Alice Munro

Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, reflects the feminist theory throughout the novel. Characters narrate the novel from different point of views to help understand the story of the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, and the hardships of growing up as a young black girl. The eleven-year-old fails to get help because of the suffering from other characters, which eventually contributes to her fate. The feminist theory is presented by Pecola’s desire to be beautiful, black women resisting…

Family are the friends we do not pick by ourselves, but are born into. “The dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about the sisters Rachel and Flora, and their mother. The story focuses on the deterioration of the sister’s relationship but also on their relationship to the mother. The story also focuses on what happens to a family when it is missing love and communication. Throughout the story, the main topic is a certain dress, and this leads to a dispute having immense consequences. In the…

“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, is a short story of Mrs. Johnson and her two daughters, Maggie and Dee, whose personalities are total opposites. Mrs. Johnson states that Maggie was the chosen daughter to receive the two hands- stitched quilts since she sees heritage as memories of past people in her life and understands how the hand-stitched quilts should be put to “everyday use.” On the other hand, Dee received an education and is modern; she left behind her quiet rural town life and adapted to…

The book that I have chosen is called Jenius The Amazing guinea Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Brain Floca. This book is a chapter book with seven chapters, but even though it is a chapter book it has pictures along with it. This book is a very funny book about a little girl and her guinea pig. This little girl named Judy had two guinea pigs and one day they had one little baby. She had told her class she could train a guinea pig and she was made fun of so she thought this was the…

The Lovely Bones The book I read was The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold. The book was published in 2002, and is 328 pages. In 2009, Dreamworks production company released a movie based on the book. The Lovely Bones is based on a true story. The book and movie are similar, but the movie dodged many details with it’s fast paced intake. It was set in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, in December of 1973. On December 6, 1973, Susie Salmon was murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey. Mr.…

Alice Walker was a talented writer who found ways to reflect on her personal experiences and obstacles that she faced throughout the course of her life. She was often victimized through racism and sexism. After all, living as an African American woman in the South during the Civil Rights Movement was flawed. Yet, in spite of her circumstances, she became an author, a poet, and a Civil Rights Activist. A recurring theme in Walker’s works is the victimization of African American women through…

Alice Walker accomplished many achievements during her lifetime. She won the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Fred Cody Award for lifetime achievement in 1990, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2006 (African American Poets). Most of her short stories expressed the struggles of black women and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society (Poem Hunter). “To Hell with Dying” was published when she was just twenty-three years old.…

Lewis Carroll, boarded a boat to Oxford with some people to enjoy afternoon tea on the river bank. One of Lewis’s friends, Harry Liddell, had three daughters with him: Edith, Alice and Lorina. (REF) The three young girls wanted to hear a story so Lewis, being very creative, came up with a short tale about a girl named Alice and her journey through a whimsical world. This story later became known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. What was the main inspiration behind this tale of a girl going…

Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the…

The film, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker is a decent case on how over the years ladies have been making noteworthy steps towards making progress, acknowledgment and equality. Another common issues in this motion picture is the various sexual experiences Celie has to experience which speaks to ladies around the word. From the day they started their closeness to each other, gaining solidarity which they never fully used to get in advance of their amazing objective. Their specific objective was…