Barbara Tuchman

darkness moving upon the face of the waters. She seems to be telling the story looking back on her time in Africa because she is trapped in the past, whereas the other girls are not. This is because Orleanna is haunted by her experiences in Africa. Barbara Kingsolver uses voice to characterize each sister by making them each have their own individual voice. For example, it is easy to differentiate Ruth May’s voice because she has a child-like voice and is often questioning everything. In my…

Nickel and Dimed: Stratified American Society According to Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, the common belief that hard work leads to a successful life in the United States of America, regardless of one’s cultural and economic background, is only an encouraging fabrication. Gender inequality is only one specimen demolishing the manifest American Dream by, for instance, the lack of women in managerial positions, as well as gender-neutral performance…

Anna Lucas Mrs. Berry AP Literature IV- 7 18 January 2018 A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of The Poisonwood Bible “To be, or not to be” is at the crux of humanity’s downfall. To have a personhood is in absence of the “uncivilized” and “inhumane.” Colonialism fabricated dialectic oppositions of race to maintain economic dominance and secure a sense of self in the colonizer. Kingsolver’s postcolonial nineties novel, “The Poisonwood Bible”, she critiques imperialist, racist, sexist, and ablest…

After reading Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, I have learned that Ally is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, Ally is stubborn, eventually, Ally becomes brave and confident. she stands up for herself, family, and friends. These character traits were observed through Ally ’s actions, dialogue, relationships, choices, and problems. Ally and I connect through our school experiences, she doesn't like to read and does not know how to read well. In my case, I do not enjoy…

Imagine a world, dear reader, without your family. No one to hug you. No one to share your days with. No one to play catch with. No one to celebrate your birthdays with. Now without family, imagine your holidays: no one to take you trick-or-treating. No one to have Thanksgiving dinner with. No one to watch fireworks with on 4th of July. Imagine the loss of even the littlest tradition, like movie night or taco tuesday. Traditions require family to work, therefore it shapes your perspective and…

Barbara Kingsolver used Ruth May in the Poisonwood Bible to summarize her overarching message of misinformation that was present throughout the entirety of the novel. The first instance of misinformation occurred when the Price family arrived at the airport to leave for the Congo. Everyone over packed and they had to decide what was imperative to take and what they could throw away. They ended up taking things that were not needed and had no use in the Congo such as cake mix. While cake mix is…

Women face many challenges in a male-dominated world. One in particular being finding employment to support their family that comes with a livable paycheck. Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” was mainly focused on poverty in the United States, but her experiences with low-wage employment display many struggles women have succeeding in our currently sex-stratified labor market. Her experiments in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota demonstrate how women’s work…

Ehrenreich and Co-workers In the novel, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, she leaves her life as a well off journalist to become a low- wage worker. Throughout her experience she comes to realize it is much tougher to maintain herself with minimum wage, than she thought it would be. At first she doesn’t see herself the same as the other blue collar workers but then realizes she has become exactly like them. Although Barbara Ehrenreich begins her journey as a low-wage worker with advantages…

In her Romance novel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver alternates a pair of first-person narratives to tell the story of Taylor Greer, a spunky girl who leaves her Kentucky home and travels west. During her journey away from home, Turtle, a young toddler from Cherokee Nation, is placed in her care. The novel focuses on the pair as they make a new home for themselves in Tucson, Arizona. Throughout her journey, Kingsolver explores many themes; the debate of siding with morality over legality…

Authors employ rhetoric in their writing by implementing a variety of writing techniques and styles, but they all use them with one goal in mind: To persuade the target audience. In the books Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, there are several instances in which both authors use specific styles of rhetoric to persuade the audience to side with certain issues endure throughout their books. The goal of each author is to get the target audience to…