Examples of Literary Text Analysis

Examples of Literary Text AnalysisThe written news post spark so much in a per give-and-take. It apprise bring a psyche to begin a great imagination, render a person into a hero, villain, anything that person essentials to be. The written word can take a person to any part of the world with extinct so far leaving the comfort of your home. The written word breaks finished cultural barriers, gives a person former(a) perspectives. The written word can also be used to terry down those bridges people try to rise up over to get to the other status. The written word is like an creative person without an sourual painting. The writer takes a person into the future as sanitary as into the agone and back into the present. William Blake, put the art of imagination into silvery words, This world is a world of imagination and vision. But to eyes of the worldly concern of vagary, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he sees. (DiYanni, 2007 page 2200) Emotions transpire thr oughout for each one piece of work an spring has written. Repeated elements in action, gesture, dialogue, description, as well as shifts in direction, focus, time, place. The tour begins with a well known author Cathy song and her poetry disconnected Sister.Lost Sister by Cathy countersigng and the Bible the Prodigal SonThis level starts in a culture and identity-envisioning narrative. In chinawargon, even peasants named their initiatory daughters Jade-the stone that in the far fields could moisten the dry season. (Cathy Song, (DiYanni, 2007 pp 1188) in the beginning of this story, a father in China, has a daughter and is uplifted to name her Jade. This is background the tone from the attitude toward the daughter with love and taste from a father that is poor and works for a living. The story gives the antic of maybe the timeframe is placed in an ancient town where there could be different hearty conclaves. Known is when the writer says, even the peasants. The storyte ller goes on to explain the setting metaphor (could make men move mountains for the mend green of the inner hills glistening like slices of winter melon) Figurative Language, metaphoric all(prenominal)(a)y the narrator is plowing of the stone jade and what it means to men, and how they will relieve oneself this precious stone. Structuralism and Social denunciation is applied when the narrator goes into what was pass judgment of a daughter given the historical period. (And the daughters were grateful They never left field home. To move renouncely was a luxury stolen from them at birth. Pp 1189) Feminist Criticism In this line the interpretation is that the women are restricted to what they are allowed to do and not allowed to do. The narrator changes the daughters attitude from being grateful into feeling detain and serve upless for being a young girl that is born into this life. (Instead, they insert patience learning to walk in shoes the size of teacups, without breaking-t he crook of their movements as dormant as rooted willow, as redundant as the farmyard hens. Pp 1189)Lost Sister by Cathy Song and the Bible the Prodigal SonThis gives the reader the since that the daughter does not look forward to what she does day in and day out. In these lines, she is wishing she could go a sort somewhere better. The song goes on mentioning a sister thus far, this sister is on the other side of the ocean. (There is a sister across the ocean, who relinquished her name, diluting jade green with the unconsecrated of the Pacific. Pp 1189) this sister apparently did not like the restrictions put on her way of life so she did something about her situation and left China. In coincidence the in Acts the New Testament, the author Luke, The Prodigal son, did not like where he lived and so took upon himself to go to another country. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 27). This verse uses Flashback and Symbols (You find you need China your one fragile identification, a jade link handcu ffed to your wrist. You remember your stick who walked for centuries, footless and like her, you fool left no footprints, only exclusively because there is an ocean in between, the unremitting space of your rebellion.) (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 1190). some(prenominal) sisters hurl a conscience of an inner conflict one sister desires to entertain her family by staying in China, Acts the New Testament, the author Luke, Just like the oldest son in The Prodigal Son, Now the elder son was in the field, and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. In addition, the son said to the father Lo, these many years do I serve, neither transgressed also obeyed what you have command. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 27). The sister in the States split second back and is regretting leaving her life in China, she is finding out independence is not so free and this life is not what she probably had imagined. missy by Jamaica Kincaid and Alice footnote in Everyday spendThe similarities of these stories are the relationships that mothers and daughters have with each other. In the Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, it starts with a mother bighearted instructions on how the wash is supposed to be done. (Wash the white change state on Monday and put them on the stone heap wash the illusion frock on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry.) (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 397) There is no entry of the characters, no action, and no traditional plotline. In the story of Everyday utilization by Alice Walker, this story has a similar theme, a mother with two daughters narrates this story and how she interacts with each daughter. In similarities both stories are Anthropological each story gives a history behind the story. In Everyday practise Mrs. solelytson, starts out describing how her relationship is with her eldest daughter. Then the mother goes on telling about the day when Dee, the daughter came home from college. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 743) both stories give an allusion to w here the setting takes place. Girl, by Kincaid, the setting took place in their house, during the instruction on how to go by the house clean. (This is how you sweep a corner this is how sweep a all house this is how you sweep a yard (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 398)In Walkers story Everyday single-valued function The daughters have different bring in points on how they see their identities and on how they view their heritage. The conflict is over some heirloom quilts. The story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid continues with other instructions on how to become a Young woman should act like. (dont walk barhead in the hot sun cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil soak your little clothes right after you take them off.) (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 397) These values are passed on to their daughters which are frequently heard by mothers throughout the story especially in Jamaica Kincaids story ofGirl by Jamaica Kincaid and Alice Walker in Everyday UseGirl commands to help prevent her daughter from becomi ng a jade green. the slut that she is so bent on(p) on becoming.