Bramble

Fa Mu Lan, but she “casts herself” as the protagonist of the folk ballad, telling the legend from her perspective (Hunt 7). The modified story starts as follows: “I would be a girl of seven the day I followed the bird away into the mountains. The brambles would tear off my shoes and the rocks cut my feet and fingers, but I would keep climbing…” (Kingston 20). This quote describes the very first beginning when Kingston inhabits the role of Fa Mu Lan and retells the story, as well as further…

perfectly "The weather lifted and the cold and they came at last into the broad lowland river valley, the pieced farmland still visible, everything dead to the root along the barren bottomlands. The roadside hedges were gone to rows of black and twisted brambles. No sign of life. (McCarthy 2006, 10-11). It is clear that McCarthy wanted readers to visualize and feel the world the characters are living on. In every scene the first thing the author writes about is the environment, such as broken…

This article discusses how there's no opportunity to discuss and arrange unessential approaches, practices, systems and presumptions amid times of real fiascoes. "We should grow, today, pioneers of progress, pioneers without bounds." (Hesselbein, 2013). The article discusses how black leaders had excelled in their chosen career path and how they are currently being named incredible leaders and teachers. They had to fight for everything they have gotten while going through the process of becoming…

ENGLAND: A.D 1377 I looked down at my mother, she looked so peaceful with her eyes closed and the cross of lead clutched in her hands. But to think that she would never awake to look at me and tell me I am going to be alright, to think that I never said a proper goodbye. To think that I will be alone and have to support myself. It was not long after I had found my mother, Asta that father Quinel arrived he wrapped the black shroud around her to symbolise her death. As we walked through the…

the Trebia river. In between the two camps, Hannibal remarked “a certain piece of ground which was flat and treeless, and yet well suited for an ambush, because there was a stream in it with a high overhanging bank thickly covered with thorns and brambles. Here he determined to entrap the enemy.” The next morning Hannibal ordered his brother, Mago, to lead a Numidian cavalry attack before breakfast to catch the Romans off guard. In order to do so, the cavalry hid in the bushes and at dawn…

packing-up and the sale of our furniture I spent the days inside a hayrack” (Atwood 235). Although the narrator felt a sense of freedom after her mother moved away she was curious of others. She referred to herself as an apparition. She hid in the brambles and watched people. It is when she decided not to continue to stay hidden is when her isolation ended and the town villagers came to kill her. In the story “Racitatif”, Twyla and Roberta stayed away from the other girls in the children’s…

of literature and her joy at having daughter who wanted to be as bookish as she was. Little did I know at the time that despite mom’s pride in my bookworm tendencies in her aspect as a home school mom she was very concerned with the problem of my bramble patch handwriting and untamed spelling. That is until she found a way to teach me to pull weeds. The first letter arrived on an afternoon of deep blue skies and a hot bright sun. As the mail truck pulled away my younger brothers and I bolted…

Stephen King is a highly successful and popular author. He has written many stories and novels using what he calls “ 22 lessons on How to be a Good Writer”. There is strong evidence of Rule 8 “Avoid adverbs and long paragraphs with no flow”, Rule 10 “master the art of description”, and Rule 11 “Don’t give too much background information” in his stories “ The body” and “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. In these stories, it is clear that he takes his rules seriously. King…

Charlie and D’aron both have second thoughts and back out. Candice and Louis choose to do the intervention anyway. About an hour after the intervention was supposed to occur, Candice “hobble[s] up to the back door…shaking, arms clawed by bush and bramble…her clothes torn… her white knuckles scraped and bruised, eyes swollen dark with fear” (117, Johnson). D’aron’s immediate thought, given the direction she had come and the fact that her clothes were torn up, was that Candice had “gotten herself…

Description and Analysis of some features of the Hull accent and dialect and how these features differ from Standard English I. Introduction When foreign learners come to the UK at the first time, they are usually surprised to discover that the native speakers seem to speak faster than expected and be different in many ways from the English the foreign learners have learned. It is possibly differences of pronunciation that will directly shock them, foreign learners may also pay attention to…