onigiri san
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These quotes are from Romulus my father, I need language techniques for them cos I'm writing an essay and I cant think of any good techniques for them. Please help, you don't have to give and answer for each quote , just the ones you know. Thanx. Also if you know any other quotes that relate to Belonging in Romulus my father esp in relation to belonging to self and belonging to culture, please tell me.
1) "More than anything, however, the glorious, tall, burnt-yellow grasses … moving irregularly against a deep blue sky, dominated the images of my childhood and gave colour to my freedom and also to my understanding of suffering” (pg 123)
2)"I have never known anyone who lived so passionately, as did these two friends, the belief that nothing matters so much in life as to live it decently. " (pg 101)
3)“Childhood as we now know it, a space apart from the adult world, a life of its own, did not exist in that part of the world at that time.” (pg 2)
4)“His sense of religion and their desire for wealth and prestige were radically incompatible” (pg 167)
5)“…he belonged to a long tradition of European thought which celebrated… a community of equals…” (pg 100)
6)"Belief in the afterlife is the only hope in us." (pg 94)
7)“Many were Bible stories and their memory nourished his deeply religious spirit throughout his life.” (pg 3)
8) “He could no more have money without giving some to others who needed it than he could eat steak and not give some to his dogs” 9pg 165)
9)“…that you not take money for shabby goods, that you not try to cover up a shoddy job… “ (pg 174)
10)"Three things fed my father's anger: his knowledge that I was lying, his fear for my character and his dismay that he had lost something precious." (pg 50)
11) "Tom Lillie and others disliked my mother partly because they saw her engaging vivacity as a dangerously seductive manifestation of personality in a woman they believed to be lacking entirely in character - a 'characterless woman' as Hora put it." (pg 102)
12) “My father was not merely skilled, he was a man of a practical genius, and during this time his genius flourished because of the joy of having hammer and steel in his hands” (pg 4)
13) “His sense of the importance of work and of its moral and spiritual requirements was simple and noble.” (pg98)
14) “He had promised and that was binding to him” (pg 149)
language techniques like : similes, metaphors, emotive language, anaphora, bathos etc.
It would be good if i good get some more sophisticated ones from you guys, but just post what u know
1) "More than anything, however, the glorious, tall, burnt-yellow grasses … moving irregularly against a deep blue sky, dominated the images of my childhood and gave colour to my freedom and also to my understanding of suffering” (pg 123)
2)"I have never known anyone who lived so passionately, as did these two friends, the belief that nothing matters so much in life as to live it decently. " (pg 101)
3)“Childhood as we now know it, a space apart from the adult world, a life of its own, did not exist in that part of the world at that time.” (pg 2)
4)“His sense of religion and their desire for wealth and prestige were radically incompatible” (pg 167)
5)“…he belonged to a long tradition of European thought which celebrated… a community of equals…” (pg 100)
6)"Belief in the afterlife is the only hope in us." (pg 94)
7)“Many were Bible stories and their memory nourished his deeply religious spirit throughout his life.” (pg 3)
8) “He could no more have money without giving some to others who needed it than he could eat steak and not give some to his dogs” 9pg 165)
9)“…that you not take money for shabby goods, that you not try to cover up a shoddy job… “ (pg 174)
10)"Three things fed my father's anger: his knowledge that I was lying, his fear for my character and his dismay that he had lost something precious." (pg 50)
11) "Tom Lillie and others disliked my mother partly because they saw her engaging vivacity as a dangerously seductive manifestation of personality in a woman they believed to be lacking entirely in character - a 'characterless woman' as Hora put it." (pg 102)
12) “My father was not merely skilled, he was a man of a practical genius, and during this time his genius flourished because of the joy of having hammer and steel in his hands” (pg 4)
13) “His sense of the importance of work and of its moral and spiritual requirements was simple and noble.” (pg98)
14) “He had promised and that was binding to him” (pg 149)
language techniques like : similes, metaphors, emotive language, anaphora, bathos etc.
It would be good if i good get some more sophisticated ones from you guys, but just post what u know