Katherine

The Katherine Trewhitt Scholarship would impact my life by showing me my potential and helping me avoid debt. I see a massive part of transitioning from a child to an adult is learning to be independent. From my point of view, independence is found through hard work and responsibility. This gateway into adulthood is found when a student begins applying for colleges and scholarships. Applying for scholarships takes a considerable amount of time and effort, thus making it a challenge to see if…

while the upper classes thrive on the incentives and attention that that status is given. Even though the lower classes carry the burdens of the higher ones, without its wide base, the pyramid would end up being a smorgasbord of dispersed blocks. In Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House,” the dollhouse is shown as being horrid on the…

In “Birthday Party” Katherine Bush describes an event; better yet, an occasion where one was not pleased with the actions of his fellow spouse. In the particular relationship, the wife & the husband went out for dinner and at the end of their lovely dinner, the wife planned a surprise. To explain the surprise or the outcome of it, Bush uses an abundant amount of literary devices. Bush uses a literary device to reveal the setting of this surprise. By utilizing imagery, she provides the reader to…

On May 12th 1907, Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and her parents were a doctor and a suffragette. Her parents always encouraged her to be different and to exercise her body and mind to the fullest. Hepburn cultivated a tomboy personality as a young girl because she always spent her free time with her brother, Tom. In 1921, Hepburn felt devastated when she found out that her brother had died because he had hanged himself while trying to perform a hanging trick. Hepburn took…

In Katherine Paterson’s novel “Lyddie”, the protagonist Lyddie struggles whether or not to sign the petition for better working conditions. When her father buys land she must work hard to pay off what she owes. Lyddie should not sign the petition because she will be blacklisted. To be blacklisted means to not be able to work in a facility again. Furthermore, if Lyddie signs the petition it will be impracticable to bring her family together. Ever since her family had been separated she had…

In the short story, "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush, the author utilizes imagery, repetition, and irony. Through those literary devices, the author promotes the idea that the couple is unhappy and having problems within their relationship. These literary devices portray the image of being in a toxic relationship. The author identifies a couple and grasps sudden attention towards them. The author, demonstrating imagery states, "They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked…

When you grow you will find that you have to make different decisions in your life some harder than others and some simpler than others. In the novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson. The story is about a girl named Lyddie her mom and her 2 sister left to live on their aunts farm and her mom sold Lyddie and her brother to work. Lyddie started to work at a mill as a maid then she was transfer to a weaving room and her brother to work on a farm to pay det of her family. While there are many reasons…

The novel An Abundance of Katherines, written by John Green, is focused on the life of a former child prodigy, Colin Singleton. Colin has a clear type when it comes to love. He has dated 19 girls named Katherine. Another pattern in his relationship, is that every one of them has dumped him. One summer when Colin goes on a road trip with his best friend Hassan, everything changes. Colin has many positive qualities, these include intelligence, confidence and compassion. It is due to these…

“Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield is a short story about an old woman attempting to live her sad, lonely life through others. Through indirect characterization Mansfield conveys to the readers the pseudo happiness, self deception, detachment and loneliness Miss brill suffers from. Although Mansfield never truly tells the reader about Miss Brill’s personality; through point of view the reader can infer what Miss brill is like and her state of being. The third person limited point of view used…

“Miss Brill”. Through this story, a woman sees and perceives her life as somewhat important and as perfect as everyone else. She is lonely, although she does not realize it, but the lack of realization causes her to distort the world around her. Katherine Mansfield has truly shown the suffering pain that Miss Brill has experienced over time, but Miss Brill seems to not have correct mind…