in the eyes of society. Written in the late 60s, The Bluest Eye takes a sentiment into the lives of young black girls and how society’s perception can create devastating impressions on how they see themselves as well as the world itself. Morrison successfully creates a story around one interesting character and thus creates a transformation from what is to what could be. The word “invisible” is used to illustrate how the girls within the story felt as if they were imperceptible in the eyes of the world around them…
Observation: The poem I read was “Do Not Go into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas. It is about the narrator’s dying father and how he’s telling him to keep fighting for more time. “Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne is about the narrator who is dying insulting death and stating that a Christian lives on forever. Both of these poems rhymed. The poem by Dylan Thomas uses the word “rage” which means fighting.…
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, Published 1970 The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison focusing on how black children grew up in the early 1940s after the Great Depression. It contains a number of autobiographical elements. It is set in the town where Morrison grew up, and it is told from the point of view of a nine-year-old, the age Morrison would have been the year the novel takes place (1941). Like the MacTeer family, Morrison’s family struggled to make ends meet during the Great Depression.…
The Freedom from Want painting created by Norman Rockwell is the third installation of four oil paintings used to illustrate Franklin D. Rosevelt’s Four Freedoms. I initially choose to write about this painting since it evoked a feeling of happiness and pleasure. In this painting, there is an American Family, composed of 3 generations, gathered in their dining room to have Thanksgiving dinner and it’s apparent that the family is cheerful. The painting as it relates to the government advertising slogan “Freedom from Want” argues that each American person should be thankful for the freedoms granted to this nation and enable us to live out our God-given, natural right to freedom and happiness.…