Anna

Behind every story there is a greater meaning. In Nadine Gordimer “Once Upon a Time” and Anna Quindlen “A quilt of a Country”, symbolism plays an important role in going beyond the surface meaning of the meaning. Both the cat and the quilt symbolize something more than what they seem, the cat shows the irony between precautions and our safety, while the quilt shows that America is built from parts that do not match. In Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time”, the cat has several deeper meanings.…

The Two Bite Club, written by Jan Adams and Annie Lunsford, explores the concept of childhood nutrition through the story of Will and Anna trying new foods from each food group. The story develops through thirty nine pages filled with colorful illustrations of the different foods they find all throughout their house. The font used in the story book resembles that of an adult’s handwriting and the first letter of the first word on each page is emphasized in a large, purple, and bold font. This…

Karolina asked Johannes the next day if he would accompany her to an abolitionist meeting taking place that evening. He readily agreed and as he enjoyed spending time with her in addition to his interest in the abolitionist cause. Anna and Frederick were not as interested in attending any of those types of meetings. Frederick told them his legal clients had large property holdings in the South and some of the banks his law firm did business with had made large loans to many Southern plantations…

Sure enough, they feel so united that they carry out an affair together. As wonderful as it was, Anna “took a special very serious attitude towards what had happened as if it were her fall” (365). As much as she loves Dmitri, she justifies feelings of guilt in betraying her husband. However, she does point out that she married him very young out of…

The decision of Luke and Anna to make the big move into the country and endure hardships develops the theme of identity. The impact of this move is shown through the character of Anna in the following quote: “now she belongs in neither place, like some migratory bird that has lost its bearings”. Lohrey effectively shows the healing of Anna and Luke through symbols such as the ashes and the Christmas bbq party. The ash is a symbol…

professionalism. However, by shouting at Anna in front of a patient, Thandie undermines Anna’s value and diminishes patient confidence in the profession. Henceforth it would be valuable to Thandie’s practice to not only consider and reflect on the guidelines and regulations in meeting the expectations of the profession, but to understand the impact such actions have on the morale of her colleagues and…

Either her son Jesse who is a trouble maker, her daughter Anna who is suing them for attention, or Kate who is dying slowly (4). She focuses on Kate, even though the love for all three of her children is equal (13). Campbell Alexander, Anna’s lawyer, became her lawyer that way she would get out of his hair and he could get more money (14). Once Campbell starts working with Anna and gets to know her more he starts caring for her (14). On the other hand their son Jessie is causing trouble from…

CRASH! “Ow!” I thought while the waves crashed up against me.There’s a storm and I am in it because I got stuck in a fishnet. I was with my parents and there was a big wave that crashed on the rocks we were sitting on. I fell into the water and my head and tail got stuck on a fishnet. I was struggling to get out but I couldn’t move anything or go anywhere. Finally after about an hour of floating around I washed up on a beach where there was a terrible storm. I still couldn’t move anything…

over a million people. In The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, Anna O’Donnell is born near the end of this national tragedy and survives, but later chooses to starve herself, much to the despair of her nurse Lib. Similarly, the movie Some Mother’s Son depicts Bobby Sands, a member of the IRA, and the other men in his prison block going on a hunger strike due to poor treatment by the British in 1981. The prevalence of hunger strikes post-famine and Anna O’Donnell’s self-imposed fast in Donoghue’s novel…

the American Library Association. For example, Anna states,” The fact that i’m not sick, but I might as well be. The fact that I was only born as a harvest crop for Kate[..] I want to sue them for the rights to my own body” (Picoult). This raises the question of whether the medical community’s new advancements are coming too quickly for our minds to handle. My Sister’s Keeper argues whether it is ethical to use one life in order to save another. Anna is alive to…