One sunny day, a young girl by the name of Beth traveled one day to “Mitchell Gail’s,” which is her “go to” store. Beth needs to purchase clothes for her Uncle Al’s birthday party. As she browses through clothes she meets a friendly employee whose name is Hannah. Hannah offers hold on to Beth’s belongings while she goes into the changing room to try on clothes. As soon as she steps out of the changing room, she is caught by Madge P. Groton who is the head security guard of the store.
The family owned a telephone, a large wireless radio, and a record phonograph that connected her mother to the world, but they had parted with many valuables in recent years to pay for her mother’s doctors’ bills. Feeling like the cat’s meow, Nell crossed the room to her mother, who was in her wheelchair listening to the wireless. Her mother put her hand to her throat when she saw her daughter. “Oh, Nell how lovely you look. You look like you just stepped out of Vogue magazine.”
Matilda’s mom is starting to get scared and worried about her daughter, she consider to leave town to go to Virginia. Family friends start getting sick and a more and more people are leaving. Matilda isn’t worried so much compared to everyone else, she is just upset that they might sell the coffee shop. Her cook Eliza helps out majorly when her mom starts getting sick. They do not know if she has yellow fever yet, but it takes a major turn on Matilda.
The poem “ Feliks Skrzynecki” communicates to the responders that as a result of the Skrzynecki family migrating to Australia, Peter had lost a significant aspect of his life which was his relationship with his father due to the barriers that had arisen restricting them from proper communication. This is reinforced in the poem, in the quote “ Loved his garden like an only child,”. Through the application of this technique in the first stanza, it establishes the connection made amongst the father and his beloved garden. This suggests that the garden is the only mean in which he could recreate his lifestyle from Poland, therefore, loving the garden like an only child he felt comfort and a sense of belonging whilst in it. Another technique Skrzynecki
“I was a seamstress, but all I do now is lie in this bed and eat everything people bring me.” Still able to feed herself, Fleming is an old woman who’s still in sound mind and loves treating her body to good food. “She’s a very active old lady,” friend and weekly visitor Louise Bars
Every character in works of literature are subjected to criticism and critique by its readers. In the short story, “A+P”, the protagonist, Sammy has been subjected to criticism for his actions of quitting his job, a reaction of seeing young ladies be disrespected in his workplace for wearing bathing suits. Many readers depict Sammy as immature and ignorant for quitting his job. However, the author, John Updike contradicts this assumption, portraying Sammy as a nineteen year old, who demonstrates strong morals, ambition, defiance, and a promising future, characterizing him not as an insolent teen but a developing young man.
A ten year old Sara bears a heavy heart because she constantly envisions this becoming a reality. “I already saw all of our things kicked out on sidewalk like a pile of junk” (1). The elements present within the Smolinski home leave the daughters destined for failure. The dynamic that Reb Smolinski has created within the family is one where he dictates the future of his offspring. He refuses to work
Mrs. Holton lived in the upstairs part of the pharmacy with her sick husband. Holmes met with Mrs. Holton and asked her if he could get a job. Mrs. Holton said he could because he had a degree in medicine, But little did she know that Holmes left Philadelphia after one of his clients went mysteriously missing after he filled there prescription. A little while later Mrs. Holton let Holmes run the store because her husband had passed away, but holmes had other ideas he asked her if he could buy the store and he would let her live where she was living and would make sure she had a stable income from him. After holmes had stopped paying her she wanted to take him to court but before that had happened she mysteriously disappeared.
In the stories “Good Country People”, “ The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, and “The Displaced Person” Flannery O’Connor had believed that pride was the root to all evil, and those who had to much would have their pride lead to their utter demise due to temptation. A quote that really ties into what O’Connor had been thinking was one by St. Cyril or Jerusalem. She had written that “ The dragon is by the side of the road, Watching those who pass. Beware least he devour you. We go to the father of souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon”.
The novel follows Stevie an eleven year old girl who lives in Southside Chicago throughout her middle and high school years. Stevie goes through the social pressure of her peers and family to tell her how to act, think, and look. Slowly throughout
I believe Benjamin Franklin would not be happy with Mrs. Purkapile. Reason being he once said. “The likeliest Way, either to obtain a good Husband, or to keep one so, is to be Good yourself.” Throughout this text Mrs. Purkapile has said she only stays with her husband because she does not want to harm her name. " And out of respect for my own character I refused to be drawn into a divorce By the scheme of a husband who had merely grown tired Of his marital vow and duty."
This story took place in more current time period. The main character within this story was Monica. Her sister, Claire, and her had just entered a café after going to a concert. Even from the very beginning of the story, the author did not make Monica’s character easy to like. “Claire, I believe I’ve expressed this to you before.
She had damaged her leg falling on the deck of a ship decades earlier, but it was during the climax of a performance of La Tosca, that she damaged it even further. In 1915, “she determined that she could no longer live with it: She would have her leg amputated” (Gottlieb 167). Rejecting the notion of an artificial limb, crutches, or a wheelchair, she opted for a palanquin of her own design, carried by two men on long shafts. Her palanquin, adorned in the opulent style of Louis XV with white sides and gilded accents, was her preferred mode of transportation. Despite the amputation of her leg, she persevered in taking the stage at her theater, with scenes carefully arranged to accommodate her seated position or supported by props that concealed her missing
Wislawa Szymborska’s Perception on Human’s Place in the Universe “Microcosmos”, by Wislawa Szymborska, explains how understanding bacteria expanded human’s understanding of the universe. Throughout the poem, she draws comparison between how small humans are in the vastness of the universe, and how bacteria are so small compared to humans. Szymborska depicts human existence as insignificant when compared to the massive scale of the universe in her poem, “Microcosmos”. The title, “Microcosmos”, is itself an oxymoron which describes how learning about bacteria enlarged human’s understanding of their small place in the universe. The prefix “micro” denotes smallness, whereas the root “cosmos” refers to an entire solar system, much larger than human civilization.
A young college graduate, Skeeter, returns home to be with her ailing mother, and in her ambition to succeed as a writer, turns to the black maids she knows. Skeeter is determined to collect their oral histories and write about a culture that values social facade and ignores the human dignity of many members of the community. Two maids, Aibileen and Minny, agree to share their stories, stories of struggle and daily humiliation, of hard work and low pay, of fear for themselves. It is a time of change, when
