Blond

“You have a crush on her.” Maya teased, watching as her best friend kept staring at the cheerleader from across the study hall they shared with her. “What? No. Of course not..” Riley stuttered out, “Why do you think she has a crush on me?” Riley hoped she was the only one that detected the desperation in her voice. Maya shrugged before scribbling down something on her notebook paper. She waited for Fledge to turn his back before throwing paper ball onto the cheerleaders table. “Maya, no!”…

Stereotypes are defined as “particular beliefs or assumptions about a human being based on their association with a group” (Spielman, 2014, p.225). Stereotypes can be seen throughout people of all ages and cultures, they occur naturally. Stereotypes occur when humans assign a induvial to objects of the world to help classify one into a group. Therefore, when we meet a new person we assume that they have all the traits and characteristics that are common in the social group they belong too…

The footsteps stopped, I heard a swish and before I could blink, Adrian was upside down hanging from the stable roof. He said “Hello Raven. Up for some horseback riding today?” I smiled, I never could say no to Adrian. He was a tall, dusty blond, cheeky Tillian elf that never could resist showing off. Adrian’s…

He lifted her up and out of the window and ran into the woods. Trails After Alfred and Yona had managed to escape, they stumbled upon a random, abandoned, and what seemed like old, farm. They went in and found that there was a girl with blond hair and she raised a bow at them and Alfred raised his sword in response. Yona looked at Alfred and shook her head. Yona introduced herself to her and she complied saying that her name was Lucy and they talked. It seems that Lucy had an emerald…

“Blond Indian” by Ernestine Hayes is a compelling recount of a biracial Alaskan Native girl and her academic and social standing within her community. She delves into the personal and educational facets of her life and writes of discrimination and prejudice shown toward her. Hayes beautifully crafts vivid imagery with her descriptive and alluring syntax, allowing the reader to fully immerse themselves in her narrative. Hayes touches upon several controversial topics in her narrative,…

Throughout Eckbert the Blond the subjectivity of Berta and Eckbert can be viewed through their relationship to the old woman. As the tale unfolds the old woman’s shape shifts into an array of characters who shine light onto Berta and Eckbert’s subconscious desires. Tieck illustrates how beneficial desires and destructive instincts of the human psyche impact the judgment of both Eckbert and Berta symbolically, through the portrayal of the old woman as both a positive motherly figure and a symbol…

Recently our class watched a movie called “The Secret Path”. The secret path is about a 12-year-old boy named Chanie Wenjack. He was born on January 19, 1954. Chanie is an Anishinaabe boy from Ontario. He grew up at Ogoki Post, on the Marten Falls Reserve, with his parents, sisters and two dogs. When Chanie turned 9 years old, he and his sisters were sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School. This is where he was named “Charlie.” Wenjack died on October 22, 1966, near Reddit, ON at…

In the poem, "Blond Cherokee", written by Cynthia Smith, the Indians are actively trying to defend the stereotypes that were made against them. Some stereotypes include assuming things about people that aren't true, characteristics and assuming personalities based on what you've seen before. Jason is a Cherokee and feels like people make stereotypes against him because of his heritage and who he is. People don't believe Jason is an Indian because he doesn’t look like one, so he plainly…

reoccurring image through out the entire collection, but it is very well used in “Blond.” In “Blond,” the usage of light is portrayed to the reader in a similar manner as the rest of the collection, but it evokes a different theme. The speaker is examining a photo of her childhood that brings her back to that moment and feeling. The poem begins with the…

because he looked at himself invisible. 2. The irony between the narrator and the blond man is that the narrator sees himself as invisible. Therefore when the blond man bumped it to him the blond man actually didn’t see him because it was dark. 3. When the narrator says that the blond man had not seen the blond man meant that he did not really see him. The narrator believed that due to his skin color the white, blond man ignored him, until the narrator confronted him. 4. When the narrator says…