To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that shows big issues through the eyes of a young girl named Scout. Scout is very tomboy and doesn't like to wear dresses and likes to fight like a boy. Scout has a hard time understanding the roles of women in the 1930s. She does not understand why the roles of men and women are so different and why women have to always wear dresses and be proper all the time. She does not want to wear a dress to school, but she had to due to women not being able to wear pants to school.…
When recognizing the power struggle between a mother and daughter during adolescent years, readers are able to gain a deeper understanding into the theme of coming of age, and the role it plays in Judy Blundell’s What I Saw and How I Lied. Evie and her mom Bev have been close their whole lives. The loss of Evie’s father forced them to live alone, inevitably, making them rely on each other. Now, Bev has remarried to Joe, a soldier who fought in WWII, and Evie is just beginning her teenage years.…
The story is told over a span of many years starting in 1959 when the Price family, Orleanna, Nathan, and their four daughters: Leah, Rachel, Adah, and Ruth May, move to Kilanga Village in Africa from the U.S. state of Georgia. Nathan is a missionary who is going to convert the people of Kilanga Village to Christianity by baptizing them. From this starting point the plot is forwarded by some major events such as; Nathan’s garden not growing any fruit due to the lack of North American insects to pollinate it, Mama Tataba leaving them because Nathan is obsessing about baptizing the natives in the river, the Belgian government says they are handing over the Congo to the people and are hosting elections for the next leader, Orleanna gaining the confidence to speak her mind to Nathan, the ants destroying the villages food, Ruth May dying due to the Mamba snake, Orleanna leading her daughters out of the jungle secretly. •…
Children are often considered the people who bring out the best parts of human nature. This is partly a result of the care and love children demand, and their simplistic lives. Pearl, in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, does not have a life of simplicity, as she is welcomed into the Puritan world as an “elf-child.” However, she indirectly functions as a spark, igniting better versions of those who surround her.…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” The opening sentence in Pride and Prejudice has a fine, undeclared message. The obvious message being that a well-off man must be looking for a wife, but it also hides the truth that a single woman is in want of a husband. This novel relates to the play A Doll’s house. In these two readings a women’s idea of marriage is having a husband that can help guide, protect, and provide for them within their means. A man embraces the idea that his role in marriage is to protect and guide his wife.…
Daphne du Maurier 's novel Rebecca, is a good example of unique and intriguing writing. It has achieved critical praise inarguably due to its uniqueness in literature especially as compared to those which fall under the female gothic category. The author uses attractive themes which can easily attract the masses throughout diverse generations. This book exposes a story of a narrator who faces lots of challenges not only in her marriage but also in her social circle. There exist certain controversies connected to the reason as to why the author did not give Maxim 's second wife a name throughout the novel.…
Through short stories authors often portray through characters how identity can be threatened. Authors such as Marjorie Barnard, the writer of The Lottery, and Tony Hunter, author of Listen to the End Portray through their characters ways in which they 're identities become threatened through various situations they become involved in. Barnard in the story of The Lottery uses various techniques such as narrative and gender representations to portray to readers how Ted who 's wife won the lottery in identity is threatened. In the story Listen to the End, Hunter portrays how his main character whom doesn 't have a name feels her identity is threatened using techniques of gender representation and various narrative conventions to show her weaknesses…
Throughout the history of mankind, power has been being used as the theme of million books because power is endemic in the relationship among human beings. Power itself leads to the three fundamental questions, “What does power mean?”, “Why is everyone looking for ways to attain power?” and” How to use power efficiently and correctly?” In the books such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, Spider Woman’s Web by Susan Hazen-Hammond, the theme of power were used frequently. However, the theme was reflected differently with the male and female characters, regarding of their position as the ones who were in charge of the power or the ones who were the victim…
1. In the film, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the concepts of person perception, cultural and personal identities and persuasive qualities are demonstrated through Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship. We can see person perception through the two boys because at their age to each other the other is just another boy their age that they can play with in a place where they are all alone. They have none of the prejudices or assumptions about each other that those older than them would have casted on each other. Cultural and personal identity is seen through Bruno wanting to be just like his father when he is pretending to be one of the German fighter planes with his friend.…
Through the horribly wrong, racially skewed trial of Tom Robinson, to the brutality in the racist words of Mrs. Dubose to Jem and Scout about Atticus, to the thoughts of Aunt Alexandra not thinking of Scout as a regular girl, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has two major themes of race and gender differences and roles. Through these events we see a shift in the maturity and thoughts about race and gender in our main character, Scout. With the help of minor characters, such as Mr. Raymond, and with the help of the idea that your gender and race decides your role in society during this time period, we see Scout develop an understanding that factors such as race and gender will, in a way, decide what your role in society is and what people…
For example, little red riding hood is in the woods, but as she gets to her…
“Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid is an unusual writing that portrays a mother’s list of rules that her daughter must obey in order to be accepted in society. Having no knowledge about what culture or time period this was, the reader can understand about how a woman must portray herself to the outside world. The reading also concentrates on a variety of issues including gender, social class, and feminist criticism between mother and daughter. Also, the reader can easily identify that the story is about a mother telling her daughter how to become a traditional woman in all of the common things a household wife would do to survive. Overall, the mother expresses a strict relationship by the tone the author portrayed on her towards the daughter,…
The ideas and different lessons learned in John Steinbeck’s stories are very real, as they make you feel a part of the deep story. John Ernst Steinbeck Jr., was born February 27, 1962, in Salinas, California, as he grew up there as well. The Red Pony is a book about a boy named Jody who gets a very special horse named Gabilan. The horse sadly dies from a bad cold as Jody recovers and later finds out new mysteries about his town. The author’s style of writing explains a lot as the author writes very descriptive, as well as including a significant amount of dialogue and foreshadowing of special references.…
‘The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat.’ This quotation, drawn from “The Company of Wolves”, exemplifies... This essay will examine how these works reverse or challenge traditional gender roles, how they deal with female sexuality, how they portray female power and lastly how they are still limited, in some respects, in this revaluation of gender roles. First, the quote above expresses a reversal of a traditional fairy tale ending, and thus a reversal of traditional male-female dynamics of domination and submissiveness. The quote is drawn from “The Company of Wolves”, one of Carter 's retellings of “Little Red Riding Hood”.…
W. 2010). The information already given about a girl losing their virginity and seeing the wolf, this is the most obvious form of symbolism in the story of the Little Red Riding Hood. The symbols used in the story are her “red hood” that was given to her by her mother and the “woods or forest” that she needs to walk through, to get to her grandmother’s house where she lives on the other side of the village. The red hood that was given to her symbolizes the adulthood of women.…