Catching Fire Have you ever wondered what it was like to pretend to love someone in order to keep you and your loved ones alive? Or having to go back to the nightmares that you try so hard to get away from? In the book Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, seventeen year old Katniss Everdeen is to keep up an act that she is in love with fellow District 12 victor, Peeta Mellark. Katniss had just won the seventy fourth annual Hunger Games and is getting ready to compete once again in the seventy fifth Hunger Games otherwise known as the Quarter Quell, a special edition of the usual hunger games In which she was chosen to be a tribute in result of her defying the Capitol. In chapter 1, the president of Panem;President Snow payed a visit to Katniss' new house in the Victor Village.
In this novel, the main character Katniss, who possesses the ability to hunt with great ease and expertise, is called to saving her sister Prims life when she is announced as a tribute. When the representatives from the capitol of her world come to her district for the annual reaping, or when two people are chosen from each district to participate as ‘tributes’ in the Hunger Games, Katnis realizes that her life will never be the same, and for her Prims life is much more important then her own. Katnip as her beloved friend would call her does something completely unheard of and volunteers herself to go to the games in place of her sister. “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.” She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark.
As they walk, Portia tells Nerissa what bothers her. After Nerissa is done telling Portia what she thinks, Portia turns around and commends her for her good advice. Later, Portia starts walking towards the right of the stage slowly, where the bed is located, and Nerissa follows, while saying lines 10-19. Here she describes how irritated she is over the fact that she can’t choose to marry who she likes or refuse who she doesn’t. At line 20 on the word “choose”, Portia furiously turns around and says “choose” in a loud tone, and then finishes her lines.
In the Grimm’s version of Cinderella (628-633), the day of the wedding Ashputtle begs to go. Her stepmother dumps a bowlful of lentils in the ashes and says that she will be allowed to go if she can pick up the lentils from the ashes in two hours. Ashputtle asks two doves to help her pick up the lentils. They help her, but once she is done, the stepmother again throws lentils in the ashes. (629).
Ama would send the girl to take care of Luna as the cancer got worse and to avoid beatings and harassments from her sisters. It shows in the story that she is older when she tells the story; because she expresses that she was basically raised and brought up by her grandmother so she is returning the favor. “And it seemed only fair. Abuelita had pulled me through the rages of scarlet fever by placing, removing and replacing potato slices on the temples of my forehead; she had seen me through several whippings, an arm broken by a dare-jump off Tio Enrique’s toolshed, puberty, and my first lie.” Therefore, Grandma Luna was there for her all the time growing up as a child even though any of them showed emotions towards the girl to thank her she was still willing take care of her sick and dying grandma. She grew up fast realizing that she didn’t have the emotions and love that a regular girl would have experienced at her age of fourteen.
"The guard yelled at her back and she turned to him with her eyes opened wide. She turned and began to run back to the Hokage's tower. When she arrived she ran up the steps and flung the door open and she was surprised to see Jiarya already there, staring at her sudden interruption. Tsunade looked at her briefly then turned her head away. "Where is Naruto?
your sister Georgina Nickels. Come quick you have only a mere fifteen minutes before sunrise. Your sister is right here on that tree.” You rush towards that tree and in a few seconds you come face to face with your sister. You know that snakes are scared of fire as well as huge rocks. What should you use to overcome your sister?
Throughout most of the play Mary is accepted by the girls and the court as she just follows along with them without and disturbance. However she chooses to defy Abigail, to do what’s right and an automatic disassociation began between her and the girls. Miller uses stage directions to express the exclusion to the audience “[She glances at Abigail who is staring down at her remorselessly]”. However under the pressure Mary breaks and she once again makes a decision to follow along with the girls’ hysteria to once again belong. Once again Miller uses stage directions to show her reunite with the girls “[they all watch, as Abigail, out of her infinite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her].
I would pull Antigone by the shoulders and throw her onto the front apron, and have people hold her down. I would also have the Chorus around her looking down at her. I would walk back with my head raised and with a broad grin amongst my face. However I still talk to Creon with respect and say “Lord” and bow in the same way as before. When I say “Here she is,” I would grab her of the apron and throw her on the floor in front of Creon at the bottom of his feet, and would then look at Creon and laugh and look back at Antigone.
Today, we see women actively working in the corporate world, media, politics and other disciplines and we tell and convince ourselves that all is well and good, not quite oblivious to the lady behind the office desk who makes precise, well-timed, pre-programmed nods and smiles or to the mother who after a dozen or so of diaper change and hours of breastfeeding, mutes her complaints, wiping trickles of tears and exhaustion in a hurry. Society continues to place its burden of expectations on what a woman should or should not be. Any deviation from these norms and standards raises an eyebrow or two, merits a haughty smirk or a downright disapproval. Women then are left with the option of wearing ‘social masks’, not quite realizing that what is sacrificed, squashed and compromised as they continue to put on ‘social masks’-consciously or not-is their true identity and true selves. In Amy Cunningham’s essay, “Why Women Smile”, she talks about the act of smiling as a cover-up, a means used by women to camouflage their inner desires and feelings or a tool in achieving ulterior motives.