The young woman eased herself into the pool. Despite her fear, she felt strong wearing her new leg. She was ready to make good on a pledge from long ago. In second grade in Mostar, Yugoslavia (now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Kazazic lost her five-year-old cousin, Jasmina, to leukemia. After Jasmina’s death, Kazazic vowed she would honor the little girl by swimming with a dolphin, an animal that
Ophelia does not have a mind of her own she obeys everything her father says and never argues with him. When Ophelia’s dad past away (Polonius), she went mad but wasn’t angry at anyone, after he died Ophelia just kept on singing songs and talking about flowers. Ophelia death is a symbol of her life, her honor, and her relationship with hamlet. The way Ophelia dies represents the way she lived her whole life by her father terms but once she fell into the water she didn’t know how to react so she just took it. This represents
The main character in “The Awakening” is Edna Pontellier. Bound by the rules of society and ignored by her husband, Edna struggles to awaken as the person she always wanted to be. Her fierce determination to be a free and independent woman leads Edna down paths that she never thought she’d travel.
For twenty years now Penelope has maintained the city of Ithaca as well as raised her son Telemachus all by herself. This shows her power and strength because it proves that women can also keep a kingdom such as Ithaca from dwindling. In the story we read about the suitors begging for her hand in marriage when we truly know all they want is to be King of Ithaca. Penelope is a strong willed women; not wanting to believe that her husband is dead and therefor refuses all of the suitors. Even though Penelope has no powers or immortality she still holds true to what she believes and is patiently awaiting for her husbands return.
For example, “The loom’s my odyssey dare to call it my peneopaid? You think you were asleep just now, don’t you, after those homecoming exertions? But you were never here at all, my husband: the sea still has you-“(line 62-67). In this quote Penelope is explain to odysseys that she has created her own odyssey called penelopaid, a story of her own trails a tribulations. These are all reasons that Penelope is an unrecognized hero that heroic actions are unrecognized.
Once they understand why women have it rougher than men they should start to appreciate all the hardships women goes through. There is nothing that men goes through that can compare to what women goes through and men cannot be
That they hated each other and that they had a bargain, she had to pretend to be the perfect wife and not shame his family's name, if she could have affairs with out any problems. she fell while explaining her plans and she tripped hit her head and died. Maxim then took a boat, pulled the sea-cocks out, and then sailed out to the ocean to get rid of the
We’ve seen her as a shy, quiet but beautiful little girl who lived a melancholy life. Few people know of Ka`iulani's stand for her people, and fewer still, know that she was a ‘daughter of a double race’, half Hawaiian – half Scottish. Ka‘iulani was, in fact, a warrior - she fought for the truth. While overcoming many personal tragedies,
Lucy’s idea of beauty is external, her mothers internal. This contrast leads to a lack of communication about Lucy’s changing physique and leaves Lucy on her own to form an opinion of what a woman is, what she should look like, and how she finds love. Lucy’s mother never discusses the disease with her, or what changes she will see in her body. Lucy is not comfortable asking her mother for help because she knows that her mother “never recognized that her anger scared all of us into retreat. By churning problems through her own personal mill, she kept us from ever discussing a problem outright,
Then my teacher came over. She smiled and introduced herself, and three more students joined us. Although the two were both older than me and they were brother and sister, they didn't seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to swim, and I began to feel more at ease. In the meantime, we got into the pool, and the teacher had us put on brightly green colored water wings to help us stay afloat. I was a little embarrassed about wearing them.