This One's for the Girls

McCormick, there is a common theme of loss of innocence. Both main characters, Liesel Meminger and Lakshmi, experience great change throughout their novels. Both make the transformation from young girls to matured women. Although they would still be legally considered children at the end of their novels, the two girls have gone through more than many adults have ever experienced. When Liesel Meminger went to live with the Hubermanns, she did not expect that she would be the only sibling to…

Indefinable Identity One's identity is never truly shaped. There are some parts of a person that they have no control over and there are others where they can decide who they want to be. Undiscovered parts of oneself shine through at different moments during a lifetime, therefore, people are always discovering their true selves. This is evident in Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, where Henry continues to discover himself throughout many difficult times, as he was a Chinese…

Gender Dysphoria Gender Dysphoria (GD) is the feeling that one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female is the opposite of one’s natal sex. Gender dysphoria is manifested in a variety of ways, which may include strong desires to be treated as the opposite gender or to be rid of one’s sex characteristics. Little research exists on the causes of GD because gender identity is difficult to investigate, and gender variant identities are less prevalent than normative gender identities…

“the essence of camp is love in the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”. (pg. 1) This essence is everywhere in “But I’m a Cheerleader”. The entire film runs on a potentially true storyline by making it artificial. This is done by having the film lack seriousness. “Camp is an art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken all together seriously because it is “too much”” (pg. 4). I believe that this phrase perfectly describes “But I’m a Cheerleader”. Everything in the film is…

The Crucible Essay In the novella of The Crucible by Arthur Miller name is a defiant significance in how it has lots of power to one's identity. Proctor has always wanted to protect his name and especially his family. In addition his family is getting targeted due to the troubles of him sleeping with Abigail Williams which tests his reputation. “Why, Abigail Williams charge her” (Miller 77). Cheever is telling Proctor how his wife is getting called out as a witch due to his troubles. Most often…

circumstances of her birth, upbringing, education in India, marriage to a North American and her education and career on the American continent are the indispensable contexts to understand her fiction. Sheis a prominent Indian American immigrant novelist. This paper aims to study how Bharati Mukherjee deals with a woman’s quest for identity in her novel Desirable Daughters.She presents the various circumstances in which an Indian woman faces identity crisis as a daughter, sister, wife,…

independent leaders, yet parents are still afraid to stray from raising their sons according to gender norms. It will be argued that the reinforcement of stereotypical masculinity is harmful, as boys are told that violence and dominance is natural, and this has a lasting effect on their adulthood. Steinem believes that to raise a son untraditionally is a truly audacious act, as it rejects the notion that ‘manly’ characteristics are innate. Accordingly, the article Men Changing Men by Robert…

world they are immediately grouped into a category of boy or girl. For example, my precious girl or my sweet boy. Society has created gender expectations for what it is to be a male or female (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). The formation of identity has been pushed by society from the beginning of childhood socialization. For example, girls are supposed to play with dolls and boys are supposed to play with trucks. When…

such a Gorgon” (200). This need for keeping up appearances is also exhibited when Jack explains that “[w]hen one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. It’s one’s…

2000, 165). Therefore, this provides a significant point of why one should combine…