Ugly sisters

The Last Jarrell Family Vacation When my father told my brother and I that the family was going on a trip to France, my brother threw the water bottle he was holding into the ceiling fan. Water and plastic exploded everywhere. My dad screamed and my mom whimpered. I laughed. Last week Tommy bought his first car. It’s a used 1998 Toyota Civic. Even though it is old and shitty, Tommy loves his car more than he loves dad or mom or me. Mom took a photography class at the community college…

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson explores the conflict within a family to sell their long-held piano. The inciting incident occurs when Boy Willie tells his sister Bernice that he plans on selling the piano. Berniece is completely opposed to this prospect. The piano has a history through their family and she finds that it is a tradition that she must keep alive. The crises occurs when Sutter’s ghost prevents Lymon and Boy Willie from being able to move the piano. Boy Willie finds this…

the element of magic into affect. In this short first person narrative, a Latina granddaughter recalls back to the time when she was a teenage girl spending time with her grandmother. The narrator describes the lack of apathy she had towards her sisters. She would constantly get into trouble and was used to being punished for her mischievous actions. The narrator looked…

There is no surprise that Domestic Violence and Breast Cancer Awareness inhabit the same month. Well, at least not for me and I believe, not for many. Domestic Violence is spreading like a disease or has it been secretly and profusely rearing its ugly head? We are finding out that no one, repeat “No One” is exempt. Age, ethnicity, financial status, gender nor religious belief qualifies as an exemption. Nothing excludes you from being a victim. Domestic Violence does not discriminate nor does…

believes that this innocence must be sustained throughout the rest of a child’s life. To him children seem to live in a mindset of an untouched and pure world. He expresses a want for innocence to be lifelong while he is in the museum waiting for his sister Phoebe to join him: “ ‘Certain things should stay the way they are,” he says (111), like those life-size figures in the glass cases of the museum which never change their positions” (Bungert). Holden’s want for innocence and purity is most…

The Bluest Eye explores many elements of race one of the main being the idea of whiteness as the only way means of being beautiful. Morrison tells the narrative of an eleven-year-old black girl named Pecola who was taught to believe that she was ugly and taught to believe that the only way she could be pretty and beautiful is by having blue eyes. Throughout the book we see examples of the way beauty has always been established in terms of whiteness for her, and the people around her including…

As Maria Tatar states in the anthology The Classic Fairy Tales, few fairy tales have a “single, univocal, uncontested, meaning” (The Classic Fairy Tales, xiv). Fairy tales can be analyzed through several different methods which attribute to why fairy tales can have multiple meanings. These methods look at different aspects of the fairy tale and based on those aspects, formulate a conclusion of what the meaning of the fairy tale is. According to Vanessa Joosen in her dissertation entitled New…

Conversely, the Bluebeard legend (as written by Perrault), hides Bluebeard’s true personality until the end. In the legend, Bluebeard gets described as a wealthy, but ugly man due to his blue beard. He has an eye on two daughters, both of whom reject him for his ugly beard and suspicion behind the disappearances of his past wives. To change this perception, “Blue Beard... took them, with their mother and three or four ladies of their acquaintance, with other young people of the neighborhood, to…

I am in a family of five including both my parents; I have two older siblings, one elder sister and one older brother. I am the youngest in my family, and I have two older siblings that are constantly looking after me. Therefore, I am like the “baby” in my family. They took care of me really well, and still treats me like a five-year-old sometimes…

make her beautiful, and she is abused and bullied by family members and classmates Ugly, abused, crazy Cholly Breedlove Peccola’s father He takes out his early life humiliations on the women in his life including Pauline and Pecola Impulsive, violent, frustrated, free Pauline (Polly) Breedlove Peccola’s mother She is in a terrible marriage and finds meaning in romantic movies and her work rather than her family Ugly, lonely, cold Sammy Breedlove Peccola’s older brother He deals with the…