The Family Stand

"I Stand Here Ironing" and "Everyday Use" are similar stories with one difference. Similarly, both stories share a main theme of resentment, and mothers who blame themselves for their daughters' feelings. Yet differ in their central symbols: an iron and a pair of family quilts. "I Stand Here Ironing," introduces us to Emily, who resents her sister for needing more attention, and her mother, who blames herself for not giving Emily what she needed. Which she believes contributed to Emily's…

When going through a tough situation, family is usually there encouraging, helping through the chaos. Survival comes with having family,whether relatives or really close friends. Both Night and Sold have to do with survival and the importance of family. Night was written by Elie Wiesel and Sold was written by Patricia McCormick. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see that most people that go through evil acts survive because of family,which is important because people could feel they…

A Place to Stand In every person's life there are a lot of times when you face difficulties and everything has gone wrong. You lost a person that means the whole life to you and lost your job all at the same time. At that point you will know your character more and how you get over your problems. Will you be a better person inside and out or you make the same mistake again ? Only days will tell. When it comes to Jimmy Santiago Baca in his memoir “ A Place to Stand “ he describes the…

into a dull-feathered sparrow. Although Kit may have turned into a sparrow, she still has some green feathers of a tropical bird. While Kit sees Puritans as plain and boring, Nat and other Connecticutians think Kit stands out too much. When Kit first arrives at Wethersfield, she stands out like a tropical bird with bright green feathers among common birds. She is from Barbados and isn't meant to live in Connecticut, and Jamaican tropical birds aren't meant to live in Connecticut either. Kit…

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” (Langston Hughes) A Raisin in the Sun is a play about a poor African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The play contains much drama and tension between most of the characters. Most of the characters in the play are african american, however but one of the characters is white. In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry creates three significant characters whose roles can be analyzed through events in…

Women in The Trojan Women lose their bravery when they face struggles as a slave, leading to an unhappy lifestyle. In the passage, Hecuba’s life and family life is destroyed by their fate. Andromache, the wife of Hector, talks to Hecuba about her tragedies in her family. As a result, Hecuba’s daughter is murdered at Achilles’s tomb, therefore, she is weak because of this death. As Hecuba explains about her feelings, “It is better to die than to live a life of pain. The dead feel no sorrow” (Pg.…

Margaret, and Gooper to please him as the two sides of the family battle for the ownership of Big Daddy’s 28,000 acre plantation all while the news of his terminal illness is completely unbeknownst to him. However, the attempts of Mae and Gooper are futile, as Big Daddy is unwilling to seize control of the plantation to anyone but his favorite son, Brick. Big Daddy is brash in his attitude toward others in his life especially his family. He cannot stand Gooper and Gooper’s…

Becoming an adult is a momentous occasion in any young person’s life, but often it is marked by pain and hardships that push us as individuals to earn our autonomy and personal voice. There was an event in my life which pushed me to stand up to my parents and ultimately become an individual in their eyes. Life as a homeschooler was somewhat isolated until the end of my eighth-grade year. It was a damaging environment because of the constant interaction with my mother who was extremely critical…

Refugees are people that are forced to leave or flee their home countries because of the conditions there. (Brice) In the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Ha and her family are all refugees that flee their country for a better life. Most refugees have such a challenging time transitioning into the U.S., due to the different lifestyle they will have to live, but they know it is worth it considering they are given an asylum in the country they are transitioning into. (Gevert) The…

In life, any great story always has a background story - one that describes past hardships, demotivation or thoughts of complete failure. Somewhere amidst the negative, however, comes a positive stimulus, known as an awakening. Typically, at the time of an awakening, the change or realization being proposed is hard to accept, but somewhere deep down, one can feel that despite all the hard times they have gone through, something wonderful is yet to come. Kevin Wilson, the author of Tunneling to…