Symbol Analysis
Obviously she's the main character and a huge part of this poem, but is the Lady of Shalott a major image? Lancelot is almost buried in description, but we hear almost nothing about the Lady herself. Hair color, eyes, height? Those things aren't all crucial, but they'd help us to build a mental picture of our main character. In some ways, it feels like the speaker is trying to hold back an image of the Lady, to make her deliberately hard to imagine.
<span><span>Line 18: The first time we hear her name is as the closing line of the second stanza. We're going to hear the same thing a lot more before the poem is over. The Lady's name is a refrain that the speaker uses over and over. Her name almost starts to hypnotize us, like a magical spell.</span><span>Line 71: Don't worry, we won't take you through all of the spots where the poem talks about the Lady, but we thought this one was worth mentioning. This is the place where the Lady admits her frustration with her life, and says she is "half sick of shadows." While we still don't get an image of her face, we can feel the strength of her personality in this moment, a glimmer of the independence and strong will that is about to blossom.</span><span>Line 153: This is the end of the Lady's transformation, the moment of her death. She has moved from slavery and imprisonment to freedom, but it has cost her everything. Before she sang, now she is quiet. She was warm, now she is frozen. All of these are powerful images of loss and change. Eventually she becomes a sort of statue, a pale shape in a coffin-like boat.</span></span>
Answer:
Esperanza experiences shame and embarrassment, like the nun that makes her feel ashamed about where she lives when she wants to eat at school. She was also embarrassed about her shoes at the party. When Esperanza has her first job, she is embarrassed because she doesn't know whether to stand up or sit down, and she eats her lunch in the bathroom.
Explanation:
Esperanza's shame is self-imposed. People do not try to make Esperanza feel bad. Even with the nun, Esperanza gets herself out of shame once she gets to the canteen. To succeed, Esperanza must overcome society's obstacles and also her own feelings of shame.
Answer:
Destroying
Explanation:
If you measure the destruction to creation ratio, it's dramatic. In order to create, humans destroy. Examples? Long ago, humans started the "slash-and-burn" technique. It destroyed forests so that man could farm. Even today we still witness the destruction of forests and ecosytems. Man has caused over 160 extinctions of various species in the last decade. Our history is littered with war and chaos. Even from that chaos rose the famous quote- "Rome wasn't built in a day, but it was burned in one." Looking at our history, and even the status quo, it's easy to come to the conclusion- we are better at destruction.
Answer:
in a thank you note to a friend
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