In August Wilson’s play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the twenty-six year old Mattie Campbell is a lonely, young woman, born in Georgia, who is looking for her lost love, Jack Carper who was the father of her two children that have passed away. After Jack leaves her, Mattie searches for a sincere relationship and love. Mattie has faced many downfalls while searching; however, that does not stop her from believing that love still exist. Her attractiveness is said to be concealed beneath her weight and “concerns of a dissatisfied life. ”(1.1).…
At 5:30 AM, the young, naive, Jenny Drpich is all dressed up finally ready to leave her home and head to her job for the first time. On her way, she grabbed a copy of West Australian newspaper, a leftover of cinnamon bun from last night and a freshly brewed cup of Long Black Arabica. The placidness of her home is unwieldy; the constant sound of the dead air seems remind her of pure elation of her little farmhouse in upper Swan Valley. These reminiscing values seem to ponder in her mind as she heads out of the driveway. It was a heinous drive from her house to the suburb.…
Artie is an 11 year old girl who enjoys being different. Artie and her family live in a very run-down and small house, they don’t always get to eat everyday, and doesn’t have a lot of money. She gets to experience 1st hand poverty. Artie thinks she is living a great life until Artie starts to get bullied. She reflects on what others are saying about her and realizes that they’re true.…
It was Ashley’s first day working at The Silver Diner. She was feeling like she was going to throw up anytime soon because she was so nervous. Ashley had an odd personality. She has been known at other jobs for being late to work, disorganized, and very clumsy. She was so short that people sometimes didn’t see her and would trip over her.…
The female narrator, tells the story of her husband Vic’s teenage obsession over a girl named Strawberry Alison, with a bright red birthmark which covered half her face and neck, like a mask that couldn’t be removed. The narrator tells her husband’s life story from her perspective. ‘During the day he dreamed of pulling her into a car and tearing out of town and heading north. He’d rescue her, love her and marry her…’(page range 60-61) It’s a strange mingling of first and second person points of view that places the reader into the lives of Vic (as an adult and teenager) and his wife.…
Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” can be argued in numerous ways. Critics assume the short story was just a feminist allegory; Friend has the power to enter through the screen door however, he persuades Connie to come to him, giving into his manipulative sexual promises. On the other hand some think Arnold Friend is a Godlike figure, saving Connie from her life; while others think Arnold is a Satanic creature, luring her into sin. However those theories were never supported from Oates throughout the story.…
A wise man once said, “ One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others’ feelings and courteous in his behavior. ”-(Ezra Taft Benson). Although his words are true, they are often not displayed in the behavior of our peers, especially during high school. I learned the hard way, through witnessing a misunderstanding that led to discriminatory actions.…
Night and the lovely stars that it brought out was one of the many things she not only loved but adored. Being able to sit directly under them, to stare at them was one thing she thought she would never be able to do. The young blonde that always had a smile painted on her face, the one who walked around the city without a care in the world was not always like this. There once was a time not so long ago where she wasn’t allowed to do such things as walk the streets freely. Living with her mother for 18 years she grew up very sheltered.…
The simple, elegant, hierarchy of Abraham Maslow is used to determine your level of motivation in life. Kira, Thomas, And Matt are characters in the book. Maslow's hierarchy is a demonstrative pyramid of the levels in life. In the novel Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, these three characters show a significant change of development Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy.…
As a young woman in an urban environment Margaret’s walking out alone would have been considered inappropriate, and her attempts to find “a nonpareil of a girl . . . [bring to mind] Mrs Shaw’s ideas of propriety” (Gaskell 81). Margaret makes many mistakes while finding her balance within what she perceives as appropriate. She considers the locals to be “boisterous . . . [and] impertinent . . .…
1. At school, Miss Caroline is upset that Scout has learned to read, and asks her not to have her father teach her anymore. Scout encounters an issue that only feeds to her disinterest of school. In this event, Scout’s confusion on what she has done wrong displays her innocence as a child. It was not her intention to be ahead in reading, instead it was something that she found came to her naturally.…
“How to date a brown girl” Our personalities or rather the qualities that make us who we are derive from different aspects in our quotidian lives. In other words, we are a product of our time, surroundings, and in some cases factors such as race and social class play their own role. However, what if the so-called essence of our being was merely determined by our race and social class? An assumption in which individuality plays no role. This could also be seen in Junot Diaz’s…
Ever since the dawn of the first written language literature has always played a huge role in understanding why do humans behave and accomplish goals some that are very adventurous and against a human’s comfort zone. Literature reflects on human 's nature and pulls at their instinct to be adventurous and go against their comfort zone of a normal life to do something extraordinary. Two examples of pieces of literature that show off people that accept the call to adventure while other folks do not ,is the New York Times Article, “A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No” written by Charles Mcgrath. As well the poem “Sadie and Maud” written by Gwendolyn Brooks.…
The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison emphasizes the need for community in order for a society to evolve and move forward from a difficult history. It is impossible for the community to evolve, sustain, and survive without its members working continuously in a structured formation in which the members support each other. In the novel, the absence of support from their community poses a significant challenge for the characters to progress from the haunting memories of slavery. This absence results in the lack of self-affirmation, isolation, and makes it impossible for the characters to develop their own independent identity. The cohesion of the African American community of Cincinnati functions as a foundation for the characters to develop a true…
A mother’s bond with a child can last a lifetime, but Millay must do her best not remember, or ‘unremember,’ because the burden of life away from someone who she raised and cared for has become too hard to bear. By the same token, ‘lads’ is employed to create distance between the relationship between mother and child. The term ‘lad’ is also used to refer to someone who is young, like a toddler which only solidifies the notion that Millay is referring to a child. Had Millay substituted ‘lads’ for a more intimate word, the effect would have conflicted with the idea of a mother struggling to cope with lost presence of a beloved child, while counterintuitively making the connection between mother and child stronger which our author is actually trying to weaken. Diction is something authors stress over in poetry and it is no mistake…