“The Threshold” by Cristina Peri Rossi is a captivating short story that explores the theme of self-discovery and transformation. The story centers on the protagonist, who is struggling to reconcile her past experiences and her present reality. Through the use of various literary elements, Peri Rossi creates a vivid and powerful story that draws the reader into the protagonist's inner world. One of the most interesting elements of the story is the use of symbolism. The threshold, which is the title of the story, serves as a metaphor for the protagonist's transition from one phase of her life to another.
In Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio's book, Argo, Mendez narrated the story of how he along with the help of others pulled off the most "audacious rescue in history" (book cover). During this time period, Antonio J. Mendez was the chief of authentication for the CIA. This title would help him tremendously throughout the story as he used his special skills to help save peoples' lives. As he tells his story he goes into great detail about how it all went down. Throughout the entirety of Argo, Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio did a great way of explaining the purpose, occasion, and tone of the story.
At the beginning of the novel, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon’s life dramatically changed. The teenager was arrested and charged with the murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. Although Steve was presumably not the actual killer, his role as a supposed "lookout" for the gang that committed the crime ultimately landed him in prison. With regards to this, past events can have a major effect on the present values or attitudes of a character. Moreover, Steve’s past experience has contributed to the novel’s themes-
In life, people find different ways to cope with their issues. This is the case in “Vaclav and Lena” by Hayley Tanner, where the main characters Vaclav and Lena face many obstacles, but use their imaginations to help them deal with the struggles they face in reality. This relates to the quote “Imagination is the one weapon in the in the war against reality” by Jules de Gautier, because Vaclav and Lena use their imaginations and dreams of better things to come, to ignore the problems they currently face. Vaclav and Lena use their imaginations and dreams of the future to forget about their issues momentarily, and to be able to postpone dealing with them.
Trespass by Julia Alvarez is a short story that depicts the life of a young immigrant girl whose family has relocated from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey and the many emotions, trials, and tribulations that come with such a massive change. The oldest of four girls, Carla, seems to have the hardest time adapting to this new environment and circumstance. When their mother makes a typical Spanish dessert and inserts a candle to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the move to the States, she says, "Let us please go back home, please, She half prayed and half wished" (Alvarez 99). Aside from the anguish of leaving her extended family and the challenges of adjusting to a new neighborhood, school, and country, she has the strongest ties to the Dominican Republic and the most difficulty assimilating to English and American culture.
Lucas Hahn Mr. Rodriguez Academic Lit. 15 June, 2023 The Cellar Analysis Throughout Lucas Hahn's short story The Cellar, the author explores the limits of human endurance both mentally and physically. The author portrays the mental limits of humans when we look at the character Ryan. Ryan at the beginning of the story was just a normal teenager, but at the end of the book he turned into a murderer.
Extended out to most children is the hand of a parent offering a warm hug along with warnings of danger to their children. This is what any fit parent would do. However this is not always the case with all parents. For example in the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rose Mary and Rex Walls are not fit to be parents because they don’t give their children what they need and have an unstable relationship. Jeannette and her siblings live off of what their parents can afford when they have sufficient money but they don’t use it to give them what they need.
poverty. Furthermore, When Lourdes was in Honduras, she was also an object of cheap labour, which hardly fed her children. This system of employment exploits people in poverty for private profit and promotes corruption. Lourdes worked several jobs in the u.s, but none of them were stable.
In Allan Levine’s article “How a Summer Camp Taught Me What It Means to be Jewish in North America,” Levine highlights his personal experiences of how attending Camp Massad, a Jewish summer camp, positively influenced him growing up as a Jew in North America during the 1960s. Levine wrote this article to educate and reminisce on the importance of Jewish summer camps to Jewish youth and culture. Levine defines and explains jargon specific to individuals who have attended Jewish summer camp to ensure those unfamiliar with the topic understand his points. An example is when Levine explains the meaning of the phrase “Ruach,” meaning spirit, a term familiar to those who have attended Jewish summer camp. Levine draws on personal experiences to convey
Arthur Dimmesdale was the town minister in The Scarlet Letter, a story of a young woman who committed adultery and faced the consequences, such as wearing a scarlet “A” on her chest. Dimmesdale was a very interesting character because he was very religious but also committed a sin that haunted him everyday. He also happened to be the man who was involved in the young woman’s adultery. He was never convicted, however he still faced the consequences everyday. Dimmesdale was a man of God.
Kindred by Octavia Butler “Kindred” is a fantasy novel by Octavia Butler, which has been tailored to explain extraordinary situations. Dana, a young black woman holds the power to travel back and forth in time and experience situations that could have been true. The majority of the characters she meets and lives with in the previous century are related to her as her ancestors. Although she finds it difficult to reflect upon each and every detail during her time with the, she finds that all the characters and personalities are mentioned in the records of her family. The story is about Dana witnessing the events where her family and ancestors underwent tortures and received unfair treatment from the White race.
Dylan Dunnwald “Inside Out” Thematic Literary Essay. Almost everyone experiences bullying, but some people do more than others. The short story “Inside Out” by Francisco Jiménez takes place in the U.S., where Francisco, an immigrant student from Mexico, is put into an all-American public school. Francisco could only speak Spanish and did not know anything about English. Throughout the story, Francisco faces problems while learning to fit in at his new school and classroom.
Do you know how important it is for people to get into their dream college? Did you know that some teens will stop at nothing to get into the college of their dreams? This week, I’m finishing up reading Alexa Donne’s book called The Ivies; the book has 337 pages in it. The most popular girls in school are all aiming to go to different Ivy League schools and these girls are willing to do anything to get into the school of their dreams. The main character Olivia applies to one of the other girls’ schools and ends up getting in, but Avery doesn't.
On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the city of New York. On that fateful day, two airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and flew straight into the twin towers. Each tower fell completely to the ground, taking thousands of lives with it and injuring thousands more. Not only did that day leave thousands of families without their loved ones, it also left an entire city and an entire country to deal with the aftermath of the destruction. Poet, Nancy Mercado, worries that one day people will forget that heartbreaking day.
Faces by Sara Teasdale is a sorrowful poem. The speaker is talks about the masks people wear to hide their pain. The “disguise” hide a person shame and embarrassment that is underneath the “city’s broken roar. ” When the speaker states, “the meeting of our eyes,” she is express that the stranger can see through her mask just as she can see through theirs.
