Breakfast John Steinbeck Analysis - 1104 Words

â€Å"Breakfast† â€Å"A merry heart goes on all day The sad tires in a mile† (William Shakespeare) John Steinbeck, an American author and winner of the Nobel Prize, was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression. Steinbeck is widely known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and the novella Of Mice and Men. In the following short story, the author tells us about a poor, yet united family of cotton pickers who invited him in to share breakfast together. The text presents a piece of first person narration interwoven with the descriptions of nature, short lines and character descriptions united into one complete logical part.†¦show more content†¦The portrayal of the personages in the following short story is very vivid and close to life. We get the direct description of their appearance from the author, while their speech and behavior provide the readers with insight into their disposition. All the personages in the story are coupled: the girl and her baby, the older man and his son. The first character met by the author is the young girl and her newly born baby. We see a poorly dressed young woman, the author renders her image to us with the help of clear adjectives such as: faded cotton skirt, precise and practiced movements. Her life is filled with routine and concerns about the household, that she manages to take care of in a mastery fashion. The author underlines it by using such a colorful epithet as: ...light quick g racefulness of her movement. At first, the reader feels deep compassion for the girl, since she must be unhappy. In truth, as we find out later – she is quite happy with her life, she shows great pride for her man and is always eager to help her family. Judging by the girls’ actions, we can say that she is very kind, openhearted and naive. Her image is symbolic, not only does she represent cleanliness and purity of heart, she is also a symbol of warmth of the family’s hearth. The characters of men, in their appearance are opposedShow MoreRelatedThe Epithet in the Novel Jane Eyre18849 Words   |  76 Pagesaim. In our research we would like to concentrate our attention on â€Å"epithet†, a figure of speech which gives the opportunity to create the most expressive and vivid images. Despite the fact that there are many works devoted to the problem under analysis some important aspects such as structural - the lexical stylistic device the epithet as its component have not been fully investigated. This defines the actuality of the work and its theoretical value. The basic purpose of this course-paper is formulated