The Awakening - Personality Developments
.... The father of modern psychology, Freud broke all barriers to expose what he thought to be the real reasons for human behavior. His theories of personality development can best start with the discussion of the conscious and the unconscious mind. The conscious mind—along with the lesser preconscious mind—is that part of the mind that one has control, or knowledge of. Ironically, this is the least part of the mind that one has control over. The so called "subconscious" mind is the part of .....
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The Awakening Concepts Of Morality
.... that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted (P.31)." Her insistent attitude also made her self-righteous and neglectful of other persons.
In other ways, Mrs. Pontellier’s morality led to a dreadful deceit of her own children. Her self-righteous mindset was damaging to her children’s vitality. The ways that she treated the children were full of neglect. As in a certain night, Mr. Pontellier returned home from .....
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The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
.... husband and refuses to engage in marital relations with him. After ten days, Miss Amelia ends the marriage because she finds that she is unable to generate any positive feelings for Marvin. Several months after the divorce, Marvin reverts back to his initial corrupt ways and is \"sent to a state penitentiary for robbing filling stations and holding up A & P stores\".
Just as love had changed Marvin, so too did it change Miss Amelia. In the mid 1930\'s, several years after Miss Amelia\'s divorce, .....
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The Beak Of The Finch
.... of the Galapagos Islands are fascinating. The book records in detail some of the trials the Dr. Peter Grant family endured in studying these birds on a hot volcanic rock. However, the writers and editors of the book avoid simple logic and put a spin on history that is misleading. The facts and logic presented in The Beak of the Finch really make the book\'s author out to be a closet creationist.
It just so happened that at the same time I read this book, I was reading The Storm Petrel and .....
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The Bean Trees
.... car troubles land them at a shop known as Jesus Is Lord Used Tires. The owner of this odd establishment is a woman named Mattie, a serene, big-hearted soul who shelters political refugees from Guatemala, and who gives Taylor a job. Taylor and Turtle find a room with Lou Ann Ruiz, a self-described \"ordinary Kentuckian a long way from home,\" and her newborn baby Dwayne Ray. The relationship between these two single mothers, one never married, one divorcing, and their relationships with the people around th .....
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The Bean Trees
.... Turtle, an abandoned three-year-old Native American girl. Taylor knows that keeping Turtle is a major responsibility, being that she was abandoned and abused. Yet, Taylor knows that she is the best option that Turtle has, as far as parental figures go. "Then you are not the parent or guardian?’…. ‘Look,’ I said. ‘I’m not her real mother, but I’m taking care of her now. She’s not with her original family anymore." (Kingsolver 162) As the story progresses, Taylor accepts Turtle as part of life. Thi .....
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The Bean Trees
.... catch.\" Simply avoiding pregnancy was a major achievement for Taylor. She needed to get away from there to get ahead, and when she goes, she leaves almost everything behind, including her real name. Taylor is the name she adopts at the place where her car runs out of gas, in Taylorville, Illinois.
However, what starts out as a commonplace search for personal opportunities soon turns into a test of her character and beliefs, and of her ability to face and overcome obstacles. On her way we .....
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The Bean Trees
.... you right now these aren\'t going to hold a patch. They\'re shot through.\" (page 40). Mattie was exceptionally nice to Taylor and told her to come inside and have some coffee. After drinking a cup of coffee and giving Turtle some juice Mattie came up with the idea that Taylor could work for her. Taylor being the one who doesn\'t like tires in the first place accepted the generous offer, but went almost nuts with the huge tire wall that surrounded her. Taylor was a good worker and didn\'t have any real .....
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The Bell Jar
.... diagnosed with an illness but he had other relationships aside from Esther. Therefore Esther experienced another loss of a loved one.
Within life, we gain the support from someone that helps us get through life but often times leaves us when we need them most. This is proven when Doreen; Esthers co-worker at the modeling magazine begins to lose contact with Esther through life \"Doreen is dissolving... none of them mean anything anymore\" (Sylvia Plath pg.17) Doreen begins to lose contact wit .....
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The Bell Jar
.... through her "millions and millions of dollars" (38). Jay Cee has "brains, so her plug-ugly looks [don’t] seem to matter" (5). But, Philomena has money so nothing else matters. Mrs. Willard is portrayed as the ultimate wife and mother. We are given the impression that Mrs. Willard embodies sensibility. She is what every little girl is supposed to grow up to be. But Esther sees differently. Mrs. Willard represents the inevitable outcome of marriage and motherhood – to flatten out .....
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The Bell Jar
.... Esther had been very successful academically:
`I had already taken a course in botany and done very well. I never answered one test question wrong all year.`
Because of her perfectionist attitude, Esther was surprised to hear herself say that she didn\'t know what her career plans were:
`Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue.
\"I don\'t really know\", I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.`
She claim .....
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The Bicycle Thief
.... of his innocence. Being able to work is an optimistic endeavor which Bruno wholeheartedly engages in.
The tragedy is not Antonio\'s previous two years of unemployment- it is that he has no future in his new job, due to the theft of his bike. Antonio must face this tragedy with no public support other than his friend Baiocco. Baiocco\'s willingness to help with his friends and his optimistic response to Maria constitute another case of human optimism. This form of optimism pervades .....
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The Birdcage
.... This offends Albert, who decides to dress as a woman to play the part of Val\'s mother. In the end all is discovered and the conservative couple are forced to accept that their daughter will be marrying into an \"alternative\" family.
Every sexual orientation and lifestyle is explored in this film, through each individual character. Albert plays the emotional, insecure, flighty homosexual male. Armand plays the part of a more reserved, logical, manly homosexual. The Senator is a conservati .....
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The Birthmark
.... his work ("My peerless bride, it is successful! You are perfect!), Georgianna dies. "My poor Aylmer…You have aimed loftily;…Do not repent that…you have rejected the best that earth has to offer. Aylmer, dearest Aylmer, I am dying."
Is messing with nature’s intent and beauty worth the consequence? That is a question that people deal with everyday. It is true that many changes can be made without the same consequence that Geogianna ended with. A man won’t die because he has the siz .....
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The Birthmark
.... In the "Birthmark", a story that is more than a century old Georgiana and her husband Alymar are searching for physical perfection, much like we do today. In addition they manifested their obsession with physical perfection much like we do today. Georgiana was born with a crimson birthmark in the shape of a hand. This birthmark was on her cheek. One day Georgiana discovers that this birthmark "shocks" her husband and he is deeply bothered by it. Georgiana finally realizes this afte .....
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