Literature- I need your help!
 

Dammit, I'm taking a literature class and there is a question that I need help with.

Identify the work from which each passage is taken and its author, and describe the significance of the passage in relation to the work's meaning:

5. Boom Down


Yes, that's it. That's all it says...... And it covers the entire book, unfortunately I did not read every story and cannot find the two word passage. I don't need the meaning...just the story/poem that it is in.

I appreciate your help in advance.

And as usual... Have a beer on me:thumb:

I can't help you with your answer, but I sure like John lee hooker


boom boom boom boom........

Dude,
Unless it's a KC-135 training manual I have no idea. Sorry

I'd have to think it would be Moby Dick or Mutiny On The Bounty if in a literature class but don't know for sure

I guess if we were all geniuses we wouldn't be Chiefs fans.... burn!

Name of story?

search for it in google books, use quotes...

That's what I'm stressing out trying to find!

found it!

_________

Snow - Informer - Lyrics

Whats up man! hey yo whats up!
Yeah whats goin on here.
Sick an tired of five-oh runnin up on the block here.
You know what Im sayin?
Yo snow, they came around here lookin for you the other day.
Word? word! bust it!

Chorus
Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down.
Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame,
A licky boom boom down.
Detective mon said daddy me snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky boom boom down.

Police them come an now they blow down me door,
One him come crawl through, through my window,
So then they put me in the back the car at the station,
From that point on me reach my destination,
When the destination reached, it was the east detention, where them
Whipped down me pants, looked up me bottom, so

Chorus

Bigger they are they think they have more power,
Theyre on the phone me say that on (every) hour,
Me for want to use it once an now me call me lover,
Lover who Ill be callin is the one tammy,
An me love her in me heart down to my belly,
Yes me daddy me snow me I feel cool an deadly,
As the one mc shan an the one daddy snow,
Together we-a loveem as a tor-na-do.

Chorus

Listen for me, you better listen for me now.
Listen for me, you better listen for me now.
When me rockin the microphone me rock it steady,
Yes sir, daddy me snow me are the article done.
But in the in an the out of a dance them they say where you come from,
People them say you come from jamaica,
But me born an raised in the ghetto thats the one I want you to know,
Pure black people mon thats all I mon know.
Yeah me shoes are tear up an me toes used to show,
Where me born in on the one toronto, so

Chorus

Come with a nice young lady. intelligent,
Yes shes gentle an irie.
Everywhere me go, me never left her at all.
Yes, its daddy snow me are the roam dance mon.
Roam between a dancin in a in a nation-a.
You never know say daddy me snow me are the boom shakata.
Me never lay-a down flat in that one cardboard box.
Yes say me daddy me snow me Ill go reachin at the top, so...

Chorus

Why would he?

Me sittin round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl,
Police knock my door,
Lick up my pal,
Rough me up an I cant do a thing
Pick up my line, when my telephone ring.
Take me to the station,
Black up my hands.
Trail me down, cuz Im hangin with the snowman,
What Im gonna do,
Im backed an Im trapped,
Slap me in the face an took all o my gap.
They have no clues an they wanna get warmer,
But shan wont turn informer!

Chorus

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That's probably one of the greatest pieces of American Literature ever, pr.

Agreed!

I loved that song back in the day... actually, still do. lol

A list of possible books it could be from would help. I found one called Escape from Amsterdam that had that in it several times, but a list of all of the stories you would have had to choose from would help.

Tim O'Brien - The things They Carried

Took me 2 seconds to find using Google.

http://books.google.com/books?id=R14...um=1&ct=result

That was a vietnam poem or something, wasn't it?

seriously now...

is one of your stories called

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?

http://books.google.com/books?id=R14...um=1&ct=result

beat me to it... nicely done otter

out of friggen lf PR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ROFL

DAMN! Thank you all.... You are all better googlers than I am. I looked for about 45 minutes... Yes it is a piece we are reading... funny thing is that it's one of my favorite stories.... (i rode the short bus)


Again.. Thank you pr and otter!

My new years resolution was to be more like you. :D

No worries.

my google search was "boom down" literature

that link popped right up.

