Essay 3

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Carlos A. Beauchamp Iglesias
Prof. Leonardo Flores
English 3202
01 July 2007
“Hope” my little Angel

Does having a great life depends on how many good or bad situation we had in our life? There could be a lot of answer for these question. My personal answer is no. I think that the key of having a good or bad life depends on how we manage all these situations that happen through our life. Maybe good situations doesn’t need to be manage we only should enjoy them but the bad ones are different. These ones depending on how we manage them could make our life a little bitter or make us fall and these destroy our life. In these case there is only one thing that could help us standing up and keep that way in life and that is hope. I didn’t saw this until I read “ “Hope” is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson. If we analyze this poem we can find that not only she describe hope base on her own experience but she says that hope is Pease and we are going to see this step by step.
On the first stanza we can see that Emily Dickinson is saying that Hope is the thing with feather and the first we can think is that it is a bird. But she mention too that this thing is in our soul wish doesn’t make a lot of sense. If we think a little more and look at the title of the poem we can see that it’s a little spiritual and because of these I drop to the conclusion that she is talking about an Angel instep of a bird because Angels are
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represented as little children with wings. So in other words she is saying in the first stanza that Hope is an Angel in our soul.
By other way we know that Angels sings tune or harmonize without words and they never stop. We can see this very clearly in the last two line of the first stanza and on the first line of the second stanza.
On the second stanza is very important to support ma thesis and was the one that make me realize what this poem was about . Were E. Dickinson says “ sore must be the storm- That could abash the little Bird” we can see that she is saying in other words that the evil should be angry that could but it didn’t grieve the little Angel. And if we see on the quote were bird is wrote in capital letter that from my knowledge means that she is referring to other thing more important like in these case an Angel. In these stanza now she is speaking of her own experience with Hope.
Then in the last stanza wish is like continuation of the second stanza she continue talking of her experience with this little Angel that have been in her soul on very sad or depressing situation and on situation were she didn’t know what to do that Angel keep her walking straight and didn’t let her fall without asking anything from her.
After reading these analysis we can see that E. Dickinson is talking about Hope as Angels and there is evidence of these through the hole poem about these. It was a little bit difficult to make a connection between Hope and Angel the first time y read the poem but analyzing the poem, braking the poem in little peaces took me to the conclusion of it’s meaning.

The poem I choose is:

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—
by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—
And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be the storm—
That could abash the little Bird—
That kept so many warm—
I’ve heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

Essay #2: Comparative Analysis

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Carlos A. Beauchamp Iglesias

Prof. Leonardo Flores

English 3202

25 June 2007

Elements: connection between stories

Does story writers use elements as a way to identify them self ? This is a question were the only way of finding it’s answer is by reading two or more works of the same writer. Through the reading done in class we found that write have their own way of incorporate elements like symbolism, elements of narration , character types and many other. One author that capture my attention from the way he use elements in his stories was Ernest Hemingway. If we analyze Hemingway’s stories we can find that he use controlling characters types. This element make a very strong connection between Hemingway’s “A Very Short Story” and “Hills Like White Elephants” stories wish I’m going to compare base on the use of this element.

In both stories there is a situation between character were someone want the other to do something that he wants even when the other don’t want to or disagree. We can see this in “Hills Like White Elephant” were the man want to obligate the girl to have an abortion in a way like trying to make her the responsible of the abortion and not him when he was the one that wanted the abortion in the first place. We can see a similar situation in “A Very Short Story” were Luz make the man to get a good job. In these story she decide for him what he should do even when he disagree in the decision promising him

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that she was going to meet him in America when he gets a good job. Something that never happen.

By other way we can see how Hemingway use the controlling character at the end of the stories were he change the controlling character in other words the ones that where controlled at the beginning of the stories were the ones that at the end take control of the situation or the other character We can see this in “Hills Like White Elephant” were at the end the man go away from the woman for a wile and here is were she change her mind . When the men came back she told him that nothing was wrong with her saying in other words that she wasn’t going to do what he wanted . She decide to have control of her situation and have then her baby. In the other story “A Very Short Story” this is not so obvious but when we read the last paragraph very carefully we see that the man didn’t wrote back to Luz and this is a sing of control like if you didn’t come that is your problem.

As we saw the use of elements are very important to writers and in some way or another by analyzing the elements they use we can see or have an idea of who is that writer and what he think. Maybe we can find a reflection of his own experience on his works. In the case of Hemingway we saw that he uses controlling characters and with these we can infer that he is a very controlling or controlled person wish haven’t had any successful relation with any one maybe because of these. These is way reading others stories of the same writer help us understand better what we are reading.

A Very Short Story

Plot summary

In this story there was these men who was wounded in a hospital of Padua, Italy. He fall in love with a Italian nurse name Luz. She took the nigh duty for three month were she took care of him and even when he was going to get operate she prepare him for the operation. When he was on crutches he help her taking the nighttime temperature so she could sleep. Both wanted to get married before he whet back to war but they didn’t had their birth certificate. They decide that after the war he should go back to New York to get a job. He was not so happy that she didn’t go to America with him but she wanted to wait until he get a good job. In the meanwhile she stay to open a hospital were she had an affair with the major of the Italian battalion. After that she realize that their love was a boy-girl love. She didn’t get married with the major and the American never wrote her back. At the end he contracted gonorrhea from a department store employee while riding in a taxicab.

What is the quest in "Araby" story? Does he succeed?

The boy in "Araby" story was in love with these girl. He thought of her all the time but he had never speak to her. One evening she spoke to him he didn’t know what to answer. She ask him if he was going to Araby were she wanted to go but she couldn’t . He told her that he will bring something for her. These is the quest he had to do but he didn’t succeed. H e didn’t succeed because when he get there the stalls of the bazaar were close except one and he didn’t bught anything when he had the opportunity.

What are the man and woman talking about in "Hills Like White Elephants?"

When I read "Hills Like White Elephants" I though the were talking about like having sex and that the man was trying to convince her. Then I read it again and I saw that they were talking about a operation then I realize that they were talking about her having a operation in Madrid maybe but of what that I couldn't find.

My character analysis essay

Could friends or family influence affect anyone actions or form of thinking? This is a question I start asking my self when I read Romeo and Juliet. Must of you could be thinking I’m talking about Juliet but I ‘m going in other direction. During the reading of the play I notice all the people that were influence one way or another because the desire of others. In the case of Juliet she was influence but in these case by her parents . But the character that make me think about the effect of the influence in a person was Tybalt. Because of these I said that Tybalt’s impulsiveness was provoke by his own family, impulsiveness that took him to the grave.

As we saw on the first act of the play and even at the beginning of the movie Tybalt had a very violent temper went comes to a problem with the Montagues even when the real rivalry were between Capulet and Montague . Because of these we can infer that Capulet and wife teach him to be like that maybe since he was a child.

We can prove the power that Capulet had over Tybalt at Capulet’s party where Tybalt in one of his impulsive act wanted to kill Romeo because of his intrusion to Capulet’s house. Here we can see how Capulet controlled Tybalt when he told him to shout his mouth and how he let Tibalt know that he was the master and that he should do what he says. Tybalt went to se Romeo to revenge his pride, a pride created by his uncle that grew much bigger than his. But these revenge took his life and drop on his family a curse that ended in tragedy for both families.

The influence of Capulet over Tybalt make him the way he was, make him so impulsive and this is a fact because if Capulets since Tybalt were a child teach him about respect , discipline and piece maybe Tybalt could be more like Romeo. This was a mistake Capulet pay like he pay many other mistake with the death of his true love , his daughter.