Characters
Character who is becoming a husk of a person; blind, one working ear and loss of memory.
Who is the mother of the protagonist?
The act of making objects feel alive in text.
What is personification?
A "roundabout" way to view existence.
What is "the cycle of life?"
These function as a portal to the past, bringing back memories.
What are photographs?
The two pairs of bare feet hanging outside the tent belong to these couple of fellers; title of the short story.
Who are Cam and Ray?
A sub-category of first-person narration, which can often seem random... or even confusing.
What is stream of consciousness?
The idea that things cannot stay the same.
What is inevitable change?
These animals are used to symbolize the personalities of the mother and the protagonist; freedom.
What are horses?
This man wonders outside of his comfort zone as his aristocratic expectations are subverted.
Who is the Indian man?
Words used in a specific way in order to create a more visual experience to the reader.
The act of viewing oneself through the experiences of others or personal past in order to gain more understanding and trying to be better.
What is reflecting?
A stereotypical expression and imagery when describing the closeness of death; transitioning to the afterlife.
What is "the light at the end of the tunnel?"
This character took care of the family while they underwent the infamous 1919 flu while sprouting an army doctor's uniform.
Who is the grandfather of the protagonist?
A change of setting in terms time and geography to a place chronologically before the current plot of the story.
What is a flashback?
A feeling of confusion in terms of right and wrong; a regular theme for the whole work.
What is a moral disorder?
The girl standing on the left side of the protagonist's mother while "Fighting the Storm."
Who is Joyce?
This literary term by Aristoteles describes a significant, sudden realization of a character, which leads ignorance to develop into wisdom.
What is anagnorisis?