Pamplona in July

                                                            Pamplona in July

            Ernest Hemingway’s purpose was to convey the excitement he felt when he visited Pamplona and witnessed the running with the bulls and bull fighting rituals using a descriptive narrative. He uses vivid adjectives to make the audience imagine they are actually there experiencing this deep-seeded tradition. The often-mentioned colors, red and yellow are also used to illustrate the scenery that Ernest Hemingway experienced that July. What Mr. Hemingway experienced, in fact was the San Fermin fiesta and it brought so much joy to him that it led him to write his first successful novel “The Sun Also Rises” for which he later won a noble prize for literature. Ernest Hemingway would continue to return and rejoice at the fiesta to take the pain away from his life.

            What made his writing so unique are the flow and the simplistic organization that made the descriptions coherent and deliberate. He wrote in a style similar to a song “Really beautiful girls, gorgeous, bright shawls over their shoulders, dark, dark-eyed, black-lace mantillas over their hair, walk with their escorts in crowds that pass from morning until night along the narrow walk that runs between inner and outer belts of cafe tables under the shade of the arcade out of the white glare of the Plaza de la Constitucion.”

Ernest Hemingway used repetition to really emphasize his surroundings and reach out to the audience what his emotions were as he was at the fiesta, he mentioned a lot about the exhilaration behind the bull fighting and the bull run. The colors were a huge part in this essay, because when his purpose is to illustrate to us the best times of his life, he wants the audience to be able to picture his experiences. This well-known author was an inspiration to enjoy life and aspire to do great things, which made this essay one of the more enjoyable ones because he was able to really connect to his audience without even directly talking to us. Ernest Hemingway made the Fiesta of San Fermin a place and time never to be forgotten.

http://www.askaboutsports.com/bull-fighting/        The exhilaration of San Fermin  

Corn-Pone Opinions

                                                              Corn-Pone Opinions

            Mark Twain, a complex and poetic writer, describes the hardships and strict opinions he had during his youth. He begins his essay speaking of the young black fifteen-year-old boy who enjoyed listening to his friend preach sermon. The young boy would stow away his true passions from his master. During the day he would be listening to other children around his age speak and act like he was working. The essay would later fuse into how people like the young boy would adopt culture trends following a pattern. He explains that we adopt these trends because of others in the world enforce the idea that the popular kid is always the one that everyone has to follow. The process involving the rise of the clothing; where the most popular kid wears the clothing for a couple days, which spurs on into the entire society is following the pattern just because one person decided to wear it. He created an argument of why we follow such absurd patterns. The rhetorical device used was didactic because he used his essay to teach social behaviors and the importance of not conforming to “popular” trends. Mark Twain established the idea that we simply wear popular clothing because everyone else is doing it. He exclaimed that there is no logical reasoning behind why we wear clothes just because everyone else is it is just an instinct.  

             This essay was a way for Mark Twain to publicize his disappointment with how the world has been running. From some of the other novels he has written, Huckleberry Fin, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and many more resemble the idea to express opinion like he has done in all of his. He, in all of his novels, had the attitude of a free-willed lifestyle with equality for all. Where as in this essay he describes the changes in society that go against his morals and ideas. Throughout his life Mark was always committed to writing, rather being a journalist, an apprentice for a printer company. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) is a credible source because of the hard work and the impact he has done to the world of literature.

Fashion at its finest 

http://flashbak.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-tacky-20-fashion-trends-of-the-1970s-26213/

The Handicapped

The Handicapped  

            Randolph Bourne’s essay The Handicapped, spoke about the rough experiences people from childhood to adulthood have when they have physical disabilities. “Weakness and low vitality, which makes efforts more difficult and renders him easily fainthearted and discouraged by failure.” Being disabled literally means having a physical or mental condition that limits movement, senses, or activities. In The Handicapped though it is illustrated that having a disability is “uncomfortable” but there are more aspects to life than just a physical limitation. “ The sensitiveness has its both good and bad sides. It makes friendship that most precious thing in the world to him, and he finds that he arrives at a much richer and wider intimacy with his friends than do ordinary men with their light, surface friendships based on good fellowship.”

            The rhetorical device, analogy, was displayed throughout the novel, comparing the handicapped man to that of a “normal” one and how he was able to function in similar contexts, making it easier for the audience to fully comprehend. He feels that people are not able to recognize the value of a person because they judge on appearances only. I can relate to this theory, as I grew up with two very close friends both with life-altering disabilities. I could relate to the pain and empathy I felt for them, our friendship was so strong and I have yet to have a stronger friendship and sentimental bond with anyone else. Randolph Bourne was able to bring the pain of being insecure with how you look at such an early non-developed age, but yet we can all still relate to what the message is behind The Handicapped. The somber yet sympathetic tone he used helped the audience feel what it would be like to be in his situation. We can all learn from this that people in the world have deformities but we all need to stick with them and try and understand them, no matter what it takes.


http://thefilmtemple.blogspot.com/2012/07/director-spotlight-82-david-lynchs.html
The most deformed man imaginable.