Discuss the psychological imagery of "Where are you Going, Where have You Been?" as a dream vision Characters- Connie- 15 years old, protagonist, music was like a religion for her,she seems to be rebelling by being permiscuous, constantly argues with her mother because she always compares her to her sister June, Connie thinks her mother is Jelous of her beauty, head full of daydreams and music that feed her ideas of love, always daydreams, she wanted to seem older but still was childlike, only allowed out wih June Connie's Mother- always frustrates Coonie, Connie and her always argues, connie calls her name at the end of the story June- older sister, complete opposite of Connie, 24 over weight, still at home Arnold Friend- dangerous figure who comes to Connie’s house and threatens her, pale, almost
Piercy analyzes the girl from birth and uses a detached, expecting tone to portray her normality. In lines two through five Piercy creates a bitter tone when talking about the toys her parents presented her as a child. Piercy's tone can also seem as if she is disgusted because she talks about the “dolls that did pee pee” and uses a sarcastic alliteration when she said “lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (2-4). At this point it is clear the child is a toddler or in adolescence since she plays with these toys that little girls are expected to pay with at that age. The first stanza abruptly ends with “You have a great big nose and fat legs.” (6).
She was a beautiful yet very petite girl, she stood at 4’11’’ and weighed no more than 90 pounds. “Photographs...failed to do justice to her looks.” Bonnie Parker grew up dreaming about having true love and romance like in the movies, which could be the reason why she dropped out of school and rushed into marriage with Roy Thorton at the young age of 16. This marriage did not go as well as she had planned, and Thorton ended up in jail. Parker then moved on to live with her grandmother. Her dream of finding true love appeared to be over, that was until one night at a friend’s house when she was nineteen, she met Clyde Barrows, who was twenty one.
Now that’s growing up without a childhood. Jane Smiley seems like a great parent who cares about her children but to allow her daughters to put on makeup even entering their teenage years just isn’t right. Her girls where prematurely growing up, where behaving beyond their age, and with their only priority being beautiful at all times it seem to help them in the long run. As they burned off the “Barbie stage” and grew into more important things down their lives. Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377).
Act two shows an idealist sense of reality as the only dream sequence was Nan’s day dream at the very end. The downfall which is experienced by the family after Dolly’s incident leads the Dear women crushed and facing the realisation that dreams don’t come true. The dialogue between the three women shows their strong relationships. During Act one, Scene one the conversation is fast and colloquial with all three women, interacting with each other. “Nan: The taxi?
Chrysten Jordan L. Hicks English 1 Pre-AP September 28, 2011 When girls are young, they start planning and dreaming about their wedding day, and can’t wait until they grow up to finally be married and experience the dream they’ve always wanted. They see it as a fairytale, and love the fact that they will get to be a real princess on their wedding day and have the best day that they could think of. However, a fairytale is not what marriage is at all. On the contrary, about 83 percent of women are in one way or another, abused by their husbands. For the truth is women are sometimes considered to be weak, and are easily overpowered and imprisoned by men, and are not able to live out their dreams, and are only left to wonder.
It all begins with a young girl being born into the world of judgment. Children believe everything they are told. If they are told they are beautiful, they will believe it until someone tells them otherwise. Young girls are impressionable by their mother’s and female counter part’s actions, such as wearing fancy clothes and putting on make-up. In the poem, the speaker states the girlchild has “wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (4), showing that she already wants to alter her appearance.
This results in the evident theme of belonging and abandonment. Throughout this novel, the characters of Rayona, Christine, and Ida bring to life this recurring theme. Left behind by her Mom, dad, Father Tom, Aunt Ida and her peers, Rayona, the youngest of the three main women in the novel, experiences abandonment. During Rayona’s whole life, her father Elgin is barely there, pooping in and out whenever convenient for him. Feeling like she is not good enough, Rayona goes out of her way to get his attention and make him want to be with her.
In the poem “Barbie Doll,” written by Marge Piercy tells a story of a young girl’s short life. The girl is born and lives a normal life until she is made fun of during puberty which causes her to commit suicide. In this poem we see evidence to this idea in the poet’s use of irony, her attitude on the subjects of both inner and outer beauty, and her attitude on the significance of words interfering with a woman’s self confidence. To begin, the poet’s use of irony is felt most toward the end of the poem. The very thought that people would say a person is pretty only after they are dead and it is too late for them to hear is sad and disturbing.
This accident caused Alice to transform from the happy, self-confident eight year old she was into an isolated depressed adolescent who retreated into reading stories and writing poems as an outlet. This escape made Walker more conscience of other people and their feelings, and she rose from the despair that her disability caused her to become a leader and the valedictorian of her high school class. (African-American Writers: A Dictionary) Overcoming the isolation caused by her disability and the civil rights era gave Walker a perfect recipe for an in-depth novel about the alienation of a black woman in the beginning of the century. Celie is introduced to us as a victim of abuse, from the very first letter she writes. Celie’s only form of communication with the outside world is her