Daughter

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” the character Giovanni Guasconti faces the conflict of sinful lust over the beautiful Beatrice Rappaccini in the city of Padua during 19th century Italy. In the story, the author says,” It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; not horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame…” Here the author shows how lustful Giovanni feels towards…

Daughter to the Sky A non-fiction essay as lived by Cinnamon Spear I was born a daughter to the sky. Vast expanses overhead have become my breath. My family and I would sit amongst prairie hills studded with pine trees, consuming countless sunsets. You could see for miles and miles. The sky would flow from a crisp blue to a subtler shade of purple. Passionate pinks and oranges would come just out of that finally resting upon a vibrant yellow source. I caught myself thinking once, “This…

people become complacent with their lifestyle. In the movie we witness quite a few instances of violence, but I want to focus on the sexual violence experienced by the slaves in the film this was encapsulated in the scene in which Kizzy (Kunta Kinte’s daughter) was raped by the slave master. In his journal William Byrd II detailed his everyday actions, but in some of the most notable and appalling he described the acts of sexual violence in which…

The short story “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter, by D.H. Lawrence, lies in the cracks of a bottomless ocean, and the warm sunrise after a protracted day. While there doesn’t seem to be much profundity to the story, Lawrence incorporated distinctive matters that are impactful to the inclusive premise. He utilized certain facets of Mabel and Dr. Jack Fergusson’s life to fabricate a cloud of despondency that then presented the issues that ran deeply in them both. Although there isn’t an exact message…

This poem's a great representation of that. I also enjoyed how it portrayed the reassurance given by the new partner. To Fathers With Daughters by Rupi Kaur I'm a fan of assertive methods and strongly oppose against any form of physical and verbal abuse. Often, I believe men, in particular, raise their voice loudly too frequently towards their children and this poem is written for those…

sunshine, honey bun" [11]), coupled with an appeal to bourgeois fantasies of self-determination and social advancement: "Where will those tootsy-wootsies finally wander? / To a garden, to a school, to an office, to a bride? / Maybe the Biirgermeister's daughter?" (8-10). In the world of the poem, Hitler appears "like the tots in every other family album" (24)—that is, as the innocent object of both tender emotion and modest middle-class aspirations. As the series of rhetorical questions in the…

In this paper, we will discuss how the protagonist of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Connie, and “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, Mabel, struggle in their search for love and feeling of self-worth and acceptance. Connie and Mabel both search for love in the wrong places because they do not receive the love they desperately crave and need from home. This lack of attention creates a feeling of worthlessness within Connie and Mabel. Science has proven that children need love and…

I read The Minister’s Daughter by . Personally, I could only rate this book a four out of ten. After reading the blurb on the back of this book I was excited to dive into a new and wonderful book. After reading through about three chapters I began to get bored from an obvious lack of plot and the jumpy different perspectives of the main characters. Along with that I noticed that transitions between chapters were ineffectual, if not nonexistent. The author of this story, , chose to work in old…

Yolanda was the second daughter of four girls. Yolanda loved to write as she prepared for a speech for school. Her mother helped her write the speech and as she was excited about what she had written; they went to her father and read the speech he was angry and ripped the speech…

Only Daughter Sandra Ciserno, Only Daughter: Glamour Magazine 1990. The passage Only Daughter By. Sandra Ciserno is about a woman named Sandra Ciserno and her life growing up as an only daughter. She was the only daughter in a family of nine, with six brothers. She grew up in a home of working, Mexican-American’s. Since, she was the only daughter she was often looked past by her brothers and especially her father. Her father would constantly refer to his children as his seven son’s.…