Alice B. Toklas

Their agency was given to them based on their social economic status and their adoption of American values. Gertrude Stein was a white American woman, and an American value is an education which often it is synonymous with success and associated with masculinity. Referring to Gertrude Stein’s stance on wives, “Wives are not geniuses” (Truong 148). While The Book of Salt takes place in the early 1900s, when not many women were going to college, education has always been a foundation of success. Additionally, Stein is an extremely progressive woman who considers herself to be modern and of modern ideals. “The modern world is without limits, she (Gertrude Stein) tells Miss Toklas, so the modern story must accommodate the possibilities…” (28). Ifemelu on the other hand was born into a middle-class family where she was allotted an education and the opportunity to go to America to further her education and therefore her success. Her time spent in America instilled her with western values such as independence and the important of an education. Ifemelu acknowledges the differences that her social economic status took part in her success and ability to go to America. Ifemelu recounts a time with a potential employer where “Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their…

With this book Susan Cain is celebrating the opposite to extrovert, introverts. It’s time for introverts to step up and make themselves heard, they have so much to offer. Like the example Cain made at the end of the book were she told the reader who the author of Alice in Wonderland was, an introvert. Without introverts we wouldn’t have some of the greatest things on the world. Susan Cain wants the world to know this and for the introverts to step up. She launches this movement in her book.…

appearance and the comparisons between her and other famous female figures. At the start of Rebecca, the narrator describes herself as a “little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect” and had a “youthful, unpowdered face” which shows how young she was when she was working for Mrs Van Hopper. It is safe to say that Maxim, not unlike the reader, sees the narrator as a child despite them being married. For example, he insists three times that the narrator dress up as Alice in…

‘You must leave Wonderland immediately, the great and powerful Queen of Hearts is after you. When she finds out you are here she will not stop until you are her prisoner.’ ‘Why what is wrong? What has happened that she needs me.” A worried look came across my face. ‘Please help me get home before it's too late.’ A tear ran down my cheek. The Mad Hatter hugged me and said ‘he would never let her take me.’ I hugged him back harder and the rest of the animals at the table all hugged me too. At…

For example on page 51 , yet again Celie takes the role of being a mother to another female taking care of Shug Avery, washing and combing her short, knotty hair, swooning over her reedy long limbs and dark black skin. She plays with Shug Avery as if ‘’ she were a doll or her baby Olivia’’. As soon as Celie encounters Shug , we get the sense that she already harbours some type of compelling sexual desire for her. "First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery" she says "I thought I had turned…

• The Lovely Bones is a captivating novel by Alice Sebold that undoubtedly deserves to be included in the literary canon. • Puts a spin on the classic murder-mystery as it is told from the victim’s perspective, Susie Salmon • Telling the story from her own heaven, we gain a personal insight on the diverse range of flawed characters and how they change because of Susie’s death. • The book also features a variety of literary techniques that help to further enrich the story • These factors combined…

Alice is trying to conform to Victorian societal norms and expectations. Although she is only seven, she blames herself when she doesn’t have an explanation for a problem when in reality she shouldn’t expect herself (nor should anyone else) expect her to know about of what is going on in Wonderland. Alice has developed neurosis and she is consistently punishes herself for behaving in an undesirable manner and continue to accept the societal norms as her own expectations of herself. Alice has to…

Moreover, strong female characters can be found in all of Munro’s works, but Runaway (2004) mixes both gender roles and the need for escape and freedom from small regional towns. Fiona Tolan’s piece on Runaway studies female characters who try to leave but are drawn back into their old ways. Compared to “Boys and Girls”, Runaway is a collection of short stories, it gives a broader view of the women’s lives. To be noted, Tolan focuses on the actual story titled “Runaway” while drawing from the…

Amy Bloom’s short story “Silver Water” takes the reader on a ride through the effects that mental illness has on entire family. In another short story “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” Alice Munro leads the reader through a similar story showing the pains that Alzheimer’s disease has not only on the patient, but her husband as well. “Silver Water” and “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” share similar plots, both showing that when one family member becomes ill everyone is affected by it. The…

Muriel Rukeyser said "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms", it 's true. Perharps it 's not true for scientist, but Alice Walker has proved the power of stories. I believe we can know it from her stories, "Everyday Use" and "The Color Purple", and also her autobiography. They are very impressing for readers. According to New Georgia Encyclopedia, Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton. During her childhood, She has precocious spirit that vanished when her…