Literary Elements In Eating Fried Chicken, By Linh Dinh

In “How Ramen Got Me Through Adolescence,” Veronica Greenwood (2014, August 1) describes how during a three year period expanding from the beginning of her middle school years, to the end, she was at a very troubled spot in life. She felt as if she was an outcast and that there was nobody else like her, nobody that had similar interests, or anybody who acted the same way as her. She describes how the only time that she every felt like she was in her “comfort zone” was when she was either reading, or eating Ramen Noodles. The genre of this story seems comes off as being a memoir. Veronica Greenwood (2014, August 1) says “for more than three years I ate a packet nearly every day, a thousand steaming bowls” (para. #6). This her describing how her life was previously over a stretch of three years.

In relation to Baraka’s essay, he states how “restaurants in Harlem whose staple is fried chicken, or chicken

Eating and drinking is not only a necessity, but also a pleasure. Humans have known and experienced this since the beginning of man. Food plays a very important part in everybody’s daily life. However, the role of food in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath vary immensely. The complexity and need for sustenance differ between the books, but both reflect the events, viewpoints, and attitudes of the time periods they are set in.

The speaker uses end–stops to emphasize his confidence in his identity. The sextet has a plethora of metaphors which may stand for American society. Moreover, the speaker deploys imagery, such as, “darker brother”, “tables”, and “company” which frames America more as a salad bowl versus a salad bowl due to the lack of true integration into society (2). For instance, the imagery alludes that the poem’s theme is really about race and discrimination as one might assume when reading. Given these points, the poem illustrates the speaker’s critique of a larger order. In the following line, the line break allows the reader to pause before beginning the next line in the stanza, which introduces the imagery of a kitchen. The metaphor of the kitchen suggests the theme of a second class citizen subjected to segregation in the United States. In doing so, the speaker inadvertently compares his position to a servant when he states that the company shoos him away to eat in the kitchen like a servant against his own will. The speaker’s language suggests that he compares his position to the role of a servant and master to describe his present experiences with segregation. Despite being shunned due to his racial background, the speaker’s triumph is illustrated in a series of enjambements and commas that guide the reader: “But I laugh/And eat well” (5–7). Langston Hughes

In Don’t Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko composes his opinion on the fast food industry’s absence of nutritional information and more. Zinczenko starts his piece by giving his own life experience. He recalls his childhood trying to find food and that fast food was “the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal” (Zinczenko 462). By giving his own life experience, Zinczenko relates to the reader and grabs their attention.

The apple sits on a white plate. The plate has the words ‘For You’ on it. The plate was something I added to the poem. Since the narrator’s enemy knew that the apple belonged to the narrator, the plate shows that the narrator was ready for his enemy to take the apple. The words inscribed on the plate are used to appeal to the enemy to guarantee that he eats the poison. The words are written in black to magnify the toxicity of the narrator’s hatred for their foe. The plate is white to appeal to the enemy. White signifies innocence, purity, and peace. When the enemy sees the plate, they would not guess that it is holding a lethal apple. The grass covers some of the plate up to make the painting more realistic. Grass would naturally get onto the

While exiting the Buffet, the cashier asked how the meal was, in which he replied “confusing.” The article continues with the main character describing to his friend that his life is “like a huge menu that offers no sampler plate” (Davis, 296). The protagonist then states, that he is afraid he will get too full off of one meal and not be able to taste all the other meals offered. Therefore, he orders many side dishes that do not mix together well therefore, leaving him without having a significant meal. The article unfolds with the protagonist thinking about how other people choose the type of life they are going to live and how they let everything else go

In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by

Symbolism plays a large role in most poems. "A pure-white doe in an emerald glade/Appeared to me, with two antlers of gold" (Petrarch lines 1-2) is a perfect example of symbolism is poetry. Petrarch is not actually talking about a white deer with golden antlers, he's talking about a beautiful woman with golden hair. Wyatt also uses

After a traumatizing dream, Yeong-hye abandons her way of living and hopes to become a plant to prevent the violent dream from reoccurring. Yeong-hye has become unfamiliar and disengaged in social activities. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian includes three perspectives of people who closely associate with Yeong-hye to provide various views of their thoughts and experiences with her. For each narrative, Han Kang incorporated distinctive senses that cause characters to act a certain way, which appeals to readers’ emotion and consciousness. The different narration emphasizes Yeong-hye’s determination to become a vegetarian, which has become a serious problem to her health and the health of those around her. Han Kang’s emphasis on the senses, such

In Franz Kafka’s short story, “A Hunger Artist”, Kafka introduces an eccentric man known as the Hunger Artist. The Hunger Artist has committed his entire life to the art of fasting, allowing himself to be caged and displayed to the public as if he were a painting (Kafka 198). Despite all the emotional turmoil he endures, he takes a great amount of pride in fasting and believes that he can fast for extremely elongated periods (Kafka 200). Unfortunately, his pride not only causes internal conflicts but also tragically leads to his unfortunate demise (Kafka 205). Through the setting and the character development of the Hunger Artist, Kafka illuminates the dangers of self-pride and depicts pride as harmful and detrimental to one’s existence.

To begin with, both foods act as symbols in the poems and represent love with more than one layer of meaning. Millay’s version of love is the satisfaction coming along with the self-restraint on personal desire, and Young’s interpretation of love is the pleasure derived from the appetite appeasement. Millay uses multiple repetitions of the sentence “He that would eat of love” to create a direct connection between fruit and love, and allude to a message that the behavior of eating should be originated from heart. On the other hand, Young uses a more implicit way to show what chicken can relate to other than just a type of protein. He utilizes the language devices such as personification to show a deeper significance of the chicken. By mentioning

The poet uses a lot of emotive language in this poem to try and make

From Fruit Chan’s short film, Dumplings the three Asian directors had decided to unrevealed the most true culture to life scenario that contain many of the traditional elements, which is about the continuation of society’s perception on the invisible line between rejection of the abject and the assimilation of this culture into our

metaphor. Which is basically comparing two things without using like or as. The poem starts