The mother starts weaving with gray, brown and neutral shades, “all the shades of her life”, to express her depression. To further emphasize the mothers’ sadness, the mother uses “the subdued, muted colours she liked”. Diction in “muted” is interesting, as throughout the extract, the mother never says anything, which seems to suggest that the mother expresses her emotions through weaving. The colors the mother weaves with symbolizes the mothers’ life, and the use of these monotonous colors depicts that it is dull without her daughters, and without her daughters, she has no purpose in life as they no longer need her anymore. However, later throughout the passage, the narrator mentions that the mother could weave “a flash of color” that would not be “picked up” until the fabric was turned over.
* I am going to compare the themes of two short stories, “I Stand Here Ironing” and “Everyday Use”. “I Stand Here Ironing” is written in a participating narrator point of view. Her theme is a basis of motherhood. She claims as though the position of a mother and how society expects to be is truly just a discovery of how to overcome obstacles. It also focuses on the points of guilt and regret in her life as a mother and how she feels that there is guiltiness within her because of the absence she has made within her daughters’ life.
4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity. Portrait is a poem written by Judith Wright which investigates the different aspects of identity. The poem regards the persona so excited and enthusiastic about her marriage and her new housewife duties because she was loved and needed. The persona in the second stanza then reveals that her passion for this life disappears as her heart is unsatisfied for she believes she is only loved by her family because she was needed to keep the house and keep their lives in order. The topics of identity she analyses are the effect of years and time, the transformation of identity, and that identity is an image; a portrait.
The Tiger is generally looked at as the living symbol of strength and power and generally inspires fear and respect,” Ms. Chua writes in her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (The Penguin Press, 2011). She proudly relates her own authoritarian upbringing and how she has learnt from the rigid parenting style her parents practiced in her childhood. Secondly, the tiger mother and the western mother differentiate by, mainly, their different ways of teaching their children. In short, the tiger mother rules her children and pressures them in any way in order for them to be good when they grow up. They can scold them and call them names just to motivate their kids to meet up to the parents high expectations.
They looked like wig hair, damaged and knotted, but felt like duck feathers.” It is typical for a fiction story to describe surroundings with such detail, but since this was written as a letter to someone, the use of detail is used to emphasize the loneliness of the writer, since she probably has nobody else to listen to what she has to say. With jack being gone, the writer has nobody else to talk to at home, so during various parts of the letter, one can witness how the writer is constantly giving her cat human traits, such as: “We danced the visitor-gone dance, flinging our feet (and paws)…” further indicating her loneliness and longing for another person’s
White Oleander by Janet Fitch demonstrates how the protagonist, Astrid Magnussen, encounters herself with many struggles and obstacles that she must overcome. The only source of family that Astrid has is her beloved mother Ingrid Magnussen, which shows her charisma in her own egotistic way. The type of affection expressed from mother to daughter causes Astrid to feel suffocated due to the fact that her mother sees her as an extension of herself rather than a particular individual. This provokes Astrid to experience a difficult time setting aside from her mother’s suffocation and outgrowing to become the individual she wants to be. Ingrid’s imprisonment causes Astrid to experience solitude when she is transferred to a foster home.
By doing this, she is able to recognize her hatred and disgust for racism. Another growth that takes place in Lily’s life involves her coping with the death/absence of her mother. One way Lily does so is by finding means to try to replace what she feels is missing. In the beginning of the novel, Lily shares her limited memories of her mother and describes the few possessions she has of hers. “...One time I stuffed the gloves with cotton
Character Analysis Till We Have Faces, written by C.S. Lewis, is a novel based on the Greek legend of Psyche and Cupid. The main character and narrator, Orual, retells her life from when she was young to her present age. In the story she tells of how being the ugly sister compared her two beautiful sisters, Redival and Psyche, has impacted her life substantially. Psyche was the major reason behind Orual’s actions because Orual was jealous that everyone noticed Psyche and never acknowledged her, and this would ultimately lead to the sacrificing of Psyche to the mountain god, Ungit.
Lily attaches herself to this community, especially a motherly African American woman named August, because they represent her last resort to discover information about her mother. Confused and alone, Lily is desperate to find anything that discredits her mother’s death as her fault and proves that her mother loved her all along. Kidd uses Lily’s vulnerability to portray the necessity of growing up in a comfortable and supportive environment, and how that effects a young girl’s youth and development. Kidd develops this purpose through her use of seamless characterization, the symbolism of bees, and illustrating the crucial influence that a sense of sisterhood, community, and comfort has on a young girl such as Lily Owens. Moving flawlessly throughout the novel, Kidd describes irreplaceable characterizations that create the perfect dynamic between the crucial contents of the plot, and important underlying messages.
Her paranoid behaviors come from her mother’s harsh criticisms, such as “You’re not a beautiful girl, Lorraine”. But according to John that Lorraine is a pretty girl and she just needs a little confidence. Even Lorraine’s mother often makes her cries by her abuse words and action; Lorraine still has compassion to her mom. Her loneliness affects her thinking about people. She thinks about omens all day in the zoo “ I should have just left there and then because I knew things were going to get involved”; and she also has foreshadow about Mr.Pignati’s dead.