Kate Chopin helps her readers understand Maman-Nainaine better because of her age. Babette, on the other hand, does not understand time. She does not understand that it takes time for the figs to ripen. She also does not understand why Maman-Nainaine is making her wait so long to see her family members. Babette may also see the time as a new beginning for herself.
She was ten and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment," (Walker 22) provides example of one of the many times that Walker speaks of Myop's oblivion. Another symbol of innocence is the flowers that Myop so happily picks. Flowers tend to be a universal symbol for joy and life and Myop gravitates toward these life signs as a way of ignoring the cold fact that life is not always joyous. She is
Flowers to talk to her. She was simply thrilled that Mrs. Flowers had wanted to share a snack and her favorite book with her. It showed her she was liked and made her feel special. This story shows that it really doesn’t take much to motivate and inspire a child.
1. Enlightenment: “She wasn’t even angry.” (32) Realization: “A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her.” (32) Jody Starks embodies her imprisonment. 1. Suppressed personality: “Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she thought up good stories on mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge.” 2. Loss of spirit: “So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush.” (71) C. Tea Cake represents her freedom.
A subtle feature of the design that launched her towards the fame she now enjoys. A bit of technical mastery, all but hidden in the quiet aesthetic effect that it achieves. “Gardens on a roof!” Oberlander says to me half an hour later, over lemon tea in the Gallery Café. “This is 1974, OK?” She’s very small. She’s very sharp.
The novel begins with her creating an in-depth tale of fiction titled The Trials of Arabella, which she takes very seriously. While putting her all into this, she barely has time to engage her younger cousins’ and takes into offense when they treat it as a joke. This adult-like passion in shown in the first chapter, during rehearsal of the play that she is directing where it reads, “this was precisely why she loved plays, or hers at least;
It is what is in the year that makes us as the age that we are today. It is our experiences that age us. Even though sometime we feel like we are acting like we are three again. In Sandra Cisneros, “Eleven”, Cisneros uses very childish diction, to convey the story of an eleven year olds birthday but yet still has a very mature view. When you are eleven years old you don’t have the capability to understand more than what the past ten years have taught you.
The fruit brings her back to moments of raiding guava bushes and late summer afternoons under the mango tree; but the feeling goes as fast as it comes as she moves towards the apples and pears of her adulthood and remembers she is in New York, and no longer a child (3-4). It is a reminder of the simple and carefree experiences prior to her transition to America, as it is the last thing she literally holds onto the day she leaves home. The transition between the two cultures is almost forced upon, as Santiago is made to believe an American lifestyle is less complicated. She describes the ignorance in Americans when she says, “If you don’t know how to eat a guava, the seeds end up in the crevices between your teeth”; the seeds represent their perception of her culture as complicated, almost unhealthy way of living (3). They teach her a way to care for her teeth and present her a chart of major food groups suggesting, “it is best not to make substitutions for recommended foods” (67).
She loves to grow chrysanthemums. Henry thinks she has a good hand for planting he tells her what a strong crop she has and seems very proud “You’ve got a gift with things,” Henry observed. “Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across. I wish you’d work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big.”(Steinbeck 1938 p. 376). “Elisa has no children and her maternal instincts are shown through growing her chrysanthemums as well as other flowers.
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening took place in the late part of the 1800's during the reign of Queen Victoria. Grand Isle was a where Edna Pontellier lived in a community of Creoles. The society thrived for "mother-women," who "idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it to a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals" (9). She was not Creole and acted different than the rest. Creole’s like Adele Ratignolle “the fair lady of [everyone’s] dreams” (9), who treated her husband with respect and cared for her children unconditionally.