Little Orphan Annie

story we see “Momma” being picked on by some white girls while she stands on the porch. “ ““Naw, Helen, you ain’t standing like her. This here’s it.” Then she lifted her chest, folded her arms and mocked that strange carriage that was Annie.” As this goes on, Annie Henderson just stands there and continues to sing. She doesn’t get louder to tone out the mocking or get softer to show that the girls have affected her. As the girls say bye to her she stops sing to say, “Bye, Miz Helen, bye, Miz…

only an example of her lack of knowledge and her weak language, when she describes the light of the boat as ‘’a little green star on a mast head’’. In addition, one of the most significant symbols of responsibility is ‘’grandma’s umbrella’’. In the beginning, it was challenging for Fenella ‘’carried clasped to her grandma’s umbrella’’ and the handle ‘’kept giving her shoulder a sharp little peck’’, then all the way through the story Fenella gradually turn into a more responsible person when…

How did an increased interest in theosophy in the 19th century influence the direction of modern art? Theosophy, as a philosophical belief system, can be traced back to ancient times. Through her two part Isis Unveiled (1877), and her theosophical society, Russian Born Mme Helena Blavatsky, a religious mystic, played a huge part in reinstating the dogmas of theosophy into the art world. Isis Unveiled was written during a time of significant change around the globe. In 1859 Charles Darwin…

In Annie Dillard’s essay, Living Like Weasels, Dillard uses stylistic writing to make her story more universally understandable, starting from her initial encounter the with a weasel and the life lesson she took out of the encounter. The essay gives its readers an unusual comparison between the life of human beings and the life of weasels. There is also a physical description of how Ernest Thompson shot an eagle and found the skull of a weasel clinging to its throat which was a perfect symbol of…

Annie Leonard, best known for the creation of an animated documentary about the life cycle of Stuff and entitled “The Story of Stuff”, explains in a namesake book the polluting process through which the Stuff is created and eventually dismissed. Her message is clear: we not only have too much Stuff (she prefers not using the word goods, “since goods are so often anything but good”), we also do not use it properly. Annie Leonard is an American environmental activist whose greatest aim is the…

Annie Dillard’s mother inspired her to be who she is as a writer. Her mother’s love for language shines through in the way Dillard pieces together words and structures her works. The ideas instilled in her to never settle or conform to norms in life and is evident in many of her works and particularly in An American Childhood. Although her mother may have felt trapped as a housewife, she inspired her daughter to be free to express herself through language. Dillard’s mother was fascinated by…

The idea behind “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard shows great examples for writers in her how to show and describe something in detail without giving away key notes that could possibly make an individual subconsciously pre-judge. Dillard, throughout the small reading is able to display what her mother was like and who she was without giving her a face as well as accentuating her beauty. Her mother’s personality showed fun and eccentric as her daughter explained how her and her sister…

For many years adoption has been the subject of both novels and nonfiction writing. In recent years, The Orphan Train, The Book Thief, Cider House Rules, The Child Called It, and The Lost Boy have gained attention for their portrayal of adoption. Historically, such authors as Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, and Louisa May Alcott (Little Men) show both positive and negative experiences of being adopted. The book that I would like to write would focus on the adoption experience as told by the…

The main characters in Orphan Train are Molly, Vivian, and Dutchy. Molly is a seventeen year old girl who is in and out of Orphan homes due to her dead father and mother who turned to drugs. She battle with jarring foster parents and siblings.She is hopeful to find someone who will love and accept her for who she is. Vivian is a ninety-one year old woman who Molly did some community service for. Although through time, Vivian and Molly created a heartwarming bond like no other. The final main…

which cause anxiety, but anxiety also helps reveal specific core issues. Tyson states, “core issues are those deeply rooted, psychological problems that are the source of our self-destructive behavior” (Tyson 16). In the novel The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, both Quoyle and Wavey’s past relationships cause them to suffer from the core issues of fear of abandonment, fear of intimacy, and fear of betrayal. Proulx describes Quoyle as a, “great damp of a loaf” (Proulx 2). Even…