The Effects of Setting

The Effects of Setting

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing. 

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie.  The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together.  The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


Chunk #1:  Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.

When Willa Cather speaks of the prarries turning to the color of wine and then about the start of winter you can just feel the change in her words. The loss of summer and the dread of winter, the cold winds blowing all the leaves from the trees and seemingly pulling all the houses closer together just gives a chilled feeling. Everything seems to be depressing as all the leaves are gone and how the houses have lost the glow from all the plants being gone from the roof tops. 

Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
My little oasis would have to be on the black river flood waters during the duck season. The water is so fertile and heavy with top soil its black, and all the things you can watch float by waiting for the shooting light. Its very peaceful before daylight comes, theres only the sound of decoys splashing the water and whistling wings as the few early flyer's zip over your head as your setting out your spread. When shooting light is here its an uproar of ducks, calls, and the smell of burning powder filling the air. This puts me into my own little world, it just amazes me watching as the birds work like there just floating on air. Hearing the mallards fall in sounding like 747 jets is just amazing.

anti hunting

• Assertion/claim
• Those who opose hunting do not realize all the benifits.
• evidence-concrete detail:
• Hunting does a large part in bosting our economy.
• Commentary 1: Just one deer can provide up to fifty pounds of venision, cutting down largly on the cost of food.
• Commentay 2: The taxes, hunting license, and expenses hunters pay average over 480 millions dollars a year.
• evidence-concrete detail:
• Consevation and management are the most important thing to keeping our enviornment healthy.
• For all the taxes hunters pay, there has been more than 200,000 acres of land purchased for wildlife conservation and public hunting.
• The taking of wildlife does the biggest part in management of wildlife, if the populations were not kept in check there would be fewer animals then we have today.
• opposing claims:
• The gun activist in our country argue that if there was no hunting there would be no reason for anyone to own a gun except for the military.
• Although I disagree one hundred percent, people would find a way to get firearms and its not the guns that kill people its people killing people with guns.
• my paragraph:
•                Hunting should never be banned. Hunting in many families in the united states is a big tradition and it feeds many familys through the winter. Just one deer can provide up to fifty pounds or more of venison. Also the hunters pay taxes and expenses to do this sport which brings in an avarage of 480 million dollars a year.                  All hunters are conservation and management experts. If we didnt follow the laws set there wouldnt be anything left to hunt, but since the game and fish commison set forth on making laws all of the species hunted have made a huge come back. Managing game saves many other species also. There is less competion for food and so it allows smaller animals and plants to live.                  Many gun control activists want to outlaw hunting and band all guns from the general public. They say without guns then there would be a lot less vilonce.                I believe that if guns were band that people would still find a way to get them and violence would still occor possibly more. Its in the constition "we have the right to bare arms" and I willalways uphold that right. Hunters do not contribute to the violence caused with guns.

http://www.texashuntfish.com/app/news/20918/Top-5-Benefits-Of-Hunting

        

Afrer I wake,
While the smell of coffee fills the house,
Before the cold chill hits my feet,
Though I dont want to leave the bed,
When I wake up expecting a great hunt.

Before I get to the truck,
While im putting on my wadders,
As were hurrying for a hole
Through the boat lanes
All of the woods are alive with ducks.

Flags of our Fathers

flags of our fathers was a very patriotic book. We lost many good marrines on the battle of Iwo Jima including three of the flagrasiers. Only three returned home, this battle came with a high cost of young men and many hours of hard work to win this battle.They went through months of boot camp preparing for anything the japs might throw at them. Jack "doc" Bradley was one of the boys who made it home. He never really talked about the battle or the flag raising, his son was very intreseted in knowing his fathers past. It takes many years but he finally learns about the 6 men on the island. I would recomend this book to anyone who like a non fiction book and war stories.

Henry vs. Forrest

In intense situations, a person's instinctual reaction causes him/her to react for self-preservation, whether that means taking flight or taking a stand.

      Henry was scared and definatly went into self-preservation. When the Confederate Army charged there lines he ran when he wasnt told to retreate. He ran with no intentions to return to the fight. When the next battle came up he had a new fire in his eye and it seemed as if Henry was mad at the Rebels for even getting that close to them and ran out of the trench like a wild man and actually turned the rebels around.

     Forrest done what he was told he was the perfect soldier in the start. When he was givin an order he done it to his best ability. His best friend Bubbe (Benjamin Buffard Blue ) was hit why the regiment was retreeting. He was told to stay but he he ran back to get Bubba but on his way he found many men that were wounded that he knew. He found leutenatn Dan just before he found bubba and he wanted to die there but forrest took him out. Shortly after he found bubba got him out of the woods just as the airstrike came in and bomb the place and bubba died on the river bank.

    Forrest and Henry are completely diffrent Henry was running out fear trying to get out of the battle. He left his friends behind and ran for his life. Forrest ran but he was told by his commander to run, even after he was shot he went back into the fight trying to find his friends and save everyone he could.

Wounded Warrior Project

The Wounded Warrior Project is a wonderful project for the community to get involved in. These wounded soldiers fought for all of our freedom. They left there family's and friends behind to go over seas and fight for the united states. Chad Brumpton, one of the wounded warriors lost both of his legs for this country after a 500 pound IED went off under his left foot. Anthony Villarreal, was also a warrior who gave up alot he also was hit by an IED leading a supply convoy. He wasn't inside a tank though. He under went over 70 surgeries to get where he is at today. Its the least we can do is to send the backpack of necessities over to our wounded warriors and show them that we do care and that there sacrifices will not go unnoticed.

War Is...

War is needed, protecting our rights.
War is strength, power through the nation.
War is gory, sheding blood for our country.
War is conflict, disagreement between two nations.
War is painful, hurts all the relatives.
War is helpful, our soldiers are paid for there services.
War is costly, the losing side pays but both sides lose.
War is protection, keeping us safe from terrorist.
War is demanded, some country's cant leave well enough alone
War is inevitable, it will happen to every country no matter how small or big.