Jane Yolen

Jeanette Walls, an American writer and journalist, tells the story of her early life in her hit novel Glass Castle. The novel spans from her toddler years and finishes off in present times. Walls uses great tools and techniques to make the reader feel as if they were right there with her on her journey. Jeanette Walls’ novel, Glass Castle, can be represented by the following quote by Thomas Merton: “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to…

Kathryn Burn’s book, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru, provides an indepth look at colonial society throughout three centuries through the inner workings of a convent. The author is able to skillfully guide the reader through an analysis of the colonization of Cuzco, the most important Andean city in Southern Peru, from the insides of a convent of cloistered women. In the colonization of the Americas the nuns were in no way isolated from the outside world. In…

your perspective. Throughout Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys two different journeys are told. Jane Eyre tells the story of a trouble young orphan who eventually becomes the wife of someone who cares very deeply for her. On the other hand, Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea is a secluded young child who lives to become mentally crazy and a drunk after suffering through a troubled childhood and marriage. Charlotte Bronte, author of Jane Eyre, and Jean Rhys,…

In the essay “Stereotypical, but Revengeful and Defiant: Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying” written by Amado Chan, he declares that Addie Bundren is”portrayed as incompetent, unfulfilled, and dead” along with revengeful and defiant. Chan believes that these became stereotypical traits of women that Faulkner wrote. I refute the claim made by Chan since Addie propelled te plot of the novel. Chan's compelling claims ignored any evidence that may refute them. The first stereotypical trait…

In The Poisonwood Bible, there are characters that are not given a direct voice. These characters are developed through the voice of the Orleanna Price and her four daughters. One of the characters that do not have a direct voice are the Congolese. The Congolese is developed in very different views from all the four daughters. Each one of the daughters has a different view on the Congolese lifestyle and their beliefs. The youngest daughter, Ruth May Price, does not quite understand the…

Identity is what makes each person individual and unique. Out of approximately seven billion people in the world, not one person is the same as another. So, why is it that each day people continue to disguise their identity? People are constantly around others. When one expresses her feelings to another person, she may disguise how she really feels. One may do this to sway someone else’s opinion. Additionally, to make an impression, one masks her true identity. The first impression is often the…

Princess Diana was born on July 1, 1961 in Sandringham, United Kingdom to Edward John Spencer and Frances Spencer as the fourth out of five children. Throughout her childhood, Diana showed a strong interest and love for dance, music, and children. After finishing school, she held a wide range of jobs, including, a pre-school playgroup assistant, a nanny, a dance instructor, and also a cleaning lady for her older sister. In 1975, Diana became Lady Diana Spencer due to her father’s inherited title…

Dolan, Frances. Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Historians, for a large part of recent years, look for support and readings from interdisciplinary work. Frances Dolan, an English professor, answers this search in her Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. Writing as historian, Dolan’s work reads like a proper historical study, complete with endnotes, however, her argument stretches farther than any trained…

A Scathing Review Some novels are passed down through history because they offer great entertainment, while others have great historical significance, yet at first glance Mrs. Dalloway seems to have little to no significance at all. In reality Mrs. Dalloway actually is an attempt to scrutinize the social injustices of the time from a real person’s point of view, without compromising true life and thought in any aspect. Through one particularly poignant scene of Clarissa Dalloway’s inner…

Comparison between Cultural Identity between two texts Every personin this world has the right to express their cultural identity and religion such as Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and many others.. Some prime examples include The Hero’s Walk,”written by Anita Rau Badami and Mira Nair’s film, The Namesake. The cultural identity of an individual can change ultimate their views about marriage, family and customs.. As shown in both texts, culture can alter everything in a person’s life…