Themes And Differences In The Same Sky By Amanda Eyre Sisters
One topic that can be pondered upon in these stories are the themes. It is simple to see that one of the common themes seen
As a single mother of four children, the author felt that it was her mission to spread awareness about domestic violence because she too has been through a rough past dealing with an abusive husband, 11 years to be exact. Using her platform as a way to help others in the same situation as she was, she expressed her years of torture and rape from her husband in hopes that it would assist and reassure those that life will eventually get better in the end. In the book, it follows a girl, named Kamal, on her journey of overcoming her years of relentless abuse from her husband. She was originally from India but moved to Richmond, British Columbia to complete the arranged marriage with her new husband. She learns to take in her husband’s verbal and physical assaults while taking care of her three children with very minimal support from everyone else.…
In comes the backstory, Charlie thinks her mom died in a car accident, but what she does not know, WILL hurt her. Soon she finds out that her mom committed suicide, and Charlie almost went with her! All of a sudden, Charlie is faced with denial, guilt, and self-blame. “I needed my mom, more tears started to gag me” (On the Fence 241). Charlie is confused, she wants to know why she does not feel whole, why she feels so distant.…
The novel Perfect by Natasha Friend is about coping with the loss of a loved one and reveals that it is not easy to deal with great losses especially close ones. The protagonist is a girl named Isabelle Lee who is 13 years old whose world got turned upside down after the death of her father. Isabelle felt that she had a somewhat perfect life before her dad died. Her life along with her families soon changes developing her habit of binge eating. Her mom suffers with depression due to her husband’s death and her sister suffers from loneliness.…
In the memoir, The Polygamist’s Daughter, the author Anna LeBaron describes the horrifying events of her past. The book seems to be a kind of coping device for LeBaron as often she inserts her current thoughts on the many situations she talks about. This essay will prove that Anna Lebaron looks back at her past with bitterness as she recalls, realizing she wasn’t really blessed, older men approaching her, the harsh circumstances in Denver, running away from the cult, and, when she finally started seeing the light, when she goes into counseling. People always told Anna and her siblings that they were blessed because they were Ervil’s children, yet Anna’s opinion begins to differ when her father uses her for slave labor. Young Anna asks herself,…
The idea of maintaining an idealistic image of what a woman should be can be daunting for many women. In the novel written by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a feminist classic as it entails the struggle that the main character, Esther Greenwood, faces as she battles relationships, motherhood and the ideal image of women brought to her by the magazine internship she works at, all while slowly losing her sanity. Esther unravels and begins to show signs of her mental illness early on. High-class women and a fast-paced life due to an internship she had obtained with a high-end magazine surround Esther. With the help of a supposed feminine image that Esther is surrounded by, she unravels at the idea she must be the perfect companion and cater to a man for the rest of her life.…
Characters: Ava(19-23) Avery(13-17) Chase(21-25) Ava's boyfriend Sophia&Skyler(22) twins; Ava's friends Chloe(23)Ava's god sister Kayla(20-24)Ava's best friend Amy(13-17)Avery's best friend Title: Avery's Trauma Genre: Realistic Fiction and Drama Summary: 23 year old Ava Wells was a young girl that was sneaking out, getting high, getting drunk, constantly partying hard, and verbally and physically abusing her 17 year old sister Avery. After 3 months of rehab for Ava, her and her family reunited. From Avery's perspective she's not ready to forgive Ava. Avery has a lot of built up anger, hatred, and agony in her after the struggles she have been through.Now that Ava's home from rehab she's being treated as if she's a queen, and she have never did no wrong, like Avery wasn't a victim at all.. Prologue…
In, Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds,” an excerpt from the book Joy Luck Club, Jing-Mei, a Chinese-American girl, experiences her and her mother with completely different beliefs conflicting, along with her conflict with, herself, her cousin Waverly, and her Aunt Linda. Due to the huge differences in their cultures and beliefs they have a great conflict between each other. Jing-Mei’s mother believes that an obedient daughter is what Jing-Mei should be, while Jing-Mei…
In The Secret Life of Bees, the whole story is fixated on Lily 's journey to figure out everything she can about her mother, Deboarah, and her yearning desire for motherly love. Lily does not have many memories of her mother except that she was the one who shot and killed her when she was four years old. The only mother figure in Lily 's life is her African American nanny, Rosaleen. When Rosaleen is arrested after standing up to a group of racists, Lily takes the opportunity to escape from her abusive father and start her search about her mother 's past (Haunt 238). In absence of a real mother, Lily always longed for love…
I chose to write about the book, The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls. This book or memoir was quite alarming in that it tells the horrific stories of child abuse, abject poverty to eventually Jeannette and her siblings becoming successful with healthy families and relationships of their own. The Walls family that was constantly on the move led by mentally ill mother (Rose Mary) and an alcoholic father (Rex). The memoir starts outs with Jeannette seeing her mother crawling through a dumpster looking for food. Later when Jeannette asks her mother what she needs her mother responds with something non-essential or the least bit helpful in sustaining her mom’s life.…
The Hunger Games is one of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian genres featuring a protagonist Katniss Everdeen who narrates her history and experiences in the events of the novel. In the plot, Katniss manages to stand in for her sister in the hunger games after compulsorily undergoing many fatal tribulations, traverse difficult private relations as well as acquiring skills on how to manipulate how people identify her in the novel. She therefore has to cultivate ways to subsist in the pitch. It reaches a climax point when she and Peeta outlived all tributes leaving Peeta and her to fight but instead they chose to commit suicide. Despite their winning, Katniss is obliged to attempt to appease the Capitol because of her actions in wanting to commit suicide as well as making decisions against them.…