Riley Walters October 26, 2014 “Everyday Use” Character Analysis The Character of Mama in “Everyday Use” Mama, the narrator of Alice Walker’s story, “Everyday Use,” is a strong, loving mother who is sometimes threatened and burdened by her daughters, Dee and Maggie. Gentle and stern, her inner monologue offers us a glimpse of the limits of a mother’s unconditional love. Mama is brutally honest and often critical in her assessment of both Dee and Maggie. She harshly describes shy, withering Maggie’s limitations, and Dee provokes an even more pointed evaluation. Mama resents the education, sophistication, and air of superiority that Dee has acquired over the years.
She displays her mental fortitude in many ways. For example when the Spider-man lets her know he is fond of her she doesn’t even flinch, she also doesn’t let her emotions overwhelm her when Sophie lets out her rage and frustration. Another account of when she portrayed her strength is when she had to leave her mother when she had to escape the people on horses trying to capture her. As well as being strong she is also very intelligent. Like David, she understands that the community they live in, Waknuk, is not safe for them and realizes early that they need to escape.
Yogi Bear Hour 6 Female Identity in Literature 4 January 2011 The Emergence of Characters through Motherhood in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver In the novel The Bean Trees, by author Barbara Kingsolver, the author depicts several different versions of unconventional motherhood in order to communicate her strong views on feminism and nontraditional families. Lou Ann, Taylor, and Esperanza, the three main characters in the book, represent different aspects of motherhood, opposing to the common stereotype, yet all three mothers are faced with the same struggles of survival and the safety of their children in the harsh world. The three women have many similarities, but they find their common bond in motherhood. Neither Esperanza, Lou Ann, nor Taylor have conventional views on motherhood, and none of the women are raising their children in a normal family setup. Lou Ann’s husband has deserted both herself and the baby; Taylor has had an Indian child thrust upon her as her own; and Esperanza has left her child behind in her homeland with kidnappers in an attempt to save the lives of many other people.
Her physical appearance of a good-looking lady who wears quite a bit of makeup, form-fitting dresses, and ostrich feathered-high heels. "full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made- up" aswell as painted fingernails and sausage curl hair, further build on our prejudice. She talks and acts playfully and flirtatiously in front of the other ranch workers. Through her physical appearance and her own actions, Candy's description of Curley's Wife seems accurate after her first appearance in the book. As the only woman on the ranch, Curley’s wife is lonely and sad ”why can’t i talk to you?
Helen comes to respect, even love Annie when Helen learns that her finger games are a means to communicate to the outside world. Gibson writes about Annie Sullivan’s internal and external conflicts. Annie comes to Alabama to teach a blind, deaf girl named Helen Keller how to communicate. Annie has an immediate conflict with Helen’s father, Captain Keller, and when she meets the wild and undisciplined Helen, Annie has an even bigger conflict with her. In addition to these external conflicts, Annie also has an internal one.
The Elf Child October 4, 2012 In the novel The Scarlet Letter the character of Pearl is one that represents every since of the word ambiguous. Pearl is nothing but a child; she is an untamed and disobedient little “elf”, despite that she is a beautiful and loving child of her mother. Throughout the book, Pearl is depicted mocking her mother and other authority figures in her life, including governors, but she is also shown standing up for her mother and herself in various situations. These two different sides of Pearl make her highly ambiguous, and creates the effect of uncertainty in the reader of how they feel about her. Her ambiguity is significant because it represents the ambiguous atmosphere surrounding the affair between Hester
Ms. Johnson looks at Maggie and takes the quilts from Dee’s hands. The main character of the story is Ms. Johnson because she is the one who is tested by the story’s events. She is tested when her daughter Dee asks if she can keep the quilts that were handmade by her grandmother. Just then Ms. Johnson realizes how different her two daughters are. Dee is selfish, snobby, and mean.
Paul captures her target audience very well as every mother wants to make sure their kid is safe and sound. She builds up a contrasting character of herself throughout the essay because at the start Paul was portraying her personality as a lazy and unclean mother (Paul 816). However as the essay continues we see the type of ‘purifier wielding neurotic’ Pamela Paul has become, which she criticized initially. This justification for this drastic change in character is due to the repugnant truth of chemicals within cleaning products. As a result of the changing in temperament the reader can see how alarming this topic is, raising awareness of the danger of carcinogens in cleaning products, The origin of the change we see in Pamela Paul is due to the time when she discovers that there are no ingredients listed on domestic cleaning products (Paul 817).
(23.86-87) Aunty sees the Finch name like an exclusive brand – it’s valuable when you can only find it at Bloomingdale’s, but make it available at Wal-Mart and it’ll seem cheap. Aunt Alexandra’s obsession with “What Is Best For the Family” (13.22) – in Scout’s ears, Aunty often speaks in Capital Letters Of Doom – is part of her more general way of classifying people by family heritage. Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather's suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, "It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty." Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak.
Olivia Castellano in “Canto, Locura Y Poesia,” explains how growing up as a female and being a Mexican has been a challenge. Her culture has made it difficult to overcome stereotypes and the ideal life that her family wants for her. She overcomes this by getting an education and educating herself in her own culture and finding that help that she needed to overcome all the scars