Through the various techniques incorporated throughout the short story, the image and identity of Rachel’s character begin to come alive in between the lines of the text itself. Cisneros uses the use of countless similes to show that Rachel is a shy character compared to the others. When Rachel first starts getting accused by her teacher that the red sweater is hers, she feels, “Sick inside, like the part of [her] that’s three wants to come out of [her] eyes, except [she] squeezes them shut tight and bites down on [her] teeth real hard and tries to remember that [that day] [she] was eleven”. The first time Rachel stops herself from crying but the second time her teacher accuses her, she can’t help but let all of her tears fall and she starts “crying like [she’s] three in front of everybody” in her class. For most people, it takes a lot to start crying in front of a huge crowd especially if it has to do with classmates.
Wuthering Heights and Madame Bovary both gain much of their power as novels from the ways in which they use setting to frame the action, create atmosphere and convey meanings. Illustrate and compare the uses of setting in the two novels. (Note: you will need to use some carefully selected quotations from both texts to exemplify your points. Such passages are not included in the word-count.) 3.
She made a book which was about her writing, her life, and of course her book. She included many English’s that are used till this day in different immigrant households and how some people can understand their type of English and others don’t. Amy Tan describes how growing up her mother’s limited English limited her perception of her. She would sometimes feel ashamed of her English because it reflected upon others in restaurants, banks, or department stores. In Mother Tongue Amy made a great point when she spoke about how when she was fifteen years old her mother would have her call people on the phone and pretend it was her in order to ask and receive the correct information she needed.
Mother Tongue In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan writes about discrimination through “broken English” compared to Standard English and how people who speak “broken English” are usually taken advantage of. In Tans essay she quotes her mother’s speech to demonstrate her mother’s “broken English”. The quoted parts were filled with grammatical mistakes and the text was quite confusing. Yet, according to Tan “You should know that my mother’s expressive command of English belittles how much she actually understands”. This reminds me of my childhood, because growing up I would have to constantly translate for my mother.
Linda Pastan view of grades No one likes to be repeatedly judged, especially their own family. In the late nineteen seventies Linda Pastan wrote two similar, but quite different, poems about being graded. The first one is Pass/Fail (1975) and the other one is Marks (1978). In both the speaker shows that she is less than pleased with the ides of continually being judged, so much so that years later she is having nightmares about failing. The images in both of these literary works show a fear of being graded and judged.
To give some background on this, the headmistress at the Anglo-Indian schools are the people who give the Indian children "pretty English names". Which makes a child of a younger age develop this prospect of a dual personality. Basically, they were telling them they should be ashamed of their Indian identities. When one is talking about the sense of present writing techniques within the excerpt, Santha uses plethora of imagery. "The enormous black eyes of the little Indian girl from my class looked at my food longingly, so I offered her some"(Rau 2).
Thomas Barrett Mr. Nichols English 101 18 September 2013 Reading Analysis: Mother Tongue – Amy Tan You may be wondering how I chose a story with a name like “Mother Tongue”, and to be completely honest, I chose this story by allowing my girlfriend to open my book at a random page, in order for me to have a story that I “care” about. The story follows the dramatic, non-stereotypical life of Amy Tan as a young adult. I mention the “non stereotypical” subject, because she has made it a point in this short story to inform us of her struggle finding her educational path as a young adult. As a young Asian-American, she was pressured by her school to follow a path based in math, but throughout the years, it was apparent to her that she was better suited for a major in English. The bulk of the story explains her experience with different writing styles after her decision to focus everything on English.
He also referred to the main characters as “the boy” and “the man”. They were never addressed by name. In fiction writing, the writer’s style is also created by the choice of literary devices that are used to create the story, such as imagery, symbolism, allegory, personification, and other figurative language. ALLITERATION What is it? Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound appears at the beginning of two or more words.
Emotion in Literature By Abigail Oderman There are differences in all forms of literature, but there is always one thing constant in all aspects of literature: emotion. “All Literature shows us the power of emotion. It is Emotion, not reason, that motivates a character in literature,” paraphrased from an interview with Duff Brenna. Writers infuse passion in their works. It is this passion guides a character’s actions not rationality, because one’s passions are often dreams or ideas and cannot be logically explained.
The third part was Gynocritics, which tried to “revise Freudian structures and... emphasized a Pre-Oedipal phase wherein the daughter's bond to her mother inscribes the key factor in gender identity” (Lee). All three parts relate back to Morag’s character. Morag is a writer and would like to agree with the Androgynist poetics and the notion that creativity is genderless and does not pertain to a particular sex but she faces the problem that arises with the Female Aesthetic where emphasis is put on the physical part of being a female. Morag is insecure when she is young because she does not know how to flirt and use that side of her femininity. She feels like will not “ever attain the status of high