Laura Ingalls’s dark hair is a trait that she shares with the other two protagonists Capitola Black and Jo March. Capitola is so dark that she is actually sold into slavery "Fifty–more or less, but strong, active, a good nurse and a very light mulatto,' says my willain's voice” (Southworth 24) and Jo March, who’s “very tall, thin and brown” (Alcott, LW 10). Laura is described as being “brown as an Indian” (Wilder, OBPC 143). Michelle Abate states that while Alcott, Southworth and Wilder are portrayed as “ostensibly Caucasian tomboys with brown skin and dark physical features,” which in turn links them to “various forms of nonwhiteness”, their dark skin differentiates them from their frail, feminine contemporaries who do not engage in “rambunctious…
The novel this essay is about is Their eyes were Watching God. In this book the main characters name is Janie Mae Crawford. Janie has many relationships with men in this novel to be specific she marries 3 different men during her life. In her second marriage she is married to a man named Joe Starks. Joe dies towards the middle of the novel and she then moves on to her 3rd marriage.…
A fifteen year old deaf girl named, Mika Sykes, also known as Mik, is only able to hear with her old out of date hearing aids. She is bullied every day for her challenge. Mic would rather turn her hearing aids off and mute the world rather than listen to the chaos. Just as she thinks she will always be the outcast, she is grateful to meet a girl who is a misfit just like her. Jimmi Sixes, who is already a veteran at the age of nineteen and a street poet who struggles to become someone big in New York, introduced Mic to Fatima.…
All around the world there have been many cases of sexual and physical abuse against women. Such is the case in “Bluest eye” by Toni Morrison and the movie “Their Eyes were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. Likewise, in Natacha Clerge contemporary review that shares a similar perspective. In all three works there is a horrible turn of events that leads to desperate measures.…
This book was very interesting. It had a lot of interesting themes that are relevant today, almost 80 years after the book was written. One thing I took note of in the book was the male character's attraction to Janie's hair. I don't know if this was something the author included in the story to signify Janie's beauty but I believe that the obsession with her hair represents the idolization of white features.…
“Black Hair” by Gary Soto has a specific line that reminds me of what an average day in high school for me was like, “The days were dull. I did what there was to do from morning until the bell sounded”. I usually felt this way because, like Soto in his autobiographical story he felt alienated from everyone around him. I am about to tell you my story of a time in my life where I felt shunned by everyone.…
In chapter one, he discusses the story of David Rosenbaum, a New York Times journalist, who died due to a label based only first impression and image of him and the crime scene. In a span of several hours, paramedics, cops, firefighters,…
When does an insignificant name of a character that cannot even be remembered by the protagonist become so important, that it centralizes the entire tale to the point that if the name is not mentioned the tale will not be a tale? The closest answer to this question could be found in Ludwig Tieck tale “The fair haired Eckbert”. The apparently dull life of Eckbert and his wife Bertha, both of whom seem to be content with their current lifestyle of isolated protection from society, comes crashing down when Eckbert’s only close friend Walther comes to visit. Eckbert feels obligated to let his friend know of all their secrets, so he prompts his wife to recount the story of her odd childhood. Bertha begins her story when she was the age of eight,…
In the novel Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston the story of a woman Janie is told from her narrative of how her self journey to happiness and mental freedom is unfolded. The main character of the novel goes through about 3 relationships with 3 different men. But these relationships can be viewed as just a women trying to find the right man and finally get love right. There’s more to these relationships and the events that take place in between all three relationships. Each and every relationship plays sort of a display of Gender and gender roles in many and quite frequently high percentage of relationships in this time period and time periods to come.…
Gilly Hopkins is a foster child. She has to move to a new foster home. She thinks the people at her new foster home are odd. Gilly meets a girl named Agnes. She thinks Agnes is gross.…
There I was, lying in bed watching television with my aunt. Then suddenly, a Barbie commercial came on. Seeing the colors, and the adjectives that described the products. Seeing how fun it looked to actually play with that doll. Seeing how great it looked to have an actual house where dolls can live.…
Summary Jenna Fox, a seventeen-year-old girl from Boston has recently been in a terrible accident. The book opens on a Jenna that is waking from a year-long coma. She has no memory of her life, family, or the accident. She wakes up in a home in California, that she lives in with her mother and grandmother, Lily. Jenna feels that Lily does not like her, and this troubles her.…
Counterculture is a set of values and norms different compared to the rest of society. This culture was first introduced in the United States and United Kingdom around the 1960s. During this time, the generation of adolescents dealt with homosexuality, the use of drugs, opposition to the Vietnam War, women rights, as well as African-American rights. Playwrights, James Rado and Gerome Ragni proposed a play called “Hair”, which is based on a group of hippie friends living during the revolution of the counterculture. The main character, Claude struggles to live the life of young teenager living in New York City with conservative parents.…
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.…
Analysis As American science fiction author Poul Anderson once said, “We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?” The meaning of an archetype is an unknowable basic form that is personified in recurring images, symbols or patterns. The use archetypes within pieces of writing gives authors the ability to prominently teach a lesson, as well as productively displaying the characters, themes, and plot. Stephanie’s Ponytail, written by Robert Munsch, depicts a brave girl who is actively seeking to separate herself from everyone else and create a distinct identity, through her choice of hairstyle, even after being meticulously imitated by her classmates.…