Reflection is necessary, for we must see the sentence as a whole. She seems to be contradicting herself, but this is not so. We had just taken it for granted that she would finish the sentence the way we expected it to be finished. Our expectations built in the first part of the sentence are disappointed. But the change in tone, though seemingly sudden, is a natural conclusion to the author's own train of thought.
By communicating with each other through letter, Nettia has been more independent and gained self confined knowing that Ceila will always be there for her. So in pg 155 it says “no mateer what I’m doing, I’m writing to you”. This is Netie which is talking to Celia, and is alwys communicating to her, because the relation between each other has helped Nettie . The reason why the other has brought in this theme is because this
Imprisoned in her own mind, she is unable to bring light to herself or to those around her. However, although the weight of the novel is on the negative aspects of Hagar's behavior, she eventually goes some way towards breaking down the walls she has built around her, and finding redemption. The word redemption is appropriate because there are biblical echoes that suggest the novel may be interpreted as a spiritual journey. In an interview with Rosemary Sullivan, Laurence commented, "My novel in some way or other parallels the story of the Biblical Hagar who is cast out into the wilderness. .
The purple shrub in the story is an ambiguous mixture of both mystery and arrogance. Magnificent yet poisonous, the plant symbolizes how Beatrice has her hold upon Giovanni and how it blinds his truthful knowledge about her, expressing his arrogance and mysteriousness. “Nor did he fail again to observe, or imagine, an analogy between the beautiful girl and the gorgeous shrub that hung its gemlike flowers over the fountain.” Giovanni fails yet again to see the person Beatrice truly is and her unusual resemblance to this purple shrub. “But now, unless Giovanni’s draughts of wine had bewildered his senses, a singular incident occurred…a drop or two of moisture from the broken stem of the flower descended upon the lizard’s head. For an instant, the reptile contorted itself violently, then lay motionless in the sunshine.
She filled her senses occupied with experiencing the nature; “ prickling my ankles” and “ murmuring…”, indicating her wholehearted attempt to establish connection with the nature. This establishment portrays her desperation to be socialized with and her need of friends. Having the need to connect to nature shows that she could not connect to other beings and thus need to resort to this state. We can sense her loneliness and need to be concerned. In the last stanza, she claimed that “the message of the Yew tree is blackness-blackness and silence.”, showing that the nature has rejected her and that the establishment failed.
To those around her, Hugla’s facial expressions are one of “constant outrage” (170) and she is blinded “by an act of will." (170) Mrs. Hopewell, confident that Joy/Hulga would have been better without a worthless, “Ph.D. in philosophy;” (173) has no comprehension of the true meaning, of life to her daughter. In one of Hugla’s books, Mrs. Hopewell found the following passage underlined by blue pencil; “Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is. Nothing – how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?
Anger, resignation, frustration, rebelliousness. These are the feelings that Barbara conveys with her essay. When thinking of people in similar situations, one can imagine fear and sorrow as typical emotions that arise in such difficult moments. However, Barbara seems emotionless in her essay on breast cancer, and this certainly contributes to the different but undoubtedly realistic approach on the matter. From the moment in which she is diagnosed breast cancer, her anger is shown at all times: “The X ray is successful but apparently alarming to the invisible radiologist, off in some remote office, who calls the shots and never has the courtesy to show her face with an apology or an explanation.” In addition, when explaining how people share in Internet their experience with breast cancer and express their feelings, she agree’s with the negative messages such as Geri’s: “IT IS NOT O.K!”.
Jennings emphasizes her parents’ frozen manifestation, by explaining that they are lying “apart”, each in a “separate” bed. This contrast exposes the distance that exists between the couple, further highlighting their state of physical paralysis. Furthermore, when they are both occupied, “he with a book”, and “she like a girl dreaming of childhood”, puts across the awkward foreseeable crossfire that is avoided through the appliance of certain distractions, which sets forth their unwillingness to face the unwavering truth which is that they are potentially approaching chastity. Their condition appears to be miserable and tasteless as he is rather unfocused with his book, which lies “unread”, instead he dwells upon his fruitless marriage; she reminisces nostalgically about her innocence, a
Emily Dickinson was a poet and person whom did not publish her work, kept her love life low, and lived her last years of life in seclusion because she wanted privacy, which gave us some of the best poetry today. Emily Dickinson wrote poetry for most of her life and never let anyone get their hand on it. Dickinson knew she was a great poet but still did not publish her work while she was alive. In a criticism article called “The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson” by Ricahrd Wilbur he says ‘And she did say to Helen Hunt Jackson, “How can you print a piece of your soul?” (969). In this quotes Dickinson is saying that everything she writes is a part of her.
This suggests to readers that she is educated in this topic and knows what she is talking about. She argues what she does knowing everything about the issue and uses her knowledge to persuade the readers instead of forcing her view down their throats. She doesn’t present her argument with strong emotions or aggression, hinting to readers that she is professional. Griffin uses an anecdote, describing the story of Lee Taube who suffered a “long unhappy girlhood” and was “living in refuge” due to her