Kate DiCamillo

when you first arrive at university, transitioning over to their type of learning changes the way that most first year students must structure themselves and their time many realize that the work load has increased and that they must take on the responsibility for scheduling study and leisure times effectively the transition to lecture halls and lectures that involve a high level of note taking may be new to many first years, this is usually due to the pace at which lectures are presented and…

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” (Winston Churchill). The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan is a novel told in the perspective of two sisters, Marie and Antoinette van Goethem, living in 19th century Paris as part of society’s lower class. The two are forced to go into various types of work following their father’s death and their lives spiral down from there. Meanwhile, Gas Girls, a play by Donna-Michelle St.…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

The word tragedy is defined as an event causing great destruction or distress. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare emphasizes this idea of tragedy. The story is revolved around this family feud which led many of these tragedies. A lot of character’s are impacted off this concept of two families having complete hatred for one another. In William Shakespeare's story Romeo and Juliet, the characters of Tybalt, Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence contribute to the tragedy of the play because of…

Explore the issue of belonging and how it is presented in ‘An Unknown Girl’ (Moniza Alvi) and ‘The Necklace’ (Guy de Maupassant) Although one is a poem and the other a famous short story, both ‘An Unknown Girl’ and ‘The Necklace’ are united by one ubiquitous theme: the issue of belonging. ‘An Unknown Girl’ explores how the narrator, who remains anonymous, finds her sense of belonging in an Indian bazaar through hennaing, with the help of an unknown girl. In ‘The Necklace’, Maupassant tells…

In a time where women were no more than housewives, Kate Chopin writes of a 19th century woman who discovers a freedom so few women of her time have. This lady is Louise Mallard, who learns suddenly, but gently because her heart disease, of her husband’s death in “The Story of an Hour.” Even though Mrs. Mallard loves her husband, she welcomes the new change in her life, represented by the open window she gazes out of, which is a symbol for her newly found identity as an independent woman of the…

Feminist Approach in The Story of an Hour In The story of an hour, Louise Mallard experienced a sense of freedom after she was told that her husband died in a train accident. At the beginning of the story, miss Mallard suffers from grief and sorrow because she has lost her husband, which reflects a woman`s emotion, and that’s normal in the lady's case. With her fizzy emotions and weak heart as maintained in the story, from here begins the suffering and show sympathy with miss Mallard's…

In the post- independence period woman was struggling in patriarchal societal set up for her identity. In 1960, feminism rose against the colonial rule, patriarchal practices and traditions enhance the ideology of female subordination. Shashi Deshpande’s novel In the Country of Deceit is a story of a woman Devayani who began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. She is shown recovering from the stage of catastrophe and mental dilemma through spiritual realization…

Swimming The short story “Swimming” written by Marryman first published in 2011, in the short story we are following a women, told through a third person, she doesn’t fully understand why she have not jet swum in the river yet, so the question is, why hasn’t she swum before in the river? The themes of the short story “swimming” are growing up, to let go and just do it and loneliness. In the story, the woman’s name isn’t informed. The main character in the story is a woman, who is approximately…

Everyday there are people falling in love or going through breakups, after enough trust has been given and received it is common to marry; yet there are no words to describe how one might feel after their trust is broken. The narration in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, revolves around the unknown, complex situation of why Grandma’s husband left her, AND WHAT HER LIFE HAS BEEN SINCE THEN. When Oskar’s grandmother is betrayed by her husband, Thomas Schell, it…