Silas Weir Mitchell

The Struggle to Develop Stage #1 The Introduction sentence: what was going on in stage 1, Claudette was not adapted to the human lifestyle at st.Lucy's. For example “Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. Sister Josephine smelled easy to kill.” Regular people don’t make inferences like that and base it off of smelling and the description they gave her was a little unhuman like: For example “We tore through the austere rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawing through the neat piles…

The two pieces from the Point Loma High School art gallery I picked to compare were by Nicole Soriano and Lainey Reynolds. The first piece, by Soriano, is a drawing with many celebrities such as Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus along with shoes, a television, a rocketship, etc. Everything in the drawing seems to be melting like a popsicle as well. The second piece, a painting by Lainey Reynolds, shows a girl sitting upside down with her legs up and crossed. She is staring directly forward and little…

The theme of obsession and addiction is evident throughout Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market. Goblin Market can be interpreted as a storyline unfolding the symptoms, signs, treatment, and the overall dangers of drug addiction. From the beginning lines, the goblins are identified as drug dealing creatures. Rossetti creates a drug-dealing setting where the male creatures are the sellers, and the young unmarried women are the customers. The robotic crying of the goblins, ‘Come buy, come buy’…

In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, we are introduced to the narrator, a wife and mother who is experiencing several types of conflict within her life. First, we see she is experiencing a physical conflict when she becomes exhausted easily and must rest frequently. Her husband, John who is a respected physician diagnosis her with a nervous condition and says part of her treatment requires her to rest. Her brother, another respected physician, agrees with her…

Pretty Little Liars has been a fan favorite for younger female TV viewers since 2010 when the show first made its debut. Show watchers tuned in eagerly on Tuesdays at 8 o’clock in the evening just to discover the identity of the mysterious “A” that was haunting Aria, Hannah, Spencer, and Emily. The first revealed “A” was a secretive leading character named Mona Vanderwaal. As the show’s story unfolds, the audience learns that Mona suffers from a personality disorder; this is diagnosed by…

Throughout the novel, these literary devices identify the women’s inner struggles, their demons that they constantly live with. For Lily it is her insecurity, May deals with her inability to cope with suffering, and Deborah suffered from depression. In Sue Monk Kidd’s, The Secret Life of Bees, the author indirectly characterizes Lily as insecure to display Lily's longing to fit in, especially when it comes to femininity. For example, this insecurity is revealed when Lily looks at a picture of…

Defining Attributes A defining attribute is a term or a phrase that is seen time and again in regards to the concept. Defining attributes for empathy: 1. Being able to see the world as others see it- the empathizer has to “step into the shoes” of the person who is requiring the empathy. 2. Non-judgmental- the person who is requiring empathy is opening up to the empathizer and does not want to be thought of differently because of what they are opening up about. 3. Communication- the person who…

In Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, the imagery phases allows the reader to understand Kimberly’s tough life. The author explains Kimberly’s life as an indebt Chinese girl who struggles with translating herself, her words as well as her priorities. The author begins with describing that Kimberly can not get warm in her freezing apartment during the winter, as well as describing her sweat stains on the ground during the unbearable summer. Kwok’s specific imagery enhances the cruelty of…

In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter’s family has the largest impact on the man he is at the end of the play. Although they don’t seem to connect much, Ruth has an impact on the man Walter becomes. Throughout the play it is clear that Ruth understands and respects Walters faults especially at this low point in his life. She allows him to feel more like a man by not arguing with him or raising her voice at him no matter how much he is upsetting her. This is clear when she finds out about the baby on…

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two depression era photographs, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California and Margaret Bourke¬-White’s At the Time of the Louisville Flood. Both tell a story for what was happening in America during the time of the depression, while also telling personal stories. Dorothea Lange’s photograph, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, shows a mother with three of her children. You can see the mother is worried and seem to be stressed. The…