Desiree's Baby

What do you think of when you see a can of soup? You think of a little tin can with a label saying what it is and what it contains. Stereotypes are our labels and we are the cans of soup. People have us labeled under a certain stereotype or label us as certain types of people without knowing anything about us. Stereotypes change everything like the way we look at people, the way we interact with others, and it makes us pick and chose. Stereotypes affect every aspect of our lives even though they…

First Literature Exam I. The literature that developed during the 1700s and post-Civil War era displayed very complex representations of romantic relationships. Interactions between men and women were portrayed as stereotypically patriarchal but also depicted the impacts of individualism on relations between the two sexes. Though many of the pieces differ in the development of their characters, each primarily shows females as dependent on men. This dependence ranges from financial to emotional…

said that he did not care that no one knew her family history. Madame Valmonde was the first to see that the baby was different, but no one else did at the time. With the quadroon boy next to the baby, Desiree finally saw the similarity between them, she realized that her baby was not fully white (Chopin). From the way that Armand was acting, it seems to be that he already knew about his baby but decided to not say anything. The blame was put on Desiree because no one knew her biological family…

Most people would like to believe that they make their choices based on what they believe is right or wrong. For most this is an easy thing to do and most problems normally don’t make a difference to other people anyway. Sometimes it isn’t that easy such as problems like what it takes to be the man of a situation. Sometimes it works out but most of the time it does not. Most would like to believe that people always do the right thing and not based on what society thinks. Everyone has wanted one…

I have been a reader for as long as I can remember. I remember hiding under my covers with a flashlight just to finish a good book. Literature enthralls me, and by the power that the words have on one’s imagination and emotions. Literature captivates the potential to evoke one’s imagination and inspire creativity in anyone who starts to breathe in the precious words. Maya Angelou has the perfect quote to summarize how I feel about the power of literature and reading, “When I look back, I am…

feels fear, it is very difficult for them to choose to act. This is proven in the article Little Things Are Big, when a man tells a story-set in the 1950’s-about how he sees a mother with three children carrying a large suitcase in one hand, and her baby in the other. He wants to help the woman, but is afraid she is prejudice-for he is a black Puerto Rican man and she is a young white woman. not to mention it was hours past midnight at a subway station. These were his thoughts: “What do I do if…

Kate Chopin as the Great Writer In the end of 19th century and early 20th century, women's rights advocates often faced violent opposition from society. Many Americans feared that feminists, who populated an equality between women and men, would jeopardize the existence of the institution of the family and marriage, as well as destroy society. As a result, Kate Chopin, author of one of the first feminist novels “Awakening”, was in an extremely unfavorable situation. However, Kate wrote feminist…

Girls Just want to have Fun. Having opportunity is a vital characteristic to life it is what gives society hope for a better tomorrow, this is the major reason why America is viewed as the birth place of prosperity. “The American dream” is a wide spread term to describe the ability to achieve anything through hard work and dedication. Although many people connect this notion towards gaining vast amount of wealth, the idea of the American dream has morphed into an “idea of America being a…

Forbidden Freedom In history, human rights have always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women.…