Memoirs are made with the help of many tools at the writers disposal. The memoir has to tell a story, it must focus on a single moment. Life's Bicycle focuses on a single memory and tells a story through that memory. The memoir controls time. In Life's Bicycle, it takes place in the past and stays there. The meaning of a memoir is to invoke an emotional response and to express an idea. Life's Bicycle conveys a feeling of growing up and taking on new challenges, but a lot is left for personal interpretation. To control how the memoir feels, the writer must use specific observable details, use language or word choice, such as metaphors or strong verbs or nouns, and they must also use dialogue and/or thoughts. Life's Bicycle conveys all of these guidelines with the use of specific observable details, like the bike itself or his mother. Both are described vividly. The writer of Life's Bicycle also uses strong language such as, illuminated, assiduously, and ebullient. Many more examples were used. Life's Bicycle also completes the task of using dialogue and memories to make a coherent memoir. The writer speaks in past tense, while at the same time, he uses the memory to produce his story. With the use of all of these tools, the writer has made a perfect example of a memoir, Life's Bicycle.
The biggest example of situational irony in the poem is probably the poems main protagonist. He figured he was being unique and cool by drinking, being part of the Union, and playing it safe. What he was actually doing was being as normal as possible for this time period (WW2) while he thought himself unique. An example of verbal irony is is the last two lines, ( Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard). The writer is talking about how all these statistics made it seem as though he was happy, but really, he could have been miserable, but never said anything.
Situational Irony- A vegetarian eats pizza because he is hungry. A traffic cop gets a ticket for speeding. An ambulance runs over a injured person.
Dramatic- You know who the monster is, but the protagonist does not. Romeo pretends to kill himself, and his sister actually kills herself. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth appears to be loyal to Duncan but he is planning Duncan's murder. Duncan doesn't know Macbeth's plans but the audience knows what is going to happen. Verbal- I see an ugly shirt and say "nice shirt". A car expert sees a crappy car and says "it runs like a charm". A lady needs help with a computer problem and the guy helping says "You are very tech savvy!" Frankenstein is the book to read if you want to read a Gothic Romance novel, mainly because it has the five I's of Gothic Romance. Imagination is being used quite a lot in Frankenstein, mostly with supernatural occurrences, the main example being the creation of the creature in the beginning of the book. Intuition is used some by Frankenstein, an example being when he had figured that the Creature had killed William, when no evidence pointing to the Creature had been found. Frankenstein was basically so disturbed by the Creature that it effected his ability to think more clearly about the murder of William. The idealism was all centered around Frankenstein and his monstrosity. Frankenstein had the idea that this creature would change the world for the better, and that science would progress thanks to his invention. When in actuality, it turned out to be a disaster. The inspiration for Frankenstein came from his love for the chemical sciences and experimenting and focusing on conjecture and thought. The final I, individualism, comes from Frankenstein's beliefs and ideas on science as a whole. He figured the creation of the Creature to be a benefit to science, when it did not in the way he had figured it would.
Johnny the sailor was a total ass-hat. He would prank people and be very rude to them. He was an awful person. One day, death had enough of his shit and put him on a path to his demise. johnny was hanging out on the pier, being a douche, when the Mariner walked up to him and asked him to come with him on an adventure. "Why not?" said Johnny. So they both walk to the Mariner's ship and climb aboard. After a few days of getting prepared, Johnny and the crew sail off onto the open sea. That is when death arrives. The Mariner shoots the bird, and death comes to take johnny's soul. The end. Don't be an ass-hat like Johnny.
Part 1-Imagination- The beginning of the poem as a lot of imagination fueled subjects. For example, what where they doing out there? Where were they going?
Part 2-Individuality- This takes place when the mariner worries about his own guilt rather than focusing on the support from the crew. They said it was okay he shot the bird but the mariner was still full of guilt. Part 3-Imagination- In this part of the poem, he tells of a curse that kills off the crew. This is strong use of imagery because the author explains what they looked like, but left a lot to interpretation. Part 4-Idealism- The mariner is full of guilt. He drops the Albatross into the sea to signify him getting rid of his guilt. Part 5-Imagination- The mariner wakes up and finds all of his crew come back from the dead, and they start running the ship again. Part 6-Intuition- The mariner uses his instinct to come back to the shore, but crashes. Part 7-Inspiration- I am inspired by this tale because the poem shows that guilt can be as powerful as death. Gothic romanticism is a type of literature that has both gothic and romantic values and ideals. The five "I"s for defining gothic romanticism are imagination, intuition, idealism, insperation, and individuality. Imagination, as it pertains to gothic romanticism, is the use of creativity and ideas rather than logic and reasoning. Intuiton is the ability to understand something without proper understanding, a key part to understanding what gothic romanticism is. Idealism is the idea that everything we experience is in the mind and not material. Insperation, in the gothic romanticism sense, is the use of creativity and ingenuity without the need to explain with reason. Lastly, individuality, is focusing on the single person rather than the need or wants of the whole. Frankinstein is considered one of the best books
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