Ugly sisters

Asylum Lana Winters is admitted to Briarclif after her girlfriend was persuaded to sign the documentation to admit her into Briarclif in exchange of not revealing the relationship they have to the public. Once admitted to Briarclif Lana is told by Sister Jude that she will help her slay the monster inside of her in order to get her cured (Minear. & Bradley, 2011). The first treatment Lana was given was electroshock therapy which was not effective. Lana is then convinced to accept…

The Color Purple (1983) is Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel which focuses on the issue of domestic violence as well as survival. This fiction-historical text is set between the two world wars (1915 – 1940) in the deep American South, Rural Georgia and is narrated by Celie, a vulnerable Afro-American woman. Celie sets the tone with her epistolary of confessional and uninhibited letters she writes privately to God. In first person, Celie expresses her story of poverty within segregation…

The lack of compassion Pauline and Cholly have is adopted by Pecola as she considers physical beauty a crucial element in self-identification as even her parents believe that she is ugly proclaiming when Pauline saw her daughter “I knowed she was ugly. Head full of pretty hair, but Lord she was ugly" (Morrison p. 126) this, in turn, determined Pecola's identity and the course of her life as even her own mother disapproved. However, Pauline promises to "love it no matter what it looked like"…

This election has hit me hard. I am sure that I am one of many trying to sort out their thoughts and emotions regarding Trump’s unprecedented victory. I know I am not alone in that respect. But at the same time, I can’t help but feel isolated. When I woke up early that fateful Wednesday morning, I was overcome with hopelessness. When I left my room to go about my day, I didn’t see faces struggling to grapple with the reality of a Trump presidency. I saw plenty of Europeans bewildered and worried…

The neighborhood is quiet, cold, and dangerous. The year is 1928, December. The only light around is coming from the Moon, with apartment buildings covering the better part. Worn out doors for miles and lifeless windows surround the streets as far as the eye can see. This neighborhood is a ghost town. It is not safe to stay out past dark, and no one usually wants to with the kind of dealings that go down. Why does a young adult join a gang? Is it because they are an uneducated, ambitious youth…

The “American Dream” is this wild idea that people should be able to come to America and make better lives for themselves or their families. However, this concept is different from person to person, and for some reason not everyone thinks that the “American Dream” should apply to non-Americans. For one person, the American dream could be about making money and living in a mansion without a single gay or Hispanic person living within one hundred miles, and for another person, it could be about…

food back, and Anansi is left with no-hit he does not learn his lesson. 6. The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Andersen: The story is about a little duckling born in a barn. He is mistreated by his siblings and all the others. One day he decides to run away, and ends up being taken I by a woman, only to be driven away by her animals. The little duckling matures into a beautiful swan, and is no longer bullied for being an ugly little duckling. 7. The Mitten, Jan Brett: This Ukrainian folktale…

Shug Avery is a confident black women and very independent character in the novel, in the novel Shug Avery is one of the character that are empowered and manage to stay empowered and also empower other women like Celie and squeak. Shug Avery is a very powerful character simply because she is a feminist, she acts as a role model to women around her and she doesn’t rely on any man to look after her or to tell her how she should act. Shug is introduced in the beginning of the novel when she falls…

that gods have human flaws because instead of rising above the issue that Zeus was sleeping with another woman like the god she was but she stooped low and lashed out negatively. Another example is when Apollo killed Orion because he thought his sister Artemis would break her vow to remain a virgin. The reason Apollo had this idea is that Artemis and Orion spent all of their time together and became very close. Apollo was furious so he tricked Artemis into killing Orion. This relates to my…

But she was not sent to school” (Woolf lines 42-43). This excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s Shakespeare’s Sister shows how even if women are the same as men with the same intelligence and the same ambition to conquer the world with their talent it will not matter because they are not given the same opportunities as men to expand their intelligence. For the purpose of this example Shakespeare’s sister which was an imagined character which was just as smart, willing to learn, and as imaginative as him…