The innocence of young girls is shown in this vignette. “One day you wake up and they are there. Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition” (Cisneros 49). When the human body develops it does not grow over night as Esperanza is saying here. Esperanza is really using her imagination as a young girl would because cars are nothing like humans.
James Harper English 2100 Writing and Editing “Why I Write” In Joan Didion's"Why I Write", the author uses concrete examples and tells a story through first person narration to do exactly what she has set out to do: explain to the reader exactly why she writes. She explains early on in her essay that she is not a "thinker". She would try to analyze situations while in college but would find her mind reflecting back to tangible ideas and the images that surrounded her. Didion explains that by the time she graduated from Berkely, she knew that she was not a thinker, but an instead a writer. This did not mean that she could not explore abstract ideas, but instead that she must write down the thoughts and images she had
She knew her mom would never run out on her and never come back so she moved in with her one and only friend in the town, Ben. She was determined to find out what happened to her mom. She started investigating and one day she discovered that the police had found her mother’s car and 6 ID cards. She refused to believe her mom was dead. One night, Chastity thought it would best if she just moved on to another town with a new identity than to stay in Hopes where tragedies were lurking.
She not only had to be wary of subjects and advisors but family as well, which she learned from the stories of family members that were killed by relatives so they could seize the throne (Schiff 1). This information would come in handy and even lifesaving. She was also extremely well-educated, unlike many other women of her time. Cleopatra studied political and military events of the past, and memorized speeches to learn how to make convincing debates (Blackaby 8). The Cleopatra modern media presents, such as Elizabeth Taylor’s portrayal, this information is never implied or revealed about Cleopatra, she simply would not be seen doing such a thing.
This is relevantly placed, as we are starting to understand that Colman is being interviewed about his father, so the revealing of her name gives us a character to put to the voice. In the next chapter, ‘Money Pages’, Kay reintroduces Sophie, now in first person. Sophie, however, sometimes refers to herself in third person, such as saying ‘Sophie Stones has never needed an alarm’, although in the sentence just before this she has spoken as ‘I’. This shows that she seems to be narrating her own life, as in this way she has control.
Women are well capable of being able to protect themselves as well as man, it may take a lot more hard work and training but I think no one should ever just sell themselves short to society’s beliefs and idea’s. She also uses her own experiences where she has been in fear for her life. One account is when she is driving home from one of her night classes that she teaches in town that’s about 25 miles away from it in the middle of nowhere pretty much. She explains that the car was following her and when it passed her the passenger shined a spotlight at her that caused her to stop. Then says that the car stopped in the middle of a bridge and four men jumped out of the car, she doesn’t exactly say that she is defenseless but when she said “I realized the locked doors were useless if they broke the windows of my pick up.”
We often find ourselves criticizing the way a message is presented and ignoring its content or value. We don’t like the message being “read” to us, we find the speaker lacking in experience, or we don’t care for the negative tone of the boss. Our listening focuses on delivery and approach.
I suppose that sometimes it just comes with the territory of her job, but it would still be in her best interest not to make those snap decisions without some facts to base it on. That would have been no different if she had seen the woman getting out of that car and found a reason to deny her assistance based on what her snap judgment told her about the woman. The woman would have been denied assistance that she truly needed. Sometimes we all need to sit back and remember that not everyone in this world is out to get over on others. Now, I do know that there are plenty of people that do this, but it’s not even our place to judge people at all.
Reading Response 9 When reading Bean Trees, at least going from chapter one to chapter two, I was very confused. Confused that it was in fact a story of the lives of two different women with somewhat similar issues. Once I got past the fact that the novel was like this, I was able to point out the similarities, as well as the differences. So to begin, we can initially see how Kingsolver goes from first person with the story of Taylor and Turtle to third person with the story of Lou Ann. Kingsolver dives into the story in a very compact way; like some of the smallest details recur, like Taylor being completely afraid of putting air in tires since the accident with Newt Hardbine’s dad.
In many ways Juno is the same. She is as if not more content on being an individual and refuses to comply to societal expectations and stereotypes. Juno seeks for authenticity in others, as she demonstrates it herself. Both characters criticize their social hierarchy and the people in it for being unauthentic. A major point of differentiation would be that Holden does not face the challenges that Juno does and that she possesses much more of a clear emotional compass whereas Holden's is more erratic and uncontrollable.