The Glass Castle
In the novel "The Glass Castle", the title relates to the family and there father in the story. Characteristics of glass castles are they would be breakable; they might shatter and be destroyed; and they are transparent. Since there transparent, they would make you feel very vulnerable; any body could see in and watch what ever you may be doing. The characteristics of a regular castle are they are very safe and reliable; they could protect you from the elements. However living in a glass castle would be unsafe because if you were in a storm you might get rocks through your walls. Those are the characteristics of a glass castle and a regular castle. The idea of the glass castle relates to there lives in that there lives are as vulnerable as the castle would be.
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Short answer practice for MCAS
Queen Elizabeth, in her speech to her navy motivates and inspires her soldiers. Within her speech, she uses her female identity to spur her soldiers on. She states that “I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and a king of England.” In spite of her appearance she seems to be more powerful then most people think of her to be. Over all she seems to be a powerful ruler of her age that most enemies feared, and citizens had much respect for her.
An Analysis of Diction in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God by Ian Roderick
All authors use their own sort of diction. In the excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, the author shows diction which is both interesting and southern slang. McCarthy begins by describing a character who enjoys hunting: “I’ll say one thing, he could by god shoot it.” The author starts by stating that the child likes to shoot: “they run him off out at the fair one time.” McCarthy finishes by showing southern dialect: “he’d just shoot directly he seen the feathers fly.” As shown, Cormac McCarthy expresses his own type of diction from the excerpt Child of God.
