The Dead Girl

some girl may have the same feels of the transformation from girlhood to womanhood. She is putting the perspective of a fifteen year old girl to tell her true feeling of starting to become a woman. In Hispanic cultures, Quinceañera (meaning sweet fifteen) is a special day that a girl has a party to transform from a child into a young woman. The first three lines of the poem give the impression that the girl isn’t ready to be a woman. The speaker states, “My dolls have been put away like dead…

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…

“no longer noticed the willows or the reflections of” their “running figures in the water” (pg. 6) as they had on the previous page. Thus, We can see that this “time” has greatly affected our main character, this time that is not measured in months or years, for numerical time has no affect on them. As the main character describes, “we sat there for an hour, maybe two, I don’t know, because it was then that time measured in the ordinary way stopped” (pg.6). Fink begins to use the scenery around…

“Hey girl, open the walls.. Play with your dolls.. We’ll be a perfect family..” “Falina, quit being greedy and give your brother some pizza” said a young black haired woman, She was glaring down at a small skinny little black haired girl. The small girl flinched back and lowered her head “S-Sorry M-Mama..” she said quietly pushing away her pizza to her younger brother. The young boy squeaked in excitement and ate it all up in one bite, Falina’s stomach growled loudly. She tried to hide it…

Gender equality has always been a dilemma, women, especially during the Romantic Era, were not seen as intellectual and did not have the same rights as men. Women were looked upon, criticized, and labeled as “Bluestockings” if they were to be involved in something that was not related to contributing to their households (Greenblatt 9). In the works, We are Seven by William Wordsworth, The Thorn by Wordsworth, and The Poor Singing Dame by Mary Robinson, we are able to see how women were treated…

I remember when I had first bought the Marigold seeds, I was looking at the picture on the seed packet examining the beautiful elegant flowers. I rushed home, I ripped open the packet and started to dig little holes in my yard for my new flowers. Days later, I watched them grow as if they were my own children; I watched them become vibrant and full of life. They had given me the hope and happiness I lost when the Great Depression hit. They had lit up my dull and boring yard and made my days…

Leigh Cromwell was driving an European car, barging through a side-alley in a destitute part of Las Vegas. The perspective of the two men was different. Leigh Cromwell saw the alley with his mere physical eyes, seeing the brown-filtered street for the dead-end that it was. Adam saw and felt somewhere much greener. All his senses engaged in the scene. His senses were covered by a thin, greasy film reminiscent of a layer of motor oil on an evaporating puddle next to a very cheap auto repair shop.…

all of a sudden you look to your right and see this drop dead handsome guy, who’s standing only a few feet away from you on his phone. You rush to the bathroom to make sure there’s no food in your teeth and your is in the right place. You take a deep breath and walk outside. You see him still standing there, he notices you and your heart skips a beat. He smiled at you. That was only a glance into the complicated life of a teenage girl. A girl who reads, wears the latest fashion trend, posts on…

Just by acknowledging her gender and appearance, he believed that the little girl would not know much about a complex topic such as death. At no point, it crossed his mind that someone so young and naive would have a better understanding about death than he would. Throughout their short conversation, the young girl communicated her thoughts on such topic. She mentioned how her family was made up of seven children: two of them at Conway, two of…

Bibliography Anschutz, Doeschka, and Rutger Engels. "The Effects Of Playing With Thin Dolls On Body Image And Food Intake In Young Girls."Sex Roles 63.9/10 (2010): 621-630. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Jan. 2016. This was a study conducted to observe the effect that playing with Barbie dolls had on girls ages six to ten. The study was conducted on several young Dutch girls. These girls were randomly assigned to play with a thin doll, an average-sized doll, or Legos in an area where no dolls…