There are many reasons to support the question on why students should read the book “The Ninth Ward” written by Jewell Parker Rhodes before leaving middle school. One reason to support the aforementioned question is that students should at least know the feeling or even the taste of how it is like to be without a family. In this mentioned book a 12-year-old girl Lanesha is lost. Or in other words her mom dies, her uptown family just doesn’t care about her, she does not have any siblings, and most importantly Lanesha didn’t know who her father was. She only had one loved person in her life and that persons’ name was Mama-Yaya.
In the memoir The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, her parent’s values are different from hers and her siblings. Specifically, Walls remembers a time where her and her brother found a ring and their mother took it from them: “She was keeping it… to replace the wedding ring her mother had given her, the one Dad had pawned shortly after they got married. “But Mom,” I said, “that ring could get us a lot of food.” “That’s true,” Mom said, “but it could also improve my self-esteem. And at times like these, self-esteem is even more vital than food.””
Penn Cage was once a prosecuting attorney in Texas. Sarah, his wife, died seven months ago; leaving Penn to raise their four year old daughter by himself. He also used to be the mayor his hometown Natchez, Mississippi and is an author. The “Penn Cage” novels by Greg Iles are investigative crime fiction. There are also some short stories that make up the series.
“Blows Us All Away” and It’s Quiet Uptown have many aspects the fit into the narrative pattern of tragedy. For instance, we see our hero, Philip Hamilton, has excessive pride in regard to his father, which in turn cause him to confront George Eacker for defaming his father. This confrontation leads to a duel and ultimately Philip’s demise or encounter with a larger power, death. Philip’s death is also the destruction of the young innocent; this is apparent in “It’s Quiet Uptown” when he is referred to as a child. Lastly, “It’s Quiet Uptown” is a tragedy because we observe the harmony of nature being disturbed.
The Rebellious Daughter: Analyzing the Theme of Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” The story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan explores the deep familial emotions between a mother and her daughter. Jing-Mei’s mother had left China to come to America after losing her family, and had been raising Jing-Mei in America with her second husband. Despite her mother’s grand hopes for Jing-Mei to become successful in America by becoming a child prodigy, Jing-Mei did not share the same opinions.
In the second half of the novel, “Moonlight Shadow”, the theme of death and loneliness continues. For example, Satsuki jogged to the river where she and Hitoshi hung out, when she meets a woman named Urara. Urara tells Satsuki to come back to the river on a certain day because she will have “a vision...something that happens only once every hundred years or so.” On the appointed day, Satsuki returned to the river and witnessed an unbelievable vision: “There was HItoshi. Across the river, if this wasn’t a dream, and I wasn’t crazy, the figure facing me was Hitoshi.
Language is used everyday in lives. We use it to communicate with each other to show how we feel or think. Comfort can drift away from us if we do not have the ability to communicate with others. Barriers can present themselves when trying to communicate inhibiting language. In the short story Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress, she puts an alien in a normal dinner and everyone is uncomfortable with his presence there except his waitress.
Wisal A. Ibrahim AP Literature and Composition 25 February 2023 The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis The short story The Yellow Wallpaper follows the narrator, a nameless upper-middle-class woman from the late 19th century, as she gradually descends into psychosis as a result of her physical environment. The toxic dynamic between the narrator and her doctor, her husband John, plays a critical role in her insanity. Through its use of historical context, characterization, and narration, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of The Yellow Wallpaper, creates a psychological horror that criticizes the treatment of women in healthcare.
Through the evaluation of the novel Nothing But the Truth’s text types, one can find the act of persuasion key to enhancing and expanding the novel for the reader in how the protagonist persuades people, how the antagonist persuades people, and how the author persuades the reader. Starting off, the protagonist Ms. Narwin tells her coworkers that Phillip Malloy has been disrupting her class by singing loudly. She supports her claim by saying he was not following the rules of being silent during the National Anthem and of not causing a disruption. Moving on, the antagonist Phillip Malloy is explaining to his friends and parents about the situation and is not giving the whole truth, blaming Ms. Narwin not liking him for the issue. He does not
In Small as an Elephant, a realistic fiction novel by Jennifer Richard Jacobson, there are many minor themes, or messages in a piece of literature. However, the main theme is to always find the positive side of a situation, in this case, Jack’s mom gone missing. This is the major theme superior to the other small ones because throughout the book, the eleven-year-old boy had kept his head up in the hardest times in his journey. An example is the book states ‘“Concentrate’ he told himself. Just because people were looking for him did not mean he would be found.
My’yonna Pride Professor Suderman Enc1102-20946-002 Them of Innocence/Power of Literacy Theme: “Loss of Innocence and The Power of Literacy “ To live is to die and to die is to live again, in the short story fiction “Lives of the Dead,” by Tim Obrien, either seems true. When a loss of innocence is experienced traumatic events, such as death, has created awareness of evil, pain, and or suffering. Obrien experiences a loss of innocence, by death, at the age of 9, when his childhood girlfriend dies of cancer. Physical the dead may never be able to be brought back to life but, mentally, through The Power of Literacy anything is possible. Many of the Character in “Lives of the dead” are deceased; however, they are able to live again, through the power of literacy.
To be in conflict with traditional society’s beliefs in 1996 is difficult for many to do; however, author Sapphire fights that battle to bring readers attention to some of the most provoking literature that shows the harsh reality of life. The novel, Push by Sapphire published in 1996 was showing the life a 16-year-old girl, African-American named Precious Jones, who was constantly being raped by her father and molested and abused by her mother. This caused both of her pregnancy at age 12 and again by age 16; later in the novel finding out she got AIDS on top of that all by her father. Sapphire has a way of showing the truth of racism through many elements in Push, displaying how Precious and many other characters struggle with everyday
The short story “A Loaf of Bread” had many themes depending on how the reader interpreted it. Some themes consisted of racism, capitalism, equality, having too much pride, and sacrificing things for the people you love. The overall theme I would come to in this story is putting yourself in others shoes before judging them. One of the main characters, Harold Green, was a grocery store owner who owned three different grocery stores in three different neighborhood. The story focuses on the grocery store he owned in a predominantly African American neighborhood.
In films and books, the theme of real vs unreal is used to contrast the reality and fantasy. The writers base their stories on the real world, but expose unreal elements which blend with the natural world. This draws in the audience and readers by allowing them to contrast the ordinary world they live in with imaginative and delusional fantasy. The novel, “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, written by Neil Gailman and the movie, “Life is Beautiful”, directed by Roberto Benigni portray the theme of real vs unreal. These are seen through the identification and coming of age of the characters as well as magical realism that occurs throughout the plots.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go takes place in the late 20th century, in a very different England where humans are cloned to produce more organs, which they need to give away once they reach adulthood. These “ clones “ grow up in different houses where they are taught everything they need to know to get through their miserable life. Hailsham is where Kathy grew up and is seen by all the other children as the ideal place. A child coming from Hailsham is seen as special by those who were “ born “ in a less fortunate institution. Hailsham is a glorious and ambitious place where the children have a lot of possibilities and are joyful.
