Red Scarf Girl

In Barbara Kingsolver’s classic tale of a girl's journey for a new life, The Bean Trees, have you noticed all the intuitive tools she utilizes to capture readers. Kingsolver uses Imagery, Symbolism, and Allusion to convey the importance of family and show how the characters adapt to adversity. Her words mix and match to engulf readers and make us feel as if we've experienced Taylor's journey ourselves. Kingsolver’s fantastic Imagery helps build a view of the completely new environment in…

As the reader observes the coming of age theme in the story, they are also exposed to the many difficulties test the main character has to face to reach maturity. In "Celia Behind Me," the reader is introduced to a clique composed of middle-school girls who take pleasure in tormenting those…

people, and not all of them, that is where my problems lie. Not only are fellow female students being prodded about their clothing choices, but also my male classmates. I find it extremely insulting that a girl in Nike track shorts gets stopped in the hallway by an administrator, but a girl in a crop top gets no attention. Meanwhile a male classmate is…

novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry, Mildred Taylor uses Cassie Logan as an example of a young 9 year old girl that has to stand up for her convictions in many problems in her family. Cassie proves courage when she goes to get Papa to tell him what happened to T.J. Avery, and when facing rival, Lillian Jean Simms. (Thesis Statement) Cassie`s actions proved that she was a sassy and outspoken girl, who loved her family and had a deep respect for the land they lived on. Would you let a friend…

Upon first writing and releasing Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston was subjected to a wide array of criticism from famous writers at that time. Most notably was Richard Wright, a powerful African American author amid his time, as he expressed in his audit that the novel "carries no theme, no message, [and] no thought" (Wright). Wright’s criticism shifted people’s attitude towards Hurston, as other critics began to feel that her novel only fulfilled the “white man’s”…

One of the three girls, who he nicknames Queenie, spark Sammy’s interest. Sammy describes the ladies as having a high social status and starts comparing their lifestyle to his. Sammy’s boss Lengel, who he describes as a grouch, notices the girls dressed in their two-piece swimsuits and decides to confront Queenie and her friends to dress decently the next time they come in. This story is set around the 1950’s era when…

representation of the female stand out and allow for a greater comparison: The Guerrilla Girls and Howard Chandler Christy’s ‘Christy’s Girls’. To a certain extent, both artists focus on the duality of women, however, The Guerilla Girls focus on the psyche and the actuality of the woman whereas ‘Christy’s Girls’ represented the form of the woman and their perceived purpose set out by men. The Guerilla Girls are the epitome of unabashed warfare and calling the viewer out on their actions as well…

Sexuality in The Sound and The Fury Throughout William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury, the patriarchal construct of virginity controls women through the creation of fences -- both physical and metaphorical barriers. Traditionally, when a Southern girl reaches adulthood, she is expected to settle down and raise her children, obeying her husband as the family patriarch. These Southern power structures are like fences in that they have traditionally restricted women’s sexual activity; when…

America’s children that 'playing like a girl ' means you 're a badass” (“Huffington Post” 1). Even with the president saying that it is awesome for girls to play sports, many girls still choose not to participate. The reasons for this could be safety reasons or transportation issues, but it is important that girls stay in sports. In order to keep girls in sports, it is vital that they should have positive role models but with the sexualization of women in athletics, girls are missing out on the…

Chinese people think of a girls in general. Maxine is a little girl who told her mom she got straight A’s and her mother simply did not care and wanted to tell her a story about a woman named Fa Mu Lan who was a woman warrior and saved her own village in China. Maxine sometimes fell on the floor and had a tantrum when one of the emigrant villagers or even her parents said “Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds” (Kingston, 46). Maxine is using a metaphor comparing a cowbird to a girl and saying how…