Exercise B: An Analytical Essay on “Same Same Different”
Having a twinsister is like having a doppelgänger of yourself, likewise it means that your’s identidty dosent’s shine through, especially when everyone else is focusing on your sister. The short story, “Same Same Different ” written by Anne Hayden (2016) debates the topic identity and sisterhood.
The story is told by a first person narrator. The narrator is a she, and she’s originally from Ireland. The narrator had a twin sister, unfortunately she died in a car accident at the age of 21. After her sister’s death shhe moved to Mebourne, Australia to start anew. However, her past and deeds still haunts her. We presuppose the narrator is in her twenties.
The narrator happens have a low self-esteem due to her own comaparsion with her sister. In the introduction we hear about the two sister talking about a boyband: “Molly would get Luke and I’d have to settle for his less handsome brother Matt.” (p8, l. 11-12). According to the narrator, Molly is was better than she. It makes the narrator look vulnerable and unsure about her own qualities. Moreover, the narrator envies her sister for being more popular and having a boyfriend. An example is when Molly died, she was in serveral newspapers, and he narrator commented with “[Molly] was the one who wanted to be famous” (p.8, l.13). However, this is false. It is the narrator herself who seeks attention and acknowledgement due to her feeling of slightness. In the introduction
I am reading Pretty Tough, by Liz Tigelaar, and I am on page 100. This book is about two sisters who are entirely different. Charlie Brown whose name is made fun by everyone, wants to fit in and be as close to her sister Krista. Krista Brown, pretty and popular does not want anything to do with her sister, but when they both try out for their school soccer team and they both make it, Charlie does not know what is coming next.
When we think of siblings we all think of someone to play, run, fight, and talk to with but, narrator wasn’t able to do those things with his little brother Doodle The narrator often failed to appreciate Doodle. Doodle was very small and fragile. He was born with a very weak heart so, he couldn’t do much. The narrator thought that because Doodle couldn’t play, run, fight, and talk to him his brother was “crazy”. One time he even
The text states that, “I thought Lori was amazing, and I had no doubt she would become a successful artist…”(223) Jeanette looks up to her sister and becomes more motivated to become successful because her sister has a great amount of dedication. The last example is, “I'd been speaking hypothetically about moving to New York a year early. But as I walked, I realized that if I wanted to, I could get up and go. I could really do it. Maybe not right now, not this minute—it was the middle of the school year—but I could wait until I finished eleventh grade.
“A long list of don'ts went with him, all of which I ignored once we got out of the house.” (Hurst 345)
Brother was ashamed of having him as his little brother. In the story Brother has always wanted a little brother, but from the first moment he laid eyes on him he despised
Throughout one’s life, one tends to adapt to the traditions of their family, and gain a significant bond with their loved ones, including their siblings. However, that connection a person gains can either be diminished or forgotten due to a sense of different mindsets between family members. The two stories “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff and “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin indicate that sibling rivalry occurs when each member does not understand or acknowledge their sibling’s perspective, and this builds a wall barrier between the siblings.
By not saying anything, Melinda drifts further away from others and more so isolates herself. Everyone looked at Melinda like she was a monster. Melinda received looks from people she did not even know. This got in Melinda’s head and resulted in her feeling worse and she too, feared who she was. Melinda could not bear to see herself as she only saw an ugly person with many flaws.
One of the most important qualities within a story is whether or not the narrator is reliable. In most cases, the reader never takes this “narrator” into question as it is some omniscient being who is easily forgotten. The cases, in which the narrator comes into play in the reader’s mind, are typically when the narrator is of homodiegetic narration. This is a common device in more narrative texts and can even be used as a tool to make the reader feel a more personal touch to the story. If this trust between the narrator and the reader is breached the whole story it can take a different look towards the reader.
The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan explains a mother and daughter relationship that has many differences within a conflict in the story. The narrator demonstrates that the mother and the daughter do not agree with the same aspect on life. Since the mother wants her daughter to be perfect, the daughter refuses to make her mother’s wishes come true. Her mother wanted the narrator to become the perfect traditional daughter, but the narrator’s differences triggered with her mother. An indication from the story is, “Unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me” (137).
Margaret Atwood’s short story, “Lusus Naturae” portrays the story of a woman who has to face the problem of isolationism and discrimination throughout her whole life. In this short story, the protagonist very early in her life has been diagnosed with a decease known as porphyria. Due to the lack of knowledge at the time, she did not receive the help required to help her situation. Thus she was kept in the dark, her appearance frightens the outsiders who could not accept the way she looks, slowly resulting in her isolationism physically and mentally from the outside world. This even caused her to separate herself from the only world she knew her family.
Connie’s mother keeps picking at her for everything. The mother clearly shows that the older sister June is her favorite. June does everything right and gets praised by her mother all the time. Connie hears almost every day that June saved money, helped clean the house, cooked for the family. When the mother speaks on the phone with her friends, she favors everything that June does, and criticizes Connie.
Furthermore, the narrator, living in the silent voice, the narrator’s consciousness becomes stronger as the narrator finds her own peace and eventually can be laid to rest. Thus, Kincaid uses the narrator to show the complexity of one consciousness undergoes to find one’s
Finding My Independence
Being a twin is occasionally eerie. There are times when my sister, Emily, seems to know what I am thinking and often finishes my sentences for me. I have been asked millions of times "What’s it like being a twin?" I don’t blame people for their curiosity, but I really don’t know what it would be like without my twin sister. From the day of conception we have been side by side, figuratively attached at the hip.
The narrator is no longer able to determine the difference from reality from her illusions. Such as seeing the woman in the wallpaper move, which means that the narrator is the touch with reality and wishes to do what she wants. In addition, she also sees the woman not only in the wallpaper, but imagines that the room she is staying in used is meant to be something but in reality, it was a room to keep her. Moreover, the narrator cannot express herself because society will not allow it and is dominated by her role as a woman. People have beliefs that short stories that are deemed reliable.
