Although she does have a considerable amount of dialogue in the novel, the language she uses and the way she speaks, is not ghost-like but more like a young country girl (you would have never have guessed she was a ghost.) She is always wearing the same clothes in the book; ‘a dress that looked like it came from an old film’ and ‘big boots with fat laces’. I think that Tansey is a very loveable character in this book, as she was just a young woman who never lived to see her children grow up and is back to be with her dying daughter who is now in her 80s. Her past and why she came back makes the reader feel sorry for her and her children and this makes it quite an emotional novel. Tansey’s plays a crucial part in the story of the novel and is very important to the plot.
V.B.” about her mother Vivian Baxter, who was one of the first black females to join the merchant marines. It also contains an untitled poem about the similarities between all people, despite their racial and cultural differences. In this reflection, I will talk about certain chapters in the book that relate to my life either professionally or personally. New Directions This chapter talks about a woman named Mrs. Annie Johnson. She found herself a single mother with not much education and two young sons to care for and raise.
In the introduction, Cather’s description of Jim could easily be a description of herself. It is possible that Cather has camouflaged herself as Jim Burden in My Ántonia because many of Jim’s thoughts and feelings in the novel were Cather’s own thoughts and feelings while growing up. Also, like Jim, Cather enjoyed visiting with immigrant neighbors, she had a love for the classics and for drama; and, like Jim, when he was middle-aged, she revisited “Ántonia” A.K.A. Anna Sadilek, her model for the character Ántonia, and renewed their friendship. This reunion inspired Cather to begin writing My Ántonia.
Because Jingqiu’s father was the descendant of landlords who was identified as “counterrevolutionaries” during that period, her family has been under close scrutiny and her life was quite influenced by this. But since she was well-educated and behaved well in school, she was chosen to help to write a text book about the history of a historical village-Xicunping, and to be "re-educated" through work in the village under the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong. When she arrived at the village and lived with a family of the village head, she met Lao San and was drawn to his responsible and noble character. Lao San who has a promising future is from a well-to-do family and his father held a high position in the military. Jingqiu and Lao San fell in love but considered of the political persecution of Jingqiu’s father and her dream of becoming a teacher to support her family, their relationship was kinda a secret.
Ruth gives Gogol an idea of what “type” of girls he likes, who are born and raised in the American culture. Gogol liked having some experience with being pure American. At this point of the story, Gogol felt more like he wanted to date girls that were in the American culture, so when he and Ruth’s relationship relationship ended, he went even more extreme. On Gogol’s train ride home for spring break he met a girl named Maxine. When they started dating Gogol
In the novel “the woman at Point Zero”, the main character named Firdaus enjoyed reading and learning because her uncle gave her first book. Firdaus tried to use her secondary certificate and ask the coffee owner, Bayoumi to provide her with a job after leaving from her husband, Sheikh Mahmoud. Similarly, Miral, the protagonist in the novel “Miral” was persuaded by her father, Jamal and teacher, Hind to study hard so that she would get freedom and be a non-violent person after getting excellent education. As we can see, education is critical for both Firdaus and Mrial’s in their lives. In terms of a power, it is very different between Firdaus and Miral.
I choose Jing-mei to be my character to write on even though she did not develop much personally, but the effect that the Joy Luck Club had on her were significant and it also has to do with her attitude throughout the story. To begin with, Jing-mei (a.k.a June) did not really know her mother. It’s only after her mother died that she began to understand what her mother went through; courtesy of her dad and “aunties” at the Joy Luck Club. It’s not clear in the story if June heard her mom story about the swan, but her mom Suyuan Woo came to America with the hopes of having a daughter in America “whose value will not be judged based on her husband, and who will not have to ignore herself and "swallow sorrow. "” Her mom hoped to tell her the story in English and also give her the feather from her long lost swan.
The final image of Sutpen given by Rosa is that some black man kills him on his plantation. Rosa also asks Quentin to come with her to the old Sutpen mansion, because she thinks someone is hiding out there. Continuing with his stream of consciousness technique, Faulkner has Mr. Compson tell the next few chapters through his memories of Thomas Sutpen. Sutpen was in the Cival War with General Compson, and as the stories have been passed down to Mr. Compson, he is passing the story now to Quentin. In Mr. Copsons version, I learned of Sutpens marriage disaster, his immediate family,his illegitimate child with a slave, and a previous marriage to a woman who was 1/8 black, who bears Sutpen a son, which is his dream, but also his downfall.
The Author gives readers clues and makes them think to figure out questions, she never gives a straight out answer. The author has events that exemplify prejudice really well. One example of prejudice in the story is the trial. Bob Ewell sues an African American man named Tom Robinson for raping his daughter. The court pleads the man guilty without any proof of rape.
Well, to be accurate, they catch one another’s eyes. That same day they end up befriending one another because their friend Isaac introduces them to each other and then leaves him and her alone. She then ends up going to his house that day and meets his parents. Soon enough, she and Augustus are flirtatious friends and talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, with Augustus, and together they obsess about the unsolved ending.