Kendrick Perkins

Independent Reading 1: Flannery O'Connor In the short stories Revelation and A Good Man is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor both themes for the stories illustrate the there are people who can demonstrate a false aspect of who they really are and once something abruptly triggers them they suddenly show their true selves. For example, in the Revelation Ruby Turpin, a very religious, calm and caring woman and one of the main characters of the short story, The woman has sat in a waiting room…

Julian Maso Mrs. Hubbard English IV 25 November 2015 Images of Women In the literary works, “Spinster,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” and “A Jury of Her Peers,” the authors exemplify the theme of negativity through the reoccurring negative connotations, dialects and dialogue presented. Throughout the works, the authors subtly point out the dilemmas between men and women in a relationship over a given amount of time. Though relationships may seem wonderful and heartwarming, in these particular works…

Part One: Losses Case Study: “The Disembodied Lady” Summary: Christina is a mother and programmer who has suddenly lost her proprioception, which refers to her sense of “self”, meaning that she does not feel “aware” of her body. More specifically, she feels paralyzed and disembodied because of her condition, even though she has slowly regained the ability to move again by using her mind. Initially this sensation appeared to her prior to a gallbladder surgery in a frightening dream, in which she…

The Truth Behind Briar Rose Briar Rose by Jane Yolen was written in 1992, is a mystery and a romance novel. Jane Yolen around half of Briar Rose on Judaism. Briar Rose starts as a grandmother called Gemma she is reading to her grandchildren Sylvia, Shana, and Becca. The book flashes forward and Gemma is in a hospital dying, Becca is truly the only one who cares for her. Before Gemma dies she whispers to “Becca I am Briar Rose, I am Briar Rose” (Yolen 17). The family gets her belongings and now…

In the short story "the landlady" by Roald Dahl he explains a interesting story about a sinister elderly lady who teaches Mr. Weaver that things usually are way to good to be true. Dahl builds a sense of foreboding by developing hints that things are usually way to good to be true. Mr. Weaver and the landlady were sitting on the couch drinking tea and talking about the past residence that had stayed there and then she said that one of the past people's "skin was just like a baby's." Why would…

In the beginning of the poem, Bradstreet is sleeping during a calm and quiet night, and then suddenly, she wakes up by “thund’ring noise / And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice” (lines 3-4). She then sees that her house is burning in fire. Terrified, she cries out to God and prays so that God would help her. Her house eventually got entirely burned up, and Bradstreet ended up homeless, but she did not lose hope. She began to pull herself together and realized that God took away something that…

Through reading “The Woman Upstairs”, Claire Messud creates the character of Nora Eldridge, an angry, self-aware narrator, who works to educate the reader on the choices and confines of being a woman and over all the female experience that is focused on a particular life stage. In my opinion, it would be difficult to write an accurate female experience without divulging into perceivable sexist stereotypes that are predominant in the culture today. Expanding on that, can we read Claire Messud’s…

In Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon, the theme of flowers is significant for the female characters. Ruth Dead identifies herself as “small’ like flowers and her daughters, Lena and Corinthians identify with artificial rose petals. Many people assume that flowers are beautiful, delicate and need love and care in order to grow. In the novel, these characteristics of flowers are used to identify gender norms for women because flowers represent femininity. Morrison uses flowers to symbolize…

Benjamin Franklin To Instruct and to Delight Benjamin Franklin was a colonial American author. His literature served the dual purpose of 18th century Age of Reason: “to delight and to Instruct.” Examples of this duality can be found in many of Franklin’s works. One of the best known is “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker.” In this text he delights his reader with humor, to both keep the reader interested and serve as a buffer for the information also contained in this text. “The Speech of Miss…

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie achieves independence via the development of her voice during the obstacles of her relationship. Janie’s first relationship obstacle arrives in her marriage to Logan Killick’s. Janie realizes that the absence of love in their relationship is causing issues. While tensions begin to run high, Janie provokes Logan about her leaving him, he exclaims “God damn yo’ hide!” (30), and Janie “...turned from the door without answering…”…