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Overcoming Obstacles In A Life Painting Animals And The Osage Firebird

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Sudipta Bardhan and Diana Childress are both authors of two stories. One named “A Life Painting Animals” and the other being “The Osage Firebird”. Both talk about a person’s life and

their ways to overcome difficult obstacles. One however did the best to describe the person’s

ways on overcoming them. That was “A Life Painting Animals” by Diana Childress; it showed

what she did to overcome her many obstacles to be successful.

“A Life Painting Animals” is about a young girl named Rosa Bonheur. It starts of by

stating Rosa Bonheur’s love for animals, but mostly drawing. This shows that she loved art a

little more than animals she saw everyday. It states that her path toward becoming one of the

greatest animal painters of the nineteenth …show more content…

Like, just saying she went back to the

basics instead of going into detail of what she faced in the basic training to get better at

dancing. However, in “A Life Painting Animals” it states what her father thought of her choice

and how she knew that her father wouldn’t understand it just yet. The obstacle for Rosa was

that art schools not open for women.

The obstacle for Marie was facing prejudice when she went to school. For Marie it said,

“Though being singled out because of her race bothered Betty Marie, the teasing did not lessen

her pride in being an Osage Indian. That’s all it stated, it didn’t tell how she ignored them or

how she handled all that bullying everyday. For Rosa it stated what she did to still practice

painting even though not being able to. In Paragraph 3 of “Overcoming Obstacles” it states, “

Every morning, before he went to work he gave her a drawing assignment.” This show that the

way she faced that obstacle was practicing at home with drawing assignments from her dad.

This shows that Sudipta Bardhan didn’t put time into showing how she faced it,

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