In the beginning of The Female Marine Brewer feels forced to leave her home, family, and friends behind in order to protect them of her shameful and humiliating acts. She leaves to Boston to reinvent herself, however, mobility was not represented as an easy process. She found herself confronted with obstacles she has not prepared herself for physically or mentally. As she reaches her destination she starts to question her life choices and future. She is faced with “ a miserable fugitive wanderer among strangers; cold; hungry, and without fortitude to solicit a shelter for the approaching night,” clearly she mourns leaving home right away.
As she does she realizes she is nothing like them as demonstrated in the film she yells to all of her guest to leave because they were acting childish. Mick is different from her peers because her mentality is as if an adult; she has ambitions and initials everything with her name because her goal is to sometime be famous and leave this town. Mick loves music and enjoys creating it as well since she has no one to enjoy it with she takes lonely walks in the dark to listen to the music. This is until she meets John Singer who she teaches him about the sound of music since he is a death mute. Mick felt as if she lived to life’s; one was with her family and everyone else and the other life no one knew where her lonely walks to hear music.
{6}Although, to a {Adv. #10} free and tenacious spirit such as Coco, being raised as an orphan at the Catholic monastery of Aubazine was not ideal. However it was there she was afforded an education in the trade that eventually defined her future. {1} {Dec. #6}Seamstress skills, supported by natural talent and an eye for proportional design, {Dec. #5} opened wide the door of the fashion world. {1}Gabrielle eagerly and willingly walked through.
Throughout this story, difficult choices were made by Sarah, Andrew, and Lawrence all revolving around Little Bee; some made selfless choices and some made selfish, morally wrong choices. Sarah, before anything, is a mother, but she gets lost in her own world, she starts an affair which Sarah’s response to Little Bee has always been selfless; Sarah has the maternal instinct to help Little Bee. Sarah does right by Little Bee, she cut off her own finger for the girl to save her life. In addition to that, when Little Bee gets deported back to Nigeria, Sarah follows her in order to keep Little Bee from the third world dangers. After Sarah finds Andrews miscellaneous works exposing injustice in third world countries, she decides to finish his work by writing about Little Bee’s story and many more like hers to bring to light the mass murders, and furthermore help Little Bee.
Alcoholism, Dysfunction, and Mental Illness in Modernistic Writers The Era of modernist literature would seem to be a part or a side of life that most everyone has or will experience. While we may not fully understand what is happening or why we are experiencing these things I personally believe these experiences are what lead to being a talented and appreciated writer. One of the more prominent themes we see in modernism is alienation or estrangement. This can often lead to the feeling of being extremely alone, which can lead to an individual acting out, which in turn leads to being misunderstood and wrongfully judged. The feeling of being alone is a desperate loneliness, you feel lost and at times it can feel as if you are drowning in a sea of nothingness.
However they also strive to form meaning within the writing through literary devices, characters, and the piece as a whole. But writing can also be a form of relief from hard ache, melancholy, and sometimes resentment. Writer’s write for themselves because it is what they are meant to do, but along the way they create meaning, conversations with others that they have never come in contact with, but most of all form beautiful forms of art through the simplicity of words. Writing is constructed based around improbable conversations they have with themselves and their readers. They write to express their feelings, opinions, and truths, but prominently themselves.
Javier Cabrera 9/19/12 Writing Assignment on Theme “Some People Have All the Luck” Some people have all the luck! Ever have one of those days when it seems things are not go your way. Perhaps you are on your way to a life changing business meeting and you get a flat tire. You have been preparing for this meeting for weeks because this is the presentation that could really take you on a journey to success. When you finally arrive at the meeting, you are embarrassed and uncomfortable over your tardiness, and no longer have the confidence you need to stand out.
The yard is a place which everyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come to inside the house. They wait Dee in the yard. Her another daughter which called Maggie will be jealous of Dee’s much easier life and nervous until after her sister goes. Because she does not study, just stays at home. She will stand hopelessly in the corners, plain and sheepish, ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs.
Maggie was very uneasy around her sister; her mother tells her anxiousness in regard to Dee’s visitation: “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (119). Dee undermines her sister, not always knowing what type of impact she impresses upon Maggie. Dee does not appreciate her sister or her mother, both of which is barely educated and lives in a poor, dilapidated home. In fact, Dee had her own way of making this noticeable in one instance when she stood off in the distance while their first home burned down with her mother and sister inside (121). She does not feel comfortable taking on the old fashioned lifestyle her mother and sister do.
As they were on their way to find a better way of living they came across an old woman who was homeless and had lice in her hair. She then asked the first sister Camille to give her some bread, give her some water and comb her hair, then to go into her ruined home and take the rocks that were saying don’t take me. The old said to her that her reward will be like her nature. The next day the younger sister came across the old woman who then asked Paula to do the same but Paula refused to give her some bread, water and to comb her. When sent into the house she scorned the house and took the stones that were saying take me again disobeying the woman’s orders.