In Katherine Paterson’s novel, “Lyddie”, the main character must survive and make decisions that will affect her and how she lives. Lyddie was a thirteen year old girl, and her father had left the family. While Lyddie’s mother and younger siblings had gone to their aunt’s home for the winter, Lyddie and her brother Charlie decide stay to take care of it. However, during Spring, both Lyddie and Charlie were demanded to go to work to pay off their family's debts. Lyddie is taken to a tavern of which she meets Triphena ( the cook ) and Mrs. Cutler.
“ Have you got her things “ ( page 119 ). Lyddie now has her little sister to take care of so she can’t afford to not have a job that pays her money, gives her a place to stay and take care of her little sister all at the same time. In a different case Lyddie wants to visit the farm, then she realizes that it would not be the same as it was before she left. “There would be nothing to eat there.
She expresses that, “North and South Carolina and Georgia place no restriction upon the work of children at night; and while we sleep little white girls will be working tonight in the mills in those states, working eleven hours at night,” (Line 27-31.) She uses the phrase ‘while we sleep’ to generate feelings of remorse among the listeners as the children work tirelessly on end while the adults are resting. She also uses the phrase ‘little white girls’ to create more sympathy as girls were seen as frail and innocent, and it creates the question ‘Why is an innocent and weak person being forced to work laboriously?’. She also states, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy,” (Line 18-22.) She uses auditory imagery in the pathos argument above for her audience to better understand the harsh conditions that the children work in.
Her family was not like the other families on the street. They would stay up all night laughing and talking. Clarisse’s uncle would tell her of how things used to be. They meet for a second time on a rainy night. She says she loves walking in the rain and tasting it.
“ this is a respectful tavern, not the township of a poor farm girl.” Also in her job her and her brother were very mistreated. Lyddie, for example, had to sleep under “ a windowless passage, which was hot and airless even in the late spring” Another example is that when her brother Charlie came to visit she noticed that her brother was
Notes from the Island Day 1: Today I found myself in a strange place, an island I suppose. I think the plane I was riding plane crashed and that’s how I ended up here. At first I was afraid that I was alone until I met another boy. Now that I think about it, he never told me his name. I’ll just continue calling this boy “Piggy”.
Lyddie must go to Cutler’s Tavern to work in the kitchen; meanwhile Charlie must go to Barker’s mill to work. Lyddie is treated like a slave there, where she has to work
Mattie is broke and homeless after her father’s death, but Zeena offers her a place to live in return for aid in her illness. However, this job and her financial situation holds Mattie back from living her young and curious life abroad, as she can barely maintain pressure of working for Zeena in her additional service incompetence. Zeena constantly brings Mattie down, commenting on her poor housework harshly. To demonstrate, Wharton writes, “ …but of late she (Zeena) had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl's inefficiency,” (Wharton 43). This allows Mattie to feel locked in a system suffering, but she has to adhere to her obligation to Zeena given her life circumstances, and no matter what her aspirations in youth are.
In the beginning of the novel William Golding’s description of Roger conveys that roger was quiet and mysterious character. In the passage, all the boys including roger were coming out of the dense forest to join the group on the beach. At first, the author uses metaphor to compare Roger’s physical appearance as “a furtive boy”. Which tells us that no one knew him on the island and also that he was very shy. Roger appeared to be a very withdrawn character who did not appear to be concerned with social interaction, and kept very much to himself.
In The Lord of the Flies, “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.” Jack reprimands (William Golding, ).” This quote means that of the group of boys, Jack, who is the leader of the hunting group, says that the boys have rules to follow so that they remain civil.
In one of many Jack Welch’s influential interviews he says, “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” In this quote, Welch explains how someone must be confident in themselves before helping other people. It can be very difficult to direct other people in a successful direction if you aren’t successful yourself. The fiction novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is about a group of a variety of ages of kids who are stranded on an island after a plane crash.
In the essay “The life of A Lili” Lili decides to pay no mind to her mother's wishes and journey home through a blizzard in order to prove a point to her mother. Lanham writes, “ I reached the road instead of going to the bus stop like my mother had told me to do, I turned going in the direction of my home. … “ Finally, after what had seemed like an hour, I was home. I walked into my
Good Afternoon boys, you're all probably wondering what a girl is doing here on the island. Well, i was on the plane when it crashed and was surviving on my own. But i knew you were all young and in need of guidance. So I, being much much older than you, decided to keep an eye on you from afar...that was until I saw what you did last night, when you publicly murdered young simon.
Refined to Rugged Lord of the Flies was a well written book that kept you engaged and truly provoked thought. I enjoyed the way the book kept you intrigued, however I disliked how this novel’s plot and characters drastically and dramatically changed at the end of the book. I think Golding was trying to exhibit an important subject, which is human evil. While reading this book it engaged my brain and excited me to contemplate the underlying themes and meanings in the words. In Lord of the Flies William Golding expressed two major themes that stuck out to me, the theme of innocence and most importantly civilization vs savagery.
William Goulding’s passage in The Lord of the Flies is about Simon’s innocence even after his death. The passage begins by creating an image of a dark, hell-like, place when he uses the words “darkened curve of the world”. Goulding uses darkness all throughout The Lord of the Flies in order to create this same effect. Next, the passage moves on to describe in great detail the power of the ocean, connecting it to the sun and moon as well as using words such as “the great wave of the tide”. Goulding ends the passage using juxtaposition to describe the light, kindness, and positive vibes that are associated with Simon.
