English Comparison Essay

loony toons and Paula cooks refreshful snowsuit by Sylvia Plath is readiness in the Boston area of New England and its thinkable that Plath based it on her own shaverhood as there are some parallels in the expatiate she mentions. It is also to the highest degree a specific time, sometime between 1939 and 1945, as it mentions the Ameri tin conflict with Japan.The trading floor has the central theme of the difficulty of growing up. Sylvia Plath presents the girls experiences as beingness about injustice, inequity and the feeling that the valet is not good, but evil. War and the conflict between individuals are presented as being equally important and destructive, war is a key part of the carriage of the children just as untold as childish feuds are.Throughout the story Sylvia Plath has used colour get wordry to represent the childs feelings.Sylvia Plath uses the part of light to show what the girl feels about her home. A secure web of light. It isnt grievous it is safe at the moment. Signifi offertly, the dining room window gives only a reflection of the room, so a careful reader might begin to think that the feeling of safety is an illusion.Whilst the girl and her family are take in dinner someone arises to tell her mother that she has deliberately spoilt Paulas snowsuit. Again, the image of a cutting draught (l. 151) suggests that this is frightening and unwelcome news. Paula of course denies that it was deliberate, but her Uncle Frank and her Mother dont deal her and even she sounds to herself as though shes not telling the truth.Darkness is a key image from the end of the story that reinforces the childs feeling of loneliness and sadness as she lies alone in her room. Uncle Franks face is featureless in the shadows and the story concludes with a vivid image of a black shadow engulfing the whole world.The story links with Snowdrops (page 89) both stories use the perspective of a child to describe events and do not venture into the conscio usness of the grown ups. two stories look at the darker locating of life and show the realisation of a child that happiness and goodness are necessarily prevalent in life. The friendships between children are also important themes in both stories.In this story, the vivdness and colourfulness of youth is personified by the lights, as if a beacon of hope in the troubled society that the children revel in.The lights of boston that blazed and blinked uttermost off across the blackening water. (Line 8) This metaphor, shows the corrupt and the evil that does occur in the world by darkening water, the circumstance that it is darkening shows the continuous acts of crime and injust always happening. However, with the sheer optimism of children and how they put immediate speech pattern on the good, with their fantasy view of life the blazed and blinked show how they have this young perception that good volition always overrule evil, which is not the case in reality.Anaylsis of key theme s.An example of one the themes in effort would be from the realisation theme which seems to run parallel to the plot.Where I knelt over the toilet bowl and vomited up the cakeand ice cream. (Line 96)This shows the sheer rejection of youth, as she realises that everything that she has believed and imagined has been a true faade, that her hero wont come swooping down to the save the day. The phrase cake and ice-cream is mainly associated with the happy memories of youth, whereas in this case it seems that because of the shocking image that she has just seen, she needs to reject everything she knows, everything she has imagined and dreamt of, and get in touch with the real world that contains despair, disappointment and in the end evil.This shows a shocking maturity to the narrator.Analysis of the key characters.The key characters in this story is the narrator, as froma initiative person recount we get to know her feelings and herthoughts.Which creates a strong connection between th ee auditory sense and the character.I lay there alone feeling the black shadow creeping up the ass of the world like a flood tide. (Line 180-1)This demonstrates how lonely the narrator now feels, that she has lost her children perception on life, the word black is a stark contrast to the beautiful lights that she relied on to guide her, it shows how her optimistic view on life is gone, after betrayal and seeing the frightening images of the real world. The word creeping illustrates how this new view of life crept up in a sinister and stole her innocence. This gives us a perfective tense passageway into the narrators most inner depth feelings, by the use of metaphors that demonstrate how despondent and alone she feels.Snowdrops is set in rural Wales, but this is only hinted at and is not a key theme to the story. It opens with a description of family life and the adult narrator focuses on the world of a little boy who body nameless throughout the story. The snowdrops, which provid e a key image throughout the story, are mentioned in the first sentence.They are important at the end of the story as well and a reader can see that this is a small child at the centre of the story, whose attention is caught by the simple performance of looking at these common flowers. The description of a family breakfast shows a child who is observant and who sees his world with wonder. Symbolically, the family home is described as warm, in contrast with the cold world outside.This story is about childhood. It tries to show how a child sees their world and also how different the world of adults is. It is also about how the realities of life encroach on their world and taint it with sadness. It also looks at the relationships between adults and children, especially the adults who are side by side(predicate) to children, their parents and their teachers. This is the only story in the Anthology that looks at the role of teachers and it gives a sympathetic presentation of how their job can sometimes be hard, when the personal and the professional clash.The story also shows how parents strive to protect their children from the harsh realities of life. Snowdrops has parallels with Superman and Paula browns New Snowsuit, in that both stories show children learning a harsh fact of life. Both stories are also about young children and focus exclusively on how they see the world. both(prenominal) of the symbol of colour, especially black, and of cold is common to these two stories.The snowdrops symbolise people, who endure difficulties and sadness, like the teacher endures bereavement. The children do not understand Miss Websters crying at the end of the story, but they are affright by it. It is probably their first introduction to the experience of grief, but it wont be their last. It is a sad ending to the story, as the boy experiences fear and happiness at the same time. It is in affecting contrast to the happy start to the story.The story also shows how paren ts strive to protect their children from the harsh realities of life. Snowdrops has parallels with Superman and Paula Browns New Snowsuit, in that both stories show children learning a harsh fact of life. Both stories are also about young children and focus exclusively on how they see the world. Some of the symbolism of colour, especially black, and of cold is common to these two stories.