Dick and Jane

The story of Brown Girl, Brownstones is a story about a girl named Selina that is growing up in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II era. The story spans from when Selina is about ten years old up to when she is in her early twenties and it is told from a third person point of view. Selina lives with her family that consists of her mother, father, and her older sister. Both of Selina’s Parents originate from Barbados and are immigrants that came to the U.S. pursuing the…

Dickens satirizes the state of England in the way that the country refused to adapt and improve as though that increased its respectability. Dickens uses irony and hyperbole to emphasize this criticism, using Tellson’s Bank as a representation of England. As an illustration, Dickens utilizes irony when he writes, “the partners in the House were...proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness...an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient places of business”. Tellson’s Bank is a…

In the story "Hills Like White Elephants" I feel as though the American treats Jig like he loves her but really don’t and I feel as though it is the same thing with the story "The Girl with Bangs” how the narrator treats Charlotte. The reason I say this is because in the story "Hills Like White Elephants" The American clearly see that Jig wanted to have the baby. He sees that she wanted them to be a family and be “okay”. But yet he makes it seem as though she has the choice to choose to keep…

Jane Austen, one of the most renowned novelists in British history, impacted literary society with only six novels. Austen’s moral, realistic, and entertaining novels continue to captivate their readers to this day. Her life was not one of glamour and fame; it was a quiet yet social life. Jane incorporated her own experiences with love and loss to make her stories the beloved novels they are today. Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire. Her father, Reverend George…

Throughout Jane Eyre’s strenuous life, she lived in five different locations. Each location symbolizes a certain time period in Jane’s life and represents her quality of life in that place. In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Jane grew up as an orphan living with her aunt and cousins at Gateshead. Because of her aunt’s cruelty and intolerance of Jane, the orphan was sent off to Lowood institution where she spent the next eight years. The following house where Jane resided was…

There is a common practice to place twins in separate classes. Some schools even make a policy to separate twins even if the parents disagree. Jamison J Grime noted, “The policies of the principals... were formed from misconceived stereotypes that twins need to be separated in order to form an individual personality” (92). Stereotypes often lead to hurtful, if not damaging behavior. In the case of separation of twins in classrooms, the policies could cause lasting damage to twins. In a poll on…

Lady Mary Wroth, “Sonnet 9” explores the profound impact of the patriarchal and religious control over people, specifically women’s personal lives and desires in Elizabethan England. It highlighted gender inequality in love and marriage, as social pressures were on women to confirm to the existing patriarchal model of society. The speaker used the words pleasure in “Bee you all pleas’d, your pleasure grieve not me” to highlight the wealth and power that the patriarchal and religious system…

A Not So Innocent Age “There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver” (qtd. in Steson). Women of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century were treated as if they were lesser in mind and other aspects of life. The societal code, an unspoken guideline for proper behavior, dominated the daily lives of the upper-class in New York. Women and men put up facades as appearance was often valued over reality in this era. The Age of…

As a statement novel of Victorian times, Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, addressed many issues of Victorian society as they were perceived by Brontë. One of the larger themes woven into the story entailed the struggle between the expression of passion and the restraint of emotion, the latter resulting in what was perceived as the most acceptable behavior. At the time, there were many factors such as gender, class, and age that had defined boundaries for where emotions were to be…

Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the protagonist’s life is a struggle; sometimes Jane has to lose something in order to gain something else. As the room shifts, “obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there,” the reader can see a representation of Jane’s internal struggle between good and evil shown through light and dark. Jane follows Mr. Rochester to the third floor of Thornfield, after Mr. Rochester asks if she is still awake. Unaware of the situation into which she is walking, Jane…