A Place to Socialize

A cafe, clean, and well lighted. In the story A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway is about two waiters having to stay late because of an old man drowning his sorrows in drink. The film someone made makes this story a little more dramatic and let someone understand it a little more. Some things that added suspense to this is the music in the beginning which sounded sad because the old man was drinking his sorrows away. Also when the young waiter kicked him out the music started playing again, I don't think it was for the old guy leaving but the older waiter not wanting the younger waiter to kick him out.

Although the music is interesting to talk about don't forget about the lighting and screenshots in this story's film. The lighting was confusing because cafes are supposed to be lit up all the time but half the bar was not lit. Also some of the lights in the cafe and around were very dim. Different Screenshots made this dramatic during some parts of the film. Also at some points to make it even more dramatic the screenshots would be at the waiters then the old man.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Question

A cafe, clean, and well lighted. This is what it is like in the story A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway. Some important quotes from this book are "He hung himself with a rope.", "How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty." and "He had a wife once too." I know these quotes are the most important quotes of the story.The quote "He hung himself with a rope." is important because it means he was taking his life because he is depressed. Also "How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty." is important because it means he isn't depressed because he can barely scrape by. And finally "He had a wife once too." because this means that he is drinking because he is depressed because his wife divorced him.

Cole's Symbolism

Author’s Note: This is my text analysis piece and I tried to make connecting within this piece.

Anger raging within Cole because someone snitched on him. In the book “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen there is a lot of symbolism and foreshadowing. Some examples of symbolism in this piece are the spirit bears fur, the rain after Cole gets mauled by the spirit bear and the “ancestor rock”.

Although talking about what symbolism is in this book I will explain what the symbolism means in this story. The color of the spirit bear’s fur is white and the bear is supposed to be peaceful. Also the rain after Cole gets mauled stands for sadness but it also stands for renewal because after this Cole becomes more peaceful because he realized that he can’t solve all of his problems from violence. Another piece of symbolism is Cole rolling the “ancestor rock” down the hill is suppose to represent him letting go of his anger everyday.

Even though the symbolism in this piece is interesting don’t forget about the foreshadowing. One example of foreshadowing is Cole seeing spirit bear because Cole thinks the spirit bear will attack him. Another is Garvey helping Cole after he burned the first cabin down because that should have been Cole’s only chance but Garvey believed that Cole could still prove himself.

All in all there is a lot of symbolism and foreshadowing in this book. The author did a good job at adding lots of symbolism and foreshadowing. Although I did not analyse every single piece of symbolism in this book, the ones that I talked about were the ones I thought were important.

Dreams

Dreaming for the future, making goals for later. This is a poem called "Dreams" by Langston Hughes. The overall tone of this poem is serious because it is saying that if someone gives up on their dreams then they will end up regretting it later. Some of the symbolism is the broken-winged bird which stands for vulnerability and loss of freedom.

A Wrinkle In Time

Imagine walking into a portal that would allow you to “tesser” to somewhere else quickly. In the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle three children named Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin experience this on their journey. Some themes that are in this book are bravery, adventure, and friendship. I know that these are some of the themes in this book.

Although talking about these themes can be useful i’m going to discuss how they fit into the book. Bravery fits into this book because they go on a journey to places far from earth to save their father. They don’t know what is going to happen or what is even happening while they are on this journey. They venture far from earth with three mysterious women who say they will help them.

Although Bravery is a theme in this book don’t forget about adventure. This book is definitely about adventure from them going to the woods to find the three women and then the women “tessering” them to certain locations. The places they go they can’t take it all in because they need to move as swiftly as they can. They almost end up getting taken over because of all the “tessering” they had to do.

Although adventure is a cool theme don’t forget about the theme of friendship. Friendship is a very important part in this story. If the theme of friendship wasn’t in this story then some of the people wouldn’t be able to be saved. The only reason everyone made it back alive was because of friendship especially for Charles Wallace.

All in all this story demonstrates the themes of bravery, friendship and adventure. The themes in this book make the story really excellent. In the story these themes help guide what will happen later.