The Little Match Girl

Lord Bracknell is greatly feminized as home is supposed to be the proper sphere for a woman, according to the Victorian ethics and societal norms. Her comments match the time setting of the play which revolves around male domination and she is a typical Victorian girl. The feminized role of Lord Bracknell is completely unacceptable in the world of the Victorian era and it is a shock to the people and it serves the Wilde’s purpose of the play – to criticize and…

spot and started that same day. Esperanza found the job really easy. Her job was to wear gloves and match the negatives with the prints. Esperanza was scared to eat lunch with all the workers at the job. She would eat in the coatroom. Esperanza is now writing a lot. She is writing poems and reading books. Esperanza is learning to express herself through writing. Then, Esperanza met Minerva who is a little older than her. She is a single mother of two kids and occasionally her husband comes back…

good home instead. And is this just because in society the female role is to be still a mom who will stay at home for her children and bend over backwards for her family with out thinking about herself first which all begins being taught when the girl is little (exploring amrstong…

The book “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult is a story about a young girl Anna Fitzgerald who at age thirteen has undergone countless surgeries and transfusions for her older sister Kate who has a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. Anna decides to take matters into her own hands and gets a lawyer, Campbell Alexander, to sue her parents for emancipation and this decision threatens to destroy her family for good. There were a couple of themes to the story but the biggest one was the bond of…

Wilson, her Girl Scout leader. She was very nice, fun, and wanted the best for them. She also had a daughter in the troop named Sandra. She did attend a youth group in high school and attended church on a regularly basis. School was important to S.H., and she always…

As Wynonna Judd once said, “The mother daughter relationship is the most complex.” Jing-Mei and her mother’s relationship in the novel excerpt "Two Kinds," certainly represents this quote. Throughout the excerpt. Jing-Mei and her mother grow further and further apart as Jing-Mei’s perspective on cultural identity and the “American Dream” evolve, clashing with her mother’s opinion. Their contrasting opinions lead to several conflicts, each building off the previous, developing Amy Tan’s theme of…

We are all worried about fitting in sometime or another. In Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, a book about a girl on a full-ride scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, a strong theme emerges: If you try and change yourself too much for others, it doesn’t always make you a better person. This theme is shown throughout various instances in the book, while the main character, Lee Fiora, feels the need to blend in with her higher-class peers to be accepted. During the four-year story of the book,…

At first I thought this was a little over her cognitive ability, but I was presently surprised that it actually was not! I showed her two glasses of water, which had the same amount of water in them. I then poured one of those cups of water into a different bowl that made the amount…

Synthesis Don Pedro believes strongly in love and marriage, and he himself is single. Then there is Benedict who is the polar opposite, but also single. It makes sense why most of the soldiers want marriage and love after witnessing pain during the war. And yet Benedict preservers and is clearly the odd goat out from the group. Which is ironic because Beatrice is the odd woman out too. They share a lot common, maybe the most in common out of all the characters, and yet they cannot stand to be…

The Stanley Hotel In the depths of Colorado’s Estes Valley, sits a grand hotel with a history greater than the eye can see from first look. Freelan Oscar Stanley stumbled upon this magnificent site when suffering from consumption. Even though Freelan and his wife Flora were from an East Coast society, they were willing to try and live a life in the valley. They had a private home, but agreed it was too small if they wished to have parties or guests, so they compromised to build a hotel. With its…