Make Her Say

Beast, “Beauty’s sisters sickened with envy… could all her(Beauty) obliging affectionate behavior stifle their jealousy.”(Beaumont). In addition to, it is a type of motif portrayed in stories such as Beauty and The Beast, Rumpelstiltskin and many others. The different types of themes portrayed in these stories are what make them popular. Greed can make you a selfish human being is a theme shown in the real world. In Beauty and the Beast, it says, “... when they(the two adamant sisters) saw…

In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, A character named Pecola suffers rape by her drunken father at a young age. Kendrick Lamar is a rapper that raps about real life problems, such as how African Americans have low self-esteem when it comes to their skin color. Kendrick Lamar and Toni Morrison comment upon how oppression manifests itself as internalized racism by showing self love acceptance and having a self strive for beauty. The two artists both comment on how oppression manifests itself as…

better if the only thing you know is to make the others suffer. I was bullied for the littlest things all the time. The story Red Roses relates to my life because Lila was being teased/bullied for getting gifts from this boy that liked her, I was being teased for my lazy eye or how I acted. People would tease me for my lazy eye like the girls would tease Lila for Derek liking her. Lila’s friend would laugh at her because Derek would put little gifts in her locker every day. People would always…

journey to save her grandson’s life. Welty uses symbolism to develop the theme of family love Phoenix shows to her grandson. This Mississippi writer uses object, life, and christian symbols to backup the theme of love. Eudora Welty uses object symbols to support the theme of love. The first object symbol uses is life saving medicine. Phoenix’s grandson swallows lye in which makes it difficult to breathe, and impossible if not treated. Jean Shepherd Hamm says Phoenix Jackson makes a long and…

Did Phonix really make the trip? An old black lady make a trip to get a medicine for her grandson. The trip took half a day. For an old lady, it's a mission impossible. I believe that Phoenix did the trip in her mind because she is too old for a half day trip on foot and because there are a lot of imaginary encounters in the story. Some say she did the trip, and it was a heroic trip. Marilyn Keys says,” It is read most often as a simple narrative depicting an heroic act of sacrifice” (354). Keys…

want most is to be admired and what women want most is to be loved by the man they admire. He also says that even feminists are most happy when they’re in a happy marriage to an admirable man. Admiring one’s husband does not make him a lord and her his serf, it makes her fortunate. He implies that young girls are taught that admiring their man is considered “sexist” in today’s society and that it makes the relationship unequal. It’s getting hard for women to even admit to themselves that they…

sister has distinct traits which make the family work well together, as well as ones which make conflict for the story. The main character Jo is the second oldest sister and a very interesting character. While Jo grows up we learn that she is a strong minded, kind, tomboy. From the beginning of the book we know right away that Jo is a tomboy. During the exposition we learn that the girl's father is a chaplain of the union army and will be away for a while. Jo says “I’m dying to go fight…

another. In Noam Shpancers article he explains both parts of conformity and how it works when he says, “ we rely on two independent yet related types of social cues… (Informative cues)… (Normative cues)” (Shpancer 1). These cues are both important and useful to conforming in society, as the help people see what’s going on and what other people are doing. People constantly use these cues everyday to make choices all day. These cues tell someone weather to laugh or to cry, be mad or be happy. In…

The song that I chose is called “Who Says” which was by Selena Gomez & the Scene. Selena Gomez is a 23 year old singer who began her career as an actress acting on the show Barney & Friends in 2001 and starting her singing career in 2009 first album Kiss & Tell debuted. This artist grew up with a lower class family and she had a tough life growing up. Her mother Mandy had Selena at the age of 16, and they had many financial difficulties because raising a child at such a young age was hard.…

Nora when he says “Now, now my little song-bird mustn’t be so crestfallen. Well? Is the squirrel sulking?” (149), after he says this, he offers her money to pacify her, this just further proves that he thinks lowly of his wife. He also asks her “when did the squirrel get home?” (148) Nora constantly represents a weak figure, a dominated person. Not only does Nora get dominated…