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How are figurative language and imagery used throughout and what are some specific examples?
In addition to the methods mentioned above, describe the narration.
How did perceptions change throughout the story?
"And the tragedy started to penetrate through our bodies". This hardship that they are enduring has finally hit them and has sent this shock throughout themselves. It has given them a sense of no hope and that it will NOT get better from now on, but in reality it's getting worse as the days go on. The father figure is the story is also wasting away of the failure that has now overcome him.
ReplyDelete"frightened we heard your father saying: I want to kill them and kill myself...I want to finish it... I want to...I want
Is meant that he was done. He couldn't deal with this anymore he was done with the hardship, the heartache, the knowing they will die eventually. From disease or starvation, he was finished knowing the fact that he was unable to provide for them and give them food or protection. He had gone mad.
ReplyDelete1. Figurative language and imagery are used to give the reader a deeper sense of the emotions the characters are going through. The main example of figurative language are the oranges. The oranges symbolize a familiarity,Palestine, and seem to almost reflect the families emotions.
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3. The perception of the father's character changes from angry and heartbroken to deeper feelings of suicide and depression. He begins to neglect his family, the author saying, "We were the walls of his tragedy and we were the vicious who discover easily the meaning beyond his shouting in the early morning: “go to the hill and never come back before noon...” We knew that he wanted to distract us from asking for breakfast."
1. The use of the orange as a metaphor for their former life is spread thick through the whole piece. At the end when he says that the orange is wrinkled and dry it can be said that it saying that their former life is completely gone. When they were first leaving palestine the oranges were still fresh, and the memories were also sharp in their minds, but as they go on in their new life they start to forget, and it becomes their new reality.
ReplyDelete2. The narration is strange, very much third person. At most time it feels as though he, or his character, is not present at all, just watching, observing, with little to no additives. It is also not necessarily proper grammar, at times it sounds particularly rough and uncut, but it gives off so much emotion that it doesn't even really matter.
3. I think that everyone becomes a lot more jaded and beastly as the story goes on.
In The Land of the Sad Orange figurative language and imagery is used to convey the strong emotions of the characters to the reader. The figurative language that is used most in the story is metaphor. Two metaphors are "The road absorbed us among many other things", and "Night was awful, and the dark started to fall,bit by bit".The metaphors enhanced the simple events that occurred in the narrator's life to show the overall despair he feels. Frequent imagery in the story is the portrayal of an orange. The narrator describes the state of the orange as the state of his family. One depiction is "I had seen, in the same time that black pistol on the low table...near to it was the orange fruit... The orange was wrinkled and dry".
ReplyDeleteThe narration feels like third person. You can hear the feelings of the narrator through his descriptions but he only describes how the events affect the emotions of his family.
As the story progressed the narrator's perception changed from enduring to understand. In the beginning the narrator faced the tough changes with the mindset of getting through them with his family. But in the end he came to realize that no matter what the state of his family would've never stayed the same even with memories of their old life.