The book begins with Coraline wandering around her new home, a tenement flat with several other flats in the building, bored and looking for something to do. In the process of which, she bothers both of her work at home parents, who send her to do minor, yet pointless, activities, such as counting the number of doors and windows in the flat. In the process of which, she finds a small, locked door in the storage room. She is able to get the key from her mother, only to find that the door leads to nothing, and that there is only a bricked up wall behind it, Coraline’s mother stating that it is a leftover from when the building was just a normal house, before it was turned into multiple flats. However, things do not end there.
A conflict in the story is when Bobinot and Bibi were at the store and worried about Calixta because she was at home alone. Another conflict in the story was between Alcee and Calixta when Alcee has to stay at Calixta’s house during the storm and their attraction to each other. Another conflict was when Bobinot and Bibi were coming home and was worried if they will look presentable enough to Calixta. The first conflict was resolved by waiting at the store then going home to go check on Calixta. The second conflict I listed was resolved by Calixta and Alcee have an affair, but being much happier and supportive in their marriages.
* The Bennet house in the novel is described as nothing much more than a barnyard. * Small- drawing-room, dining-parlor and a few bedrooms- in book rooms are doubled up two to a room. “Jane and Elizabeth talked late into the night, from the convenience of their own room”. Cahpter 8. * 'As they passed through the hall, Lady Catherine opened the doors into the dining-parlor and drawing-room, and pronouncing them, after a short survey, to be decent looking rooms but nothing more, walked on.'
The beginning of Celestia's story is not a happy one. Her mother entrusted her to the loving Orthas in a secluded Divinity abbey in the woods when she was less than a couple of days old. She never knew her own mother and her mother never returned to know her. From then on she was raised in that abbey, where the Lupin children were to grow up in the safe and nurturing environment and focus on their path to wisdom. The Lupin children were encouraged to roam and explore but Celestia was different.
I thought she just didn’t hear me so I thought if I just knocked a little harder maybe she would but each time I knocked she looked at me with a blank face and turned around. After a few minutes I decided to just wait for someone to come in, not long after that and old class mate of mine who was white walked in to the front door. while she was struggling to find her keys in her bag to open the door, the old lady to the door as fast as she could and opened the door for her with a big smile on her face. I was a little confused because I had been standing behind the glass door for almost ten minutes and even though she could see bee she didn’t open the door. When the elevator came the old lady decided not to take it with us even though we were only two people in it.
It furthers my idea of the character having no possible recovery already given to her death bed. Oppositely, in “Death by Landscape” the main character, Lois, now an elderly lady, confines herself in her condo unable to face the outdoors after having a traumatic event occur in the wilderness. In contrast to “The Yellow
Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. Cathy, Chris, Cory and Carrie are forced to go live in Charlottesville, Virginia after a sudden death of their father. Sadly their mother Corrine facing financial destitution has no other option than to agree to her children been locked in the attic of her parents home away from society.
She never sleeps alone in her life. All the time she has slept with her parents or husband. She tries to sleep but she could not sleep the whole night. Although in this time, she is surrounded by other people who are American. If she were still in Calcutta, she would have her baby at home, surrounded by all the women in her family who would have celebrate to the proper Bengali culture.
But she doesn’t have to wonder if that day would be it, because today is the day. Today is the day her life changes before her eyes. There’s a knock on her bedroom door. “Sierra honey, are you alright?” her mother said, sounding worried. “Yeah, I’m fine,” Sierra says as she wipes away the tears from her cheeks, “just tired.” “Okay, well dinner will be ready soon.
------------------------------------------------- Literary essay on The Other Way by Shirley Ann Grau “The Other Way” is a short story written by Shirley Ann Grau and is a history about dilemmas and feeling obligated to stick through something you actually don’t want to. Our main character Sandra Lee comes home from school after a long day. Everything is as it usually is. Her mother and grandmother, which names isn’t giving, sits in the kitchen along with Norris, Sandra Lee’s handicapped aunt. Sandra Lee is asked to do some household tasks as always, but when her mother asks her how her day went and who she had lunch with, Sandra Lee breaks down after and says she wants to change school.