When relating to someone you hold similar characteristics as them or consociate on a physical or emotional level. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” I partially relate to Pheoby Watson who is apart of the community/outsiders. Pheoby Watson is the best friend of the main character Janie after she moves to Maitland/Eatonville. Pheoby is married to Sam Watson and quickly becomes Janie’s confidante due to her being affable. She looks up to Janie for love inspiration even though she is quite beneficent with her own love life.
Perseverance is a theme evident throughout Elie Wiesel's Night, as the author's survival in the concentration camps is a testament to his unwavering determination. In chapter 7 of Night, Elie and his father are transferred to a new concentration camp, where they are forced to endure grueling labor and terrible living conditions. Despite their situation's physical and emotional tolls, Elie remains determined to survive and keep his father alive. " I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?
In act two, the play opens up with all characters in a AA meeting. They had a chance at new life yet here they are faced with all these difficulties even after rewriting their own lives. One such character is Pocahontas. Throughout Act 1 of the play, Pocahontas is infantilized and sexualized by
Aria Jackson Ms. Lavelle 4/21/23 The Harlem Renaissance was known at the time as the, “New Negro Movement.” From literature to music to art, this period emphasized the struggles and experiences of African-Americans as a whole. The Harlem Renaissance explored themes of economic social prosperity, the importance of community, the power of rebirth, and the value of self-expression, and the role of spirituality. Through the neighborhood gossiping about Janie, to not being able to go to the funeral, to her taking off her head rag, and to reminiscing her flashback to phoebe, Zora Neale Hurston departs from the harlem renaissance value of community and reflects the harlem renaissance value of self expression.
Zora Neele Hurston once said, “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” This quotation poses the question, does a failed love experience change a person and their journey to self realization? Society’s expectation of marriage. __________.
Trauma’s Effect on Identity Life experiences such as trauma shape and reshape people into their individual identities. Things such as faith, mannerisms, and general world views are all affected by a unique human experience on earth. This development of an individual is unveiled in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Through this novel, he details his experience in a concentration camp during WWII and thoroughly showcases how such agonizing life events affected him, which he usually describes through metaphorical light and dark and his development/loss of faith through this part of his life. In later speeches Eliezer makes, he explains his opinions on indifference in our world as worse than evil and some basic research of trauma responses in humans
Individuality is what makes each person unique, as it sets people apart. Not one person is the same as another. In the short story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, there is a young fourth grader named Tommy who is used to the same old routine of his daily life and following other people and what they do and think. However, he then crosses paths with a substitute teacher named Ms. Ferenczi, who expresses nonconformity and individuality and becomes intrigued by her. However, Tommy’s purpose is not to use the ‘road not taken” but rather to experience individuality and start to grow and develop into the adult he will become later in life, as most kids eventually do.
In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young British boys crash land on an island. During a time of despair and war the boys work together to get rescued. The conflict between good and evil in humanity is an important theme in the book which defines the character’s behaviors and actions through the time that they are on the island and the decisions they make to get rescued and return home. The good in humanity is shown throughout the story by a few of the characters choices and beliefs. For example, “‘We need an assembly.
As Janie ages, she has been going through different stages of loves and misloves, which gradually introduced her to reveal her feminnity. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston depictures Janie’s feminism through her growth of life from an innocent and vulnerable 17 years old girl who had not yet experienced love to a true women who forgets “all those things (she doesn’t) want to remember, and remember(s) everything (she doesn’t) want to forget” (1) in various of perspectives: Janie’s education and her grandmother’s instigation about marriage; Janie’s misloves with Logan and Jody; and Janie’s love for Tea Cake. Before Janie even learned the concept of “love”, Hurston showed how Janie was raped when she still had her “womanly”
Somewhat witty and edgy, the dialogue felt best suited for a high-schooler’s environment. The homophobic language being used by the cheerleaders deeply affected me and my perception of typical “gay” person. Finally, the theme of “being yourself” really tied in the entire storyline and almost made me shed a tear during the climax where Agnes accepts the way Tilly is. Without such a powerful theme which I feel is prominent during the 21st century, I would not have been deeply impacted. Overall, there were many components of the play which stimulated many of my emotions from laughter to
”(act1) To transforming and saying things like “The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. ”(act2) Eliza realizes this whole time she has been taught to be a lady but all she really needed to do is to be nice and be much more lady like.
In the poem, “Thou Blind Man’s Mark,” written by Sir Philip Sidney, the speaker talks to desire through an apostrophe, or as though it is a person. He addresses how desire is an issue that he suffers from, and that he willingly falls for it. He describes his yearning for materialistic possessions rather than his self-fulfillment due to desire. In the first quatrain, the poem opens with a series of insults hurled at desire as though it is a human.
Sybil Carpenter, a young girl present at the resort at the time, represents the realm of childhood and attempts to resemble an “older” woman, such as the character Muriel Glass. Through his use of rhetorical
In Shaw’s Pygmalion, the audience is given a story showing two opposite characters: Higgins, the upper-class linguist and Eliza, a lower-class girl selling flowers on the street. To further his social commentary on the classes in England, Shaw creates a setting which shows the complete opposite lives that the two characters live, almost making them foils of the other. An example of this is in our one glimpse of Eliza’s apartment. Her apartment is described to have “a broken pane in the window is mended with paper” (Shaw 26) and “a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth to them” (Shaw 26) which both show how she lives in very little luxury. Her apartment is bare-bones and only contains absolute necessity, which
During the setting and the publication of Pygmalion in 1912, sexism was slowly in decline; however, just the idea of sexism existing in the first place was what prompted Shaw to criticize all of society in his play Pygmalion. And it is quite clear that he was calling “attention to questions of femininity and gender” because of how “the title of Shaw’s play is taken from the myth of Pygmalion” (LitChart Sited). Similarly, in both the play and the myth, the protagonist is seen creating their own “perfect” ideas of what a woman is and how a woman should act (LitChart). In Shaw’s doing so of this, he is trying to show society how “unrealistic and even unnatural the expectations that society has for women are” (LitCharts).
