Descriptive Writing Challenge

    By clearing away the white speckles, which were embraced by the tint of the entirety of the colour spectrum, dotted the dusty cloth, the sun razed the vast night sky to a radiant rising of a red streaked sky. Within the beating of his breast, a young lad, struck silent, lacking a sufficient desire to obtain the stars, despairs over, in an overly familiar manner, the burning of the darkness. He, silenced by the dwindling of the celestial fragments, like an aged man sitting on his porch when the roosters cry, watches the night wither away into a brilliantly blinding light. Closing his eyes to the darkness that lays dormant within his mind, he embarks upon, in a senseless state, a cognitive journey towards where he yearns to find his answer.

Poem Summary (In the Metro)

In the Metro is about falling in love but tied down to a spouse and family. A man falls in love with a woman who passes by but “[they’ll] never meet again”(1). Only by looking at “her [go] her way”(4) does he feel sad. She is whisked away in the crowd of people “just as a river”(8). The man who is “crucified to family duties”(9) is helpless as she leaves because he already has a family to return to. He cannot do anything for falling in love with the woman in the metro because he is married to another woman.

Poem Summary (Swans)

The Wild Swans at Coole

“The Wild Swans at Coole” presents a middle aged man visiting a certain lake during twilight to watch the swans. Having Ben the “nineteenth autum”(7) to be visiting, he watched “nine and fifty”(6) swans play with the surface of the lake. He “looked upon those brilliant creatures”(13) while being heartbroken with a sore heart. The swans continue to innocently “wander where they will”(23) with their lovers by their side. The adult immerses himself in these “mysterious, beautiful”(26) birds. Lastly, the man wonders if when he “awake[s] some day”(29) if those birds will have flown away.

Rebel Still Frame Analysis

At the Abandoned Mansion

The frame, from Rebel without a Cause, where Jim, Judy, and Plato are standing on the stairs in the abandoned mansion, suggests that Plato has a desperate yearning for parental figures in his life. Plato is portrayed as a young teenager that had mental instability. This could most likely be caused by the fact that Plato. Jim is shown to be looking up at Judy and Judy looking back at Jim, but Plato is standing below them and watching them. Plato is expressed to be third wheeling next to Jim and Judy because of where he is positioned.

There had been an absence of parental figures in his life due to certain unknown reasons, yet here Plato is looking up at Jim and Judy pretending to be a couple. Plato’s relationship to Jim is like father to son by the fact that Plato relys and wants to be with Jim constantly. Jim and Judy are conversing and pretending to be buying the house. Plato is looking up at the couple happily because of the absence of parents he had before he came across Jim and Judy.  Also, Plato views them as parents or guardian figures because he asks Jim if could enter the house. Plato says, “Let me in.” It could be interpreted as Plato asking to let him into their, Jim’s and Judy’s, life. He wanted to be apart of something he never had before. His yearning for parental figures grew when he was with Jim and Judy because of their relationship. Seen in the frame, Plato lit three candles and after entering the house. The candelabra Plato holds symbolizes the trio of misfits that created an new, unlikely family.

Even though Jim, Judy, and Plato are portrayed as a family consisting of misfits, Plato is third wheeling in the situation. Judy and Jim and looking at each other, which blocks out Plato from interfering with the newly created relationship they created together. Plato is yearning to be part of what they have, but the two of them share something else that he cannot take part in. He is close, but at an arm’s length distance away. Plato’s role within their make believe family is the child. Jim and Judy pretend to act as their parents. They believe that their parents despise children. Plato, in the misfit family, is suggested as the child of the trio. This makes Plato immediately a third wheel because of how Jim and Judy portray their parents, including their parents’ believed dislike of children. Judy has her back to the camera and she is only looking at Jim in the frame. It gives a bit of distance between her and Plato because they haven’t bonded as strongly as Jim and Plato have. This also might explain the idea that Plato is third wheeling next to JIm and Judy.

Lord of the Flies Analysis (Simon)

         In the book Lord of the flies, Golding uses imagery to emphasize the growth of Simon from his helpful self and his transformation into a mysterious prophet figure through his interactions with the Lord of the Flies. On the beach, when Ralph and Piggy conversed about their situation, Ralph acknowledges that Simon had “done as much as [he had]” while “all the rest [had] rushed off” (54). Simon has worked diligently for the sake of the order that had been created on the island. He was “always about” (55) by either helping build the shelters or help pick fruit for the younger kids. Although he is a helpful assistant, Simon, mysteriously, is noted to be alone in a secret canopy during the night: “Simon dropped the screen of leaves into place… The candle-buds stirred… The white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air” (57). During this time, Simon has frequently visited this spot, which is described with luscious dream-like aspect. His reputation changes slightly because he is alone in the forest by himself when none of the other boys are willing to venture into the forest at night. His character developed and drastically changed when he walked up the mountain and talked to the Lord of the Flies: “ ‘You don’t want Ralph to think you’re batty,’ … ‘There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me,’ ” (143). His illusionary conversation with the Lord of the Flies assists him in reaching a final conclusion about the beast. He becomes a prophet figure in the sense that he could have released the fear of the beast from the boys, yet in the moment he is brutally murdered “on [his] knees in the center, [his] arms folded over [his] face” (152). Most interestingly is the way Simon is taken out to sea: “The water rose farther and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness” (154). A halo was formed by the phosphorescence around Simon’s head giving him a prophet or godly image. It is as if the boys had lost the symbol to free themselves from their imaginary terror. Simon has not changed drastically from the start of the novel but his meaning throughout the story does change from a helpful assistant to prophet figure.

Hunters' imagery

Yah Yah Yah Simon
8-10 quotes of Simons's development
Include page numbers

Evidence:

His shelter in the woods
"Simon spoke from inside the shelter. 'Up a bit'"(50).
"'Simon. He helps.' He pointed to the shelters.
'All the rest rushed off. He's done as much as I have. Only--'"(54)
"Simon dropped the screen of leaves back into place. The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees." (57)
"Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity..." (103)
"Supimon had passed through the area of fruit trees but today the little s had been too busy with the fire on the beach and they had not pursued him there."(132)
"'You are a silly little boy,' said the lord of the Flies, 'just an ignorant, silly little boy.'"(143).
"The beast on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise, something about a body on the hill."(152).
Willing to go into the woods at night(volunteer)
Lord of the flies meeting
Simon's death
Corpse goes to sea

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