Prostitution In Lila, And A Worn Path

The English 1A schema builders increased my appreciation and understanding of essays from 50 Essays, Lila, and “A Worn Path.” In Lila, some of the schema builders that I thought were very helpful were “Black Tuesday,” since it showed how inhumane prostitution truly was in the Depression Era. It is a Kinesthetic, Musical, and Visual schema builder. The woman in “The Cradle Will Rock - Nickel Under the Foot,” portrayed Lila as a woman who had to work through prostitution to survive, since it is her only option. In Lila, Lila did not have a choice but to deal with the horrifying experience of being teased by Mack. She “never knew that people could be so mean...Mack could run his finger along her cheek and she would feel the warmth rising to follow it. He would touch her neck sometimes, it would make the tears come every time he did it” (Robinson 195). By the time that she worked at the brothel, she hated every single minute when the gentlemen, including Mack, visited. Another schema builder was from the movie, “Of Mice and Men.” It is a visual schema builder, since it portrays the comparison of George …show more content…
The photographer said that he “ made all kinds of pictures because [he] thought it would be a good rescue shot over the ladder...never dreamed it would be anything else…[He] was making pictures with a motor drive and he, the firefighter; was reaching up and, [he] [did not]know, everything started falling” (Ephron 152). Ephron could have started by giving a brief background of the photographer and that he did not realize what was really happening until the woman fell. Starting this way allows her to notify the reader that the photographer did not intentionally take the pictures for cynical purposes, or everyone would end up blaming him for not being