Jane Horrocks

“Desiree’s Baby” is a short story written by Kate Chopin. The story is about a girl that is found with unknown origin and is adopted by Monsieur and Madame Valmonde. Since they were not able to conceive a child they accepted her as a gift from God and named her Desiree. Eighteen years later, Armand Aubigny falls in love with Desiree and without investigating her origin, immediately marries her. She later gives birth to a baby boy that brings joy to the couple. At three months old the baby boy’s…

Jane Austen’s novel pride and prejudice presented four married couples, non-of the couples are a like in their love story and personalities. In that era, women were concerned a lot about marriage and who to marry which was an important thing in women’s life because mostly the women’s financial stability is on men or husbands. Austen in the novel she presented several contrasting attitudes to marriage. Austin focused mainly on pride and prejudice which presents true love, while there was other…

INTRODUCTION. The Age of Innocence is one of the most famous novels of Edith Warton since it won the Pulitzer in 1921. It is placed in 1870 old New York. It explores its society, its conventionalisms and its rigid system in which everything has an order and a purpose. We are introduced to a love triangle which will show us a society that fears scandals more than feelings. Trough the three main characters, Edith Wharton portrays a society she knows well, and that eventually would have to flee.…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s book The Namesake, whose central theme is the immigrant experience, is a beautifully written novel. One may certainly expect this from Lahiri. She is highly educated, possessing three Master’s degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Studies between Literature and the Arts ( Britannica 2017). She has a deep personal connection with the recurring themes and topics of migration, identity, and immigration that permeate her books. While being interviewed for the April…

The 2 books “Counting by 7s” by Holly Goldberg Sloan and “The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis are similar. The main characters are both girls, around the same age, and have to overcome challenges. The 2 main characters of these novels; Willow and Parvana, have some similarities and differences. A similarity is how they are both resilient. Some differences they have are, Parvana is brave with her challenges and Willow is cowardly, and how Willow had help with her challenges and Parvana did not have…

1 ) In the article called “The Last Meow” Author Bilger make this statement about Lady “she’s blind ,she’s toothless ,she has renal disease, and she’s is really sweet” .Bilger use the facts to support his argument,but he uses the surgeon Lillian Aronson to support his counter argument .This makes reader to support Bilger because facts are more logical and they revealed the truth .On the other hand , Bilger uses opinion which is judgment from Aronson (surgeon of Lady) .Thats makes his side of…

The short stories “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter and “The Storm” by Kate Chopin both contain similar themes such as the wisdom gained throughout life, but they are overall much more different than they are alike. The different ways the authors use their narrators dictates how we learn about the characters and what we do and do not learn about them. The main character and protagonist in the story by Porter, Granny Weatherall, goes through a ‘weathering’ process in her…

What happends when twins get jealous of each other? The short story about Sparrow and Finch tells us about that. Two siblings, where the older one of them is more loved than the youngest and have a better life and where the youngest just stand along the sideline watching. The protagonist of the story is a girl named Sparrow after the bird, for short she is called Spaz, however she prefers to be called Rowie or Row since Spaz isn’t that nice. She is the youngest twin and she claims that it was…

The Temple of My Familiar After a huge success of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1983), another novel, The Temple of My Familiar came which was published in 1989. Though the events in the novel were beautifully woven but it did not receive much acclamation. bell hooks praised the novel and called it a “multivocal experiment with postmodern romance and magical realism (hooks)”. The novel is considered a sequel to Walker’s The Color Purple. Alice Walker herself described the novel as “a romance…

The Wicked Effects of Prejudice: Prejudice and Discrimination Glinda. Delightful. Angelic. The Wicked Witch of the West. Wretched. Demonic. Although it has been a few years since I last viewed the Wizard of Oz I still recall these perceptions of the characters from the movie. Even now, when I picked up the book Wicked, taking place in Oz, however under different pretenses, these perceptions that I had formed from viewing the Wizard of Oz all those years ago left a lasting impression. After…