At the end of ‘With a Sword in my Hand’ Marguerite’s dad confronts her about leaving to go live in the chapel, here we see that the father never really cared for her and just about is reputation. “I have to think of my reputation, daughter.” (pg. 263) “You fight well daughter” (Pg.257) During the fight her father does give some praise and this must fill Marguerite with some hope that things at home will improve. The fact that she goes home shows that she is ready to fulfil her roles as a countess and although she still may struggle she has come to except her roles and…
Marguerite had many accomplishments during the first 16 years of her life. Those are all proven in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings novel. Three of them are very important; securing a job as a conductorette also was the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcar, graduating from high school, and giving birth to her little boy Guy…
Charlie Gordon is the main character in the story “Flowers for Algernon”. He’s a 37 year-old adult with an IQ of 68. He is mentally challenged but he desperately wants to be smart. Charlie is asked to have a surgery that the doctors think will make him smarter but the results are not guaranteed. Charlie will do anything to gain more intelligence and therefore agrees to have the surgery and take part in the scientists’ experimentation on him and his advances.…
Content Analysis of a Movie The movie I choose was Flowers in the Attic, by V.C Andrews (2014). The whole ordeal with Flowers in the Attic retakes the abuse of a grandmother that punishes her daughter for marrying and having children by her uncle. So, the daughter was cut out of her fathers will for marring her uncle. The daughter moves back home after the sudden death of her husband.…
In modern society, there is no truer statement than “money is power”. Because of this, the world can be divided into subcategories based on net worth. Alternatively, society groups people by race. This compulsive categorization of society is now so deeply ingrained that society couldn’t possibly function without it. Who is the cause of this division of the classes?…
Do you ever come to a road block in your life and not know what to do? Everyday every person all around the world has some type of task/goal that they want to achieve that day. Sometimes your goal could seem impossible. Some characters from our Facing Challenges unit had to face some difficult decisions in order to achieve their goal/task. Throughout these tough decisions, the characters struggled but maintained themselves calmly.…
It is like a lifeline to marguerite because when Mrs. Flowers is talking to marguerite it makes her feel special. In in a way Mrs. Flowers tells margaret that not talking doesn't help solve your life mistakes it make them worse by not telling people how you feel we dont find out if margerit starts to talk but we do find out that marger te agrees with Mrs.Flowers and not only cuse she is her rolemoddle but becuse margerit knows this is true before margerite felt sad lonley depresed and rotten bad old soggy and a lot of others things but now that Mrs.Flowers helps margert she feels knew wanted reborn andshe feels as if all that depereshion has lifted off of her shemargertite now know that she is not the troble and it is not her fault…
While reading See Me, I made a prediction that the person that sent the bouquet of pink roses is going to bring up topics from both Maria and Colin’s past. Both Maria and Colin have not had an easy past. Several actions have changed both Maria and Colin’s personality. Maria, a lawyer, had dealt with strange cases in the past, but nothing compared to the case that caused her to quit her job. Maria did not fight for the right punishment for a client and was stalked by the client’s brother.…
There are quite a bit for similarities and differences between the story and movie of, “Flowers for Algernon”, the story version which is called, “Flowers for Algernon” and the movie version which is called, “Charlie”. One similarity in both the movie and story is Dr. Nemur. In the story he is mean and demanding, in the movie he is the exact same way, he was rude and only cared about himself. One difference that caught my attention was the setting.…
What would it be like to be mentally disabled, everyone taking advantage of one’s low intellect. But what if that mentally disabled person could be smart, insanely smart, even if for a month or two, would it be worth it? Most would dive in without a second glance but in Flowers for Algernon, not everything is as it seams. Charlie Gordon, the main character is a loving guy with friends that love to laugh. He works as a janitor for a local company but sadly, he is mentally disabled and can barely read or write.…
Question 3: Because Angelou’s description has a strong narrative component, it isn't surprising that there’s a considerable amount of dialogue in the section… What do these imagined scoldings of Momma reveal about young Angelou? How do they relate to Mrs. Flowers’s subsequent “lessons in life”? Angelou’s imagined scoldings of her Momma reveals that she is ashamed of her mom's lack of english when speaking to Mrs. Flowers.…
Her dreams get destroyed when she finds out about Tom’s affair with Myrtle. Tom is abusive towards Daisy, she does not speak upon it. Daisy thought she had the perfect life with money, love, and happiness, she soon realizes she does not when her daughter is born. “I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool.” (Fitzgerald,16).…
Self-discovery is a journey many people reach through a range of different outlets. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou presents the evolution of a young, black girl who survived adversities. Marguerite Ann Johnson surmounts atrocious moments in her life with the emotional support of key figures. Momma’s reassurance, and of an upbringing with good morality to Marguerite provided an unsaid motherly love. Mother Dear’s carefree character allows Marguerite to become independent.…
Mrs. Flowers is the main character in chapter 15, she taught Maya the importance of being listened and also the correct use of words and these are things that Marguerite (the character) and Maya (the writer) learnt and helped her during her whole life, because Mrs. Flowers was the one that “threw me [Maya] my first life line” (Angelou, 93) during that period but meeting her was also the starting point of her writing: Maya’s “lessons in living” with Mrs. Flowers awaken her conscience, sharpen her perspective of her environment and of the relationship between blacks and the larger society, and teach her something about the beauty and power of language. Emotionally and intellectually strenghtened by this friendship, Maya begins to compose poetic verses and ring songs and to keep a scrapbook journal in which she records her reactions to and impressions of people, places and events and new ideas that she is introduced to by books. When she is not yet nine years old, she records her impressions of early pioneer life in Arkansas. (Mc Pherson, 36)…
As the young life of Maya Angelou, she was a victim of a sexual act. Before Maya Angelou met Ms. Flowers she reacted in silence. The reaction of silence was caused by her feeling worthless. As the author states, “…I mopped around the house, the Store, the school, and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty, and inedible” (Angelou, 2000). Maya was trapped in a wall of retreat until Mrs. Flowers gave her self-worth.…