“Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros is about a daughter who felt ignored by her family. Sandra has six brothers and is a writer. She was always left out when the brothers played and her father would accidently tell people he had all sons. The setting of the story was where ever they were living at the time. The family would live in Chicago but when money ran low they would move to Mexico City and then move to Chicago again. Most of the story takes place in Chicago when she goes home for…
the smallness of her feminine weapons, Mabel apparently uses her body and primal instinct against Jack. Consequently, as Shigley states in “Jerking the Leading Rope: sexism and phallocentrism perpetuated through D.H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,"” Mabel exercises this power upon Jack, ultimately seducing him and taking advantage of his weakness for her. Upon doing this, Mabel capitalizes upon her dominant sexual position of being superior to a man[...]” (Shigley). As Shigley…
I knelt in front of the cross, water spraying off the rigid rocks. I twisted the backpack around my arm and reached for the slip of paper. I read aloud the words of my heart and placed the paper underneath the Lily I had picked from the meadow just outside of Baron. My son and I had never had the close father-son relationship I had hoped for; I had never bonded with him the way he had with his mother. I sat down against the boulder lodged between two rocks, and shut my eyes. I thought back on…
Suzanne Fisher Staples wrote the book Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind about the life of a young desert girl in Pakistan. Shabanu and her family raise camels for a living, and they are prepping for their oldest daughters wedding. In the book, they have to overcome all the obstacles that life throws at them including death, heartbreak, and weather. Shabanu was constantly fighting the cultural norms, and proved to be a strong willed woman. Throughout Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Staples develops the…
When does the need for perfection begin to cross a line? In the short story Rappaccini's daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, both Giovanni and Rappaccini get lost in their desire to make things perfect, and along their quest they not only hurt themselves, but also those around them. In this story people try to cure other things’ imperfections through misguided ways to fill the human need to be perfect; but almost always end up hurting the things they try to improve. Moreover, while striving for…
The Bürgermeister’s Daughter, provides an interesting insight into the life of women living in Germany during the Renaissance. I believe we are reading this micro-history because it shows the persecutions, expectations, and the double-standards that existed between men and women in the sixteenth century. The pivotal events in history, such as the Reformation, are important to understanding ourselves in the modern world, but it is also important to study how people reacted to such events.…
William Wells Brown and The President’s Daughter It should be impossible during the nineteenth century for any man of color to become a renowned author, lecturer, or medical practitioner, but William Wells Brown broke the stocks of the societal norms in antebellum America to make his name part of its literary history. Born in Kentucky, he would adopt his name as homage to a Quaker who helped him reach his eventual freedom in Ohio. Brown became an active voice against slavery and a proponent for…
Germany did. The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale is the fifth of the six, soon to be seven, books of the novel series A Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. Potzsch gets his inspiration for the series from the history of his ancestors on his mother’s side. He uses one of his family’s four generations of executioners, Jakob Kuisls, and his family as the main characters. Each book follows parts of Magdalena Kuisls’, Jakob’s oldest daughter, life (Oliver Potzsch.com). This story…
My daughter has always loved to write. At first it was in childish scribbles, done in crayon or finger paint, but for her eighth birthday I bought her a beautiful calligraphy pen, and now it’s almost all she does. She’ll sit in her room for hours, writing until she runs out of ink or comes down to dinner. She’s started school again recently, and despite my initial worries she’s made so many friends; she has one over every few days, and each time a different one. They play all day, and for the…
Am I a daddyless daughter? Does my daddy think about me? Does my daddy not love me? There are daughters that may share in the plight of not having a residential father and others who do not know their father at all. According to data from the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 21 million children in the United States, or about 28 percent, resided in homes where the biological father was absent (Vespa, Lewis, and Kreider, 2013). U. S. Census Bureau data showed that 68 percent of Black women…