Character Study: Natasha Natasha is an essential character in War and Peace that spans the book from beginning to end. She is the daughter in the Rostov family, dear friend of Pierre, and love interest of Andrei. She starts out as a young 12 year old girl that develops into a woman over the course of the book. Natasha is expected to come into her true self in the midst of war and family crisis. This character study will analyze Natasha’s development in War and Peace by exploring her beginnings…
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a celebrity? Well, I really haven't much up until a few weeks ago. I chose to relate my to Alisha Newton. She is one of the main characters in Heartland starring as Gerogina Crawley, now Gerogina Fleming Morris. Alisha Newton and I have some features in common. Some of the main attributes we have in common are we are about the same age she is 16 whereas I'm 14. She is five feet and four inches however, I'm about an inch and a half…
In the story “Little Things are Big” by Jesus Colon, the most important word is courtesy because it gives us an idea of what the story will be about and in the story, “White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey the most important word is lies because it gave us an idea of what the story would be about and moves the plot forward. In his story, Jesus Colon talks about a time that there was a lady that had her hands full and he could have shown courtesy by helping her but didn't because of prejudice. In…
diametrically opposed symbols, one can infer that the color white can represent ascension in literature. Ascension refers to the act of moving through ranks. Joseph Conrad and Natasha Trethewey use white as a symbol in their works to show the differences among ranks of people. Conrad in his novella Heart of Darkness and Trethewey in her collection of poems entitled Native Guard both use a white symbol, ivory for Heart of Darkness and cotton for Native Guard, to convey the freedom of certain…
unbiased recollections. The details remain sharp and clear even when the memories change, and those details reveal truth about their subject. In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Kathy H. searches photographs for a glimpse of her true identity. Natasha Trethewey explores her complex circumstances through photographs in her poetry compilation, Native Guard. Mr. Kurtz paints an idealized identity for himself in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. In novels and poetry, characters reveal their…
Understanding who we are and developing a healthy identity isn’t always simple, and can be a never-ending struggle. Natasha Trethewey in “White Lies”, and Amy Uyematsu in “Deliberate”, share their struggles with identity during their younger years, and although their experiences and notions differ, they both have the desire to fit in and be accepted. Uyematsu, describes herself at sixteen as a typical teenager, trying to fit in and gain recognition. She identifies herself with the Asian culture…
throughout literature: Heart of Darkness, Native Guard, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Devil in Tom Walker. These pieces of literature portray good in evil through the symbolism of black in white. Heart of Darkness and Native Guard by Joseph Conrad and Natasha Trethewey, respectively, both used black and white and create the idea of their being only two forces of nature. **Through…
Racial profiling is all too commonplace in modern society, and even in formal literature. Examples of such profiling are two poems, both entitled Incident, written by Countee Cullen and Natasha Trethewey respectively. In these poems a very tangible message of the difficulties faced by different races, is presented to the reader. Using the literary topic lens of values, we can dissect these pieces and find the similarities between them. Such similarities include the social stigma of being…
In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard, both authors use images of grass in order to convey a lack of care for human suffering. Conrad emphasizes the ability of grass to grow to conceal something hidden in order to chastise European exploration, while Trethewey points out the tendency of grass to burn and regrow that parallels attempts made to dishonor and hide the efforts made by black regiments. Conrad uses images of grass in order to juxtapose grass’s growth…
to Margaret Atwood, the sonnet “Bored” portrays the regret and remembrance a young daughter has for her deceased father and shows how she realizes being bored with her father is better than not having his presence at all. Unlike the poem “Bored,” Natasha Trethewey’s “Elegy” takes…