Also as a child she encounters a passionate love affair, which can be somewhat comparable to her relationships even in old age. • The story-within-the-story aspects reinforces the interesting outlook on life that Alice posseses. It shows how competent she still as a senior, and disproves the mellow life she lives in a retirement community. Her blatant telling of her memories from childhood disturbed most of the other listeners in the writing club, and through this Lee reveals the blinded life that a majority of people carry with them until death. It is a natural defense mechanism to deny troubling truths that one doesn't want a face, and I commend Lee Smith for being one of the brave individuals who can look past their unconscious regulations.
This is used in the last line of the poem ‘Bide you with death and sin’; this symbolised her outrage at her sister and her hope that she will pay by going to hell after death. The word ‘Bide’ implies that she will have to live with what she has done, even after death. In contrast, Farmers Bride uses sibilance to emphasise that there are few good point about their relationship; ‘sweet as the wild violets, she, /To her wild self’ this symbolises his love and admiration for her, which is short lived as je cannot get near her. The word ‘wild’ has connotations of unspoilt freedom and rejection of people suggesting that she would rather be with nature than with another person, particularly a male. In sister Maude juxtaposition is used to show the emotion change from one stanza to the next.
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is a short story about heritage. A thriller in which heritage is seen in different ways. In “Everyday Use”, Walker tells a story about the conflict between a daughter and her family. Even though, the character of Mama is poorly educated, she still knows the meaning of love of her heritage. She wishes to teach this to her two daughters but times have changed and her daughters have difference views of what they think heritage is.
Rosaleen treats Lily as if Lily was her own daughter, loving and taking care of her. Rosaleen is always able to tell how Lily is feeling. When it was Lily’s birthday, and Rosaleen saw that T. Ray did not get her anything, Rosaleen went and got Lily something out of kindness and love. Rosaleen understands Lily and knows when she is in pain or is sad, just like how a mother can. When on the run from her father Rosaleen is quiet and observes that Lily is upset.
Hester, a woman that has been criticized by the community, a scarlet letter put upon her bosom, and put on a pedestal for the whole town to shame. She stands there and looks into the crowd sees the father, is told to say who the father is and refuses, which brands her with the letter and shame till the end of the novel, if this isn’t a sign of courage I don’t know what is. Her daughter steers her strait and keeps Hester on the road to God. Hester thinks in more than one level depending on the spot in the book, she never thinks in level one mainly because she doesn’t give up the name of the father of the child so doesn’t say yes or no to avoid pain, but she does think in level four though because telling of whom the real father is would be against natures and God’s law, but not telling is against mans law. In the situation she also thinks in level five because it would be against her ethics to tell, and get the man she loves arrested or worse hanged.
Irony in Sense and Sensibility Austen uses irony as a means of moral and social satire. Her sentences, while usually simple and direct, contain within them the basic contradictions which reveal profound insights into character and theme. This is most obvious in her blunt character sketches. John Dashwood "was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather coldhearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed." Note that in the first half of the sentence, she seems to be viewing his character amiably.
In Wakefield’s poem the speaker mentions “and I use a padded microphone/so I don’t hurt you/because sometimes I smash things,” showing the respect he gives to his mother. Both poems “Repetitions for my Mother” by Lorna Crozier and “Guitar Repair Women” by Buddy Wakefield are spoken by a son or daughter of the mother. In Crozier’s poem, the speakers tone seems to be like a child “I want her to grab me/and shake me out of my boots when I come home/late from school”. In Wakefield’s the speaker sounds much more mature from the language chosen in the poem, “There are too many poor kids out there/who have nothin’/and they see that sh*t.” The two speakers are opposite in the age groups, one is a young child while the other speaker is well matured. Lorna Crozier’s poem, “Repetitions for my Mother” and Buddy Wakefield’s poem “Guitar Repair Women” present the lives of the speaker.
Punishment in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, physical punsihment is nothing compared to how the mind can cause punishment. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Phynne is isolated by the members of Purtian society and left with her child Pearl, a constent reminder of her sin. Dimmesdale’s choice to not feese up to his sin leaves him with mental punishment that makes him sicker and weaker. Chillingsworth does not receive pain, but he does inflict pain to those around him. The main characters of The Scarlet Letter are left to tourment by themselves, the worst punishment of them all.
Look at Martha Stewart she has achieved great success and also has been to jail for insider trading. She learned from her mistakes and is trying to help and better others. Martha Stewart knew that she did wrong but that doesn’t matter people still recognize her great skills and admire her great talent regardless of her mistakes. People make mistakes so they didn’t focus on that it didn’t matter to them. They still looked up to her for advice because that’s their role model still and it doesn’t affect them.
While Hester’s “sins” are out in public where all could see, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth hide their debaucheries from public view. The persecution of Hester strengthens her faith and conviction in the difference between right and wrong. The solitary life Hester is forced to live results in a determined drive to raise Pearl to the best of her ability: “Lonely was Hester’s situation, without a friend on Earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want” (75). Focused only on bettering her life for Pearl, the townspeople see and benefit from the very