The Housemaid

The movie Robot and Frank, (Acord, Bisbee, Kelman-Bisbee, Niederhofee, Schreier, 2012) is about an elderly man and a robot that is forced upon him due to his son’s worry about his father’s life. Frank is an older man whose life is a bit of a mess. Frank is seen as an older man who can’t take care of himself and is known in his community as a thief. After his son comes to visit him and see’s that his house is in disarray, the son gives him a robot that is intended to be his caretaker. Once the…

There are many similar themes in the novels Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Secret Life of Bees. Great Expectations centers around a poor boy named Pip Pirrip who learns how to become a gentleman in London. To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on a young girl named Scout Finch who is learning about life and injustice in the small southern town of Maycomb. The Secret Life of Bees centers around a teenage girl named Lily Owens who searches for her identity and purpose in South Carolina…

her face. In the beginning, Ella has both of her parents. Ella’s mother dies first because of sickness. Then, her father left and died of sickness as well. Once she finds out what happened to her father her step mother starts treating her like a housemaid. Unlike Cinder, Ella is fully human(no cyborg parts). Ella’s stepmother is very cruel to her…

lives on a ranch on the Mexico- U.S border, with her mother and two older sisters. Tita is the youngest daughter to Mama Elena. Although Mama Elena gave birth to Tita on the kitchen table, due to Titas weeping from the onions being cut, Nacha the housemaid and cook, is Titas prime care-taker. Nacha raised Tita in the kitchen preparing food for the family all the time, so Tita became familiar with cooking and brought on quite a talent. Mama Elena was very strict…

Why do people choose to live a boring life? This is a question Anne Bonny might have asked herself because her life was nothing if not exciting. Anne Bonny was one of the few female pirates that lived in the early 1700’s. Her family originated from Ireland but later moved to America shortly after Anne was born. Anne Bonny had many characteristics that were uncommon for women at that time. Particularly, her need to be adventurous and to travel. While she wasn’t the most respectable person, Anne…

Fareed Zakaria GPS Response The December 6th episode of Fareed Zakaria GPS touched on the strategies the U.S. is taking to contain terrorism, the stereotypes Americans have of certain minority groups (specifically Muslims), and how one group’s music is countering the horrifying attacks by ISIS that took place in Paris. Mr. Zakaria first sat down to interview President Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice, on what the path U.S. is planning to take to prevent any further ISIS acts of…

In the novel, the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence and killing a mockingbird would to be to unnecessarily persecute someone or something. During Chapter 10, Atticus explained to Jem and Scout why not to shoot at mockingbirds. Mockingbirds represent the idea of innocence as they don't do any harm to their surroundings, so to kill one would not only serve no purpose, but it would be morally wrong. There is no justification for killing a mockingbird, and yet hunters and children still shoot at…

How does a traditional fairytale typically end? Yes, with happily-ever-after. In the original version of Cinderella, we are met with a young girl who is complacent to her life, and only breaks free from it and finds her happiness when a prince appears. Then the story ends, Cinderella and her prince are forever seen frozen in their happily ever after. Anne Sexton’s poem Cinderella presents us with the question of why society views Cinderella as the ultimate fairytale of happily ever after.…

Throughout the Roaring Twenties in the United States events occurred that changed the way people previously in the 1900s would view women forever. Women in the 1900s were restricted on clothes that they could wear and advertisements displayed them as a maid. In the 1920s women had a drastic change in appearance due to the growing independence that obtained while the men were fighting. Women had to perform a variety of trades that normally only men could do. The differing gender equality in the…

An Analysis of Ethan Frome 's Predisposition to Defeat In Edith Wharton 's novel Ethan Frome, a crippling "smash up" coasting "accident" traps Ethan Frome and his wife Zenobia as well as his housemaid Mattie Silver in their bleak farmhouse for 24 years. Starkfield, a small city that has devastating winters, is where the story takes place. A city where anybody who lives there, does not have many opportunities. This can be seen in the book when Harmon Gow, an onlooker, says, "Guess he 's been in…