A Clean, Well-lighted Place-Hemingway Story vs. Film

The story and movie were similar but had many differences. In the movie much of the symbolism was lost in the story the old man sat in the only shaded area which showed despair and loneliness while in the movie that had the old man in the light probably so that we could see him better. Also the people who acted in it made it different since they were Irish or Scottish. Their accent made it difficult to understand what they were saying. All that had made a difference.

While the movie did not portray the story very well it had its advantages. The music in the movie had let us imagine the sadness much better than the story. But that was all that was good about the movie. If the adaptation hadn't lost much of the symbolism and also had different actors it would have been better.

Analysis of A Clean and Well-lighted Place-Hemingway

Author's Note: This is a Analysis of A Clean and Well-lighted Place-Hemingway. I am talking about 2 waiters in the story.

The two waters represent life. The younger waiter shows how the inexperienced(young people) show more rage and would lose their cool faster while the older waiter shows that the experience(old people) are more calm and have more wisdom. In this case the younger waiter lost his cool with the old man and got enraged about how he wouldn't leave so the young waiter made him leave and was talking about how the old man should have died. The older waiter knew why the old man was like that and he felt for him and wanted to let him stay to drink in the quiet place they call the cafe.

What Will Happen?

Author’s note: This is a prediction piece on the short novel Ransom of the Red Chief by O. Henry. It is on what will happen after that book has ended.

Mice allergic to cheese, policemen getting arrested are both examples of irony. Another example is this short novel. In Ransom of the Red Chief two people kidnap a kid, but soon find out the kid has them trapped. They ask for a ransom of money to the parents but the parents soon decline and offer them to take the kid off their hands for a price. Afterwards they run getting as far away from the kid as possible. That was where the short novel ended but the story does not have to end there as well.

After the two men run they will split up. One of the men will star earning a honest living while the other keep on kidnapping. Without the help from his partner the kidnapper keeps on failing. He loses all of his money soon and finally gets arrested for kidnapping. The partner hears of this and bails him and they start earning a honest living together continue the friendship they had.

Why I predict this is because the man who want to start earning a honest living was the one who suffered more from the kid. He did not want to go through that ever again so he quit and wanted to live honestly. The other man did not learn his lesson so he kept on trying to kidnap. He could not do it with just himself and fails and loses all of his money. He got arrested because after he became broke, the sheer desperation for money and made him less careful. The partner however still thought of his friend and he was lonely. He wanted his friend back and when he heard he got arrested he bailed him so that they could start living honestly together.

Background knowledge on what pain, desperation, and friendship can do to a person also helped predict this. When someone goes through lots of suffering because of something they would want to quit doing that. That is what happened to the person who suffered from the kid. He had enough of it and quit. Also when someone gets desperate they don’t think straight and they make mistakes. That is what happened to the person who lost all of his money. He got desperate and finally got caught kidnapping. Friendship can make people go out of their way to help their friends. That is the person who was making a honest living bailed his friend so that they could be with each other again.

That is what I predict happens to the kidnappers. The background knowledge helped predict what would happen because without it we would not know what their actions could have been. Pain, desperation, and friendship are all things that happened in the prediction and knowing how those have been a part of other books and movies helps. 

The Power of the Lion(Figurative Analysis)

Author’s note: This is an analysis on my lion poem. It is about the figurative language used in it.

Figurative language helps us imagine the words on the writing just like it did in this piece. All the uses of figurative language let us imagine the words clearly. It also helped make it fun in the process. Instead of having the lion be explained boringly, the lion was explained colorfully. The tone is praising because I am praising the lion for all the power he has. However the mood showed the readers that lion was a little bit cocky to have himself being explained like this.

Many types of Figurative language was used in this piece. Similes and metaphors helped us compare the lion to other things to know what the lion is like more precisely. Personification was to show how he was in a more fun way. Hyperboles helped us imagine his strength compared to the other animals. Onomatopoeia helped show us how he sounded. The allusion used reminded us of memories of a movie if we had seen it. Lastly the  alliteration helped the beat of the poem instead of having it be in a monotone voice. All these figurative languages hook us into reading the poem because we will like it more because of it.  

Parody poem

Author's note: This is a parody of the poem This is Just to Say. The tone is sarcastic and humorous.

You know your stash

Of cash

The was in

Your closet

I have used it

So that you don’t

Waste it on

Your sorry self

So I'm sorry

That you couldn’t

use the money

On your stupid self

What to do?

Author’s note: This is a conflict/resolution piece on the book Eagle Strike.

What would you do if you were a prisoner to a maniac and you had the chance to escape? Would do you run like a fawn escaping from a lion or would you be like Alex Rider? Alex hadn't run away scared, but he had stopped to look for evidence to put the psychopath away so that he would not hurt anyone else. The psychopath, Damian Cray, was trying to get rid of drugs forever by launching America's nuclear bombs at drug facilities all over the world. Alex got caught in that conflict when he had followed Yassen, an assassin working for Damian Cray.

Alex Rider is not your ordinary kid. When he saw the person who had killed his uncle, he knew there was a problem. Instead of running away he had set out to find out what was wrong. He knew that if he followed him that he would be in danger but he did it anyway which had saved millions of lives.

Quick thinking is a trait that Alex Rider has used a lot to save him. When he was trapped in a room with almost nowhere to go Alex hadn't let panic get to him. He had quickly examined the room to find a way out. When he got out he had come across many traps. He thought he would use them to play dead in front of the guards so that he could escape behind them. His quick thinking and led him to a solution which saved him from doom.

Not all of the solutions had been good in the book. The head of M16, a secret organization, had not believed Alex when he was told that the international pop star, who was considered a saint, was up to something. That had almost led to many nuclear bombs exploding in different places of the world which would have destroyed millions. Their solution to wait and see what would happen had put the world at risk.

Millions of lives were saved because Alex decided to go after Damian and stop him from launching the nuclear bombs by killing him. He knew he would be the only one to do it because since no one believed him, not even M16, the organization he has worked for in the past.

Analysis:

Figurative language helps explain the mood of a written piece really well and this piece was no exception. The tone was easy to see because the figurative language helped explain it. At the start of the piece it was showing that there was not much hope for Mudville. Then they had used figurative language to make Casey look like the savior and angel. Because of that our hopes would have gotten up but then was quickly destroyed in a pleasant way.

They had used things like anaphora to make the piece flow smoothly. That had made the piece much more interesting than having it in a monotone voice. Not only did they have anaphora, they had metaphors to explain things in a more fun way. Personification was a great way to explain things because it created a clear image of the thing being explained. All these are a figurative language. They helped the piece by making it more fun and in the process making it have a clear image of the idea being presented.