War. Most of us think of poverty, terrorists, or lost and malnourished kids, fighting to survive in the streets of Afghanistan or Pakistan. But in Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples, refuge takes on a whole new level. Najmah, a young Afghan girl, finds herself alone when her father and brother are taken away from her by the war, and her mother and baby brother are killed in a bombing accident. Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is also by herself.
"After the darkest storms come the brightest rainbows." My mom told me this repeatedly through the the hard times and many times after, and it's a quote that I'll remember all my life and will help me overcome setbacks that I experience. I'll always know that no matter what I go through in life, I'll be able to deal with it and I'll most likely be better off in the end. Now, entering my adulthood, I realize how fortunate I have been to have this type of mother, someone who loves me unconditionally and has always been a part of my life. In fact, I often find myself using her method to others around me.
As they finish playing their game, she states, “Considering the fate of Icarus after he flouted his advice and flew so close to the sun his wings melted, perhaps some dark humor intended” (80). Here she introduces the myth of Deadalus who is known in Greek mythology to be a famous creator, inventor, and an architect (Thompson). In Deadalus’s tail he made wings so that he and his son Icarus can escape the labyrinth in which they were trapped in, before talking flight Deadalus warns his son not to fly close to the sun. Icarus flouted his father’s advice meaning that he mocked it (“flouted”), which then lead to his death as his wings melted away, falling to the sea. She introduces this myth because as an adult looking back as a child, it is her way to compare and interpret the relationship.
Afghanistan is a type of explosion laboratory because there are always rockets and bombs blowing up houses and buildings. Najaf remembers Mazar-E-Sharif as a town where everybody knows everybody and were he used to live happily in his big house with his family. But then he thinks back to when the rocket blew up his house and how he lost his dad and his brother. 3. Shoes.
Analysis of “The Century Quilt” Written by Marilyn Waniek, “The Century Quilt” describes the importance of heritage in the narrator’s life. Using imagery, tone, and structure, Waniek effectively illustrates the importance of her quilt. The quilt represents not only her family’s heritage but also her future heritage. Waniek’s diction creates a nostalgic tone: “I remembered how I’d planned to inherit that blanket” (Lines 9-10) and “my sister and I were in love with Meema’s Indian blanket” (lines 1-2). Her word choices “remembered” and “were in love,” Waniek emphasizes a sentimental memory.
The sniper, Bertis, explains his motives to the group and a teenager, Max, blindly finds his way to the hotel lounge after chemicals get into his eyes and all over his skin. In the final chapter, The View from Daffy Ducks hole, Karen, the single mother, tends to Max’s wounds. Upon Rachel’s discovery that Bertis is Leslie Freemont’s son, she is shot in the chest, but does not die. The sniper, however, dies from an allergic reaction when he uses the rifle Rick sprinkled with peanut dust. Player One then reflects on the novel and reveals the groups fate.
She was living in Bielitz, Poland, where she was born, and she reacts with terror as she watches her neighbors meet the invading Nazis with happiness. They were trying to hide the fact of war from Gerda’s father because he was sick and they didn’t want to worry him. When their town was invaded they couldn’t keep it a secret from him any more. Bad things started happening to the Jews, and the Nazis were taking Jewish men. In October, Gerda’s brother Arthur, was forced to leave with a Nazi and all of the other young men in town.
ORDINARY PEOPLE Ordinary people (1980) is a psychodrama indicating a disintegration of an upper-class family, staying at wealthy Chicago suburb, followed by the accidental death of elder teenage son and suicidal attempt by the younger one. Devastated by the loss of their older son, well-to-do suburban couple Calvin and Beth are trying to rebuild their lives after their younger son, Conrad, who attempts suicide after the traumatic incidence of his brother’s death. The movie takes its shape when we find that the mother Beth as cold and withdrawn from Conrad, and at times actively hostile to him and to her husband, too. Conrad, recently back home from three months in the hospital after slitting his wrists, is between uneasy and agonized in his high-school and family world. Calvin remains emotionally open
In Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”, Roderick informs his friend that Madeline had mysteriously died. Seven or eight nights later, a storm hits the castle, and neither the narrator nor Usher could sleep. Weird, hair-raising occurrences start to happen as noises come from a remote area of the mansion. Before the narrator knows what is happening, the departed Madeline is standing at the door. Madeline stays at the door for a moment and then enters the room, killing her brother.
Celia Rae Foote is married to Johnny and they live together with aid from their maid Minny. Celia feels, “Oh, we’re gonna have some kids… I mean, kids is the only thing worth living for." (40) This shows that Celia feels like having kids is something she has to do. She has had multiple miscarriages and for this reason she feels as though she is a failure as a