In this story Bus Queue by Anges Owens I am going to discuss how the writer conveys moods through his use of language. The moods created are made by his choice of words, the dialect and dialogue, by the people at the bus stop. The moods can also be detected by the sentence structure. He expresses these moods by giving detailed sentences of the boy out of breath and the harsh cold weather. The scene in which the story is set is in an area that is poor and rough, the broken glass at the bus stop shows this; also the wire fence emphasises a poor area. The boy that arrives at the bus stop had been running, this was shown because he was gasping for air as he was out of breath, the boy must have felt like his heart was sinking from the amount of hard running he had been doing.
The boy was alone, as he had no one to talk two. He could have tried to make conversation with the other person at the bus stop but whenever he looked up and tried to make conversation she drew her collar up, so that she was blocking him out as such. The woman was regarding him coldly as if to say; I want nothing to do with you so just leave me alone, but to be fair to the woman she might of just been cold as the bus shelter wasn’t really a shelter as the panes of glass were broken. The chilling wind is rushing through the holes and is getting colder as the night grows older. He starts to feel this cold bitterness in his lungs. The boy is anxious as he keeps glancing up and down the street.
The Essay on Driver Refused To Let Griffin Off The Bus White Time Stop
John Howard Griffin encountered several incidents of racial discrimination in the South as he posed as a black man. Griffin felt that most of the incidents occurred not because the perpetrators were mean people, but that they were ignorant of tolerance and acceptance. Several examples of discriminating incidents that Griffin encountered were the time when a car full of white boys drove by and ...
Here the author is describing the boy and the surroundings so that the reader of the story can sense and imagine the area around the bus stop and the essentially the people at the bus stop. Nobody cares about other people or other things that are happening around them, if you feel ok then that’s all that matters. The boy lent against the wire fence and two females approached the shelter and stood within the shelter they then started talking and created some friendly atmosphere so the boy felt welcome. They were talking about the buses and how they haven’t been on time for years now and that they have been complaining for years and that nothing had been done because the area was poor and nobody cared about the people that lived there. At this point a middle aged man joined the wait for the bus and he started talking about his son being in the army and he said ‘its better than being on the dole’. They started talking about the fact that the buses would be bang on time if the ‘pakies’ were still in charge of the area and that the buses would be on time if it were a ‘high class district’. All conversation then faded, the boy then spotted two youths walking towards him. They stood either side of the boy and whispered to him about a party and that one of their team, as such, was in hospital with 24 stitches because he had a glass bottle smashed over his face.
The woman at the bus stop were getting annoyed with the boys that had arrived because they were harassing the boy and because they were skipping the queue. On the other side of the fence where the boys were standing a dog started running about barking frantically at the bus queue, ‘shut yer noise’ someone shouted, it didn’t stop. The boy then aimed and hurled a stone at the dog; the dogs frantic barking then changed to a painful howl and retreated to the doorstep where the dog came out. The boy in the middle of the two ‘hooligans’, as such, was considering asking the other people in the bus queue for help. Before the boy had a chance to ask for help someone shouted “here is the bus!” The relief on the boys face was shown as the bus was like his savour and he felt if he could get on the bus he would be safe. The women said to the two boys that were going to skip “mind ues two” as the bus pulled up “end of the queue.” Once the bus had pulled up to the stop the well dressed woman was the first to climb on board, next was the youth that had been victimised by the other hooligans, but these hooligans moved in front of the boy so he could not enter the bus, the boy shouted for help but no one was willing to help, and the only reply that he got was “away an fight like ma son”, in an hopeless attempt the boy began punching the hooligans, by this time everyone was on the bus and was watching through the window, the driver started the engine and attempted to make a fast get away, but one of the boys jumped on and shouted to his mate “Hurry get on were no waiting for the next yin”, but he had just received a heavy kick which winded him, so to get his own back and get vengeance for his mate in hospital he grabbed something in his pocket, a knife, he stuck it into the stomach of the boy ,and one of the hooligans dragged the other hooligan on board of the bus and left the boy bleeding , the driver shouted “get aff” but he was unable to do anything about it.
The Term Paper on Rosa Parks Bus Boycott Montgomery
Rosa Parks Biography By Shawn Landden & Chris Bowen Table of Contents. Forward - Sage Waters Speaks ii. Introduction - An introduction to Rosa Parks iii. Timeline - Dates of major events in Rosa Parks Life 1. Chapter 1: In the Beggining - Before The Boycott 2. Chapter 2: The Boycott Begins - It all Begins 3. Chapter 3: The Aftermath - Whats happened to Parks since iv. Bibliography - Additional ...
The last thing that the middle-aged man said was “they canny fight for nuts nooadays. They should be in Belfast wi ma son.” The boy was dismissed from there mind and the passengers on the bus thought no more about its they were glad to be out of the cold and on their way home..
