Jo's Boys

The last movie I watched was the mighty girl. This was a very fluffy romantic comedy with a hint of darkness. The movie is about a girl named Kang So-hwi played by Shin Min-ah. Her parents were gifted in martial arts and she inherited their gift. However, she no longer wants to do martial arts due to the fact she gets called manly and unfeminine. She tries to change and become more feminine in order to get a guy who happens to be in the ice hockey team. Her dad, wanting her to go back to martial…

Anton Chekhov wrote the short story A Problem. The story is about a young man who takes a loan illegally and gets caught, leaving his uncles to decide his future for him. In the story, Anton illustrates 4 characters, which personalities vary greatly. He decided to use both methods of characterization to portrait them to us, direct and indirect characterization. Chekhov does a really got job at it, so we’ll discuss how he displayed each one of the characters. The first character we’ll discuss,…

Throughout “Araby” the boy experiences obstacles that most people would doubt while attempting to go to the bazaar to buy Mangan’s sister a gift. These hindrances should have caused the boy to question his quest, but instead of doubting himself, and his adoration towards Mangan’s sister, he perseveres through his quest single-mindedly. In “Araby”, James Joyce reveals the ignorance of the boy through his journey to the bazaar by demonstrating his unwillingness to doubt his quest and his adoration…

symbol in the fifth stanza is that “Shades of the prison-house begin to close” (l. 28). The “shades of the prison-house” is referring to the earth. The speaker infers that the earth is the prison that keeps us away from the heaven. After all, baby or boy in this poem is the symbol of the connection to heaven, or the body with pure spirit. And baby or children has the ability to see nature’s glory. The nature is another symbol of God’s love and heaven. Finally, personification is also used in the…

In the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” James Joyce uses narrative devices that are characteristic of the Bildungsroman genre to focus on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood encountering various difficulties. A Bildungsroman “concludes at a momentous point in the hero’s life, which signals the culmination of a process of self-discovery, or the moment when a life-defining decision is made” (Cañadas 16). A Bildungsroman is a novel…

time and for the reader to be able to understand how and why his expectations change, Dickens purposely has Pip describe his life as a child, adolescent and mild aged man. The purpose of Dickens using a bildungsroman is to have Pip grow from a young boy who has many fears and expectations into a man who can then reflect on his mistakes and his life as a whole. One of the first scenes of the novel begins with Pip running into Magwitch and having Magwitch demand that Pip bring him a file and…

in relation to theme development is to highlight the old man's loneliness and want of friendship. Throughout the novel the old man longs to have the boy on the boat with him to keep him company. An example of this can be seen when the old man thinks, "But you haven't got the boy...You have only yourself..." (Hemingway 52). His constant want of the boy demonstrates his need for companionship and friendship. The age contrast between the two characters draws attention to their friendship. If the…

Like paint to a canvas and sounds to music, words constructed in order create a beautiful piece of art called poetry that attempts to instill a piece of life in the reader using the word choices and order. In Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden the entire poem seems to be discussing a father who gets up early in the morning to start a fire. The first stanza discusses the specifics of the father’s labor. The second and third stanza, however, discuss the son’s reaction and relationship to the…

When boys talk about a problem they have, they usually tell the other to shrug it off. When girls converse about their issues, they enjoy getting in depth about the other’s problem and want to understand. This is shown in the context when, “Whereas women reassure each other by implying ‘You shouldn’t feel bad because I’ve had similar experiences,’ men do so by implying, ‘You shouldn’t feel bad because your problems aren’t so bad’” (120). Boys typically do not make eye contact…

The Modern Myth of Innocence The poem “The Myth of Innocence” by Louise Glück, is one that brilliantly transcends the test of time and holds a brilliant message that resonates with people in modern times. The main theme of this poem is maturing, and in Persephone’s case she is immediately thrown into the life of a woman rather than a girl. This poem was written as a metaphor for the process of growing up, and almost seems to expertly predict the future by metaphorically describing the behavior…