Brianna Wronski 3 Nov. 2013 Townzen IB Junior English Eyes Rewrite Int he passage taken from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the connection between happiness and a lasting relationship is explored. Janie and Joe have a fight that leads to Janie being struck by him. Soon after, Janie realizes Joe is not the man she has been looking for. Hurston uses this section of the book to expose unhappiness as the end of a relationship. Hurston uses the motif of time to identify Janie's awareness of her marriage, telling the reader she becomes weary of her relationship.
She practices her faith even though she can get crops or needs from the Wal-Mart that is “just down the road” (112). She can even perform a ceremony for her granddaughter in New York to the “twenty-first century totem pole…made of flash and neon” (114). Harjo is able to carry out her rituals and use her belief as a therapeutic figure for challenges she faces in life because nothing can damage her spiritual experience. Before Kamps became the spiritual being she is now, she once went to church to find truth in life. When Kamps’ mother died and she was pregnant, she needed the church the most.
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
One morning while attending church, overly impressed by his “dark eyes and deep brown hair”, he gave her an intimidating look, which made Gloria wondered what lied beneath his exterior. “I can still look at him and admire him so much. I am truly blessed to have someone I respect”, Gloria explains with a smile from ear to ear. Throughout her five years of marriage, her significant others traits like intelligence, funny, and loyalty came along. Married and no children “enjoying life as much as she can” Gloria quotes.
As Nomi’s older sister Natasha begins to question their faith, Nomi lives in perpetual terror that her sister is going to hell. Their father is a strong believer; the church is what glues his soul together. And although their mother grew up in the community, she had always been an independent thinker, and could not watch her oldest daughter suffer for a lifetime in a place she hated, following a religion she could no longer identify with. After Nomi’s mother and Natasha leave East Village, Nomi is faced with living in a broken family, and begins to question her faith as well. While trying to avoid the sad existence that seems inevitable if she stays in the community, Nomi dreams of a life in the real world, but can’t seem to get up the courage it will take to leave.
Elena carries out motherly duties despite the incredibly difficult circumstances of surviving in Altai labour camp. The family had been in the labour camp for months, they were all weak and hungry. It was Lina’s birthday and Lina thought that her mother had forgotten because of their horrific situation. But really Elena had organized a surprise ‘party’ in the bald man’s hut. Even though their situation seemed bleak, Elena felt that she should still carry out simple motherly duties, like celebrating her daughter’s birthday, to make Lina feel more secure.
Today, when you are wed you promise to stay with your companion for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish; from the day you are married till death do you part. Ultimately you promise to stay with them for the rest of your life. As a Christian, honoring the commitment of marriage is very important, but many people divorce anyway. Another way people are hypocritical about religion is when kids go to religion or faith formation. Most kids go not for learning about the Bible, and God, but go just to be with friends.
Tom Sandler Will Ferguson, winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Ferguson, however, pointed out connections to his other work. His last novel, Spanish Fly, was also about criminals, con artists in the 1930s dust bowl. And he is drawn to writing about tragic places in his travel writing. “I try to go there and see the humanity and humor in tragic places.
This is the same as Lily, Except for the fact that her mother had actually passed away. But they are similar in not having the motherly figure to rely on so they try and get it from someone else. Raimond spends time with the elderly ladies next door and Lily finds comfort with the three sisters. The second source I decided to use was one of Tim Minchin’s songs. Tim Minchin is a comedian.
Lydia is a single mother who works two jobs to provide for her children. Lydia was not always a single mother, but her last marriage ended after she endured years of abuse. Lydia vowed that she would not let another man hurt her; therefore she vowed never to remarry. But to Lydia’s surprise here comes Jack. Jack is a Christian man, who wants nothing more than to have a wife.