In the section “Red Clowns” from the book The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros illustrates how being chosen is not as innocent as society makes it seem when the character Esperanza gets raped. While Esperanza and her friend Sally are at a carnival, Sally is chosen by a big boy and leaves with him (99). Sally is chosen because she was pretty and her being chosen was a positive event for her as she left voluntarily. She gets to be the fairy tale princess and gets a happy ending for the night. Meanwhile Esperanza is left behind and is chosen, but in a negative way. After being raped, Esperanza describes being chosen is not like how it is in “all the storybooks and movies” (99). In fairytales, being chosen is a wonderful thing since the…
Through various “word gifts”, the author instills in readers the authentic definition of the occasion: a threefold gift of love, family, and faith.…
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The first chapter of ‘The Shipping News’, written in 1993, by Annie Proulx, exposes the modern reader to the development of what everyone has experienced before; the development of their childhood. The chapter, a flashback-like image of the main character – Quoyle, displays his development into a resigned, submissive character, and one who is often under the object of cruelty. The interactions of Quoyle with a hyperbolically cruel world reveal to the reader Quoyle’s ‘walk-upon’ status by others. My context has positioned me to see that Proulx expresses the effects of a hyperbolically cruel world, the inevitable tendency to be judged on physical basis’ and the fear that many people experience to experience new things in life. It is through the use of figurative language, tone and allusion the reader may infer the effects of cruel surroundings on the shaping of a repressive and unconfident personality.…
Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.…
In the essay "How Do You Know It's Good?" by Marya Mannes, she explains how the individuals judgement is the key to appreciating art. How you see the piece of art is how you should determine if it is good or bad. Not how the critics judge it. The essay focuses on how society is getting tricked by the critics for: "mastering the art of saying nothing with exquisite complexity". As someone that does not know a lot about art can get misled into thinking a certain piece is good when it is not. Her idea of fixing this is to get the public more involved with the artists. If the public has higher expectations, the better the performance the artists will…
A Child Called “It” is a very tragic book that tells an amazingly true story about a real life little boy in California. Written by Dave Pelzer, the story reveals an extreme case of child abuse, one of the worst ever report in California history. A Child Called “It” tells the unbearable story of a boy who gets beaten day after day by his alcoholic mother. This story is an autobiography communicating very informative information of the severity of child abuse and how important school officials are in spotting this epidemic. Dave came from a typically good family. Dave’s parents loved him deeply, especially on holidays and special trips into town while his father was working a twenty-four hour shift. However, things began to change drastically in a negative way. A Child Called “It” focuses mainly on abuse in…
Addiction. This is one of the problems most people in our world face today, whether it is to drugs or alcohol. The novel “Candy” written by Kevin Brooks had raised a few questions about addiction. What are the reasons people give in addiction and what kind of changes come with living in an addicted lifestyle.…
Fathers and daughters have a special bond. She is always daddy's little girl. The story by Jhon Singleton "The Peach Tree", is a great depiction of subordinate-superior relationships, according to the Foulcaultion Theory. The story explores the relationships between step-mother and step-daughter, husband and wife, and father-daughter. According to Foulcault, every individual is either subordinate or superior in a relationship, with the subordinate doing whatever they can please the superior.…
Carol Off’s book Bitter Chocolate is similar to her other written works. Off’s novels usually expose a political issue involving inequality. In her excerpt from Bitter Chocolate, titled “Cocoa on Trial”, Off exploits the inequalities inside the chocolate industry. Even after the slave trade laws have been abolished people were experiencing horrendous conditions. From Angola to the cocoa plants in Sao Tome, Africans were treated like slaves. The main idea of this chapter revolves around big cocoa businesses and moral disengagement. These businesses do not care about the well-being of others, but more about their costs and profits. When greed or competition set in people can treat others unfairly, and not feel much remorse.…
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Bibliography: Cisneros S, Eleven, Health Communications Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL, January, 1, 1997. (anthology), pp. 150-161.…
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In the short story “The Liar” by Tobias Wolff, an adolescent boy named James constantly…
One of the greatest mysteries in Russian history is the murder of the last royal family of the Romanov dynasty. Although there is much speculation as to what happened that grisly night, some details still remain unclear, and could only be verified by a witness to the tragic events. In the novel, The Kitchen Boy, author Robert Alexander offers a fictional tale that does just that. Through the perspective of the main character Misha, the reader is taken back in time to the early twentieth century where Misha recalls his memories as the young kitchen boy, Leonid Sednyov, or Leonka, in the Impatiev House where the Imperial family was held captive. Published by Viking Penguin Publishing in 2003, The Kitchen Boy is a New York Times bestseller whose purpose is to inform and entertain readers of the last few weeks of the Romanov family while under Bolshevik siege.…
