Kerchief

In the beginning of the film, we meet an 18 year old, French born Muslim girl. Her and her family live in the outskirts of France, which is home to many immigrants. Her parents came to France from Morocco. She is a top-achieving student at her school. She has been rigorously studying for her test she must take to attend upper level school. She is passionate about her studies, and plans to do great things with her education. We begin to learn, in this film, that hate crimes against Muslims were on the rise. The term used to describe this hate is “Islamophobia.” Muslim is France’s second largest religion with Catholicism being number one. In September 2004, there was a ban placed on religious symbols being seen or worn at schools. This ban included the traditional, Muslim headscarf. This ban states “all religious symbols,” but it is understood that it is directed towards Muslim’s headscarves. The Muslim girl was forced to make the tough decision, between: wearing her headscarf or dishonoring her religion by not wearing the headscarf. More than 1,200 girls wore the scarfs everyday to school, but only four girls were expelled. If the young girl chose to wear the headscarf, she was separating church and state. People were very passionate about the banning of the scarf, as they should be. There were many protests about this ban. Most of the woman in the protest had chosen to wear the headscarf even though they were not married. We also meet the young girl’s principle. The…

not following the norms. These quotes show how in the beginning of the book, Janie heavily relies on following the gender norms while still being constrained by them through the image of the apron. Later in the story, Janie knows what is expected of her as a woman, but still follows norms and expectations. This is shown when Janie takes off the kerchief she was wearing, but later decides to put it back on. Soon after Janie’s husband died, she went to the mirror and looked into it and analyzed…

Analyzing the short story of Flannery O’Connor named as “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, any reader faces a problem. This problem can be determined as the philosophical one and cannot be explained only as a problem of literature in general and the problem of American literature in particular. The problem of the evil in this world is as old as the world itself is and O’Connor is not the first American man of letters that tries to cope with it. Many outstanding US writers looked for the main answers,…

Richard Wilbur’s poem “Beowulf” is his translation of the Old English poem also called “Beowulf”. The time frame the original “Beowulf” was written is between the mid seventh century and the late tenth century. The poem tells a story of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves a kingdom from a monster named Grendal, who attacks the castle each night. In Richard Wilbur’s translation he describes Beowulf of the old English poem from a mid-twentieth century point of view. Although both authors…

actions convey another leap in her journey to independence as she builds the courage to speak up, which Jody has never allowed her to do before. The deprivation of freedom Janie experiences with Jody has allowed her to develop the determination to fight for her ultimate goal of independence, which is portrayed through her actions. In addition to speaking up in one of Jody’s conversations, Janie also experiences a growth of independence when Jody passes away as the love between the two characters…

In the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Flannery O’Connor’s use of grotesque as literary device in the story is prominent. It reflects upon the development of the story’s plot, along with the themes. The use of grotesque is used in many different ways and O’Connor presents plots in ordinary locations and leaves this particular climax unsolved. Characters throughout the story are defined as a combination of grotesque and utterly ordinary. The characters morals and intelligence is manifested…

Right after noticing that Joe has taken his last breaths, Janie studies his dead face almost as making sure he has passed away. Then the quote explains that Janie goes straight to her dresser and examines herself and lets her hair go free from the restricting kerchief that Joe made her wear. Analyzing the quote from the start, Janie goes expecting to see a weathered version of herself in the mirror. However, she finds that despite her age, she is still beautiful and still has that certain glow…

understand Kikuji as a character. 3.“The girl of the thousand cranes stood up” (Kawabata 18). In this passage, Chikako presents the Inamura girl to Kikuji without her knowledge because Chikako wants to set the two of them up. After the moment that Kikuji meet the Inamura girl he constantly refers back to her thousand crane kerchief. The fact that Kawabata put a character into his novel that has a kerchief with thousand cranes on it automatically gives them importance because the title is…

A light finesse angel sits on the stretcher hunched and his head bowed, holding hands on the edge of the stretcher. In her long white dress, which touch the ground floors. Her feet are bare. In her right hand she holds a small bouquet of flowers fading. Her eyes closed with white kerchief around her head. The picture does not show what happened to the girl angel. Upon closer inspection a viewer notices that the left wing of the angel at the bottom is slightly torn. Bright white wing slightly…

Women organized a group, Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and marched every Thursday afternoon at half past three, for 30 years, on the Plaza de Mayo, a major square in Buenos Aires. Many of the Disappeared women were pregnant when they were taken; babies who were born in captivity were often adopted by families of the junta. The grandmothers searched for this next generation many of lost children. Based on the book ‘’to date, they've located more than 80 grandchildren’’. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo…