Crying

She was a lady of actions not words. I spent more time at her house than I did at my own. Her house never smelled of hunger and sadness. She wasn’t the richest but I never did feel poor around her. She has become the most significant person in my life and has made me the person I am today. Although her left eye is a little bit tinier than her right, she defines perfection. Her hair is black with hints of gray. Her skin is as brown as the beans she boiled and as soft as petals on the roses she…

night.” Angelique Munoz, Rosa’s mother. Watched this on the news and just cried. “Why! Why! Why my daughter!” She screams and cried. She runs to her room and cries on her husband, Jose Munoz. “What! What’s wrong?” Jose says curiously. “Why are you crying?” “She’s dead,” Angelique mumbles “She got killed,” “Who are you talking about? Don’t be…

By the time, McCourt’s family got in Ireland, life was tough. The rainy Irish weather created various consumptions, which was easily transmittable both McCourt’s twin brothers died because of the poor health condition. It was common to bury beloved once, it is clearly mentioned in the book when Angela hand on her dead son for the undertaker “…Missus, I drove dozens o’ children to the graveyard an’ never once fell out of any seat, high or low” (McCourt 93). Later in the book, we learned that…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about the life of school aged boys on an unknown island after their plane crashed, and how they lived without adults to lead and guide them. Throughout the book, more and more violent actions take place as leadership slips out of Ralph’s hands and into Jack’s. Jack and his hunters grow to enjoy the acts of violence that take place. Piggy is in denial about some of the violence. Ralph realizes he is too far gone to attempt to return to a life where…

“The Tantrum” by AE Stallings initially describes a situation wherein a child allegedly suffers the loss of her mother, however the poet does not explicitly state that the mother has suffered a physical death. In this poem, AE Stallings uses the extended metaphor of “the tantrum” to describe the severed relationship between the mother and child, and further builds on the melancholic tone of the poem through the use of diction. This poem describes a child’s perceived loss of her mother to world,…

“Let’s put her in the closet before teacher comes back!” Let me go! I shrieked as they threw me in the cramped closet. Thump! Slam! Let me out I screeched as I pounded on the door. “Hahahaha!” The children chuckled as they left me sobbing on the lumpy floor. I cried out for the teacher but my mournful words were muffled by the towering wooden door. It was total silence and I was determined to see the sun. Just before they locked me in the closet, I saw a light bulb at the top of the…

Continued crying: Continued crying can be a factor of many different things. If can be due to separation anxiety, not being comfortable, feeling excluded and so many others. Due to the fact that there are many reasons that a child can be excessively crying, it is important to pin point the main reason or reasons for their crying. Once this is done, I would suggest ways to make the child feel better. Also distracting a child from whatever they are crying about can help. For example, if a child is…

2. The Crying of Lot 49: modernism or postmodernism? In my arguing that The Crying of Lot 49 can also be construed as a late-modernist text, I will turn to Harvey’s essay ‘The Cry from Within or Without? Pynchon and the Modern – Postmodern Divide’ where he fervently argues against McHale’s ‘claim’ that The Crying of Lot 49 is fundamentally a modernist text by presenting two core arguments relating to a) intertextuality and b) Oedipa’s search for truth. Before I will dispute any arguments of…

I try my hardest to not allow myself to look weak in public. Crying is just something I do not allow myself to do often. Surrounded by my closest friends and people I consider family I would usually be at my happiest, but this wasn’t a regular day. Surrounded by all my closest friends and I was despondent. That day I was a little baby again. I couldn’t squelch the tears. No matter how hard I tried they kept coming. Big G was just one of those guys that you noticed as soon as he walked in. His…

Communication as a Central Theme In Thomas Pynchon’s fictional narrative, “The Crying of Lot 49,” convoluted communication is a reoccurring theme throughout the novel. Writing and speaking are not the only forms of communication in the novel; symbols and clues are equally significant in attempting to interpret underlying meanings. Although the uncovering of these symbols and clues should create clarity, they generally end up making things more complex. Lack of effective communication and…