Quote: “Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah” at 0:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA Comment: Although there isn’t really much of a quote at 0:58, there is a plethora of imagery. The video opened with a Black man and woman standing in front of The Mona Lisa. The couple is framed by the blue outline of the glass, almost as if they are immersing themselves in the art. They do not stand in front of the Mona Lisa; instead, they stand with her, furthering the…
Q: “Real money was worn and green, American dollars.” (pg. 2) C: This short story is about a woman who illegally immigrated to America because she feels her best future would be better nurtured in the US. This quote demonstrates how American culture is viewed by the rest of the world; America is considered the land of dreams and opportunity. In contrast, many immigrants feel that to become American, they must shed their native culture. By referencing “American money” as…
Q: Excerpt from The Story Of An Hour: “She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength.” C: I chose this sentence because it is the turning point in the story. Initially, readers meet a depressed Mrs. Mallard who has just been informed of her husband’s death. Although readers assume this news will kill the already depressed woman, the story portrays her as joyful. From a feminist perspective, it can be said…
Q: “I was certain that this would be better than farm life. I am the family entrepreneur!” C: There is a bitter-sweet nature that attracted me to this line. It almost reminds me of the expression, “the grass is greener on the other side,” which has always rubbed me the wrong way. It can be hard to be grateful for what you have and even more challenging to be grateful while you have it. It seems that this poem is…
Q: “sometimes praising a mother who knew how to give, or forgiving a father who couldn’t give what you wanted.” C: This line really caught my attention because I felt like it was the one of the most honest lines of the poem. The poem was meant to be inspirational and, as such, used a lot of patriotic language. I thought that this line fit into the motive of the poem because it was inspirational without necessarily matching the tone…
I watched The Opening Scene – ‘Rear Window’ | Hitchcock Presents. This scene is “an abusive version of masculine heterosexuality” (Parker 176) in both content and filming. The viewers are initially presented with a man and woman asleep on a balcony. Although outwardly innocent, the scene implies an intimate, sexual relationship between the man and woman. They do not lie next to each other as equals but instead with their feet together and heads apart. The camera then pans to…
“The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling — things that never happen, so it seems, if someone is looking.” I picked this quote because the language seems so innocent and light. I picked up on the contrast of the “light” and “blowing” atmosphere in the beginning of the sentence, and the suspense at the end. The word “shy” personifies the room in a way that is so subtle a reader…
“Authors coffin was a little frosted cake and the red-eyed loon eyed it from his white, frozen lake” I chose this quote because I really enjoyed the play on colors Bishop uses. Throughout the poem, the author uses imagery( such as the loon, the coffin, marble, the snow, and the Lilly) in order to highlight the contrast between the loon’s red eyes and the bleakness of its surroundings. I found this to be very powerful and piercing, almost as if…
“Holmes disregarded the outstretched hand and looked at him with a face of granite. Milverton’s smile broadened” (2). This quote stood out to me because of how the narrator juxtaposes Holmes and Milverton. The defamiliarzation that comes from comparing a “face” with “granite,” helps readers understand the contrast between Holmes’s expression and “Milverston’s smile.” Why does the narrator choose to tell readers about this specific interaction? Would critics consider this narrator to be reliable? Why or why not?
