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- 2411: I Stand Here Ironing
- "I Stand Here Ironing", by Tillie Olsen is a short story portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter. The mother- daughter relationship is the major part of the story and the attitude of the mother toward her ... beginning we hear about the mother’s self- inculpating thoughts of all she "did and did not do." To many people, the ideal mother- daughter relationship is not like the one we find in this short story. This is neither the fault of the mother or the daughter. Through her own relative thoughts, the mother illustrates the relationship that evolved with her daughter. Secondly, Emily, as a little girl wasn’t ...
- 2412: I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died
- ... most important of the poem. It writes, "Since then ‘t is centuries; but each feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses’ heads were toward eternity." This stanza makes the reader realize how short life really is when it is compared to the eternities they may spent in afterlife. The last stanza also leaves the reader with the message that life on earth is far too short and it should be lived to it’s fullest every day. Death plays a large part in Dickinson’s poetry and it greatly shapes the way she writes and the way readers perceive her. As ...
- 2413: Hunger Of Memory
- ... unique given the fact that while he was born and raised in the United States, he was strongly influenced in the ethnic environment of a Spanish family. Although the reader is introduced to only a short excerpt from the autobiography, he learns a great deal about Rodriguez’s family and his relationship to it, his conflict of speaking English versus Spanish, and the paradox that became evident as he used English ... technique of flashback, the author describes how the dichotomy that existed between his home identity and his social identity shaped the "public" individual that he had become. While the reader is subjected to only a short excerpt from Richard Rodriguez’s autobiography, he recognizes, specifically, that it was this inner core of the family setting that Rodriguez struggled with the trial of growing up as an American citizen. Without this family ...
- 2414: House On Mango Street
- Women’s Escape into Misery Women’s need for male support and their husband’s constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza’s stories were about women’s dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perfect family and home. Sally, Rafaela, and Minerva are women who gave me the impression of [damsel’s in distress].CLICHÉ, it ... married. She did not want " this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can’t see" (73). Cisneros gives us a negative portrayal of marriage, by telling these stories of incarcerated women. Esperanza is the only one who wants a home of her own, " Not an apartment in the back. Not a man’s house. Not a daddy’s house. A house all my ...
- 2415: Hills Like White Elephants
- ... religions of the people he encountered. His histories are made up of tales told to him by people from Egypt, Syria, Babylon, Colchis, Paeonian and Macedonia. He was criticized by several ancient writers for creating stories and passing them off as the truth. Herodotus is most famous for the nine books he wrote on the rise of the Persian Empire, the Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC and 480 BC ... as a wife and declares that this man understands more than anyone else in the world, saying: "The Egyptians excel all others and this man the rest of the Egyptians." Like many fables and ancient stories, this one involves a simple nobody, a commoner, rising above their superior either in physical strength or intellect. The king and his sentinels are outsmarted many times by an ordinary boy. The thief in this ...
- 2416: Heart Of Darkness
- ... went to sea, and from there sailed on and off for the next twenty years. These twenty years were the basis if not the absolute pure nautical theme that flows throughout many of his novels. Stories such as Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are based upon true to life experiences that Joseph had while at sea. Another unique aspect of Conrad’s writing, would be the lack of simple romance ... that lurked within the darkness. All these outside forces eventually lead back to the effect that Kurtz has and gains over Marlow as Marlow comes closer to and finally meets with Kurtz. Although he heard stories of a man that once had a vision where "Each station [along the river] should be like a beacon on the road toward better things, a center for trade, of course, but also for humanizing ...
- 2417: Harrison Bergeron
- ... a country like this, Vonnegut shows us that this is not where we want to be. Works Cited Schatt, Stanley. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1976. Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. "Harrison Bergeron". The Short Story and Its Writers: An Intro to Short Fiction, Fifth Edition. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 1332-1335.
- 2418: Fried Green Tomatoes
- ... Cleo Threadgoode, the wife of Mr. Cleo Threadgoode has lived her life in Whistle Stop, Alabama until she was put in a nursing home in the 1980’s. She is growing senile but tells her stories to Mrs. Evelyn Couch, a younger woman who is physically overweight and mentally diminishing. Mrs. Threadgoode is also a woman who is quite happy with her life and how she lived it. But she was ... t bring more happiness than other qualities, or being wealthy in memories like Mrs. Threadgoode is. Sure, she doesn’t have the cash or the clothes to show but she has her memories and her stories. And while a woman like Vesta may have spent her whole life behind some crummy desk breaking her fingers as a secretary just to achieve happiness, Mrs. Threadgoode experienced happiness throughout her entire life by ...
- 2419: Faust And Frankenstein
- Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the übermensch in their world. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for ...
- 2420: Exile And Pain In Three Elegiac Poems
- ... never have the chance to see them because he would always be at sea. Unknowingly this man lived a life of exile, exile from land and all it's wonders. Although these poems tell different stories, they all contain the main themes exile and pain. After reading each of these poems, it is obvious that stories of misery were very popular during this period.
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