In Janice Mirikitani’s poem “Breaking Tradition,” the speaker reflects on the different generations of women. Her exploration corresponds with her struggle with living within the Asian-American society. With the stories of a grandmother, mother and daughter, she shows that every generation of women have to live with the burden of womanhood and everything that comes with it. However, each generation comes with its differences as well. The speaker presents examples of the roles of women in order to set a standard of comparison between the three generations and to show the differences in expectations of women within them.
An Author to Her Book Explication Anne Bradstreet’s poem “An Author to Her Book” is the narrative story of an author’s struggles and tribulations with a piece that he or she has created. The complex emotional connection that an author feels for his or her work is displayed through Bradstreet’s use of metaphor. Anne Bradstreet is also able to draw up similarities between being an author and being a parent through the use of personification and comparison. Bradstreet portrays the struggles, difficulties, and fears that a mother experiences as those that a mother would experience when creating and releasing a new work. Bradstreet’s use of metaphor allows her to relate the complex relationships of being a parent to being an author.
Also, as her parents barley consider the idea of Anna getting into college, her teacher tells them that “Anna is a smart girl, she has a lot that she can contribute to this world.” As these messages help Anna find her identity, she begins to notice that her chances of going to Columbia University are within arms reach. The stereotype of Anna being a typical Mexican-American teen brings an uncomfortable feeling into her body image and for this she feels the need to change the footsteps in
As the story transpires, Jane's unknown figure becomes all that is known to her; however, because of what is expected of her as a woman it is difficult for her to acknowledge her own self as she is afraid of her own monstrosity. Her repression is what initiates her transgression of becoming this unknown figure, and through excessive behaviour and desire she is able to recognize her situation as everything she is initially told is meant to keep her in the dark. Living in the nineteenth century, Jane has an extensive amount of pressure to be the perfect housewife and comply to her domestic expectations. Women have little rights and respect, and they must pursue their roles as women and tend to their husband and children's needs without complaint. Jane is very aware of these pressures placed upon her, as she is constantly describing how she must make John happy, and get well for John and the baby.
Although Scout and Katniss share their differences, the similarities between both characters outweigh all differences. Katniss, the narrator of the novel, is a strong, resourceful sixteen year old who is far more mature than her age would suggest. Through many examples, one could recognize that both characters share their similarities along with their differences. Scout from the book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” is a very unusual girl, both in her qualities and in her social position. She is very intelligent for a girl her age, for example, she learned to read before the beginning of school.
Harley is still attending high school with the plans of attending college. She had to learn to be responsible at a young age, but her responsibility has made her a better person and great mother. Harley has matured not just as a person, but as a strong-independent mother that would do anything for her son. The courage that has made her capable to raise her child has made her stronger emotionally. Commonly, teenagers that have children at an early age usually either drop out of high school or get their G.E.D.
While her elementary and middle school consisted mainly of blacks and Hispanics, Pennington, her high school consisted of mostly white, rich, preppy Americans. She experienced racism for the first time in her life, but instead of allowing this to hurt her, she ended up developing a stronger and more confident personality. She gained more leadership skills and became extremely involved with mentoring programs at her school. Her high school years also taught her to embrace and appreciate her culture even more because she was the first and only Vietnamese student. Every time she was faced with hardship, she remembered the struggles that her parents faced and it gave her strength to continue on her journey.
Giovanny Sanchez May 5, 2012 Ms. Collins Barbie’s World In everyone’s childhood there is always that one special non-living figure in their personal lives, a figure we admired, something we looked up to be, like an idol. In “You Can Never Have Too Many,” Jane Smiley thanks Barbie for the effect she had on her daughter’s lives as they were growing up to be young adults; by teaching them the feminine side of woman at an early stage, which ultimately allowed their minds to have a lot more options when it really came down to figuring out who they wanted to be at an adult stage. Smiley however, does not effectively support this argument because she gives a lot of credit to Barbie for the way her daughters turn out to be but she’s forgetting
She said that she had enjoyed being at high school, because she loved learning, and she got to hang out with her friends a lot. I followed up on this question and asked whether she thought high school was challenging or not for her. Instead of answering quickly like she had before, she hung back and sat pondering the question. Her face had become abnormally tight and drawn, as if
Claire Standish was the popular prom queen, wealthy conceited princess, but unlike her I was a highly sociable individual. When I was a freshman in high school, all I ever visualized was being captain of the cheerleading team and becoming prom queen of class 2010. Being prom queen would mean so much to me, as it meant just as much to Claire Standish. Claire was prom queen of her graduating class and to her it was everything she ever wished for, and something I was hoping for. So I worked