In the short story Tending Roses, crafted by Lisa Wingate, the short story is of a woman, Katie, who is visiting her Grandma’s farm with her husband and son. She sits in the night, opening up a book about fireflies and wildflowers. She finds herself feeling sentimental about all of this, remembering how she was with her children and what lightning bugs reminded her of. Reading the journal leads Katie to remind herself to look for fireflies because they remind her of her Grandma when she was around and to put time aside to enjoy the smaller things in life.
“Mom might never be caught without batteries or tissues, but she just calls me Ashleigh- a name she doesn’t even like- and never promised me anything.” P.1. Ashleigh’s dad is in a tough financial spot because of a deal he made, and after hearing the situation she realizes that she needs to lend him some of her mom’s money. The story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer leaves Ashleigh’s decision to be inferred by the reader using the text evidence.
Ashes of Roses is centered around an Irish family who leaves Ireland to come to America in 1911. The Nolan family does not get along with their family that has already moved to America. The two families end of getting into a fight and deciding to leave. Two of the girls, Margaret and Maureen, absolutely wanted to stay in America and convince their mother to let them stay. The two girls are now alone in New York city and must find a place to stay.
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch is a story about a girl named Rose Nolan who goes to America from Ireland with her family. Then her mom and sister go back to Ireland after not liking it in America, leaving Rose and her sister Maureen alone. They then both find a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and when a fire breaks out, change their lives forever. Gussie evolves from being serious to a savior in a crisis. At the beginning of the book, Gussie is very serious and not fun.
Rose was told by her mother she was “without wood”, and bends too easily to what others say. Essentially, she explains that Rose is too agreeable and does not assert herself. This dynamic is seen in her relationship with her husband, Ted. She would turn to him to ask what to do rather than inject her own opinion. After Ted loses a malpractice case, he starts to doubt himself and forces Rose to make more decisions.
The novel Ashes Of Roses by Mary Jane Auch describes the lives of immigrants in New York City in 1911. While the main character is from Ireland, they meet people from other parts of the world. They all want to create a better life in America, but it’s not easy. Some people live in a small country outside of America where there are many more people there. Maureen changes from an impulsive bratty child to a mature adult like pre-teen.
And that’s final” (112). Rose is relentless in pursuing what she wants and is resilient against her adversaries, including her mother.
Rose Mary finally gets a job, but Rex drinks away the paycheck. Jeannette makes a budget and tries to protect the money, but Rex always spends it. At one point he even takes Jeannette to a bar and lets a man force himself on her, because it allows him to scam the man while playing pool. She pushes him away, and her faith in her father has finally broken. Realizing that her whole life is filled with garbage, Lori decides to move to New York City.
Although her and her children may have noticed this untrue way of viewing their unfortunate lifestyle, Rose Mary remained persistent and cheery. Rose Mary viewed every shift in their lives as an “adventure” and made the better of it. Along with this, Rose Mary is also optimistic when it comes to future opportunities. When the Walls move to Phoenix, Rose Mary’s children quickly begin complaining about moving back to their old home. Rose Mary knows that will not be possible and when her children ask to go home she responds, “We've already been there… and there are all sorts of opportunities here that we don’t even know about.”
After Ted visits the house in order to collect the divorce papers, Rose finds out about his new lover and she feels completely devastated. This new emotion leads something to click inside her head and, as she described, “And then for the first time in months, after being in limbo all that time, everything stopped” (Tan, pg. 194). Something inside Rose changes and she finally allows herself to challenge her husband. Rose realizes that she wasn’t actually seeing things for what they were and was allowing her ex-husband to continue controlling her, seeing as though she was going to simply accept the money and sign the papers. The shock of the affair is so big that Rose begins to see and decides to stand her ground and fight for what she wants in the
Kindness is one trait every individual desires to be treated with by others. It is , after all, the state of warm welcoming that helps us assimilate in a society. Besides, no one likes the feeling of getting rejected by a particular group based on their different backgrounds, culture, physique and/or experiences. The only way that perhaps heels this rejection ,due to the difference's in an individual, are the acts of when an another individual presents and treats others with their acts of benevolence. This act then also sheds a new light on an other individual's perspective, and gives them the knowledge to assert what they think is right for them to obtain their objectives.
The realistic fiction story, “Ashes”, by Susan Beth Pfeffer is about a young girl who has two very polar opposite parents. A fun, but irresponsible father, and a practical, proactive mother. Ashes faces a major dilemma when her financially troubled father asks Ashes to steal from her mother’s emergency fund for his own personal needs. Sometimes, the people you love most can be selfish and deceive you. This relates to my story because Ashes’ dad is manipulative, deceptive, and selfish.
So, she goes against him and finally stands up to him using her inner power: “and the answer, the one that was important above everything else, ran through my body and fell from my lips: ‘you can’t just pull me out of your life and throw me away’” (Tan 196). Rose uses “ran” and “fell” to describe the sudden rush of power that went through her. Suddenly finding her underlying authority, she finally tells Ted her feelings. She had never spoken up for herself, and for most of her marriage, she has been a “ghost.
The story "A Rose for Emily¨, tells the years of Emily´s life after her father's death and the towns reaction and thoughts based on her actions and events in her life. After her father's death she isolated herself from the whole town and rejected every man in the town.
The Cold War was a period of intensive tension between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.) and the United States of America (U.S.A) that spread and disturbed the global relations and peace throughout the world. It was a struggle for global supremacy between the communist U.S.S.R. and the capitalist US. It began after World War II in 1947 after the Yalta Conference and ended only in the eighties or 1991(historians have not fully agreed to the dates). During this period there was no actually wide scale fighting or ‘hot war’ between the two powers directly but the situation was such that it increase the likelihood of a third World War. On one side there was U.S.S.R. and its allies namely Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and later China (1949), they formed the Eastern Block.