Mike maslowski

Same search here. Bumps Capone to master googler. :D

Now that this thread is through.... Let's make it a monster pic thread!

Post your best monster!

Oh, and I'll give someone my enormous amount of casino cash to do the rest of my assignment...... guess e-bribes aren't that appealing....

go
 

go ninja

This

go ninja go

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/5/0...0154a8c699.jpg

my monster is barney's overeating, crack head(oxymoron) cousin

he's tough

he gave handjobs for crack

SOOOOOOOONIC BOOOOOOOOM (down)

I'll take the monster on the left.

haha

It's sort of a memoir (written like a collection of short stories) about Vietnam.

Ugly B-Ball player thread? Please..
http://www.tremendousupsidepotential...s/matareal.jpg

Wow!!! I saw that movie - I had no idea those two were the same person. I almost washed my eyes out with bleach when her and the other girl had the lesbian scene.

She was sexy in Devil's Advocate. That's scary shit there.

I'm exhausted and am going to shamefully post this in the morbid hope that someone has these answers on hand(and are not already published).... I'm beginning to think that a Bachelors Degree is gonna be tougher than the friggen ass. degree.(duh)... purple nurples to all!


PART I: (30 Points) PASSAGE IDENTIFICATION

Identify the work from which each passage is taken and its author, and describe
the significance of the passage in relation to the work's meaning:



1. She would of been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot
her every minute of her life.
Flannery O’Connor (A Good Man is Hard to Find)

2. Be it so, if you will: but alas! It was a dream of evil omen…
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black
box, they still remembered to use stones.
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
This

4. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out.
Robert Frost, Mending Wall

5. Boom. Down.
The things they carried. Tim O’Brien


6. How terrible – to see the truth
When the truth is only pain to him who sees!
Oedipus, Sophocles

PART II (20 points): SHORT ANSWER 1:

Drawing from one of the short stories(see above) you read for this class, discuss how the author uses symbolism. You should focus on no more than two scenes that clearly
show how the symbolism helps make the story more effective. Your answer should
be no longer than two paragraphs.


PART III (20 points) SHORT ANSWER 2:

The following short poem by e. e. cummings deals with a very common human
experience. Read the poem carefully and briefly explain what cummings is saying
to us. Try to include in your explanation the poetic devises cummings uses to
achieve his effect. Your response should be no more than two paragraphs.

#10 (e.e.cummings)

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles, and

may came home with smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

mmm...i bet she doesn't do homework

Damn. I had a nice train of thought going on your questions but you've broken my concentration.

Sorry.

You should have tried Googling "Boom Down literature" rather than "Big Ol' Titties".

Heh, what's your major? This is the kind of work you do drinking a beer waiting for your turn in the Madden or NHL Playstation Tournament.

I'm guessing distrusted algorithms aren't in your future. :D

People naturally gravitate to what they enjoy. I have a problem. :crybaby:

i never trust those sneaky algorithms, they come to my parties, use my deodorant and poop in the top part of my toilet....

bastards

focus

oh...and it's just english for now... I completely blew off this lit class and deserve an F more than ever before.... ugh

I was all about that chick until I saw the boxes briefs.

*shudders

ROFL

The symolism of this photograph alludes to the arbitrary notion of sexual ambiguity and gigantic green hulk hands.

Question is, does she fist herself?

Yes, that will be on the test.

Okay Mike, really, those stories are very short, you could have read A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Lottery by now. Two paragraphs is nothing. In A Good Man is Hard to Find the grandmother symbolizes the old way of thinking, which she romantacizes, but in reality it is as corrupt, petty, and small minded any other point in history. The Misfit symbolizes a societal misfit, but ironically, he in many ways has a more pragmatic, honest and realistic view of the world.

homework.....

okay... i was listening... thanks for that breakdown...

i like the lottery, just crappy at writing the symbolism part.... i am a type of person who generally takes things for what they are worth and reading too much into it hurts my brain...

Don't be an English major, then.

I just had to get a quick class.... and options of majors are limited here in Italy..... I will soon change. Once I get back to the states.