Laundrette: Stanza 6

This is the 6th stanza from the poem "Laudrette", the poem Laundrette is about people living in a poor part of the neighbor hood and going to the laudrette because they have to wash their clothes.

Deadpan before the rinse and sluice of the family bagwash

The woman has a deadpan expression, beacause she is miserable. She is miserable because she has promblems with her family and thus is unsatisfied with her life.

"Let them stew in their juice"

It has a double meaning, let the clothes wash in their dirty wash water, or let them fight their own battles.

She sees a kaleidoscope

She sees all the colors of the clothes blended in the washing machine.

In conclusion, the 6th stanza is about a depressed women who has problems with her family.

Setting

Fresh, cool air blew in the snow boarders face, as she snow boarded down the soft, fluffy slope. She opened her mouth for a split second, her mouth filled with snow. 

"What a wonderful day!" She thought 

Tone & Mood

Tone is voice, the way somethings is said.

Mood is setting, the way it's described.

These Peanuts are making me thirsty

It was a stormy day. I was in my way too comfortable bed, that I would never want to get out of, eating peanuts, then suddenly I realized: 

"These peanuts are making me thirsty!" 

 

What is Mother to son about

Mother to son

The poem is about a mother giving advice to her son using stairs. It uses symbols and other imagery. The stairs symbolize life, the tacks and splinters reprisent problems and the bare floor, with no carpet, reprisents sadness. She says that her life was hard and that she encounter a lot of problems, hardships, sadness and at times she was lost and confused, but she told her son to not give up just because life gets really hard him. The sons mother reasures him that everything is going to be alright, because she is still climbing the stairs of life. In conclusion, the poem mother to son is about a mother giving advice to her son about life.

Sound of Thunder (Paragraph) Published

The jungle was the entire world forever and forever

The Sound of Thunder is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, in it, there is a lot of imagery of sound and similes. 

The Sound of Thunder uses a lot of imagery of sound to make the reader "hear" what the characters are hearing in the book,it also uses a lot of similes to describe the setting and the characters surroundings. 

"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever"

 "Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever"

This quote uses similes to portray the imagery of sound. The quote compares the pterodactyls squawks to the sound of flying tents. It are the pterodactyls are "gigantic bats of delirium and night fever". This quote uses an extended metaphor to describe the seemingly never ending jungle. The jungle just goes on and on and on.

In conclusion, the author uses imagery to make the readers "hear" what the characters are hearing and. the author also uses similes to compare the dinosaurs to something we can relate to.

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