Ryan's Daughter

conventions to create an extraordinary thought provoking novel. In this passage, the daughter, Jing-mei, discovers her long lost sisters are alive and live in China. She later begins to compare herself to the older generation of the Joy Luck Club seeing the vast differences among the generations. Jing-Mei is revealed to have an internal conflict relating to her heritage. Every difference she finds between the mothers and daughters, she becomes more aware of her traditional loss, feeling ashamed…

to put her shirt on because she needed to "breastfeed" her monkey before nap time. It is amazing how much little minds pick up through observation. I guess she learned what breastfeeding was very quickly after the arrival of her baby brother! My daughter had not been acting like herself all morning. My sweet girl who normally has an insatiable appetite was not showing any interest in any food, even her favorites! We went out for the morning and she seemed to be feeling much better, but I noticed…

second generation daughters. Tan poetically depicts the struggles of both the daughters and mothers with cultural values, language, and identity. While reading through the stories of these mothers and daughters,…

Crystal Fire written by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson is a historical non-fiction novel detailing the discovery and subsequent invention of the transistor. Written in 1997, and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1998. Crystal Fire’s authors, Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, both graduated from prestigious universities, MIT and Columbia respectively, with deep interests in physics. Through that shared interest they came together to create an account of the birth of the…

The Brommer family was a divided family coming from Caldwell Idaho to a small town in Iowa because of John Brommer he was the father and he wanted a better job and there was a lot of job opportunities in Iowa. Mason was the son and his mother was Julie, Mason had a lil sister named Maddie Brommer they both are in the same grade and both are victims of bullying. Iowa seemed like the perfect place for them to be because it's not to big or small and the high school they were going to attend was…

The word “prodigal” originates from Latin roots that together mean “to drive forth.” It signifies the quality of one that drives forth his/her money by spending with reckless abandon, which is present in the Biblical parable the ”Prodigal Son.” A father has two sons, the younger desperately impatient to receive his inheritance. So, the prodigal son demands of his father to receive his inheritance before he passes away. In other words, the son diminishes the tragedy of his father’s eventual…

Mama is a hour and forty minutes long supernatural horror fantasy film about two children who were abandoned in a hut in the woods for 5 years, turning feral with only this “mama” with them. Once found they are reintroduced into society, living with their uncle but the children find it difficult to fit in mentioning that this spirit “mama” tells them not to. Mama was produced by Pinewood…

Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter is a coming of age narrative. Throughout the work, Pushkin illustrates many familial relationships surrounding the protagonist, Petr Andreevich Grinev. These relationships Pushkin creates in The Captain’s Daughter are beyond Petr’s mother and father, stretching into non-biological relationships that mimic the growth-fostering environments and experiences of the nuclear family. When considering Petr’s migration to Fort Belogorsk, these non-biological…

multiple Romantic traits to write the personality of the character in “Rappaccini’s daughter”. The story happened in a small and limit space with only 4 major characters; in the story, Hawthorn constructs Rappaccini, Beatrice, Giovanni and Baglioni with many different Romantic traits. Innocence, the concern for hidden truth, the inexplicable, and the love of nature makes Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter” Romantic literature. Dr. Rappaccini, a genius doctor with the crazy…

Though there are countless interpretations of the short story “Rappaccini's Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the most predominant is the parallelism to the Garden of Eden found in the Old Testament of the Bible. For example, the main character, Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, tends a beautiful garden full of lustrous colorful plants, much like God is the creator of the Garden of Eden. Similar to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the center of the garden contains a magnificent plant covered…