Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club uses much characterization. Each character is portrayed in different yet similar ways. When she was raised, she would do whatever she could to please other people. She even “gave up her life for her parents promise” (49), I the story The Red Candle we get to see how Tan portrays Lindo Jong and how she is brought to life. Tan likes to show Lindo through indirect characterization.
Anys and Mem provide Eyam with the “physic” that the villagers need, as well as the “best chance our women had of living through their confinements with healthy infants in their arms”. While her manner can be sharp, the sensitive care shows towards her patients is comforting. This is evident when Jamie is dying, and she effectively soothes his distress with her “tender and rhythmical” touch. Similarly, she brings “a calm kindness” to the task that few can match. Anys’ indifference to the opinions of others and emphasises that her freedom is more important to her than any relationship.
She explained the coming of age, the false view of the world from a novel, determination, and she also explains her view on hope. Hope is the feeling of expectation and desire for something to happen. According to Donnelly, hope does not always have a positive result. She exhibits this in her story about young girl who becomes hopeless and is in desperation of fulfilling her dreams. Jennifer Donnelly used literary devices to develop hope in her story and used contrast, symbolism, and similes to display them Mattie Gokey was presented with many situations in which her hope was all she can depend on but cannot seem to find it reliable.
Lisa Parker compares the simple touch to how the grandmother holds tomatoes under a spigot. This gives the idea that the grandmother knows how fragile the younger girl is and that she is very loving and understanding of the girl. Even when the girl is at college, she yearns to be home because she misses her grandmother. The younger girl cries into a quilt that her grandmother made her. An obvious love exists between the two characters, and the relationship is expressed throughout the entirety of the
A major reason of his influence was the fact that he was also a writer. He was not the only one that played a role in her life. Louisa’s “friends and neighbors included writers Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau“. In fact, it was a family friend that motivated Louisa to write her first book. Louisa’s first book “flower Fables” was written for the daughter of Emerson, a family friend.
Because of her unconditional willingness to take care of me, I have learned that in life it is important to consider others and not merely focus on your personal interests. This has pushed me to take care of my little sister more attentively and to help my mother around the house so that she doesn’t have to do everything herself. A few years ago, I got sick with the flu only a couple of days before my grandmother was set to travel back to Lebanon. My mother had work, my sister had school and my grandmother was suppose start packing. However, almost the entire two days she stayed by my side making me warm soups and teas, ensuring I was comfortable and keeping me company.
It is the journey to self-fulfillment that has often led the female through many hard times and struggles. In a similar fashion, the voyage for females to gain control over their own lives and bodies in the 1960’s was difficult. Margaret Laurence portrays this in “The Diviners” as the protagonist, Morag Gunn tells her story with chronological flashbacks helping to narrate the current events in her life. Morag’s road to understanding the self mirrors and is influenced by the time leading up to and during the feminist movement in the 1960’s. Prior to the 1960’s feminist movement, women’s literature was not seen in the same light as it was then.
Celie feels hopeless and does not want to cause her mother any more grief, pain or suffering, so she says nothing and decides to write to God. Celie sees God as the only one that she can confide in, without having to fear the repercussions of an angry mother, and an even angrier Pa. Bettye J. Parker-Smith states, “The opening statement form Pa introduces a long list of pain-stricken letters to God. […] What Celie needs is to share her burdens, be taken off the cross, and find a way to save herself” (Parker-Smith). Celie’s pain is so great that it is compared to
He's loved me even when I thought I hated him.., I dont know how I could ever hate the only person who's held love for me since day one. Over the years I've learned that something deep in my mothers heart has caused her to feel the way about me she does now, So I stopped acting out all for her attention, I stopped hurting and cutting myself only to feel her warm embrace and see if she holds any kindness in her heart for me, But most importantly I stopped trying to MAKE her love me, I've learned that's something she should want to do, but she doesnt so.. I'm not going to make any one love me who doesnt want to, and I'm not going to search for something that doesnt want to be found anymore(my mothers love)
Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter. The question ‘why does a mother need a daughter?’ was powerful because indeed, there shouldn’t be a need for a daughter if the parents aren’t going to be the ones owning their own child. As shown in stanza two, ‘heart’s needle’ signifies the heart which is delicate, fragile, life and love and the needle, so small but painful. The pain is not just an ordinary pain, the pain that comes from the needle is piercingly sharp which causes great damage to the heart. Every time the child does something wrong, the mother feels the heartache.