Mother-Daughter Relationship in Two Kinds Essay

My Parents knew each other as children and briefly attended the same middle school. My Moms name is Barbara Jean Rein and my Father is Lyle Charles Shaffer. My Mom describes meeting my Dad, love at first sight. My dad and his family moved several times while he was growing up. When my Grandparents fell behind on the bills, they would pack up and move. My Dad has moved more times than he can count: Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas, just to name a few and it were like this his…

ONE. She married a handsome man for only twenty five days. She loved him. She dreamed of the day she could give her body and make love with him while fireworks witnessed the penetration of two souls. She wanted to feel the pain of pleasure, that feeling that everyone talks about. She was always wondering how could you feel love and pleasure at the same time, she thought that it was an absurd contradiction. Her skin was like a smooth caramel delight; her eyes could be confused with the night,…

V. Hester at Her Needle Hester decides not to leave the colony because of her close ties to it. On page 75 it says, "Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil." This means that she feels like she can't leave because it is the place where she has sinned and it would not be much of a punishment if she escaped it. She wants to stay there to better herself and become a new and improved woman. She feels like it would be immoral and wrong to leave her place of shame…

show the vast differences between the two houses. Heathcliff and Edgar are considered to be opposites of each other. Even as a child, Heathcliff is described as a, “Vulgar young ruffian,” (Heights, pg. 62). He is dark in nature and has an atmosphere about him that is haunting almost. Edgar is a pleasant child who is very well educated and high in class and stature. The two characters are probably the most contrasting in the novel and show the contrasts in the two estates. Characters other than…

correlated with women’s roles, for example being a loyal wife, kind and caring towards her children and husband and be the idea women. The quote by Roger D Abrahams “the male ideal of women is projected in hero tales” defines the reasonable judgment of Greek mythology. Women in Greek myths seems to…

Shashi Deshpande is writing at the transition of tradition to modern. The woman in this state is neither free nor dependent. She is in between the two. There is an urge for the identity and independence in them. The collision of culture and the revolutionary spirit of woman are vividly portrayed in the novels of Shashi Deshpande. The main theme of her novels is redefining the role of new woman and…

the title “Save as Many as You Ruin” itself meaning to the short story, is that he saved Lucy, from near enough being an orphan, but ruined his relationship with Laurel. Yet in the end of the story, got reunited with Laurel. When ruining something, try to find something positive to come out of the consequence of ruining something. By ruining the relationship with Laurel, he got Lucy out of it, something Gerard cherishes…

Shahjahanabad has been a contested site culturally, historically and geographically. Not surprising, therefore, that the literary expressions engaging with this disputed space have had to work their way through many negotiations and contradictions. ‘Culture’ has figured centrally in all discourses arising in and from this space in all senses of the term as Shahjahanabad (alternatively referred to as ‘Dilli’ and post-independence, ‘Old Delhi’) has boasted of a heady and unique “way of life”,…

that the people in the prison are not glad to be there. The people in the prison are miserable and the prison itself is harsh. The rose bush growing in front of the prison is kind of ironic because a rose bush is something that is beautiful. It is an amazing that something so beautiful is found next to a prison, which kind of suggests that nature does not judge humans as humans do. The author emphasizes the rose-bush because it represents forgiveness, which is very different from all the…

Now at this time in my life, I’m a single mother. I was working a full time job and trying to manage being a mother as well. I was going through a custody battle with my daughter’s father. I think the main reason I decided to go back to school was still thinking about the promises I made to my daughter. I allowed the enrollment counselor to talk me into taking four classes. So I’m taking four classes, working a fulltime job, taking care of my daughter and going through a major custody battle. I…