“The Undercurrent” by Kellie Young is a story of a mother and daughter’s relationship that takes place in Hawaii throughout Young’s childhood. It describes to readers how her mother has influenced her life by becoming an admonitory voice inside her head. The impact Young’s mother has on her is widely due to the amount of admiration Young has for her. A crucial element to “The Undercurrent” is the short stories found throughout her narrative that exemplifies the greater concept of how her mother has shaped her life.
Have you ever felt safe somewhere, but realized your only protection was ignorance? In Jacqueline Woodson’s When a Southern Town Broke a Heart, she introduces the idea that as you grow and change, so does your meaning of home. Over the course of the story, Woodson matures and grows older, and her ideas about the town she grew up in become different. When she was a nine year old girl, Woodson and her sister returned to their hometown of Greenville, South Carolina by train. During the school year, they lived together in Downtown Brooklyn, and travelled to.
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
In the memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, a theme is dreams are achievable= despite obstacles. In the book, Jackie speaks about growing up with a dream to become a writer, but she has dyslexia and her family and friends try to gently steer her away from her dream because they don't want her to be heartbroken if she ever fails because of her condition. In Woodsons poem, “when I tell my family”, her mother states, “It’s a good hobby, we see how quiet it keeps you. They say,/But maybe you should be a teacher,/a lawyer,/do hair . . .” (Woodson 229)
Brooklyn in the 1970s was plagued by severe economic and political troubles unlike any the city's inhabitants had experienced before. This is what Brooklyn was described as by a recent PBS article, for one to be living in these conditions their life must have been shaped pretty severely. On the contrary, living in Scarsdale has brought me many opportunities that someone living in that Brooklyn setting might not have been able to obtain. August, a character in Jaqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn, lived in this harsh time period filled with a multitude of problems. This realistic fiction novel accurately depicts the story of a young woman attempting to thrive in a place like Brooklyn.
Being scared to grow up is normal. In the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, growing up can change the way you think and act. That is something you can think about while reading about a character named Lizabeth, who is now telling the story of how her life was in her little village during the Great Depression. Lizabeth was going through a transition between 14 and 15, so all her mind was tangled up in a knot. The author tells us how this was a significant moment in Lizabeth's life while she was going through a tough time growing up.
This piece is called “The Other Wes Moore” produced by Wes Moore in the year 2012. Wes Moore wasn't as privileged with his family and surrounding like others might have been. Wes Moore wasn't a great kid, he found things to fill in the free time including negatively affecting stuff. This piece is emotional and subjective, it analyzes how everything came together, and he shows passion and thoughtfulness. The author's purpose of this piece was to show how the choices people make when they're younger can be impacted by the environment one is surrounded with.
The characters have adapted to their surroundings as much as they can but they can only do so much. When the whole group is trying to find a new shelter, they compare it to how life once was. They need a bed, some place to cook, running water, and a private place, but they are no longer fortunate to have something like that anymore. Because of that, a quote from Shane Walsh sticks out, “Nostalgia, it’s like a drug.” This impacts the book and the whole story line greatly because all they want in life is to go back to how things once were.
Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” was produced in 1981. What most people don’t know is that it was originally sang by American Singer Gloria Jones, in 1965. Gloria Jones’ version was essentially a commercial failure, although did acquire a few fans in underground British nightclubs in the late 70s. English synthpop-duo Soft Cell recorded a modern version of “Tainted Love” in 1981. This cover reached number one in eight different countries, while it reached the number eight spot in the United States in 1982.
Revision of “On Turning Ten” Essay Growing up and living in the adult world requires responsibility, knowledge, and independence. A poem by Billy Collins, “On Turning Ten,” describes a young child as he attempts to grasp the concept of growing up and facing the harsh reality of adult life. The narrator uses a melancholy tone to argue that adult life is challenging, and the best way to cope with these challenges is to reminisce about young childhood memories. The young narrator is convinced that adult life will not be much fun.
In The Fall of a City, although the situation wasn’t the same, it proves, yet again, that a child will experience an event differently than an adult would. Teddy had created an entire kingdom in his attic, which became his entire world. Paper houses became an entire empire and he lived through every battle and every problem that arose in it. Yet to his uncle, it was just some scraps, that caused Teddy to be cooped up in an attic for hours each
In his 2008 film The Necktie, Jean-François Lévesque explores and goes into many deep subjects. In the film, the main character Valentine begins to experience life. Valentine likes to play the accordion, and it seems like he is involved or likes going to accordion festivals. Life in itself is hard for many people, but for this particular young man as he starts to experience his adulthood, he is excited, outgoing, and most of all, ready for his new job. As the film plays you can tell Valentine is stressed, and the film shows his character growing, as in wrinkles, bags under his eyes.
“A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner is a short story about the life of Emily Grierson. The story, as told by the townsfolk, tells the present and past of Emily’s life and how unfortunate events affected her decisions and lifestyle. Faulkner utilizes the townspeople to narrate “A Rose for Emily” To portrait how the town covered Emily’s deeds and thus protected the town’s reputation. The townspeople are the narrator of “A Rose for Emily,” Along the story they are sometimes represented as a single entity that seeks to justify Emily’s actions.
Even though "Our Town" written by Thornton Wilder is an American play that was written by the American author, I believe that is can be translated into different languages maybe not successfully but I think it can be pretty close. Can also be translated into other cultures with there way of life. With a little bit of help from someone who understands clearly the American language and culture aside from the language and culture that is trying to enact the play, they can be the ones to help translate the best and have the best outcome. Some languages use their language different from American's and some of their words most of the time mean something else than what we mean in the American language. So if these other languages and cultures
How To Kill A MockingBird Harper Lee is a critically acclaimed classic novel of modern American literature. It deals with warmth yet serious issues of race inequality and rape. The book captures the conflict of the time period and also paints vivid pictures in readers imagination. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the author Harper Lee uses setting to express the ideas that people will lie in hopes to mask their shame. In the novel Harper lee uses setting to show how the relationship between Mayella Ewell, a young, poor, white woman who’s in the lowest rank of the white community.
