The Unknown Man

to her ridiculous logic that Tita must forever remain at home. While Tita sits at the kitchen, taking in her mother’s decree, Esquivel writes, “From then on they knew, she and the table, that they could never have even the slightest voice in the unknown forces that fated Tita to bow before her mother's absurd decision…” (11). Adding insult to injury, Mama Elena then proclaims that Rosaura, Tita’s sister, will marry Pedro instead, giving Rosaura an inherent power over Tita. At this point, Tita is…

Gender roles have historically been depicted as the man being the stronger sex while females are subservient and in charge of all of taking care of men and all of their needs. Odysseus’s wife Penelope in Homer’s The Odyssey and Hisham Matar’s mother, Fawzia Tarwah in his memoir The Return are pampered wives who have to step into larger roles when their husbands are suddenly no longer present in the household. The empowering strength that each of these women has to find within themselves is…

As a result of not being able to support his family during certain points within The Circuit, Panchito’s father starts to develop an insecurity about not being able to support his family and he feels less like a man and father. This reminds me of the insecurities and doubts that Anzaldúa (1987) explains in her piece: Moving towards a new consciousness. “For men like my father, being “macho” means being strong enough to protect and support my mother and us. (p. 105). The internal and…

Plot: An apocalypse destroyed civilization as man has known it. The world now ashy, grey, and desolate. A man and a boy walk a long, winding road. The boy will never know the world before, as the man--his father--and him do not speak often during the story. Walking the road, the ocean becomes their destination. Many dangerous scenes unfold on their journey as well, either finding them, or they finding it. When starving, they take extreme risks that they would normally not, such as breaking into…

leaders are not leading people, but instead leading by example. Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a perfect example of this. Macbeth, though brave, was not a good leader by any standards but his own. The Macbeths might not have have been the best leaders, but a man by the name of James Barry and his friends certainly were. So how do these two relate? Well, Lady Macbeth and Dr. James Barry both share a common characteristic of leadership, masculinity, but less seen in their time is the rejection of their…

Alchemist” a story about a young boy filled with curiosity to seek his treasure, what is the treasure is the real question. Santiago is a young shepherd focused and dedicated to completing his very own personal legend.Santiago’s father has is a kind family man who had always hoped his son would become a priest but loved him anyway when he became a shepherd. There are many other characters that are going to be introduced a Gypsy, Merchant, Kings, Englishmen, but their time will come later.…

and commentary on the actual concept of war. When people think of war they often focus on the reason for the war, the countries involved, or patriotism rather than the fear that grips the hearts of young men and women in a foreign land fighting an unknown enemy with…

“... If women had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mear; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even greater”( Shakespeare’s Sister, Woolf). Unfortunately, the greatness and extreme heroic acts in stories of women before the 1800’s, exist only within black inked pages. Women should be portrayed realistically. Shakespeare’s Sister written…

In The Imposter, directed by Bart Layton, a young man who has been missing for three years is found and returned home. Unknown at the time, the person returning home is not really the missing boy but rather a French con-man pretending to be the missing boy. The director, Bart Layton, leads the audience through one of the most intense real-life mysteries in American cold case history. Layton’s goal throughout the film is to entertain the audience with a bigger-than-life story. The director…

The train is approaching and an unknown figure is hanging on the rope cutting at it. Trying to cut it before it kills the innocent Muslims on the roof of the train. The villagers and refugees who had strung the rope try to ensure that the heroic figure fails in their mission. They shoot at the figure, but just in time the mystery man cuts the rope and falls down and is crushed by the train. The reader is left to speculate on who the…