Scout Finch: Boyish Girl Growing Up Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote, “People grow through experiences, if they meet life honestly and courageously.” In Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the character of Jean Louis Finch provides an example of how experiences shape one’s personality. She is Atticus’s daughter, Jem’s younger sister, and Boo Radley’s neighbor. People call her “Scout” because of her outspoken, headstrong, and boyish characteristics. As the novel progresses, she grows from age 6 to age 9, experiences turmoil in her small hometown, and transforms from an innocent girl to a thoughtful person. A tomboy, a curious child, and a maturing girl, Scout proves to be the most dynamic character in the novel.
Imitation of Life is a brilliant coming of age film which brings to light the emotional turmoil caused by the deep racial divide. The story, set in New York City in the 1940s, begins when beautiful widow Lora Meredith (Turner) takes her pretty little blonde daughter, Susie, to Coney Island. There, Susie meets Sarah Jane, who is the same age and is also there with her mother, Annie Johnson (Moore). Unlike her mother, Sarah Jane does not show her mixed-race ancestry and can pass for white, which she does with fierce zeal and eagerness. In return for Annie's kindness, Lora takes in Annie and her daughter.
Story Map and Review of the School Play : Annie Last November 23 we had our annual school play. This year’s play is entitled Annie from the Broadway musical “Annie”. The play’s setting was in the early of the 1930’s in New York, in the New York Municipal Orphanage. The characters of this story are Annie, the main character, whose only wish is to find her parents, Miss Hannigan, the cruel orphanage supervisor who is usually drunk, Mr. Warbucks, the billionaire who always has his mind on business, his lovely assistant Ms. Grace Farrell, Ms. Hannigan’s brother, Rooster Hannigan with his female accomplice Lily St. Regis. The other characters are the orphans, namely Molly, Pepper, July, Kate, Tessie, Duffy and other orphans, Drake, the butler in the Warbucks Mansion who is very kind to Annie and Mr. Warbuck, the radio announcer Bert Healy with his singers – the Boylan Sisters, President Roosevelt, Lt. Ward, Hooverville-ites, the Mansion staff and Sandy, the stray dog.
Roman Fever The short story “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton takes place in Rome, Italy. The story is about two women and the relationship they have developed over many years. In the beginning of “Roman Fever”, Grace Ansley and Alida Slade run into each other while vacationing in Rome with their daughter’s. Although these women have grown up together as one can see after getting deeper into the story they do not know as much as they think of one another. In a recent article it’s written “The paradox of course is the combination of intimacy and ignorance, and the tension involves the explanation of the paradox—and more generally, a question about the precise nature of their relationship.
The Daughters in The Joy Luck Club battle the cultural differences between the ancient values of their immigrant mothers and the American way of life they live in. In China, the mothers were taught strength of character was built through obedience. In modern American, the daughters are exposed to a society where women have more freedom of expression. Even clothing is different in each culture. The daughters are being raised on conflicting cultural differences.
Emilia Bassano was born in London in 1570. She was the daughter of Baptiste Bassano, and the identity of her mother remains unknown. Due to her Italian heritage she had dark, olive toned skin, and was strikingly beautiful to everyone’s eye. In her mid-teens she became a mistress to a patron if William Shakespeare’s theatre. Lord Hundson, Emilia’s lover, introduced Emilia to the life of theatre, and also introduced her to Shakespeare’s circle of friends (“Emilia Lanier”).
Baguio, Ritche Mr. Daniel Lambert Eng 028 #6018 June 30, 2014 Analysis of “Two Kinds” “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is a story between a Chinese immigrant mother and an American-raised daughter’s journey in the land of opportunity, America. The Author expresses the theme of cultural, generational, and personal struggle of the American Dream through the use of characters, setting, plot, and symbols. The point of view is told through the character, Jing-Mei, who was her mother’s hope for honor, pride, and great expectation by becoming someone, like a “prodigy” (382). Jing-mei’s mother incredible belief that you “could be anything you wanted to be in America” (382) is not only a pronounced contrast to the land she left in 1949 but also of her daughter’s perspective of the American Dream. Both women seeming diverse idea of the American Dream is best reflected through their personality, actions, and conflicts.
One subtle symbol used by Ibsen in A Doll’s House is the act of dance, specifically the Tarantella. The Tarantella is an upbeat Italian folk dance with a very specific purpose in the play. One intention of the Tarantella was to symbolize the beginning and end of Nora’s love for Torvald. Early in the play we learned from Nora that she had gone through considerable sacrifice early in her marriage with Torvald to fund the trip to Italy to save his life from illness, a sign of her devotion and love for him. Nora confided this to her friend, Mrs. Linde: “It wasn’t easy to manage, I can tell you.
Nearly 40 years after the first meeting, as the novel opens, Suyuan Woo has died and her place at the mah jongg table is assumed by her 36-year-old daughter, Jing-mei. Like many another American-born child of immigrants, Jing-mei has little understanding of her mother's values or the world that shaped them, although recently, the general interest in ethnicity has prompted her to revive her Chinese name, "Jing-mei,'' in preference to the American "June May,'' and has made her more curious about her roots. When her Joy Luck "aunties'' (Lindo Jong, An-mei Hsu, and Ying-ying St. Clair) offer Jing-mei a trip to China to meet her long-lost half sisters, whom Suyuan was forced to abandon as infants while fleeing war-torn Guilin, the "aunties'' (now edging into their 70s) urge Jing-mei to tell her half sisters the story of the mother they never knew. The trouble is, Jing-mei feels she never really knew her mother, either - a feeling shared by the other Joy Luck daughters: Waverly Jong, Rose Hsu Jordan, and Lena St. Clair. The daughters' difficulty in comprehending their mothers
Theme: How Does Joseph O’Neill present LOVE & MORTALITY Robert Daly is from New York he is married to Martha, who is six months pregnant with their first child. Robert’s roommate, Mark Walter is getting married. Mark’s wedding is going to take place in Italy because that’s where his soon to be wife Electra lives. Robert has to travel alone because his wife is held up at her mother’s house in Columbia Country. Robert was excited to go to Italy because all of his New York friends told him that Italy is one of the most beautiful places in the world.