"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves. " Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape of the poem itself.
This shows that people were quick to judge and stereotyped all women, young or old. When Razor met her, he quickly judged her, “Oi sweetheart, why don’t you forget about playing around chimneys and run home to make me some biscuits.”
In the novel, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, Johnny has an issue with his arrogance. Johnny Tremain lived in the 1700s in America, he was a silversmith until he burnt his hand on hot silver. Johnny’s hand is now disabled so he cannot be a silversmith anymore. His pride caused him his downfall now he lives with the aftermath. His pride has also made him confident and successful at things.
Harry “Dit” Sims and Emma Walker are the unlikeliest of friends. Emma, the educated twelve-year-old daughter of Moundville’s new postmaster but to Dit it is all wrong. Because Dit told the new postmaster would have a boy he’s same age, not a girl. But the rest of the town is more surprised with the Walker family’s color than whether Emma is a boy or girl. No one knew the new postmaster’s family would be black.
People are often judged or treated differently depending on their appearance. Dolphus Raymond, a white man who lives among the black community, is seen as an evil man who drinks; however, Dolphus’s appearance throughout the neighborhood is deceptive. This is a prime example of how appearances are misleading in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Dolphus lives a, not bad, but different lifestyle. He drinks from a sack and acts drunk to let others conjecture that he is, indeed, drunk.
Catherine Lucille Moore, more commonly known as C. L. Moore, was an American science fiction writer; she was one of the first women to write science fiction. C. L. Moore paved the way not only for science fiction, but also for future women science fiction authors. C. L. Moore had written for fifteen years before she was published. “Shambleau” was the first story that she had published in Weird Tales, in 1933. “Shambleau” was one of Moore’s most famous stories.
In the book Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White, the real world issue of poverty is shown throughout the work of fiction. The author presents the issue of poverty mainly through Woodrow’s past, as well as Gypsy’s experience with him. White uses several techniques to present this real world issue of poverty, including very detailed descriptions on characters and conflicts. The real world issue of poverty is evident as soon as the narrator mentions that Aunt Belle, Woodrow's mother, went missing. White uses direct and indirect characterization to portray Woodrow as impoverished.
In which we had to think carefully and cohesively about the characters and their backgrounds. Although Harper Lee proves the point that social prejudice was a highly regarded prejudice. Harper Lees’ novel helps us to become more aware of prejudicial situations that occurred in the
Yet, there are also many other parts of peoples’ appearances that are judged. One of these is the gender stereotypes of boys and girls should dress, however, not everyone abides by these ‘rules.’ This can be shown by how Scout dresses in common ‘boys’ clothes, instead of dresses, which was what a girl was ‘supposed’ to wear. Many times Scout is criticized for this by many of the ladies of Maycomb, especially Aunt Alexandra, of which it is said this: “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire.” (108) Scout was being judged by how ‘unladylike’ she is by what she wears, and although it is not fair for her to be defined by this, she
In “Everyday Use” Alice Walker describes the narrator of the story, Mama with strong alliterations, and vivid imagery. Mama is a loving mother plagued by two polar-opposite daughters, Maggie who is a naive yet good-hearted person who wants to maintain the last connection she has with her heritage and Dee who is a selfish and egotistical character with a superficial understanding of her inheritance. Mama’s inner monologue gives us a glimpse of how far she would go to show this unconditional love, and the reasoning behind her rising tension and separation towards Dee. Mama describes herself as a “large, big boned women,” which she is very proud of her manly nature and ability to milk cows and butcher hogs.
Thousands of people discipline their children everyday, but some of them don’t know that they are actually abusing their child. Even though some parents may abuse their children by beating them and hitting them, disciplining a child is not the same. Disciplining a child allows them to grow and learn what is wrong and right. It also allows a kid not to be out of control and harm others. The meaning of discipline is the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, by using a punishment to correct their disobedience.
Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” was written between the years of 1641 and 1643. “Not until the year 1678, six years after Bradstreet’s death, the poem was published” (Ruby 228). A poet with Puritan beliefs, this poem uses the religious language, hyperbolic metaphors, paradox, and antiquated diction and style in order to explain the devotion and love for her husband as she struggles with the Puritan way of life along with the uncertainty of her reassurance of love. Reading this poem over and over for countless hours I came to the conclusion that there are two messages that Bradstreet was trying to project in this poem, the Literal way and the sarcastic way. The Literal way clearly shows the readers the love of a wife for her husband.
Poetry can be a way to look further into the life of the authors and a way to put your feelings into words. A woman by the name Anne Bradstreet is a wonderful example of that. She wrote a style of poetry called “domestic poetry” where she depicted things you didn’t normally know about back in the 1600’s. She gave an inside look on what the home and family life was like, which could’ve gone unnoted if it wasn’t for her. Within her writings, she spilled what her beliefs and home life was like.
Dolls typically socialize young girls to be women and to be mothers, which alludes to the irony of Pecola who gives birth to her father’s child. Just like how everyone else around her treats her, Pecola is despised within her own home. Her parents suffer from the belief that they themselves are unworthy of love and as a result, their children have to bear with that self-hatred, especially Pecola. Pauline, Pecolas’s mother, is a domestic servant who believes in the superiority of white people including her employer and their children. But failing to love herself and who she is, Pauline fails to love her own child Pecola.
In this excerpt, David Henry Hwang plays off of stereotypes about men and women in relation to race to set up the prevailing attitude through which the narrator, Gallimard, perceives the world and comment on the position of white men. In this scene, Gallimard describes the play Madame Butterfly, where Pinkerton, a white naval officer from the United States, has purchased a teenage girl, Butterfly, for approximately 66 cents. She is previously described as a feminine ideal, and is now presented as a graceful, coy woman. She “glides” and laughs “softly behind her fan”, word choices that evoke modesty and reinforce Gallimard’s preconceptions about the delicacy and modesty of Asian women. Butterfly, a shyly seductive young woman, is portrayed
