Two Personal Accounts of Exploration and Settlement "The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano", by Olaudah Equiano, and "Of Plymouth Plantation", by William Bradford, both give readers a personal insight into the horrible atrocities for survival and the hope of eventual freedoms from these hardships they had to undergo during a certain time period. Both selections provide readers with a numerous amount of descriptive details and imagery to help them understand the personal experiences that occurred during that time period. The theme, or underlying message, in "Of Plymouth Plantation" is the importance of a whole and united community. The theme of "The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano" is the atrocities suffered by African slaves at the hands of the slave traders and the slave owners. Although these selections based on personal experiences occurred at different time periods, with Olaudah's personal account…
The reading The Other Family addresses an important problem in Canadian society. There is a hegemonic culture in Canada that causes immigrants to fear that they will lose their own customs and traditions. In the reading the little girl drew a picture of a family that was not representative of her own but that was what she knew to be a “Canadian family”. The reaction of her mother is indicative of the fact that this is a concern for their family and their heritage. This shows the overarching issue about the education system not being inclusive of all cultures as they should be in a multicultural country.…
Throughout many deaths of Jewish people in during the World War II. About 6 million Jewish were dead, but some had survive and carry out the horrible experience. Even though they went through hard times, but love, laughter, and nature helped many keep moving on through the harsh sad days. Within the lives of Jewish dying everyday living in fear.…
ENGLAND: A.D 1377 I looked down at my mother, she looked so peaceful with her eyes closed and the cross of lead clutched in her hands. But to think that she would never awake to look at me and tell me I am going to be alright, to think that I never said a proper goodbye. To think that I will be alone and have to support myself. It was not long after I had found my mother, Asta that father Quinel arrived he wrapped the black shroud around her to symbolise her death.…
In the spring of 1846, Eliza Stacey, realizing her desperate need for money, writes a letter to her father-in-law Edward pleading for his support in paying her family’s debt. The composition of her letter was critical as her husband remained in prison unable to pay their debt and her pregnancy was taking its toll. Eliza utilizes alliteration, understatement, and pathos to reach the generosity of her father-in-law all while examining her own situation with grace. Stacey opens the first paragraph with two flowing alliterations to magnify the difference between what she once hoped for, and what fate has brought to her, in order to open Edward’s eyes to the blessing of the charity she seeks. She coins her worldly hopes as an “advantage apparently about to be increased” (3-4) but quickly follows with the anticlimactic “the hopes are frustrated and…depressed by disappointment” (3-5).…
Constant discovery through trusting conversation and questioning is essential to maintain a wholesome relationship. This is explored by Robert frost in Home Burial through the emphasis on the isolation between the living when experiencing death, which eventually leads to them challenging their stubborn beliefs and discovering the existence of alternate pathways to escaping misery. Frost metaphorically states the dissatisfaction within the relationship, “Three foggy mornings and one raining day will rot the best birch fence a man can build”. Notably this shows how a singular negative event impacts upon their relationship substantially, overwhelming all the positives experienced. Through the use of the term “man”, we understand the blame being…
This book has taught me so much about how true love never fails no matter what happens. The little things in life matter more than the big things. Also that you should never judge someone by their appearance because they are different inside the things you can’t see with a human naked eye, you have to get to know that person to find the truly special, ideal things inside with the loving warm caring hearts. “People die, but love doesn’t,” I learned that even if people pass away there is still that true love that never escapes the hearts of people that are still here on earth. Just like when Marguerite passed away Eddie still loved her with all his heart and the same goes for Marguerite that even when she was in heaven.…
Thomas Barnardo, a man born threateningly sick. Consequently, Thomas’s family was agitated, for he was mistakenly pronounced dead two times by different doctors. Luckily, he grew up strong. This man then began caring about those who were in need of food as well as homes like orphans so he gave out a helping hand, because he had the experience of how it was like as of need of critical assistance from his own childhood. Thomas Barnardo displayed great courage.…
Equiano and Rowlandson cope with their situations by cherishing the things that they can value like family and God, in order to show the importance of support from God, friends, and family and how this can provide comfort and hope to themselves when going through hardship. For instance, Rowlandson loses one of her children: “I must and could lie down by my dead babe, side by side all the night after. I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me, in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses, in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life” (38). This shows the opposite matter to the comfort and hope from family. Without serenity, Rowlandson felt miserable due to the absence of her daughter.…
Love is often what holds a family together. However, in the case of Addie Bundren and her family in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, it is duty that keeps them from falling apart. After Addie Bundren’s death, her husband and children embark on a misadventure to bury her body, not necessarily out of their love for her, but because of the duty they feel to follow her request and the duty they have to fulfill other expectations. Each member uses their duty to the family’s matriarch as a way to distract them from truly dealing with her death.…
In the beginning of A Visit With the Folks, Russell Baker’s outlook on life seems somewhat grim. While he shows some enthusiasm for the memories he holds of his family, his tale starts off with a subconscious cloud of gloom and grief. He seems stressed, but also looks forward to reminiscing about his family for relaxation. By the end of his visit, he has a refreshed perspective on life.…
In “Loneliness” by Laura Cortes shows how much a man had little hope from the past that helps him live today. He is living day to day without looking further more into life because he is simply not looking forward to anything anymore. The poem expresses how a man is living in hopelessness without a family or a friend but living with trees that he simply appreciates but also the only thing he has. The man is of old age and knows that his life is coming to an end.…
As the rain drops fell softly on to the ground. So did my tears as I watched him walk out the door. Was my marriage a mystery or riddle? Afternoon Mrs. Walstra and fellow audience. I don not ask anything in favour but ask for your undivided attention.…
1. Max DePree’s father visited the millwright’s wife after his death since he felt it was important that he visits with the family. In addition, he did not know what to do when a key person dies. His father learned that the millwright was a very good poet after the wife read to him the millwright’s work. The visit teaches him to appreciate the diversity of people and their talents and to see that everyone is needed.…
Once wisely said, ‘’Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means to love and be loved for the rest of your life no matter what.” In many families, the father takes pride in receiving remarks regarding their son. Heaney had seen the hardship in physical labor. Heaney observed his father at work when he was younger, until the death of both of his parents.…