For this week’s assignment I selected The Welcome Table by Alice Walker. I selected the reading from this week’s reading assignment because I felt the story really made me think and reflect on some of the problems of racism we face as a society now, and how things were in the past. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the meaning of the Welcome Table and to describe while explaining and outlining the story using biographical/historical approach to this piece of literature. I first read the short biography on the author Alice Walker. I learned she faced many hard times growing up in a sharecropper family, I can only imagine what life must have been for her.
In the auto-biographical novel "Red Scarf Girl" by Ji-li Jiang, the protagonist Ji-li, greatly influences her own little world. Because of Ji-li’s actions, her family’s life is changed drastically. Ji-li was taught to put her country above her family. Throughout the story Ji-li's feelings about Mao Zedong continue to evolve. In the beginning she is very pro-revolutionary, but as time passes she realizes that Chairman Mao’s policies are not always correct.
Leah experiences and travels a painful learning curve to arrive at a place of acceptance, reclaiming a friendship that matters on new terms, and claiming her life after her father’s death. Leah’s struggles are demonstrated by her journal entries which provides us a close look at her own stages of adaptation. By writing this novel as her journal entries also gives us a closer look of strategies and skills Leah develops through out the story to handle with her own grief, to support and create a better relationship with her mother, and to help take care of her father. The descriptions of the changes her father goes through, his sufferings, and visible losses are told with validity, courage, and accuracy. The theme of this story is that when you experience a lost of a love one, you will go through an emotion time in your life.
In some cases, such as “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” the situation evokes humor; however, in others, such as “The Red Convertible,” the conflict is one of life and death. Both our personal experiences and our reading of works by such writers as Claude McKay, Richard Rodriguez, Frank Chin, and John Hope Franklin, demonstrate that finding our place as individuals in a complex society such as ours is always a struggle. And in a democratic society such as ours, we are granted the privilege and obliged with the responsibility to articulate and to defend our positions, our choices,
He developed Lenina's gnawing problem to heal slowly but surely as she struggles to conform to the influences of her society, which she has known since "birth." Although these mannerisms and ideas that she has had rooted in her mind have had a significant influence on her development as a person, she was still able to convey who she was meant to be as an individual. This set a mood of rebellion and tones of satisfaction and success at the end of the novel. However, at the beginning of the novel, the set tone is dull and emotionless. To have the novel end with such a bright tone and mood enables the audience to see and feel how Huxley wanted to portray Lenina as a human being and not another robotic entity of a dreary utopian
Moreover it comes to her sense that language is not only a communication tool but also an essential thing in enabling individuals to define their identities. And Amy Tan writes this article not only toward her critics, but also towards herself as a reflection of her relationship with her mother and how it has led her to where she is today. In the article, the author divides the essay into three parts with the very clear dividing mark—space, which offers a quick suggestion for the readers that every part has its own idea and purpose. With the help of the dividing hint, we can look at what Amy Tan tries to say in each part and how each part fits into the main idea of the whole essay. Part one including paragraph one to seven, presents the “standard” English that the author speaks in her speech and the “language of intimacy” she uses with her mother and even with her husband.
Tracy Jiang Reader's Workshop Their Eyes Were Watching God Self-Designed Assessment (Based on an AP Question) Janie's Evolution Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God begins with the development of Janie, whose self discovery is the foundation of the plot. Hurston utilizes the course of three marriages to detail Janie's discovery, creating examples of outward conformity in conflict with inward desire. Janie's submission to her second husband, Jody Starks, combines with her inward opposition to contribute to the ultimate realization of herself as a free woman who needs to be at peace with her own actions. Through conforming to Jody's commands, Janie loses her sense of self and develops inner turmoil. Hurston uses Janie's long, beautiful hair to represent Janie's pride and essence.
Throughout the novel, Jane goes through periods of time where she is encompassed by her internal conflicts, mainly as a result of her self-reliance and value of self-dignity. One of Jane’s main mental strifes is her concern that her marriage to Rochester is, in her mind the equivalence of self-compromise. However, towards the end of the novel
First, I look at different roles and identities in person. Among all the identities, which one he or she values the most and why? What cause he or she to develop different roles of identities? For example, in Mildred Pierce, Mildred’s identity as a businesswomen is to a large extent due to her identities as a mother and a divorced woman. These connections among these identities are worth looking at because they reveals the struggles of characters.
Name: Isabella Lorduy Ariza Rationale The following text is a speech written by myself from the perspective of a Pakistani girl called Malala Yousafzai, who has suffered from discrimination and prejudice against women regarding the right of education, which is extremely important for me, since it is the base of wisdom and knowledge. It is directly linked to the course since it talks about the important role, which women represent, and the importance of equality in a society that has not been able to overcome an old and parochial point of view in which men are the only central figure. By writing this speech I wanted to explore a new point of view, in which I could actually feel what other individuals are suffering through women prejudice. The purpose of this article is to inform the readers about the massive impact which this problem has caused and apply this fact to real life situations. It is specifically directed to a young female audience, with the purpose of creating consciousness and awareness to these girls and showing them that no matter their age or their gender, there is always a way to fight for rights and equality.