Gwen Hardwood The emotive qualities of Gwen Harwood’s poetry resonate with her readers. She uses her own memories to illustrate love for her family, her loss of innocence and the swiftness of time passing. She demonstrates this in her poems Father and Child, The Violets and At Mornington. The poem The Violets opens with the line “It is dusk and cold,” the time of day symbolising that this persona has reached old age and is metaphorically drawing closer to nightfall or the end of her days. Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem.
Ellie Linton’s character is tested when she comes home to find the family pets dead. She must choose between right and wrong in her follow-up actions, battling through trauma and distress. Then her best friend, Corrie, witnesses her home being destroyed. It is in the group’s human spirit and empathy for each that keeps them strong. Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends.
‘Flowers’ by Robin Jenkins is a short story about a young girl who has been evacuated to the Highlands during WW2 and dislikes it so much that she decides to break the rules. She rebels by going to the beach where the fighter jets practise bombing and finds a gruesome scene. This short story deals with a less pleasant side of life concerned with the consequences of war and the loneliness of the main character Margaret. In this essay I will show unpleasant life can be. Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”.
At the end, Lily finds out the complete truth about her mother who lived in the Pink house, and on the day that she died, she went to get Lily and to run away from T. Ray. Lily also learns that she did kill her mother by accident, forgives herself and learns to love her mother. I would improve the book by adding Deborah's ghost as she watches over Lily through the whole story, and how much she changes as the climax reaches its end. I would recommend this book to families and friends, since it has a very important life lesson. “The Secret Life of Bees” is, once again,
(629). The doves once again come to Ashputtle’s aid but in the end the stepmother breaks her promise and Ashputtle is not allowed to go. (629). Once everyone leaves to the wedding, she goes and weeps at her mother’s grave. There, Ashputtle asks the hazel tree for a dress, “to throw her down silver and gold”.
Trauma begins when Maria hears everything from the hole and the torturing and screaming of her mother. Maria being 14 wants to go and help her mother but doesn’t cause of the safety of Alberto. Maria makes sure that Alberto does not hear anything and covers his ears. After all the screaming from Maria’s mother she hears gun shots and then silence. Knowing the horror she was going to find when she came out of the hole she tears a piece of her dress that her mother made for her and blindfolds
She could not find anything so she ran outside. Alert neighbors ran to help, rolling her on the ground to distinguish the fire. One woman thought it to be a good idea to dowse the flames with cans of milk. When Wolf came home his mother was laying in bed with burnt skin, burnt hair, and wrapped only in a towel. She was soon to be transported to the
Gabi refuses to take any more losses in her life to her family. My last quote is, “The corpses were bloody, with ears, noses, and fingers missing.”(Mikealson 130). In this scene Gabi was in a tree watching a canton being demolished by soldiers and they had no mercy for the people. The effects of watching the massacre on Gabi made her think she was a coward and deserve to die with her family. In Tree Girl, Gabi acts like Anne Frank in the Holocaust, they both hid away from genocide.
With no father figure or even a biological mother to help her in her adolescent years, Beli depended on La Inca to look to as a teen. In school Beli was an outcast to her schoolmates until she developed her womanly body, which helped her to attract the guys of her choice. As a woman her feminine curves attracted the likes of the Gangster, signifying the beginning of her tango with the curse. Becoming pregnant with the Gangsters child quickly alerted the attention of Trujillo’s sister causing Beli to be brutally beaten in the cane field, representing the violence of the “fuku” due to the dysfunctional love between Beli and the Gangster. “How she survived I’ll never know.
THE SECRET GARDEN By Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden opens by introducing us to Mary Lennox, a sickly, foul-tempered, unsightly little girl who loves no one and whom no one loves. At the outset of the story, she is living in India with her parents—a dashing army captain and his frivolous, beautiful wife—but is rarely permitted to see them. They have placed her under the constant care of a number of native servants, mainly Kamala, as they find her too hideous and tiresome to look after. Mary's circumstances are cast into complete upheaval when an outbreak disease devastates the Lennox household, leaving no one alive but herself. She is found by two men and, after briefly living with an English family who knew her parents, Mary is sent to live in Yorkshire with her maternal uncle, Archibald Craven.