Character Identification Protagonist: Francis, a poor young girl in Brooklyn. Neely, her younger brother. Katie her mother, Her dad johnny.…
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful” Joshua J. Marine. Betty Marie overcame her obstacles in many different ways. Like she ignored the kids who bullied her about her last name, she kept her mind on her career, and she always knows that being an Osage Indian is nothing funny, but something to be proud of. At first Betty Marie was shy and docile, so she was not able to become famous in her point in life.…
Analyzing the two short stories, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, by Flannery O’Connor and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, by Karen Russell, I discovered that they both had similar themes of identity however; they were presented in different ways between each text. The misfit from “A Good Man” had no real identity according to the story. His life was unclear to the reader. To identify himself, he used the term misfit and he fulfills this term by acting in crazy ways. The characters, Claudette, Mirabella and Jeanette from the story “St. Lucy’s”, show the theme of identity loss through description and imagery.…
In today’s world everyone is judged by what one wears, how one looks, and the decisions that one makes. In the book people do just this. Society had a major impact on Maureen and she quickly surrendered to society. While Maureen was still in elementary she started to hang out with people who were not poor and she would spend all of her time with them. But soon after highschool Maureen had tried to go to a community college in New York but could not handle it.…
A feeling of desperation and lonesomeness, coming to the realization that you would do anything and everything with all of your mental and physical power to fit in. Including changing everything that makes you who you are. Being a “Stranger in the village” is difficult to endure, and some people are not capable of handling the desolation. When moving from state to state, it’s understandable that one might feel alone, but in most circumstances after spending sometime in a new place, a person will begin to befriend new people and separating themselves from others. Most certainly that does not always happen, and in those situations is where the real problem comes to life.…
Why? Why did this happen to me? These were my two unanswered questions I always asked myself when I am reminded of my fate. I always knew I was adopted, but questions are constantly nagging the back of my mind until I had no thoughts at all. Why did she have to give me up?…
Within reading "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" you see that traditional gender roles are questioned a lot. How should a woman act? What is the true proper way? Bernice thinks it 's perfectly normal to be proper and to talk about cars with boys. Whereas Marjorie thinks that as a girl, you must be lively and learn to entertain boys.…
Transcendentalism, realism, and naturalism, are three different eras that create different works of writing. Transcendentalism is the view that basic truths can be reached through intuition rather than through reason. Transcendentalists also believe in the idea in the Over Soul which is the idea that each individual being has a certain “spark of divine” within themselves. Also that the Over Soul connects all people to each other and Nature. These ideas of equality for all, being connected with nature, not conforming to the societal norms, and following your bliss, are all seen throughout writings from this period.…
Although Marjorie plays a role in bobbing Bernice’s hair, Bernice is not justified in her behavior because she deliberately acts against Marjorie without proper rationale. Contrary to her cousin, Bernice is shown as naive and sensitive. Interestingly, Bernice reveals an interest in bobbing her hair to fit in with Marjorie’s friends and gain popularity. However, when Marjorie exposes her bluff, she replies dubiously, “‘I like bobbed hair,’... ‘and I intend to bob mine.’”…
In a desperate attempt to regain control and stability in her life, she visits her mother's sisters; going back her roots to try and grasp onto the person she once was. With a sudden loss of self…
At first, Lori enjoyed her childhood; she did not care about her appearance or what people thought of her. Nevertheless, Lori’s mother began telling her that she needs to be more “ladylike” and can not be eating as much. This consequently had an affect on Lori which causes her to change her…
I. Home as refuge/protection In Ode to my Mother’s Hair by Joseph Legaspi and The Road Back by Pak Chesam, home is expressed as a matter of refuge and protection. The two poems are similar in the fact that “home” is defined as a symbolic figure, which is the mother. For example, in the poem Ode to my Mother’s Hair, the comparison of the mother’s hair as “dark as cuttlefish ink,” (Legaspi 9) signifies a mother’s natural instinct when danger is sensed. This analogy provides a vivid imagery on a mother’s character in that they would defend and protect, like a cuttlefish secreting ink, when danger lurks.…
Lucy Westenra is an innocent, flirtatious young woman at the beginning of this novel who goes through some of the most drastic changes. Darkness overtakes Lucy who is always known for being blissful and caring. She transitions into a being that no one wants to be associated with, and her presence is dreaded. She is faced with danger, sickness, death; everything around her is testing the simple person she had grown up to be. Eventually, she isn’t able to go back to the person she once was and is forever supposed to be a creature, the opposite of the way she was.…
Starting with the main character Susanna Kaysen, she is from a rather normal family in the middle class who has a goal to maintain the “perfect” look in their society. Susanna sees a therapist who regularly talks to her about her day and her condition, which she has no idea…
Marriage is a major theme in the novel Pride and Prejudice, and one of the characters with the strongest views on marriage is Mrs Bennet. However, Mrs Bennet’s views contrast with those of other characters, like Mr Bennet and Lady Catherine. These opposing views help us to give us insight into the varying views of society at the time. Mrs Bennet’s views about marriage are very traditional, and she is known throughout the novel for wanting her children to get married for selfish or material reasons. Nevertheless, she also wants the best for her family while considering marriage.…