He travels to his uncle Ramos’s house to receive further care and instruction. My first reaction is surprise at the events taking place, and how a boy only twelve years of age must endure these hardships. Journal Entry #2: Santiago is given a compass and a map, and is taught how to use a canoe by his uncle. Santiago is then instructed to sail to the United States, because the soldiers would arrive there soon to burn their house. He is told to sail first to the city of Fronteras, next to a lake named El Golfete, then to a river named the Río Dulce.
In The Grapes of Wrath, this character is Ma Joad. In The House of the Spirits, this figure is Clara. The second similarity is the fact that both families experienced extremely challenging events over the course of the novels, as well as an eventual loss of family members. The Joad family experienced poverty and starvation as they migrated to California during the Dustbowl. The Trueba family experienced many challenging events, such as the death of Clara and the military coup in Santiago.
This gives of the element of the exotic, mystery and the unknown. Shelly uses religious imagery in her first chapter of Frankenstein’s narration. ‘My more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only’ This quote implies Victor is very obsessive and it could also suggest that even though he loves her, he still thinks of as a object that he has. Therefore, both extreme obsession and sexual oppression are present in the first chapter. We soon learn from Mary Shelly that Victor is an obsessive character that focuses on over succeeding.
Poor families sometimes abandoned infant daughters in the countryside to avoid paying dowries, the gifts traditionally given by a girl's parents to her husband's family. The practice of allowing baby girls to die, called female infanticide, continued down to the Christian era and had an impact on the size of the female population. Childbearing was dangerous. Tombstones show that the life expectancy of women was 34 years as contrasted with 46 years for men because women often died in childbirth. Some male writers attacked imperial women's education, political power, and sexuality.
Susie was only fourteen when she was raped and killed by a man she knew. Understandably, she has trouble letting go after such an abrupt and unexpected death. The majority of the book shows her family and the struggle they go through to cope with the loss of their daughter/sister. As the story progresses her family and friends are stuck on her death. Every day they are faced with adversary and each handles it in different ways.
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, Laila at a young age endures hardships the likes of which most women could not imagine while in the midst of constant conflict and instability of the Middle East.. Dealing with the loss of a man she believed to be deceased and his return, submission into a loveless marriage, the birth of a harami or bastard child, and the death of her parents cause her to experience emotional turmoil. Along with her husband’s beatings she is a woman who many are able to see through the eyes of and feel pity and anguish throughout her journey. In a hopeless place where one can only hope, Hosseini takes the reader through what some may consider a living hell for women of the time period. Laila is main protagonist of the story, though she is not known of until the second part of the novel, the reader would display the most empathy for her.
Sara Hoey Concepts of Literature Mr. Link 05 November 2012 The Controlling Mother How is one single individual supposed to distinguish between a good mother and a bad mother? What characteristics set apart a good mother from a bad mother? These two important yet mind boggling questions should cross one's mind when reading "The Glass Mengarie" by a famous writer known as Tennessee Williams. In addition to asking yourself questions while reading this story, one should attempt to understand why any one mother acts the way they do. Throughout our history, this country has been through disturbing times where we as a nation were expected to come together in unity and help one another.
“The Lottery”. I was very interested in the Shirley Jackson’s short story named “The Lottery” due to its controversial thematic. The author makes a heavy criticism of old traditions blind followed that sometimes people do just because they were told to, by their ancestors. Since the story was presented and, even more, after watching the film about it, I kept thinking regarding the reasons for doing things in life. As I’ve always been a rebel, I was captivated by this story, and in certain way I felt identified with the author because she presents the whole situation as if it was anything normal and quotidian when it is really a deep drama.
The story tells of a woman whose father kept her from love and how, as a result, after his death she struggled for love with both her community and with her lover. Throughout the story, Faulkner demonstrates three different love relationships which are all rather unique. However, they are all related and as a result form an endless ring of love. The circle of love depicted in this short story is composed of three different love relationships which all vary significantly in motivation, type and degree. Nevertheless, they all build upon and result in each other.
My Sister’s Keeper Themes One of the major themes in this novel is sacrifice, it is very difficult not only as a parent but for anyone to witness a loved one suffer. The illness of a loved one not only consumes the victim but also those who surround them. Coping with the illness from both sides is a sacrifice because one has to be prepared to let their loved one go, or watch them go through it for that matter. Kate Fitzgerald, the oldest child suffers from leukemia and the younger child Anna is her donor, a sacrifice she has to make. Another theme is fire, fire is presented in many was throughout the novel.