In the story “The Books of Elsewhere,” by Jacqueline West, the main character, Olive Dunwoody, faces many difficult, gruesome, and life-changing challenges throughout the story of the book. All of these challenges affect her emotionally. What are the emotional changes that Olive experiences throughout the book, and how are they expressed? In my opinion, Olive changed emotionally from being shy and afraid, to being heroic and brave.
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige is about a young woman by the name of Amy Gumm whose life is turned upside down the moment she steps foot in Oz. Nothing is how she pictured it to be. Everything is dull and definitely less happy and magical than she expected. She soon finds out the reason for all this gloominess is because Dorothy has turned evil and is sucking all of the magic out of Oz to keep for herself. Amy meets a lot of people along the way, including some allies that help her through troubles, and some enemies such as the Tin Woodman who captures Amy and takes her to Dorothy in the Emerald City.
A tornado forms around Dorothy, pulling her in. Dorothy after becoming trapped inside the tornado, awakens in Munchkinland – one of the many places in the world of Oz. Munchkins thank Dorothy, believing that she had purposely dropped Auntie Em’s house on Evermean (Wicked Witch of the East). Addapearle (Good Witch of the North) soon meets Dorothy and explains that in order to get home, she must first meet the Wiz. After another song, the munchkins give Evermean’s silver slippers to Dorothy.
The Wizard of Oz is a musical about a young girl, named Dorothy, who lives on a farm in Kansas. She desperately wants to get away, and decides to run away from home. After she meets a peddler who convinces her to go back home, she ends up going back home to find a “cyclone” heading right for her house. Dorothy, her dog, Toto, and her house
In Confession of Dorothy Day’s, The Long Loneliness, on pages 9-10 it states, “Going to confession is hard – hard when you have sins to confess, hard when you haven’t… You do not want to make too much of your constant imperfections and venial sins, but you want to drag them out to the light of day as the first step in getting rid of them.” This relates to the CIT question, “What does it mean to be human?” As humans, we all makes mistakes, no one is perfect.
Greek Mythology has made a major impact on the world, many lessons you are educated on today are based on these myths. These myths teach not only ways to live foremost lives but also to tell there are multiple options for every situation in life. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John Williams Waterhouse uses the myth of Penelope to show that there are two types of selfishness; being loyal to something because of its protection or being unoptimistic to something because of obsession with something else, while in her poem “Penelope”, Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that in life, challenges arise but to cease those opportunities is never the way to overcome them; being determined and courageous will achieve the goal. In “Penelope”, by Dorothy Parker, she uses vivid imagery, prominent diction, and heroic symbolism to portray the unfairness of bravery in the poem.
Since the beginning of the written language, the reader's perception of a literary work has been based on their interpretation of how the story was portrayed. Differing points of view within the story generate diverse interpretations among readers. From Shakespeare to Faulkner, the aspect of differing viewpoints allows each story to convey contrasting feelings to the reader. In Eudora Welty’s Why I Live at the P.O., she uses a first-person view to reinforce this idea. The attitude of the narrator, sister, is biased in many respects to further her agenda.
“A lady knows that one can trap more flies with sugar than with vinegar”, this quote as a metaphor it is saying that one knows that people enjoy being with someone who is kind and sweet like sugar instead of someone who is cruel and sour like vinegar. One can agree with this because they like kindness better than cruelty. Kindness plays a important part in our life,Imagine if we didn’t have it. The world would go mad, nobody will socialize with each other and we will eventually get really depressed and fade away. A Example of this is about how kindness saved this man’s life.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum published in 1900, the story of Dorothy and her friends the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion captured the public's imagination. Ever since the publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that's seen to be immensely popular and one of America's favorite pieces literature. Children like it is a story full of fun characters and exciting adventures. Especially liked because many can read between L. Frank Baum's lines and see various images of the United States at the turn of the century. Wizard of Oz and the contemporary political landscape connection between them wasn’t even brought up until 1963 when Henry Littlefield noticed that the characters and events that happened in The Wizard of Oz could
I chose this book because when I was younger it was my favorite movie. The most important characters are Dorothy, The Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow , and the Cowardly Lion. Dorothy is a young teenager who loves her dog, Toto, and has an urge for adventure. But one day, a cyclone strikes her house and carries it above a desert and to a magical land called Oz.
"The Wizard of Oz" was written by L. Frank Baum. In the story we meet Dorothy and travel with her from landing in Oz, traveling to Emerald city, and her return home. When a tornado lifts Dorothy's house in Kansas, she's trapped in it. She finds herself in the land of Oz. Her house landed on and killed the The Wicked Witch of the East.
“It invites one to be still, to hear divine voices speak” (hooks,125). This quote from A Place Where the Soul Can Rest by belle hooks describes the importance of the front porches to African American women who faced issues and judgment regarding their race, gender, and social standing. The porch signifies a place in which these women can relax, and escape not only from their household duties, but from all of the discrimination they face in their own neighborhoods. In the essay, the author herself reflects on her childhood as a young African American, and how her life was affected by racism, sexism, and gender stereotypes and roles. As a child, hooks’ place of safety and security lied on her front porch, where she was able to escape
“Virgins”, by Danielle Evans, is a tragic story narrated by a young girl who places what she views as “inevitability” into her own terms. The protagonist of the story is Erica, a young, physically well-developed girl who has her own view on men and what exactly they want from her. Throughout the story, a constant battling environment surrounds her, and one side of her keeps pushing her to the verge of giving up everything - even her virginity. Evans uses the title of the story to question the importance of finite as virginity in relation to the value of a woman’s body. Through the use of character development, plot, themes, language and style, setting and figurative language, she is able to come up with a true proposal of the both self-value,
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a novel of adventure and courage. In this story, the protagonist Dorothy finds herself in the magical land of Oz with no easy way back home to Kansas. On her journey home, her conflicts with the wicked witches present her with obstacles she must overcome to get home. After completing these challenges, Dorothy becomes admired by the people of Oz and the reader. Overall, Dorothy is the heroin in The Wizard of Oz because she is idealized for her courage and achievements.
Girl, Interrupted, written by Susanna Kaysen in 1967, is a thought provoking memoir following her and fellow parents’ tragic and twisted experiences in McLean Mental Hospital. As a young adult Susanna Kaysen tried to commit suicide by swallowing a bottle of pills and following it with a bottle of alcohol. Her parents were very worried about her and suggested her to go to a doctor that her dad once knew. Kaysen visited the doctor who, after talking to her for a while, requested that she be sent to one of the best mental hospitals in her area. She had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
