Describe Amanda Wingfield inTennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

Amanda
Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura Wingfield.  Whereas her son, Tom, wants to escape his
family, and her daughter, Laura, lives in an imaginary world she's created, Amanda takes refuge
in recounting tales of her storied girlhood in the Old South.  She used to be a much sought
after young lady with many prospects and a genteel life style... if you believe everything that
she says.  She frequently expounds to her children speeches like this: 

"Well, in the South we had so many servants. Gone, gone, gone.
All vestige of gracious living! Gone completely! I wasnt prepared for what the future brought
me. All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and so of course I assumed that I would be
married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man
proposesand woman accepts the proposal! To vary that old, old saying a bitI married no planter!
I married a man who worked for the telephone company! . . . A telephone man whofell in love with
long-distance!"

Amanda uses these remembrances to
force onto her children attempt to make their lives better- she nags Tom to bring home a fellow
from work so he might marry Laura, for instance, and when he comes, Amanda has dressed into an
old gone from the storied Southern youth.  In other words, she lives in a fantasy world of her
own creation, just like her children.

Why is Geoffrey Chaucer called the 'Father of Modern English Poetry'?

Apart
from the fact that and are outstanding works
artistically, there are several reasonsis considered the father of English literature.

Over a period of 300 years, from the Norman Invasion to Chaucer's time, the English
language had undergone a seismic transformation due to the huge number of loan words
incorporated into it either from French or directly from Latin and Greek. Despite differences in
spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary, in Chaucer we see the language in a form surprisingly
close to our own. Many fine translations have been made of his works into modern English, but
it's still possible for us to read Chaucer in the original, with the help of footnotes and a
glossary, and to recognize that this is essentially our own language. Even when The
Canterbury Tales are read aloud with the correct Middle English vowel sounds and the
pronunciation of the final 'e' now silent, the words still are obviously recognizable as English
and can be largely understood. In fact, one can even say that it is especially
when Chaucer's verse is read aloud that it sounds so natural to us, because it's
written basically in a conversational tone. The Canterbury pilgrims are talking to each other,
much as people on a trip or a tour would do today.

Another basic reason
Chaucer is the fountainhead of our literature is that the Londonin which he wrote became the
standard form of the English language. In all European countries, different dialects of the
common language were and are spoken. In Italy, the Tuscan language, the dialect of Florence,
became standard Italian because of the greatness and prestige of Dante's writings. In England,
Chaucer played approximately the same role. No previous author in England had written works of
such high artistic value as those of Chaucer, and, unsurprisingly, the speech of Londoners
became the literary standard.

What poetic devices are used in "The Raven"?

Further examples of
the repetition of an initial consonant soundinclude "Deep into
that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, / Doubting, dreaming dreams no
mortal ever dared to dream before" (these lines repeat the "d" sound, almost
drumming on it, to help create the mood of ominousness and inevitability). Another example of
alliteration: "And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, '!' / This I
whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!'" The alliteration of the
"w" sound is much softer compared to the alliteration of the "d" sound in
the lines immediately preceding it. Going from the repetition of such a loud sound to the
repetition of such a soft sound makes the softer sound seem a little spooky in this
case.

Also, the raven is described as "ebony"a color often
symbolically associated with death, especially in Poe's stories.
Given the narrator's preoccupation with death, especially that of his lover, as well as his
belief that the raven has come from either the Underworld, the devil, or heaven, seem to confirm
this symbolism. He also personifies the raven, insisting that he
has some "lordly name" in the Underworld, and thinking that "his soul in that one
word he did outpour."

In "The Metamorphosis," when Gregors parents first see the Gregor, what do their initial reactions suggest about their attitude about their son?

When poor Gregor finally
manages to open the door that he has had to struggle so much to open, the response of his
parents is obviously one of great shock to their strangely tranformed son who went to bed a
human and woke up the next day a disgusting insect. Note how his parents are shown to respond
with the sight of their transformed son:

The mother, who,
despite the office manager's presence, stood there with her hair still undone and bristling,
first gaped at the father, clasping her hands, then took two steps toward Gregor and collapsed,
her petticoats flouncing out all around her and her face sinking quite undetectably into her
breasts. The father clenched his fist, glaring at Gregor as if trying to shove him back into his
room, then peered unsteadily around the parlour before covering his eyes with his hands and
weeping so hard that his powerful chest began to quake.

Note the way that the mother responds with shocked incredulity, apparently fainting
with the surprise, whereas the initial reaction of his father is to respond with anger, before
giving away to deeper emotions and beginning to cry. It is interesting that the response of the
father foreshadows the later violence that he visits upon his son, whereas the helpless response
of the mother clearly displays her inability to know how to cope with the situation. The
father's response in particular shows the anger and seeds of hatred that exist in the
relationship.

Explain how metaphors and repetitions of words are used in Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

The "I Have a
Dream" speech, by Martin Luther King Jr, is one of the most famous orations of all time.
Its hopeful tone cries out to its audience to pursue King's "dream" of a racially just
America which is built on cooperation between all people. King uses figurative language to
describe the deplorable injustices suffered by African Americans and his dreams for a bright and
just future for all Americans. 

In the opening paragraph of the speech,
Martin Luther King Jr lamented thethat in 1963, one hundred years after the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the United States,

... the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life
of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the
midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society...

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How can I compare "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat" to "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Banks
story shares many similarities with Hemingways €“ in fact, you might call the Banks story a sort
of homage to Hemingway. The stories share a common structure €“ each consists primarily of a
conversation between a man and a woman €“ and a common problem €“ an unwanted pregnancy. Banks
style emulates Hemingways €“ compare, for example, this bit from Hemingway:

The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on
the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the
river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the
river through the trees.

With this bit from
Banks:

The man looked over her head and beyond, all the
way to the shore and the trailerpark. The shapes of the trailers were blurred together in the
distance so that you could not tell where one trailer left off and another began.

There are several similarities in these passages. The reductive,
factual nature of the...

What type of narrator is used in "Girl"?

's
"" utilizes what is known as second-person narrationa rare but not unheard of type of
narrative voice. Essentially, what this means is that rather than first-person narration (which
uses "I") or third-person narration (which speaks objectively using "he,"
"she," "they," etc.), second-person narration uses "you" or
"your," addressing the reader directly.

The effect of using this
narrative style is that the reader thinks about what goes on in the story as an extension of
their own experience. Ironically, this is often very alienating because we as readers are not
used to this technique. Second-person narration is a particularly hard form of narration to pull
off and is therefore often used only in shortlike "Girl." However, there are some
writers, such as Mohsin Hamid, who manage to write entire novels while only using the
second-person.