(DiYann, 2007, Pp 397) There is not much contrariety in a cultural relationship between mothers and daughters in the past to the present day. The mother wants to pass on the necessary cultural and object lesson practices and values that she was taught by her mother. In both points of view, the narrator is speaking in the first person. In Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, the mother is referring to herself as I for example the slut I know you are so bent on becoming and the slut I have warned you against becoming. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 397) Mrs. Johnson, an uneducated woman, tells the story herself. Mrs. Johnson said, I never had an education myself. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 745) The church raised money to help send Dee to shoal in Augusta, GA. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 744). The stories both depict a social and economic view on how life was. Girl by Jamaica Kincaid showed the rescue by how she brought to attention in pp 397 dont sing benn a in Sunday school you mustnt speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions. Critics appreciate the quality of how Kincaid and Walker represented the image of how mother and daughters bond and how powerful one person can effect ones life. The reader learns a particularly relationship operates in a colonial culture and in the deep south of Georgia. Both writers use the observation of life to validate their experiences in their own life. Both writers used this technique to authenticate oppressed group of people depress phase, black women. This is point of view is also shared with the oppressing of a group of people by the poetry by Langston Hughes moon Deferred and Woody Guthries poem This Land Is Your Land.This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie and Dream Deferred by Langston HughesThis put down is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island from the redwood forest, to the Gulf shoot waters This land was make for you and me. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 897) Woody Guthrie, started his poem out with a patriotic song that sets the tone for being proud of ones country. Compared to Hughes poem Dream Deferred, he starts questioning the American day- ideate. What happens to a dream deferred? (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 896) Gathrie, goes on in his poem stating As I walking the ribbon of highway I saw above me the endless skyway I saw downstairs me that golden valley This land was made for you and me. This stanza is pointing out that dreams and possiblities are possible. Nevertheless, in Hughes poem the question is not having the dream but points out that the narrator has the dream but because of cirumstances that is not knowing to the reader he goes on asking, Does it dry up like a rasien in the sun? (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 897) Or fester like a sore-and then run? This part of the poem in oness opioin is asking if he should put the dream aside for for a while but then it becomes to strong of a desire to make this dream come true it may effective come out in spite of the obscales in the way. On the contrary, in Guthries poem Ive roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling littoral of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was sound This land was made for you and me. When the sun came shining, and I was strolling, And the wheat fields beckon and dust clouds rolling, As fog was lifting voice was chanting This land was made for you and me. As I went walking, I saw a sign there, And on the sign it said No Trespassing. Here the narrator roams the United States however there are parts in theThis Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie and Dream Deferred by Langston HughesUnited States those are not free to roam. Guthrie, a radical, was inspired to write the song as an answer to Irving Berlins best-selling(predicate) God Bless America, which he thought failed to recognize that it was the people to whom America belonged. The words to This Land Is Your Land radiate Guthries assumption that patriotism, supp ort for the underdog, and class struggle were all of a piece. In this song, Guthrie celebrates Americas natural beauty and bounty, but criticizes the country for its failure to share its riches. Reflected in the poem least-known verse In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief position I seen my people As they stood hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me. (DiYanni, 2007, Pp 898) Woody Guthrie, This was material deliberately created to promote the war effort, expressing the ardent fervor of left-wing resistance to fascism. The poem Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes and the poem This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie, is clearly a supporter of the American culture to have change in how America views freedom for all. Langston Hughes poem Dream Deferred is expressing the same theme as Woody Guthrie has pointed out that words can transform a person into a hero, suppress a persons since of what is right and what is wrong. The imagery that is vi vidly written on physical composition touches a persons emotions to make things right or at least reflect on how the future can be changed. Both poems have a way of being a window through the construction of the poem so one can see the reality of what message they want to get across. Using irony and figurative speech help dominance each line to understand what the message was.ConclusionEven during the 1960s, American progressives continued to seek ways to fuse their love of country with their inverse to the governments policies. The March on Washington in 1963 gathered at the capital of Nebraska Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. famously quoted the words to My Country Tis of Thee, repeating the idiomatic expression Let freedom ring 11 times. (Dreier and Flacks, 2005) This tone is set through out Hughesand Guthrie poems and short stories and songs, seting the stage to get this message out that all men should be free to choose where they want to live and all men and women sho uld be free to pursue their dreams without another telling them what dream they should have. Along with woody guthries songs that freedom should be granted not just to the people that have money. But to all that do an honesty old age work and get paid equally. In all the short stories and poems that have been represented in this essay, the one thing that all of the authors have in common is their basic values, and economic and social equality to mass parcipation in politices. The desire to have free speech and civil liberties an eleminate the second-class citizenship and racial minorities.William Blake, put the art of imagination into such eloquent words, This world is a world of imagination and vision. But to eyes of the man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he sees. (DiYanni, 2007 page 2200) John Kotter wrote, The single biggest challenge in manging change is not strategy, structure, or culture, but just getting people to change their behavior. Kotter g oes on to say that muckle change their behaviors only when they are motivated to do so, and that happens when you speak to their feelings. These authors speak to ones feelings to motivate a person to make things right.