Galileo's Daughter

due to its culture preferring sons over daughters (Fuse & Crenshaw, 360). As explained before, Indian culture sees men as superior over women. Having a son is only beneficial to a family because the son can continue on with the family name and property. Eventually, a son will marry a woman and receive dowry and gifts from her family which will only raise his and his family’s status. As well as, a son will care for his parents in old age, unlike a daughter who will be unable to because of her…

J Personal items can often hold a lot of weight for a child. For Marilyn Nelson Waniek, this is represented through her and her sister’s love of blankets. A source of comfort, imagination, and memories, the blankets and quilt Waniek describes throughout her poem, The Century Quilt, illustrate her feelings towards family. Waniek uses structure, imagery, and tone in her poem to show her deep relationship to her family, and most particularly their diversity and the way their generations progress.…

‘Two Kinds’ is portrayal of difficulties in mother-daughter relationships in San Francisco’s China-town. The focus of the story is the often troublesome but unavoidable “interval between mothers who were born in China before the communist revolution and thus have been cut off from their native culture for decades, and their American-born daughters who must find a way to work through the twin burdens of their Chinese ancestry and American expectations for success”. While the protagonist and…

When recalling ether fond or sad memories your thoughts create a stream that is natural, maybe in order of event or in order of enjoyment. In “I Stand Here Ironing” the Narrator’s flow-of-consciousness replicates the unrestricted elegant thoughts of the mother, while she reflects on her daughter’s full life. The mother struggles to make sense and logic of her daughter’s situation as pieces together fragmented memories. She fights to try to see the reason for her daughter’s, Emily, behavior but…

mentions in the play how happy she is that everything is back to normal, and that everyone is back under the same roof. The same idea is applied when Nora speaks about wanting all her girls to come have their kids at home. Sadly, Nora’s goal limits her daughters from their ambitions in life and leave them almost still in time, never moving forward but only remaining where they started at the beginning of the play if not less. Elizabeth is a lawyer, but prefers to stuff envelopes for a living,…

non-fiction. Walker’s short stories give examples of what her life was like from her character’s point of view. In the short-story” Everyday Use,” Walker speaks about the life of a mother and her two very different daughters. “Everyday Use” is about the relationship between a mother and her two daughters, one whom has forgotten her roots and tries to abandon her past and create a new persona, while using her heritage as an art form. The symbolism of quilts and a butter churn described a life of…

In the film Real Women Have Curves, which is a coming of age story, the main conflict was between a daughter, Ana, and her mother, Carmen. The mother and daughter cannot get along because of their age and traditional differences. Ana’s mother was old fashioned and wanted her daughter to graduate highschool, lose weight, join the family in their dressmaking business, and find a husband. Ana did not want her life to be this way and wanted to go to college and be and educated women who finds true…

a new place you start to assimilate or (Mold) into that countries culture yourself, I know that definitely happened to me in Germany. In the movie, the mother and daughter pair were more affected by the views of other cultures, than they were with the generation gap, much like the father and son. This is primarily because the daughter had come back from college, while being in a different place and started to assimilate (mold) into that countries cultures as well as customs. Furthermore the…

named Michael Green and his wife, Alice Green, who base their happiness on drinking together as a form of spending time together. The family is faced with a challenge when Alice’s drinking begins to put not only herself in danger but her family and daughters as well. While she enters a detox center Michael is faced with another challenge of running the household while she is away and when she comes back he realizes that his enabling behavior is what brings drinking into the picture for them…

The point of view in the story “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker plays a big part. Throughout the story, one of Mama’s daughters came to visit. The way Mama and Maggie see her is not in a very pleasant way. In fact, they are scared to tell her no when it comes to anything. From Mama’s perspective Dee seems like this rude, stuck up, spoiled child because she had the opportunity to go out and expand her education, while Mama and Maggie continued to live their lives on the farm. On the other hand, if…